davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
Interesting from CharlestOn---Major AM
aersOn's Loyalty. t- ,'rn

ACharleston correspondent Of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer writes:
l cannot refrain from telling you what
came to my knowledge in very direct
way, respecting the former; i is well
know fact that Jefferson Davis and Gov.
Pickens have been continually cores
ponding with him. and happen to know
from one of the aids of Gov. PickenS, that
the last proposition made to him was to
resign his command in the United States
Army, and accent the position of Briga
der General in the Southern Army. My
informant, wLo is man with very high
sense of honor, and one who very much
despises the late conduct OF Generrl
Twigas, tells me that najo Anderson i'm
mediately and Indignantly rejected tie
offer, ant gave his correspondent to un-
derstapd that he had hoped that their for
rner knowledg ge Of his character as u SOL
dier would have pievenledan such prop
ositioDs from being presented to him.
The people here were very anxious, when
they discovered that there was "no back
down" in the Major to stop his market
ing supplies, and to commence starving
him out; but they have been continued by
the express desire Of jeff. Davis. who
was always on terms Of personal friend
ship with the Major so lately as this
morning his boat brought good supply
Of poultry, vegetables, and other Of the
good things of life.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
Business Gar6s.

Mo GDo GDo Ho
UHARITY LODGE, No. 7, meets every MONDAY
>RocK HOCKING ENCAMPMENT, No. 90, meets
qdand 4th Thursday Eveningsin each month.
Lancaster, april l2, le60-2u
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
AN AHT

10 repeal all special acts Of incorporation which
have not been accepted or BctedupOn.
Section l. Be il enacted bg the General ASssnbIy
Of the state Of Ohio That special OF incoTpOra
ton in force in this Sts'e which have been accep
ted or acted upon, be and the same h, reby re-
pealed.
Sec, 2. This act shall take effect from Its pas
sage. RICHARD c. Pa aRS0NS
Speaker ofihe House OF R.preseniatves.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President OF the Senate.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
Passed January 81, 1861.
AN ACT

No. 6. AN ACT
To prevent the Amagamation OF the White
and Colored Races.
SECTION |. Be il .naeipd By the General
Assembly, of the Slate Of Ohio. That hereafter
it shall be unlawful for any person Of pure
white blood 10 iniermarry with or have Illicit
csrnal intercourse with any negro, or person Ia
wing distinct and visible admIxture Of Africsn
blood; or for any negro or person having dis
tinct and visible admixiure of African blood to
intermarry with, or have Illicit oarnal inter
course with any person ofpure white blood land
any person offending against either ofthe pr wis
ions OF this section shall be deemed guilty OF
a m siemeanur and on conviction thereof,
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, and he Imprisoned in the jail
Of the county for any PERIOD not exceeding
three months, or both, at the discretion OF the
court.
SEC. Q. That any person who shall, know
inclv, solemnze a marriage forbidden by lhlS
act, OF any Probate Judge who shall knowing
ly issue license for the solemnlZallon Of any
marriage forbidden by this act. shall be deem
ed guilty Of mishemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined in airy sum not exceed
ing one hundred dollars or imprisoned In the
county Jail not exceeding three months or
both, at the discretion OF the court.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage
RICHARD c. PARSONS,
| Speaker Of The House of Represent a.iVes.
ROBERT C. KIRK,
President Of the Senate.
| n 1881
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
rERMs OF SUBSCRIPTION.
EDITORS & PRoPRIETo

The Gazette will be published every Ihursday' on
the foilowtihg terms: a,xo
nna vaal- advance Sl Ou
After the Expiration oil . mohIns .a;e -, S0
Porlesst me than one year, AZ ,no iasV "i'' ."
per anuutn, but invarlaole ~ aoVance' n.,A
ITNodii iscontinuanee euntiiarrea'ssfseat0p p"'D'
THRMs OF ADVERTISING.
A square OF 10 lines, tess'oho M
Three inse ttons ...s -. n o,
For each kiditiona months
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28

"Farewoll, harpy heldSl where Joy forever dwellS
Haiihorrorsl hail internal world! and thou,
Profoundeat helll receive thy new possessor"
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28

How MUCH MANURE?- Mr.. Boyntnn, Of
Sandwich, Mass, has well drained mead
ow of Al acres, to which, every November
he applies the years manure OF Is | or.
ses. AS The result, he gels fom 26 to
81 tuns Of hay annually, including two
cuttings. The second growth, or after
math, ranges from I to 10 tuns.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-28
RICHARD G PARSONS.
Passed January 9, 1861.

