smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Heavy GAIE-During the whole of
Thursday and Friday powerful wind blew
from the north, and filled the air with tu
multi Considerable damage was done to
property of various kinds, and several in
stances of narrow escapes from falling trees
are reported. On Thursday morning, as
Henry Moore was driving a six mule team
along the road just this side of Camptonville,
a large pine was Frustrated in front of him
and fell across the two leading mules, killing
them both. hut doing no further damage
San Juan press.
Year: 1859

The last mail, says the Salt Lake Valley
Tan, came rolling into the city 10 days and
hours out from California, being about five
days inside of schedule time: This is tai
travelling, but they say they can make taller,
which we do not doubt in the least.
Year: 1859

lie. 1t is equal in all the form it is unjust in
all the substance. The habitne of arms, the
early training, the frontier life, the border war,
the sectional custom. the life of leasure-all
these are advantages which negotiations can
neutralize and no courage can overcome.


But, fellow citizens, the protest is not only
spoken in your words and in mine. 1t is written
in indellible characters; it is written in the
blood of Gilbert in the blood of Ferguson, and
in the blood of Broderick, and the inscription
will not altogether stop. With the admnstra-
ton ofthe code in this particular am not here
to deal. Amid passionate grief, let us strive to
be just. | give no currency to rumors of which
personally | know nothing. There are other
tribunals to which they Tay well be referred,
and this is not ofthem. But am here to
say that whatever in the code of honor or out of
it demands or allows a deadly combat, where
there is not in all things entire and certain
equality, is prostitution of the name, is the
evasion of the substance and is shield blazon-
ed with the name of chvalry to cover the ma
Lightly of murder. And now, as the shadows
turn toward the East and we prepare to bear
these poor remains to their silent resting place
| let not seek to repress the generous pride
which prompts recital of noble deeds and
manly virtues. He rose unaided and alone. He
| began his career without family or fortune, in
the face Of difficulties. He inherited poverty
and obscurity. He died Senator in Congress,
having written his name in the history of the
great struggle for the rights of the people a.
gainst the despotism Of organization and the
corruption of power. He leaves in the hearts of
his friends the tenderest and the proudest re-
collections. He was honest, faithful, earnest.
sincere, generous and brave. He fell. In all
the great crises of his life he was a leader in the
ranks and for the rights of masses of men, and
he could not falter.


When he returned from the fatal field, while
the DARK wing of the archangel of death was
casting its shadow upon his brow, his greatest
anxiety was as to the performance of his duty.
He felt that all his strength and all his life be-
longed to the cause to which he had devoted
them Baker, said he-and to me they were


his last words" Baker, when | was struck
tried to stand firm, but the blow blinded me and


| could not" Here the speakers voice was
choked from emotion. | trust ii is no shame


to my manhood that tears blinded me as he said
it. OF his last hours have no heart to speak.


He was the last of his race there was no kim
dred hand to smooth his couch or wipe the death
damps from his brow, bat around that diving


bed strong men, the friends OF his early man
hood, the devoted adherents of later life. bowed


in irrepressible grief" and lifted up their voice
and wept." Sensation But, fellow citizens,
the voice of lamentation is not uttered by pri-
vate friendship alone The blow that struck his
manly breast has touched the hearts of peo pie
f and as the sad tidngs spread a general gloom
prevails.
Year: 1859

MBSRcHAUMs. - The following information
concerning an article which is exceeding popu.
lar with the smokers of the present day, is from
the Philadelphia Ledger:


" The meerchaum or that portion in which
the cigar or tobacco is placed, is made in Vien-
ma, of clay found in Asia. The clay resembles
the porcelain clay found in this country, and is
easily moulded into any desired shape, and the
finer the quality, the more easily colored by the
oil Of tobacco. The mouth piece of the meer-
charm is made of amber, a substance resem-
bling resin, found along the Baltic Sea- This is
valued according to the size of the piece, and its
fitness for mouth pieces. Many of the meer.
chaums since the great demand for the article
are now made of a French clay, with mouth
pieces of copal, and so strong is the resemblance
that none bnt Judges of the article can dstn-
guish the difference These are called by the
knowing ones, Mere -shams These sell from
twenty-five cents to one dollar and upwards
The real merchants are valued as before stated,
by the length and purity Of the mouthpiece, and
the fineness of the clay from which they are
made Some of them sell as high as $40. and
the bowls for pipes as high $50, in conse-
quence of the elaborate carving upon them
They are made in Vienna, where a large number
of persons employed to meet the present de-
maud One firm, Doll & Co. have sold over
$4,000 worth the present season. and the cry is
still, more meerchaums These pipes have
been in use in Vienna and Germany for fifty or
more years and by few Germans in this coun-
try but not until very receatly have our own
citizens taken such fancy to them.'


