smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

The Wilmington Journal had recently a visit from


gentleman who had run the blockade through Ma


ryland. 1t reports bim as follows.


! The gentleman already alluded to- who arrived


here night before last informs US that begging is


the order of the day in Philadelphia Nothing else
/ is. There IS virtually-slmost hierslly-nO bust
I ness. The factories cannot work. They have no


cotton. To get any, they must pay prices that they
cannot afford. Imports are next to none. save for
army use, and strangely enough the goods for


the soldiers are largely received from England
There are few able to bHy-if any large importa


tons were made there would be no customers to
consume them-no cotton bills to pay for them.


Wilmington is blOckaded port and Philadelphia is
an open one, and yet Philadelphia is more silent


more depressed loOkng-thsD our little town. Even
the soldiers beg. They importune persons going
along the streets for five cents to buy tObaccsfor
sOmething-for anything. Their morale is awful
1t is army stsrve The recruiting officers get so
much per cGpitG and they take almost anybody
How many men there is in the Lincoln army the
people can only guess.


The Government must gO-ahead with expendi-
lures to prevent revolution, and even at the best
the suferings of this winter must be very severe.
The approach Of that season is l Oksd to with the
goomiest forebOdings by all thinking men at the
North A second Northern winter can hardly be
gone through with without revolution All rea
sonabIe calculations will be set az n0ught if the
war is or can be made to last a second winter
This confirms our own opinion, Even the compare
lively small town of Wilmington. Delaware. a
manufacturing town up a creek, mendicancy is open
and unbushing. Wilmington. Delaware. rathOle
of Abolition Quakers, built up by the patron
age Of the South Why, there is no counting the
amount of money paid to this State even. for iron
steamboats,. engines, and other machinery to oar
Delaware name sake.


There is peace party at the North, but it will do
nothing for something-frst, because events are
yet ripe, and second because that party is not
far euongh advanced to comprehend the true state
of the case. The peace men of the North still
dream eff restriction. Any movements predicated
upon that idea can effect nothing


Our informant says that the Pennsylvania State
election, hsld on the second Tuesday in October
beirg the eighth day of the month the city of Phil
adelphia elect, Breckenridge Democrats to Con
gress. We do not knew what other officers were
voted for The party which seems to have carried
the election in the city is snRered at by the Rspub
iicans the 'SscessOnists." They call themselves
the Friends OF Peace" This is not worth any
thing at all simply misunderstanding that
may assume form before this time next year.


In coming South, ourI Informant worked his way
through Maryland and got across the Potomac in /
a boat The people in that portion Of Maryland
between the Chesapeake and the Potomac are all |
right. By some means, goods Of any kind can be
got on to and sold at Richmond, bus big price is
charged.
Year: 1861

We understand that the War Department has fur
nlshed to one Of the foreign Consus in this city, an
official list Of the vessels Of various tonnage and of
every description foreign and eoastWise that have
run the blockade since the date Of the proclamation
declaring it and that the number exceeds tUs hun
dTed.


AS refreshing instance Of the ineAiciency Of
the Lincoln blockade and the eonter,rt into vbiob
it mas fallen. Northern man some weeks ago an
Piled to the President, with the statement that Be
was the owner of fast ssiler with two brothers
IN the North owning two other vessels, the three
having been engaged in the slave trade, and avoid
ing capture for number of years, and that be was


authorized to offer all three to the Confederate ser
vice as priVateersmen. taking the chances Of their
putting to sea from Northern pert The letters Of
marque were st once grsnted-RiehmORdE Ecdminsr
Oct 81.
Year: 1861