Speaker Of House oi representatives,.
ROBERT c KIRK,
President of the Senate,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
Hot ShOt.

Colonel Scott in his able military diction-
AIRY, gives the following account of the man
ner of using hot shot, and the peculiar des-
tructiveness of this missile. The reader will
remember that it was hot shot which made
Fort Sumter untensble for our gallant garri-
son; and it would be a curious retributicn il,
after Charleston is destroyed, the insurgents
were in turn driven out of the forts in the
bay by hot shot fred from the shore:
The charges for hot shot are from one
quarter to e-si1th the weight of the shot,
With small velocities the shot splits and
splinters the wood so as to render it favorable
for burning. With great velocity the ball
sinks deep into the wood, is deprived OF air
by the closing of the hole, and chars instead
OF burning the surrounding wood. 1t should
not penetrate deeper than ten to twelve
inches. Red. hot balls do not set fire to the
wood until some time after their penetration.
They retain sufficient heat to ignite wood
after having made several ricochets upon
water. The wads are made of clay or hay.
Clay wads should consist of pure clay, or
fuller's earth, free from sand or gravel, we'll
kneaded, with just enough moisture to work
well. They are cylindrical and one caiber
in length. Hay wads should remain in the
tub to soak at least ten or fifteen minutes.
Before belng used the water IS pressed out of
them. When hay wads are used vspor may
lie Eeen escaping from the vent on the inser-
tiOn of the bali; but, as this is only the effect
OF the heat Cf the ball on the water contained
in the wsd, no danger need be apprehended
from it. With proper precautions in loading,
the ball may be permitted to cool in the gun
without igniting the charge. The piece,
however, should be fred with as little delay
as possible, as the vapor would diminish the
strength of the powder. Furnaces for heat
ing shot are erected at the forts on the sea
coast. These furnaces hold sixty or more
shot The shot being placed, and the fur
mace cold, it requires one hour and fifteen
minutes TO heat them to a red heat but after
the furnace is once heated twenty four
FOUNDER shot is brought to a red heat in
twenty-five minutes; the thirty-two FOUNDER
and forty. wo.pounder shots require few
minutes longer. Three men are required to
attend the furnace: one takes out the hot
shot and places them on tbe stand to be
scrapedi another scrapes them and puts them
in the ladle; and the third supplies cold shot
and fuel
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
THE DAILY PRESS.
WFDNKsDAY.r.............-.....OCTOBRR so
'om the London News.I
Views OF the American war-The Real
Greatness Of the American UnIon.

Views OF the American Wharf.-The Real
Greatness Of the American Union.
The whole history of great States, whether
monarchical or republican, in all ages and in
all climes, has been one Of alternate engraft-
ings and splinterings from the central stock
Territorial expansion and contraction have
been by turns the destiny of nearly every
European State of the first order, since the
days of Charlemagne. 1t has been pre-. emil
nently 80 Of France, whose confines have
seldom remained for half q century un-
changed; yet when has the bitterest enemy
of that great country vpntured to talk of her
political existence as thing that has passed
aWay2 Every true statesman and historian
understands that the vitality Of great State
consists not in the casual extent of its acre
age, or the huctuatiDg number of its people,
but in the moral vigor which loyalty to its
institutions, and homogenity of feeling,
habit and purpose, give, and which no acci-
dents of flood or field can take away.
Were the Southern States parted finally
and forever from the Union, the Union
would still be the greatest free country, with
the exception of our own, that the world has
ever seen. 1t would still possess elements
within itself of opulence and power vaster by
far than any European State can boast it
would still be invncible by foreign arms and
unshackled in the pursuit of industry,
knowledge, adventure and improvement by
domestic bonds, whether of creed or caste;
il would still possess the priceless treasure of
a matured literature and Jurisprudence, and
while it retained all the freshness and energy
of national youth, it would still be volun.
tary combination of selfruling States-it
would still be the home of the free. We
cordially sympathize in the bold and elo'
quent language of Vice Chancellor Page
Wood upon this subject; and we seriously
commend his wise and mighty words Of
political reproof to the shallow. pated orators
and writers, who think it fine to sneer AT the
mischances and losses of free community,
involved against their will in sanguinary
war.
No purity of motives or political wisdom
can effectually insure nation against wan
ton and willful disaffectioD. How mauy re
volts have English rulers been obliged to
resist? How many atte npts at schism and
secession has not British power survived
Our duty as a nation of kinsWen, OF friends
and Of Deighbors is very plain. Our sympa-
thies and prayers ought to be for those and
those alone who stand on the defensive in
this lamentable quarrel, for theirs is the
cause of law, order and right. We, too are
likely to be heavy sufferers by reason of the
conflict; but, as Lord de Grey has recently
well said, when addressing public assembly
in Yorkshire, mo consideration of tempo
Iary self-interest ought to induce us to think
of interposing between the combstants, on
any plea or upon any pretense whatsoever"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