The meerchaum is not considered perfect uu-
Ill it has become colored from constant use, by
the oil of tobacco, which gives it a dark reddish
appearance. 1t requires several months of as
siduous smoking to produce the desired hue, but
f.L ~
for them, and that which was worth but fifty
cents when new, has been sold as high MS fifteen
dollars when colored and rank with the oil Of
tnhnccn
Year: 1859

Bcecher on Coffee.


Whatever else Henry Ward Beecher
may have to answer for, and doubtless he
is loaded with as many sins as any one
ought to carry, he certainly deserves
credit for writing so sensibly about Cof-
fee, as he does in the following, which
we find going the rounds of the papers {:


Breakfast is ready. A most useful and
salutary custom is that breakfast. One
may work with the hand without break
fast but not with the head-the machine
must be wound up. The blue must be
taken out Of your spirits, and the gray
out Of your eyes. A cup of coffee-real
coffee-home browned-home ground,
home made, that comes to you as dark
as 4 hazel eye, hut changes to golden
bronze as you temper it with cream, from
Its birth, thick, tenderly, yellow, perfect
ly sweet. neither lumpy nor frothing on
the Java; such cup Of coffee is match
for twenty devils, and will exercise them
all. Involuntarily one draws in his
breath by the nostrils. The fragrant
SAVIOR fills his senses with pleasure; for
no coffee can be good in the mouth, that
does not first send sweet offering of D.
dor to the nostrils.
Year: 1859

An awkward affair, which once occur
red to one of the Judges on the Western
Circuit has been the subject of much
mirth. 1t appears that the pious judi.
cial, having finished bis labors, and hay-
ing cast off his forensic wig at his lodg-
ings, had retired into the mex. room to
wait for his brother Judge, whom he was
about to accompany to some of the local
aristOcracy to dinner. The female ser.
want of the house had entered the bed
chamber by side-door, and not knowing
the Judge was in the next room, in a
frolic arrayed herself in the judges wig.
Just at the moment when the fair Mopsy
was admi ing herselfin the looking glass,
the judge unexpectedly entered the room,
and poor Mopsy, catching sight Of the
stern countenance locking over her
shoulder in the glass was so alarmed that
she would have fallen to the ground il
the learned judge, impelled by humanity,
had not caught her in his arms. At this
critical moment his brother Judge arrived,
and opening the dressing-room door, with
view to seeing if he was ready, discov-
cred his learned brother with the fainting
maid in his arms. Not wishing to inter-
rupt what he thought TO be an amour, he
quickly attempted to withdraw, when his
brother Judge yiciferated, "For heav-
ems sake stop and hear this matter ex-
planned" "Neyer mind, my dear broth
er, the matter explains ITSELF and he lef;
his learned brother to recover the faint
ing maid as he could.
Year: 1859

Well said.


The Brandon Republican is RESPONSE
bic for the following,


We bad The honor, few days ago, Of
looking into the recently published life Of
Governor Brown. Our curiosity led US
to examine his Hazelhurst speech, and
we found that he still insists that "the
Angel Of the Lord captured Hagar and
took her home to her mistress" Well,
1t is great pity that the Governor and
the Bible take issue ON the facts Of that
transaction, because there are many who
will believe what he says in preferences
to the Bible--the latter having nothing
to say about "the constitutional rightsof
the South"
Year: 1859

4
The First Man.
The editor Of an exchange recently at
tended spirit (not liquid, but ethereal)
circle. He describes the closing scene:


After recess of ten or fifteen minutes,
the medium again went into the trance
state, and wrote out:


1.-The first man is present He ad-
dresses you from the celestial sphere"


Is that you, Adam r.


