The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
PEEK AT The PAST
Newspapers of 1s52-'53-'55 Are
Found in Old Framed Picture.
One Describes Scenes on Broad
way in the Civil War.
TOBACCO A MENACE THEN
Naughty College Students Criti-
cised for Expenditures.
Picture Was Framed by j. ID.
Durham, an Old Settler.

Having just passed thru the world
war. one may gain a good idea of the
excitement in the United States at the
outbreak of the Civil war by referring
TO a copy of the New York Semi-Week-
~ Tribune of April %, 1861, now in
the possession of Ray Smith, Route
Smith is employed in the press room
Of The State Journal During his life
time, j. B Durham. Mrs. Smith 5
ancle. had a hobby of collecting pic
lures of his ancestors, which he pasted
upon a great sheet of cardboard The
collection is an heirloom and recently
when the Smiths took the cardboard
down from the wall with the intention
of bringing it downtown to- have II
reframed, they found behind it the old
copy of the Tribune. copy of the
Western Mail of January 4, 1852, and
four copies of the Western Christian
Advocate, published in 1852, 1853 and
1855.
News of Civil War.
The Tribune was an eight-page pa
per. six Columns wide. This particular
copy was filled almost entirely with
news of the great struggle for the
Union that was then in progress. the
first two columns on the front page
give an account of the departure OF
thirteen regiments from New York for
the theater of war. In describing the
departure of the Seventh New York
infantry the correspondent says:
THE crowd in Broadway was inn
mense. One ignorant of the purpose
of that display might have thought
from the gala look of so many thou
sand banners that tributaries were fol-
lowing in captive bonds the chariots
of some returning host fresh from
conquest, rather than that they waved
a farewell to those thousand young
men going out to meet foe. But
etc Inn "a ref
observing could see that there were
many handkerchiefs that did not wave,
but were pressed convulsively to many
eyes to hide the starting tears and
along the side streets, just out OF the
way of the rushing crowd. were close
drawn carriages, from out of whose
back windows were the faces of moth
ers. from whose eyes rained tears as
they strained for one more look at
sons marching away in that solid pha-
lanx. But the steady eyes of the SOL
diers turned neither to right nor left
muskets passed rapidly by and seemed
to sink into the earth, leaving a great
void behind"
Dispatches from all parts of the east
tell of enthusiastic mass meetings and
resolutions TO back the government to
and citizens totaling thousands of dol
lars to equip new companies and regi-
ments.
Flour at IS Barrel
The market page of the Tribune OF
that date holds particular interest for
newspaper readers of today. Some OF
the market quotations: Flour, IS bar
roll rye flour $3.50 BARREL wheat
SIPS bushel: barley, S. cents bushel;
hay. baled. $14 ton; pork, $1S.75; beef,
1915; lard. 10: butter. .09 to is;
cheese. .0S. and sugar. .05
But above all-close the door before
res ding this: "Whisky-The market
is lower and is more active. Sales OF
$50 barrels at 8 cents"
There are lengthy literary reviews
of books Just out-the sixth volume OF
Macaulay's History of England;
Helias. a novel by Bulwer-Lytton and
some poems.
Europe Was Disturbed.
Closer to home was the Western
Mail. 1t was published at Weston
Mo. by ]. NJ. Garner and J. NJ. Mar
grave. The copy of January 4, 1862
contains the text of the treaty. JUS
then completed, by which Missouri be-
came a part of the Confederacy. But
Judging by the editorials it appears
II. the Western Mail at least, was
loyal to the Union. And there is ar
article clipped from the Londor
Chronicle describing the alarming in
dustrial conditions then existing in
Europe as a result of the cotton block
ade by the Union on the southern