smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

LET THE FIRST WORD He LIsPs BE !" WASH
INGToN. >" Let the first word he lisps be
Washington" Hang on his neck on that
birthday, and that day of his death at Mount
Vernon, the Medal of Congress, by its dark
ribbon; tell him the story Of tie flag, as it
passes glittering along the road bid him listen
to that plain, oldfashioned, stirring music of
the Union lead him, when school is out at
evening, to the grave of his great-grandfather,
the old soldier of the war bid him, like Han
nibal, at nine years old, lay the little hand On
that Constitution, and swear reverently to OBJ
serve it; lift him up, and lift yourselves up,
to the height Of American feeling open to
him, and think for yourselves, on the relation
of America to the States show him upon the
map the area to which she has extended her.
self; the climates that come into the number
Of her months the silver paths OF her trade
wide as the world tell him of her contribu-
tions to humanity, and her protests for free
government; keep with him the glad and
solemn feasts of her appointment ; bury her
great names in his heart, and into your hearts
contemplate habitually, lovingly, intelligently,
this grand abstraction, this vast reality of
good and such an institution may do smewhat
to transform this surprising beauty into a
national life, which shall last while sun ard
moon endure.-Rufus Choafe.
Year: 1861

Four GooD HABITs.-There are four good
punctuality, accuracy, steadiness and
dispatch Without the first of these time is
wasted without the second, mistakes the most
hurtful to our credit and interest, and that OF
Others, may be committed without the third
nothing can be well done and without the
fourth opportunities Of great advantage are
lost, which are impossible to recall.
Year: 1861

"PRIDE is as loud beggar as want, and
a great deal more saucy." When you have
bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,
that your appearance may be all of piece
but Poor Richard says, /" 1t is easier TO sup
press the first desire than to satisfy all that
follow it." And it is truly folly for the poor
man to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in
order to reach the size of an OK.
Year: 1861

New York CRY. = The London Times
speaks of New York City as follows


The city is certainly the most remarkable
result of wealth and enterprise which the world
has known. In an incredibly short space of
time it has risen from the rank Of tenth-rate
town to the third city in the world in popula-
ton and riches In the last ten years the
larger part has been entirely rebuilt marble
and freestone edifces of great size, beauty and
costliness, have been substituted for the old
brick houses Broadway has been extended
for miles a vast park of nearly eight hundred
acres is being laid out in what will be before
long, the centre of the city dwelling houses
have been built by thousands, far exceeding in
elegance and comfort the average dwellings of
Londoners and New Y York, with its suburbs,
now reckoning more than a million of inhabit-
ants, may look forward to being, the next gen
Grafton, not only the largest, but perhaps the
most beautiful city in the world All this has
been done by private enterprise, and if the
administration of the city had been in honest
hands the result would have been far more
extraordinary.
Year: 1861

CRAMP.-Those who may be subject to that
excruciating pain called cramp, will be glad
to learn that by tying any kind of bandage
very tight around the leg above the knee, this
unpleasant sensation will be instantansously
removed.
Year: 1861

possible to the prejudice Of Others. q To be-
leve nothing of the kind till I am absolutely
forced to it, g. Never to drink into the spirit
of one who circulateS an i'll report. 4. Always
to moderate, as far as I can, the unkindness
which is expressed towards Others. 5. Always
to believe that if the other side were heard,
a very different account would be given of the
matter
Year: 1861

DoN'r JUMP.-Never jump from three
story window when there is any other means
of escape.


Never jump at conclusions.


Try to avoid jumping out of the frying-p pan
into the fire.


Never jump off the dock because you are
in debt, or in love. You will get wet if you
do.


Never jump after ferry-boat when it is
more than half way across the river.


