smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

fess thepeople Of Clarke county have some
reason for thinking there is something wrong,
somewhere. Still there is nothing wrong
nothing but what Governor GHoLsoN or
Judge McFADDEN are perfectly willing
should be known; nor yet is there anything
connected with the subject but what the peo-
pie have a right to know We are well
satisfied that the correspondence asked for
by our friend will be cheerfully granted us
In fact it was once promised by the Cover
nor; but on more mature reflection, he
thought proper to withhold its publication
at that time. The notification of Judge
McFADDEN to the Governor, informing him
of the receipt of the capitol and penitentiary
funds, we obtained from the Judge previous
to his leaving town. We also called upon
the Governor for the purpose of obtaining
his correspondence in the premises, but found
him prostrated by sickness, and in such con-
dition that we thought it improper to men
tion the subject As soon as he shall have
recovered sufficiently to attend to the duties
Of his Office, we promise our "Clarke county"
friend and its citizens to obtain the same,
and publish it for their especial benefit and
Information. The other query of our friend
as to the Governors refusing to give bond,
and the rumor that "the Judge has sent the
money back to Washington" is answered
elsewhere.


Hoping our readers in Clarke county will
patiently "bide their time" until we shall be
enabled to publish the official correspond
ence, we dismiss the subject for the present
Year: 1860




The above communication, which we re-
ceiyed by last Oregon mail from a much re.
spected friend in Clarke county, shows the
anxiety and interest everywhere felt by our
citizens concerning the early commencement
and rapid completion Of the peniteniiary for
this Territory. We can confidently assure
our correspondent, as also the citizens Of
Clarke county in general, that there is not a
man, woman, OF child in Thurston county
objects to having the Penitentiary built at
Vancouver On the contrary, it is their ar
dent wish that it be commenced and com
pleted al ono, and thus forever bar the pos
sibiIiiy Of making It a trading capital in fu-
ture. The Penitentiary was located at Van
couyer BY the Territorial Legislature years
ago; a reference to the journals Of that sos
sion will show that the Thurston county del
egation voted unanimously on the question
TO 50 loeats it, and we can further assert,
from an acquaintance with the views and
opinions Of oar people in the premises, that
the votes, thus cast, met with their entire
appreciation and endorsement. We can also
assert, knOiOiaglys, that they have not in the
least changed their minds to the present
time. Our correspondent is therefore doing
US wrong in thus insinuating his suspicious
against the people Of this county, by the in
quiry as to whether the "penitentiary is tc
be held back for capital to trade on thi.
coming winter" The inference abroad
would very naturally lead many to believe
that some Of oar Influential citizens" might
have tampered7 with the Governor, ant
prevailed on him TO decline giving bond fol
the present, when the very reverse of thi
Is the exact state Of the case.


We had hoped that what we have hereto
fore said on this subject would have fully ex
planned the present situation of things a
connected with the peuitentiary. But i
seems it has not, and as we are called upol
again to travel over the same ground" WI
will do so in as brief a manner as possible
trusting that this time We shall be fully un
derstood, as also be able to remove the ''sus
pieiOns" which some appear to entertain
against the people Of Thurston county.


We are willing to concede that our cor
respondent has some reasons for his supcions
He is correct in saying our delegate ha!
had the title approved, that the money fo
the construction Of the pententiary has beer
received by Judge McFADDEN, but that h
could SCI no person 10 take ~ Had h,
qualified the latter assertion by using tn,
language 4fOr the present" he would hav,
been entirely correct After all this haC
been secured-the building legally located BY
aVOte of the dominant party Of the territory
the money appropriated by democratic ad
ministration, and once on hand and the people
solicitous for its immediate erection-we con,
Year: 1860

EDHoR OF PIoNEER & DENocRAr:


SIN; As We feel over here some interest
IN the erection Of the public buildings, will
you be kidd enough to tell US why the nee
essary steps have not been taken to secure
the erection Of the peniientiary this seasonl
We understand that our delegate has had
the title 10 the site confirmed by the pro-
per department We also learn that Judge
McFaddeR has the money, but can get no
person to take it; aud yet the penitentiary
isnOt going up. Now, why is thisl


We want to know oil about this thing.
Is The penitenliary to be held back for cap.
ital to trade on this coming winterl


Could you not give Us the correspond
ence Of these public officials with the home
department. II you can do so, you would
certainly crafty the anxiety Of our people,
who are strongly inclined TO believe that
they are being most hugely humbugged.


