smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

A Coon HoUsEwIFE.-A good house,
wife ispne of the first blessings in the
economy of life. Men put a great val
ue upon the housewife qualifications of
their partners after marriage however
little they may weigh with them before;
and there is nothing which tends more
to mar the felicities of married life than
a recklessness or want Of knowledge, in
the new housekoepor, of the duties
which belong to her station. We ad-
mire beauty, and order, and system, in
everything, and we admire good fare
IF these are found in their dwelling,
and are seasoned with good nature and
good sense, men will seek for their chief
onjoyments at home-they will love
their homes and their partners, and
strive to reoiprocate the kind Offices Of
duty and affection. Mothers that study
the welfare Of their daughters, will moi
fail to instruct them in tho qualifications
Of married life; and daughters that ap,
preoiate the value Of these qualifications
will not fail to acquire them German
town Telegraph
Year: 1860

IFor tho News.


Little Harry is Gone.


The FIRST little flower of the homo
garland has fallen-the first link in the
domestic circle is broken. And the
hearts Of those fond parents are crushed
by this their first great sorrow. He
was one of those lovely little ones who
seldom stay long away from home-so
angelic in their nature that VIC almost
wonder they are here without their
wings. One Of those who seem sent
only to


"Anuro to brighter worlds and lead the way"


Hard it is to bow in submission to
the dispensations of an all.wise Provi-
denco. Yet our Heavenly Father oft.
times speaks to us in the still, small
voice, and when VIC lend no listening
ear, He compels us to acknowledge His
presence by the "terrible wind, the earth
quake and tho fre"-dostroying our
worldly hopes, and changing our sun
shine Of prosperity into a dark day Of
adversely. Then, when He has taken
all away-evory earthly staff upon
which VIC have loancd-we learn it is in
mercy and goodness He has done it.
Then we acknowledge His supremacy
and arc ready to obey His command,


"1Iy son, give me thine heart"


May wo receive the solemn admoni-
tion and turn to Him who hath said,
"IIim that cometh unto me, I will in
nowise cast out" A FRIEND,
Year: 1860

Let Us execute the Constitution in
the spirit in which it was made. Let
us leave the people free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions In
their own way. Let the people OF each
State r, tain slavery just as long as
they please. Let us act on that good
old golden principle which teaches all
mon to mind their own business and
let their neighhors alone.


Let this be done, and this Union can
endure forever, as our fathers made it
composed of free and Slave States, just
as the people Of the States may deter
rnine for themselves, Stephen A
Douglas,
Year: 1860




always found who are ready to f:ment
these fatal divisions. ana to infame the
nat aljealousies Of different sections
of the country! The history of the
world is full of such examples, and es-
pecially the history of republics. .


What have, you to gain by division
and dissension Delude not your
selves with the belief that breach,
once made, may be afterwards repaired.
IF tie Union is once severed, the lire Of
separation will grow wider and wider,
and the controversies which are now de-
bated and settled in the halls of legisla-
ton, will then be tried in fields of bat
tie and determined by the sword
Neither should you deceive yourselves
with the hope that the first line of sep
aration would be the permanent one,
and that harmony and concord would
be found in thenew associations formed
upon the dissolution Of this Union. Lo-
cal interests would still be found there
and unchastened ambition. And if the
recollection of common hangers in which
the people of these United States stood
side by side against the common Toe;
the memory of victories won by their
united valor; the prosperity and happi-
ness they have enjoyed under the pres
ent Constitution; the proud name they
bear IS eli. Us Of this great republic


Il all these lecollections and proofs of
common interest are not strong enough
to bind us together as one people, what
tie will hold united the new division of
empire, when these bonds have been
broken and the Union discovered? r


The first lines of operation would not
last for single generation; new frag-
.aents would be torn off, new leaders
would spring up, and this great and
glorious republic would soon be broken
into multitude ofpetty states, without
commerce, without credit, jealous of
one another, armed for mutual aggres.
s,ons, loaded with taxes to pay armies
and leaders, seeking aid against each
other from foreign powers, insulted and
trampieA upon by the nations of Europe,
until, hnrrassed by conflicts and hum
bled and debased in spirit, they would
be ready to submit to the absolute do
minion of any military adyenturer and
surrender their liberty for the sake of
repose." .......... ..t...f .-