Never jump at flash of lightning of
little use.
Year: 1861

CURE FOR RHEUMATIsM.-Bathe the parts
affected in water in which potatoes with the
skins have been boiled. as hot as can be borne,
just before going to bed; by the next morning
the pain will be much relieved, if not removed.
One application of this simple remedy has
cured the most obstinate rheumatic pains.
Year: 1861

Attorney and Counsellor at LGp,
WILL practice in the local Courts of this
w District, and In the Supreme Court and
Court of Claims. Office at the corner Of Indi-
ana avenue and Second street. rIm.r
Year: 1861

TIE CALIroRNA MoUNrAINEER.-We are
indebted to the publishers for copy of the
March number Of this interesting periodical.
The editor has struck out new path for him
SELF and appears to be competent to travel it
successfully The number before US contains
several original articles of genuine merit, and
taken as a whole, it is decidedly erediiable to
the Golden State. We take great pleasure in
coplmendng ii to the public as worthy of pat
ronagc.
Year: 1861

The Editor of the RECORD, with his family, in
tends leaving for the Atlantic States, by the
steamer Of March 2lst, to be absent three or four
months. In the meantime, he would be thankful
to those who know themselves indebted to the Office
if they would forward the amounts Of their indebt
Year: 1861

STEAMER UNCLE SAM--By telegraph We
learn that the Mail steamer g California ar
rived at San Francisco yesterday morning.
The steamer g Uncle Sam broke her shaft
near Acapulco, and put into that port, where
she remains. The California brought her
passengers and mail.
Year: 1861

MARysvnLE.-The Appeal states that the
petition of the Northern Railroad Co. for
right of way through the city has been in the
hands Of special committee for a long time,
and last Monday night they were ordered TO
report at the next meeting Of the Council
without fail.
Year: 1861

SUNDAY RIDING N SAN j RANCIsCO.-Ine
local OF the Alta thinks that Sunday is not
a proper day for riding, but says that a young
gentleman procured a horse on Sunday last,
for the purpose of exhibiting himself to the
admiring crowd He had no sooner seated
himself in the saddle, says the article, than the
animal ran away, despite the efforts of the
arriter to hold him." The horse soon shook
off his load and returned TO his stable, aud the
local returned 10 his wardrobe for q change Of
OF clothing and to write an article against
equestrian exercises on Sunday. He had
found an item.
Year: 1861

1t seems that several of the men who par
| ticipated in the caucus who nominated Mr.
Conness for Speaker, have declared in opon
session of the Assembly that they will no
longer support him. By so doing, they have
violated party usage and deserve the repro
baton of every good and true Democrat
They had no right TO repudiate the nomina-
tion of their own party caucus, or to abandon
their support of him, until they were in due
form released from the Obligation 1t seems
that they have construed the rules of party
and of conscience differently, and have gone
off to the support of Mr.. Wood, of Plumas


For our own part, we were in favor of the
Withdrawal of Mr.. Conness, seeing that he
could not be elected, and the substitution of
Curtis or some other man who could be cleo
ted. But we were for doing this thing, in
accordance with party usage.


Since, however, these late members of the
Democratic Caucus have seen fit to interpret
their obligations In the manner that they
have, we say here, emphatically and without
equiyocation, that so far as our humble indi-
viduality is concerned, had we a seat in thai
legislature we would sit there and vote for
| Conness for Speaker, until the crack of doom,
before we would yield one-sixteenth of a
hairs breadth to those men who have UNDER
taken to break up the integrity of the Demo-
cratic party and give it over into the hands
ofts enemies. Certain Breckinridge mem-
bers Ofthe Assembly said, the other day, that
they would sit until 1862 or 1875, before
they would vote for the nominee of the DEM
ocratic Caucus. We have already said that
we would sit there longer, before we would
now vote for any other man than Conness.
Some things can be done as well as others
and we are in favor, at this time, of doing
those same some things.


Stand by party usage-stand by the action
of the Caucus-and yield neper. That is
what we believe in, and we hope the Democ-
racy will live right up to that principle, and
all the consequences which flow from its exer-
else Let those be responsible who have
forced this issue. We suppose that the Doug
las party have as good a right to be unyied-
ing as any other.
Year: 1861

IhE lMrouNDMa BUSINESS AS 80 much
complaint is made respecting the impound-
ing business, it being charged that the no.
licemen show partality, favoring some por-
sons and pinning down others, why would
it not be a good policy to do as they do in
Sacramento2-appoint pound-master, whose
sole duty it would be to drive into the pound
all cattle estray upon the streets 1t would
be to his interest to attend to his business
strictly
Year: 1861