Let Us have the whole Of the correspond
ence. We have a right 10 know what our
public officers have 10 say about our inter
ests.


We want the whole Of it-no lille stars
or black lines stuck through it. As you
have been elected public printer, you can
afford to stick 1t oil up in type. We want
the per cent. aud ALL


BE good enough, also, to let US have the
correspondence (if there is any between
Judge MeFadden aud Governor Gholson
Some say the governor has given bond and
taken the money, while others say the gov
ernor has refused TO take the dimes and
that the Judge has sent the money back
to Washington. This is the second time
the money hes been here, and yet as
We understand, the Judge has never been
able to get any one 10 take IT, Who will
say We are not a most disinterested peoplel


Now. sir, If you can crafty us by an an
swer 10 these queries, you will certainly be
entitled 70 our thanks. Between the written
and verbal communications we don't exact
y know where we sand.


Yours, truly,
Year: 1860

Can't hurt anybody. Why know per-
son, yonder he is now on high change. IA >pe-
cimen Of manly beauty, portiy six fouter.
He has the bearing Of Il prince, for he is one
of our merchant princes. His face wears
the ruddy hue of health, and how at the aye
OF fifty odd he has the quick, elastic step Of
our Young men at twenty-five, and none
more full of wit and mirth than he, and
know that he never dimes without brand,
and water, and never goes to bed without u
terrapin or oyster supper with champagne,
be drunk. So here is living example and
disproof Of the temperance twaddle about the
dangerous nature Of an occasional glass, and
the destructive effect of temperate use Of
good liquors.


Now it SO happened that this specimen of
safe brandy drinking Vas relation Of ours.
He died III Year or two after that of chrun-
ic diarrhoea, common end of those who are
never drunk and never out of liquor. lie
left his six children and he had his ships in
every known .ea, ard his credit ut every
counter, which he never had any occasion tu
use.


For months before he died-he was a year
in dying-he could eat Or drink nothing
without distress, and at his death the whole
alimentary canal was mass of disease-il
the r,idst of the millions he died of inan,ior
That is not the half. reader. He had been a
steady drinker, daily drinker for more than
twenty eight years. He left legacy to his
children that We did not mention. Scrofua
had eaten up one daughter for fifteen years
another is in the madhouse, the third and
fourth of unearthly beauty, there was kind
OF grandeur in that beauty but they blighted
and paled, and faded into heaven We trust,
in their sweetest teens, another is ,ot:ering
on the verge of the grave, and only one is
left with ali her senses, and each OF them as
w.ak as water. Why, We came from the dis
sec,ing room and made note Of it it Wa,
so very horrible.-Ur. Halls journal of
Health.
Year: 1860

Short Sermon for ssYoung America"


A clergyman writing about the fast young
men, Of the present day. says: ut is seldom
that young man goes to college with the
deliberate purpose of living viciously; but
he is weak. He is taken into the company
Of a set of men senior to himself with whom
it is qualification to associate; he finds a.
mOng them habits of thought and ex preston
and act, which in his soul he loathes but he
is weak how can he resist the evil nav,
how can he avoid taking part in it, for he
must not, he thinks, make himself singular !;
so the lcen,ious thought, or the coarse word.
or the oath, is welcomed with smile, and
from the smile the advance is rapid to the
partaking in what he first shrank from, and
from partaking in it to glorying in it, and
from thence becoming the temp,er to others,
as he had been himself tempted, and fallen.
Or. again, it may not be direct sin, but idle
ness, into which man is tempted by weak
ness. He may find that others are idle, that
there are the counter claims of amusements
and societies which interfere with the claims
OF study he does not deliberately determine
to he idle. and to throw away that precious
time which no after exertion or regrets will
recover; but circumstances lead him intu
idleress, and he has not the strength to re-
sist-he is weak. Here. then, is one main
element of that childessness which we have
to put away-the weakness which, in spite
of the prompting Of our better nature, leads
US into sin of idleness from the example of