1T is impossible to look on the con-
sequences that would inevitably follow
the destruction of this government, and
not feel indignant when we hear cold
calculations about the value of the
Union, and have so constantly before
US line of conduct so we'll calculated to
weaken it's ties. y., ..4 .... ....
Year: 1860

General Jackson, following the exam
pie of Washington. at his retiring fro m
the Presidency, issued farewell ad-
dress, which was principally devoted to
the danger Of disunion. and the preser-
vation Of harmony and good fe ling be
tween the different sections of the coun-
try. His exclamation was Gr


Has the warning voice of Washington
been forgotten or have designs al
ready been formed to sever the Union ?
Let it not be supposed that I impute
to all of those who have taken an active
part in these unwise and Improbable
discussions, a want Of patriotism or of
public virtue. The honorable feelings
Of state pride and local attachments
find aplace in the bosoms Of the most
enlightened and pure. But while such
men are conscious of their own integri
ty and honesty of purpose. they ought
never to forget that the citizens of 9TH
er states are their political brethren
and that however mistaken they may be
in their views, the great body of them
are equally honest and upright with
themselves.


Mutual suspicious and reproaches
may in time create mutual hostility,
Year: 1860

The yield of corn will be rather short, but not
near so seanty as in most of the northern parts
of the State. As to cotton, some predict that the
crop will be third Short and others again that it
will not fall off in so great proportion 1t is GER
tain, however, that it will be much under what was
calculated on when tho season opened under such
favorable auspices as it did. TOURIST.
Year: 1860

CE The snow that fell Tuesday night
has again rendered our sleighing excellent 1t
looks now very much like having . long spell
Of cold weather, in which case we shall have
good sleighing for q month to come
Year: 1860

The machine issinple and takes but little pow
er to run it. Il ean be attached 70 any ordinary
wood lathe, without other gearing.


A machine 10 in operation st the Ls Claire
Foundry on Front street, st which place the
owner Of the right for the State can be found
and where al further information can be OBJ
aimed.
Year: 1860

EE The merry jingling of eleigh
bells sounded very pleasant to us yesterday.
Wish some chap who is possessed of . fine
sleigh would tempt us by an invitation to take
Q ride 'Fraid We would refuse-in . horn.
Year: 1860

w- Bailey advertises that he shall
close out At cost for the next twenty days, and
those who desire great bargains will do we'll to
recollsct it. He is closing out to make room
for his spripg stock
Year: 1860

eW The Moline Independent says
that they have been credibly informed that the
bonds recently issued by that city have been
disposed Of at par. The same paper says that
it is hard to find . comfortable house in town
that is empty at the present time.
Year: 1860

Eg Mr.. LIE Claire had squad of
men engaged in clearing off the snow from the
roof Of the Post Office Buildings yesterday -
He is determined that his tenants shall net be
troubled again by too great abundance Of
wafop
Year: 1860

eB Eggs are very scarce article in
this market just at present. and they are held
entirely too high. Ham aLd hen fruit are
great luxury, but tits rather expensive indulg
ing in them at the prices We have to pay for
the fruit.
Year: 1860

{" We reckon our article Offering
Is reward for the persons who have lately
made it practice to steal our paper from SUBJ
scribers doors was pretty generally real ]. - We
had to furnish over dozen extra copies to sub
scribsrs who had their papers abstracted. We
know Of NO easier way for our idle citizens to
make "" than for them to start out on .
detective tour some morning. and catch these
chaps in the act. The money Il ready for who.
ever earns it
Year: 1860

PRIEST corner of Main and Foster Streets are
possessed OF every accommodation for doing thriving
business at their celebrated rendezvous as of Tho


hungry denzens of Worcester are notified accordingly
70 make their extensive quarters their home whenever
they wish for anything calculated to benefit the inner
man Look out for some grand specimens of chowders
&C. this evening.
Year: 1860

