smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

There is no fact more clearly estab-
lished iu the physiology of man than
this, that the brain expands its ener-
gies and itself during the hours of
wakefulness, and that those are recup-
Grated during sleep; if the recupera-
tion does not equal the expenditure,
the brain withers-this is insanity
Thus it is that, in early English histo-
ry, persons who were condemned to
death by being prevented from sleep
ing always died raving maniacs; thus
it is, also, that those who are starved
to death become insane the brain is
not nourished, and they cannot sleep.
The practical inferences are these; l.
Those who think most, who do most
BRAIN work, require most sleep.
That time saved from necessary sleep
is infallibly destructive to mind, body
and estate. 8. Give yourself, your
children, your servants-give all that
are under you the fullest amount of
sleep they will take, by compelling
them to go to bed at some regular
hour, and to rise the moment they
awake; and within fortnight. nature,
with almost the regularity of the ris-
ing sun, will unloose the bonds of sleep
the moment enough repose has been
secured for the wants of the system
This is the only safe and sufficient
rnae and as to fhe question how
much sleep any one requires, each must
be rule for himself; great Nature
will never fail to wdste it out to the
observer under the regulations just
given.
Year: 1860

LONELINESS. 1t is not yonr neat
dress, your expensive shawl. or your
pretty figure that attracts the attention
of men of sense. They look beyond
these. tits the true loveliness of your
nature that wins and continues to re-
tain the affections Of the heart. Young
ladies sadly miss it who labor to i'm.
prove their outward looks, while they
bestow not q thought on the mind -
Fools may be won by gee-gaws and
fashionable snowy dresses; but the
wise and substantial are never caught
bv such traps. Use pleasant and agree
able language, and though you are not
becourted by the fop and the Sot. the
truly good and great willdove to hnger
in your steps.
Year: 1860

was escorting home the lovely
Charlotte D, to whom was at
that time quite devoted; we got into
one of the crowded avenue cars Char
lotte could scarcely find room to spread
her crinoline and arrange her volumin-
ous founces; I stood up near her, there
being no vacant seat.


"AfteF few minutes there came in
a poor woman, who deposited basket
of clothes on the platform and held
in her arms q small child, while a little
girl chung to her dress She looked
tired and weary but there was no
vacant seat; to be sure, Charlotte might
have condensed her founces, but she
did not, Beside her, however, sat a
very lovely and elegant young woman,
who seemed trying by moving down
closer to Others, to make space enough
for the stranger between herself and
Miss D. At last she succeeded.
and with the sweetest blnsh I ever saw
she invited the poor bnrdeued female
to be seated. Charlotte drew her
drapery around her, blushed too, but it
was not pretty blush at ALL and she
looked annoying at the proximity of
the new conner, who was however,
clean and decently, tho' thinly clad


"The unknown lady drew the little
girl upon her lap, and wrapped her
velvet mantle around the small. half
clad form and put her muff over the
half frozen little blue hands


$50 great was the crowd that alone
seemed to observer. The child shiver-
ed the keen wind from the door blew up
on her unprotected neck. I saw the
young lady quietly draw from under
her shawl little crimson WOODEN shawl.
which she softly put On the shoulders
of the little one, the mother looking on
with confused wonder After short
time she rose to leave the car. and
would have removed the shawl, hut the
unknown gently whispered, No; keep
it on; keepit for her. The woman did
not answer, the conductor harried her
ont, bat her eyes swan in tears, which
no one saw but me. / noticed her as
she descended to the basement, and
hastily marked the house.


"Soon sitter, my unknown also arose
to depart. | was in despair, for I
wanted to follow and discover her resi-
dence, but could not leave Miss D.


!" How glad, then was / to see her
-howing as she passed out to mutual
acquaintance, who stood in the door.
way. From 41im, ere many inmates, ]
had learned her name and address.


