smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

one mile North OF the J JunctiOn OF C0ESons


wood and Neosho Rivers.
SAWING done on halves, provided always that
- the Logs are good, square at both ends, and
clear OF knots and wind-shakes, or bad splits. -
Lumber sawed for money must not be moved un-
al the saving is paid for, and that must be done
within thirty days or the LUMBER viii be sold 70
pay for saving.


We are prepared to fill bills on short notice. and
We shall keep lumber on hand which we will sell
low for cash, or Its equivalent only We can't
credit-don't ask Us. Neither can we let any
quantity Of lumber leave the mill until it is paid
for. To all who want lumber and have GOT the
"SpoRduleks," we say, give Us call, and It shall
be no fault of ours If you don't buy of US better
lumber and as much Of it as you can get elsewhere
for the same money.


jknl5-2m HUMPHREY GOODWILL.
Year: 1859

VOTE FOR FERRY 1.-The election of a Member of Congress is of more importance than the entire State ticket. Thus far ll2 Republicans have been chosen to the next House of Representatives and it requires seven more to make clean majority. Rhode Island will doubtless send two, and Minnesota two; 30 that it requires three Republicans from connecticut to secure certain majority all the proslavery factions. The good of the requires that any prejudices which may have existed in the minds of any of the electors in the district against Mr. Ferry for past differences of opinion should be forgotten in desire to promote the public good His vote will be right every time questions affect ing the interests of Free Labor American Industry and Economy in the Administration of the Govern. ment. Let every man who wants true and faith full Representative in Congress, VOTE FOR FERRY.
Year: 1859

IS Hon. s. W. Gold has accepted the nomination of the Republicans for Senator from the l7th Dis trict. The following is his card of acceptance: 10 e Republican Electors of the 17M Senatorial Dishict The nomination so unanimously conferred upon me by your Senatorial Convention which assembled yesterday, and which has been duly announced to me. is gratefully accepted.

 appreciate the honor and now tender you my thanks. Should your nomination be successfully sustained it will be my earnest desire to be faithful to the trust. and neither dishonor you by want of fidelity to the great interests of the Republican par ty or the station which may occupy, by sacrificing the public good to mere party policy. Your political sentiments are mine; we have a common interest, the glory and prosperity of oul whole country. The national sentiments, embod jed in the resolutions adopted by the Convention meet my hearty concurrence.

 The voters of the 17th distinguished as they arc for intelligence and patriotism. will not. am con- fdent, fail to do their duty in the approaching con test and whatever may be the result, let our motto still be zrth and our aim the good of country.

 SAMUEL w. GOLD. West Cornwall, March IS, 1859
Year: 1859

6g' The Washington Union graciously bestows patronizing notice upon Messrs. Arnold and Bishop the Democratic Congressmen from this State. Tn, exalted journal hopes these two patriots nay be re beyond question, right on the goose.'' It say they are ' true Democrats having given "a hearty and efficient support to the Executive which is al that is required of any Democrat.

 The Union says that the election of Messrs. Ar mold & Bishop would show that the great princi ples of the Democratic party yet retain their ascend ancy in the hearts of the people," Now, since the Union has published these gentlemen before the world true disciples of the Democratic faith the people of Connecticut are interested to know what these :. great principles of the Democratic party are. We quote from article in the Washington Union of November 17, 1857, a couple of para graphs in which two of these principles are dis tinctly set forth. The first is this:

 "All State Laws which prohibit citizen of one State from settling in another. AND BRINGING HIS SLAVE PROPERTY WITH HIN, and most especially those declaring it forfeited are direct violations of the Constitution of the United States

 Here is advanced. distinctly and plainly, the monstrous doctrine that the people of the Free States have no right to regulate their domestic institu- tions'' to suit themselves Any shareholder has a right to nullify any and all laws of any sovereign State in the Unon prohibiting the holding of Slaves within its borders Slavery is carried into all the States and Territories of the country, and protected there by the Constitution

 The corollary doctrine to this, that the people have NO RIGHT TO MAKE ANY FREE STATES is also laid down with unmistakeable distinctness in this paragraph from the same article:

 '.We have never doubted that the emancipation of Slaves in those States where it previously existed, by arbitrary act of the Legislature a GROSS VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY"

