davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-06-12
LnI11syILLE. June &

LOUISVILLE, June g.
The Journal of this morning says the
proposition IN the Maybe Couvention
for the FIRST District to secede from the
State and lin Tennessee. was negalived
Iby 1870 to 80 The plan was abandoned.
A dispa ch to the Nrw Orleans Deita
|dattd KnoxviI.p. May 3ls'. says the Union
Convention in session there. passed reso-
siu ions recommending resistance if seven
|ty thousand woes we're cast against Sc
'cessiou The S ulhrrn rights men are
.dete mined 10 hold their position though
s,hey should lie in minority
A circular addressed from Nashville to
the Union men Of Tennessee. condemns
the Course Of the G vernon; deprecates
tue raisuig of tropps; deploies secf ssion
as cuts; urges sshem in place Tetnes-
gee by The side Of Ken ucky to keep OF,
sof active par,icip.t,an in the war. I
siys late informatiSn leads to the hope
taat manly ..ffprt will succerd, aud a
! lsrge v,te viii he polled in Midole aud
East Tennessee
A srecia d,spatch. dated the III. says
tha, John Bell pokea at Knoxville, urging
wa. 10 the death agsinst the Nor,h. and
sdeclari q that FIVE mllions cant conq1el
! the Snu,h.s W
AT Montgomery, much dissatisfaction
lis EXPRESSED ut The removal of the seat ol
EGoyernment to Richmond. ss.
The lschmond Wig. of the lst. say'
Ia Virgiuian will. be put in the Cabinet
8yice Walker, Secretary of War. h.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-06-12

g 1t is confidently stated in Washington
I that Gsneral Scctt intends to make a most
vigorous onward movement as soon as his
plans are completed, with view to reach
Richmond bsfore the 4th of July. Thirty five
Thousand men will be pushed onintO the in-
terror of Virginia, toward the Blue Ridge:
twenty thousand under General Patterson,
will invade Virginia from Eastern Pennsylva
ania; twenty Thousand under Henefai McClel-
Ian, from Ohio. will cut their way down to
Winchester, by the turnpike rpad from Graf
Gton, avoiding the line of the Baltimore aud
] Ohio Road, and fifteen THOUSAND men under
8General Butler, aided by a naval force, will
make their way up the James River. 1t is al
so stated that General Fremont w4li be placsc
in command of the Western Division Of til.
almy, which is to move down the Mississippi
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-06-12

?trymen. To this sentiment the hearty
A 'uen vent np from many lips. He ais,
mplimenled the Captain. b..commeEd
ably speaking Of his servlces to h,s conn
Try on former OCCASION. AMI that he Wa,
sea,itied To and had the condolences of hi,
.couatrymen.
Cap. Charesworth h.n ON half o
shis com npany, accepted The Flag in u few
sneat and pertinent remarks, returning
sgrateful thanks to the ladies', who hat
gihns 80 kindly honored them. s,5q
9 MIR. Nj fiat then introduced Rev Seig
fired. of Muskingum county. who .ad
Sdressed them for Few minutes in thrill
Hlng aud eloquent manner. but lhunde
sstorm coming w, his remarks were hurri
Sediy brought To a close, when Rev. Moi
Efat closed the ceremonies by offering VI
! a short prayer and pronouucing bene
ediction. , s sE
B Our two livery stables aud citizens gen
scraily turned out their vehicles and forme,
Sqaite o cavalcade as they passed out o
stown. The company marched TO the eas
EEend of town, preceded by many citizen
Gas an escort, under charge'of Msj Isan
gNeiswauger. where general leave iaklu;
Sto9k place. w
They reached the suburbs of Bridge
port about 6 O'Clock. where they wsr
tmet by two companies from Wheehn
flsland, aud escorted through town to ,hel
Sqnarters. They left there the next ,nol
Ruing by Bail r ,ad for Camp jackson .
CuIumbus. oil well aud in good spirits.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

