smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

A mistaken idea of the mortality IN the
army is prevalent among those who have
paid no special attention to the subject
In reality the proportion of deaths in the
army is but little more than in ordinary
life. The number sick in the Washing
ton hospitals is one indication of this
In all the hospitals in the city there are
now but 77O patients, being less than one
per cent. Of the army. This can hardly
be said of any community. even in healthy
locations. OF course battle is destruct-
i've Of human life, bat even in such cases
the mortality is less than is generally sup
posed A careful calculator has said that
over tive hundred pounds of lead are fred
for every man that is killed. AT the bat
tie of Carnifex Ferry the fight ragged with
terrible severity for more than four hours,
and yet only sixteen of our troops were
killed


Under the present sanitary care which
is had for the camps and the standard Of
living for our soldiers. the STANDARD Of
health is much higher than in our crowded
cities and towns, fact that should give an
impetus to enlisting.
Year: 1861

I MAILMAN 4hANNAa


/ Accounts continue to be received of great


damage done at the East by freshets, last


week. and the Harrisburg pa } Telegraph


says that by the destruction of booms al


Williamsport and Lock Haven, on the west


branch Of the Susquehannah river, at


least one million dollars worth of logs were


swept away and lost TIE Telegraph says:


The floating logs reached this city about
ten minutes before l2 o'clock yesterday
morning. and presented a scene of the
most thrilling description. The wind came
with considerable force from the west,


which had the effect to drift most Of them
to the channel east of Fosters Island, and
for the first two or three hours so prOfuse
was their number that they appeared to
cover almost the entire surface of the va
ter between the island aud this shore The
effect was the same also as far as the eye
could penetrate up and down the river
nothing but logs packed close together, as
if they composed one immense moving
raft. The logs were still floating past city
up to nine o'clock last night, though much
scattered, and in less numbers. OF course
it is impossible for us to estimate the num-
Der Of logs in this immense hotilla-we
can only measure them by the mile; and
accordingly estimate the swiftness of the
current assumed at Sc, en- miles an hour,
from the time they first appeared here. up
to nine o'clock last night, that the line Of
logs extended distance of ffty.six miles
below this city, with an average breadth
of one hundred yards. .r
Year: 1861

Accounts received BY the Government
and which are deemed reliable, represent
the cotton crop of the Southern States as
about an average yield. Much of it has
been successfully housed, but owing to the
want of bagging. it cannot be baled nor
transported. Until supply Of wrapping
is obtained. the crop is almest useless De-
ing too bulky for shipment
Year: 1861

FATAL FALL.-A man named Whitaker
lately fell over the bluffs at Red Bluff and was
killed. The beach was so or go feet in hight.
It was supposed he wandered to the spot and
fell over while under the influence of liquor.
Year: 1861

STooK FOR THE EAsT.-The Yreka Journal
is informed that parties are making arrange
ments to drive stock across the plains next
Spring TO Wisconsin and Iowa, where cattle
will bring more money than they do here.
Year: 1861

City Councit.-The members of this body
have been summoned to attend a meetiug VI
the CITY Hall, at o'clock this evening. We
have intended for some time to call the atten-
tion OF the City Fathers to the fact, pa ten to
all, that under the present mode of assembling.
once per month, but very little of the public
business can be attended to properly, the
small modicum that floats to the surface only
Receiving superficial glance from the neces-
sarily brief period allotted to the examination
OF each particular subject claiming attant tion
1t is rule which has attained in the ordinary
transactions between man and man that, 10
keep things straight, business must be kept
ted up daily. Meeting only once mont
and sitting for an hour and a halt. .precudes the
notion that the Council can keep even pace
with the business of the city
Year: 1861

THE New YEAR.-Before our next issue,
the old year Of '61 will have passed away. To
our country it has been eventful, and may its
successor so mould the events, that il may mul
tiply her blessings and increase her power and
glory among the nations Of the world. To our
friends and patrons we would suggest that
they let not the new year catch them IN ar
rears to the printer.


