smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

nv MHss PAhhELkE
There are dwellings in the country,
There are dwellings low and wide
In the shadow Of the mountains,
BY the mill-stream's rapid tide;
Where the chestnut boughs o'ershadow,
The broad and dropping caves,
And the western wind comes freshly
Through the rustliug Of the leaves.
know those pleasant dwellings,
For was a country child,
And | plocked the purple berries
Far up the mountain wild;
And | chased the lowing cattle


Along their homeward way,
But never asked il childhood


Aud home would last alway.
There are dwellings in the city,
There are dwellings fair and tall,
Where broad the light is dancing
Along the pictured wall;
And out through crimson curtains
When the passers linger long,
To hear the children's laughter


And the maiden's evening song.
81 know those stately dwellings,


For one called my home,
And | paced my gorgeous chambers
Where thought no care could come,
And l laughed, a low sweet laughter
To the baby at my breast,
For thought my goods we're garnered
And my soul could take her rest.
There are dwellings 10 the alleys
Where the poor and wretched meet,
And the shout and sougring wildly
Up from the crowded street.
Where the air is foul with odors
And the heart within US dies,
As we hear the mockiDg laughter
And the chidren's bitter cries.
know those wretched dwellings,
For there toll and pray,
For the children's bread know not,
Where to seek the coming day;
II is hard to dwell with sorrow,


And harder still with crime
But ask no murm'riDg question
have learned to bide my time
There are dwellings fair and stately,
Beyond all mortal sight,
Where the walls are built of Jasper,
And the floors as sapphire bright;
Where the doors are always open,
And the angels come and go,
And we hear amongst them voices
We are almost sure we know.
/ know those stately mansions
For my Father owns them all,
And am only waiting


To hear his welcome call
shall lay down at the threshold


The burden Of my care,
For shall go home at evening


But shall find it morning there
Year: 1859

~ThOsc merchants who arc most
successful in business and have the largest
run of custom are those who advertise the
most steadily. They have less to say about
them less than those who have equally as
good stocks but do not let the public know
anything about them. We have plenty of
living proof Of this in this city, and those
who have been acquainted here for the past
four years can as readily point them out ~
we can. Observation-Disclosures your goods
Year: 1859

Disastrous FIRK--Last evening
at about half past eight o'clock, building
in Rock leland. supposed to be Buford's
Plow Factory, was discovered on fire The
fire ragged fiercely, although at the time it
was raining in torrents. Should it prove
to be the Plow Factory the loss will be
hnovv
Year: 1859

% There was sprinkling Of rain
yesterday afternoon-for change. On the
whole, we think the weather is gradually
improving. It does not rain more than
seven days in the week now, whereas it Las
fairly poured, nearly double that number
during several weeks past. There is hope
now that the season will be blessed with
plenty Of weather-such % il 10.
Year: 1859

CORREsPONDENCE.- the second
page we publish two inter esting letters
from Nebraska, relative to matters in the
territory and the gold mines. They may
be relied upon as being entirely correct in
every particular.
Year: 1859

RUNAwAY--A farmer left his team
standing unhitched on Second street, yes
terday. The horses became frightened and
ran into buggy which was standing on the
opposite side, smashing it up considerably.
The party who owned the buggy requested
the farmer to pay damages, which he re-
fused to do. A suit at law will probably
be the consequence. When will people
learn to hitch their horsesP
Year: 1859

A RusH.-Up to one o'clock yester-
day, NO less than sixteen teams of oxen and
mules came over on the ferry boat. bound
for Pixies Peak. The entire number which
came over through the day. may be put
down at about twenty The roads in
Illinois are improving greatly, and the rush
for the mines is becoming very great Late
news from the mines 10 very encouraging.
Year: 1859

