smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861




Most of our readers have by this time
perused President Lincoln's Inaugural Ad-
dress. The Union, Appeal, Marysyille DEM
ocret, and other dailies that have a wide
circulation in this neighborhood, contained
it several days ago, which precludes the
necessity of our giving it publication.


The document is differently construed by
different persons, as their sectional leanihgs
may happen to suggest-one portion of com
munity regarding it as a manifesto Of war,
and the other declaring it'cohcliatory and
decidedly for peace. We can see nothing in
it which bears the Interpretation of threat.
The style is a little crude, but tife matter
directly to the point. Every one with
moderate degree of intelligence, may under
stand it. Fherights of slavery in the slave
States are not to beiinterfered with, but the
revenues must be collected and the public
property defended. Mr. Lincoln does not
even 90 SO far as to say that the laws of
Congress shall be strictly enforced in the
seeding States, but on the contrary viii not
attempt to make appointments to Office
there against their expressed wishes-choos-
ing rather that the public interest should in
some degree suffer than conflict of arms
be precipitated.


This is what the President substantially
says, and what, if it had been said and acted
upon by Mr. Buchanan, would have crushed
the secession movement out before it gained
sufficient headway to be formidable. We
cannot imagine how true man, feeling the
solemn responsibility of an official oath rest
ing upon him, and knowing the spirit in
which the people, the laws and the Constitu-
tion require the functions of his high Office
to be executed, could say less. If he is sus-
tained by Congress and the people, we have
every confidence, from his declarations, that
the power of the National Government, so
ignobly and basely used by his predecessor,
restoration and maintenance of that dignity
which it has lost. Indeed, it can hardly be
said that We have had Government for the
past three months. Every "puny whipster"
has placed its authority at defiance. Traitors
menaced the Chief Executive in the White
House, and bullied him on the floors of Con-
gress. The true American citizen felt
blush mantle his cheek when he centem-
plated such state of affairs. We have been
the laughing stock to nations abroad, the
weakest and most contemplate of which,
have made US the subject of their ribaldry
and jests. 1t is high time these things were
at an end. President Lincoln intimates the
same thing. He promises to be a deter
mined Chief Executive officer, and so long
as he is so-politics entirely aside-he 6e-
serves to be encouraged and sustained by
all parties. For one, we shall only demand
that he is right, and then that he shall ago
ahead let who will be the sufferers in the
conflict that ensues, if conflict it is to be.
Year: 1861

The Cleveland Plaindealer, comparing the
staple powers OF the North and South says
Cotton is convenience to be sure, but
corn is necessity. A man can live with
out shirt, but what can he do without
whisky"
Year: 1861




Mr.. T. McGuIRE's CARD.-On the outside of
to-day's paper we publish the report of the Grand
Jury, and on the inside card over the signature
of Mr.. T. Mcclure, citizen of this place, relat-
ing to Hospital affairs. We understand it was
notorious last week in Nevada that personal
insult was offered Mr.. Mcclure by the physi-
clan of the Hospital, for no other reason than
that he dared discharge his sworn duty as grand
juror, and yet, although they have daily and a
tri-weekly paper at that place, both of which
have since been issued several times, we see in
neither of them any allusion to the affair. The
Jury, in its official character, publishes specific
charges against the physician of the Hospital,
and the papers alluded to are also silent on this
point.


Now, we know nothing about the indignity
offered to Mr.. Mcclure by the physician, further
than is set forth in his card-which, knowing the
author as we do to be gentleman of veracity, is
with us good authority-nor about the abuses
practsed in the Hospital, if there be any abuses
but whether there are not, we think it was the
plain duty of the papers alluded to, either to
eorroborate and substantiate the statement of the
Grand Jury, or vindicate the physician from the
charges preferred against him.


