smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

obligation. There are many acts, such
as the creation of nuisances, selling vim
GUS or spurious liquors, horse-racing,
trespassing on public lands, keeping tav-
ern without license, permitting dogs to
run at large, declared by the laws Of most
of the States to be crimes, for the con-
mission of which the offender is visited
with fine or Imprisonment, or with both,
and yet it will not be insisted that the
power Of extraditon as defined by the
Constitution applies to these or the like
oflenses. Obviously, line must be
somewhere drawn, distinguishing ollenses
which do, from oitenses which do not
fall within the scope of this power. The
right rule, in my opinion, is that which
holds the power to be limited to such
acts as constitute either treason or felony
by the common law, as that stood when
the Constitution was adopted, or which
are regarded as crimes by the uSages and
laws of all civilized nations. The rule is
sufficiently vindicated by the considera-
! tion that no other has ever been suggest
ed at once so easy of application to all
cases, so just to the several States, and
so consistent in its operation with the
rights and security of the citizen.


The application of this rule is decisive
against the demand now urged for the
surrender of Lago. The oflense charged
against him does not rank among thos,
upon which the Constitutional provision
was intended to operate, and you have
therefore, no authority to comply witt
the requisition made upon you by the
Governor of Kentucky.


Entertaining no doubt as to the right
fullness of this conclusion, am highly
gratitied in being able to fortify it by tht
authority of my learned and emincn
predecessor, who first filled this office
and who officially advised the Governo
of that day, that in a case substantial ly
similar to the one now presented, h,
ought not to issue his warrant of extra
dition. Other authority, if needed, may
be found in the fact that this rule is con-
formable to the ancient and settled usage
Of the State.


To guard against possible misappre
hension, let me add that the power of ex
tradition is not to be exercised as Of course
in every case which may apparently fal
within the rule here asserted. While i
is limited to these cases, the very nature
Of the power is such that its exercise, ever
under this limitation, must always bC
guided by a sound legal discretion apply
ing itself to the particular circumstance
Of each case as it shall be presented.


The communication in formal man
ner of the preceding opinion has beer
long but unavoidably deferred by causes
of which you are fully apprised. Though
this delay is greatly to be regretted, it cal
have had no preludicial effect, as the ugcn
appointed by the Governor Of Kentuck,
to receive Lago, was long since officially
though informally, advised that no cast
had been presented which would warran
his extradition.


Very respectfully,


Your ob't servant.


G. Z. WOLCOTT.
Year: 1860

We have only time to call attention to the
most important intelligence that has reached us
from the Atlantic States. What has hitherto
amounted to nothing more than idle threat and
vain bravadO on the part Of the South seems
fast approaching sad reality. The work of
secession has commenced in earnest where and
how il will end, none can now foresee. We
confess to the most serious alarm for the perpe.
tuity Of the Union, and can only hope that the
fate now threatened may yet be aVerted. We
shall watch with anxious sOlicitude the events
transpiring between this and the 4th Of March
next
Year: 1860

Il DoS'r DANCE "A plain, I'M


ettcrel man from the back country in
the State Of Alabama, came to Tus-
caIoosa, and on the Sabbath went ear
y to church. lie selected a seat in q
convenient slip and awaited patiently
the assembling Of the congregation
The services commenced. Presently
the music OF a full toned organ burst
upon his astonished ear; he had never
heard one before. At the same time
the gentleman who owned the slip
came up the aisle, with his lady leaning
on his arm. AS he approached the
door Of the slip, he motioned to give
place to the lady. This movement the
countryman did not comprehend, and
from the situation of the gentleman
and lady, associated as it was in his
mind with the music, he Immediately
concluded that q cotiIIion, or q French
contra dance, OF some other dance, was
intended. Rising partly from his scat,
he said to him:


"ExcUse me, sir-excuso me, if YOU
please, Z don't d0nce."
Year: 1860

Bran TEA.-A very cheap and use
tui drink in colds, feyers, and restless
ness from pain. Put handful OF bran
IN pint and half Of cold water, let
1t boil rather more than half an hour,
then strain II, and If desired, flavor
it with sugar and lemon-juice; but it
is o pleasant drink without any addi-
ton.
Year: 1860