SHAMEFUL. = Yesterday afternoon
We noticed squad Of mischievous rascals
known as boys, pestering and sggravating
an individual in our streets, who was rather
TIM worse for liquor-drunk. It is bad
enough for drunken man to 80 Disgrace
himself and the public by expos,ng himeeli
on the street either night or day, but il
makes the matter q great deal worse to
have pack Of graceles young scamps about
irritating him for their amusement; besides
it does not speak very much In favor Of the
manner in which the parents Of such chill
drsn educate and instruct their offspring.-
Such boys are almost sure to come to the
same condition - the person whom they
torment.
Year: 1859

ONLY A SUGGEsTIoN.-We would
suggest to dealers in milk who are in the
habit Of patronizing the pump. that their
customers prefer to do the mixing them
selves. Tastes differ, and while the milk
which is watered by the dealer may suit the
tastes of some. it is found to be altogether
too weak for others besides when there
has been SO much wet weather as has been
the case this spring, we think ordinary water
can be afforded at less than five cents per
quart
Year: 1859

KEEP Your EYE ON Your NEIGHBoRs.-
Take care of them. Don't let them stir with
out watching. They may do something wrong
if you do. To be sure you never know them
to do anything very bad, but it may be on your
account they have not Perhaps if it had not
been for your kind care, they might have dis
graced themselves and families, long time ago.
Therefore don't relax any effort to keep them
where they ought to be never mind your own
business, that will take care of itself There is
man passing along--he is looking over the
fence-be suspicious of him, perhaps he con-
templates stealing something some of these
dark nights; there's no knowing what queer
fancies he may have got into his head. If you
see any symptoms of any one passing out of
the path of duty, tell every one else that you
can see, and be particular to see a great many.
1t is good way to circulate such things, and
though it may not benefit yourself. or any one
else particularly, it will be something important
about some one else. Do keep something going
silence is dreadful thing; though it is said
there was silence in Heaven for the space of
half an hour, don't let any such thing occur on
earth; it would be too much like Heaven for
the inhabitants of this mundane sphere. If,
after all your watchful care you can't see any
thing out of the way in any one, you may be
sure it is not because they have not done any
thing bad; perhaps, in unguarded moment,
you lost sight of them-throw out hints, they
are no better than they should be-that you
should not wonder if people found out what
they were after while, and then they may not
carry their heads so high. Keep it going and
some one will take the hint and begin to help
you after while-then there will be music, and
everything will work to charm.
Year: 1859

The Cleveland Plaindealer says of Edward
E. Cross, who lately fought duel with Lieu
tenant Mowry, in Arizonia:-


ave know E. E. Cross very WELL He in
structed us in the mysteries and miseries of
type-setting in Coos County, New Hampshire
some years ago. He was first Lieutenant of
the Coos Greys, and was rather proud Of his
position. He went to get his uniform one train
ing day, but could not find it. He was forced
to train with red scarf and dingy old cutass,
that being the only uniform he could raise In
the evening crazy old town pauper (who fam
cied he was Napoleon Bonapate) was dug out
of a wood-shed with Cross's uniform upon him.
He was in state of extreme intoxication, and
the uniform once so bright and gay, was now
besmeared with mud, etc. The Lieutenant was
quite angry, and accused us of rigging the pau
per out in his beautiful military clothes. We
had slight falling out, in which the Lieutenant
fell somewhat heavily upon us, and as he was
man grown, and very stout, and we were quite
small and young, we can safely say that we new
er experienced such intense anxiety in our life.
At the end of the desperate contest we found
ourselves at the foot of the printing Office stairs
We thought we would print no more in that
building.


ave had a Sleeps foot in our hands, and
thinking We might be accused of theft if we
carried it away, we stepped out into the street
and threw it up through the window. Lieuten-
ant Cross was unfortunately standing at the
window, and the Sleeps foot hit him violently
in the abdomen. We ewere anxious to get home
to our parents that we didn't stop to see how
much he was injured; but he informed us few
years since that he experienced considerable
pain for several days afterwards. In reading of
the Lieutenants doings in Arizonia, we could
not help putting on record our remarkable con-
test with him."
Year: 1859