This is public matter, which interests every
taxpayer Of the county, and the people should
be informed of all the facts in the premises. If
grand jurors are to be oyerawed and intimidated,
we will hereafter be compelled to rely on bullies
and fighting men to discharge the duties of that
thankless and expensive vocation.
Year: 1861

A ZoUAvE IN THE ENEMY's CAMP-When the
Fire Zouaves stormed the masked battery at Bull
Run, and were forced to fall back by the grape
shot and cavalry charge, one Of them Was stun
ned by blow from a ssber and fell almost under
one of tie enemy's guns. The Secessionists
swarmed around him like bees, but feigning
death, in the excitement he was unnoticed, and
when a sally was made managed to crawl back
into the thicket inside the Confederate lines.
Here he waited some time for an opportunity 70
escape, but finding none concluded he would
make the best Of bad bargain, and if he was
lost would have a little revenge beforehand.
Hastily stripping the body OF Confederate near
by, he donned his uniform, and seizing q rife
made way to the entrenchments, where he joined
the Secessionists, and, watching his oppOrtuni
ties, succeeded in picking off several of their
most prominent officers whenever they advanced
out upon the troops. Here he remained some
time, until, thinking it best to leave before his
disguise should he discovered, he joined party
who were about to charge upon our forces, and
was TO his qualification, again captured, but this
time by his own men. Our fire proved very de-
structive to the enemy, and cut down their men
by hundreds In the battery where the Zouave
fell he afterwards counted thirty-five dead bod.
les lying close together, and the bushes were full
of the wounded who had crawled of to get out
OF the way
Year: 1861

"A pretty little bantam was recently thrown
into the cage of one of the tigers domiciled in
the menagerie of the Jardn des Plantes. 1t
was designed to sharpen his appetite for come
blocks Of meat which he had declined to eat
Not in the least alarmed by his terrible roars,
bantam advanced with the most unsuspecting
confidence to peck the food that was lying un,
tasted before him, and, when she had satisfied
her hunger, began to examine closely the Claws
of the monster. Far from being afronted al
this familiar treatment, he appeared to be de-
lighted with the new inmate OF his cage, ana
when the keeper managed to take her away, he
obstinately refused to taste any TODD, either Nv
ing or dead, till she was put back again.
Year: 1861

ELLswoRTH's DExrERITY.-He practiced the
manual Of arms in his own room, Until his dex.
ferrous precision was something akin to the
sleight of juggler. He investigated the theory
of every movement in an anatomical view, and
made several most valuable improvements on
Hardee. He re-arranged the manual so that
every movement formed the logical groundwork
Of the succeeding one. He studied the science
Of fence, SO that he could hold a rapier with
DeVilliers, the most dashing of the Algerine
swordsmen. He always had hand as true a.
steel, and an eye like ger-falcon. He used TO
amuse himself by shooting ventilation holes
through his window psnes. Standing ten PAGES
from the window, he could fire the seven shots
from his revolver and not shiver the glass be-
yond the circumference Of half dollar. / have
seen photograph of his arm taken at this time.
The kno,ted coil of thews and sinews looks like
the magnificent exaggeraiions Of antique sculP-
ture.
Year: 1861

Mr.. Bolts says in recent letter, January
"a:


~ believe l constitute a fair type or speci.
men of what is the actual condition of every
man in the Southern States, in legal polti.
cal, and constitutional sense, and find myselfin
the full, free, and perfect exercise of every bes
sing, and of every right, of a personal nature,
that have enjoyed since came into the world.
am also in the possession and enjoyment of
whatever property may own, and nobody, as
far as know, proposes to disturb me nor dis
posses me of it, nor cauI be dispossessed by
any human being without due course of law.
How long this state of things may continue,
Omniscience only can tell, but is there any one
in these particulars, in a worse condition than,
myself? If there is, if the instance can be
presented of any one man out of the ten mil
lions of the white population Of the Southern
States, who is laboring under any oppression,
wrong, injustice, or grievance, that cannot be
redressed in the Union, and can be redressed
out of the Union, then will pledge myself to
vote for disunion whenever the question comes
up but if no such person can be found, will
never consent to give up this Government, the
work of men whose like we neer shall look
upon again." for any other government which
the destroyers of this are likely to substitute
in its stead. l will not destroy the house in
which live, and which protects me from the
blasts and storms of Winter, when not one brick
is burnt, nor a stick of timber is cut, with
. which to erect another. will not tear down
the works of Washington, Of Madison, of Frank.
lin, of Carroll, of Morris, and Of Pickney, to
take upon trust the clumsy machinery of Yam.
cy, and Rhett and Pickens, and Toombs, and
Davis. will not surrender the Government
until know that a better one is provided for
me-"
Year: 1861