FIFTY.s1x MILES OF LOGS ON THE SUsoUE-
HANNAH R1vER-Accounts continue to be
received of great damage done at the East by
freshets, last week, and the Harrisburg,
(Penn) Telegraph says that by the destruc-
ton of booms at Williamsport and Lock
Haven, on the West Branch of the Susque-
hannah River, at least one million dollars
worth of logs were swept away and lost.
The Telegraph says:
The floating logs reached this city about
ten minutes before twelve o'clock yesterday
morning, and presented a scene of the most
thrilling description. The wind came with
considerable force from the west, which had
the effect to drift most of them to the chan
mel east of Fosters Island, and for the first
two or three hours SO profuse was their num-
Der that they appeared to cover almost the
entire surface of the water between the
islands and this shore. This effect was the
same also as far as the eye could penetrate up
and down the river-nothing but logs packed
close together, as if they composed one i'm
mense moving raft. The logs were still
floating past the city up to nine clock last
night though much scattered, and il less
numbers. OF course it is impossible for us
to estimate the number of logs in this i'm
mense fotilla-we can only measure them
by the mile, and accordingly estimate the
swiftness of the current, assumed at seven
miles an hour, from the time they first ap-
peared here up to nine o'clock last night
that the line of logs extended a distance o
fifty six miles below this city, with an aver
age breadth of one hundred yards.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09
A True Hero,

Shortly after the battle of Carnifex Ferry
communication was cut off between the Fed
eral camp at Elkwater and that at Cheat
Mountain sdmmit, the rebels holding possess
sion of the road. 1t was necessary that COM
munication should be re- established between
General Reynolds at the former place and
Colonel Kimball at the latter. Several at
tempts had been made, but the messengers
had been killed in every case. Four had al
ready set out and had been picked off.
The whole camp at Elkwater was in dam
ger, and it was necessary to get word to the
Summit at once, and another young man
volunteered, but he, too, was never heard
from after he left the camp. The command
ing officer then stated to his men their dan
ger, and called upon some one to again vol
unteer to perform the risk. Not O man re.
sponded in all the camp, until at last one
was found in Captain Loomis's Michigan
battery.
Henry H Norringtop, of Detroit, offered to
peril his life to save the others. He started
out and succeeded in eluding the enemy,
crawling miles upon his hands and knees,
with his message rolled up and in his mouth,
ready to swallow in a moment if he was
taken, and finally reached the friendly camp.
He also had to return, and, after receiving
his dispatches, set out in the night, the whole
camp shaking hands with him, never expect
ing to see him again. He travelled all night,
guided by the north star, and the next day
crawled as before on his hands and knees.
lie finally struck the main road few miles
below Elkwater. Seeing one of the enemys
cavalry horses tied to a stake by the road
side, and the owner not visible, he crept up,
cut the rope with his knife and rode off in
hot haste, with several shots whizzing around
him. He arrived safely in camp and delivered
bis dispatches, being the only survivor of the
six that bad attempted the perilous task.
As reward for his bravery and daring he
was promoted in the company to be chief of
piece, and was placed upon the Command
ing Generals staff as Mounted Orderly. He
was presented by the Captain of his company
with a sword and by his General with an
elegant revolver. He was greeted upon
parade with nine cheers by the entire COM
pany, and his pay more than doubled. Be-
sides this, favorable mention was made of his
feat and the great service he had performed
in the official report forwarded to the De-
partment ut Washington.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

DR.. HAYES ARCTIC ExPEDITIoN.-The Bos-
ton Journal Of the 9Th says that letter has
been received by Mr.. e. G. Hammer, Danish
Vice-Consul in that city, from his correspond
ent in Copenhagen, in which the writer
states that the first vessel of the season from
the Greenland colonies arrived at Copenha-
gen a few days before the date of the letter.
The vessel brought as passenger Dr. Rink,
Government Inspector Of South Greenland,
gentleman of eminent scientific abilities,
who has done much to further Investigations
in the unknown country of the North, who
reports that nothing reliable had been heard
from the expedition under DR.. Hayes since it
left Upernavic. There was, however, vague
rumor that Greenlanders from one of the out
posts north Of UpernaVic last winter saw
some white men on the loose ice with dogs
and sledges. Attempts are said to have been
made by the E'guimauX to reach them,
which failed on account of the accumulation
of new ice. This information depends en-.
tirely upon the creGibility of the natives and
should therefore be taken with due allow
ance. The first arrival of the season from
Upernavic was looked for at Copenhagen at
the time the letter was written, aud three OF
four weeks hence we may obtain some reli-
able intelligence from the expedition.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

