smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

RELATING TO A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION:

 [Continucd to the next General Assembly, and

 ordered to be printed with Public Acts Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-

 sentatives in General Assembly convened:

 Sec. l. That so much of homestead, or domi- cil, being the property of any one person, having family, as does not exceed in value the sum of seven hundred dollars, and as will reasonably and conveniently accommodate only such person and family, and such live stock as is now exempt by law from warranto or attachment, shall be, and the same hereby is. exempt from any levy or sale, by virtue of any judgment or decree of any court of law or equity, in this state, founded, on any tort or contract committed or made after the pas sage of this act except the same be for the mort gage or purchase money oe said homestead or domicil. or for mechanics len thereon for labor, materials and expenses performed, furnished, in isting law.

 Sec. ?. That like exemption, as provided in the preceding section of this act shall be. and the same hereby is extended to whatever structure, apartment, tenement or addition, made from time to time il connection with, or in reference to. such
Year: 1860

BY HENRY wARDSwORTH LONGFELLow.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the days occupation
That is known as the Children's Hour,
hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing allegro,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then silence:
Yet l know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together.
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall,
By three doors left unguarded


They enter my castle wall
They climb up into my turret


Ger the arms and back of my chair
If | try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till think of the Bishop of Bfngen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine
Do you think, o blue eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old moustache as am


Is not match for you all?
have you fast in my fortress,


And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeons
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will keep you forever,
Yes, forever and day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin.
And moulder in the dust away!


atlantic MOnthlu,
Year: 1860




One of the editors of the New York Express wri tes
from Raleigh to his paper, among other things, the o
lowing views of


THINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA:


The good old North State is such staid State that
it is delight to look at land and people that have
not all run to seed like the poppy and that has really
some of the old stamina left. The have not reached
here, nor the oL0geS, the eS They hang mani or
murder and they whip thieves and robbers and put les
ser rogues In stocks and pories did our English fore
iathers or as did before we invented Pententiares
and Sing Sings to lock rogues up in. What is wonder
tu to say all men here of all parties while they boast
OF their lunatic asyums their deaf and dumb nstitu-
tlons &c, boast not less that they have not Penien-
tiary in the State! The rogues and rascals thew tell
u.s. quit them, that s quit the State after public ex-
pOsure in the pillory and stocks. Even New York
shun the practice of their profession in the
old North State, because no gentlemen like them
would wish to have broadcOth thus soed in the face of
everybody These relics of antiquity-these stocks
this plory-the thirtynne ashes laid on thefs back,
they reason, and ALL better Inventions not on y
for the correction but for the prevention Of crme than
all the penentares and prisons in all the other States
Are they right are we wrong? Have we pro-
gr"ssed backwards or do they need going ahead
PRIMITIVE STATE.


After few days tarry in Raleigh have come to the
conclusion that this is the only really fresh new
virgin State in the Union. mean not that its soil is
virgin that it is fresh like California or Min
nesotabut mean that it is novel, new, fresh, virgin
in its very antiquity. Progress has not got here
that s that Progress which turns things upside down
and inside out, and that poughs deep to turn all
the loan under and all the sand that loam The
politicians are not thieves robbers yet They do
not enter into politics just now to make money but
strange to say and this shows their vrginty for pleas
ure or for glory" The locomotive here, sputterng
all about, and putting his into the venerable
and 1ar-renoWned mountain region OF Buncombe,-but
the locomotive is not yet politician The State suot
Gridironed New York city fashion. Iftwenty Nol n
Carolina Senators, slavehodng rascas they are
to do what 20 New York saveholder-hating Senators
did in night and day session. all of them would go into
the stocks or the pory and receive 80 ashes in addi
tion-no such behind the age these Paris Con-
script of Buncombe! Every thing thus runs in this
od-fashioned, primitive way. The people speak the
Englsh-al of them,-that we in New England spoke
in our earlier days, as defined in old Perrys now aboI
ished dictionary, set forth in Websters A B G
spelling book, where the old found the rude boy"
&c. Stealing means stealing here yet! And lieing,
Icing A robber is robber whether dressed in broad
cloth Or rags! When lady is "out,' she is OUT"
not at the head of the stairs listening to hear who rang
the bell or who knocked at the door Blessed people!
Whatfa pity it is that on the railroads will sooner or
later come " the spirit of the age!"
Year: 1860

