smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

SENTIMENTS OF TRAIToR's WIFR.-
We are informed on good authority that
one day last summer, party of ladies
and gentlemen were assembled at the
residence Of one Of our celebrated painter 9
at West Point, and among other objects
of interest introduced by him was a relic
OF Washington--a copy in bis own hand
writing OF the various orders and dispatch
es issued by him during the War of In
dependence. Every one present was Of
course, deeply interested in the examina a.
ton Of this precious souvenir, except one,
and the exception was lady. 1t was
presented for her inspection, but she re-
fused to look at it, saying that she was
sick and tired Of hearing SO much about
Washington for her part, she couldn's
see much to admire in the character oil
such bloodthirsty out-throat. The lady
was Mrs. Jefferson Davis New York
Tribune.
Year: 1861

4 report has been made to the South
Carolina Convention, BY committee to
whom the subject has been referred, as
to tie rights of patentees and authors.
This report sets forth that, cas- to pat
ents and copyrights issued during the
existence of the Union, they were gran
ted by the authority of South Carolina
as well as the other States, and there
fore the parties entitled to their benefit
have the same exclusive right in this
State to their writings or discoveries that
they had before the Union was dissolv-
ed. Any violation of patent or copy
right having validity and effect in this
State would be an injury to property, for
which the party aggrieved might ohta n
adequate redress in the Courts of the
State"
Year: 1861

Ia Considerable amusement was crea-
ted on Wednssday last by the appearance
Of huge piles of mud on Market street sin
memory of the Street Commissioner"
hint, we suppose, that he should have
cleaned the main streets before swooping
down upon the alleys.
Year: 1861

rye would say, in addition, that
whlIr the Government is putting down
Rebellion, Slavery is in truth the cause
of that rebellion, and the suppression Of
the insurrection will probably be such a
blow to slavery that it will lose its former
political power, and the work of emancipa-
tion will soon begin and 60 on as it did in
the present Free States. But that is a
matter of opinion-,he cork before us is to
conquer the Rebels-and if Slavery goes
down with them, SO be it .-ED
Year: 1861

ADVICE TO SUNDRY PEoPLE.- When you
feel your passions rising never confue or re
strain them. How many boilers have been
burst by too close Imprisonment Of their con
tents.


Always proclaim the faults of others There
should be no secrets in a republican govern
ment.


Never give up yopr opinion, though you
know you are wrong it shows you have indie
pendence.


Whenever you attack your neighbor's char
acter, do it behind his back, so as not TO
wound his feelings.


Make it rule to keep company with rogues
and rascals, and then if you should be prosecu-
ted for an offence you have committed, and
your comrades should be called as witnesses
against you, nobody will believe them, and so
you will get clear.


Never forgive an injury. The power Of
pardoning belongs 10 the Governor and his
Counsel


When you have done an act of charity, pub
lish it to others so that they may do so too.-
Besides, every man can preach best from his
own notes.


Never pay your debts-it is unconstitution-
al; for payment impairs the obligation of a
contract, and even the Legislature has no right
to do that.


When you are at Church, go to sleep
Sunday is day of rest.


If secret has been committed TO you TO
keep, take special care to keep it safely; and
two others to help you. And as woman is
called a weaker vessel she should have half a
dozen to help her.
Year: 1861

WHAT ARE They ?-On Thursday evening
we observed the surface of the snow pretty
generally covered with singular sort of little
worm of dark color, nearly black, about as
thick as a common knitting needle, aud mea-
suriDg one.half to an inch in length. These
worms 1--WE know no other name by which to
designate them appear to be full of activity,
creeping over the snow with considerable ra-
pidity, and squlrming about like other worms.
We had a light fall of rain on Thursday, and
as these worms were not observed prior to the
shower il is thought by some, with whom we
have conyersed, that they came down with the
rain.-Ld Porte Messenger
Year: 1861

Columbia the gem of the ocean,


The home of the brave and the free;
The shrine of each patriots devotion,
world offers homage to thee:
Thy mandates make heroes assemble,
When Liberty form stands in view,
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,


When borne by the red, white and blue,
When borne by the red, white, and blue.
When war winged its wide desolation
And threatened the land to deform,
The ark then of freedoms foundation,
Columbia rode safe through the storm;
With her garlands of victory around her,
When so proudly she bore her brave crew,
With her flag proudly floating before her;
The boast of the red, white, and blue,
The boast of the red, white, and blue.
The wine cup, the wine cup bring hither,
And fill you it true to the brim;
May the wreaths they have won never wither,
Nor the star of their glory grow dim;
May the service united ne'er sever,