There is nothing in this world SO fiendish as
the conduct of a mean man, when he has the
power to revenge himself upon noble one in
adversely Ittakes man to make devili and
the fttest man for such purpose is snarling,
waspish, d-hot, fiery creditor.
Year: 1859

The Alta says: We are informed by a re.
liable gentleman, that Mr.. Broderick express.
ed himself as having no feeling of enmity,
nor cause of quarrel against Mr.. Terry, and
that if the latter persisted in urging him to
the field he should not attempt to take his
life, but if possible, wound him in the legs.
This may account for Mr.. Broderick drawing
his hat over his eyes before he fired, in order
to prevent the range of his sight above the
legs of his opponent, and it may also account
for the fact of his pistol having been dis
charged before it was raised to a line with
the body of his antagonist
Year: 1859

The FIRST PIECE OF GoLD-Mrs. WINNER
of Coloma, is now at the State Fair, where
she has gone to exhibit the first piece of gold
found in CalifoEnia. She has had it in her
possession ever since it was found. She SAYS
that her husband has been very unfortunate,
and it is for the purpose of raising means to
redeem their homestead which is about to be
lost to them, that she exhibits the piece of
gold,
Year: 1859

The citizens of Red Bluff took vote on
Saturday, to test the sense Of the people as to
the propriety of levying tax of one dollar
on one thousand dollars worth of property to
support school in that place during the
next four or five months. There were sixty
three votes polled for a tar and seven a
gainst it.
Year: 1859

BLoNDGN, the great tight and slack rope
walker, has found competitor in another
Frenchman, DeLave, who crossed the Genes
see river at the Falls on a very slack rope
lie walked across it, stood on one leg on it
and laid down on it-some hundred and odd
feet above the foaming torrent-keerin his
position as unconcernediy as if he had been
sitting in his easy chain at home.
Year: 1859

THE Columbia Guardian noticing some
speculations as to the salubrity of Charles
ton, says =


Some of the Northern journals are making
a fuss about the unhealthfulness of Charles
ton at the season appoined for the meeting of
the Democratic Convention. Every one in
South Carolina, and many in adjoining States,
know that Charleston is as healthy In May
and June as any Atlantic city in the Union.
Year: 1859

QUIcKslLvER MINEs-California bids fair
to be foremost among all other countries in
the production of quicksilver, as she is in
the richness of her gold deposits. The mines
of New Almaden alone, Ito say nothing of
other quicksilver mines in this country.O are
believed to be capable of turning out more
metal than is now produced from all other
sources. gentleman writing upon the sub
Ject of the quicksilver mines in California,
has no doubt that 1000 tons of metal might
be annually extracted from the New Alma
den mine This would be 500 tons more
than the annual aggregate yield of the mines
in other countries When we recolect that
the famous Almaden mine in Spain is known
to have been worked two thousand six hun
dred years, we must all agree, that the
quicksilver mines of California bid fair to be
inexhaustable. The demand for quicksilver,


we are told, will be in exact proportion TO


the progress of civilization. "The uses of
this metal will be multiplied in the same ra.


ito as the arts are extended and increased"
Year: 1859

Letters received from Rome, dated August 9th,
stale that the indispOsitiOn Of the Pope was Of q
much more serious character than the published sc-
counts represent He is suffering under severe
attack of erysipeas in Of his legs, keeping him
q close prisoner in his room in the Palace Of the
Vatican
Year: 1859

We find in the last Eagle a very severe ar
raignment of Mr.. Hasell, the Superintendent
Of this road, upon series Of charges, which,
If correct, and doubtless they can be substan-
tiated, entitle him to the immediate notice of
those who are chosen by the stockholders to
represent them in its management.


The interests of the stockholders and of the
public are reciprocal, and if the latter are dis
regarded and neglected the former must suf-
fer. Thus viewing the matter, we shall look
confidently to the application Of speedy rem
edy by those to whom the Superintendent
is responsible for the proper discharge of his
duties


Such potent corporations as Railroad
Companies, possess great power for evil as
well as good, and the risk of the former is en-
dured with the hope of obtaining the latter
If their agents in a spirit Of arrogance are per-
mltted to play the despot, and to manage
them IN violation Of their charters and in dis
regard of the rights and the convenience of
the public, corrective ought at once to be ad-
ministered.


