smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

"THERE is nothing very odd in my feel
ing nervous when | happen to lie awake
and get listening for sounds. Just keep
your eyes open any time after midnight,
when you are lying in bed in lone attic
of dark night. What horrid, strange,
suggestive, unaccountable noises you will
hear! The stiffness of night is a vulgar
error. All the dead things seem to be
alive. Crack! That is the old chest of
drawers; you never hear it crack in the
daytime. Crack! There's door ajar;
you know you shut them ALL Where
can that latch be that rattles so2 Is any
body trying it softly worse than anybody,
is? (Cold shiycr.) Then sud-
den gust that jars all the windows-yery
strange there does not seem to be any
wind about that it belongs to. When it
stops, you hear the worms boring In the
powdery beams overhead. Then steps
outside stray animal, no doubt. All
right-but gentle moisture breaks out
all over you; and then something like q
whistle or cry-another gust of wind,
perhaps; that accounts for the rustling
that just made your heart roll over and
tumble about, so that it felt more like o
live rat under your ribs than part Of
your own body; then crash of some
thing that had fallen-blown over, very
like--Rater noster, Uai es az coelts
for you are damp and cold, and sitting
upright, and the bed trembling SO that
the death watch is frightened and has
stopped ticking 20. W. Holmes.
Year: 1859

PARIS, jane IA, 1787.-I send you,
my dear Patsy, the Is livers* you desired.
You propose this to me as an anticipation
of five weeks allowance; but do you not
see, my dear, how imprudent it is to lay
out in one moment what should accom-
modate you for FIVE weeks THAT this is
a departure from that rule which wish
to see you governed by, thro' yolr whole
life, OF never buying anything which you
have not money in your pocket to pay
for? Be assured that 1t gives much more


pain to the mind to be in debt, than to
do without any article whatever which
we may seem to want. The purchase
you have made is one of those am al


ways ready to make for you, because it is
Year: 1859

Unadulterated, or unaffected modesty is


a certain, fine wrought, chosen vail, with


which the feeling fair seeks to conceal her
self; But, through the strange, endearing
medium of which, she is more truly seen,
and more deservedly admired. Other
wise that remarkable address to women
would not have been left on standing rec
ord See Pet. iii. It," That your
own husbands may be won, while they
behold your chaste conversation coupled
With fear; even the ornament of meek
and quiet spirit-which is, in the sight
of God, of great price. After this man
ner the women of old, who trusted in God,
Year: 1859

LAST MOMENTS oF METrERHIoH.-T Vi
emma correspondent Of the London Times thus
describes the last moments Of the great abso
lutist Of the world


A 2 l-2 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday
died, or rather fell asleep, Prince Metternich,
who on the 10th Of last month had completed
his s6th year. The renowned statesman and
diplomatist had been exceedingly weak for sew
eral days before his death, but he suffered no
pain whatever, and even on Thursday last was
able to sit in a chair In his garden. His voice,
however, was so very feeble at the beginning of
last week that it was scarcely audible, and f.
nally, bis physicians altogether prohibited any
attempt being made TO induce him to converse.
Members Of his family state that the Prince
had such an easy death that no one can say ex
ac'ly when his soul quilted its mortal cell -
The deceased, who was formerly we'll known to
me, was much more kindhearted than is gener
ally believed, and far better than his reputation
Poeterity will doubtless do full justice to hit
high qualities.
Year: 1859

THE LIME POINT AFFAIR-The San Fran
cisco Herald, administrator publishes a
communication, of which the following is an
extract


whether Lime Point is worth 100000
or, as Mr.. Broderck asserts, only $4,000, /
will not express an opinion. The owners
had right to require any sum they pleased
for this land but Governor Weller should
have exposed the whole matter, being cog
infant of all its merits, as member of and
chairman of the committee shall have
more to say on this subject anon. One thing
is certain-the Senator that aided in the
Lime Point 100000 fortifcation affair, can
have no further claim to the suffrages of the
people, nor should he represent the State in
the United States Senate.
Year: 1859

RIcH-The Mariposa Gazette says that
within the past two weeks three quartz mi
ners struck pocket in quartz lode not far
from that place. from which they took out in
one day quartz and gold that will yield near
ly, if not quite, 100000.
Year: 1859