Fox-r.-On Friday morning son of JUS
tus Young caught full grown, red fox, near
his residence on Burncoat Plain. The fox
passed by the house once or twice, exciting in
the house grave suspicious that all was not
right Just as the conflict between the ami
mails appeared to be irrepressible, the boy
seized the fox with his hands, removed him to
place of safety and killed him. The fox is
a fine specimen of his race.
Year: 1860

On account of the repairs which were made
necessary by the slight fire in the Thomas
street school house, Thursday evening, the
school on the east side will not be resumed till
Monday next. The schools on the west side
will be kept as usual, to-day.
Year: 1860

Specialize The New Orleans grescentl


HAVANA, March 4, 1860.


Ed. Crescent-1 did not mention in my last letter
per Hahana lstinst) any thing of the great public
reloicings that were then but just commenced in
consequence of the intelligence that day received
per steamships CahaWba and Quaker City, from
New Orleans and New York, Of the fall of Tetuan
Within few hours of the arrival of the steamships
extras OF the Gaceta, the official government paper
and OF the Dtdlio de la Marina were issued an
nouncing in extrayagant language the mighty
victory achieved by the Spanish army in the con-
quest and fall of Tetuan Forthwith the sandwich
like flag OF Spain was displayed from the various
public flag stalls; the balconies of the public build.
1ngs and OF all the residences of good and loyaI
Spaniards, were decorated with red and yellow
hanglngs, co7fallds (curtains} they call them At
midday, grand salute was fired from the Cuba
mas fertilization; bands of music, accompanied nv
negroes, paraded the streets through the day. and
when evening came, muskets, pistols and crackers
were discharged from the doorWays and windows
OF the Spanish Inhabitants of this city, who felt
thereby they were giving expression to their oyal-
ty and love for the throne of San Fernandez
enquired OF some of them what sort of a place
they thought Tetuan was and was told in reply
that it was very large and strongly fortified CITY
that its conquest by the Spanish arms was an event
that would be mentioned in history as one of the
greatest facts in modern warfare that the con.
quest of Sebastopol by the allied forces of France
and England was nothing as compared to it
Iundeceived some few of my Spanish friends as to
te size and strength Of Tetuan although would not
so wound their amor pat,'i9 as to tell them that
Tetuan ought to have been conquered in fort
night at the furthest after the Spanish army had
arrived before it.


The palace, other public buildings and the houses
of the Spanards all brilliantly illuminated at
night, and this was repeated the two follow
ing days and evening, and to-day. Where all the
gunpowder came from, l can scarcely imagine.
Some of my acquaintance, knowing had flask of
Duponts rifle powder, came to my quarters to beg
it. gave them about half of what possessed and
could have obtained any price | desired for the
remainder and for my revolver, which however
could not be induced to part with.


The Diario de la Marina Of the following morn
ing had six and eight of its columns filed with
accounts of this great deed of Spanish arms, incud
ing sonnet written upon the occasion in the edit
orial department of that paper. wonder if
poet was employed specially for the occasion i
There is to be grand ball at the palace on 1lth
instant in honor Of this glorious event! Of which
hope to be enabled to send you full account in
Year: 1860




It was not very active on the flags yesterday
There were some movements going on in the sta
pie. The sun Is getting rather warm for confabs a.
the present time. We urge on the contractors for
the re-paving of Carondelet street to push on the
work. The denizens and all who attend daily on
the flags are much inconvenienced from the slow
manner in which the work is progressing.


There was some talk about freights The many
arrivals of large vessels and the reports Of several
more expected has rather checked the upward
tendency of last week However, id. to Liverpool
will pay. There are several large vessels on the
way hither under charter at 9-16d. OF course,
they will be on the market at an advance over that
rate. The general impression prevails that no
further advance will be realized for the present
therefore, traders and operators throughout the
West can send forward their produce. Tobacco ID
about the only article that can be affected by q
further advance in freights. As for -four, corn and
wheat. there IL no demand for them in Europe, but
there is a lively demand for all the Southern
markets, say Texas, Alabama and Florida, and our
own good State requires many thousands Of bushels
Of corn; also good quantity Of pork and bacon
to sustain the planting and consuming interests
through the season.