 It is direct violation of the Constitution to keep Slavery out of any State of this Union-and a Sgross violation of the rights of property to HAUE any Free States at all

 s This is the Democracy of the Washington Union, the official organ of the National Administration. These some of those .'great principles of the Democratic party to which the same paper declares that Arnold and Bishop ar q firmly derotsdr'

 New London Chronicle
Year: 1859

I've como, I've come from the spirit land,
And treasured song is mine
l bear for the wounded heart balm,
And joy for those tina; pine.
The friends that ye bade on earth q good bye"
With checks so pale and wan,
They are there, in the light Of a cloudless sky,
Aud their all Of grief is done
The chieftain that left his bow unstrung--
And the sage with his locks Of SHOW
And the maid whose Voice like the nightb birds rung
In its paintivcness Of Woe;
And the youth with the laughing eye is there
And the mother who lelt her babe
Swinging TO and fro in the summer air,
Beneath the sycamore's shade.
They sit on the banks where the bright flowers gean
And they dream uot OF toll or pain
For they drank of the fuunt OF the golden stream
They've drank--aud are young again
And they hade me speed with my giittering wing,
From the realms Of the nghtleSs day,
To the dim Old groves where they loved to sing,
And thus to the mourning say
We tune our harps by the brigh, blue streams,
That lave on the gem clad shore
And our lives are sweet as an infants dream,
And We sigh not, nor weep no more.
We are changed from the sick and sad Of earth,
To band that know not care;
But our hearts sul yearn towards native hearth
And the friends We lor'd while there
We watch yc friends, when the night winds breatl
Lies huShed oer moor and hill
For love extends past the bourne of death


We have loved and We love ye still
We are there unseen, by the house. fires blaze
As our tales ye repeat again
When yc sing the song Of other days,


We are there, and We bless ye then.
And We hover DER when the hour of prayer
Comes ON at the close of evcn--
Midst the haIowed family band, we're there,


And We bear those prayers TO heaven.
Year: 1859

ANOTHER change appears to have taken
place in Mexicun affairs Miramon, who
erewhile was considered as completely broken
down by the adverse fortune of war, appears
all of sudden in the position of a conqueror,
or at least, in fair way to be a conqueror
1t was said he could not gain battle. That
may all be-but his general gained one for
him, which is about the same thing. And if
reports are to be believed, this battle VIII ch
turned the tide of his affairs, was a consider
able one. The Libcralists, seven thousand
strong, were completely routed We take
some little interest in this Mexican war We
had rather Miramon would not triumph, and
we hope that the report of his recent success
may prove to have been exaggerated. The
Standard doubts the report, on account OF
the simitude of two dispatches; the one oil
April %, and the one of May ID. The re


port NAV be true or it may be false Changes
follow each other in such quick succession in


that country, that we can scarcely form
CORRECT Indictment as to the state of affairs
,boro even when we think we have sufficient
grounds upon which to base that Judgment.
Poor Mexico The olive branch of peace,
we fear, is not for her.
Year: 1859

SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL OF CoNrDENoE.-Ihe
Stockton Argus of Saturday, tells the follow
ing:


A most shameful betrayal of confidence
took place last Sunday night, about miles
from this city, near the Calaveras. man
bv the name of Taylor, a member of the
church. had sold out all his effects, with the
intention of returning with his family to lex
as lie had $4,000, which he buried for safe
keeping intending to start away on the
Goth inst. At his house was preacher nam
ed Cook, who was penniless and who Taylor,
sympathizing with his situation and being
member of the same church, had promised to
pay his passage to the Atlantic side. In ad-
dtion to evincing this kind feeling to Cook,
so great a confidence had he in him that he
showed the preacher where he had his smoney
hid Last Sunday, Taylor and his wife star
ted to church, Cook remaining behind, under
the plea of sickness During their absence
Cook dug up the $4,000 and started off with
it to parts unknown. When Taylor returned
home he discovered his loss, and found him
elfpenniless in the world, and the man in
whom he had placed so much confidence was
the robber of his little wealth. The last seen
of Cook was on the Calaveras river, when he
was making quick time on foot What adds
to the poignancy of the loss is the fact that
Taylor and his wife are both sickly and in
measure untitled to again commence vigor-
ously the "battle of life"
Year: 1859