The Germans of New York marched in
funeral procession through the principal
streets OF that city, on July llth, in honor
to the late Baron Humboldt. The process
Ion was q most imposing one,
Year: 1859

For the first time in many month";, the imports
show falling off as compared with last year. The
following table will compare the exports Of the seven
principal staple articles for the week:
Year: 1859

RAIN.-The most copious rain of tn.
season began to fall on Saturday morn
ing last. There was au abatement
through Sunday, but ON Monday the
heavens gave down in store. The rain
continued to fall with but little inter.
mission until the following morning,
when the skies cleared up and gave
promise ofa "spell of weather" We
are having the most brilliant sunshiny
days, and but for the mud in the streets
no more agreeable time to travel and
visit could be imagined.
Year: 1859

YUBA VERSUS NEvADA.-The annual
bill for the benefit OF Yuba has again
been presented il the Legislature by
one of her representatives. Once more
Yuba claims of Nevada large sum of
money alleged to be due from the lat
ter to the former as her portion of the
debt of Yuba when Nevada became a
separate county in 1851. If Yuba is
INDECENT let her say SO and we will en-
deavor to raise a contribution for her
relief; but as for paying her one dollar
on that miscroble claim we apprehend
there is no disposition in this county to
do it, We do not owe Yuba a solitary
cent. The boot is on the other foot


Nevada payed taxes for years to Iu-
la. Her tax collectors roamed over
our territory demanding tithes from our
citizens which Were taken to Marysville
and expended in that vicinity. Yuba
has shorn our citizens for her own bene
fit. Scarcely dollar was ever expend.
cd in our territory for roads, bridges
or any thing else. Nevada was proceed.
ed against as subjugated province
taxed but never benefited by taxation
There was no such thing as justice to
Nevada man in the courts of Ynba
1t cost him every cent involved in the
case to obtain Judgment and all for the
building up of town and county to
which we were never allied in interest
or feeling.


Byright Yuba owes this county to-
day every dollar collected for taxes in
our territory for county purposes prior
to the separation in 1851, and we hope,
to put an end to the importunate de-
mauds of Yuba, that on: representatives
will take pains to ascertain the amount
due US and annually press the claim for
the next thousand years or until Yuba
gives over her confounded humbuggery


If the claim Of Yuba is a just one, why
has it not been adjudicated before eight
loug years passed away! Why was not
a payment of a portion of the debt Of
Yuba made a condition of the act of
separation 1t is pretty time to
clalnor for more "bucksheesh" at this
late day.
Year: 1859

70 The Tehama Gazette says that
within half mile of that town may be
seen thousands of wild tobacco plants.
The stalks seem to be very vigorous,
and the leaves although by no means
as large as those of the cultivated ar
ticlc, are nevertheless of very respecta-
BILE dimensions, and afford a passible
article for smoking purposes. We are
told that the Indians have been in the
the habit of gathering it for years past
and using it in this way fact which
would go to prove that substance which
is indigenous to the soil might be raised
to almost perfection were the same at
IGNITION given to il that is given
to the commonest herb OR vege
table of the garden.
Year: 1859

New AsYLUM.-A project is on foot
in the Legislature, aided and abetted by
interested parties, to procure the estab-
lishment Of an Insane Asylum at Marys
vile. Nevada county from her popula-
ton, and proximity to Marysville may
be said to be as largely interested in tn
project as any county save and except
Yuba. But Nevada asks for no stupen-
dous outlay ofmoney like this. A new
Asylum will cost not less than 100000
TO build it and say 100000 per annum
to keep it up for the first ten yeais.-
The inmates can be taken care of much
cheaper at Stockton. If the present
Asylum is not large enough let it be ex-
tended. Let us follow to some extent
the example set us by sister States
The great State of New York with a
population of more than three millions
has but one State institution for the In
sane. What does California with one
sixth the population Of Now York want
with two Insane Asylums, two sets of
officers and attaches. and consequently
two sets of blood suckers


