smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

would be to " force the issue" in slavery legsla-
ton upon the Northern popular sovereignty IA
natics, and do it in such u manner as would make
them responsible for the effects of a dissolution
which their resistance would hasten. In support
of this plan he wrote letter, in 1917, ia which
he suggested the propriety Of calling Southern
Convention which should so manage its business,
with the cooperation OF all the Southern sea-
board States, that L" the non slavehoding States
would be compelled to observe the stipulations
Of the Constitution in their (our) favor, or aban-
don their trade with us, or to take methods to
cocrce us which would throw on them the respon-
sblity of dissolution In 1913, speaking of
the new doctrine of popular sovereignty, Calhoun
said OF all the positions ever taken on the
subject. slavery legislation this of popular SOW
ereignty is the most absurd" He advocated the
true democratic doctrine, at that time the doc
trine which we have ever secretly maintained
that the Constitution, by virtue of its own intrin-
sic power, carried slavery into all the Territories,
above the power OF the people to remove 1t, save
by an amendment Of that instrument He died,
but his PLAN, identified with our policy, lived,
and still lives.


will not alludc to the surprising treachery of
Stephen A. Douglas to that plan, nor to the fool
ish excitement which the hollow name of popular
sovereignty arouses among the Ignorant masses.
1t is sufficient to say that under the wise admins
traton Of James Buchanan the doctrine has been
skillfully, uniformly and Sc vercly rebukcd Utah
is not left to regulate her Institutions she would
were not so many obstacles thrown by the Presi-
dent and his party in the way of popular sover-
eighty. Kansas is not permitted to exercise that
dangerous principle, and deny that it belongs
in any manner to the Democratic party. We
stand on the ground marked out by Calhoun.
We believe that the people should rule, but only
within the proper limits. The fate of all the
Republics of antiquity admonish us of the fatal
danger which would arise were every principle OF
government left in the hands of the people. A
Caesar upon throne, surrounded by all the checks
OF a Constitution, where every prerogativc is de-
fined and known to his subjects, were infinitely
better than Caesar in the capacity of General
and demagoguc horangung thousands of armed
and excited people assembled on Hill of Mars,
and ready at any moment to wrench the state
from her pillars. LEcoMproN DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1859

RETROGRADING.-W seem to be going back to
the days of greaser barbarity, if we may judge
from what we almost every day behold in our
streets. The sound of music attracts our atten-
ton, and when we turn onr eyes to see from
whence it comes, flaming advertisement Of an
intended bull fight meets our gaze. We supposed
we had law prohibiting such heathenish eXhibi-
tions, but in recent trial, some legal loop hole
was discovered through which the guilty party
was allowed to escape. And so it goes. Men
break our laws with impunity and the public
must endure the consequences, because advantage
is taken of echnicalities. What farce the en-
acting and administration of laws seem to be =
Christian .AdU0cate.


THE PRosPEOr.-The New York Tribune, judg-
ing the future from the past, knowing how strong
ly the Democracy are welded to principle, and
anticipating their action in the Presidential con-
test, thus advises its friends and prepares them
for an inevitable result defeat


"Nothing is more certain than that, with all
the violent distractions of the Demo cracy, and
their seemingly hopeless divisions in particular
sections, the party will present united front
after the nomination at Charleston, and it will
require the harmonious and concentrated action
of the whole Opposition to secure success in
19G0O
Year: 1859

Aud that faith was their dearest earthly trea-
sure nearly all Of their legislation having refer
ence to its establishment and protection, under
the sanction Of force They never recognized a
political popular sovereignty like that of the
modern school Of fanatics. Nor did this doctrine
form any part Of those which were so maniully
and successfully announced and defended by the
patriots Of the Revolution. Pluribustah says that
struggle originated n a joke, played by Pluribus
tab himself on Mother Britain in whose tea he
mixed large amount Of salt sea water" The
old lady did not see the goak, but fell into
furious passion. He took it coolly for some timc
but


"At last, he got his grit up


Up to concert pitch and higher;


And he swOrc eternal vengeance,


If she didn't stop her jawing.


Said he couldn't strike a woman


But, if she would send champion


lie would wallop him like blazes."


