smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

"Gov. McGIl has addressed letter to
the Capitol Commissioners, stating that he


has not received the plans and specifca-
tons for the erection Of the Capitol build
ings, but will furnish them MS soon as re-
ceived. He assured the Board that he will
aid them to the extent Of his ability in the
discharge of their duties"


by the above paragraph, which we take
from the ChrOnicie of the 18th ult, it will
be seen that the people of Vancouver are
eager to get hold Of the money appropr-
ated by Congress for the erection of the
Capitol, and their eagerness is but natural
The amount already appropriated, with
such additional sums as are looked for TO
complete the structure, would be nice wind
fall, and VIC do not blame them, nor would
we blame the people of any town in the
Territory, for desiring to have it expended
in their midst; but we must here enter our
solemn protest against the squandering Of
this money, without attaining the object
for which it is designed. We have good
reason to believe that the leading parties
in the scheme concoeted by the last Legis-
lalure for the removal of the Capital, never
for a moment contemplated its permanent
location at Vancouver well knowing, as
they could not fail to know, that such re-
moYal was neither in accordance with the
wishes Of their constituents, nor with right
and Justice as they relate to such matters
as seats of government. Let this question
be made the issue at the ensuing election,
in this and other counties on the Sound,
and we have no hesitation in saying that
the candidates pledged to removal will be
Overwhelmingly defeated.


The superior claims Of the Sound to the
Capital have been fully and ably set forth
by our cotemporaries, aud it would there
fore be superhuous on our part to attempt to
strengthen the grounds taken by them
against the removal to the Columbia river
We are still of the opinion, however, that
the act passed by the last Legislature, for
the removal Of the Capital, is not valid I;
lacking, as it does, the vital feature Of a
law. Judge Strong has placed it in as ia
vorable q light as possible, and yet he has
failed to convince us Of its validity. His
most tenable position is the fact that there
is another act in our statutes in precisely
lhs- como -el.~Pv 90 tlniur 0~Pitol AOt, with
out snaetiag clause or date--tbe validity
Of which has never been questioned. From
this be argues that the Capital Act must
be perfect-must be valid. With as much
reason and sense he might insist that two
wrongs make a right; or that two tnualid
acts should govern two hundred valid stat
utes Of the same Commonwealth This
line Of argument docs carry conviction to-
sane minds. 'H4 aigv-
Year: 1861

lie stood beside the little mound,
His heart oppressed with grief,
No pcwer could now afford him Joy,
Or 5ring to him relief
No welcome voice came forth to greet
The wretched and the lone;
.Ah, mol he bowed his sorrOwing head,
sUnheeded and unknown.
Around him lay the well-knOwn scenes
0fby-g0ne, happier years
Those scenes which now rung from his heart
ContributoEy tears.
lie mOurned FOR one whose gentle voice
Spoke all her heart could say;
Obi why did he believe the tale
That gave her to decay
The sIand'rous tongue had proved unkind,
He now came back to die
To breathe, too late his anguished love,
His deep, repentant sigh.
Theltme is past; the waDderer rests
Beside the little mound,
Where the gentle gale swells to blast,
'Syhirling the leaves around.
Year: 1861

n ORDINANCE FhON ADINU FOIe
"A THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SIDEWALK ON
COMMERCIAL STREET.


The Trustees of the City of Nevada do Ordain as
follows:


SECTION l. It shall be the duty Of the property
holders on the northerly side of Commercial street
between Pine and Broad streets, before the
10th day OF April, y. 1861, to construct side
walk in front Oi their property.


SEC @ Said Sidewalk shall be on the grade Of the
street Of uniform width. not to exceed eight feet
and shall be constructed under the supervision and
direction of the City Marshal.


SEC g. Should any property holder on CONNER
cal street between the termini specified in the first
section of this ordinance, neglect refuse to con-
struct the Sidewalk in front of his her property
as required it shall become the duty Of the Marshal
to let out contract for having the work done. and
the property along the line thereof shall be held re-
sponsiblc for the reasonable expense of the same.
Passed March 9Th, 1861.