Adam was my name when i dwelt in
the flesh"


VIII you please favor me with cor
rect answers to a few simple questions
which will put to you p


PROFOUND them"


First, then, where was the garden of
Eden located z"


In Kansas"


Was Eve an obedient helpmate r.


She was q model wife until beguiled
by the serpent; after that time perfect
devil in petti-I mean fig leaves.''


sin what part of the world was the
Tower of Babel erected p


In White county, Indiana, near the
VOLTS Mound"


:" Who were the parents of Gains
wife ?"


This question capped the climax.


The table at which we were seated
suddenly turned a summersault-cap-
sized and extinguished the lamp-upset
the medium maiden lady and amid the
wreck of the furniture and the crush
OF the glass, | made my exit through the
back door, and rushing down dark alley,
gained the street, minus my right coat
tail which lsf in the mouth Of a huge
and ferocious bulldog in the yard.
Year: 1859

A Fixed Facf.


The less You leave your children id
your will, the more they will have in
twenty years afterwards. Wealth inner.
tied should be an incentive to action in.
stead OF that it is an incentive to sloth.
The only money that does man good is
what he earns himself. A ready-made
fortune, like ready y-made breeches, seldom
fits the gentleman who comes in posses
sion. A gentleman died in this city q
month since, who left bis son money.
other personal property, and collection
OF rare paintings. The week after he
came into possession the pictures were
traded off at fourth their value to gen.
tleman who deals in clarets and hook
The father was connoisseur in ine arts,
while the son was connoisseur only in
brandy and three minute horses. In all
probability, a year hence will find the
latter parsonage reduced to two shirts
and neck tie, with his soul lost in spen-
ding what his father lost lis soul in sa-
wing. As we said before, the only money
that does us good is the money that We
earn. Ambition and hope that is stim-
ulated by half-flled pocket book, have
power that will triumph over all diff
culties, beginning with the contumely Of
the purse proud, and leaving off with tho
malice Of the envious. Look around YOU,
and figure up If these things are not so.
Year: 1859




1t is at times necessary to censure and


punish. But very much more may be done


by encouraging children when they do we'll.


Be, herefore, more careful to express your


appreciation of good conduct, than your


diSapprobaton of bad. Nothing can more
discourage a child than spirit of incessant


fault finding on the part OF its parent


And hardly anything can exert more iniu-


rious influence upon the disposition both


of the parent and child. There are two


great motives influencing human action


hope and fear. Both of these at times


are necessary. But who would not prefer


TO have her child influenced to good CON


duct by desire of pleasing, rather than


by the fear of offending If mother
never expresses her qualification when her
children do well, and is always censurinr
them when she sees anything amiss, they
are discouraged and unhappy. They feel
that it is useless to try to please Their
dispositions become hardened and soured
10y this ceaSeIeSs fretting, and at last, find-
ing whether they do well or i'll, they are
equally found fault with, they relinouish all
efforts to please, and become needless of
reproaches


But let mother approve her chld's con-
duct whenever she can Let her show that
his good behavior makes her sincerely hap
py. Let her reward him for his efforts TO
please, by smiles and affection. In this
way she will cherish ia her child's heart
some of the nobest and most desirable feel
ings of our nature. She will cultivate in
him an amiable disposition and cheerful
spirit Your child has been through the
day, very pleasant and obedieut. Just be-
fore putting him to sleep for the night. you
take his hand and say. "My sou you have
been very good to-day. 1t makes me very
happy to see you SO kind and obedient.--
God loves children who are dutiful TO their
parents, and he promises to make them hap
py." This appreciation from his mother Is
10 him great reward. And when with
more than affectionate tone, you say.
Good night, my dear SOD, y he leaves the
'oom with his heart fall Of feeling. And
when he closes bis eyes for sleep, be is hap.
Dy, and resolves that he will always try 10
10 his duty.-Izs Mother at Home
Year: 1859


0, Love Love what times were those,
Long ere the age Of bellies and beaux,
And Brussels lace and silken hose
When, 10 the green Areadian close,
You married Psyche under the rose,


With only the grass for bedding
Heart to heart, and hand 10 hand,
You followed Natures sweet command
Roaming lovingly through the land,


Nor sighed for Diamond Wedding.
So have we read in classic Ovid,
How hero watched for her beloved


Impassioned youth Leander. .
She was the fairest of the fair,
And wrapt him round with her golden hair,
Whenever he landed cold and bare
With nothing to eat, and nothing to wear


And wetter than any gauder
For Love was Love, and better than MONEY!
The slyer the theft the better the honey
And kissing was clover, all the world over,


Wherever Cupid might wander.
So thousands Of years have come and gone,
And still the moon is shining on, Hr' ..