xaro B. R. HOOD respectfully informs the public
S that he is still at his old stand in Gnnt09i Wnere
he Continues to manufacture CARRIAGES, BAKOUChESs
ROCKAWAYS AND BUGGIES. He is prepared at ali Times
to execute work with neatness and despatch he super
work shall be durabe neat cheap IS any other
establishment in the State.


pying his new patent scroll springs without which no
buggy can be complete These springs prevent the usual
motion and add but little the cost of buggy
and is of incacuabe benefit they completely prevent
that strain upon the other springs which has given rise to 30
give him Q call


May 2sth, 1855 sSu
Year: 1860

The state of the Austrian empire and the degree Of
confidence in its stability cannot be graphically
described than by the following official statement which
shows the amount of the bullion in the Austrian bank
ofthe bank notes in circulation and Of the discount
the notes, at the periods specified in the statement


Bullion. Bank Notes, Discount
Year: 1860

REPORT ON AN ANTI-F UGITIvE SLAVE LAW PETITION
Standing Committee on Federal Relations, to whom
was referred the petition of j. w. Canfeld and fifty
five others, praying the General Assembly of Ohio to
enact that person who has been held slave shall
be delivered up by any officer court State or Federal
within this Commonwealth to any one claiming him on
the ground that he service labor to such claim
ant by the laws of one of the slave States OF this Unon
submitted the following report:


l. The Federal Constitution provides that fugtives
from service shall be delivered up on claim of the party
to whom such services or labor is due.


2. This memorial prays that such persons shall not
be delivered up on claim Of such party.


3. The members of this General Assembly have all
taken oath to support the Constitution of the United
States.


A. Article six of that Constitution provides that it
shall be the supreme law of the and and thai the judges
in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the
Constitution laws of any State te the contrary not
wthstanding Therefore the prayer of this petition is,
in effect that we shal in violation of our official oahs
as we beleve-paSs law that would be, adlfn'ttO,
null and void because the judges of State courts
would be bound decide it contrary to the Constu
ton of the United States.
Year: 1860

One of the candidates for the South Carolina
Convention, Claudian B. Northrop, said in his
card to the electors:


"In my Judgment, the first object of the Con-
vention should be to ordain the independence
of the people of South Carolina, by immediate
dissolution of the Federal Union.


Whatever alliances our Republic may here
after form, we should never enter into any
union with other States, by which general
government shall be established, whose laws
can control our people against their sovereign
will. / hope for CoNFEDERAcY Of independ-
ent sovereign slaveholding States. None other,
and no more Unions"


These paragraphs open up part of the
questions which will arise, if the Utopian
scheme of Southern Confederacy is attempted
to be realized. 1t is easy enough to propose
such Confederacy in general terms, but the
difficulties will be found to be immense, when
it comes to the practical point of settling how
it shall be constituted, and with what powers it
shall be invested.


There will be at the threshold, the settlement
of the relative weight of the States which shall
compose it. Will the great State of Georgia
assent to Senate, in which she shall count no
more than Florida, or will South Carolina as
sent to House, in which she will be dwarfed
by the standard Of numbers2


Equally troublesome will be the adjustment OF
the powers of the proposed Confederacy, and to
be ended probably, in no other way than by de-
nying it any substantial powers whatever. The
States in favor of opening the African slave
trade, will never consent to put it in the power
of slaveholding States to control them. So, too'
the States in favor of direct taxation and Eu-
ropean trade, will never yield the power of reg
ulating commerce to States in favor of build.
ing up manufactures. These nullifying gentle.
men may agree in leaving the North, but they
cannot escape everlasting quarrels among them
selves.
Year: 1860

Ma. CoBB.-This gentleman has at length
been forced, by public opinion, to resign the
Office Of Secretary Of the Treasury. An avowed
cooperator in the work Of breaking up the
Government he has only remained so long in
Office, ut the cost of bringing the deepest scan.
dal upon the President.