The MILTARY.-An adjourned meeting Of
the Marysville Rifles will be held at the
room of the Pioneer Engine Company, on
Thursday evening. The object is more
thorough organization, and we hope it may
be effected


The Citizen soldiery of this nation are the
great bulwark of its defense. They are rea-
dy at moments warning, to spring from
the general mass of the people, arms in hand,
and perform their duty to the country In
These days of treason plotting and reyolu
tionary eonspiracies against the Government,
it is well to have in thorough organization a
citizen soldiery who will be ready to act the
patriots part.
Year: 1861

CRY OF PARIs.-Godcheau 4 Bros. have
on hand from their establishment in Paris, a
grand assortment of fancy and dry goods, of
all the latest styles and of every conceivable
description. You will find their establish
ment in another colnnn
Year: 1861

A Washington dispatch says that the
President is about the busiest person in
Washington. he is working early and late.
His time is taken up mostly with the ceaseless
tide of Office seekers constantly pouring in
upon him. He has not mad an opportunity
to ride out since his Inauguration, and yester-
day stepped out into the grounds Of the
White House for the first time. His family
only see him at dinner, be being compelled
from fatigue 10 retire to his room as soon as
he leaves bis Office.
Year: 1861

CAUGHT IN TIE ACT.-A negro was caught
on Tuesday night in the Office Of J. 7. Phil
pot on Superior street with two costs which
he had taken possession Of He gave his
name as Charles Henderson He was taken
before Justice Hessenmueller, and held for
trial before the Common Pleas Court.
Year: 1861

The telegraph brings word that Governor
Houston opposes the action Of the COnven-
ton, and is opposed to Texas joining the
Confederacy. There is talk Of superseding
him for a more pliable tool.
Year: 1861

These ''gas springs" are not by any means
a new thing. They have been known to
exist in various places in the vicinity of this
city for years. There is one in the lake just
of the piers another in the natural basin
formed by the widening Of the canal, about
mile from Seneca street bridge and one in
Brooklyn, from which very large guam
titles of gas escape. Fredonia, n. Y, is
lighted by gas thus obtained, and the Kan
ava Salt Works use it extensively for fuel,
as do Baw mills in various parts of the eouu-
ty. 1t is doubtful whether the presence of
gas is necessarily any indication of the ex-
istsnce Ct oil in the vicinity, at least in any
great quantity. That oil can be found in
small quantities anywhere in this region, is
very probable, but geOlOgists affirm that the
rock is not sufficiently porous to admit Of
any considerable deposits.
Year: 1861

Occasional" of the Philadelphia Press,
says Of Mr.. Buchanan's letter to a recent
Union meeting in Pennsylvania


When it is considered that the Ex.P Presi-
dents true policy in all our troubles was to
maintain at least the appearance of digni-
fed reserve, he can not murmur if, when he
breaks that reserve, his own record should be
partially opened up and his relations to past
events, the recollection of which still rankles
in the hearts of twenty-five millions of peo-
pie, fearlessly and Indignantly discussed.


l know that he is celebrating posthu-
nous vindication of his conduct. | know
that he contemplates an attack upon the in
dependent men who forewarned him of the
consequences of his infamous policy; and it
is asserted and believed that his preparations
to this effect will be marked by more than
the usual malignity and cruelty that charac-
terized his course after a con6ding people
had put him in the Presidential Chair.


1t may be that his letter is the forerunner
of this demonstration-an attempt to secure
o hearing from that American people whom
he SO shamefully outraged and betrayed.
But the questions he will be compelled to
answer to future generations in this vindi.
cation can not be CLOSED over by assaults
upon those who contended against his A9a
ministration and pointed out the conse.
quences of his treachery, nor yet by giving
false reasons for the manner in which he
permitted traitors to undermine the Oonsti-
tuition, even in his own official household
He will be forced, if he desires to secure q
respectable position among historical char
acters, to confess that he did wrong from the
| beginning to the end. Whether it would
not be we'll for him, before he is called away,
| to expose to the world the wretched nstru-
ments who used him, upon the one hand,
and whom he used upon the other, is mat
| ter of good taste that may be properly re-
| terred to his own conscience. He has vast
amount of information in his possession. lie
| is one of those long-lived men who treasure
| up every confidential communication and
letter. He has complete daily journal or
record of all shat transpired in his Cabinet
councils.


