smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Coon BYE, OH SUBS This week We
strike from our list only about fifty subscrib-
ers who w,jl not pay their dues to the print
er In doing SO, we take them by the hand,
and with tears in our eyes bid them an atfec-
tionate farewell. Good bye. old subs! Take
care of yourselves. Sometimes think, OF the
Advertiser which you have read SO long for
nothing. spunse upon some other printer
now, for while. A change Of diet will
DOUBTLESS be good for YOU Poor Old fellows
We are a little sorry to tuln you out upon the
dark night without 4 lamp, but 1t must be So
Strike for the nearest neighbor's light. He
may let you in and feed you year or two,
upon the strength of your honorable promises
to pay at the end Of that time For our
selves, We have enough Of these curious
pledges to supply our cabinet for the present.
We have labeled them eerefuly, and they
are open to general inspection. With many
thanks for yonf self-sactidcing indulgence Of
us, and for your honest appreciation Of the
obligation existing toward oar office, we
again, and finally say, s. farewell forever IT.


n., ~. Edgejield advertiser
Year: 1859

s@ A young lady named Taylor meeting
former acquaintance named Mason at a
party, where the latter was assuming quan-
tity of importance in consequence of her
wealth, and who did not deign to notice her,
revengcd herself by stepping into the group
surrounding the naughty belle, and thus ad-
dressing her with the most winning smile,
81 have been thinking, my dear Miss Ma
son, that we ought to exchange names. S.
"Why, indeed?" "Because my name is
Taylor, and my father was mason; and your
name is Mason, and your father was tall
or" There was scene, then, but there
was no help for it.
Year: 1859

THE SEWERAGE OF LoNDoN.-The sys-
tenn of sewerage recently undertaken in Lon
don, is on scale of great magni6ceuce. It
consists of three gigantic tunnels, at differ
ent levels, which intercept the existing sew
ers at right angles, thus receiving all their
contents formerly eupted into the river, and
conveying them parallel with the banks of
the river about eight miles to Barking,
where an immense reservoir is to be prepar
ed to receive them: This reservoir is to be
mile and half long, by about 100 feet
wide, and 81 feet deep, capable Of contain
ing no less than 100000 cubic feet, or
double the average Of eight hours accumu-
lation Of savage. The object Of the mar
rowness of the reservoir compared with its
length is to admit of its being bricked over
with arches; and covered with earth, so as
to prevent the escape of foul gases. During
the time the sewage is in this reservoir, it
is to be deoderized, and experiments are
now going on to ascertain the best method
of doing this. At high tide the contents of
the reservoir will be emptied into the river
by immense outfall pipes extending to the
middle and bottom of its bed, sixty feet be-
low the surface. 1t is believed that with
these precautions, the sewage, after deodo-
rizatiou, being poured into so vast body of
water, at so great depth, will cease to be
any longer an agent of mischief:


These works are now going on with great
rapidity and in the most thorough and pro-
fuse manner, and it will take about five years
to complete them. The works on the south
ern side of the city, of which we have seen
no particulars, are said to be yet more ex-
traordinary for the difficulties to be overcome
and the engineering genius applied to them.
The expense of this splendid public work
will be about s4, 100000.
Year: 1859

We understand, from Mr.. David Hunt,
that he was at the ST. Vincent poll, Pemblna'
on the day of election, in pursuance Of ap-
pointment by the Republican State Commit
tee to guard that poll that Joe Rolette was
absent at Pembina mountain; and that there
was no election whatever held there on that
day. at st. Vincent. There is ample proof
from others that there was no poll opened,
and if any return is made to Ottertall' II
is a gross forgery from beginning to end.
Year: 1859

cubic feet of gas per day. While the infia-
ton is going on visitors are admitted to the
enclosure on payment of fee.


"High, low, jack and the game" is
phrase amongst card-players. We are afraid
the balloonist will, ere he closes his expedi-
ton, be high and Low, prove himself jack, and
loose the game in the end, if not his ife
Year: 1859

We are engaged making up table OF the
official vote cast in the several counties OF this
State at the recent election, on GOVERNOR
We have it nearly complete-so near as to
enable us to say, that Ramsey's majority
over Becker is not far from 5000 few
more or less. And that the whole vote cast
in the State will reach to quite 40,OOO-or
1000 more than was cast in 1857. Taking
out the bogus or forged votes of that year,th
increase on the vote of 1857 is over 1000.