But they to their colors prove true,
The Navy and Army forever,


Three cheers for the red white, and blue,
Three cheers for the red white and blue.
Year: 1861

MORE THOUGHTS FROM CHAP1N.-To shed
upon men an intellectual light-to elevate
them by force of thoughts the noblest of all
missions. Honor to the idealsts, whether
philosophers or poets. They have improved
us by mingling with our daily pursuits great
and traDscendent conceptions They have
thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of
better, and draw us up from contacts with
the temporal and the selfish, TO communion
with beauty, truth and goodness. They do a
great part of the work that is DONE There
must be ideas before action The whole ma
tural world is but the embodiment of IDEAS
The spade in the laborers hand the plough
share iii the furrow, was once an idea. Once
the steamship was only an airy, bodiess thing
sailing through the seas of though: in Fulons
mind. The idealist dies, but his conception
lives in physical agencies that change the face
of nature-in moral movements that bless and
advance humanity.
Year: 1861

LEAD AND CoAL.-The Stockton Argus
learns that a valuable lead miae has been
found about thirty miles from that city, in the
vicinity Of Mount Diablo. 1t was found while
the party who discovered it were hunting for
coal They struck vein Of lead several feet
deep, about fifteen feet ON the surface Of the
earth The same party also discovered coal,
the vein forty feet across at the surface.
Year: 1861

A CHAMPION GAME OF CHESS AT SEA.-It
is well known that the steamer Golden Age
came up in company with the Uncle Sam,
from Acapulco. During the trip a game of
chess was played between Capt. Lapidgc' of
the Uncle Sam, and NJ. Elias, passenger on
board the Golden Age, through the medium of
the black boards of the steamers, the moves
being made with chalk 1t is seldom that two
vessels can keep company for such an effort,
and we believe such a circumstance never oc-
CURED previously lila.
Year: 1861

TESTS OF CHARACTERIZE great many ad-
mirable actions are overlooked by us, because
they are so little and so common Take, for
instance, the mother who had broken sumber,
if any at all, with the nursing babe, whose
wants must not be disregarded she would fain
sleep awhile when the breakfast hour comes,
but patiently and uncomplainingly she takes
her timely seat at the table. Though exhaust
ed and weary, she serves all with a refreshing
cup of coffee or tea before she sips it herself,
and often the cup is handed back to her to be
refilled before she has time to taste her own.
Do you hear her complain-this weary moth
er-that her breakfast is cold before she has
time TO eat it? And this not for one, but ev-
cry morning, perhaps, through the year Do
you call this small thing? Try it and see
Oh how does woman shame US by her for.
bearance and forttude in what are wrongfuy
called little things All, it is these little
things which are the tests of character it is
by these little" selfderals, borne with such
self forgotten gentleness, that the humblest
home is made beautiful to the eyes of angels,
though we fail to see it, alas the chair is va
cant, and the hand which kept in orderly mo
tion all this domestic machinery is powerless
and cold.
Year: 1861

A PERFECT RAT DRIVER Chlorade of lime
has frequently proved sure thing to drive rats
away from any place infested by them. An
ounce of it, scattered in the place where they
come to feed, Or wrapped in a bit of muslin
put in their holes, where it acquires dampness,
produces gas that is not offensive to man. but
is to rats. If chlorade of lime is moistened
with muriatic acid, and placed in a drain, vault,
or cellar, and closed from the air little while,
the rats will depart, because it will be death 10
remain. This is also good disinleciant, and
will for time cure the efiluvIa of dead rat
One application of dry chlorade of lime to rat
holes has driven them away for a year, when
renewal Of it started them again.
Year: 1861

The following lines from the weekly Mirror
of New Orleans, bearing the date of the
Louisiana secession ordinance, are very pretty,
and undoubtedly express the real sentiments of
thousands who are drawn into the vortex of
disunion by the rashness of headstrong men:
What Mary! weeping at those guns,
The glorious sound of liberty
The signal that Columbias sons


Are now, and ever shall be- free.
A scion of that patriot band


Who yield no right, and know not fears
A daughter of our glorious land


A Southern girl-and thou in tears.n
Oh, do not jest 'Tis not alone


With woman's servile fears I weep.
In yonder booming cannons tone


There is a source of tears more deep.
1t is the wall Columbia gives


Her loud lament DER ties that part;
And not a child of hers that lives,


But hears her with a weeping heart.