Why not make a clean breast of all this
Why stand upon matter of personal pride
and attempt to buy or beg an audience from
his countrymen to listen to his apologies
after his death2 He need not fear the venge.
ance of the Southern traitors. They
utterly despise him; because, after having
permitted them to conduct him to the preci-
pice, he had not the courage to follow them
into the abyss of Disunion. Nothing thai
he could give to his country could be more
valuable than the experience CLEANED after ht
surrendered to these enemies OF the human
race. II he waits much longer his evidence
will be of little value. This is the day ant
the hour. If be would be forgiven by pos
terity, let him pay that decent tribute to to


present generation, by showing, in oJhe


ways than by writing letters TO pseud


Union meetings, that he is sincerely peniten
for the inconceivable wrongs he has heape
upon the American people.
Year: 1861




Fremont.


LEXINGTON No., October THE plan Of
General Price, after he captured Lexington,
was to remain for time and operate on the
north side of the river; and for this purpose
he crossed over the river at Lexington with
four thousand mounted men, and this force
took up their line of march for the railroad,
with the view of its total destruction, and
then sad havoc was to be made Of all the
Government forces in Northwest Missouri !;
but late in the evening Alf Jones, who had
been released as prisoner at the arsenal
where he had taken the oath Of allegiance to
the United States Government returned
from st. Louis to Lexington, and reported
that the whole country below was alive with
troops that Fremont was after General
Price, and that General Price might prepare
for a big fight in few days. This served to
raise the courage Of Prices men, aud they
said, Let Fremont come, they were ready
for him )" but when Jones announced that
Fremont had thirty thousand men, and his
only fear was that Price would not make a
stand, the latter countermanded his order
for sending troops to the railroad, and mes
senger was Immediately dispatched after
those already started, and they recrossed the
river on Sunday evening.


That night Price made his order for a
movement South; and General Rains, it is
salO, went twenty miles tnat night on MS
| southern route, and it is believed Governor
Jackson availed himself of this command as
an escort TO get himself out of danger.
Price and all his forces left on Monday, the
30th ult., but his train of baggage wagons
about one Thousand two hundred in number
did not all get off before Wednesday morn.
ing.


If Price had designed fight with Fremont
he would have taken the Georgetown Road
or possibly the Warrensbufg Road, but in.
stead of this he has gone the road leading
down the western boundary of the State and
to the southwest.


l have given plain narrative of facts as
they have transpred here, aud if Price does
make a stand and give battle, all who are
cOgnizant of his movements will be disap
pointed. His most intelligent friends con
slider his course complete backdown, whilt
the most verdant are solaced with the ideI
that he has gone TO meet McCulloch, who
from the most reliable information, is some
where in Arkansas.


The forces of Price were very large a
Lexington, but many Of the men were only
for the occasion, and have gone home. Hi
force was fifteen or eighteen thousand wher
he left Lexington, and as the fact become
certain that his destination is Arkansas, hi
| force will decrease.
Year: 1861




ing about the pony riders on the Plains;


Each rider is in possession of, and has the
absolute control over, the horses on his beat,
and all the trappings thereto. He has them
kept in the best of order by the men at the
stations, generally two in number.) He
said that he could tell within a few minutes
of the time when the pony would be at his
end of the route, 80 that no delay might take
place in the changing of riders, although, as
general thing, the rider on an approaching
pony blows horn when about three-quar-
ters of mile distant, so that all may be in
readiness for him at his arrival. Each rider
is provided with complete buckskin suit of
clothes, with the hair on and forming the
outside of the same, go that in the event of
a storm, the rain or snow will not penetrate
or make the clothes heavy, and thus retard
the horse; but it runs off down the hair,
which is more or less oily.