JOHN WILLIAMS, President
T. H. RoIFE Clerk mar9-3w
Year: 1861

has won for itself such a renown for the cure of
every variety Of Throat and Lung Complaint, that
1t IS entirely unnecessary for US to recount the
evidence Of its virtues. wherever it has been en-
ployed- As il has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up to the best
it ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do fog their relief all it has been found to do
Year: 1861

THE Union says: The money in the State
Treasury is all gone again. There was not
enough Wednesday to pay the warrant for
the monthly keeping of the State prisoners,
amounting to $4,000. About 81 500 rec
NAMED but this is probably drawn out be-
fore this time on the State Prison warrant. re
duced 10 meet the eXigencies of the case The
balance in the Swamp Land Fund is now
very nearly $4,000, and not many hours will
elapse before bill will be introduced to
transfer the money to the General Fund.
Year: 1861

The SAN Joaquin RIVER fRADE-The stea
mer Autocrat, (recentiy built on Banner
Isand) left Stockton on the lst of March up-
on her first trip up the San joaquin. She was
freighted with lumber destined for Turner'S
Ferry, at the mouth of the Stanislaus, and
will return freighted with wood. The Eure-
ka left on the evening of the same day with
a cargo of lum er and assorted merchandise
for Shepard's Ferry, end will bring a return
freight of wheat. The trade with the country
along the San Joaquin river is rapidly grow
ing into Importance; and as the facilities of
access become more general, the country Dor.
dering the San joaquin on either side Will
become settled, and the farms which are now
known as stock ranches will be cultivated,
we believe, with quite as much success as in
other portions of the country. The farmers
there will have the advantages of access to
market 10y water at all seasons of the year,
and can ship their produce to Stockton, at
less cost than farmers within twenty miles of
this city are compelled to incur to reach our
market during the winter months-Stockton
ArgUS.
Year: 1861

1t appears that Ben Mccullough is at Rich
mond because summoned there to answer
charges preferred against him for needlessly
burning property Of southern men, and for
refusing to reinforce Price when the latter
was pursued by the national troops.
Year: 1861

EIGHT MORE AS TwELvE.-A Dutchman
leased his lands to an oil company, last
spring, on condition of receiving one eighth
of the oil procured. The we'll proved to be
pretty good one, and the farmer began to
think that the oil men should give him q
better chance, and yentured to tell them so.
They asked him what be wanted. He said
they ought to give one-twelfth. The agree
ment was finally made, with the understand
ing that the Dutchman was not to tell any
one. All went smooth until the next diys-
ion day came, when our friend was early on
hand to see how much better he would be
off under the new bargain. Eleven barrels
were rolled to one side for the oil men, and
one for him. This did not suit him. How s
dish ?" says he; ~ tink l was to get more as
before; by jinks, you make mistake" The
matter was explained to him, that he for
merly got one barrel for every eight, but it
was his own proposition to only take one of
every twelve. The revelation took him
aback. He scratched his head, looked cross,
and relieved his swelling breast of feelings
of selt-reproach by Indignantly remarking
'iyell, by dunder, dat ish de first time as
ever Iknow'd eight was more as twelve.'
Year: 1861

q lady expressed to Hogarth wish to
learn to draw caricature. "Alas young la
dy," said the painter, sit is faculty not to
be envied. Take my advice, and never draw
caricature; by the long practice of it
have lost the enjoyment of beauty. never
see face but distorted; never have the
satisfaction of beholding the human face
divine.,-
Year: 1861

A married man falling into misfortune is
more apt to retrieve his situation in the
world than a single one, chiefly because his
spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic
enaearments and his self-respect kept alive
by finding that although all abroad be dark
ness and humiliation, yet there is a little
world of love at home over which he is a
monarch.
Year: 1861

ey, and the boy grows some eight or ten inches
in as many seconds.


