smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867




From the A0aldnche of July 9th, we
take the following items


SOURCES OF THE owYHEE.


The prospectors who went to the sources
of the Owyhee in the early part of this
month have returned after an absence of
about three weeks. They report having
found gold but not 10 quantities that is
liable to produce general stampede, though
the parties will pay that section another
visit this summer. One of the party Just
returned informs US little gold was found
In all the dirt and gravel from the surface
to the bed rock, but the diggings were full
of large powders and scarcely any timber
In the surrounding country, aud what there
is, OF too small growth to make lumber.
The location Of the section visited is about
one hundred miles a little southeast of
Silver.


CLEANING UP.


In Blue and Jacobs Clutches the placer
miners are enga yed in cleaning up the ground
over which they have worked since the flow
OF water in the spring, and so far as we can
learn, with large pay. Very good wages can
be made in either gulch by washing with
slnices, and even rockers, but the miners
prefer to go after it with hydraulic power in
the early part of the season and spend the
latter part in cleaning up the bed rock and
putting everything in the most advanta
shape for another seasons operations.


MILLS IN OPERATION


There are now in constant operation the
Owyhee, Cosmos and Morning Star mills
and the WebfOot most of the time. The
Oywhee will have its addition Of six mans
completed by the middle of next month
which will give constant employment to the
mills twenty stamps, which added to the
others named will make over forty stamps
nearly certain to be in continual action, be,
sides as many more of which there is reasons
able hope to believe will be supplied with
ore and be stamping out bullion aud making
business before the year closes.


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Year: 1867

CALIFORNIA PoLITICs.-The Sacramento Union
and Bee, and the San Francisco Bulletin and
Call, the leading and most influential papers in
the State, continue to oppose the election of
Gorham and the balance of the Union ticket
The canvass is being conducted with great vir-
ulence with the chances decidedly in favor of
the election of the democratic ticket
Year: 1867

~ The harvest in this county is now
mostly secured, and is secured in good
safe condition. The yield appears to have
been very bountiful, and we can safely say
that the season has been more propitious,
and will net the farmer better return than
any season for at least ten years. There
has been much larger quantity of small
grain raised in the county than ever be-
fore, and the quality is number one.
Year: 1867

SENSIBLE ADvIcE.-Geo. W. Ken
dali writes from Texas to the New
Orleans Pieayaae, and gives us the
following sensible views:


The lessons which adversely teaches
arc hard, yet they must be learned.
And these lessons are always useful.
I know that it comes hard for o
young man to walk behind plow
who once rode behind a fast trotter; !;
norris it agreeable to young lady to
make and put on her dresses all by
herself, who formerly had couple of
servants to take these irksome jobs
off her hands. Yet I can see no
other remedy, at least for those who
have simply been ruined by the war,
and the list is long one. That a
large majority have accepted the sit
uation cheerfully, 1 am glad to say
is true-l mean the situation to earn
their own living; all must do it. And
there arc many who think, and l am
one of them, that in the long run it
will be all the better for the rising
generation of the South-a genera
ton which is to follow ono notorious
ly brought up in ignorance of work
and Incidence as to any useful occu-
patton. The race Of men growing up
will be more muscular-the woman
stronger and hcartier-and their chill
dreli again improve upon the stock.
I have never heard that exercise was
hurtful, and I have consulted good
physicians on the subject.


How often do VIC hear our people
complain that they have been out
all day hunting for a, servant, with
out success. Had they turned to in


he morning they could have done all
Year: 1867

and will not keep up these levees.


We may as we'll commence providing
for this inevitable event in season.
Many Of the negroes who have been
raised to habits of industry will be
industrious as long as they live, but
their children will be Of little account
to themselves or any others, except
the white politicians who want their
votes to help them to fat Offices:
Year: 1867

among us whose appettes so lust after place


and power that they would be willing to


see the white in subjection to the negro if


they could ill their pockets with filthy lu.