The Anti -Lecompton Central Committee Of
Sierra county, have named the 30th of May,
as the time for holding primary meetings
and the 9th of June as the time for holding a
County Convention.
Year: 1859

EXPEDITION TO SALT LAKE.-The Dallas
(OregOn) Journal, contains the order of Gen
Harney respecting the Salt Lake Expedition
The object of this expedition is stated to be
"to increase the facilities of communication
between the Columbia river and the valley
Year: 1859

MIsrAKE.-In our extra yesterday we gave
credit to the Union for the news by the John
L. Stephens. This was a mistake We are
under no obligations, whatever to that pa
Der for said news
Year: 1859

CONSIDERABLE damage was done to crops
by the gale of the 18th. The Standard says
that the damage sustained throughout the
state, of the cereal grains alone, is estimated
variously from half million to two millions
of dollars. Great injury has also been done
to whole orchards of young fruit trees.
Year: 1859

IL Sacramento on Saturday morning, sew
eral attempts at incendiarism were perpetra-
ted In one instance frame barn was fired
and consumed. Shortly after, (about half
past one fire was discovered under the store
of Mr. Levy, on the corner of X and Fourth
street In this latter instance, no damage
was done.
Year: 1859

At Sacramento on Sunday, an insane man
named Nelson Sanger, jumped from Lisle's
bridge into the river and swan ashore, after
which, he was Immediately taken in charge.
He will be sent to the Insane Asylum, at
which place he has already been
Year: 1859

Yesterday morning, between one and two
o'clock, as the Forest Hill stage was on its
way towards Auburn, it was stopped by a
party of robbers, short distance from the
former place. One robber held the lead
horses, while two others approached the
coach on each side They had no sooner de-
manded the treasure-boxes, than they were
fired upon from within the coach. The two
at the side fell dead, and the third one fled,
badly wounded, as appeared from the blood.
1t appears that a knowledge of the contem-
plated attack had come to the ears of certain
parties, among whom were officer Dan Gay
and two policemen.


Leaving the passengers behind at a house,
the driver proceeded with the officers above
alluded to, in the coach, so that when the
robbers made the attack they found matters
badly fixed for them. After vanquishing the
robbers, the stage turned back, got its pass
engers, and went on unmolested to Auburn.
The news of this affair reached here last eve
ming, and the above particulars were given
us by the gentlemanly agent of the Califor-
mia Stage Company.
Year: 1859

TnE PRESIDENT ANb THE FILIDUsTERs "A
New York corr espondent says:


At the date of my last letter, it was under
stood here that the filibuster had got safely
off with his raggamuffin forces before the Off
cials at Washington had began to move in
the matter of arresting the illegal expedition
1t now appears that such was not the fact
but that, on the contrary, the action of our
Government was so prompt in the premises
that its strong arm reached the offenders be-
fore they could get away from its jurisdc-
ton. hnd we are further told from Wash
ington tnat, even had the filibusters made
good their escape from our shores, the Presi-
dent would have followed them, even to the
interior of Nicaragua. and brought them
back by force should he be irupeached for
the act the next day.
Year: 1859

MODERN NEoRoMANcY.-When all these de-


lusons shall stand before your disenchanted


soul in all their earthly and carnal grossness,


and the great truths of the Gospel, long neg


lected and disowned, shall shine into it, with


self evidencing brightness you shall see as 10y
one broad flash of light the true condition of
your own soul and the true nature of that
future for which its wing is spread Oh
then this poor earth born Gospel, which
tells you of the souls acknowledgment and
progress, will be but the dread announce
ment that your spirit, dead in sin, unpardor-
ed, unreconciled to God, shall go on in ca
reer of accumulating wretchedness; and thus
the promise of the false new Gospel, harmon


izing with the announcement of the true
golden Gospel shall make your shuddering
heart believe and see, ere yet you realize, in
your sad experience the solemn truth cf both
evangels "That whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. He that soweth to
the Aesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
He that soweth to the spirit, shall of the
spirit reap life everlasting-O H. Butler.
Year: 1859