To shorten the story as much as
possible, that lady is now my WIFE
In the small incident which introduced
her to Inc showed her real character.
A few days after our marriage, show
ed her the blessed crimson shawl, which
I had redeemed from its owner and
shall always keep as memento -
There are sometimes pleasant things
to be found even in unexpected places
Certainly 1 may have said to have
| picked out my wife 40 the eers.''
Year: 1860

Many of us-too many of US are
apt to attribute a bad motive to a
good action; but few of us, when a
poor devil has been guilty Of i bad ac-
sion, ever think Of attributiug good
notive to it.
Year: 1860

BY LENA WARD.
The busy hum of the day has passed,
The twilight hour has flown;
Yet many merry laugh hear,
AS sit and write alone.
Alone? no, not alone, for there
Two little children lie,
Fair as the loxeliest rose, that blooms
Beneath the azure sky.
For them work, for them I tell,
All through the dreary day;
And then for them sit and write,
The long, long, night away.
But when as now my weary pen
Refuses its task to try,
/ love to sit and gaze upon


The dark and starry sky.
And then across my memory comes
A careless happy child;
With waving curls like purest gold.
And manners free and wild,
I see again the shadowy lawn,


The cowslips by the rill
That rippled FER its pebbly bed,
Near by the verdant hill.
I've often played beside that stream,
And gathered many flower
To twine among my clustering curls,
Or deck my favorite bower.
But all those scenes have passed away.
And here, with tear dimned eye,
sit alone at the midnight hour
Wishing that might die.
Oh who could wish for the paltry fame
That flows from the giddy tongue;
Or envy the sound of the Authors name,
Or the tear each tale has wrung.
The weary head win seen cease to ache,
And the beating heart to crave;
And my care worn form viii soon be q: res
In the dark and silent grave.
Year: 1860

When this word was introduced into the Demo-
cratic Creed relative to the government OF Ter
ritories, it had specific well understood meaning
1t was the principle upon which the Territories
of Kansas AMI Nebsaska were established. so far
as the question Of slavery was concerned. That
act declared, that "the true and bona ide intent
and meaning of the act, was not to legislate
slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude
it therefrom," but to leave that matter to the
people acting under the Constitution of the Unit
ed States. Thus we see bow it was then under
stood. This understanding was adopted into the
Democratic creed at Cincinnati. in 1856, "as nom
interference by Congress with slavery in State or
Territory, or in the District of Columbia" Ger
tainly the idea at that time went only to prohibit
Congress from establishing slavery in IL Territory
or excluding it therefrou, because the District of
Columbia is exclusively under the control of Con-
gress and there is much slave property there
Can any one have the hardihood to assert tha t
Congress cannot legislate in favor Of protecting
the property of that District? Why where else
are those people to look for legislation! More
over does not every man know that the national
Congress does. and it is its duty to legislate from
time to time for the interests of persons and pro-
perty within that District! We we're not to in
terfere by legislation to establish or introduce q
system of slavery, AS one of the domestic institu-
tions of either State or Territory or in the Dis
trtt of Columbia. nor were We to prohibit it in
either of them. and by the same rule, if we could
protect property although it might be in slave,
in the District of Columbia, we could do it in a
! Territory.


non-iptervention. But Mr.. Douglas construes it
to mean parnlizng the arm of government.
He thought it would he right in the case OF
Utah. to intervene and repeal the act by which
the government of the Territory was created. be-
cause of the wrongs committed 10y that people.
but when asked by Senator Davis, distinctly,
whether when the conroverted question of sla-
very had been referred TO the Supreme Court of
| the United States, and decided by it, and right
which Congress would not assert had been de-
cared by that Court, to be constitutional right,
would he then give that right the protection Of
! Congressional legislation, he snid: IL will not
vote to intervene by law OF any kind by Con-
gress.'


| Mr. Douglas ought to know that the people OF
! th' United States are not to be deceived by any
such q suhterfuge. A man in bis high position
ought not to stoop to such low bareIaced trick
cry II it is Intervention in the territories. it is
| in the District of Columbia, and for the govern
ment of that District he has often voted for laws
protecting slave property, moreover he voted in
1919. to extend the Wilmot Prov iso over the Ter
| ritories of Utah and New Mexico, thus admitting
the right of Congress to intervene to exclude
slavery from the Territories. Bah--we scken
with The record of this demagogue.
Year: 1860

ANNOUNCEmENT.