ere or crafty their unhallowed ambition


thereby; but thanks to God they are few


in number, and will decline into insioniti-


cance when their diabolical and disgrace
full plans.a are fully disclosed. in kentucky
even the majority Of the radicals declare
their opposition to negro suffrage. and my
radical competition, Col. Barnes. repeatedly
denounced it. Had he advocated such an
odlOuS measure, the votc cast for him
would have been insignificant. even when
with the snail vote he received
The white is ;hc superior race. as univcr-
sal history and science acclaim. and will
never accept the position Of infcriority or
negro equality. Such n thought is revolt
INC to the white race. Other States should
have the right to act as they please on this
subject. Kentucky fully accords them that
right; but she claims the same privilcae
tor herself, and VIII never consent that any
out white men shall represent her interest
)r her honor"


The ceremonies were very imposing and
we're listened to with great interest by the
arge crowd.
Year: 1867

Time viii make the routine Of labor AMI industry
habitual % him, and strengthen the attachment to
his plantation home The children born reared and
taught the plantation will follow in the footsteps
Year: 1867

SIMPLICITY or DREss.-Female lowell.
ness neter appears to SO good advantage
as when set off with simplicity of dress.
No artist ever decks his angels Nth feata >
ers and gaudy jewelry and our dear hu..
man angels, if they would make good
their title to that name, should carefully
avoid ornaments which properly belong
to Indian squaws and African princes.
These tinselres may serve to give effect
on the stage, but in daily life there is no
substitute for he charm of simplicity. A
vulgar taste is not to be disguised by gold
and diamonds. The absence of true
taste and real refinement of delicacy, can.
not be compensated for by the possession
OF the most princcly fortune. Mind meas.
ures gold, but gold cannot measure mind.
Through dress the mind may be read, Oh
through the delicate tissue the lettered
page. A modest woman will dress mod.
esfly really refined and intellectual
woman will bear the marks of careful SO.
lection and faultless taste.
Year: 1867

ca A lady who was married on FIJI
day, when asked why she consummated
such important business on such all un-
lucky day. responded that she had been
married on every other day in the week.
and had always made such poor fist Of
it, that she decided to test hangman's
day, hoping the halter wouldn't slip this
time. .H
Year: 1867

goods to dress them, it does not take ha,f
so many groceries to feed them. If ID
does take more dry goods to dress then,
they do not look like cohcretion of acute
angles after they are dressed. Indeed
they ought to he happy.


Get fat. 1t will do you good. ZIG.
Year: 1867

SUNFLowER SEED.-1he seed Of the
suuaower is said to be the best remedy
known for the cure of founder in horses.
Immediately on discovering that your
horse is foundcred, mix about a pint Of
the whole seed in his food, and it will
give perfect cure.
Year: 1867

g3 The following touching epitaph
was written by British no0leman upon
his wife -


.'Beneath this marble slab doth lie
AS much IT virtue as could die


Witch when alive, did vlgor give


To as much beauty as could live."
Year: 1867




GEN. JOHN A. WAGNER, Charleston:


Dear Sir: I have returned to
Copenhagen after a short trip in
the country, and have done as
much good for the cause as could
be reasonably expected, but find
that if my mission shall have a
good result, I must devote just as
many months as now weeks to
traverse the country, because the
people like to talk personally to
man who has been in America and
is acquainted with the condition OF
the country to which they want to
emigrate and I can in one hour
give more information, and answer
more of the questions, which the
reading of the pamphlet naturally
gives occasion for, than if l re-
eeived and answered twenty let
ters. Especially those who have
money sufficient to buy farm are
very particular in their Inquiries
They wish to know what they can
expect in return for what they
leave.


Of $4,000 immigrants who in the
first months of the year arrived in
New York, only 5000 had no Ger
tain place of destination, and re
NAMED there all the others were
sent for by friends and relations
who had written to them and too
them of their good luck and salts
faction with their new home. Thl
is a good evidence how importa,n
it is that the first immigrants VIII
Year: 1867

RIO CAPITALISTS AND ACTIVE BUSINESS MEN


The undersigned Offers for sale exchange for Real
state extensive and prosperous Manufacturing Busi
located in this city The product Of these works j.
second TO none In the country and - IN continual ana grow
will one-half the purchase money In the yield Of the
works and VIII large cash trade or tho
will sell half Interest to competent party who
sge the The fullest information viii be cheerfully
given by the undersgnsd.
Year: 1867