From this it appears that Minnesota has not,
after all, retrograded in population, in the two
years.
Year: 1859

The old man sat by the chimney side
His face wrinkled and wan,
And he lean'd both hands on his stout oak cane
As if all his work was done.
His coat was of good old fashioned gray,
The pockets were deep and wide
Where his "specs' and his steel tobacco-boI
Lay snugly by his side.
The old man likes to stir the fire,


So near him the tongs were kept:
Sometimes he unused as he gazed on the Goals,
Sometimes he sat and slept
What saw he in the embers there!


All pictures of other years;
And now and then awakened smiles,


But oftener started tears.
His good wife sat on the other side,
In a high-ta:ked, flag-seat chair
see meath the pile of her muslin cap,
The sheen of her silvery hair
There's happy look on her aged face,
As she busily knits for him,
And Nellie takes up the stitches dropped,
For grandmother's eyes are dim.
Their children come and read the news,
To pass the time each day !;
How it stirs the blood in the old mans heart,
To hear of the world away.
'Tis a homely scene, told you so,


But pleasant it is to view;
At least thought it so myself,


And sketchcd it down for you.
BE kind unto the old, my friend,


They're worn with this worlds strife,
Though brayely once perchance they fought
The stern, fierce battle of life.
They taught your youthful feet to climb


Upward life's rugged steep;
Then let us gently lead them down


To where the weary sleep.
Year: 1859

stances current among Free State men at
that time, his eyes would sparkle with un-


wonted brilliancy, his manner would as
sumo the widest excitement and in loud
and boisterous voice, which was uncommon
to him on other occasions, he would ex-
claim: do not attempt to otter anything
in palliatiOn Of such a crime! Nothing
can excuse it! 1t was unequaled i'll afro
city, and displayed only cowardice. Had
the same deed been done in open day, it
would have shown more manline.s; but to
call men from their beds at midnight, and
to cut them down in cold blood, is infinite
ly more savage than was the chopping in
pieces, by drunken rabble, Of X. P
Brown, Of EastOn' And thus he would
run OH for long time, much more vehe
til his attention was diverted by gradually
introducing some other topic, when his
excitement would quietly subside.


John Brown, jr, is man Of education,
and Of more than common ability. Strict
ly honest and conscientious, he could not
consent that the blood of any one should
rest upon him or his father.


When released from imprisonment, he
expressed a determination to leave Kansas
and its exciteInents, that he might eli
gage, in some peaceful locality, in tilling
the soil, in the hope that he would forget
the incidents through which he had passed
while sojOurning i'll the territory, and that
his brain might attain its equilibrium


From this statement it Will be seen that
the insanity of John Brown, .jr. owed its
first cause TO other than the tarbarity OF
Border Rutfians, though their outrages up
on him were enough to drive one mad.


We may also state In this connection,
correcting the many statements to the
contrary which have appeared in the
press, that the dwellings of the Browns on
Pottawattamie creek, were not burned un-
til after the Pottawattamie murder alluded
to. and then in retaliation for the damnng
crime of which John Brow n, senior, Frede-
rick Brown, and their party, were guilty


We sincerely hope that the future histo-
rians Of Kansas will take pains to post
themselves on these subjects, that they
may not do injustice 10 Innocent parties.