We are authorized TO announce the name OF
JAMES p. BULL. of Dutch Flat. as candidate
for Recorder OF Placer county. subject to the de-
cisioh of the Union County Convention.
Year: 1860

Republicans, now is the time to show
your faith in your principles, and your
anxiety to see them carried into effect Tues
day, November 9th, is the day of the Presi-
Dental Election. 1t is highly necessary,
yea essential, that every Republican voter be
gotten to the polls. We shall need all our
votes. Without all we may he beaten /:
with all we cannot be. We earnestly urge
Republicans 10 go 10 work in each county
and make the necessary. preparation, in the
way of vehicles and persons to drive them,
to take sick, lame, aged, and Indifferent
voters to the polls. Now is the time, Lin
coin men, to show your faith by your works


FROM now until the night of the election.
If You expect Republican principles to
triumph in future, now is the time TO do
your part to that end.
Year: 1860

! The TEST APrLIED.-Mr. Douglas says


there must be something wrong in any
! political creed that clnnot be safely advo-
Gated in all sections Of the Union. Hear


what the Democratic organ of South


Carolina, the Charleston Mercury, says of
him and his creed


His voice VIII not be tolerated in this
State-eyen though it be a free country. 1t
is more than the wholesome condition Of his
skin is worth. lie would be kicked from
every stump in the State. The cry of
shame from every quarter of the South
should rise up against Virginia, that she
has not only permitted her soil TO be descrat-
ed bv the bullying threats Of violence
AGAINST her Southern sister States, but men
have been found thero-found in masses
to hoot this Western blackguard with their
cOwardly shouts of applause. Shame
shame upon poor old Virginia Who
could have thought she could have come to
this p


How does this national candidate like
being measured by his own rule Was it
from m apprehension that kicking process
would be applied, that he SO suddenly
stopped ia his recent Southern tour, and
clme back to his own section ?-Tolsd0
Rl79e.
Year: 1860

asA-We say to our Republican friends
through the Weekly Journal, as it is the
last time we can address them before the
eiectionl, be active; be vigilant; get out
your J4H rote, and watch the polls closely
for fraudulent votes and other cheating. All
manner of tricks will be tried TO carry In
diana for Douglas, but they must be exposed
and defeated. Remember our caution to
you and do your duty.
Year: 1860

THE HERALD GIVES ADVICE To THE New
YORK MEECHANTs.-The New York Herald
of Friday advises the New York Merchants
to lock up their money to keep it from the
politician. 1t says the election of Lincoln
is sure, and spending money to prevent it
will do no good. Hear it


There is no question of doubt but that
the recent election in Pennsylvania settles
the Presidential question and places Abra-
ham Lincoln in the Presidential chair Our
New York merchants and inanciers may as
we'll look this fact fairly and squarely in
the face; and no other version can be place
ed upon the result in the keystone State
The best thing they can do is to lock their
money up in vaults and keep it out of the
hands of the politicians. The Republicans
reed no funds or speakers, and their oppo-
nents cannot change the result with the for
tunes of Rothschild. The jig is up gentle
man, look at it as you will.
Year: 1860

Nsa-Tt is said that in putting up apples
for winter use, if they are carefully assorted
and put in barrels, placing piece of news
paper nj the bottom of the barrel, and then
a layer Of apples, and another piece of pa
per, and 50 on until the barrel is filled, and
then placed in a dry place, the apples will
keep for a much longer time than hen
packed in almost any other va.
Year: 1860

Yesterday afternoon Judge DeBruler
spoke in Newburgh, in a grove on the hill
in the rear of town, to an audience of near
three hundred persons. The audience is
said by our informant (Mr. Thomas Roys-
ton, Wide Awake of this city, to have
been one of the most orderly he ever saw
assembled. Close attention was paid to
Judge DeBrulers remarks all through
Newburgh did herself great credit in turn
ing out so large and peaceable a crowd to
hear Republican speech.


The Judge was very lucid and satisfactory
in his address. He tore the veil from the
sophistries OF Douglas, and showed plainly
the utter humbuggery of his professions of
popular sovereignty. He also yindieated
the Republican party from the charges of
" "aboltionism made against it.


The speech certainly must have made
voteg. 1t made a very fine impression on
the audience, many of whom were Demo-
Gratis.
Year: 1860

ss5~The Enquirer makes sundry charges
against the Republican party for State mis-
management in 1854 Is it possible that
the Enquirer editor can be SO ignorant as
that Why, there was no Republican party
in 1854. That party did not take it's rise
until 1856. What ignorance And this
is the Nineteenth Century, and we live in
a city of free schools!