THE BLocKAuE or THE PoToMAC An official article
in the Washington Republican, the organ OF the Lin
coin Government, aludes to the establishment Of
Confederate batteries the Virgins shore Of the
Potomac, and says: @There is nothing possible in the
case but to take measures to d:slOdge them from
whatever points they may actually occupy in this
way and to wait patiently for that permanent relief
from the difficulty which is only 10 be found in the
expulsion or retreat of the ensmy's main army cen
tering upon Manassas Junction" The official WrIrer
scouts the idea Of making the Potomac the line Of
division between the North and the South, and as
serts that If the Federals hold Washington, they
must hold both sides Of the river and the whole
circuit Of the Chesapeake Bay" Il is manifest that
the blockade Of the Potomac is . source Of much
axiety TO the Lincoln Government Richmond Dis
patch, Oct 81
Year: 1861

oution IS appropriate to md embIemsteal Of these
confederate States contending for the rights Of man
ana the rich boon of an independent government
AT its adoption our flag was founded on a repre-
sentative principle, and in the arrangement of its
Tarts made applicable to the number Of States then
united against the common foe


we believe We have now given the sum of what
tne Puohc records contain on the SUBJECT Of eur
query. We have heard the origin
Of the suggestion brought forward by the member
from New York, and adopted, as we havesseen,
sscribed to more than individual 1t was doubt
lees the result of consultation among many.-Nelo
Orleans Picqlnlns
Year: 1861




SKATING Two AND A HALF CENTURIES AGO.
Stowe thus describes skating in London 263
years ago; e..


When that great moor which washeth
Moorfelds at the north wall of the city is
frozen over, great companies of young men
60 to sport upon the ice; then fetching a
run, and setting their feet at distance, and
placing their bodies sideways, they slide
great way. Others take heaps ofic as if it
were great mill-stones, and make seats; many
going before, draw him that sits thereon,
holding one another by the hand in going so
fast some slipping with their feet, all fall
down together; some are better practiced on
the ice, and bind to their shoes bones, or
the legs of some beasts, and hold stakes in
their hands headed with sharp iron, which
sometimes they strike against the ice. These
men go with speed as doth bird in the air,
or darts shot from some warlike engine;
sometimes two men set themselves at a dis.
tanee, and run one against another, as it
were q tilt, with these stakes Wherewith
one or both parties are thrown down, not
without some hurt to their bodies and after
their fall, by reason of the violent motion,
are carried q good distance from one an
other and wheresoever the ice doth touch
the head, it Tubs off all the skin, and lays it
bare; and if one fall upon his leg or arm, it is
usually brokeni but young men, greedy Of
honor and desiIous of victory, do thus exer-
else themselves in counterfeit battles that
they may bear the brunt more strongly when
they come TO itin good earnest. F4s
Year: 1861

PASSAGE OF A NEEDLE THROUGH HUMAN
BoDY-The Laconia IN, H J Democrat says
that woman in that village has, for some
weeks past, experienced considerable trouble
in consequence Of pain and swelling in one
arm, the result Of which was the protrusion
long, and black as ink, which she swallowed
when a child.
Year: 1861

RICHMOND, June 25.-Bshop Leondas Polk of
the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana has been ap
pointed a Ma General of the Provisional Army,
to command the Military Department of the Red
and Mississippi rivers.


The above announcement will not surprise those
who are familiar with the antecedents of the re-
spected Bishop of Louisiana. In early life he re-
ceived a thorough military education at West
Point, and graduated with distinction at that nsti.
tuition. Besides this the Bishop comes of patriotic
descent, his ancestors having been among the fore
most and bravest in defence of our rights and lib
critics against foreign foe.


That he should now cast off the surplice to enter
the field in defence of the South, is evidence at
once of his religion and his patriotism. No more
holy cause ever challenged the support of the
Christian than that which has induced this vener
able man of God to draw his sword. The mission
of the Church is peace; but when it happens, as il
has now happened, that peace can only be bough
with war, it becomes act of high religious duty
that the Christian man should be found in the from
rank of battle.


Let the North understand from this circumstauc,
the spirit that animates our people. Here is ven
cradle preate of the Church descending from th
sacred desk, and exposing himself to the perils 0
the battle field in behalf of his country. The falls
teachers of the Gospel in the North, who have don
more than all others to bring about this unnatura
war, skulk from the post of danger when the batl
RACES. What a contrast, when we see the highes
dignitary of one of the leading Christian demon
nations of Louisiana lay aside his ecciesiasc robe
to aid, with his presence, and his example, and hi
military knowledge, cause less sacred only tina
thatato which his life has heretofore been ded
.scated
Year: 1861