There has been some talk regarding the quantity
of cotton now on sale in this market.


Bales,
The gross receipts from the st September 1850 to last
Stock hand 3lst August 1885, 9............... 264SO
Total quantity the market o33 7I9


Estimated quantity sale the 7th March s52779
Year: 1860

Total bales sold. 5s 900
The obstructions at the mouth Of the river are
becoming more formidable day after day. We
shall ere long have some of the mud from the
great Missouri, which will, of course increase the
Jumps. Nevertheless, the ship INLAND was taken
out last week drawing IS feet 3 inches. The same
thing cannot, we learn, be repeated this week. 1t
is about time to begin to set the dredging appara-
tus to work but no one seems to take particular
interest in the matter. There is an immensity of
talk about what should be done. Our Board of
Underwriters are as much interested, or rather the
stockholders of the several companies, are some
what interested. If they do not deem the matter
of sufficient Importance, why do they take an OPP
posite view from most people2 The talk is, that
the bill before the Legislature intending to grant
privileges to the Towboat Associations of an ex-
elusive character, cannot be carried out. One of
the provisions OF the bin now before the Legsla-
ture gives the Towboat Association the exclusive
right and privilege of towing vessels through the
mouths or passes of the Mississippi river. This is
about as absurd and ridiculous attempt to organize
monopoly as can well be conceived Our legis-
lators might as well undertake to enact law that
only one association shall have the privilege Of
building and repairing vessels, or owning floating
docks and ship-yards; or they might incorporate
or delegate to another association that it should
have the privilege and right to build all the houses
in Louisiana. The talk is. that it is useless for our
legislators to be wasting time to create law of
this kind. 1t would not be respected and it is not
probable the Supreme Court of the United States
to which any decision regarding it by inferior
courts would be carried would sanction such an
unheard-of montrosity.


The mails are getting into something like reg
ularity. There are some cart loads of mail matter
still remaining in the lobby of the Post-Otfice
awaiting distribution.


Litter advices are due by the Nova scotian from
Liverpool. The America, of the 18th February, is
also about due at Halifax


Under our financial head will be found some pro.
posals regarding the Southeastern Railroad which
We will talk about in day or two.
Year: 1860

TRANsFIxED.-A few days ago laborer was
killed in the coal mines near Pittsburg by several
tuns of coal falling upon him. The handle OF his
pick was driven entirely through his body.
Year: 1860

A correspondent of the London Gardeners
Chronicle recommends the use of sawdnst
for blanching celery, as he finds it to answer
the purpose better than any other material,
and Is especially valuable for the late crops to
be kept during the winter. He says: "Having
had some trouble in the winter of 1857 in
keeping late celery from rotting in a new
kitchen garden, where the soil was very re-
tentive and damp, and the plants earthed up
in the usual manner, have since used saw
dust for the purpose, and find that it answers
perfectly. Last winter all the late celery
was earthed up with sawdust, and it kept
quite sound till April, and no slugs or insects
attacked it underground, the heads being
very solid, clear and crisp, and well favored.


~ had some doubts that the sawdust from
resinous trees might give the celery a disa-
greeable favor, but on trial found this not
to be the case, and the sawdust is now taken
indiscriminately from the saw-pits, where
different kinds of trees are sawedup. Before
the late severe frosts occurred in October,
had Just finished the earthening up of all the
late celery with sawdust, and l find it is
now wonderfully fresh, the frost not having
penetrated far through the surface to the
hearts," ..l ''I ...,. ......t


Another correspondent recommends char.
red earth in preference to sawdust "as il
will not only answer the purpose as well, but
will allow the rain water TO percolate more
freely 10 the roots Of the plants, and be o.
infinite service to a soil of. a damp, retentive
nature" The sawdust he thinks will induce
an injurious growth Of fungi in the soil.
Year: 1860

CHARACTER AND PEcuLIARrTY OF SALT
LAKE.-Every reader has heard of Salt Lake,
but very few persons know any thing of its
extent and peculiar nature. A writer speaks
thus -.-