Old John Brown has figured as a hero in
Kansas The time will come when history
will be ventilated and instead of a hero. he
will stand before the country in his true
character Under cover of night, and in
the name of religion, he committed crimes
too base a. for common sinners 10 rneddle
with" Should his celebrated victory over
Henry Clay Pate, at Black Jack, be pro-
perly inquired into, it would be found that
Capt Samuel Shore, now of Prairie City,
was the real hero, though too modest and
10 even put in his claim, par
ticularly after seeing the statements OF the
letter writers, who gave all the glory TO
Brown
Year: 1859

From the Cincinnati Price Cttrent FEB. 81


PORK PACKING IN THE WEST.-Pork packing
closed IN the West the present. fully six weeks earlier
than it did last season. and month earlier than usual
hence 1t is that we enabled thus lay
hua EXHIBIT OF the business before readers this
early date Packing has not fully closed yet however
at Chicago and Toledo and consequently reports
both these points not complete but give the
Der packed at each place nearly could be
tanned up to the latest dates In estimate published
IN our last issue We were in the increase is
large as then thought it would be- We into
this by mistake made in adding up the figures
year IN one of our hooks where they had been tran
scrbed correctly.


The Price Current gives detailed statement of the
number packed at each point in the different States and
the following recaptulaton and accompanying remarks
Year: 1859

The STEAMER CoRTEz-It is stated, says
the Alta, by some of the passengers who ar


rived 10y the Golden Gate, that for the first


three days out Of New York the North Star


and Atlantic were in sight of each other but


that soon after the North Star began to fall


astern, and was soon left out of sight by the


Atlantic. The latter arrived at AspinwalI
after passage of seven days and twenty
four hours from New York Her passengers
were detained twenty four hours on the 18TH
mus, and when the Golden Gate sailed from
Panama the North Star had not arrived at
Aspinwall, although it is a well known fact
that she is one of the fastest boats out of
New York, and, as has been stated, for the
first three days kept up with the Atlantic.
1t is, therefore, perfectly reasonable to infer
that the non arrival of the mail steamer NAV
be accounted for by some detention on the
other side, through an accident TO the ma
chinery Of the North Star. The latter is,
however, staunch and well built boat, and
even if one of her engines was disabled, they
are so constructed that she would be able to
make the passage with one wheel, necessari-
ly occupying longer time than would other.
wise be occupied on tie trip. No alarm
need be felt as yet, in regard to the safety of
those on board
Year: 1859




Governor Wise has announced, 1t seems,
that Old Brown is his prisoner, and that he
would not give him mp even if the President
of the United States should make direct de-
mand upon him. This is perhaps very safe
boast, for the reason that the offense was
committed within the bounds of Virginia and
more particularly against the peace and dig
nifty of that State. 1t may also be safe in
that such man as James Buchanan is Presi.
dent of the United States. But, admitting
that the Federal Executive had right to de-
mand him. it would have been poor boast
to make in the days Of old jackson. lie
would have had him, or made the heaven and
earth knock together


Now, We have no earthly objection TO the
Just and dignifed assertion o? State Rights
We believe in State Rights. We believe
strongly in the individual Sovereignty of the
States. But, when we see a disposition to
insolently defy the authority of the General
Government, we despise it. OF one thing we
are satisfied and that is, that the General
Government will never interfere with the
Just rights of the States, but, when she does
conclude that it is her duty to demand ODE.
dience to her supremacy on the part of the
States. we believe in making that demand
good at the expense of blood. We believe in
the old Jackson spirit towards South Caro-
lima. If State will not know her duty, MAKE
her know it.


The bond of this Union is beginning to be
regarded as rope Of sand. 1t is sad di-
vergence of feeling and sentiment from the
original design of the founders of this Re-
public In their eyes the Federal Govern
ment was no mere play thing in the hands OF
the States 1t was a great controlling power.
The States had certain rights of which they
could lot be deprived, but the Congress OF
the United States, within the limits of the
Constitution, was supreme, and to the acts of
that body as the Supreme law of the land,
State sovereignties should bow.


The Hayne and Calhoun doctrine of nulli-
fication was overthrown 10y the Giant Web
ster, in the greatest speech of his life, and
that speech has never been answered. 1t
never will be- Some of the doctrines avowed
in it were too extreme, going as much too far
on the side of the powers of the General
Government as Hoyne went on the side Of
the powers of the individual States; but the
great doctrine of the absolute supremacy OF
the laws of Congress, within the bounds OF
the Constitution, and the fnality of decisions
of the Supreme Court of the United States
upon the constitutionality of Congressional
enactments, without the power of annulment
or opposition on the part of the States, was
maintained with an ability never surpassed,
if ever equaled, and it will stand invinciJle
forever.