It is said of Col. Ethan Allen, that he once at
mate, the result of which was that out of the
whole human race, not one in thousand would be
saved On the announcement of this result, Allen
took his hat and walked out, saying as he went !:


to h any Of goq wo my
Year: 1861

purchase it the moment it passes under the Sher-
iif IS hammer. These are facts, within the knowl-
edge of all who read the newspapers of the coun-
try; consequently, if the non-payers to small
loan lose all the interests they possess, they must
lay the blame upon themselves. We trust none OF
them will be thus negligent


With these brief remarks, again referring to the
card of Col Richardson, we take leave OF the sub
ect for the present, hoping to be able to announce,
in few days, that the entire amount OF the loan
has been taken.
Year: 1861

4 CorroE-SgED HuLLEs.-We went yeeter-
day to the Muscogee Iron Works, to see the
operations of a mill for hulling cotton seed,
the invention of Mr.. Isaac Mitchell, of this
city. 1t was working very successfully sepa.
rating the kernel from the lint as completely
as the gin separates the lint and seed The
machine is a very simple one and easy oper-
alton. The seeds are thrown into hopper and
husked by grinding plates, passing out into a
cylindrical revolving seiye, about four feet
long and inclined downward from the mill.
BY the revolutions of this cylinder the kernel
is made to drop through into a trough under.
meath 1t, while the hull and lint, unable to
pass through the seive, are worked out at the
lower end of the cylinder.


The kernel, thus separated. is very easily
reduced to oil of superior quality, for burn
ing purposes and hardly disunguishable in
taste or smell from good olive oil. 1t ALWAYS
commands at least IL per gallon and now
sells much higher. The chief difficulty in
the way OF making oil from cotton seed is
that OF separating the kernel from the hull
by cheap process, and this, we think, Mr..
Mitchell has accomplished.


This is q subject OF immense advantage to
the South, as the success Of this enterprise
will add greatly TO the value of the cotton
crop, besides making the South Independent
i'll its supply of oil. We learn that 100 lbs Of
cotton seed will yield about So lbs. of kernel
and that this amount of kernel will Weld
fully two gallons of Oil.


Cotton seed oil has for some time been
manufactured in New Orleans, but we un-
derstand that the hulling is there done by
machinery SO expensive rs to forbid its use on
plan ntations. Mr.. Mitchells Invention is
cheap and simple. We learn that he has
applied for patent.-C Columbus ENQUIRER.
Year: 1861

A BRAvs WoxAs "A friend has comm uni
Gated 70 us the following particulars, showing
the heroism Of a lady lMrs Julia H. Waaeht
entities her TO place among the bravest Of
the brave About the loth Of Augnst mob
Of about $50 men In all, led by johnson,
Grays0n Locke and others, commenced their
dspradati0ns and insults in the county above
named, near the North Carolina line, hunt
ing down the friends of the Confederate
Government and forcing the weak and de-
fenceless to take the oath Of allegiance to Lin.
coin A portion of this mob, some fifty
sixty In number visited the house Of Major
McO ueen, and demanded of his wife to
know where hs was. She refused, at the
peril of her life, to tell them; and after
sound cursing, which they received from an
old negro woman, who had no respect for
Lincoln's minions, they left and soon after
visited the storehouse Of Mr.. VIM. r. Waugh,
who was absent at the time. Their Captain
marched his men up and surrounded the
house, and demanded of Mrs. Waugh all the
arms and ammunition which her husband
had She told them her husband was absent,
and had left her to take care of the store and
defend the family. They assured her that If
she would quietly surrender the arms, she and
the family should not be hurt. She refused to
comply with the demand, and gathering an
axe, placed herself in the door of the building
and told them she would split the head Of the
first man who attempted to enter. She had
with her her step-son, about IL years of age,
armed with double barreled gun and pistol;
her daughter, about Is, armed with repeater
and a knife. and young man, who had VOL
un teered to defend the building, was also
armed. They could and would have killed
a dozen or so Of the mob II the attack had
been made. They endeavored to intini-
date Mrs. Waugh, but she defied them,
and taunted them with the sight OF Con-
federate flag which they had threatened
to take from her; ; but she told them that be-
fore they took that flag they would have to
take her, and that while they were doing that
she would be certain to have her prize in the
shape Of dead tory. And there she stood,
the impersonation of collected courage, defy.
ing that large, angry, and desperate crowd,
until at last, cowed, chagrined and mortified,
they slowly retired, and soon after disbanded
The courage and iron nerve of one woman
on other occasions tender and gentle as a
child-had met and turned back from their
purpose some nifty or sixty desperate men,


It was about this time that the militia of
Ashe, Watauga and other counties on the
western line of this State, turned ont in such
large numbers to meet the Lincolnites of East
Tennessee.