That this lake should be all salt is no anom-
ally. All large bodies of water into which
streams discharge themselves, while they
have severally no outlet are or should be
salt. If one such is fresh, that is an anomaly
indeed. Lake Utah, probably, receives as
much saline matter as Salt Lake, but she dis
charges it through the Jordan and remains
herself fresh; while Salt Lake, having no
issue, save by evaporation, is, probably, the
safest body of water on earth. The ocean is
comparatively fresh; even the Mediterranean,
at Leghorn, Is not half SO salt


am told that three barrels of this water
yield barrel of salt that seems rather
strong, yet its intense saltness, no one who
has not had it in his eyes, his mouth, his snos-
trils, can realize. You can no more sink in
1t than in clay bank; but very little Of it
in your lungs would suffice TO strangle you
You make your way in from a hot, rocky
beach, over a chaos of volcanic basalt that is
trying TO the feet but at the depth Of d yard
or more you have q fine sand bottom, and
here the bathing is delightful. The water Is
of light green color for about ten or twenty
rods, then 1'decply, darkly, beautifully blue p
No fish can live in 1t; no frogs abide in it;
few birds are ever seen dipping in IL.
Year: 1860

The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Ttdcelter presents new phase of life in that
city-the kind of religious services which
for the moment attract the attention of the
fashionable butterflies of that gay capital
After describing favorite preacher, who al
tracts great numbers, especially ladies' by his
sermons and who is in great request especi-
ally in private pulpits, the writer proceeds


! dare say you do not clearly understand
what mean by apIriivate pulpit, You are to
know that fashionable people who do not find
private theatricals or private concerts suiting
with their tastes, give private sermons. A
pulpit is erected in the drawing-room, and
the hostess or beddLess (call her by which
name you please) takes a great deal Of pains
to secure Interesting preachers. It has be-
come point of pride with them (for Satan
is ever mingling his tares with Heavens
wheat) TO secure eloquent preachers, that
they may not be outdOne by their neighbors.
II Is tendency of the day to reduce every
thing to drawing-room dimensions: we hear
of drawing-room operas, drawing-room cCm-
edies, and drawing-room sermons. 10.
" You must not imagine the persons who
indulge in this luxury convert their drawing
rooms into chapels of ease to the parish
church, and propose any such object as the
regeneration OF the world. They do not go
out into the highways and bitches in search
of an audience. They'd be lost sooner than
go to Heaven with people who were not on
their visiting-list for tickets are issued in
viting guests of these mdtinees reiigieuses
with as exclusive attention to the quality of
the guests as il the object of the assembly
was to degustate wines and discuss cooking.
There is no such thing as being saved in
this company unless one can prove possession
of two-and-thirty quarters of nobility. |
am sure you know the world SO well as to
make it unnecessary for me to say that the
sermons are not served up dry.


The soul is taken care of but the body is
not lost sight of; one is committed to the
parson, the other is in keeping of the but
Ter, and the strict regard have for the truth
compels me to say, the latter sometimes dis
charges his duty great deal more efficiently
than the former. The sermon may be
musty; the baodroises are always fresh. Gus
tom has established one invariable order of
proceedings at these places they open with
the news Of the day, and then refreshments
are handed around. The sermon is next in
order. Refreshments compliments to the
preacher, and small-talk end the matinee.
Year: 1860

GA country apothecary, not q
little distinguished for his impudsnce,
with hope of disconcertiDg q young
clergyman, whom be knew to be q
man Of singular modssty, asked him,
in the hearing Of large company
"Why the pstriarchs Of old lived to
such an extreme age p To which
the clergyman rsplied-T suppose
the ancient patriarchs took no physic."
Year: 1860

and determination was ovcr--when the
physician had been summoned, and they
knew that darling Eveleen might live, af-
ter many weeks Of struggle between life
and death; when the relieved friends had
acknowledged that they had wronged him
first; when the beautiful and sorrow(ul
wife had blessed him through her tears
and kisses; and all knew that under God
only such an almost fierce determination
could have saved the child-lhcn the
father sat down and wcpt Ike child.