1t is proper to add, that the work of purging
the Cabinet is not yet completed.
Year: 1860

bD- If any Of our subscribers fail to receive
their papers regularly, we hope they will notify
us of the fact without delay, that we may call
the attention CT the carriers to the neglect.
Year: 1860

"Father where is our jamie tonight
Jamie so bold and gay?
The twilight shadows are falling now,


Why does he stay away?
Jamie is handsome, and manly too,


And he will be good and great;
But, father, why is our darling boy


Staying away so late?"
"Our noble boy is child no more,


He has grown to mans estate;
He has gone courting Minnie Gray,
The reason he stays SO late;
For her golden hair and eyes of blue
Have stolen his heart away,
And he goes in the holy twilight hour
A wooing sweet Minnie Gray"
"Why does the maiden lure him away,
Now we are growing so old?
All! we have shielded him all his life,
Our love has never grown cold;
The maid can never love him as we


Have loved him all his years;
We have led him along the path Of life,
Sharing his smiles and tears"
"But Millie, remember years ago,


When was handsome and gay,
And you maiden SO fair and sweet
That you stole my heart away;
1 had father old and grey,


And mother kind and true,
Who loved me fondly all my life
But my heart went out to you.'
A blush crept over her withered cheek,
: Her eyes shone clear and mild;
No longer she chided the lovely maid
For winning away her child.
She thought of the long ago, when she
Stood close by her lovers side
In the little church, and the man of God
Made her happy bride.
Year: 1860

cents for every folio of one hundred words
contained in such certified copy.
: SEC. 2O.--The Clerk shall not sign or issue
any county order except upon the recorded
vote or resolution of the Board of Supervisors
authorizing the Same, except for jury fees,
and such order shall be numbered, and date,
amount, and number of the same and name
of the person to whom issued shall be enter
ed in book to be kept by him in his Office
for the purpose. IS
d. Sec. 2l.--Whenever the Clerk Of the Board
of Supervisors of any county shall receive
portionment of school moneys to be distribu-
ted in the county, he shall file the same in
his office and transmit . certified copy there
Of to the County Treasurer and he shall also
lay certified copy thereof before the Board
at their next regular meeting


SEC. 22.-The first election under this act
shall be held at the general election of 1860.


SEC. 23-After the taking effect of this act
neither the County Judge nor County Court
shall have or exercise any Of the powers here
by conferred upon the Board of Supervisors,
but this act shall not effect said Judge or
Court in any county until the first meeting
of said Board of Supervisors, but this act
shall not effect said meeting of said Board of
Supervisors in January 1861.


Sec. 24.--ln all cases where the powers
hereby conferred upon said Board Of Super
visors have heretofore been by law exercised
by the County Judge, County Court or other
county officers, the said Supervisors shall
conduct their proceedings under said powers
in the same way and manner as nearly as
may be as is now provided by law in such
cases for the proceedings Of said County
Judge, County Court and county officers,
provided they are not inconsistent with the
provisions Of this act


SEC. 25-All acts and parts of acts hereto
fore enacted and which are inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed.


SEC. 26.--This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication accord
ing to law. JOHN EDwARDs,


Speaker Of the Houss.