She sent his big brother, John Bull, who, after
fight which lasted seven long years, cried
" enough and was sent home in a " Jersey clam
boat"


Thomas Jefferson was not Democrat. He
held to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, In its
fullest extent, and was always ready to oppose or
point out the dangers which would result from
the Capitalization of power in the person of the
Federal Executive. lie wished the people to
rule, aud carried his devotion to the doctrine
even to enthusiasm, as absurd and wild as that of
its more modern supporters. The doctrine grew
under many favorng circumstances until it re-
ceived most fortunate and effective check by the
formation OF a Democratic party, led by John G.
Calhoun, and conceived by that statesman upon
reading the reply Of Pluribustah to bis wife,
Liberty, who told him TO give up or send of
Cufiee, or she would leave him. lie


Told her be should keep The Niger,


She might go about her business


That ii they l0ere now divided,


She it was dissolved the union,


She dissolved this Glorious Union


Threatened that If she should leave him,


He would find q female Cuiiee,


And with her would force the issue
Mr.. Calhoun, like a true Democrat, and far
seeing politician and statesman, saw how beauti-
fully Pluribusah shifted the responsibility OF
dissolution upon Liberty, and how convenient it
Year: 1859

l had fondly hoped TO see the dawn of that
auspicous hour when l could stand, proud and
erect, ON the battlements of the mighty Usage,
and squirt my tobacco juice into boundless and
unlimited space, with the rusling folds of the'all
protecting Stars and Stripes rattling and snap
ping DER my head, like a Pike county OK whip
But alas for us Missouriaus the venerable
Secretary has said we must not venture if we
do we forfeit the last claim to protection. Thy
will be done, o ! Cass but we will show you a
trick worth two of that. Fellow Spread-Eagles |!
now is the time to sever the link and establish a
republic of our own. call upon you, my country
men of the Pacific SLOPE to rally to the standard
1 call upon you my foreign friends, of the krout
murphy persuasion, to break off all allegiance to
former governments, and JOIN heart and hand
with us in this glorious cause Remember we
foreigners have been denied the right of protec-
ton. Remember, also, that the election is draw
ing near, and that am your candidate for District
Postmaster! just elect me, and the glorious OBJ
ject is at once accomplished. We will annex
Oregon, Carson Valley Sandwich and Farrallone
Islands, build our capital at Ferry Bar, fashioned
after ancient Jerusalem, and, with the bones of
departed candidates, we will start our county
hospital. On then to the mighty work before
you! and let your battle cry be Virela Regen
Jacino l., Pike county and the Pacific slope for
ever" and victory will hump herself on our
standard like toad on Il wash tub.


To my untIing friends along Trinity, who are
now cXertng themselves in my behalf, am under
obligations of kindness. l expect much of you
in the future ! Go on! Let your course be like
young Americas buZzard upward and onward
q, e) up the hill to the melon patch, and onward
to the persimmOn trees, and somewhere between
Mount Hope, Piety Hin and the Dry Diggings of
Eternal dclivcrance, hope you will strike it in
Jumps as large as Mount Shasta; and


"When wrappd in flames, the realms of ether


glow,


And Heavens last thunders shake this world


below,


will be a good and cheap time to have your as
saying done. Long may you wave


Ahectionately, JACNTo.


Republic of Ferry Bar, Aug. 10th, 1859.
Year: 1859

THE EDlTOR ABROAD AND AT HoArE.-The last
number of the Nevada Journal comes with Lc-
compton colors still flying but with the au-
nesncement that " after this week it must again
relapse into old-logyism." A column of the pa
per contains illustrations of scenes and persons
described in the absent editors correspondence.
As the Administration will receive no further
support, we give few of the retiring editors
paragraphs


Our party censors tried to explain to US in the
outset that party paper must not be tied down
to stale truths, and especially must not let outs-
ders into party secrets. The fact is, we talked as
if we were talking only to the initiated, and let
slip many matters that are not usually told to
any except wire-pullers. We have tried to do
better this week. but Lecomptonism is hard
road to travel for any one who tries to be decent
there we spoke out again, but couldn't help
it. We're afraid we will keep talking.


VmGINIANs FOR OFFICE There are no better
men for Office than Virginians, as is proved by
their being so much in office Our venerable
President knew this fact, and so put Virginans
into all the federal Offices in the State. As these
appontees sustain the administration by getting
into convention, they of course carry out the
policy of Buchanan be nominating from the class
peculiarly favored by him, and by him endorsed
as lit to govern the State. Besides, by keeping
such men in Office our State has thus far avoided
the necessity for poor-houses, DC.