Still Hymen's torch is lighted
And hitherto in this land Of the West,
Most couples in love have thought it hest
To follow the ancient way of the rest,


And quietly get united
But now, True Love, you're growing old
Bought and sold, with silver and gold,
~ Like house or horse and carriage
- Midnight talks, a..
Moonlight walks,
Inc glance Of the eye and sweetheart sigh,
And shadowy haunts with no one by, 81.


DO not wish to disparage '.'f


Bot every kiss,


Has price for its bliss.
In the modern code Of marriage
And the compact sweet


Is not complete,
III tne high contracting parties meet


Before tho altar of Mammon
aud the bride must be led TO a silver bower
Year: 1859

aVe Just received and will constantly keep on hand
VIGIL Stected assortment of such articles as are emu


merated above, and all others usually kept in Drug
Stores which they will sell at the lowest current cash
prices We have also on hand full supply Of the
Year: 1859

Music rersus Brains.-A Wisconsin
paper records the case of man who, by
the falling of a tree upon him, had his
head crushed, and considerable portion
of his brains literally knocked out, so
that the surgeons had to cut away the
exuding portion, and his case was deemed
entirely hopeless. But he Unexpectedly
improved, and has nearly recovered
Previous to this accident he had never
been known to whistle or sing, or display
the least musical talent; but as soon as
he was able to speak, after losing his
brains, be began to sing with correctness,
and now displays a taste for music
amounting to passion.
Year: 1859

1t may be said generally of husbands,
as the woman said of hers, who had abus-
ed her, to an old maid who reproached
her for marrying him, To be sure he's
not so good husband as he might be,
but he is powerful sight better than
none"
Year: 1859

Some half-dozen years ago, during the
administration of Mr.. FILLMORE, number
of camels were imported at the expense of
the general government into Texas, and
have been used since that time on the
prairles and deserts in the upper part of
that State and in New Mexico. The plan
has succeeded even better than was anti
cipated. The cost of importation is less
than was originally anticipated; the animals
are very tractable and easily acclimated,
and can be more easily applied to various
kinds of labor than was antici pated; and no
serious obstacle whatever is found TO their
Introduction and use. Another importa-
ton has already been made, so that the
whole number how in the country is about
sixty. These have all been brought from
the Mediterranean. but it is proposed by
the government hereafter to obtain supplies
from Mangolia, where the animals exist in
great numbers, and are very hardy and
subjec: to as many changes of temperature
as they would be liable to in this country.
They can be very easily brought across the
Pacific ocean to California So long as
railroads across the vast prairies and deserts
and mountain regions between us and the
Pacific are for various reasons impossible,
the camel will be found an efficient substi-
tute for that mode of transportation. In
deed, for the present, it is the most efficient
mode of transportation the govei nment can
adopt, being preferable to any or all others.


Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1859

A sailor just off spree joined the sons
of Temperance in Philadelphia the other
day, and at the time was indebted to rum
seller one shilling. Soon after he went to
pay off the score but determined not to enter
the house where he was robbed he got long
pole. attached The money to the eud of it,
and standing at the outside of the door,
reached it to the astonished publican
Year: 1859

BAD OPINION OF MANS CoURAGE.-Mrs. Sig
ourneys sister writes to the North Iowa Times in
opposition TO the absurd notion that man is
disgraced by anything else than his own conduct,
in reference to the Sickles affair