NICHOLAS j. RUscH,


President Of ths Senate s


| hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
copy from the original roll on Ale in my Office.
.... .-.... ELIJAH SELLS,


Secretary Of State.
Year: 1860




When the vessel has settled down in a
sandy bottom, it is preserved for many
months from breaking up; and its position
may be much the same as it would be when
floating in calm water, if it be not tilted
over by any undercurrent drifts. The light,
Of course, depends good deal upon the depth
and upon the nature of the bottom, but
where there is no chalk to give milky thick
ness to the water, the diver pursnes his work
in kind Of twilight darkness. BY the aid
of this he can see and feel his way round the
ship, but when he ascends the deck and
winds down into tho principal cabins, he
finds everything pitch dark, and has nothing
to guide him but his hands, This is the
most difficult, and yet the most frequent,
labor he has to perform, the danger being in
q large vessel, where the cabin stairs are
deep, and the cabins are long and broad, he
may get his air tube twisted round some un-
familiar projections, and SO shut off his sup
ply Of life from above. In positions such as
this he requires all his nerve and self posses
sion, all his power of feeling his way back in
the exact road he came He may have got
the precious casket in his hand but what of
that, If he dies before he reaches the stairs?
The cold, helpless masses that bump against
his hemlet, as they float along the low roof
over his head, are the decomposed corpse Of
those who were huddlcd together in tho cab
in when the vessel went down. A few of
these may be on the floor under his feet, but
only when pinned down by an overturned
table or fallen chest. Their tendency is ever
upward md the rcmorseless sea washes away
the dead infant from its dead mothers arms,
the dead wife from the dead husbands en-
braces. Ifthe wreck be in channel. the
small crabs are already beginning to fatten
on their prey. The diver discntangles him.
self from this silent crowd, and ascends the
welcome stairs to the deck. The treasure he
has rescued is hauled up into the attendant
diving boat, and he turns again to renew his
work. He seldom ever meets with an acci-
dent under water; never, perhaps, with death,
and the chief risk he runs is from getting
some heavy piece of ship lumber overturned
on his long train Of air pipe. Even in this
case he feels the sudden check and want Of
air, gropes his way back to the obstruction,
removes it, signals to be raised, and reaches
the boat exhausted and alarmed, but not 90
much SO a. to give up his place in the trade.
His earnings mostly take the form Of shares
in what he RECEIVERS. If fortunate, his gains
may be large; if unfortunate, they may be
small but no man can grudge him the high
est prizes it is possible for him to win. May
Whitstable always have the honor of produc-
ing such bold and dexterous men as plenti-
fully as she has hitherto done, and may
they have the wisdom to keep al that they
get
Year: 1860

ARREST OF A BANK SwINpLER.-An indi-
vidual recently arrested in Richmond, Texas,
has been fully identified as the one who per-
petrated heavy forgery upon the State Bank
Of Georgia. The Savannah Republican learns
that his real name is Lawson that he is a
Methodist preacher, and was for many years
Il resident Of Mobile. Tne package of money
in his possession was found to be the same as
was fraudulently obtained from the Bank, no
part of it having been disposed Of The slip
OF paper containing the calculations of the
discount clerk was also in the package, which
was still wrapped i'll the identical newspaper
taken from the Bank A requisiion upon the
Governor of Texas will be sent out imme-
diatelY.
Year: 1860

origna! agreement, and in accordance with the belief that the first line was a right line until the recent survey revealed its error.

 The report of the Commissioner contains other reasons for disagreement, and detailed account of the subject, and of their views thereon. While l must believe that the Commissioners on both sides entertain an earnest desire to settle the question involved upon principles of right and equity, I, nevertheless, am of opinion that they will not agree upon the application of these prir. ciples to given line. l therefore fully concur in the recommendation of our Commissioner that proposition be made to the State of New York, that each State appoint an arbitrator and that the two appoint third, neither of whom shall be resident of either State, and that the joint Commissioners present the surveys and facts connected with the subject to the conside- ration of said arbitrators that they. either two of them shall recommend such line as may to them appear just and proper to be established as the boundary between the two States. The peo. pie of both States would be likely to acquiese in the views, and accept the recommendation. of men who are not prejudiced in favor of or against the claims of either State.