LET lIpi TRY IT.--If any honest man who is
troubled with an overweening sense OF his mental
calibre, would like to test his thinking apparatus
just let him edit a Lecompton paper for two
weeks, and if he don't " weaken on the turn"
then we don't " know hawk from hand saw"


GREAT SmmARrrY.-A celebrated convict once
described to US how he felt, Immediately after the
commission of his first felony and some how or
other his account of it was a very accurate de-
scripton of the feelings which we have expert
enced since the publication of our last issue.


ADDRESSED TO RIDGE.-We tell you, John
Ridge, Of the Marysville Democrat, that we are
still an 4" ancient steady and consistent Know
Nothing sheet" The administration came over
to our politics. and we therefore support it'll
we back out.


The S. f. Times laughs at us for our change of
politics. BE still, now we won't have blacks
grinning at us,


TIE returned editor says We returned to our
post too late this week to prevent another broad
side of devilment from the subs, but we promise
to down with the Lecompton colors and endeavor
to make our columns respectable again as soon
as possible.
Year: 1859

of those who dappoin
ed of cure by not calling Dr. Young win for
felt he fails to any that h
matter how long standing ctng such ulcers
nodes bunches pmpes the face body
ing of the bones emaciaon appetite, strength hes
in the hair
Many after being relieved of all external
of private disease suppose themselves cured months


find they troubled with various symptoms they had
before and which they find are
afflicted in this Dr. Young would particularly
al Of his skill The symptoms with which troubled
caused by the BLOOD your
health and happiness No who attack OF
private complaint should fail DR. Young take


bottles of his invaluable purifying medicine can rest as
sured that their blood is in perfectly and healthy condition.
and that Of disease is


Recent cured in from change diet
or hindrance from business J.. C.. YOUNG
Year: 1859

SAAAEDAkx-lAe governor OF Kansas Is thus de6crib-
ed:


"Sam Medary, Governor Of Kansas whilom Democratic
editor in Ohio fer the period of thirty years. anon Gov
ernor OF Minnesota and postmaster at Columbus is pur
suing very polite and sagacious course by keeping
his mouth closed Socially he is extremely aable and
suave, deferentia almost to fault affirmative to friend
and foe In person he is short and inclined to corpulen
ey, somewhat like Thompsons


Round, fat oily Of God'
His chronological developments do not indicate the nos
session of very large intellectual endowments His
forehead, though not svainously low is not expan
sive and is renderd still insignificant by the con-
stanty raised eyebrows which give him the appearance
OF being in state OF perpetual Interrogation or amaze
ment The lines OF his mouth decidedly weak con-
cave rather than prominent, continually in motion by
the mastcat0n of tobacco of which he chews immense
quantities sharp quick eyes, Romanish nose hair sandy
gray and modest dress, always scrupulousy neat and
exact complete the personnel Of this last candidate for
Kansas apotheosis There is mild flavor of old fogy
ism about him-an appearance of Democratic dry rot
which the air OF our territory may mitigate or cure
Corr SIrUATIoN.-The ladies of Yreka have pur-
chased ladys library with the proceeds of their
ing CIRCLE and W. Turner Esq., performs the duties of
librarian, gratis How comfortable he must be- having
the ladies call on him every hour of the dayRed Bluff
Beacon


They will read him like a book, and if he were
young and beautiful like the editor of the Beacon and
ourselves,


They'd read


No other book but


He'd be their story and their him


The fish upon their hook,


The O their
Year: 1859




rs SIXTH YEAR OF ITS EXISTENCE; the Printing
e s % Sna m Sa
toward


THE ADVANCEMENT OF SIERRA COUNTY, AND THE


MINING INTERESTS,
and labor and enterprise every description friend
good citizen aiming to fairly and credaby in
teigent industrial section and merit confidence respect
TIE SIERRA CITIZEN INDEPENDENT upon plan of what
such matters as concern iniyduas striety T their
will be governed by an honest desire to benefit the whole people
SIERRA CITIZEN will be made worthy of attentive De-
sa In the Hher M We
will be