A CLEAR CASE OF FRAUD.-Iti is related by
one of the dispatches from the battlefield at
Edwards's Ferry, that when our brave boys
were trying to make their way from the trap
into which they had been fooIishly led, back
across the Potomac a poor negro with
small skiff employed himself the whole night
in ferrying over the fugitives. He succeeded,
in this way, in saving the lives, or in secur-
ing the escape, at least of no less than one
hundred persons His master all the while
was probably on the Virginia shore trying to
send a MIME ball into the hearts of our men.
Now, as the ''service" of this fellow did not
belong TO himself but his MASTER what right
had be to lend his labor to our suffering
soldiers? Was he not defrauding his ownerP
Will not some of our Generals insist upon
delivering him up" to be properly punished
for so audacious a use of his muscles? OF
course, no one will be so insane as to pro-
pose that he should be emancipated for this
timely rescue of so many loyal troops. That
would be Aboltionsm; that would be inter-
fering with the sacred institution; that would
be confessing that negroes are men, and en-.
titled to decent respect.-N Y. Post.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

AN ARTEsIAN WELL.-The sinking of the
Artesian well at Psssy, France, has occupied
six years, at a cost of 100000. The result
is, however, beyond all previous calculation.
Instead of the twelve thousand, no less than
seventy-fve thousand cubic feet spring up
every twenty.four hours-the well at Gren-
ale giving only three thousand at the ut
most, now reduced to two thousand two
huudIed cubic feet. The Passy bore is thirty
inches in diameter, and quite river of pure
one-thirty fifth of the average flow of the
SeiDel With few such wells all Paris
could be supplied and at triffing cost COM
pared with that of the gigantic schemes for
bringing water from Champagne and other
quarters The temperature is high-eighty
degrees-and in this state it can be made
very useful for many purposes, though for
drinking it must be cooled.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN ACOUSTICS

INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN ACoUsTICs.-A
very interesting exhibition Of an improve
ment in the acoustic properties of the piano.
forte took place before a large number of
musical gentlemen, professional and anna
teur, on Thursday evening, at the room $50
Fourth-street IL was the application OF a
new string clamp invented by Spencer B.
briggs, the inventor of the Wallace 'violin
piano" the object being TO avoid the oblique
position of the strings on the bridge, and
thus not only to prevent the instrument
from jarring, but to increase its tone i'm
mensely and preserve its tone for a great
length of time. BY this simple invention
the strings are kept in perfect line, and all
strain upon the bridge, screw and sounding
board obviated. The experiment worked to
perfection, and received the warmest appro.
baton of the professional gentlemen present.
NeW York Herald, 29th.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
nlnnhIninI.nnhnn.