others, or what we choose to call the force OF
circumstances. And closely connected with
this weakness is cowa!dice. We are afraid
of our neighbors, or, rather. of our own i'm
asination Of what our neighbors think of US.


1t may be that We despise in our hearts the
very men by whom We are led, and detest
their sentiments and tone Of mind; but.nev.
ertheless, We are led by them. we applaud
their sentiments. We adopt their tone" Was
the text for the above excellent discourse Ia
ken from Job: The foolish man is ACCOM-
plished before his time. and his branch shall


not be green. Job XIV. 80. ]-Home Jour-
na(
Year: 1860

Paix,' going completely around it, stopping oc-
casionally to say few words to some one
whom he recognized. -.f ..5 --....


The Princess Clotilde, who sat next to the
Empress, was dressed in blue, and wore pearl
necklace. She has a fair girlish face She
chatted and laughed good deal with the En-
press, danced four or FIVE times, and amused
herself principally during the dance, when she
was not on the floor, by keeping time to the
music with her head in very child-like, girl,
ish manner The report that she is in an a in
teresting situation is devoid of truth, and it
is even hiuted that there is no probability she
ever will Ee while she confines her affections
to her liege lord the Prince Napoleon But
this is doubtless scandal. 1t is SAID there is
net much love lost between the portly Prince
and the Petite Princess that their apart
ments in the Palais Royal are quite distant
from each other, and that they indulge in but
very little family retirement. She is said to
be pettish, spoiled child, who considers her
self sacrificed to- political alliance while the
Prince is proud and naughty; and thinks she
ought 10 consider herself sufficiently honored
in being annexed" to him, member of the
great Napoleonic house, with prospect, per
haps, of being Emperor of France But, then,
girl of seventeen and a man of forty do not
always see things in the same light. -


The Prince Napoleon was dressed like the
Emperor, and, with the exception of when
dancing the first quadrille, retained his place
during the whole evening. He is potty
fine-looking man, and looked quite giant like,
by the side Ct his imperial cousin He has
face very much resembling his uncle, the first
Napoleon but for all this lie is not popular
with the French people, who regard him as
proud haughty man, and call him Plon-
, Plon," which signifies lead and is said to
refer to fear on his part of that dangerous
article


The Princess Mathilde is rather coarse,
though intelligent looking woman, about forty
years of age. She is said to be rather fast" !"
withal and it is limited that it is well the
walls Of hec mansion in the Rue De Courcel-
les are not gifted with the power of speech
/ Scandal, nrobaby-al scandal '"


! At midnight the imperial party and the di-
/ pomatic corps partook Of supper, after which
the magnificent supper room was opened to
those who could get in, where an elegant sup
! per, with plenty of champagne, was served.


After supper the imperial party did not re.
! turn to the ballroom but the ball was con-
! tinued until a late, or rather an early hour in
| the morning. There must have been more
than two thousand persons present, and the
whole Scene surpassed in brilliancy anything
of the kind | have ever witnessed The splen-
did rooms, the fair women decked with jewels,
/ the " brave men covered some with glory
aud all with gold lace, the presence of Males.
ty, the brilliant light, and the fine music,
/ formed toll ensemble Which haunts my mem
/ ory yet
Year: 1860