If, under the laws Of Congress Old Brown
should be demanded-as there is no proba-
bility that he WILL for we are only supposing
a case-how ridiculous would sound such
declaration as Governor Wise has made, in
the ears of the American people Would he
be sustained in making good such declara-
tion Hardly
Year: 1859

The MAIL STEAMER-The North Star, con-
Meeting with the Cortez on this side. left
New York on the goth of October, having
been out 81 days The COrtez should have
been in several days ago, and many aPpre-
tensions are entertained for her safety. We
give by telegraph the list of the passengers
on the North Star. the same being extracted
from papers brought by the Overland Mail


The ocean transit is fast becoming an unneces'
sary expense. the Overland mail bringing
news much quicker and with equal security.
Year: 1859

AMATEUR FIsHING.-A gentleman of our
acquaintance, says the Alta, amused himself
the past week, in angling in the waters of
the bay. off from the back stoop of the Eagle
Saloon, on Broadway, between Front and
Davis streets. After catching goodly mum.
Der Of perch. rock and tom-eods, he hooked
on to a fish that made him think that he had
fast the mate of the big $50 pound sea bass
caught in the bay some weeks since After
considerable effort he secured the prize,
which proved to be real cod fish, weighing
some three pounds.
Year: 1859

A SACRAMENTO merchant, writing 10 his
partner in that city from Genoa, Carson Val
ley. says that the rock taken from the so
called silver lode on the east side Of the val
ley, has no silver in it, as far as assays have
been made at that place. A company has
been formed TO prospect a canon about mile
below Genoa, in which quartz has been found,
with a small portion of silver and copper
mixed with lead.
Year: 1859

ANTIDoTE TO THE CUT-WoRM The Homo
lulu Advertiser says:


We are told by gentleman residing off
the Nuuanu road, and who has tried the ex
pertinent thoroughly and repeatedly in his
garden and grounds, that the Jarvis Island
guano, ii put on the soil and sprinkled on the
planted beds. will effectually keep away the
cut.worm, which has proved such an enemy
to agricultural and horticultural enterprise in
these islands. He has tried its application
bed for bed, with and without guano, and
while the latter were continually destroyed
the former were perfectly untouched bv the
cutworm. For the sprinkling of the planted
garden beds he dissolved the guano in water
and thus applied it. If this should prove
equally effective on large scale, the wheat
growers OF Makawao need not weep any
more.
Year: 1859

AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSE
TT.-Mr. BurliDgame, formerly of this city,
and afterwards a popular teucher in various
parts of the State, will deliver an address to
the people of this city, at the Methodist
Church, on Tuesday evening next, on matters
connected with the above university.
Year: 1859

The ditch belonging to the South Feather
River Water Co. is advertised to he sold by
the Sheriff of Butte county, on an execution
IN favor of D. W. Cheesman, for the sum of
Sl9.6ss.
Year: 1859

DEATH To THE BUGs.-The following
remedy is said to be infalible: Take two
pounds of alum, bruise it, and reduce it
nearly to powder; dissolve it in three quarts
of boiling water, letting it remain in warm
place till the alum is dissolved. The alum
water is to be applied hot, by means of a
brush to every joint and crevice. Brush the
crevices in the floor of the skirtiug beard, il
they are suspected places; whiteEash the
ceiling, putting in plenty of alum and there
will be an end to their dropping from
thence.
Year: 1859

A friend informs us that bacon skin is
equal to an egg in settling coffee. Take a
piece of skin an inch or an inch and half
square, free it of the greasy part, and drop
it in the cofee-tbe same piece will answer
several times. There is certainly economy
in this Grenada Republican.
Year: 1859

A fash of lightning on the earth would
be visible on the moon in second and a
quarter; on the sun in eight minutes; on
Jupiter when furthest from us, in fifty,
minutes; on Uranus in two hours on Nep-
tune in four and quarter; on the star We
gan, of the first magnitude, in forty-6ve
years, and such stars are visible through the
the telescope.
Year: 1859

Fifty editors, in Maine, recently went on
excursion; they made common purse and
bought box of sardines for dinner. In
consequence of that reckless extravaganza,
forty.nine of them have since taken the
benefit of the bankrupt act.
Year: 1859

We like 10 see men hold up their heads
in community. The innocent andthe vir@
tuous should always do it. No.mat,er how
poor you may be; no matter how much
your face is Drowned by the sun as you toil
beneath its mid day heat, or your hands are
hardened by labor. 1t is better 10 bear
these marks o. industry, than to 'eat the
bread Of idleness."