A letter from Germany says that the alter
ations which are making in Goethe's house
of birth, at Frankfort, which has passed into
private possession, are the talk of the town.
Here we have people whose cry for unity
at this moment resounds from the Baltic to
the Adriatic, from the Russian to the French
rontiers, " ho assemble Turnvereinen archery
associations, national leagues, Sangerverein-
en-, and countless other meetings; q people
who impose q tax on themselves for the Gre
alton of a German feet tax 80 severe that
every laborer, student &C., who indulges in
a glass of ale, for which he pays a groschen,
puts penny into box for the German fleet;
no one who has any knowledge of the guam
tity of ale a German throat may indulge in,
will be the least surprised to hear that the
sum of money thus collected is already very
considerable, and promises to become enor-
nous if the hot weather lasts, which favors
so much the consumption of the malt bever.
age; yet, with all these efforts, GOethe's
house passes into private possession. We
refrain from any comment on contradictions
which prove how small the progress toward
true national feeling il Germany has yet
been. We know nothing of the present
possessor of Goethe's house, not even hi!
name he may be sensible and intelligent
man, who takes the duty upon him of pre-
serving, in its original state, the birthplace
OF Germany's greatest poet; still, this is NJ
guarantee for the future, and does not save
the German nation from the blame of allo "
ing Goethe's house to be any thing else but {
national sanctuary
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

ANOTHER CHAMPION OF THE UNION IN ES-
GLAND.-The London Spectator has au able
article on American affairs, in which the
justice and wisdom of the policy of our Gov
ernment in endeavoring 20 re.establish the
Union are clearly shown, and the opinion is
expressed that the unfriendIy views of such
journals as the London Times are sun.
worthy of the great English nation" and
''not participated in by the masses Of the
English people. The article denies the
justice of the conclusion the advocates of Sc
cession have burriedly arrived at, ''th4t the
North are fighting for an impossibiity."
Among other arguments which it adduces to
show the~4allacy of that opinion, is one
based upon the relative price of food in the
North and South. The belief is expressed
that so much distress will eventually be
caused in the rebellious districts that it is by
no means an impossibility that "the South
ern States may be obliged to accept almost
any terms that the North may choose to
offer.'
Another point strongly presented is, that
the advocates of Secession, when they con
tend that dsunion is desirable, because as
they allege, it is the only possible step to a
conclusion of " hat they term causeess and
tratrcidal strife, forget or ignore the great
fact, that if separation were now peacefully
agreed upon, we could never expect per-
manent peace hereafter.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

WHERE is Our FLEET?-In addition to
the recall from foreign stations of almost
every ship of war we had, Government has
purchased and fitted with armaments, or
adapted to transport service several hun.
dIed sailing vessels and sea-going steamers,
which have been dispatched as fast as posi-.
BILE on some mission or other. AS the num-
Der is greater than that necessary to main
tain the blockade, it is fair to presume that
a second Hatteras expedition is on foot. This
gives plausibility TO the report that feet of
national ships have rendezvoused off New Or
leans, for the purpose of attacking that city.
We should suppose that such an expedition
would carry a large land force, which can
hardly have been the case II is certain,
however, that an enterprise of some kind is
being directed against the Southern coast, of
which the rebels have got wind, as they have
recalled troops from Virginia, and are rap
Idly garrisoniDg their more important prop
erty. We shall probably hear of blow
being struck in some quarter in a very few
days. We are now bringing our strong arm
inio the contest, against which the rebels
have nothing whatever TO oppose, and which
will soon begin to give us successes TO COM
pensste for the lack of brilliant achievements
on land.-Nea0 York Times,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