Ticket for New York. says another, throw
ing down ten dollar note. The clerk gives a
rapid glance at the bank note, followed by a
keen, searching one at the applicant, and then
rcplics-'Counterfeit The dropping Of the
under jaw, the blank and stupefed amazement
of the latter at this announcement proves at
once the officials judgment was correct, and
that the applicant, was unconscious of the char
acter of the note until he rendered it in pay
ment for ticket
Year: 1861

There is reasons to believe that more cases of
dangerous and fatal diseases are gradually en-
gendered annually by the habit of sleeping in
small, unventiated rooms, than have occurred
from a cholera atmosphere during any year since
it made its appearance in this country. Very
many persons sleep in eight by ten rooms, that
is, in rooms the length and breadth of which
multiplied together, and this multiplied again
by ten, for the height of the chamber, would
make Just eight hundred cubic feet, while the
cubic space for each bed, according to the Eng
lish appointment for hospitals, is twenty-one
hundred feet. But more, in order to "give the
air of room the highest degree of freshness" F"
the French hospitals contract for n complete re-
newal of the air of room every hour, while
the English assert that double the amount, or
over four thousand feet an hour, is required.
Four thousand feet of air every hour and yet
there are multtudes in the city of New York,
who sleep with closed doors and windows, in
rooms which do not contain q thousand cubic
feet of space, and that thousand feet is to last
all night-at least eight hours-eXcept such
scanty supplies as may be obtained OF any fresh
air that may insnuate itself through little crew.
ces by door or window, not an eighth of an inch
in thickness. But when it is known, that in
many cases, a man and wife and infant sleep
habitually in thousand feet rooms, it is no mar
vel that multitudes perish prematurely in cities
no wonder that infant children wilt away like
flowers without water, and that five thousand OF
them are to die in the city of New York alone
during the hundred days which shall include
the fifteenth of July, 1901 Another fact is
snggestivei that among the fifty thousand per.
sons who sleep nightly in the lodging houses OF
London, expressly arranged on the improved
principles OF space and ventilation already re-
lerred to, it has been proved that not one single
case Of fever has been engendercd in two years
Let every intelligent reader improve the teach
ings of this article without an hours delay
Hats Journal Of Health.
Year: 1861

read in his air and appearance, determination
ana exaction Of what was due to him. He has
good deal of manner. In intercourse he is
very courteous, and his rich voice and abundant
gesticulatons go well together. He is always
agreeable and .gentlemonly, firm and dignifed,
man oil undaunted courage, and as a true
soldier may be relied on to obey orders and do
his duty"
Year: 1861

A LARGE NUMBER OF TRoors.-There
are more troops now in camp en- the bills
around Washington than at any other
previous time. For FIVE miles there is
one continuous line encircing the city on
the north, and the scene which they pre-
sent IN their regimental reviews jus, before
funse, is truly grand. Atleast twenty five
thousand men were on dress parade the
other afternoon, and the appearance Of this
grand army Of occupation when reviewed
from an eminence, gives one some idea OF
the immensity Of our military prepara-
tions.
Year: 1861

A BLACK VILLA1S.-The Buffalo Con-
rier says: "On Tuesday the propeller
Pittsburg came into port, bringing on
board from Milwaukee, among other pass
engers, little girl, perhaps thirteen years
of age, named Mary Miller. She had been
living for nearly two years with an aunt
in Milwaukee. Her father, the only sur
vivng parent, she had not heard from in
a long time, but she supposed him to be
in Buffalo, and in search of him the daugh-
ter made the journey here, as stated
Before landing, a negro named Nathan
Smith, who worked on the propeller, man
aged to get into her confidence and friend
less as she was, she accepted his PROPOSE
ton and agreed to go with him to find
her father. Arriving here the black
scoundrell led her up the beach and in the
vicinity Of the Round House committed a
brutal outrage on her person. She came
back heart broken, and put up at wretch
ed hotel on the Points, where two men,
suspecting she had been subjected to some
foul play, contrived to find out part of her
story and siraghtway they informed the
police. Smith was caught on Tuesday
and committed to Jail By the Chief. He
was on trial on Wednesday before Justice
Bidw4ll." "
Year: 1861

The following appeal, which We alluded
to last week, from high and influential
quarters, will commend itself to the sym
pathy of every citizen. It should not be
SAID that the mourning of nation has
spent itself in words. Let there be re-
sponse which will stand on record as a
monument Of the deep earuestuess Of the
American people;
Year: 1861

That's the question the people are ask
ing.


They are willing to pay taxes on their
land their buildings, their capital their
cash, their income-on everything they
eat, drink and wear; and they are willing
to send their sons into the army to be


MANNED for life or slain out right in bat


tie, in order to save the Union; but the
question with them is beginning to be


VIII the Union be saved thereby?