NAssY.-Nasby's letter. on our 6rst
page. we regard as the best that he has
yet written. Hitherto. bis essay ys..havs al
been illustrations Of the connection be-
tween Dem ocracy and the nigger bat
this letter is keen home thrust in anoth.
er direction. It is graphic illustration
Of the attitude Of the Republican party.
which. claiming TO be the friend Of the
negro, is too cowsrdly to give him the
rights which belong to freedom. lest it
should clash with public prejudice. and
weaken the party. The consequences is.
the negro is left in a worse fix than
when he was in slavery. The whites
are now under no obligation to protect
them. end they are not allowed to protect
thenselves. Nssby hss now struck .
lead where he can make It tell. Let him
follow II up vigorously. and the good ef-
feet will soon be visible.
Year: 1867

~ A party of Wlnnebagoes. who
have for some time past been eucamped
on the river bottom, q mile or so above
town. have fandsngocs almost every
night, and the dulcet notes OF their music
6nd their way to the ears Of our citizens.
The Iowss say that these Winuebsgoes
are tuning themselves up to take the war.
path against some tribe on the plains. in
in the Spring. 1t may net be amiss to
keep an eye or two peeled in that dirsc-
tion,
Year: 1867

~ We infer. from the tone Of oil the
editorials in the last number Of the Otta.
va Home Journal. that its editor was
recently cand didate for the United States
Senate. bot on various accounts was not
slected-principslly. because our people
are not yet disposed to avail themselves
of the services of their most talented,
competent and upright men. Mr. Ksl.
loch is really man Of 6ne talent. but
modesty is not the disease that be will
die of.
Year: 1867

o,r Legislative halls and those of aboul
thirty years ago is SO remarkable and SO
uuiaVorable 10 our present Legislature.
that we venture to say that man of
high character would hesitate to be q
member of the lower house and mincle
with men of such moderate capacity
and large cupidity as you'd be the
great majority of his associates.


it is no longer an honor to be in the
Legislature, and the public entertain
but one opinion in regard to the hon:
esty of the great majority of our Lagis.
tors.


The public opinion, which considers
these men as preying upon the vitals OF
our State, as opposed TO its property,
comes FROM no idle report, but has its
foundation upon facts; nor is the growth
of q day or year, but OF whole series
OF years, in which the people in all parts
of the State have seen their members of
either House, ,ohO lcft them poor and
needy, come back rich and independent, and
lire IN GhWeHce all their Tires.


The sources of corruption are too nu-
merons TO particularizc here; but suf-
flee it TO say, that the corrupt have
many devices by which they carry on
their schemes of iniguity.


There are very few of our legisla-
tors who are able to keep themselves
entirely unspOtted, surrounded us they
are on every side with so many induce
ments to prove false TO their trust; and
there are maay who would scorn To take
an absolute bribe, 50 much cash in hand
who imagine they are honest because
they do nothing more than insist upon
having their interests represented in all
important bills by Il friend. 1t isa well
known fact that the more merit
orious IA bill, the more dill
ficult is its passage through the
Legislature. Not only is it generally
impossible to pass any bill that is to benefit
any one, TithOWt the aid Of money, no mat
ter how intimately the public good may
be cOnnected with it; but the science of
making money by legislative position
has become SO exact that whenever the
ordinary run of positive business is
slow, the cOrraptiOHists hemseires get up
gigantic schemes Of affecting the prirdte
interests Of WodIthy corporations aud
threaten to hare them passed aniesS those
corporations coRriHce them prirGteig hat
the public interest d0cs not require their
puSSGgC.
Year: 1867




| [Prom the Washington Correspondence of the
Charleston Mercury.l


The system of lobbying claims and
bills through Congress has been shown
up so often by newspaper correspond
ents, that there is little left tOwrite
about in that way. cannot forbear,
however, to notice very extraordinary
case that came under my observation
during the last session.