And yet this man. who could meet the shells Of
humanity that formed his society at Washington
until he had vindicated his honor, must now meet
the multtudes at his trial-bear the coarse jeer-
iDgs of unprincipled lbertines- confront this
wife whom he magnanmously promised not to
injure''-hear again and again, with exaggeraton
and minuti@, the whole history of his misery re-
vived-meet the wondering looks of his little one
turning from father to mother for an explanation
of this mystery, and in after years be tortured by
her re-occurrence to the first chapter Of her lfes
reality II he can do all this and dare to meet
his Maker at last with the brand of a murderer
on his soul, and yet could not meet the talow
faced mustached puppies of his club room ; tell
me, in Gods name, in what consists the superior
courage of manhood
Year: 1859

VINO WILL Do Ir-The Sacramento Standard
is in great agony over Broderick. After saying
it is tired of repudiating him it breaks forth
thus "Let the brave and youthful Senator
signify the manner in which be wants to be kicked
out, and the boot will be applied with vigor
which will preclude the possibility of his return"


Once on time so Hsop informs us, there was
a meeting of rats whose propensities for taking
that which did not belong to them was much
interfered with by cat. 1t was proudly proposed
by younger rat that bell should be tied to the
neck of the cat, and thus they might know when
their watcher was after them. This proposition
met with great applause until question arose,
which of them should bell the cat SO it is with
the Buchaneers. They may talk about the neces.
find the one who will give the kick - Stockton
DeUlOcrdf
Year: 1859

LARGE LIBEL SUIT. We understand
that tho former directors of the Northern
Railroad intend TO sue the New York
Times for libel. The aggregate damages
foot up $500, 600. Quite an item.
Year: 1859

She was turning hopefully away, when
the child stretched out his arms, and cried
30 sister, am here! Take mcI' and
t CT. she turned her beaming eyes upon
him, and it was night; and the star was
shining into the room, making long rays
down toward him as he saw it through his
tears.


From that hour forth, the child looked
out upon the star as on the Home he was
to 90 TO, when his time should come; and
he thought he did not belong to tho
earth alone, but to the star too, because
Of his sisters angel gone before.


There was baby born TO be brother
to the child; and while he was SO lit.
tie that he bad never yet spoken word,
he stretched his tinny form out on the bed
and died


Ag in tho child dreamed Of the open
star, and Of the company of angels, and
the train Of people, and the Tow Of angels
with their bcaming eyes all turned upon
those peoples faces.


Said his sisters angel to the leader


as my brother come n


And he said, "not that enc, but snoth
er."


As the child b,held his brothers. angel
in her arms, he cried, 80 sister, am here !!
Take mel" And she turned and smiled
upon him, and the star was shining.


He grew to be young man, and was
busy at his books, when an old servant came
to him and said.


"Thy mother is no more. | bring her
blessing on her darling SOM


Again at night he saw the star, and all
that former COMPANY Said bis sisters
angel TO the leader
Year: 1859

EDITOR DEMocRAr:-I had thought that
Uncle Sam had established q regular mail
line between San Francisco and the various
parts of Butte county, but of late it does
positively look like we had no mail at all. l
know of persons whose mail matter, news
papers in particular, after leaving San Fran
cisco has not reacEed its destination in this
county for from eight to twelve days. Now
whose fault is all this2 The poor editors,
whose subscribers do not get their papers
regularly, often get many seedlings, as
though the neglect was theirs; but then on
whom will be thrown the fault of the fire.
quent delays of letters on the wayY That
can't be very conveniently saddled on any
editor, and yet the fault lies somewhere to a
dead certainty Ipresume the daddy of it,
whoever he is, will be rather ashamed to ac-
knowledge his offspring.


Our Postmaster at Oroyile, believe, ha:
always been prompt in the delivery OF all
papers and letters which come to his office
and in forwarding by first mail all that are
bound for other parts of the county, but
when mail matter through the neglect Of 9th
er offices, does not reach there, of course the
blame falls not on him.


Some subscribers to San Francisco papers
residing in Marysville. say that their papers
reach that Office very irregularly. That,
then, is not through any neglect of the Post
master at that place. Now, how will the
Postmasters at Sacramento and San Francisco
divide this fault between them? l am per.
fectly willing for them to make any divis
ion they can agree on, provided that that
screw which has been loose so long can be
effectually frightened. OBSERVER.


Butte County, April 9th, 1859.