The people want to know wether this


war IS to become struggle between the


North and South for supremacy and test


the relative military strength Of the two


sections. If it is, the bulk of the people


who pay the taxes and furnish soldiers,
want nothing to do with it. They have
no stomach for sectional fight to deter
mine whether the North or the South
shall wear the champions belt


The people want to know of the Ad-
men, if, when they talk of
No compromise with rebels, "they mean
that the Administration will entertain
no propositions for compromise from.
or propose none to the Southern people.
If so, we shall all understand that the
war is to be carried on as a mere trial
of strenght-for conquest, with the sword
alone, disdaining to accept or tender the
olive branch, The people are in for no
such vindictve war. They don't want
they disdain any compromise with reb-
els or traitors; but they DO demand of the
at washington, and of
the party that controls that administra-
ion, that the voice Of Southern men who
love the Union, shall be heard.


The people desire to see the war pros
ecutel for the purpose of putting down
rebellion; but they demand that the Un-
ion feeling in the South should not be
rushedl out along with rebellion. This
sentiments affords them the only ground
Of hope for restoration of the Union
They see that, unless this Union senti-
meut can be cherished and made efficient
in the South, the Union cannot be saved
rom certain dissolution. Hence, the pop
liar demand is becoming loud and urgent
hat the sword shall be wreathed with the
olive Statesman.
Year: 1861

Congress last week passed the bill
to increase the pay of Volunteers tive
dollars per month, giving them thirteen
dollars instead of eleven,


When the bill was under discussion in
the House, Mr.. Stephens of Pa said that
"the expense of the government were at
the rate of two million two hundred and
fifty thousand per day, and he could not
see where the money was to come from. "


1t might be an easy matter to pay vol
unteers better if there was not so much
thieving and rascality going on in the
contract department of the government.
Year: 1861

Martas are usually stationary, and are
used for throwing iron shells filled with
powder, and ignited by a fuse; burning
they produce great destruction. They are
effective at distances of from one to three
miles.
Year: 1861

The feet sailed on the goth instant
They are all old, but substantial, whaling
vessels, doublc-decked to give them greater
firmness. They were stripped of their
copper and other fittings which were no!
necessary for so short a voyage as they
will make, and loaded with picked stone,
as deeply as was safe. They were purchas-
ed By the Government at New Bedford,
New London, Nantucket, Sag Harbor, Ed
gartown, Mystic and Newport. IN the
bottom of each ship hole was bored, In
to which was fitted a lead pipe five inches
in diameter, with a valve so fixed that,
though perfectly safe even for a long voy-
age, it can be quickly removed 1T Is cal
culated that the ship will be filed and
sunk to the bottom in twenty minutes af-
ter the removal of tbs valve. To provide
against accidental jamming Of the valves,
eacn one is furnished with two augurs OF
the proper size.


The crews consist of six men each
These will be returned BY the men Of war,
who will assist in the work of sinking
Each ship will be anchored in the place
chosen for her, and will then be sprung
round broadside to the channel, thus al
fccting as great stoppagc as is possible.
When this is done, and she is in position,
the valve viii be withdrawn, and whom
the vessel is nearly level with the water i
Year: 1861

A few evenings since, while slowly max
ing my exit from crowded lecture-room.
where an appTeciative audience had been
listening with absorbed interest to the
glowing pictures of India, presented by a
popular and gifted lecturer, an earnest
voice by my side exclaimed:


''Just what he was when he was a how
l heard him offer his first prayer in public.
and | shall never forget my feelings. He
was just as earnest then as now. You
could scarcely breathe for listening"


But" said lady in reply, sean YOU
believe what he has said 2" -


"1es," was the instant reply. s'Thak
boy could never say what was not exactly
true. L believe him just as much as / be-
lieve the Bible" 81


L mused upon the words, 'Just what he
was when boy" The same quick thoughts.
glowing with poetic imagery-the same
fervid elOquenee, seemed to lift the hearer
to some lofty standpoint whence the far
famed luxuriance of Eastern climesstretches
out a sea Of verdure before. his admiring
gaze, or amid the. oriental grandeur Of
scenery sees the vast crowds held in thral-
dom of debasing errors till his heart glows
to stretch forth his hand to those perishing
millions and pluck them as brands from
the burning"