MARY W. CREAM.
Year: 1861

How 70 SWIM IN A SURF.-At late meet
ing of the Academy of Sciences, one of the
members. in the course of discussion gave
the following very useful information for per-
sons who may be shipwrecked or who happen
TO fall overheard at sea "The person must
maintain such position as to see the waves as
they approach All that is required, then, is.
that the swimmer keep his course, watching
their approach. As he rises upon a wave, he
will see roaring cataract three or four feet
high rushing toward him as though it threat
ened destruction but if he holds his breath a
moment, the crest will pass harmlessly over
him, and in an instant he will find himself on
the windward slopet of the wave, perfectly
safe and ready to continue as before. IT the
person is floating upon board or plank, he
should turn his head toward the coming waves
and keep his float at right angles to them,
holding his breath as before when the crests
pass. In this way he will be safely driven to
the beach but If he allows the board to be
struck by the waves sideways, he may be roll
ed over and over, and, in his fright let 90 his
hold"
Year: 1861

TRUE HEARTs.-Hearts are of several kinds
and of widely different natures First, there
are walled up hearts; and these are of two
kinds about one kind the wall is high and
strong. and to surmount it is work OF extreme
difficulty but if you get inside you have en-
tered Eden. Fragrant, and sweet, and fair, as
the visions seen in dreams, is that enclosed
garden; and it Is worth hard labor to gain an
entrance there. The other has q wall as high
and strong, and full as hard to get over; and
when at last, with torn flesh and dislocated
joints, you have sealed it. you wish you hadn't,
for there is nothing inside but rocks and cold
water The trouble with these two description
of hearts is that It's impossible to distinguish
the one from the other, until you have almost
worn yourself out climbing the walls. Another
kind of heart is that, which having nothing to
fence it in, lies open to the passage of all men
and cattle waste, unfruitlul field, Of no use
to anybody, and less to its owner. Bat there
is another kind of heart-a rare creation, but
ieai-o ohe "hosc "dii Is lOW anu aiHio>t Hiu
by flowers. The birds make their nests in il,
and sing as they swing upon its swaying twigs
and fcstooning vines Beyond the wall itself
thing Of fragrance, beauty and joy, like the
enchanting gardens. Delightful bowers invite
the way-worn traveller to enter and repase.-
Spirits of love and beauty beckon the sad and
lonely ones to the feast of souls and charm
ed light and glory hover on the whole joyous
air. This is the true type of heart.
Year: 1861

AMUSING INCIDENT AT A SOUTHERN THEA
TER-The Montgomery (Ala.) correspondent
of the Charleston Courier relates the follow
ing incident, which occurred at the Mont
gomery Theater few nights since;


Quite an amusing incident occurred at the
Theater last evening. Miss Mitchell was
performing The Wept Of the WiSh-ton- Wish,
in one of the scenes of which it is necessary
to introduce a young child. This was ac-
cordingly done, and said infantile production
regaled the audience with series of operate
screams, in consequence of which the curtain
was dropped and the audience left in doubt
as to whether it was the child or the actors
who failed in their parts.


To settle their minds upon this point, and
to apologize for the interruption, one of the
Indians, clothed with all the toggery of the
savage, but who was evidently very modest
novice of the stage, came in front of the
green drop and innocently delivered himself
of the following speech:


"Ladies and Gentlemen: We must ask
your indulgence for few moments as the
! child we had in the last act disturbed the
play, and we have to delay the second act
until we can get another child"
! 1t is needless for me to say that the effect
| was terrific
Year: 1861

A New FRENCH BoN-BoN.-A new bon
bon has been produced in Paris. 1t consists
of an eatable bouquet, whichis neither more
nor less than bunch of real flowers covered
while the flowers are on the bush. The in
genious inventor is reported to have sent q
bouquet of violets, prepared in this way, to
the Princess Clothilde. The delicious odor
and brilliant tints of the flowers are pre-
served, and when the fair possessor is tired
of gazing upon it, she has still left a feast fiji
for a Hebe. 1t is said that no bon bon as yet
produced can equal in delicacy this fora
tit bit. Roses are prepared in the same
manner. The effect on them is peculiarly
beautiful, the sugar sparkling like dew aftel
a Summer shower
Year: 1861

MILITARY BILL IN NORTH CARoLNA.-A
bill to arm and equip 10000 volunteers, has
passed the House of Commons of North Car
olina, and was, on the 10th instant on its
third reading in the Senate. The bill pro.
vides that the volunteers thus enrolled shall


be subject 10 the call Of the Oommander-in-
Chief IN case of emery yercE provided, however
that the Governor shall be authorized to
enrol 10000 additional men in case Of war
Year: 1861

and against these the Government will probably be
able 10 send large force.