The New York Democratic State Convention
assembled on Thursday. The Committee on
Resolutions have agreed on a series opposing
coercion, favoring the Crittenden compromise,
and exhorting all men to unite with them on
submitting that compromise to a vote of the
people of the State.
Year: 1861

Lieutenant Slemmer's wife having been taken
prisoner by the secession forces opposite Fort
Pickens, is to receive a testimonial Of approval
from the Union ladies of Washington city, on
account of her devotion to her country and the
gallant officer who is her husband. The arrest
of woman and the seizure of an hospital, are
not exactly the acts the world will admire.
Year: 1861

TENNESSEE AND DRAFTINe.-Gov. Harris, Of
Tennessee, recently directed that all the able
bodied men of the State should be drafted into
the army. report comes from Nashville by
refugees. that tho attempt to enforce this order
had produced riot in Nashville, in which sew
eral of the civil officers appear to have been
killed, and Gov. Harris was compelled to leave
the city. The report, if true, would show that
not only Eastern but Middle Tennessee is con.
slderaby disaffected towards the rebel govern.
ment, and that it is in some danger Of colla pse
from spontaneous popular action. 1t is not un.
likely that there should be many persona in
Nashville opposed to destroying the Union and
setting up instead the arbitrary authority of the
rebel Usurpation. Men by this time must begin
to see that the substitute is not anything like as
good as the government which it would super
cede.
Year: 1861

Nor AT ALL FRIGHrENED.-q'he Charlestsn


Mercury endesvors to treat the invasion OF the
South from the seaboard as matter Of no great
consequence, merely puncturng the skin bus
dong no injury to the vitals of rebeIlisn. IL
asserts that the only mode of invasion is over.
land. and declares the obstacles in that quarter
to be almost lnsurmountable. This advice is
no doubt very disinteiested, but the success al.
ready achieved on the seacoast will tempt to
other experiments of the same kind. II is net
necessary TO strlks to the vitals TO kill. Stop.
ping the breath is quite as efftctusl Our fleets
arc now engaged in stopping the breath Of the
rebel States, and they do not appear te like the
process.
Year: 1861

CAUTION To MoTHERs-It is very com
mon to see mothers and servant girls push
inc along over the sidewalks the little ear
riages tn which they are giving infants
airing on pleasant days. The practice is
very dangerous one, and Is likely To do
great, and permanent injury to the child
We observe also that carriages are now so
constructed that they may be pushed in
stead OF drawn. The position of the child
riding backwards instead Of forwards. is
an unnatural one, and directly affects tho
brain Some grown persons even cannot
ride backwards in railroad ear without
experiencing sense ,f faintncss. and to
expect a child to 10 what strong aduls
cannot, is unreasonable to say the least
Ii is believed by medical writer's that in
fants have died from disease produced by
being ridden backwards
Year: 1861

FIRST BABIEs.-A somewhat extern
ded observation and solitary experi-
ence, have convinced us that first babies
have hard time. Parents must have
two or three children before they know
what baby is, or how to treat it prop
erly. The poor little fellows that have
the misfortune to come along first have
to educate parents to their task, and in
the process they get spanked and
shaked and abused. After a man has
three or four children, he learns that
striking or whipping a child less than
two years of age is barbarism. We
know one paternal head who struck
his child when only six weeks old, the
ass actually believed that the child
knew better than to cry, and that 1t
stopped crying at that particular time
because he struck it. We carry eer-
tain notions of children and of family


government into married life, and the
first child is always the victim of these
notions. And not alone these for the
parents have not learned self-control,
and baby is whipped quite as often
because the parent is angry, as because
it is vicious and intractable. We in-
fiict on our first children the foggings


we ought to have for our own imps-
tience of fretfulness. This pounding


children before they become, in Gods


eye, morally responsible beings, is very
strange business. Patience !-Dont


wait to learn it until one Of your little
ones is hidden under the daises -
Springfield Repasblican.
Year: 1861

IWe are indebted to a friend for the reproduction
from his scrap-book, of the following lines. They
will be read with peculiar and sorrowful interest
since their author now sleeps the sleep of death
He little thought when, years ago, he penned this
tribute to the memory of his dead comrades in
Mexico, that a time would come when he would
fall in defense of his country, and at the hands Of
those who, then, were his countrymen: l-iS. Louis
Evening Nescs.
Where rolls the rushing Rio Grande,