An eye can threaten like the loaded gun, Of
can insult like Kissing or Kicking or in its
altered mood by beams of kindness can make
the heart dance with joy. The eye ebeys ex-
actly The action of the mind When thought
strikes up the vision is fixed, and remains
looking at distance in enumerating names
of persons or countries-aS France, Spain,
Britain or Germany-the eyes wink at each
new name. There is an honesty in the eye
which the mouth does not participate in. "The
artist" as Michael Angelo said must have
his measure in his eye" Eyes are bold as
ioHs-bold, running leaping They speak all
language they need no encyclopedia to aid In
to Interpretation of their language they re-
spect neither rank nor fortdne, virtue nor sex
but they go through and through you in
moment of time. You can read in the eyes OF
your companion, while you talk with him,
whether your argument hits, though his tongue
will not confess it. There is look by which
a man tells you he is going to say good
thing, and look which says whe he has said
it.


Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers of
hospitality, if there is no holiday iu the eye
How many inclination are. avowed by the eye
though the lips dissemble How often does
one come from a company in which it may
easily happen he has said nothing that no
important remark has been addressed to him,
and yet, in bis sympathy with the company
he seems not to have sense of this fact, for
a stream of light has been flowing into him
through his eyes. As soon as men are off
their centres the eyes show it, There are eyes
to be sure, that give no more admission into
the man than blde berries. There are liquid
and deep wells than man might fall into
there are asking eyes, and asserting eyes and
prowling eyes, and eyes full of faith, and some
of good and some of sinister omen. The power
Of eyes to charm down insanity or beasts is q
power behind the eyes, that must be victory
achieved in the will before it can be suggested
to the organ but the man at peace or unity
with himself would move through men and
nature, commanding ell things by the eye
alone The reason men do not obey Us is, that
they see the mud at the bottom of our eyes
Whoever looked on the hero would consent
to his will heing served he would be obeyed.
r W. Emerson
Year: 1860

The FIRST NoTICE OF CoNstMPTIoN N-The
nose is to be regarded as the beginning of the
lung apparatus, just as the mouth is the be-
ginning of the digestive apparatus. The nose
is one organ of respiration, for animals breathe
not though the mouth, bit though the nostrils.
The nose, too, has its cough sneezing is the
name affixed to this action. The nose thus
viewed is part of the breathing apparatus,
and hence the reason appears why, if there is
such state of the lung tissue as is associated
with blood discharge, it is not unlikely that
this tendency existing also in the blood tissue
Of the nose, the discharge of the blood from
the nose becomes premonitory, and Indicative
Of the diseased changes in the lungs. What
an admirable cCntrivance is it that the dis
charge of blood should thus be exhibited in
connection with the nose. since here the blood
escapes exteriorly ; whereas, if taking place in
the tissue Of the lungs,a sulfocation, an asphyX-
ia Of the Lungs would be caused.
Year: 1860

BAIL,RooM AND CHURCH GOING. How many
walk from the ballroom, and delay in the cold
stone hall, and then walk to and from the cars
riage or perhaps if in the country, run d
few hundred PAGES home. The system has been
weakened by the fatigues and the excitement
of the dancing and of the warm ballroom q
rush of blood on the interior organs is caused
by the cold feet the power of creating reac-
ton has been diminished by that exhaustion,
caused as stated active disease is developed,
and, at the next ANIMAL gathering, the star of
the party is not met with-she is in her grave.
1t must not be inferred that these results are
to be gained only in connection with the ball
room they are to be met with as frequently
in connection with the crowded church for
chapel Persons going out in the cold streets,
after being excited and made hot within the
walls of building deemed by many to be
specially under the Divine protection, have
oftentilnes the foundation laid of phthisis, thus
demonstrating that the Divine Parent, while
He has appointed law for wershipers not
forsaking the assembling of themselves to.
gether," has appointed also certain natural
laws which regulate the physical condition, ,un
der which alone such assembling can physical
ly be safe.
Year: 1860