Mr.. Waugh is, we believe, native Of North
Carolina, and connected with the Waughs OF
Forsyth and other counties in the northwest
ern part Of the State. His wife is a brave and
glorious woman.-RnleiSh (N c.. STANDARD,
l4tA.
Year: 1861

To MAKE LuoIPRR MATCH CoAPosITIox-
Take one ounce and a half of glue, one ounce
of phosphorus, two and half ounces OF nj
tire, one ounce and quarter of red ocher and
half an ounce of smalt. Having carefully
weighed ont the ingredients, mani pulate as
follows First reduce the glue to q smooth
Jelly in warm water, the temperature of
which is not TO be above las Fahrenheit; now
add the phosphorus and stir the mixture till
the latter is perfectly divided into minute
particles then add the remaining materials
and mix them till the whole is one uniform
paste. The composition must be kept warm
but never warmer than the thermometer
heat above mentioned. Finally, the matches
are to have their ends rubbed over a hot iron
plate, and then dipped into the paste and left to
dry In an airy situation. Some manufacturers
use all smalt instead of the ocher others use
red lead in lieu Of either. Private individu-
els cannot, Of course make matches, but every
one should know the nature of common
things.
Year: 1861

Presiding Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal


Church IL. the United States Of .fsasrtca:


my Jurisdiction as Missionary Bishop of the
Sou invest, and declare my purpose no longer
TO claim or exercise such jurisdiction within
the United States Of America


ment has been formed by the confederation Of
eleven States formerly numbered among the
United States of America. The Bishops
Clergy and Laymen within these limits being
also ceased, under the terms of the Constitu.
ton and Canons, to be within the jurisdiction
OF the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America.


Inasmuch as the Missionary District hereto
fore assigned me embraces territory in both
longer claim any Episcopal authority within
the territory of the United States


Arrangements are now in progress for the
establishment of a General Convention in the
Confederate States, which Will. believe,
have the appreciation of all the clergy and
members of the church among us. In pursuing
this course we are aetuated by the conviction
that the Confederate States of America have
now an independent national existence, and
are well able to maintain their independence.


l doubt not, venerable father, that 1t is
grief OF mind to you in your declining years,
TO witness the unnatural strife now raging
between those who once We're brethren. 1t
can be ended only when others consent that
we shall be free to govern ourselves and 10
discharge without interference, the peculiar
responsibilities which God has laid upon us.


Will you not add your prayers to ours that
the sense OF justice may return, that the foot
of aggression may be stayed, and that rela-
tions OF peace and hmity may be established
between the Confederacies of the North and
the South. s. -


l remain, with unfeigned respect, your
friend and brother in the church Of Christ,
HENRY G. LAY,


Missionary Bishop of the Southwest.
Year: 1861

A good, honest soul once said that "all
she wanted, when she got to Heaven, was
to put on clean apron and sit STILL"
After ALL the idea is more profound than
funny. There are times in every house.
keepers life when this would be the en-
bodiment of Paradise. When the head
throbs with planning, contriving, and
directing; when every bone aches in the
attempt to carry the programme into sue
cessful execution; when, after having
done ones best to draw to focus all the
ininitesimal cobwcb-threads of careful
management, some new emergency is born
of every last attempt, till every nerve and
muscle cries out, with the old woman, for
Heaven and clean apron! Of course,
after a period of carefree rest, this earth
seems after all very nice place to stay
in; but while the fit lasts, no victim of
unsuccessful love, or of sea-sickness, is
more truly deserving of that which neither
ever got-heargth pity. 1t is we'll that
is not the prevailing feeling, else how
could we all toll and moil as we do,
day after day, for six feet of earth to en-.
gulf it all at last 1t is we'll that to
painstaking mothers and delving fathers,
earth seems so real. Were it not go, the
wheels OF this world would stick fast, of
course.