Here peacefully they sleep;
Far from their native Northern land,


Far from their friends who weep.
No rolling drum disturbs their rest,


Beneath the sandy sod
The mould lies heavy on each breast,


The spirit is with God.
They heard their country's call and came


To battle for her right;
Each bosom filPd with martial fame,


And kindling for the fight.
Light was their measured footsteps when


They moved to seek the foe.
Alas, that hearts SO fiery, then,


Should soon be cold and low.
They did not die in eager strife,


Upon well fought field;
Not from the red wound poured their life,


Where covering foemen yield.
Deaths ghastly shade was slowly cast


Upon each manly brow;
But calm and fearless to the last,


They sleep in silence now.
Yet shall grateful country give


Her honors to their name.
In kindred hearts their memories live,


And history guard their fame,
Nor unremember'd do they sleep


Upon foreign strand,
Tho near their graves thy wild waves sweep,


Thou rushing Rio Grande.
Year: 1861

~ The meeting Of the Fort Harrison
Guard. Company B. At the City Hall on
Monday night. was unavoidably postponed on
account Of the new board Of Council. meet
ing at that time and place TO organize.
Year: 1861

u The young ladies' at the Female Col
lsge. have prepared. with their osn hands.
beautiful Star Spangled Banner. which now
dests proudly over the College building -
Every one at the College IS true TO the Old
Flag and in favor Of the Union.
Year: 1861

A Boston paper, speaking Of this gentle
man, who now occupies the position OF
Postmaster General. after speaking Of his
political prominence for many years past in
Connecticut, bestows upon him the follow
ing compliment !:


"He is the Thurlow Weed. of Connecti-
cut, and probably wields wider influences
in that State than any other man.


"An old jackson Democrat. who clung tn
principle At the sacrifice Of party in 1854.
he will relieve the composition OF the Cabi-
net from the exclusive Wing character it
vas feared it might possess. Skilled in the
conduct OF the public press. and success
ful establisher of newspapers, he is able to
Judge of the tendency and progress of pop
ular sentiments which may be very useful
to the President elect.


For many years Postmaster OF Hartford
he is acquainted with the necessities OF the
mail service. and the minutia of the dis
trbution and correspondence of the com
muncations Of the country. which no one
can be so well acquainted with as one wh'
has served in such capacity. a persona
friend of Mr. Lincoln. and having maize 1
deep impression on him when the Pr 81 e.,
elect was in New England two years ago
Year: 1861

NorlcE.-On and after this day our estab
lishment will be conducted on the CASH
PRINCIPLE. In doing so we have as much
at heart the interest of our patrons as that
of ourselves. It will allow us more time to
attend to our business, and facilitate US in
making a great many improvements in our
manufacturing department. The time has
come when everything must be produced at
the lowest possible rate, and in order to be
enabled to carry this out and let our Gus
toners derive its benefits (Which shall be
done), we are compelled to adopt the Cash
System No one need be offended if refused
zcredit, rs the rule will be invariable.


janl-Gtd VAUTIER d MARcoNYIER.
Year: 1861

DETROIT. Jan. 4-Gov. Blair delivered
his inaugural address to both houses Of tht
Legislature at Lansing, yesterday. In dis
cGssing national affairs he denies the right
of secession (; and in alluding to the present
position Of South Carolina, if it could prop-
eriy be done, presume the country gen
orally would be willing to let that restless
little nation retire from the Coniedcracy
forever But that cannot he without ad-
hitting the right OF secession to exist
with all the States. -


This done and no government remains to
Us but on y Il voluntary association of States
dissolvable at the pleasure of any of them.
If South Carolina may of right secede, then
may also New York and Louisiana, thus
cutting off the free right of way of The en-
tire northwest to the ocean in both direc-
tions. The doctrine cannot be admitted
Self-preservation, if no other reason, would
compel us to resist. He claims the Consti-
tuition Of the United States is not compact
or league between independent sovereign
ties. The Constitution of the United States
is Il foundation ofegovernment by the peo-
pie OF the United States as a whole, perpet-
ual in its character and possessing all the
elements Of sovereign power and nation
ality.