Blondin, he of Niagara Falls notoriety, is
the 'lion of England" The New York Posts
London correspondent thus refers to him:
The most notorious, and indeed, might
say, the most popular man in England Just
now is Blondin, and he is generally consid-
cred an American, halls from the United
States, makes great use of the American flag,
| (the good old Stars and Stripes, too and is
| judelibly associated with Niagara Falls. II
is difficult TO give you an idea of the extent
| of the Blondin excitement here. The Syden-
ham Crystal Palace finds in Blondin's rope
walking feats its most successful rowd-
drawing attraction; and the fests quite equal
any thing the agile Frenchman ever at.
tempted in America. Of course, the solemn
muis who write for the Times and Atheneum
become maestically philosophical about it,
alleging in pompous phrases that the half
unconscious desire to see the rope dancer fall
and break his neck was the real cause of his
success in drawing crowds. This auecdote
is ALEC told; Not long ago his pole broke
and he almost fell; as soon as he recovered
his equilibrium his agent remarked to spec
tator; "Ahl he is safe; he never yet has dis
appointed the public" "He disappointed
the public just this moment" was the reply.
"How 2" why, in not falling and break
ing his skull"
They have got Blondin actually done up
into moral books for children Fact--no
exaggerstionl Blondin the rope dancer-the
solemn muffs call him "the mountebank"-
is worked up into moral studies for young
children For you must know that new
kind OF juvenile reading has been lately got
up here, in the form of picture books, the
pictures being in several pieces or bits Of pa
per, to which is attached q slip of paper rum
ming down the back of the page and serving
as a pull. Thus, man is depicted chOpping
wood; pull the slip of paper and up goes his
ak. He eats; pull, and his jaws wsg. In
this semi toy style of book is Blondin repre-
sented performing divers feats on ropes, and
under each picture are serious remarks on
the necessity of hard toll and untiring dill
gence if small boys wish to acquire excel
lence in any special walks of life. Thus doth
hour-at once affording moral examples for
infant minds, amusing a gaping public aud
filing his own pockets.
BlOndin is now preparing for provincial
tour and the dead walls of half the towns in
Southern England are magnificent in huge
red and yellow posters, representing "BlOn-
din's great feat at Jones's Wood" "Blondin
crossing Niagara" in great variety OF atti-
tudes, portrait of Bloudin as a civilian, and
q representation of Blondin walking on a
rope sire tched from the top of two tall church
spires something which, in my opinion, is
rather play of fancy than "reminiscences of
fact.
"a Female Blondin" has also appeared,
and nightly ascends rope, amid blaze OF
fireworks, at the Cremorne Gardens. l have
! learned, accidentally, that the lady's name is
Youpg-thst she has long belonged to a Cir
| Gus company, but never attracted any atten-
ton till she assumed the mystic title of the
"Female Blondin."
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

ODDFELLowsHIP IN MARYLAND.-The re-
port of the Grand Secretary, Joseph B Es-
cavsille, recently made to the Grand Lodge,
shows that there were in that State, on the
30th of June last, ninety. one lodges; that
during the year there had been five hundred
and eighty. one limitations, fifty nine rejec-
tions, forty admitted by cards. eightY-one
withdrawn by cards, one hundred and
eighteen reinstatements, seven hundred and
forty suspensions, twenty one expulsions, one
hundred and seven deaths. Total number of
members within the jurisdiction, eleven
thousand nine hundred and twenty. nine.
During the fiscal year one thousand eight
hundred and ffty. six members and one hum
dred and fifty-three widowed families were
relieved. The amounts paid for the relief of
members were $29,O77 4e; for widowed
families, $l9, ,15O SO; for education of orphans,
$3sO6 80, and for the burial Of the dead,
$s,2l9 l6: making total for relief of $59,-
253 70. The total amount of receipts was
$98,4l9 IS. OF the amount expended for re-
lief So, ,583 AZ was from contributions.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

A JOG TO JOHN BULLS Memory The
British Government complains that British
subjects are arrested here on charge Of aiding
the rebellion, and are not released on hdbeGs
corpus. We have note from Mr.. Charles
Phillips, Of Malone, Franklin County, re-
mindiDg us that during the Canadian rebel
lion, in 1887, scores Of American citizens
were thrown into prison at Toronto, Mont
real, and all along the frontier-and many Of
them without the slightest suspicion of hav-
ing been in any way connected with the re-
bellion. Mr.. Phillips himself was thus ar
rested, and was confined for sixteen days in
Toronto, when he had not expressed, either
by word or deed, the slightest possible sym
pathy with the rebel cause. England acted
then upon the law of self defense, aud
neither hGbeGs corpus, treaties, laws, nor any
thing else, was permitted to stand in the way
of whatever was essential to her own safety.
She must allow us TO follow her example
now.-NeW York Times.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