1t is time enough twenty years from
now to agitatc the question of a second
Asylum. Wait till we have thousand
inmates at Stockton and when the cost
of keeping up extensive establishments
is lessened. If our legislators are puz-
xlcd to know what to do with the $780,
600 in the Treasury. let them take good
counsel and appropriate half million
to the payment of our four million debt.
Besides saving the State nearly thirty
five thousand dollars per annum interest
money. the act may redeem the Legis-
lature slightly from the merited con-
tempt it has thus early brought upon
itself.
Year: 1859

BOARD OF SUPEKvIsoRs.-The Board
meets on Monday next for the transac
ton of county business. The contract
for keeping the county sick for the en-
suing year will be let and other busi-
ness of Importance transacted.
Year: 1859

A gay young gentleman in San Fran.
cisco entered daguerrean establish
ment, and prepared to be done in the
highest style of art. Pending the pre-
liminary arrangements, he suggested
that he would look better if he had a
gold chain on, whereupon the operator
kindly took out his watch and accom-
panying pendant, which he handed over
with very patroniziug air. The like
tess was taken, the plate removed from
the instrument and taken to the darken.
ed chamber where certain mysterious
entertainments are supposed to he pro-
nounced. AT this critical moment the
gay young gentleman took his hat and
departed forgetting to 'eave behind him
nhe watch and chain.
Year: 1859

Dear Sir:


In our intercourse with you during your repeated
visits to our city in company with distinguished
fessors of the histronic art have discovered
y those qualities which properly belong to true gen.
terien and to which when prominent in an individ-
ual we deem ourselves right in paying deserved
tribute. Permit US therefore, your Nevada friends.
to testify unqualified appreciation of yourself
by rendering you a complimentary benefit to come
of on any occasion you may choose as most con-
venient or appropriate.


We are, Sir, your most DEVOTED friends and ser
Year: 1859

FEES IN OrFIcE-Our Legislators
have performed one good act for the
benefit of litigants in this county in ma
king Nevada judicial district by her
self. 1t will save seekers after justice
thousands of dollars annually by ena.
bling :hem to come to trial on a day
appointed. saving the expense of keep
ing crowd Of witnesses at the
county seat for nobody's benefit bu,
hotel and saloon keepers.


One other act is an urgent necessity
The fees in Office should be greatly re.
duced, that justice may be accessible to
the poor as we'll as the rich. The costs
of commencing trial in this co,tnty are
such as to almost bar poor man from
the threshold ofjusticc, 1t is not so in
some utter counties we could mention.
Why should fees be kept AT ex.ortionate
rates here for the benefit of few indi-
vidual Office holders


We hope our Legislators will attend
to the wants of the people in this fee
business and see that this wholesale rob-
berry is legalized no longer Nevada can
furnish employment to a county clerk
and other officers under any fee bill, and
pay them well for all they do.
Year: 1859

The KANSAS MINEs.-An importan.
fact is TIE prolific nature of the Kansas
gold fields. 1t seems to be settled
that the mines in that locality give
great promise of richness The min
eral wealth of the new FL Dorado is also
coupled with fruitful soil and delight.
full climate. The country is, thereto re
adapted to permanent settlement, and
will probably add anothcr state or more
to the Union.
Year: 1859

NM. desire to call the attention of the Trade

 w and of the public generally to our Piano FHtes, justly pronounced superior to all others in volume. richness and purity of tone. Possessing also peculiar singing quality, adapted to, and har- monising with the human voice, they very pro- perly called the Organ, or Vocal Piano." Being made with the Patent Arch Wrest Plank, they will stand in tune in all climates. We guarantee our customers that efforts that lifelong experience, mntiring industry or capital can procure, will be spared t0 maintain for instruments their world- wide reputation as tbe best Piano. and that every improvement of intrinsic value to a Piano will be found in ours All orders with which we are favor cd will be promptly and faithfully attended to.
Year: 1859

First let him enter trade for which he has
q love. Then. let him resolve that he will be
content with no subordinate position in that
trade. Let him consider that the first duty
that he owes to himself is to make himself en-
inent in his avocaton, and make everything
bend to the attainment of that cminence,-
When he has succeeded in this, constant en-
ploymcnt, high wages, and finally competence,
if not wealth, will be sure to follow.