Marriage should be considered as the most
solemn league of perpetual friendship, a
state from which artitice and conceament
are to be banished forever, and in which
every dssimulation is breach of faith
Year: 1859

A HINT FOR CLEAR-STARCHINC.-Collars,
sleeves or handkerdhiefs of very fine muslin
or lace, will not bear much squeezing or
rubbing when washed They can be made
perfectly white and clean without either, by
the following process: Rinse them carefully
through clear water, then soap them well
with white soap; place fiat in dish or saucer,
and cover with water; place them in the sun.
Let them remain two or three days, chang
ing the water frequently, and turning them.
Once every day take them out, rinse careful
Iy, soap, and place in fresh water. Tie ope-
ration is tedious, and rather troublesome
one, but the finest embroidery or lace comes
ont perfectly white, and is not worn at all
where, in common washing, it would be very
apt to tear. When they are white, rinse
and starch in the usual way.


s. II. Home Journal.
Year: 1859

Why is thief in a garnet like an honest
man! Because he is above doing wrong.
Why is man tha: marrics twice like the
Captain of Ship? Because he is a second
mate.


Why did job always sleep cold' Because
lie had poor comforters.


What grows less tired the more it works?
A carriage wheel.


When is iron most ironcal! When it
is railing.


When is tired man like thef9 When
he needs rsting.
Year: 1859

WHAT IS A BILLIoN?-A billion is a mil
lion Of millions. If a person were able to
count at the rate oftwo hundred in minute,
and to continue without intermission twelve
hours in day, he would take to count
billion, GOA ,944 days, or l9,o25 years $40
days. One man counting thus ever since
the Mosaic creation, would now be one third
through the task of counting one billion.
Yet it is calculated that the nearest of the
fixed stars that we behold studding the heav-
ems in clear night, is not less than thirty
five billion of miles distant; so that, accord
ing to the above calculation railroad en-,
gine running at the rate of one hundret
miles minute, night and day, would re-
quire 9e5 ,9O5 years and 215 days travel to
the nearest fixed star.
Year: 1859

The Sandusky Register states that Mr.. ST.
las Wright of Bennington, Erie county, fell


dead while standing Behind his counter
in his store Oh Tuesday evening last.
He was waiting on customer at the time,
and was supposed to be in good health. He
was IS years of age, and was largely known
as a pioneer settler in. the county
Year: 1859

~zBEES LEAVE TO NOTIFY THE
6-H public that he is prepared to furnish all kinds


of C0FFINS and superintend Funerals, at the short


est notice. From the long experience he has had in
the he give satisfaction to those who
will him with CALL Ready made pine cohins always
hand S4 S10 cherry and koa do vanished $40 and
S25 do polished SIS $40 koa Lumber hand and
for sale his shop King street, nearly opposite the Seamens
Bethel


neatness and dispatch. uS-u
Year: 1859




Dear Editor Il notice that the CaroEn-
ian is again out, in several columns against the
slave trade. 1t seems to be a sort of dog DAYS
fit with the Carolinian about this time last
year, if | mistake not, Il keep no filcs) it was
out in tremendous article against that sire
brand" In the article last year, thought it
had utterly demolished the whole slave trade
argument, for it mathematicaIly demonstrated
that it C ost more to support two negroes than
one. This was new view of the question to
me, and could not help thinking Of many of
our large planters, who own some 500 or GOO
negroes, what an awful expense they must he
at; and then l had always thought that it was
the negroes that supported the white folks !;
but when he so clearly provcd that the masters
supported the negroes, was quite coniounded
the thing made deep impression upon my
mind. This year he has gone into the consti-
tutionality of the question. / am no lawyer
and therefore will venture no opinion upon his
arguments and will only say if he is right, Mr.
yancey and a very large majority Of the best
lawyers in the South, must feel very small, and
the Juries of the country are greatly at fault.
Eut let all this be as it may. if this question
STONS aHu SpISstStS teLNtS.l liliS anu Hic HcNI
dog-days, as rapidly as it has since the last,
somebody willhave to work very hard that the
ne~ negroes may have a support and the
Editor, who in his article last year, said he was
once in favor of this project himself will regret
that he changed his mind SO soon upon the
subject.