Oh, that those carelessly uttered words
might have fallen upon the heart of every
boy in our land, making each realize that
even now he is weaving the mantle of his
future manhood, tracing his character in
dim outline, to which future years shall
only add the shading q How wise, then, in
youth, to follow noble ambition to do
those things which are right Holders,
Journal.
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the Toronto Leader


writing from Mexico, gives an interesting


account of the system of "peonism," ol


slavery, in force in that country. H,


says


1t is generally believed out Of Mexict


that when Mexico achieved her independ


ence she became a free country, and tha


slavery was abolished. This was not thC


case. The only change that was made be


ing, that no one could be forcibly taken as


slave unless he o,ced sum which he


could not or would not pay. In such
cases the debtor could be taken by the cred
itor, and made to labor for him for an al


lowance of food scarcely sufficient to main
tain existence, and for 4 certain amount Of
wages less actually than was required to
pay church dues. The poor creature was
not given any clothes nor allowed any pit
tanee to buy tobacco or other considered
[ necessaries. So, he or she soon had to
borrow more, till at last the party had SO
irretrievably sold himself that he remain
ed slave for life. If he should be taken
sick. the doctors bill, with extortionate
interest is added to his blood money-the
medical man, if he be a Mexican, often
readily signing receipt for several times
the amount he has received. A free man
requiring temporary advance, and hav-
ing no other property is obliged to paarn
either himself or some of his children, to
raise the required amount. The poor child
thus pawned is nccessitated to add to his
liabilities in order to furnish himself with
clothes; and seldom does one thus deposed
of BY his parents become free agent a.
gain.


Instances occur every day where men
wishing to marry, but not having the SIS
to pay the poor clergy, have to seek par
ty willing to take them in pawn for that
amount, which soon swells to a greater;
and cases are by no means rare where
children have to be pawned, and so made
eternal slaves, to pay the church for per-
forming the general rights over a dead pa
rent! As gambling is lawful here, should
party lose more than he can pay at the
gaming table, or at cock fight, re is ta-
ken before the Alcade and pawned to who
ever will raise the funds. A wife can
pawn herself, and thus leave her home and
become the property of another. Such IS
liberty in free, independent and Christian
Mexico


The peon is sold by the law, his parent,
or by himself; should he not like his en-
ployer he can change him, if he can find
any party to stake the required amount on
his head. But sometimes this is difficult
matter, as owners of poems do not like thus
to encourage insubOrdination, among each
others slaves. The children may be pawn :
ed to as many different parties as there are
The Church has set high price
upon every rite-s2 for christening Pc /
on's child, S25 for marrying it, and 81 .
for burying it.
Year: 1861

There is scarcely an article of vegetable
food more widely useful and more univer-
sally loved than the apple. Why every
farmer in the nation has not an apple or
chard where the trees will grow at all, is
one of the mysteries. Let every family
lay in from two to ten or more barrels, and
it Will be to them the most economical in
vestment in the whole range of culinarics
A raw mellow apple is digested in an hour
and half, while boiled cabbage requires
five hours The most healthy desert which
can be placed on the table, is baked ap-
pie. If taken freely at breakfast with
coarse bread and butter, without meat or
flesh of any kind, it has an admirable ef-
feet on the general system, often removing
constipation, correcting acidities, and cool
ing off febrilc conditions, more effeetually
than the most approved medicines.


If families could be induced to sabsti-
tute the apple-sound. ripe luscious-for
the pies, cakes. candies and other sweet
meats, with which their children are so Of
ten indiscriminately stuffed, there would
be diminution in the sum tctal of the
doctors bill in single year sufficient to
lay in stock Of this delicious fruit for
whole seasons use.-HalPS Journal Of
Health.
Year: 1861

fore the war is over. Take this stand,
and enthusiasm will be inspired in the
ranks. In steadiness of purpose and cOur-
age each soldier will be Spartan hero
The spirit of the Crusader will be united
with the iron will of the Roman, and an
army of such soldiers is invincible.-
[ [Cheers.l These things to you, Indian
ians may appear strange; bat when your
military education has received that pecu-
liar cast which experience is sure to give
it, and which now pertains to the Kansas
soldier, then will We march shoulder to
shoulder, and VIGOROUSLY, too, against the
enslavers and brutalizers of men, and a
gainst the traitors to the best government
on earth.