Let US again caution parents that nothing
is more destructive to their sons that to place
them at trades and ayocatOnS for which those
sons have no natural tastes. If you wish Your
children TO become skiful and expert you
must furnish them with employment which is
congenial to their desires \ failure in doing
so is the greatest mistake which can be com
mittcd. If parents have not sufficient intelli
gcnce to discover what the natural tastes of
their children best qualify them for let them
apply TO those friends who have observed their
children and who know their procvties bet
ter than themselves. Were this doctrine car
ried out, industrial society would soon change
places to the advantage of individuals, as
well us that Of the community.


Many clergymen, physicians and lawyers,
would leave positions III which they never can
be successful, aud engage in something more
cougcuial to their tastes, and wherein they
could work with profit 10 themselves and ben
eft to their felIow-mcu. Many mechanic
who is cAaling at his ili-adopted employment
and who is conscious of u germ within him
which might be developed in a different sphere
of usefulness, would leave his shop and be-
come the adviser of his fellows and the ruler
OF men.


The only respectable occupation which there
is for au individual is that for which he has
the best natural adoption II he takes any
other he can neither make himself respectable
nor wealthy. What he can do best is the
most appropriate occupation for him. Better,
far better is it 10 be at the head Of any trade
that at the foot Of any profession. In the
former position, there is usefulness and profit !;
in the latter, nothing bat modification, power
ty aud uSelesSneSS. Let our mechanics pom
der upon these suggestions. Let them resolve
to make themselves eminent iu the trade 10
which they are engaged, and, our word for it,
they never need complain or want Of employ
ment, or lack of remuneration. But if they
coutent themselves with mediocrity they will
certainly be unsuccessful, because skill, not
mere labor, is the criterion of proft.--lIech
Idcotais
Year: 1859

FORGIVE THE LIvING-We forgive those
who have wronged US in thought, word or deed
when they are laid to their final reSt-we
speak kindly, tenderly, even loyely-ifwe speak
at all-remoyng the veil which has hitherto
obScured so much of their life's harmony and
sweetness, at the same time drawing it over
those faults and fOibles, temptations and fail
ureS, which are strewn so thickIy in our path
way, written so ndebly in our hearts history.
We never seek to penetrate this vail, nor even
wish to- And why They have passed from
earth forever. Their bodies are Wondering
in the cold silent tomb This is sufficient. 1t
seems TO forbid all entertainment, much more
expression, of aught but goodwill and kindly
sympathy for the dead But this is real, true
hearted, benevolent forgiveness? No it is
not worthy OF the name. Forgive the living
those who mingle with you in the daily walks
and aVocationS of life +; they whose lives you
may cheer, bcautify, yea, cnnobie if you will. =
Forgive light, an angry word, letit not rankle
in thy bosom till a fire be kindlcd, which, if
nourished, will burn thine inmoSt soul unfit
ting thee to 30 out among thy fellow men lest
they imbibc of the unrest aud angry turbulence
of thy spirit-unftting thee for all high, holy
hcaven-bOrn unGtting thee for
life, death, and blessed Immortality. Forgive
though wound be made causing all thy future
in this world to be covered with heavy pail.
Forgive! taking for thy example the meek aud
lowly Jesus then shall be gathered in the
crown OF thy rejoicing jewels whose lustrc
and brilliancy exceed all mortal thought
" For if yc forgive men their trrspaSseS. your
Heavenly Father will also forgive you" Ri
rcl Nrlg ICrLcr
Year: 1859

Emmett was unfortunately betrayed by enc
mics, in an attempt to emancipate his conn
trymcnt from tyranny and oppression. He
was therefore convicted of the crime of treas
on, and sentenced TO be executed.