For the benefit of the Willard organ, we
will publish a speech in day or two that
will give anxious inquirers for truth some
valuable Information in regard to the whole
sale swindlng practices of the Locofoeo
party for the past sixteen years in Indiana.
1t wall be rich reading.
Year: 1860

A QUERY" willard was invisible on
the Charley Bovea on Friday night, be-
tween here and Newburgh. We are request
ed by an anxious inquirer to ask where be
was, ard what be was doing Our friend
may be considered impertinent but sure
as innocent a man as the editor of the
Enquirer can have no objection to tell his
whereabouts on q pleasure excursion.
Journal


We were engaged in private room, and
if the friend Of the editor of the Journal
who asked the question, consults his finances,
he can readily answer the latter part of the
question without our aid l-ERguirer


What wnning way Willard has, to be
sure. lie seems to have returned flush with
victory. Rumor says that he came within
an ace of losing all he had, though What
the deuce could have induced him to remain
on the boat in the midst of the din of battle
up town? From the noise, he might have
supposed that Tray, Blanche, and Sweet
heart, and alb the little dogs were barking
at the Republicans He should therefore
have passed up town to see the muss, and
take items. To defend himself against the
Black Republicans he might have taken
poker along.


"The wreck of matter and the crush of
worlds would make no impression on
Willard when engaged in reading the His
tory of the Four Kings" much less the
killing of one or two Black Republic
ans ..r. ......F
Year: 1860

9sAWe hope our correspondents will
bear patiently with our delay in publishing
sundry excellent communications There
is such pressure on our columns these stir
ring times that we actually cannot publish
one-fourth ofthe matter which invites atten-
tion. We shall try to q haul in the slack -
as rapidly as possible.
Year: 1860

RELIGIOUS No7IcE.-Rey. J. C. WHITE will
preach the dedication sermon Of the new Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church in knight Township to-
morrow at half past Ten o'clock. There will be
preaching in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
in this city Sabbath evening at half past seven
o'clock
Year: 1860

A man named Patrick Mulligan, an en-
ployee in Dow's Distillery on Mission Greek,
was found dead in one of the large fermenting
vats early this morning. He is supposed to
have accidentally fallen into the vat during
the night and to have been stihed by the car
bonic gas from the beer fermentation.
Year: 1860

AFTER HIM.-Some fend on Monday night
went to the house of the widow O'Donnell, at
Rowland Flat, and attempted to gain ad-
mission. The lone woman arose from her
bed, went to the door, and discharged pis>
tol shot at the villainous miscreant, which
had the effect of making him take a sudden
departure from thepremises. The fellow had
horse which a friend or aecomplice took
from him and stabbed. The rutiian was
tracked to his cabin, found in bed, and, upon
being threatened, admitted we are told, that
he had been out His pursuers threatened
to use him in no gentle style, which elected
considerable fear and some good promises
from the mean creature His intention, it is
thought was to take away an unfortunate
woman who is now endeavoring BY industry
and good conduct to remove a stain that has
heretofore marked her character -Nomtan
Messenger.
Year: 1860

FIRE AT LAKEvILLE.- bout a thousand
acres of land in the vicinity of LakevilIe was
burnt over. on Thursday of last week
considerable quantity of hay and some grain
was destroyed. 1t is said the fire was
caused by boy shooting a gun wad into
stack Of hay ASonoma County Journal.
Year: 1860

In the annual report of the Secretary Of
the Navy. the following reference is made TO
the rev U S. war steamer, lately completed
at Mare Island:


"'rhe Saginaw has been built on the Pa
cific side, at the Mare Island navy ward in
California. 1t has been well and economi-
cally built, both the vessel and the n,achin-
cry. 1t proves the competency of the gov
ernment to meet the demands of the navy
both for construction and repair in the Pa
cifie ocean, without doubling Cape Horn
We can undoubtedly construct, repair, and
maintain Il Pacific squadron from the timber
and other resources Of California and Ore
gon, with but little aid from the Atlf ntc
side, and that aid can be furnished without
much Inconvenience, by the comparatively
short way Of the Isthmus. The voyage around
Cape Horn is long, tedious and expensive
and though it may be often necessary to be
repeated for many reasons, and among 9th
ers for the advantages to be derived from the
presence Of ship Of war at various points
on the route vet it is obvious that the eff
cheney of naval force in the Pacific will be
much enhanced by the policy of maintaining
an efficient navy yard on that coast
Year: 1860