The pockets for the conveyance of the let
tiers, ETC., are four in number, and are placed
Immediately under the saddle horn next to
the horse. Four eight inch six-shoo ing
Colts are so arranged as to be half cooked, so
that with the impression on the hammers
they are ready for their deadliest work.
These and knife of some eighteen inches in
length, with mercury in a tube formed in the
back of the same, so that when used the mer-
curry Iushes to the point of the blade, and no
doubt would deal terrible blow, constitute
the riders means of defense. About one
hundred miles is the distance travelled by
each rider. He is allowed only eleven hours
TO do it in, and as much sooner as possiblei
therefore, each rider has four hundred miles
to ride every week in the short space of forty
hoursl The horses used are Spanish breed
and kept in good order. The riders and men
at stations receive their pay (Which is good
at the end of every month, and are furnished
with provisions by the company at a reason
| able rate.
Year: 1861

EXPRESSING his SEETIMENTs.-lt is stated
as fact that an Indiana clergyman, during
his prayer on the late Fast Day, used the fol-
lowing language: "Oh, Lord, had the East
done as well as the Hoosier State in furnish
ing men to put down this rebellion, we
would not be under the necessity OF calling
on Thaa
Year: 1861

TIE correspondent of the World says
there is not a word of truth in the report
that the Potomac has been or is likely to be
closed. The rumOr has been industriously
circulated and kept up by certain specula-
tors in coal for their own private purposes,
and the prospect is that with the help they
receive from the newspapers, they will make
pretty good thing of it. Already the price
has gene up to Sc 80 and 81 per tgH,
Year: 1861

But better now than later, and if it
must come, let us meet it like men.
1t slavery has become too strong for
the Union and if freedom or the Union
must fall, then by all that is sacred let
the Union slide! We will have popu.
lation and territory left amply sufficient
to demonstrate the feasibility of free
institutions, whilst by the connections
that will ensue from secession, slavery
will be numbered with the things that
were, and if our scattered fragments do
not again reunite, we Will have two
happy and prosperous republics on
which the hopes of the patriot may J.:
pend for all coming time.


CONSISTENCY.


Olympia. Jan. 24tE. 1861.
Year: 1861

hand on his breast and say that he believed
that the concession would make one Slave
State more or less, or the Free States one more
or less. Let them do this, and the question
would be settled forever, and those disunion-
lists who were still among them would go hence,
weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth,
at the downfall OF all their cherished hopes
and ambitious designs. 1t was upon the prin-
ciple rcconzed by Southern men, that Slavery
should not exist in Kansas, 1t being North of
the line of SO 80 that the Republican party
had triumphed-a principle which man in
the South would to-day gainsay. Upon it
they had elected their President, and had got
into power. He was anxious for the a
doption of the Crittenden resolutions, not be-
cause he thought them best, but because they
would be acceptable to the people of the
South. Give the people these propositions !;
but if you do not, then give the Border States
propositions, or the propositions of the Com
mittee OF Thirty-three. Let them work to-
gether on this point like men who loved the
country, and who desired the perpetuity of
the U MON. He had carefully weighed these
propositions, and he would not give snap of
his fingers for distinctions that he could not
observe between them. In his own Judgment,
he conceived the propositions of the Commit
tee of Thirty-Three were the best of the whole,
inasmuch as they showed disposition on the
part of the N Northern gentlemen of Cancellation





from them. The only question of real impor-
tance which had agitated the South was in
connection with the fear they had been taught
to entertain. that the North at sometime or
other designed to interfere with Slavery in
the South. constitutional pledge had been
proposed to quiet the mind of the South on
this point. Let that pledge be given. Let
there be perpetual bond against the inter
ference with Slavery in the South, and that
said amendment shall never be altered or a
mended unless by consent of all the States of
the Union, and then he could say TO his people
that their apprehsnsons as to the people of
the North interfering with them were remov
ed forever; and this would allay those feelings
that had been engendered in their minds, and
bring them back to the feelings of friendship
and peace. He would remind them that they
had fifteen great States, having $50 900 square
miles of territory, possessing the best rivers in
world, the most valuable and productive eli
mate, and Institutions most beneficial to
them, and these, with all the blessings of
cheap and free Government, were guaranteed
to them forever.