We trust that among the very many per-
sons who have suffered by the mismanage-
ment OF the Road, some of them will have
their grievances adjudicated by the Courts
And if from those tribunals no efficient rem.
edy can be had for intolerable injustice when
practised by mammoth corporations the law
making power Of the State must be invoked
to its aid


We will reproduce the structures Of the
Eagle in our next issue; and meantime we
ask of correspondents the favor to place us in
possession of such further authentic informa-
ton as will throw light upon the transactions
of the Superintendent and his management Of
the Road"
Year: 1859


We copy the following extract from an Ad-


dress of that true and sturdy Democrat of


Mississippi ALBERT G.. BRowN 1t has the


ring of the true meta, and is really refreshing


in these times of shin plasters and rag money


How few Democrats there are, at the present


time, who have not become tainted and cor


rupted by banks and paper money:


al am for the currency Of the Constitution.
| am hard-money, bullionist There is no
grant in the Constitution for the erection ofen-
gines, mills, and other machines for the manu-
facture of paper money. The trainers Of the
Constitution were hard-money men-they had
profted by the sad example of England and
France in the seventeenth century, and the no
less melancholy fate of the colonies, growing
out of their connection with continental notes
and otherp paper currences, and they determined
to exempt the new government from such bale
full influences, and declared that it should have
the power to coin money and regulate its val
ue, and then stopped-and nowhere is there
given to this government Of their creation, this
government Of limited powers, any authority
over the currency, other than that just men,
coin money and to regulate the val
ue of foreign coin. Paper money is unknown
to the Constitution. 0urforefathers purpose
Iy excluded thing of such contaminating in
fuence from an instrument which they intend
ed should always be pure"
Year: 1859

Edttor Of tile M5Ssiss,Ppan


DEAR SIR-Having been appointed by my
friend, Governor Melville, q delegate from
Noxubee county to the Southern CONNER
cial Convention, assembled at Vicksburg, and
being prevented from attending said Conven-
ton by circumstances unavoidable, / there
fore address you on this occasion.


l find by the proceedings of said Conven-
ton that they have recommended the re-
opening of the African Slave Trade, as COM
mercial measure to increase the prosperity ot
the South. A more serious measure never
was submitted to the consideration of a COM
munity. To sum up the question in a nut
shell it amounts to this Shall ace Afifcanize
the South? | answer distinctly, No no
never


may be told that my fears are groundless,
that there is no danger of Afrcanizing the
South if the slave trade is opened. Let us
calmly review the subject In the formation
of the Federal Constitution it gave power to
Congress after 1903 to prohibit the slave trade.
They have done so, and in order to carry the
law into effect they have attached the odious
epithet of piracy to the trade. And more eff
fectually to suppress it they have entered into
a treaty with Great Britain to keep force of
not less than fifty guns ON the coast of Africa
jointly, to suppress the trade. And in addi-
ton they have put penalty of think, 81
600 on any person who has purchased an Af-
rican slave. Are these penalties sufficient :?
answer no. We hear of their arrival on our
coast. We hear of their traverSing Mississip-
pi freely; we hear ofmen of respectability say
ing, 81 would as soon buy an African as any
other slave" We see it advertised IN our
papers by number of men that they will pay
a fair price for African slaves


Thus the law is openly and fearlessly set
at naught. If law with such severe penal
ties cannot restrain our citizens, and we re-
open the trade, when shall we ever have NOR
al courage sufficient to stop it When the
law was passed, the great majority OF us De-
lieyed slavery an evil Now the thing Is
completely reversed, we consider it blessing
and that the Africans are in the very condl-
tion for which the Creator designed them L
am told that negroes will be cheap, and tnen |
every man can buy them. If fnegroes fall, SO |
will white labor fall, and man without
slaves will find as much difficulty in buying |
them as now. The price of negroes and the
nrice OF labor weigh not feather IN my bal
ances, A more serious question affects me.