APoLoGY FOR Mr.. PRIcE.-Business affairs
detained this gentleman at Sacramento, go as
to render it impossible for him to arrive in
this city, last evening, in time to address the
citizens per appointment The failure was
not caused by any neglect on his part. lie
viii endeavor to address the citizens of Ma
rysville before the election. lie left this
morning for the North, and will speak in
Oroyille this evening.
Year: 1860

Az exchange says "the official vote of Ark.
ansas has not come to hand yet. The reason
OF this Is, that up in Benton county, where
they keep tally On a single, the official
journal was lost. They are now engaged in
whiting out the correct vote.o
Year: 1860

No occupation can be more favorable
TO the cultivation OF those q ualities which
are the charm Of The domestic circle, than
the life of farmer. He is much more
at home than is possible with any other
man. How many there are in our cities
who only see their families at evenings
or on the Sabbath /! They live for their
business, and this, from It's location, takes
them from home early and late. How
many, from the same cause, forsake house
keeping and huddle into boarding houses
and hotels, where the charm and beauty
OF the family, as God constituted it, is
entirely lost and children fall under a
thousand unfriendly influences that would
never touch them at home. With the
best arrangements wealth could command
in the city, it is well nigh impossible to
keep children under the influence Of their
parents, so that they have distinct fam.
lily character, and bear the moral as thew
do the physical image of their progeni.
tors. Parental influence is dissipated
amid the varied social influences to which
they are subjected from the earliest days.


Ninety-nine failures in a hundred a.
mong most business men in the city, tell
tale ol the perplexities and sorrow, the
corroding cares and anguish of mercan-
tile life. How can father, goaded with
these anxieties, from the beginning to the
end OF the year, do justice 10 his children
even if his business allowed him to be-
with them a part Of the time He is,
not in frame of mind to superintend
their education, to perform fathers Of
fee.


The farm preserves the family in its in.
tegrty. The home has in it that charm.
ing word, and that more charming thing,
the tire-side, around which parents and
children gather, and where the bright
and cheerful blaze upon the hearth is but
type OF the fame Of love that glows
in every heart. The parents have been
drawn togethersnot by sordid motives Of
wealth or the ambitious desire of social
display, but by the personal qualities seen
in each other. The glory of the fireside
to be husband, is that the wife is there;
and TO the wife, that he is there who is
the head Of the women, and the bond Of
that home circle. Here they gather at
morning and evening and at noon. Their
board is almost always surrounded with
the same circle, and here they spend the
long winters evening together.


american Journal Of Education.
Year: 1860

More than half century since a New
+ gland farmer boy entered Harvard
College rs student. The class to which
he belonged were assembled in the room
OF one Of then number for one of those
convlvlal meetings which were common
in those days.


A man dressed in teamster's frock
drove load of the produce OF his farm
TO Cambridge. After transacting his bu
siness he entered the College yard, and
inquired o! lad he met there for j
/. The little souled fellow, think
.ng to morti'y the young man, took him
10 the room occupied by the class, and
opening the door said, T, here is a
gentleman who wishes to see YOU T,
without exhibiting the slightest mortifica
ton, sprang TO the door and welcomed
his father atiectionate!y then turning 10
his classmates said "GentIemcn, give
me leave to Introduce my father to you !:
he is poor and hard working man, but
as honest and worthy man AS lives


Pride and arstocracy were abashed,
and all the noble feelings of our nature
aroused in the Young men. They came
forward, shook hands with the old man
Invited him to enter their room and take
glass OF wine, which WAS the compi
ment usually offered TO visitors at that
time,


be Of whom this anecdote is related
after filing an honorable Office in the
courts OF Essex county for many years,
has ceased to act his part among us :;
but the memory Of his virtues will be
cherished by all who had the happiness
OF knowing him !; and it is to be hoped
that hIs example may strengthen many
10 be true TO their highest and best i'm
pulses
Year: 1860

GAPEs IN CHIcKENs.-The gapes in
chickens, is occasioned by collection of
small worms in the wind pipe. and unless
removed will kill the chickens. l give
you my plan Of curing them, hoping that
it may be tried my others as we'll as my
self, who have been greatly annoyed by
this troublesome disease.