All these thrilling events have caused great changes


In ibe pubic mind, and il is not improbable that we
shall lave radical change in the Government but we
conceive there is now no danger of our immediately


falling under the dominion of MARQUEE or any Of his
party.


the foreign representatives In the settlement of grev-
ances. The Laguna SEGA condncta and the British
Legation robberies have both been the subjects, we
hear of the energetic action Of her Majesty Minister,
bat without any satisfactory result 80 far as we can
learn. There is no use of diguisDg the fact, that,
for the interests OF all parties concerned the sooner
foreign nations try new medicine for the sick man of
Mexico, the better il will be. Diplomacy has no
longer any remedial virtues for the case.
Year: 1861

CHEAP STocK-The Auburn Adrocate has
the following under date of November 10th !:


Never have cattle been so cheap as they
are at the present time. The rain that has
recently fallen has destroyed the old grass,
and the new not having yet sprung up IN its
place. the cattle will suffer to a great extent.
1t is estimated by our farmers that over one
half the stock will die eff for want of food.
One of our farmers in the lower end of the
county has given six hundred head of stock (
to a man, who had agreed to take them to Eel
river and keep them for one or two years,
and then return him one-half and keep the
other half for his trouble. sale which
came off this week at the Grizzly Bear House,
vearlings sold at one dollar head, and other
kinds OF stock in proportion. We saw a gen.
tleman in our. town buy milch cow, on
Wednesday last, for seven dollars and half
Good fat beef cattle, though, bring good
price, and are in great demand.
Year: 1861

The GAINESVILLE Citizens Press accounts for
the existence Of oil in the earth as fllows:


Well oil, or oil that is procured from the earth
is nothin. more nor less than coal oil produced
from Camel coal. Large quantities Of which
lie EMBEDDED under the soil oiOhlo. Some years
ago many persons were engaged in mining Can
eel coal and manuacturing from it what is call
ed coal oil. This was done by filling large cast
Iron retorts, cylinders or ovens. with the coal
and then heating them very hot. the coal would
melt and the oil from it, run off inTo vessels -
subsequently, by boring into the earth the same
kind of oil was found already manufactured. A
greIt many persons wondered how lakes of oil
came to be in the bowels OF the earth? We can
account for it very easily. Where the oil now
exists were once immense beds of Camel coal
and by interal fires, the beds Of coal have been
melted the oil remaining where the coal was,
and the gas escaping through the pores and tis
ures Of the earh, into the atmosphere. This
internal oil factory is still going on About
halfa milo below McConnesvlle, in Morgan
county, on the west side Of the MuSkingum riv-
er and on the bank OF the river there is a $ 1t
water well and the water is boiled down into
salt by the gaSs that escapes from the earth at
that place. The gas is caught as it escapes,
and is conducted by pipes under the salt kettles,
and being lighted, it burns wi tn great heat, and
bos the water into salt, as quickly as the same
could be done with coal OF wood


Now where does this gas come from? We
have no doubt Of the fact, that far down in the
earth there is a bed Of Camel COAL and that


it is even now being melted by internal fires,
and that coal oil is now (by operation of inter
nal heat) being manufactured there, and that
this particular plac, to wit, at said salt we'll is
one of the many gas escape pipes attached to
said internal oil factory.
Year: 1861

THE COFFEE CROP-Accoants from
Hayti state that the cofIee crop there prom
iscs an usually large yield, and IN view o1 the
f,ct That the demand from the South IS cut
of by the blockade, It IS not prob tble that
present high rates can be maintained Tor any
long period.
Year: 1861

DIED IN THE HosPITAL.-A man named
Mathew NcGrath, who stated that he had
lately been living at North San Juan, was
admitted into the county hospital on Satur-
day morning last, and died the next day.
When he applied for admission he looked
like man suffering from the effects of a
''heavy drunk" and was evidently very sick,
though he managed to walk from town to
the hospital. 1t was afterwards ascertaind
that be had been drinking hard for some
days, and sleeping out of nights, and the
liquor and exposure no doubt occasioned his
death.-Nevada Democrat
Year: 1861