The men would hang themselves be-
cause there are three hundred and sixty
five days in year, and every morning of
all these days they must button their shirt
band The women would think of nine
children and one at the breast and every
one to be worried through the measles,
scarlet fever, chicken-pox, and hopping
cough ; while Bridget and Betty would
incontinently drown themselves at the
nevcr-ending succession of breakfasts, din
ners and suppers, to be gobblcd up by
people constantly ringing the bell for


"more I" Heaven and clean apron the


idea is delicious. Let us hope the woman
got it. , FANNY FERN.
Year: 1861

A AN now N receipt Of my large and well assorted
stock of staple and Fancy Dry Goods, which am
offering very low prices


As quick sales and small profits IS my motto, am
Wiling up with the latter 10 accomplish the ioI
NOR and VIII offer great inducements to ali who viii
favor me with call especially to casn buyers Come
and see for yourselves DAVID HUAPhKEf,


sept1l-tf No p South side Of the Square
Year: 1861

s,tuated on the Franklin Turnpike, within half mile
n die CITY and opposite the residence OF the late Jo


sept, W. Horton This Is perhaps the most command


z site in the vicinity OF Nashville, and Is most de
-,s,.Tla country residence The house will be sold
xIth IL or I5 acres of land the purchaser may
Year: 1861

IS Somebody sends us an anonymous
letter from Tennessee threatening 20 assassin.
a'e Us for what We have said of John Bell
We hope he won't. We want the use of tho
whole remnant. Of our three score and ten to
repent properly Of our vote for Bell last Au.
gust,-P renrice.
Year: 1861

TIE FAMILY OF SrASD-SrrLL.-There's
sort Of people in the world that can't boar
making any progress. | wonder if they ever
walk, unless they walk backwards | wonder
they don't refuse to 90 out when there's
new moon; and all out Of love and respect
for that "aucisnt institution"-thc old one.
Year: 1861

Wnen the shoemaker now tells bis Ouet0'
mer that he treads very much on one sloe,
he, in fact, compliments him by the inlor'
nation that be has a healthy aud unsu3)9-
gated foot, determined to tread straight. IL
is precisely because children's feet are only
in the first stage Of injury, and are more
nearly as God made them than as tney are
destined 10 be made by the shOemakers,
that children especially come into trouDle
with the shoemakers, or with Inc parents
an6 guardians who believe rather IN shoes
than in feet, for threading on one side."
A strong and healthy foot tramples fool
ish shoe out as far as possible into the form
il ought first to have bad. Even the dis
torted foot, after the shoemaker has done
bis worst will often tread over the leather
of the inner side of the boot-heel to bring
itself into rome approach to the right line
with the great toe. In properly made
shoe, then, the great toe aud the heel have
their right relative places furnished for
Them. And, since they are to be in line to-
gether, IL must follow that if well made
pair of boots be placed side by side, so that
their heels will touch, their sides also will
touch through the whole space in front OF
the instep from the ball Of the great toe to
the very end OF it. They will dverge only
at the rounded ends, where the great toes
round off into the little ones, along whose
line, aud nowhere else, any possible point
ing OF the shape OF the bootsoie can be got.
Apart from the general necessities OF fit,
there is no better rough test of the degree
TO which pair of boots has been adapted
TO q pair of feet, than to place them with
their inner sides together, and observe the
out of the soles. The more they diverge
from each ether between the place Of the
greatest breadth and the end of the toes,
the worse they are the more they tend to
be in contact along that line the better
they are aud when they quite touch
throughout that line, they are what they
ought to be. To secure this, to secure al
40 sole Of which the greatest breath cor
responds truly with the greatest breadth OF
the tread, and, which, moreover, is con-
trived to allow room enough for ths play
Of the foot 10 walking including its length
ening or shortening with the ranging curve
OF It's arch, Ia to secure what we ought to
have, and what we can get only by defying
shOemakers' prejudices, and compelling
shoemakers, whether they like II or not, to
understand the true theory Of their trade.
--[All the Year Round.