Take a stiff hair from the main or tail
Of horse, double it and twist the two
ends together ;, open the mouth Of the
chicken and force the twisted hair down
the wind pipe to The depth oftwo or three
inches, according to the size Of the chick
ems, holding the two ends Of the hair. So
curely; when it has been forced sufficient
" deep, give it twist and draw it out
gradually, and the worms will come with
it. ] have taken twenty or more worms
from one chicken Continue the opera
ton until all are removed. have neve,
failed to free the windpipe Of worms il
this way. This receipt consider of crea
value Christian Sun.
Year: 1860

OPENING HYMN.-An unknown ex-
change is responsible for the following :


The Democratic Convention, which is
to holG Its adjourned meeting at Balti
more on the 18th Of June, will open is
session by singing the following verse
from a good old hymn by Watts b.
Butler, Of Massachusetts, will raise the
tune, and .he entire Northwestern Squat
ter Sovereignty Delegation, under tae
lead of Richardson, Of Illinois, will join
in the chorus


So when raging fever burns,


We shift from side to side by turn


But It's poor relief we gain,


To change the place, but keep the pain
Year: 1860

1t is an actual fact that man in our
State, who attempted to hug a a beautiful
young woman, Miss Lemon, has sued her
Tor striking him in the eye. Heis alto
gether unreasonable. Why should be
squeeze a Lemon unless he wants a
punch :
Year: 1860

l want it understood this is not Rattle or
"lit Entertainment. 1t is designed to obtain
work and customers, and to this end every one
VINO VIII bring me work to do in the jewelry,
Matchmaking or Daguerrean business | will
present with as many tickets as they will ex
pend dollars in my line Those who want
watches cleaned or repaired, or any Jewclrv or
DaSueI rean work done have only topaz me the
regular price. The work will be warranted.
watches for one year, and besides obtaining the
work at the going rates they will receive as
many tickets in my great distribution as they
eNpend dollars for work. Remember that I
VIII rot raise the price of my work. Purchas-
ers need not have the work done now, but at
any time hereafter the tickets will be good for
watch repairing or likencsses.
Year: 1860

The New York Timers thus plainly tells the
South what is to be expected from Mr.. Lin
coin; it should certainly satisfy every Southern
man what submission will bring:


There can hc no doubt whatever in the
mind of any man that Mr.. Lincoln regards
slavery as a moral, social and political evil, and
that it should be dealt with rs such by the
Federal Government, in every instance where
it is called upon to deal with it at all. On
this point there is no room for question-and
there need bc no misglvings as to his official
action. The whole influence OF the Executive
Department of the Government, while in his
hands, will be thrown against the extension of
slavery into the new Territories Of the Union,
and the re-openng of the African slave trade.
On these points he will make no compromise
nor yield one hairs breadth to coercion from
any quarter Or in any shape lie docs not ac-
cedc to the alleged decision of the Supreme
Court that the Constitution places slaves upon
the footing of other property, and protects
them as such wherever its ts.inrisdiction extends,
nor will he be, in the least degree, governed or
controlled BY it in his executive action. lie
will do all in his power, personally and official
ly, hy the direct exercise of tlc powers Of his
office and the Indirect influence iuseparablc
from it, to arrest the tendency to make slavery
national and perpetual, and to place it pre-
else y the same position which it held in the
early days of the Republic, and in the view of
the founders of the Government. Onthis point,
we take it for granted, he will be firm and i'm
moyablc-so as to put it Lcyond the hope Of
any class or auv section to change his rur-
pose.
Year: 1860

| MY young cousin mas been reading Alb


bolts History of Napoleon Bonaparte.
| One evening as We sat together, he lai,


down his book, and with glowing cheek ant
| sparkling eye, exclaimed:


Was not he the most splendid man tina
ever lived? would give anything to bt
half as great "


Mr.. Abbott's portrait so carefully con
ceals the blemishes of his hero, and is SCI
wirhal in so dazzling frame, that could
not wonder at the boys enthusiasm in con-
templating it. But said


Your chance of being half as great as
Bonaparte is very good, think. That is
not always great which consists in brilliant
achievement. The higher greatness is
moral; and seeks the good of others rather
than its own glory. / could tell you of a
more noble hero than Napoleon, who lived
in his own time


81 should like 10 hear Of one" answered
Harry with an air that said he was not to
be convinced. But still he loved story
so told him the following:


Years ago, in the deep heart of noun
tain in Belgium, hundred men were work
ing a coal mine.


Grim-visaged and dusky, moving about
by the dull red light of their safety lamps,
they might have been mistaken for the de-
mons Of the mountain, once supposed by
the peasant to dwell in its caves. Their
work was hard, and surrounded by dangers ;
but their wives and children were in the
hamlet above, and long habit made them
forget their perlis. So they might be con-
tented, and even happy.


The creaking windlass raised and lower
ed huge bucket through the deep and
narrow shaft, from morning till night, car
rying men and tools to and fro. This was
their only doorway.


1t was MONDAY, and the sun shone down
one side of the shaft, and brought glim-
mer of daylight TO a part of the mine,
when Herbert Coffin, the master miner,
took his place in the great kibble, and was
let down to the mine, many feet below.
When he reached the bottom he commenced
handing some tools and stores TO Victor, a
blind miner, who was waiting there. Vic
tor had left sick child in one of the cot
tages, and it was to inquire after him that
he stood waiting at the bottom of the shaft.


HC UuChCh noo sum PttCus anu Alu
bert was just stepped out, when hark What
sound was that which made his cheek pale
1t was the rushing and trickling of water.
The next moment he caught sight of
stream forcing itself through a fssure on
the mountain close to the shaft Hubert's
instantly showed him their dan
ger. 1t was not feeble oozing stream,
but mighty pressure of water that had
found its outlet here. They would be over



One foot was yet in the bucket--a jerk
at the rope would save him. But though
death stared him in the face, he could not
sacrifice others to save himself. Quickly |
jumping out, he seized blind Victor, and
placed him in the bucket, saying, quickly, |
as he jerked the rope:


"Tel them the water has burst in and |
we are probably lost; but we will seek /
refuge at the farther end of the right gal
Iery. Say farewell to our poor friends"
lie a moment he was gone, ard with him
Hubert's only certainty Of escape from
terrible death.
Year: 1860

SUICIDE DESoUscED AS MURDER
In olden times suicide was actually regard
ed in the light of the law as murder.
Technically it is still so considered, but no
attempt is now made, as formerly, to pun
ish the crime by directing that the body be
ANONYMOUSLY buried. This custom which
SO long prevailed, was only Furnishing the
relatives and surviving friends Of the de-
Year: 1860

Public 81. p.
AN ACT providing for the punishment of marshals and
deputy marshals Of the United States other minis,e
rial officers for permitting the escape of prisoners in their
custody.


Be enacted BY the Senate and House of Representa-.
ves of the United States of America Congress assembled
That whenever any any marshal deputy marshal, other
ministerial officer shall have in his custody prisoner
BY virtue of process issued under the laws of the United
States BY court judge commissioner and such
shl deputy marshal other ministerial officer, shall vol
UNFAIRLY suffer such prisoner TO escape 1he officer Offend
ing shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof in any district circuit of the
United States shall be fined imprisoned both accord
ing the discretion of the court in which such conviction
shall take place. having respect to the nature of the crime
with which the escaped prisoner shall have been charged
IN sum exceeding two Thousand dollars and for
term exceeding years. This act shall be taken and
Construed to apply only to which the prisoner
who escaped charged. found guilty of offence
against the laws of the United States, but also in
which prisoner may be in custody charged with offences
against any foreign government .with whom the United
States have treaties Of extraditiOn.