THE CHEAPEST AND MOST ACCEPTABLE OF GIFTS.
We would like to send copies regularly have friends
scrpon you write fortnight during year
y ns ba a gr & v
and than ALL bring mind Old and Pleasant
THE SIERRA CITIZEN claims for itself ability challenge
especial admiration of those who read it abroad
FEESDs ADDRESS, while thinking of it The Paper


Five Dollars a Year, Only,
publication States and Europe FREE
OF POSTAGE.


no interior journal to equa
it. and none to surpass il, for variety Of


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by indefagabe Representative Newspaper
intelligent and liberal in county and mining quarters
wherever other pursuits flourish respectfully asked consider
the CITIZEN not the least among those whom they kindly lend
encouragement


Accounts of Mining Operations.
particulars by friends to the CITIZEN
OFFICE, will be very gratefully received.


Advance Home Enterprise,
let large subscribers Here
TERMS:


One Year, by Mail or Express in advance. .....$50O


JOB PRINTING,


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Executed with Neatncss and Despatch.
Year: 1859

THE SIERRA CITIZEN is INDEPENDENT upon plan of wha
appears mansty reasonable and right interfering
such matters concern individuals strictly their private capacity
will be governed by honest desire to benefit the whole people
Year: 1859

CONGRESSIONAL BRAINs.-The Lowell Courier tells of
Congressman from Maine who paid political editor
$40 to write his acceptance of the nomination. and $40
sion of his reelection. The price is entirely cheap
The honorable - member doubtless valued the brains
of the editor at the price he put upon his constituents
and his own. He had doubt often cheated them by
ten dollar speech, with the belief that he was man
of ability and profound statesman. He is not the first
political legislator who has been indebted to editor
for all the public distinction he ever acquired.
Year: 1859

CHANGED THEIR TACTIcs-We learn that the Shasta
county antChina party have resolved upon disband-
ing as an organized force to resist the law and to har
and the Chinese out of the mines small parties
wherever they may find them at times and in places
where they escape the vigilance of the officers. This
mode of lawless warfare will undoubtedly prove much
more formidable to the officers of the law in the dis
charge of their duties than though they had maintained
their organzation.-Red Bluff Beacon.
Year: 1859

I'm nm are remarkable for wars, and rumors Of


wars. of intrigue and blood shed for good reas
oning and bad conduct for sound rules and corrupt
manners, when virtue fills our heads but vice our
hearts when those who would persuade that
they are quite sure Of heaven, appear to be in no
greater hurry to 90 there than others. but put on
the livery Of the best masters only to serve the
worst in age when modesty herself is more
independent of principles which to depend and
free thinking not in thinking freely, but in being
free from thinking; in age when patriots will
hold anything but their tongues-kecp anything
but their words-lose nothing particularly except
| their characters TO improve such an age must be
difficut-to instruct such an age must he danger
Gus. In an age like this We call the attention Of
he public to-
Year: 1859

@ A parson corncrcd a farmer whom
he seldom saw at his ministration, by ask.
ing him, directly, after little reproof of
his sin of omission Shall we see YOU at
church next Sabbath p Yes he re-
piled slowly: yes, I'll go-or send a
hand
Year: 1859

MONEY WANTED AT THE WEsT.-The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Tribune has the fol- lowing:

 Multtudes of Western men are coming here to borrow money on farms and town lots, and falling to do so, are offering the property at less than half its market value two years ago They generally say they must have cash enough from one property to save another from the sheriff. Lands well located three or four years ago, are offered at less than dollar per acre for the money. Improved farms with fine buildings are offered at prices equally low. Some distressing cases of embarrassment have been related to me, growing out of the foreclo- sure of mortgages on homesteads, to escape which it is utterly impossible to procure the money here. Most of these borrowers and sellers meet with no success among our mon- eyed men. Real estate and mortgages can be bought low enough at home to tempt capital ists, and large sums have been diverted from stocks into this channel. The former has suf- tered great depreciation in some quarters of the city, and there are more empty stores and dwellings than have been seen here since the collapse of 1S40. Great bargains are picked up at sheriff's sale by those who have money. This demand for money from the West implies @ severe pressure there as the result of the great speculation in wild land, town lots and paper cities. Six per cent. interest, even at the East, will in time eat the payer up. But our Western brethren, who contended that they were growing rich while paying twenty now find that any rate is ruinous. It does ap- pear that those only who are out of debt are likely to escape being crushed out The re- proach of this wide spread destitution lies at the door of the demoralized Government which the now suffering West assisted the South in fastening upon us.
Year: 1859