The evening before his death. while the
workmen were busy with the scalfold, young
lady was ushered into the dungeon. 1t was
the girl who he so fondly loved and whe had
now come to bid him an eternal farewell. He
was leaning in melancholy mood against the
window frame of his prison, and the heavy
clanking of his chains Smote dismaly on her
heart. This interview was bitterly affecting
anu melted even the ealouS soul of the jailor
AS for Emmet, he wept, end spoke little but
As he pressed his beloved in silence to his heart
his corntcnancc betrayed his emotions. In q
loud voice, half choked by anguish he be
sought her not to forget him he reminded
her of their former happiness, OF the long past
days Of their childhood, and concluded by re-
QucSting her sometimes 10 visit the scenes
where their fancy was spent, and though the
world might repeat his name with Scorn, to
cling to his memory with affection Al that mo
mcut the evening bell pealcd from the neigh
boring church. Emmett started at the sound !;
and he felt that this would be the last time
that he should hear its dismal echoes, he fold
ed his beloved still closer to his bosom. and
bent over her sinking form with eyes stream
iuE with tears of affection The turnkey en-
tered n the moment, and as though ashamed
of temporal betrayal Of sympathy dashed
the rising drop from his eye, frowa again
lowered on his coantcnaucc. The man mean
while approached to tear the lady from bis
embrace Oyerpowcred by his feelings, he
could make no resistance but as he gloomiy
released her from his hold, he gave her min
ature Of himself, and with this parting token
of attachment, imprinted the last kisses Of
dying man upon her lips. On gaining the
door, she turned round as if to gaze on the
object of her widowed love lie caught her
eye as she retired it was but for moment ::
the dungeon door swung back on its hinges,
and Is it closed after her, informed him too
surcly,'that they had me. for the last time up
on earth
Year: 1859

TIE RIVER JoRBAN-A correspondent of
the Utica Hsraid gives this description of the
river Jordan:


"Aline of green low forest trees betrayed
the course of the sacred river through the
plain. So deep is its channel, and so thick is
the forest that skirts its banks, that | rode
within twenty yards Of it before | caught the
first CLEAN of its waters. | was agreeably dis
appointed | had heard the Jordan described
as an insipid, muddy stream. Whether it was
the contrast with the dissolution around, or my
fancy that made its green banks so beautiful
know not, but j. did seem at that moment of
its revelation to my longing eyes the perfection
Of calm and loneliness 1t is hardly as wi,lc
as the Mohawk at Utica, but far more rapid
and mpassioned in its flow Indeed, of all the
rivers have ever seen the Jordan has the
fcrcest current. Its water is by no means
clear. but it as little deserves the name of
muddy. At the place where | first saw it
tradition assigns the baptism of our Saviour,
and also the miraculous crossing of the children
Of Israel on their entrance into the promised
land


Like a. true pilgrim, bathed in its waters
and picked a few pebbles from its banks as
tokens Of remembrance of the most familiar
river in the world. Three miles below the spot
where now stand, the noble river itself the
very emblem of lifc-suddenIy throws itself on
the putrid bosom of the Dead Sea.
Year: 1859

TIE VELOCITY OF LIGHr.-The velocity with
which light travels is so iDconceiyeable that we
require to make it Ineligible by some illusfra-
tionS. II moves from the the sun to the earth
in seven and half minutes whereas, a can
non-ball fred from the earth would require II
years TO reach the sun. Light moves through
q space equal to the circumference of the earth,
or about >, GOO miles, in about eighth part
Of a second The swiftest bird would require
three weeks to perform this journey. Light
would demonStrably require five years to move
from the nearest fixed star to the earth, and
probably many thousand years from the most
remote star seen by the telescope Hence, if
4 remote visible star had been created at the
time Of the creation of man, il may not vet
have become visible to our system -Enescio-
plGLL By{gHi17
Year: 1859

THE SEBUcER.--Let the seducer remember
that he must stand with bis victim and his
partner in guilt before the judge of quick aud
dead Let it be remembered that a female is
a moral and accountable being, Fastening with
US to the bar of God that she is made to be
the centre of all that IS delightful in the domes-
tic relations, that by her very nature she looks
up to her man as her protector, and loves to
confide in his hands her happiness for life and
that she can only he ruined by abusing that
confidence, proving false to that reliance, and
using the loyclieSt trait in her character as the
instrument Of her undoing And then let US
consider the misery into which loss of virtue
must plunge the victim, and her friends for
ever the worth of that soul, unless miracle
interpose, must, by the loss of virtue, be con
signed to eternal dispair and ask, whether.
in the whole catalogue of human crime, there
be one whose atrocity more Justly merits the
deepest damnation, than that, which for the
momentary qualification of q lawIess appetite.
will violate all those obligations, outrage all
those sympathies, aud work out so widespread
ing, so iutcrminable a ruin Dr. WAYLAND