Senator Anderson has introduced in the
the State Senate bill for "an act concern
ing District Court Reporters" which al
though novel, seems important and useful
to the legal fraternity and to ltigants. The
San Francisco Herald containg synopsis
of the biI-t "provides for the appointmet
by the several District Judges of this State,
of steuographic or phonographic report
err for such District, to hold his office at the
pleasure of the Judge. The duties of such
reporter are 'to attend in person the sittngs
of the District Courts, within his District,
and upon the request of either party, or un-
der the order of the Court, to take down in
stenographic hand, during the trial Of any
case, in such Court, the testimony of the wit.
ness, and the proceedings had pending the
trial of such case, and thereafter aud within
such time as the Court shall direct, to write
out at length in plain egible hand and
submit to the Court a correct and complete
report of such testimony and proceedings,
stating the testimony as nearly as possible in
the exact words of the witness or Interpreter,
as given at the trial. and with like exactness
the questions asked the witnesses, objections
stated and exceptions taken"


lie is allowed the same fees for all this,
per folio, as is by law allowed now to the
Clerk for taking down the testimony to be
recovered in civil cases as part of the costs.


When not engaged in the Court, he may
perform at the request of any County Judge,
similar service in the Courts over which
such Judge presides In criminal cases the
reporter, as the last resort, shall be paid by
the county in which the indictment is found"


The Herald says "such law as this will
encourage the youth of the State IN acqur,
ing an intimate knowledge Of that useful art,
and when properly in practice, will greatly
facilitate the business of our Courts.


1t will be observed that there is nothing
compulsory about the appointment, and
clause of the bill provides that if the Judge
is not satisfied with the correctness of the
report he may discard it,"
Year: 1860

CLUB MkETISG.-Remember the reg
uar meeting of the Douglas and Johnson Club
this evening Business Of importance is to be
Transacted. and it is very desirabl. that there
should be . full attendance. Rally at the
head quarters at eight o'clock
Year: 1860

VERY cold, damp and uncomfortable
was yesterday. We have never experienced
more unfavorable weather in the month Of
August since we came to the West. 1t looks
very much a. If we would have an early frost
from which good Lord deliver us."
Year: 1860

| PROGRESS OF The NJ. & NJ. RAILROAD.


1t is now pretty certain that the governing


p wers Of the Mississippi and Missouri Rail-


read have determined to devote their energies


from this time out, to completing the main


trunk Of the road in as short time as posei-
company, and that IS. the great tide Of emigra.
tion Westward; the benefits Of which this
roa has almost entirely lost, but which, had
he road been completed to Council B uffs.
wolld have filled its treasury to overf1owing,
and put the road on footing equal to the best
roads in the Western States


The policy Of putting lock on the stable
door after the horse is stolen is not good but
in this case the "horse" is no. entirely gene
The vast tide Of emigration from the East to
the West has hut just commenced flowing, and
the emigrants are ever on the lookout for the
best line Of transT orta,ion; and when this
road. the main branch Of the n. Il NJ. r 4ilro.d,
shall have been completed aud put in running
order, there will no longer exist any doubt in
the mind Of the eniy rant az to which particu-
lar route will be the best or mot expeditions
by which to reach the Western territories.


For the benefi: Of our city, for the benefit
and advance ment of the State at large. We
hope that uncommon efforts will be made on
the part of the company and on the part Of
every county through which it will run, to
crowd this grand trunk through to its desti-
nalion-tte Missouri River There is no other
enterprise in the State which will SO much
hereft the State and help develop its interests
= as this road-none, We are free to say, will
50 much benefit our city The time has already
come when the State is actually in need of on
ntersecting line Of railroad aud the company
two years will be the most fortunate. The
immense trade of Western Iowa is loudly call
ing for Eas,eIn outlet by Other AMI more
expeditions means than those afforded by the
Missouri river, aud whether it shall |. e had sr
not. depends in part upon tie energy and lib
erality Of those counties through which the
r,ected road is to pass. Let the friends Of
the NJ. 4 N. Road bear in mind that there is |
great competition in this matter, and that there
Is not q moment to be lost. That road which |
extends its line of march with the greatest
rapidity and the greatest show Of success, will |
be the one that will receive the la ges. amount |
Of public and private aid.


We believe that fresh impetus is to be
given to the n ain branch Of the NJ. d NJ Road, |
AID we trust that . revival of interest in its |
behalf will pervade every town and county |
along its line, between Davenport and Council |
Bluffs