How TO HOLD SICK PERsoS.-Nev-
er grasp him, or support any part of the
body with the tips Of your fingers, but
with the whole breadth Of your hand laid
smoothly on the skin. If you use the
finger-ends for holding any weight, they
will press and dig into the patients flesh,
causing him great discomfort, particularly
if the the part be at all inflamcd; but if
your whole hand, with the fingers little
out, divide the weight over its surface, no
discomfort, or as little as possible, is pro-
duced. Barwell.
Year: 1859

The CASE OF MRs. HARrUNG.--The
counsel of Mrs. Hartung under sentence
of death for poisoning her husband, were
recently notified by Governor Morgan, Of
New York, that no commutation of her
sentence need be expected. He express
es the belief that she was guilty of the
deliberate murder of her husband, and
characterizes the crime Of poisoning as the
very worst that can be committed. He
expresses the belief that she was guilty OF
the deliberate murder of her husband, land
characterizes the crime of poisoning ms
the very worst that can be committed


He refers 10 the general aversion TO the
hanging of woman, but believes that
public justice requires full punishment to
this instance.
Year: 1859

The MoTHER.-Young man! Thy
mother is thy best earthly friend. The
world may forget you-thY mother new
er; the world may willfully do you many
wrongs-thy mother never; the world
may prosecute you while living, and when
dead, plant the ivy and the nightshadc Of
slander upon your grasslcss graye--but
thy mother will love and cherish you
while living, and If she survives you, will
weep for you when dead, such tears as
none but a mother knows how 10 weep.
Love thy mother.
Year: 1859

The PEACH BoRER.--A friend resid-
ing in North Carolina gives the following
mode OF destroying the peach borer, which
he has found safe and certain remedy,
if rightly applied: a.,s..t ,al, "A


Take the pickle in which meat has been
salted, or dissolve rs much salt as. will
dissolve in water. Make small cavity
in the earth at the root Of the tree--one
that holds quart for n small tree--pour
the pickle on the tree about six inches
above the ground, SO that il may run
down all around the tree, and stand a
little, so as TO soak the bark of the tree
and kill the worms. Urine answers the
same purpose well. This should be done
in the spring as soon as the frost is out
of the ground, and again in July.


Mr.. n. A. Bacon Of New Haven, in
the Hartford Homestead, gives his expe-
rience with the borer as follows:


My practice has been to lay bare the
trunk of the tree some three or four inch
es below the surface Of the ground, Then
remove with a knife any grubs white with
a brown head), if any there be in the tree
then take strip of woolen cloth Told
cast-off pieces Of carpeting | have used)
about six inches wide, wind il twice around
the tree so as to cover it about three inch
es above and the same distance below the
surface Of the ground, and tic it TO its
place with WOODEN yam, or other elastic
string. E


The eggs which produce the worm are
deposited by the parent at the surface OF
the earth near the tree, and, as the worm
when hatched, is unable TO penetrate the
woolen cloth so rs TO reach its means of
sustenance, it perishes-as | suppose
at any rate none Of my peech trees, pro-
tected as above stated, have been injured
10y the borcr, 50 long as the cloth around
the tree remained entire.
Year: 1859

SIZE OF BRAIN.--In man the brain
constitutes about 1-35th part of the
weight of his body; in the dog about
l-l2oth; in the OK the s0oth part The
brain of the last animal weighs about
one pound that Of man three. Even
with these disproportions, the higher or
ganizcd divisions of brain are possessed
in still greater ratio by man.
Year: 1859

ENvr.-Thc boy upon foot cannot
bear to see the boy who is riding. And
so it is with envy of larger growth
We are always crying out cut behind"
in hope Of seeing some hanger-on, more
fortunate than ourselves, knocked off his
nlaca
Year: 1859

Es- The Railroad extension from Folsom
to the ncw city of Lincoln" will be open
for travel by the first OF January next.
Grass Valley will then be within twenty-five
miles Of Railroad communication with Sac
aamento and the rest of the world.
Year: 1859

MELAgycHoILY.-A woman was recently
killed in Hu mboldt County by being thrown
from horse. She had Travelled all the way
across the plains with her husband aud two
children. and met her sudden death within
one days travel of her supposed future home.