COTTON FOR A CoLD CLIMATE.-A new
rival to the cotton-felds of the South is re-
ceiving attention at the hands of the press.
1t is new kind of cotton plant or tree
which thrives in cool climate. Mr.. r. O..
Kendall, of Maryland, says that he dis
covered it in the Andes, near the fortieth
parallel of latitude, and that the ground
around the tree was then covered with snow.
1t is perennial, and lives many years. 1t
may be propagated either from seeds or cut
tings. About the third year it begins to
yield a crop of bolls without seeds, which
are not produced in much perfection until
the seventh year. The tree grows to about
the size of our peach trees, and the first one
observed by MIR. K, about eighteen feet in
hight, bore crop which he estimated at
nearly one hundred pounds. Mr.. X. is con-
fdent that this tree can be cultivated where
ever Indian corn can. In its general quail
ties the fiber of this plant has been pro-
nounced by cotton brokers equal to the best
Sea Island variety, and some bales of it have
been sold in South America for sixteen cents
per pound. The yield is great. With favor.
able soil and situation, two thousand pounds
can be raised per acre, while Mr.. K. claims
that half that amount can be depended upon
on an average. Five hundred pounds per acre
is held to be a good yield at the South.
Important, if true"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09
CoIored EmIsro,Iov IA HaytI.

The Haytian emigration movement is q
success. The Helen augusta sailed to-day
with a colony of colored emigrants TO Hayu,
one hundred and thirteen ia number. Still
another colony will sail next week, which
already comprises some ninety members. A
vessel is announced to sail on the 18th inst +,
and Mr.. Redpath has nearly three hundred
passengers engaged for her The greater
part of the colony by the Helen augusta
were from Canada, and Michigan and Penn
sylvania; and all of them were farmers emit
grating to grow cotton by free labor in the
only country in the new world exclusively
Inhabited by free men of African ancestry.
II is significant fact that these emigrants
are not the parishs of the large cities-men
driven to Hayti by hunger--but farmers,
who have done well in Canada and this
country, but have left US because of their
uncongenial social state. The Canadian ne
groes all testify that the prejudice Of color is
even more intolerable in the Provinces than
in the United States. One of the most sub.
stantial of the emigrants being asked why
he left America, said he wished ITO help to
put an end to this Southern cotton" They
all seem to believe that the fate of slavery
hangs on the cotton plant, and intend to
have a hand in settling it. There is no finer
country in the world for growing cotton
than Hayti, and we wish the emigrants all
possible success in their industrial philan-
thropic enterprise. They will doubtless do
better for themselves and their race, aud do
more to abolish slavery in America, by cul-
tivating the Southern staples in Hayti, than
by clinging TO their low destiny in this ma
tion.-Ne1o York EUening Post, 4h inst
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

A PIONEER MoTHER.-The infant settle
ments of Columbia and Cincinnati had passed
through but six winters, when a party of
German-born emigrants from Hagerstown,
Md, came to these shores. Among them
was Stophel Kearns, who first settled in Co
lumbia, but in a short time removed to a
farm near Madisonville, in this county. His
daughter Mary has but recently deceased, in
her eighty-thfrd year, at Keokuk, Iowa. On
tbe sth of March, 1886 Mary Kearns was
united in marriage by Aaron Caldwell, Esq,
to George Custard.
John Custard of this city, now surviving,
was the only son. Mary Custard, widow,
married MIR. Carpenter at New Madrid, No.,
who soon died, and widow Carpenter re-
turned to this county.
On the lst of January, 1912, she was m ar
ried by Rev. Philip Catch, to Christian
Waldsmith, miller and farmer, at Germany,
on the Little Miami River, short distance
above Milford.
Again widow, she married Lain Ready,
whom she has survived some years. In
March last, with son Of Ready she removed
to Keokuk, where she died.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

A STORY is told of Dick, darkey, in
Kentucky, who was notorious thief so
vicious in this respect that all the theft in
the neighborhood was charged on him. On
one occasion, Mr.. Jones, neighbor of
Dicks master, called and said that Dick
must be sold out of that part of the country,
for he had stolen all of his (NIr. Jones' J
turkeys. Dicks master could not think
SO. The two, however, went into the field
where Dick was at work, and accused him
Of the theft.
"You stole Mr.. Jones turkeys" said the
master.
"No, I didn't, massa,' responded Dick.
The master persisted.
"Well,' at length said Dick, "Ill tell
you, massa: I didn't steal dem turkeys;
but last night when | went across Mr..
Jones paster saw one of our rails on de
fence SO l brought home de rail, and found
out, when come to look, dar was nine
turkeys on de rail-"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