Many errors occur by parsons not observing the
following regulations in depositing letters papers
or miscellaneous publications in the Office for
mailing:
ALL DROP-LETTERS MUST BE PREPAID by
POSTAGE-SFAMPS.
Prepayment, by stamps, required on all letters TO
places within the United States.
Such not prepaid l1 be sent 10 the Dead Letter
Once, and the party addressed loM not be notified,
heretofore.
Prepayment, by stamps, required on all transient
printed matter, foreign and domestic.
BY inserting the county in which the office is le-
tion might be detected, and mistakes in mailing be
avoided.
The postage on sheet music, maps, elOrdvings, Mho-
pT0phs photographic prints, rollers in paper
cOUeTs; books, bound uaboUnd photographic paper
and letter enpeiopeS in packages not exceeding IN any
four pounds, Is at Che rate of oeht ounce
fraction Of ounce 10 place IN the United States
under fifteen hundred miles, and al The rate Of too cents
ophce fraction Of dn ounce over Wteen hundred
miles, prepaid bv postage. stamps,
Same rates on cards, either blank or printed, and
blanks IN packages Weighing at least eight ounces,
a I'd seeds or cuttings in packages not exceeding
REGISTRY OFFICE.
Valuable letters. for any part of the United States
Canada, Great Britain, Fra ce, Holland. the Italian
Statee, or States OF the German Austrian Postal
Office between the hours of ~ A M. aud P. NJ
Letters 10 be registered tvH not be received al later
hour. - -
Office open from TX A. M. to 6k r. M.
Open on Sundays from to l0h A; M.
J. g. BAUM, P. NJ.
Cincinnati, October 5, 1861.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
The Catholic Church.

The late historian, Mdcaulsy, sums up the
history, progress and present condition of
the Catholic Church, in the following terse
and expressive language:
There is not, and there never was on this
earth work of human policy SO we'll de-
serving Of examination as the Roman Catho-
lie Church. The history of that Church joins
together the two great ages of human Civiii-
zation. No other institution is left standing
which carries the mind back to'the times
when the smoke Of sacrifices rose from the
Pantheon, and when cameleopards and tigers
bounded in the Flavian amphitheater. The
proudest royal houses are bat of yesterday
when compared with the line of Supreme
PontifRs. That line we trace back in an un-
broken series from the Pope who crowned
Napoleon in the nineteenth century, to the
Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth and
far beyond the time of Pepin the august dy-
nasty extends, till it is lost ia the twilight Of
fable. The Republic ofVenice came next in
antiquity. But the Republic Of Venice was
modern when compared with the Papscy
and the Republic Of Venice is gone, and the
Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not
in decay, not in mere antique, but full of
life and youthful VigOr. The Catholic Church
is still sending forth to the f1rthest ends Of
the world missionaries as Jealous as those who
landed in Kent with Augustin, and still con-
fronting hostile kings with the same spirit
with which she confronted Atilla. The num-
Der Other children is greater than in any other
age. Her acquisitions in the New World
have more than compensated for what she
has lost in the Old. Her spiritual ascendency
extends over the vast countries which lie be-
tween the plains of Missouri and Cape Horn,
countries which, century hence, may not
lmprobably contain population as large aa
that which now inhsbits Europe. The men,
bers OF her communion are not fewer than a
hundred and fifty millions; and it will be
dlnceit 70 show that all other Christian sects
united amount to a hundred and twenty
millions. Nor do we see any sign which in
dicates that the term of her long dominion is
approaching.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

The issue of Government demand notes,
thus far, has been $ll, 100000, aud that OF
the 81 30" notes $50 100000. The latter, of
course, represent but part of the money
paid in, for which certificates have been
given, emitting the holder to the notes as
soou as they can be issued. The greatest
difficulty with the popular loan seems to be
to manufacture the notes fast enough. One
hundred clerks are constantly employed at
the Treasury Department in Washington,
in filling up, signing, cutting and delivering
the notes
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30

ELoPEMRNT ExTRAoRDINARY.-One of the
daughters of Governor Douglas, of Van
couver Island, eloped and was married at
Port Townsend, on the l4th of September,
to Charles Good, of Victoria. The runaway
couple escaped from Vancouver Island in the
schooner Explorer, which, upon arriving at
Port Townsend, was boarded by a Justice of
the Peace, who proceeded to tie the knot
A. W. Drake, of Victoria, who had pursued
the bride, arrived too late to prevent the
marriage, and just in time to be- kepta safe
prisoner by sympathizlng crowd, until the
ceremony was performed.