A certain party had claim for some
thing like $500, 200. 1t had been hang
ing on for several years, vibrating be-
tween the House and the Senate, with
so little prospect of ever getting sue
cessfully thorough both at thesame ses-
sion, that the claimant almost despair
ed of any relief. Taking hint, how
ever, in q lucky moment, from the ex-
ample of party similarly situated, he
repaired to one of the larger cities, and
in due course of time he found an inter
esting looking young lady, who under
took the job of getting the bill safely
through, for contingent fee and some
little necessary money in the mean
time. This modest proposition was,
of course, accepted, and the twain
returned to Washington, and the agent
set to work to accomplish the object OF
her mission. She was observed nearly
every day in the gallery of one house or
the other, paying no attention to those
around her, but watching very closely
the proceedings on the floor. In a short
time the bill was taken up and passed
by the Senate. 1t fingered in the House
awhile, and one day when nobody was
thinking anything about it, Mr..
moved to proceed to its consideration.
This was agreed to and in very few
minutes the measure was adopted. This
was all that was necessary. The young
lady had done her work, and / believe is
now in the. enjoyment of her hard earn
ings.
Year: 1867




Editor Of the Register s4 .-s.f
Profound feelings of regret at
the small interest which is taken by
the living in Mount Wood Cemetery
have prompted this communication.
A few faithful persons have been hold
ing meetings at the Court House for
three weeks; and, though the public
newspapers have been calling upon
those interested to attend these meet
ings in order to devise ways and means
of carrying ont measures for the better
protection of the grounds, and of max
ing easier access to said Cemetery, yet
but few attend or manifest any interest
in those who, when living, were near
and dear to them, as though
they themselves never expected to
die, or would require their friends to
perform the same services over their
bodies after death, rs have already been
performed over those who were once
their near and kind relations and
friends. The man that would refuse
pecuniary aid, if able, to make a liber-
al subscription to this object is unwor-
thy of the right of o decent Christian
burial. There is nothing that can be
conceived of inhuman actions more
heathenish than to allow our deceased
friends to be exposed in our cemeteries
to the beasts of the field, and costly mon
umcnts and tomb stones to be broken
to atoms. There are many people in
this, world who would rather spend
thousands in luxury and fashion, and
perhaps the very means which they use
for that purpose has been derived from
some near friend who left 1t to them,
and yet not care for them or their re-
mains after death. Shame on all such
human beings in the image of Him who
created them. Cemeteries are the great
cities of the dead. Holy consecrated
ground! An imperative duty is re-
quired Of the living to protect, beauti-
fy, and keep them In good order and
condition, so that the living when called
upon to perform the last rite for some
dear friend, may view the ground, beau
tiful and adorned, where they must
shortly lie. ar' MOUNT-WOOD.
Year: 1867




The New York World, the leading
Democratic paper in the United States,
vigorously opposes the Vallandigham
scheme of rObbing the public creditors
bv paying the national debt in green
backs. The World argues shat the
principal is payable in real money, be-
cause Congress specifically exempted
the interest of these bonds from the Op-
GRAFTON of the legal tender act, and this
necessarily exempted the principal
We give its argument on this point for
its novelty:


That the Senate amendment exempted
the interest of the bonds from the oper-
alton Of the legal tender clause is on all
hands admitted. But the exemption of
the interest exempted also the principal.
The principal and interest of the public
debt hold a certain arithmeJical rela5 ion
to each other; the six per cent. annual
interest being precisely six One-hun-
dredths OF the amount ultimately due
as the principal of the debt. If either
interest or principal fluCtuates in val
ne. they necessarily huctuate together,
their ratio to each other being constant
" as six is to one hundred, whatsoever
may be the absolute value Of either. IL
I borrowed last year a thousand dollars
in green blacks and the annual
interest is due to-day, the sixty dollars
which I pay to-day is worth precisely





principal to-day, and this would be
equally true whether the depreciation
were thirty per cent. OF three hundreds
so fixed is the proportion between in
terest at any given rate and the principal
on which IL is paid. When, therefore,
the Government engages to pay the in
terest on q certain debt in coin, and de-
clares, at the same time, that the rate is
six per cent, it thereby engages that
the principal shall also be paid in coin;
for otherwise the interest would not be
six one-hundredths of the principal, ,
and the rate per cent, would be some
other than six. We, therefore, hold
that Congress, in exempting the Interest
OF the ffve-twenties from the operation
of the legal tender act, necessarily eX-
empted also the principal.