ne ueHleS tHitC tde personal -ltoeFt} At"S
have had the effect to prevent theexecution
Of the fugitive slave law in a single instance.
That whenever appeal has been made to the
Courts to enforce that law it had been done
in good faith, and be invited judicial scru-
tiny into the legislation Of the State, and Is
willing to abide by the result, but is not
willing the State shall be humliated by
compliance with the demand to repeal these
laws accompanied with threats Of violence
and war. He concIuCls by recommending
that at an early day the Legislature make
it manifest to our representatives in Con-
gress and 70 the country that Michigan is
loyal to the Union, the Constitution and
the laws and will defend them to the ut
most, and to protfer to the President of the
United States the whole military power of
the State for that purpose.
Year: 1861

Major Myers Of the army, and .anothsr


officer, (aow in the rebel ranks,) some


time since perfected very valuable sys.


tenn Of flag signals to be used in time Of


war by our forces.


A staff Of signal officers have now been
drilling for two weeks under the directioa
OF Major Myers, at the fort, and have be-.
come so proficient in the practice that any
word or sentence can be communicated at
distance Of ten miles as quick as light
can carry it. The alphabet consists of
series of movements made by single
flag, a small combination of different
movements for each letter. The system
has been entirely changed, so that no mes.
sage can be recognized by the rebels, and
the invention promises to be one of great
utility in time of action. 1t was tried the
other day, and quite q lengthy conversa>
ton carried on between an officer On the
bastions of Fort Monroe and another on
steamer about six miles up the river. The
signals worked admirably. In the night
the substitution of light for the flag an
swered the same purpose.


The old fable Of Grscian song, when
news was carried by signal fires lighted
for leagues along the hills, and the old
beacon light that blazed with flames of tar
and casks perehed on lofty poles set upon
our hill tops, in the Revolution, live in
history as the gem Of this modern success,
and the painting horse of the aid,de camp
and his dusty rider can now rest from
their duties.
Year: 1861

INTIMATE ENEMIEs.-AW Washington cor
respondent Of Philadelphia paper writes


The pickets Of the Confederate and
Federal soldiery, up above the Chain
Bridge, have exchanged civilitics. Two
of them dropped their muskets and took
drink Of whiskey together few days since
The Confederate picket cried out from
distance, asking the United States soldier
if he had anything in the drinking line.-
The reply was satisfactory, and an arrange
ment was soon made, whereby both partie'
left their arms and met half way, smiled
and returned to their picket duty"
Year: 1861

By the merging Of the New York Con.
rier and Enquirer with the World, and
the reduction Of the Journal Of Commerce
the Missouri Republican is now the largest
newspaper published in America,
Year: 1861

The sword of a sword.fsh was found stick.
ing in tho bottom of the steamship Golden
Age when she was bauled up recently in Pana-
ma for repairs The sword of bone was thirteen
inches long, and it was driven through the cop
per and both the outer and inner pIanking-
The fish stabbed the wrong customer for once
had it been a whale, all would have been quite
right.
Year: 1861

The Nashville papers, Of yester-
day, bring intelligence OF the defect
ion oil John Bell and the Ewings.--
Less than n week ago, these gentle
men united with other distinguished
Tennessecans in sending forth an
address to the people OF Tennessee,
which was close paraphrase OF the
Address OF the Union State Central
Committee OF Kentucky. They sol.
emnly declared it to be the duty OF
Tennessee in the natural strife "to
decline joining either party" and
called upon her to assume and main
tain q position Of armed neutrality


They gallantly locked hands with
Year: 1861

In TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR War;
Down East they say, as soon as young lady
is engaged to be married, che suffers her fing.
er-naIls 10 grow long, SO that, in case she
should be obliged to throw herself on her re.
served rights, she may come TO the scratch
with some prospect of success.
Year: 1861

strategcai point Of view, Fort Sumter radiates its
Are through all the channels from the approach to
chareston and has full sweep Of range in its
city side. The fort is sufficiently out of range from
lsnd ar1rery attack, so that all apprehensions
for preaching it from that source may be put
1t rest unless by guns of superior cabre. The maxi
mum range of the guns from Sumter is three miles, but
for accurate firing sufficient to hull vessel the distance
would require to he reduced bali OF that figure The
garrison of the fort s six hundred men, but only
seventy nine Of that number within its walls with
the lahorers-lo9 an told.


GARRISON IN FORT