Shall we drive off our white population ior |
Africans? Do I'VE not daily see the large FAR
mers buying out the small ones, and our
white inhabitants disappearing westward! 80 |
we'll satisfied am of the evils resulting from |
the re-opening of trade, that would sooner
vote for an Agrarian law tomorrow, even II
minimum were fixed so low that 1t woutd
compel me to sell half of what l now possess.
Which by the by, would be wise provision
if there was law passed that no man should
own exceeding acertain number of slaves


Yours, &c,


JOSEPH KOGER.
Year: 1859

The following resolutions were adopted at a
recent Democratic meeting in Hickman coun-
ty, Kentucky. They coincide fully with the
doctrines ofthe Mississippi Platform:


Resolved, 1st That the Territories of the
United States are held by the General Gov
eminent in trust for the several States. They
were acquired alike by the blood and treasure
Of the people, and in them the citizens of every
State should be equally protected in their
rights That the Constitution recognizes
property in slaves and that the only power
Congress possesses over the subject of sk -ery
in the Territories, is the power coupled with
the duty of guarding and protecting the own
er in his rights as defined by the judicial au-
thority OF the Government, and that the DOW
er to protect does not carry with it the power
to destroy.


Reso1Ued, I'd. That we heartily endorse the
decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case, as the only sound and safe solution
OF the question of slavery both in the States
and Territories, whereby the equality of the
States arepreserved, and the Constitutional
rights Of the South protected.


Resolved, Sd. That we utterly repudiate the
Squatter Sovereignty doctrine Of Judge Doug
las, and can regard it in no other light than as
short cut to all the ends of Black Republi
canism.


RESOLVED, 4th That we are unalterably op-
posed to further compromises between the
North and South whereby our constitutional
rights are to be frittered away, and as all the
reasoning arguments and entreaties of South
ern statesmen for long series of years, to-
gether with the recent solemn adjudication of
the Supreme Court seem to have fallen at the
feet of Northern fanaticism like "nearls before
swine," we call upon our brethren throughout
the nation to come at once up to the great
landmarks of the Constitution, laid down by
the Supreme Court, and aid in maintaining
our rights and preserving the union of these
States.


ResolUe1, 9th. That the Democracy of
Hickman county will support no man for
federal office, who maintains the doctrine that
either Congress or the Territorial Legislatures
has the power, either directly or indirectly, to
prohibit slavery in the Territories. That we
regard eithea position as an invidious effort on
the part Of the Northern fanaticism to degrade
the South to destroy the equality of the
States of this Union, and prejudicial to our
rights of property.


RESOLVED, 9th. That the delegates appointed
by this meeting be, and they are hereby in
structed to use all honorable means to secure
the appointment Of delegates to the National
convention, to meet at Charleston, whose
views fully coincide with the sentiments ex
pressed by this meeting.
Year: 1859

The following from the st. Louis Republican
of the 4th inst, still further confirms the glo-
rious news from California After speaking of
the mission of Greeley, the object Of which
was to perfect the coalition between the Doug
lasites and the other factionists, the Republi-
can, in yielding up the ghost of its admiration
of the '1ittle giant" says:


The gamblers in politics did up the thing
as we'll as they could, but they made miser-
able miscalculation. Instead of beating the
Democracy in this Free State, the rebound is
tremendous. The whole coalition, to use a
homely phrase, have been aohipped clean cut Of
their boots. Our warrant for this assertion is
a dispatch from Senator Gwin to President
Buchanan, sent to Washington yesterday by
gentleman who was the bearer Of it overland,
which is to this effect The majority of the
Democracy in California will be twenty thou
sand over the combined opposition. The
ticket for Governor has a majority in every
county in the State, except San Francisco,
which is doubtful. The Democrats elect every
member of both branches of the Legislature,
and Scott and Burch are elected to Congress
by large majorities.