Approved q June, 1860.
Year: 1860

PUNCH ON THE PR1NcE.-As the
Hero was short of fuel, the Duke
inquired Of the Prince whether he
should signal to the Ariadne for
any, II should advise you not"
was the princely reply; ''tor they
will never be such fools as to send
GOALS to Newcastle"
Year: 1860

or banners in one hand and knives or swords
in the other, like SO many mad Bacchana-
llans, only they were not drunk, except with
JOY. and newly found liberty, and they stop
and hug or kiss, aud then rush on till they
meet with other crowds
Year: 1860

for their imitation, with nothing of like kind in


their recollection to refer them to, unbuoyed even


by the hope of popular appreciation, for Zip Coon


is a more brilliant card than one of Bethooven's S


best with I was going to say " the musical bar


barians," but I won't} that most self sufficient,
dictaterial and clamorous of all diteate, the pop


ulscs The prospect Is certainly dreary one,
and it requires more nerve, resolution and deVo


ton to music in introducing this species of com
position and qualifications for conveying the
genius of such to the minds of the Band, than
were ever dreamed of, and which are entirely tof-


eign to the duties of most other classes o. mAslc


teachers. A Brass Band must for the time, act
and feel as one body, purely embued with one
spirit that of their director, otherwise their play
inc would be mere mechanical execution, leaving
the souls of the hearers rs unmoved as those Of
the players, to those subfmtles, pathos and DELI
cate shades which color the thoughts OF the sern-
poser to that expression, In short without - fch
music is but an idle Heise. Suppose for instance
an orchestra conposed of ordinary but profession
al players, who iaE their dull splrltless execution
ieave the sensations at rest: but let an ardent
leader or director musician endowed with all
the requisite powers of mind and body, appear in
their midst; suddenly the ssered fire commEnl-
Gates itself to all those inanfn,ate beings the
metamorphoss produced in an instant, may even
be such, that we could hardly persuade ourselves
that we had the same players before When
once the right kind of a Band has been fully FE-
noculated with the spirit of such music, the dH-
ties of director may often be after the piece
is once started; hence, much VI Ihat spasnodlc
gesticulation which is often displayed by direc-
tors is pure affectation. have been too verbose,
am afraid, but | must say in conclusion of this
paper that it is the duty of music teachers in gen.
eral, but especially Band Or Orchestra teach
ers to devote much attention to the cultivation
and regulation of the passions and feelings, so as
to be able to awake any acquired emotion, to any
degree at an instant; a cultivation which goes be-
yond mimcry and mechanism, has its seat in the
SOUL and is one of most vital branches of musical
education; although matters now are, it is by
far the most neglected.
Year: 1860

DIED-In Swansboro', the morning of the 7th
INST after painful illness of days, Mrs. LOUISA
HEWITT, wife of c. S. Hewitt, in the 42d year of her
age Seldom called upon to witness such
death as hers. About six months ago she was for
cibly impressed that her pilgrimage would end.
Since that time she has appeared very solemn, and
given up to deep meditation. The bibble was her
constant companion, and from its sacred pages she
gathered many sweet promises which were as a
balm to her soul. When first taken she told all that
came to see her she would die. She gazed upon her
household, and then with prayer to God for Them


said, :: resign ALL Every earthly tie severed
and she seemed anxious for the summons. It
evident her last days the best, for when the
dews of death were falling fast glory to God in
the highest was heard to escape from herlps. She
expressed no desire to remain longer earth for
she said, " Who would not rather exchange the sor-
rows of earth for the joys of heaven Perfectly
sensible to the last she continued to give such glow


ing evidences of her acceptance with God as to
cause the bystander to rejoice. But she is gone
yet not lost. While we mourn earth she rejoices
in glory May God bless her husband and chiluren


and sanctify to them their deep DISTRESS and may
all live that death may be to us as it was to
her, welcome visitor. J.