 FINANCES.

 would invite your attention to the reports of the Treasurer and Comptroller, which show that the balance in the Treasury. on the 1st day of April, 1859, to the credit of the civil list. was

 l2,7O8 O4
Year: 1860

Whether all this had any thing to do with q certain card that Was ordered to be engraved within six months of the day that he veil was picked mp, is u curious inquiry. That card ran thus

 Mir and Mrs. Andrew Cranberry.
Year: 1860

The country is greatly excited our Treasury
is empty, our State bonds are almost worthless
and getting worse every day, and for these and
other reasons we do most certainly think that
cur Legislature should do what there is to be
done and adjourn by the goth, or at farthest
Gath of December. Certainly under the pres
ent excitement and the deplorable condition of
the States finances they will not attempt to
continue there 90 days as they did two years
ago.


Our members, Messrs Street, Clark and AL
fred, were all in their seats and attentive to
their duties, and we are glad to add that while
they are all of opinion that united South
should take some decisive and dignified stand,
they are warmly attached to the Union. In a
conversation with Mr. Street we were much re-
joiced by his warm devotion to the Union. at
the same time the South has no truer nor more
loyal son. and the same may be said OF Messrs.
Clark and Alfred But these gentlemen are all
conservative, all devoted to the Union, and all
opposed to breaking it up for existing causes,
and they may be assured that the people of
Craven will sustain and applaud them for their
conservatism.
Year: 1860

We thank our friend the Post Master at
Adams Creek for his promptness in sending US
the particulars, as far as known, of the tragic
occurrence near that place on Sunday last. We
will be obliged to our friends in every section
of the county and in other counties to send us
all the news items they can We publish live
newspaper and mean that it shall contain later
news and more of it than any other paper in
these parts, net omitting at the same time to
give at short intervals the state of the country
and the movements of parties and politicians.
Year: 1860

We are not aware that single copy of the
Governors Message reached this town last
night-certain it is we got none, notwithstand-
ing the Message went into the hands of the
printer, at Raleigh, on Tuesday at o'clock.
Raleigh needs little more enterprise in the
type line We are confident however that we
shall be able to lay the message before our
readers tomorrow.
Year: 1860

Through the kindness Of gentleman resident in
town, we are permitted to make the following extract
Of letter from his brother in Texas 1t will doubtless
be of interest 10 many Of readers, particularly in
Year: 1860

In renly to the card Of Mr.. Tomb, which appeared
in the DEMOCRAT OF yesterday all that have to say
is that have placed his affidavit before the public,
wherein he swore in suit against me on a note
which he had bought. His card, in which he denied
ever having purchased or tried to purchase an
or note against me- has also been before the public
Either his card or his affidavit, the other is
false In regard to the name and dissolution of the
copartnershp heretofore existing between myself and
other parties will answer Inquiries of any gentle-
man who feels disposed 70 call on me.


JyEf-H ]. t. plCKEY
Year: 1860

AT the term of the Court of Sessions of San
Diego county, now in session, the grand jury
found bills of indictment against several
parties for breaking open and stealing from
the warehouse of the Overland Mail Com
pany, at Fort Yuma.
Year: 1860

1HE SEcEpERs DENoUNCED-lh Humboldt
Times says ofthe seceders:


With great flourish of trumpets under
the lead of Yancey, they seeded from the
Convention at Charleston. The majority Of
the regular Convention instead of nomina-
ting Douglas then and there, which they had
the power to DO, preferred to allow time for
sober reflection. Conscious that they had
discharged their duty they were not afraid
to await the expression of their party thro'-
out the country. Would the secession por-
tion have pursued suoh a course had they the
power in their hands? We know their his
tory too well to believe they would. Dis
union is the object of their leaders To defeat
Douglas the boilers would break the party
in fragments. Rule Or ruin is their motto,
and, like the leader of Millions fallen angels,
they would rather rule in hell than serve in
heaven. But their days are numbered, They
may succeed in pulling down the Democratic
temple, but they will surely be buried in its
ruins,