Hold up your head and look your fellow
man in the face, unless you have wronged
him. If you have won his money at the
gaming table, the most debasing Of all
means of getting money; ifyou have injur-
ed him in mind, body, or estate, and feel in
your heart that you will not make reparatoni
then you have right 10 draw your hat over
your eyes, and look down when you meet
MIN.


But let the honest and noble of all ages,
sexes and conditions, hold up their heads
in society. If your own industry, or the
industry of others, has enabled you to ride
in your carriage, 90 it with thankful heart,
with your head up, but with bow for all
you meet If you are in what are called
the middle ranks, elbowing your way
among your fellows, still hold up your head
and press on. Or, if you belong among the
sons OF toll, and eat the bread of independ-
ent industry, so much the more, hold up
your head. Feel, even in your heart, that,
as long as you do right, you are as good as
the best. You bear, in common with the
millionaire, the image of yo6N Maker. The
dew that falls around his princely dwelling,
distils as gently upon the flower that blooms
at your cottage door. And the glad laugh
may ring out as joyously from you and
your children, as any that may enliven his
mansion halls. Only treat all we'll and fairly
in the circle in which you move, keep u
cheerful heart, and fear nothing but 10 do
wrong. Then, laboring man, you can 60
abroad, beneath the Blue canopy of heaven,
and hold up your head with the virtuous Of
the land. Do it, we say to you, thus eves
command respect
Year: 1859

THE IRIsHMAN AND THE BULL.--An Irish
man was going along the road, when an
angry bull rushed down upon him, and
with his horns tossed him over a fence
The Irishman recovering from his fall, upon
looking up saw the bull paving and tearing
up the ground, (as is the custom Of the ami.
NAL y whereupon Pat, smiling at him, said
elf it was not for your humble apologies,
you brute, faix would think that you had
thrown me over this fence on purpose p'
Year: 1859

THE Presidents MEssAaE.-The great length Of
the able and patriotic annual message Of President
BucHANAN, which we publish entire to- day. will. We
trust, be Sufficient apology, for the fact that weare
unable to lay before readers any of the very inter-
esting news from the Atlantic side ETC., brought by
the steamer Nothsrncr, which arrived here on Fiji
day evening of last week. Even the legislative pro-
ceedings, together with many local and nsighborng
news items of less importance have been set
aside in order to make for tue message IN one
number.


This mastery and truly national document needs
no comment from US, inasmuch as but perusa OF it
will suffice to command the applause Of every Union


loving man thOronghout the length Of this dsspread-
ing confederacy. Being production which stamps Mr..
BUCHANAN one Of the greatest statesmen OF the ags
but ask for crcful and candid examination Of
all into whose hands it may find its way Of whatever
political party assured that the impartial and unpreu-
diced will concede that 1t is amongst the ablest Of
state papers that has emanated from any chief
executive of this nation and that takes rank in
point of enlarged views and grasp Of thought second
to none that have preceded it.
Year: 1859

tive departments Of the government, have
been instructed to reduce their estimates
for the next fiscal year, to the lowest
standard consistent with the efficiency Of
the service, and this duty they have per
formed in a spirit of just economy. The
estimates Of the Treasury, War, Navy, and
Interior Departments, have each been in
some degree reduced; and unless a sudden
and unforeseen emergency should arise, it is
anticipated that a deficiency will exist in
either within the present or the next fiscal
year. The Post Office Department is
placed in a peculiar position, different from
the other departments, and to this l shall
hereafter refer.


l invite Congress to institute a rigid
scrutiny to ascertain whether the expenses
in all the departments cannot be still fur
tbeF reduced; and promise them all the
aid in my power in pursuing the investiga-
tfen.