The World argues further that it was
understood at the time that these were
coin bonds; that the Secretary OF the
I Treasury so stated, and Congress did
not except to it therefore the govern
ment is bound by the permitted action
Of its agent. 1t also cites the clause in
/ the law authorizing the issue Of these
4 bonds, which provides that the duties
shall be paid In coin, and this coin shall
/ be applied, first, to the payment Of the
/ interest; second, to the purchase or pay
/ ment Of one per cent. Of tho whole pub
/ llc debt per anuum, TO bo set apart as q
sinking fund; and It argues that this
/ setting apart Ofcoin for the purchase o.
! payment OF the bonds, was another rec
/ ognition in the law itself that they were
1 coin bonds. Now In reply TO all this
the Columbus Crisis, which iH nothing
Year: 1867

Pm not good at storytelling. But
some way I've thought if / told this lit
tie thing, there might be some one If
would please. Not so much please as
comfort, may be, like sliding a hand
within q body's when they're in troub-
le for there's nothing like a quiet
hand-grip when one is in deep pain.
But about this little history.


1t isn't much, and it has poor title,
but if YOU knew how differently the
name sounded from what il looks, star
ing there-hoW il makes me flash and
thrill with love and deep feeling, you
wouldn't think it so hOmely and plain.


Every one knew him, from the little
bare, brOWu-fOoted children who sold
CLAIMS and cookies, to the fine people at
the hotel, who always took his yacht
in place Of the rest. As for him-I'Ve
a notion he might have made a good
picture. He was as dark as an Indian,
and as tall and 1.-the. He could swim
the farthest, and pull the strongest oar;
and as for leaping and wrestling no
one could begin with him. There was
a rich, dark red in the brown cheek,
and when he smiled, it was "A pretty
sight-such white teeth, and such q
strong mouth, with the laugh deepen
ing his brown eyes.


John had always been my friend he
used to take me out in the yacht when
he went with Joe, my brother, and
sbOW Atte away On LIS fdGkGb anu bueu
when grew older he was the same
kind friend-for JOe's wife died, and he
left me the housekeeper, and John used
to come In, when Joe was gone on q
cruise to the cod-fisheries, and bring in
armfuls of wood and in the Winter
make the paths, and sit down by the
fire, when the Winter nights were bad,
and talk with me and in Summer he
used often to come in with a word of
Joe and a kind talk with Charlie and
me-(that was before Charlie was large
enough to go with his father in his
trips land I used to feel kind of sis
/ terly love for him. He was pretty
much alone his mother died, and he


lived alone with old Nancy Bell, his
aunt, a cross old woman-but she took
/ good care of his home, and 1t was all
/ the home she had on earth.


| The IrYinghams were the richest peO-


pie who lived In the village. To be
/ sure they only came there Summers,
/ but the family had always lived there
/ in the old 6ne house, with It's great
/ pGrk and lawn, and hOt-houses, which
| father, before he died, used to be 30
proud of-foE he was gardener there
Year: 1867

A GOOD MOTHER.-She is q good moth
er who brings up her children to work
to work in the kitchen III you please.
We shall never have good puddings
and pies Chowders and ficasseea,
while the ladies are taught that it is a
disgrace TO learn to cook. The time
may come when the daughters Of wealth
shall be obliged 10 take their stand I'm
the kitchen-but should they not know
how to bake and wash ? What Is
young woman ht for whose mother al
lows her to lie in bed till ten o'clock (;
and who when she rises, sings a song
or two. and sits down to the last new
novel? She may answer for the wife
Of a wealthy fop; and a miserable life
miserable indeed-Wiu she live. Far
better for her, no matter what her con-
dition in after life may be--whether she
marrieH fortune in gold, or fortune
in real worth-if she Is brought up TO
work. Her life, in comparison 10 one
brought up In idleness and folly
would be n season OF real enjoyment
and the influence she eXerted would be
glorious indeed. What mother VIII be
SO unwlse as to teach her daughters
that work is degrading, while lying in
bed, dressing In fashion, and reading
mere trash, Is elevating and dignifyingf


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