Cotton is doing pretty well, but would be the
better Of rain; corn has promised an abundant
yield, but if rain docs not come, in copious
showers in very few days, it will be almost
ruined. The weather is excessively hot, the
thermometer ranging in the shade at 90 to 95.


In politics we are very dull. The Union
savers have not word to say, and States
Rights, or rather Southern Confedcracy men,
arc quietly looking or, awaiting events, feeling
confident as ever that the South can have no
place in the Union, except it be one ofinferior-
ity and degradation. The Sound democracy
of the North have all declared that the Gene
raj Government shall wipe its hands of the in
stitution of Slavery, and shall hcnceforth afford
it no protection it matters not it what manner
it may bcasSacd, in the common territories
of the States. This throws lis upon our own
resources which in my opinion, are entirely
adequate for the occasion.


Yours truly,


a COTTON PLANTER.
Year: 1859

Judge Withers, of Charleston, lately imposed
Il fine Of five hundred dollars on Mr.. Hume,
for holding conversation with one of the jurors
cmpaGclled to try criminal case in that city,
and also a fine of one hundred dollars upon the
Deputy Sheriff, who permitted Mr.. Hume thus
to have access to the Jury. 1t is stated, in the
newspaper report of the proceedings, that "thc
Judge in common with the whole community,
acquitted Mr.. Hume ofany Intentional violation
of law or usage" his remark to the juror having
been only san offer of friendly service to him
in consequence of long confinement" The i'll
fiction OF such penalty will doubtless strike
many persons among us as an instance of undue
severity, but this will be so, less on account Of
the injustice Of the sentence, than because we
have become habtuated to- lax administration
of the laws, both in form and substance. The
old English mode of treating Juries, which our
fathers transpanted to this country, was, perhaps
unnecessarily rigid, ifnot cruel; in permitting
it to be almost abrogatcd by common custom,
we have run into an opposite extreme, which is
more dangerous and not less irrational.


The rule which was formerly adhered to was
conciselv laid down by Lord Coke, who said
"lhe jury ought to be kept together in some
convenient place, without meat or drink, fire
or candle, and without speech of any, unless it
be the bailiff, and with him only if they be
arrced." The reasons for such stringent pro-
visions arc obvious enough. Where men are
required to determine questions affecting the
dearest rights and interests of their fellows, they
should bring to the discharge of their solemn
duty calm judgments and unbiased feelings, and
should carefully guard themselves against the
intrusion ofany influence from without, though
these might come in the shape of the lightcst
Whisper. The law formerly assisted them to
accomplish this by subccting thcm as Coke
quantity tells lis, that what "somc books call
| ~ imprisonment" five would only realize
the wisdom, harsh though it was, OF the old rule
it is only necessary to glance at the present
system.


The easting and fddling which distracted
the minds, the anonymous notes and secret
conversations that may have warped the CON
sciences, and the comments of a jury in a late
notorious case, all prove how easily and how
surely a jury may be made to reflect the passions
of the excited multitude, or to respond to the
wishes of an influential cnlprit. When we con
slider the fearful decentralization which ensuc:
whenever the issues in our Courts nre affected
or in anywise determined in obedience to the
clamor from without, we can but hail any change
tending to restoration Of somewhat Of I'll,
strictncss Of other times.


Next losummoning torJury service only sucl
men of character and frmncss MS corruption
and intimidation alike will fail to move, til,
best method OF securing fairness to a prisoner
is to shut out from his Judges everything bu
the legal evidence and the law. in unbrokc'
Year: 1859

ness men and people generally, We
should never have had the late severe
experience that the "hard times,
which may be attributed to their dis
regard, forced upon us. May they be
practically observed by our people
hereafter.


The East is already sensibly re,
covering from the effects Of the tinan,
cial rcvulsion, and the West is grad
nally feeling more encouragement
One gocd harvest will do the work for
us, and bring us ont "high and dry
Let those who have land, plant lib,
orally let those "ho are out Of work
and business, go and buy land and
cultivate it, if they can, or, if they
cannot, let them 90 ont and work for
the farmers and let us all hope for
the best, and apply ourselves diligcnt-
ly to insure the realization Of the hope.