FROM BAD TO WoRsE.-What must be
thought of body of men who, in Legislative
capacity, are constantly throwing the people into
state of alarm? Every day that body remains
IN session, apprehensions are excited. Either a
bulkhead scheme, railroad project, change of
venue act, an attack upon the school law, or
some other offensive measure is introduced,
directly at variance with public opinion, and
detrimental to the best interests of the State.
Now, it cannot be contended that members of a
Legislature are so criminally stupid as to be
ignorant of the effects which their reckless con-
duct is calculated to produce and it must, there
fore, be inferred that they are wckedly malicious
in their designs. Hardly has one outrage been
perpetrated, till another is sprung upon the peo-
pie 1t would seem as if members thought their
chief duty was to coneoct villainies and pass
them in the shape of special or general laws
AS yet, we know of nothing good which has been
done during the Legislative session, and God
only knows the amount of harm still to be per-
petrated We are patiently waiting to learn
what is to be the next outrage.
Year: 1861

PLAYED OUT. We saw it stated somewhere
that Charley Scott-Hon. Charles L. Scott-had
written an address to some person or persons, in
advocacy of the right of secession. Such doc
have produced profound sensation but even
the franking privilege has not had projectile force
sufficient to carry it into these parts. Why is
the mammoth press so silent on the subject
The world has no doubt lost great deal by the
suppression of the Bunsby opinions expressed Sc
learnedly as Charley was capable of expressing
them
Year: 1861

SPIRIT OF THE AGE.-A progressive" sug-
Eests that in this age of improvement old Father
Time should be represented with Yankee clock
IN his hand and seated on steam moving ma
chine.-Exchange.


The picture would be heightened by adding a
South Carolina secessionist in the act of stran-
Cling the Goddess of Liberty.
Year: 1861

SURRENDER OR FIGHT The latest PONY
news is, that Fort Sumter has not yet been
bility the Government will attempt to rein.
force and hold it. Either one thing or the
other should be done, and that quickly. If
the Fort can be reinforced, and the Govern
ment does not send more troops to garrison
it, then is it justly liable to the charge of
pusllanimity and cowardice 1t were even
better at once to acknowledge the iudepen-
dence of the Southern Confederacy than
become an object of pity and contempt.
Year: 1861

This valuable and pleasant purifier
of the blood can be purchased from
Franchere & Butler. 1t is put up in
bottles containing one pint, and we
venture to say that one bottle of it is
more beneficial than three bottles of any
Of the sarsaparillas now in use.
Year: 1861

Whtewash is one of the
most valuable articles IN the world, when
properly applied. 1t prevents not only the
decay of wood, but conduces greatly to the
healthiness of all buildings, whether of wood
or stone. Cut-buildngs and fences, when
not painted, should be supplied once or twice
every year with good coat of whitewash,
which should be prepared in the following
way: Take a clean, water tight barrel or 9TH
er suitable cask and put into it half bushel
of lime. Slake it by pouring water over it,
boiling hot, and in sufficient quantity to
cover it five inches deep, and stir it briSkly
till thoroughly slaked. When the shaking
has been effected, dissolve it in water, and
add two pounds of sulphate Of zinc, and one
of common salt. These will cause the wash
to harden, and prevents its cracking, which
gives an unseemly appearance to the work.
If desirable, beautiful cream color may
be communicated to the above wash, by
adding three pounds of yellow ochre; or a
good lead or pearl color, by the addition of
lamp, vine or ivory black For fawn color,
add four pounds umber. Turkish or Amer
ican (the latter is the cheapest) one pound
Indian red, and one pound common lamp
black. For common stone color, add four
pounds raw umber and two pounds lamp
black.


This wash may be applied with common
whitewash brush, and will be found much
superior both in appearance and durability,
to common hitewash.-Chemical Gazette.
Year: 1861

New FIRE ExTINGuIsHER.-They have no.
vel way of saving house on fire in Richmond,
Missouri. One evening new and beautiful
residence belonging to Judge Dunn was dis
covered to be in flames. One hundred and
fifty stalwart men soon gathered about, and
as some were engaged in removing the fur
nture, the others kept up a steady ''fire" on
the premises with snow balls. At first the
fire seemed to be little retarded but it soon
began to wane, and was entirely checked,
having only injured the west end and a
portion of the roof of the house.