Dim and mysterious is the carly history Of
man on this continent. 1t is enveloped in
thick darkness, never, it may be presumed to
be penetrated by human research I; and yet the
ruins of ancient cities are frequently discover
ed that tell of race that has long since pass,
ed ALPHABETICALLY exterminated by the an,
cestors Of our present IndiaHs who are also fast
departing from the human family fairly dying
ont before tie ever advancing influence of the
pale face But these monumental cities indicate
great populations, and prove the existence of
mighty men of old A new stimulus is likely
to be given to American archaeology, by a dis
covery recently made some ninety miles north
east of Fort Stanton, long account of which
has just appeared In the Fort Smith Arkansas
Times We condense The plain upon which
lie the massive relics Of gorgeous temples and
magnificent halls slopes gradually eastward
toward the river PecdS, and is very fertile,
crossed ny grrgliug stream of the pureSt
water that not only sustainS rich vegetation,
but perhaps furnished with this necessary ele-
ment the thousands who once inhabited this
present wilderness.


The city was probably built by a warlike
race as it is quadrangular and arranged with
ShilL W 1AOiO LuC ulS hCoO piOICSlANh "Gt''ii9I
an exterior foe, many of the buildings on the
outer line being pierced with loopholes, as
though calculated for the use Of weapons
Several OF the buildings are Of vast size, and
built of massive blocks Of dark granite rock,
which could only have been wrought to their
present condition by vast amount of labor
There are the ruins Of three noble edifceS, each
presenting front of three hundred feet, made
of ponderous blocks of stone and the dilapidGt-
ed walls are even now thrtyfve feet high
There are no partitions in the area of the
middle (supposed) temple, so that the room
must have been vast and there are also car
wings in bas-relief and freSco work. Appear
anceS Justify the conclusion that these silent
ruins could once boast of halls as gorgeously
decorated by the artists hand as those of
Thebes and Palmyra The buildings are all
loophoied in. each side much resembling that
found in the old feudal castles of Europe de-
signed for the use of archers. The blocks OF
which these edifceS are composed are cement
ed together by species Of mortar of btu
minous character. which has such tenacity
that vast masses being detached by the shock.
We hope, ere long, to be favored with fall and
descriptive particulars, as it Is probable that
visits and examinations will be made amongst
such interesting relies of the unknown past 10y
some of the United States officers attached to
the nearest fcrt.
Year: 1860

SINGULAR TRADiTIpN. Among the Seminole
Indians there is a singular tradition regarding
the white mans origin and superiority. They
say that when the Great Spirit made the earth
he also made three men; all Of whom we're Of
fair completion and that after making them,
he led them to the margin of a small lake and
bade them leap therein. One Immediately
obeyed and came from the water pnrer than
before he bathed the second did not leap in
until'the water had become Slightly muddy
and when he bathed he came up copper color
ed the third did not leap until the water be-
came black with mud, and come out with its
own color.


Then the great Spirit laid before them three
packages of bark and bade them choose, and
ont of pity for his misfortune in color he gave
the black man his fist choice. He took hold
of each of the packages and having felt the
weight, chose the heaviest the copper cOlored
one then chose the second heaviest leaving the
white man the lghtest. When the packages
were opened the first was found to contain
spades, hoes, and all the implements of labor !;
the second enwrapped hunting, fishing and
wari5e apparatus, the third gave the white
man pens, ink and paper-the engine of the
mnd-the mutual mental mprovement--the
social link of humanity, the foundation1of the
white mans superiority.
Year: 1860

Welded LlFE-He cannot be an unhappy
man who has the love and smile of woman TO
accompany him in every department. of life
The world may look dark and cheerless with
out-enemies may gather id his path-but
when he returns to the freside and feels the
tender love of women, he forgets bis cares and
troubles, and is comparatively happy man.
He is but half prepared for the journey of life,
who takes not with him for companion one
who will forsake him in no emergency, who
will divide his sorrows, increase his joys, lift
the veil from his heart ahd throw sunshine
amid the darkest scenes. No, that man can
not be miserable who has such companion,
be be ever so poor, despised, and trodden upon
by the world. "tr