THE RISE OF THE RoTHsCHILDs-Whe
George III came to the throne, there was a
little boy at Frankfort who did not dream of
ever having anything to do, personally, with
the sovereigns of Europe. He was in the first
stage of training for the Jewish priesthood.
His name was Meyer Anselm Rotbschild.
For some reason or other he was placed in a
counting. house at Hanover, and he soon dis
covered what he was fit for. He began
humbly as an exchange broker, and went on
to be banker of the Landgrave of Hesse,
whose private fortune he saved by his
shrewdpess when Napoleon overran Ger
many. How he left large fortune and a
commercial character of the highest order,
and how his five sons settled in five great
cities of Europe, and have had more author
ity over war and peace and the destinles of
nations than the sovereigns themselves, the
world pretty well knows. Despotic mon
arChs must be dependent on money Lenders
unless they are free from debt, and COM
mand Unlimited revenues for untold pur.
pos@s-which is never true Of despotic SOW
eTeigns.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM-EEGINEs.-It is
stated that patent has recently been taken
out in England for Improvements in steam
engines, these Improvements consisting in
The use of steam through series of steam
cylinders, of not less than three, when high
pressure steam is employed, as in non-con-
densing engines, and four cylinders aud up
ward wien condensing apparatus is APP
each cylinder consecutively, commencing at
the cylinder having the smallest area, aud
passing forward to the next in proportion
to the whole series. The action of the
steam in each cylinder is regulated by
valves, as in the case of an ordinary steam
engine having two steam cylinders.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

THE G. s. A. appear to be carrying on q
brisk trade with Mexico, in arms ammuni-
ton and other warlike stores Large pur-
cbases of contrsband merchandise have been
Cruz-aDd we do not see that any difficulty
Inexperienced is in getting il to the Rio Grande.
A country Ike Mexico, the people Of which
are eterDally fighting among themselves,
must, of necessity, have an abundance Of
arms if nothing else, and we must not be sur
prised, therefore, if JEFF Davis, cut off by the
blockade, from Europe, should seek mar
ket for arms, gunpOwder, etc, there, trusting
to good luck to get them into the hands Of
his "confederates" by the overland route.
and it is not impossible that Uncle Sam may
make il still harder, by throwing few reg
iments into Texas to watch the frontier.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

BLANKETS FOR VoLUETEERs.-Everyf family
can be connected in some way with securing
the comfort and protection during the COM
ing winter of our volunteers out in their
tents and exposed camps. General Meigs,
United States Quartermaster General, has
issued the following appeal:
The troops in the field need blankets. The
supply in the country is exhausted, Men
spring to arms faster than the mills can man
ufacture, and large quantities ordered from
abroad have not yet arrived.
To relieve pressing necessities, contribu-
tions are invited from the surplus stores Of
families.
The regulation army blanket weighs five
pounds, but good, sound woolen blankets,
weighing not less than four pounds, will be
gladly received at the Office of the United
States Quartermasters in the principal towns
of the loyal States, and applied to the use ol
the troops.
To such as have blankets which they can
spare, but can not afford to give, the full mar
ket value of suitable blankets, delivered as
above, will be paid.
We add, send the soldiers blankets, wooler
socks and under shirts.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

A BRIGHT EXAMPLE FOR OUR YOUNG MEN.
The young Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, millionaire, not satisfe with his
liberal contributions of money to the cause
Of the Union in this war, was one among
the first to offer his individual services in
the field, and was among the bravest of the
brave on the bloody hills of Manassas.
Lately in explaining !, his y non attendanGe at
Permit me 10 say, and especially to the
young men of Vermont-that class whom
am trying to represent in my own person
that the glorious privilege of doing some
real service 10 ones country now exists,
and that "a lifetime may never present an
other such OCCASION Noble words.