And We wish all happy New Year, and
manifold blessings.
Year: 1861

WATER BoUND.-Our merchants have large
supplies of goods at Hamilton en- route for this
place, but as the ferries have all been stopped
by high water, they are blocked up there for
the present. If we only had good bridge,
we could have good road to the lower coun-
try on the other side of the river at any season
OF the year. The Honcut bridge is still down,
but if it was up, very little crossing of teams
could be done as the sloughs near it on this
side are impossible.
Year: 1861

STAGE AccIDENr.-The stage of the 23d
from Marysville, being unable to cross the
Honcut creek, or land the passengers across.
returned to the city, three of the passengers
going back, two Cinnamon and one white man,
On crossing the slough, the stage got swamped,
lost the Express Box, and precipitated the
passengers into the slough. Mon Cow Sing,
one of the ChiDamen, who was well known in
this community, was drowned. He was quite
an old man, and doctor of the CelestiaIs, who
highly reverenced him. He was one of the
characters of the town, had long flowing
white beard, and wore long blue gown and
was very polite in his manners, speaking in the
American term, he was a great medicine man
among his people, and they all believe the good
old man has gone to occupy bis place in the
fowery kingdom.
Year: 1861

AN old correspondent, of ours, who writes
for the Post under the new nom de plume OF
Veritas," and together with the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, furnishes all the matter of any
interest, in that valuable document, speaks as
follows of the Coso district, under date of De-
cember lst:


From the Coso District we continue TO
hear hattering news. There is no humbug
about the gold bearing portion of the reports
brought in by prospectors" we being ac
quainted with parties engaged IN grinding that
kind of rock, having handled the proceeds and
knowing personally that large amounts have
been offered in cash land retused) for some of
the claims which have been opened. Most of
the parties engaged in opening their mines,
expect to work them on their own account and
realize wealth egtimately and should they
desire to sell interests they need not resort to
the Bailey & Dewy" process of manufactur-
ing ore to relieve the too grasping and credu-
lous speculator of bis surplus capital, having
an abundant supply of the simon pure article
which yield to the magic touch of honest labor,
and the practical application of genuine science.
Machinery for the Silver Mountain Co." was
met six days since near Little Owens Lake."
from which, when erected and put in opera
ton, great results are anticipated. Machinery
for Messrs. Kitchens e. Munroe destined for
the same District, is now going up Kern river,
having crossed the mountains safely, and will
reach its place of destination in about ten days
The lode for which the latter will be erected
is one Of the best gold bearing we have ever
tested, and if the proprietors do not realize
immense fortunes. it will be because of bad
management. -Nisalla Delta.
Year: 1861

FORMIDABLE WEAPoN.-A very formidable
weapon is, We understand, about to be intro
duced into our army on the Potomac. 1t is an
improved Congreve rocket, so contrived as to
be made to fly distance..of four to five thou
sand yards. For service against masses Of
cavalry and infantry, or setting fire to towns
and villages, or anything that will burn or has
life" it is said to be one of the most fearfully
destructive weapons ever devised by man.
This terrible instrument of war, we presume,
will also be employed to protect the coast, and
for other purposes on board the iron clad ships
and floating batteries of the United States
At the right time and place, there can be uni.
ted with it another still more remarkable in
vention, whose name we withhold till it shall
be required by the government, but which,
properly used, will utterly annihilate any hos
tile fleet that may threaten our ports or sea-
board Boston Transcript.
Year: 1861

THE WAR.-By reference to all the dis
patches received, to this date, which will be
found in another column, it will be seen that
the cause of the Union is steadily gaining
ground in the sacred dominons of the rebels,
and that the loyal people of the Government
have cause to rejoice at the advantageous
changes in our army.


Gen. Haleck is shifting the rebels in Mis-
souri, hip and thigh, and will soon rid that
State of their invading forces Kentucky will
be clean of them before the winter closes and
the army of the Potomac will not 60 into
winter quarters. The first shipment of cotton
from our Sea Island plantations, has arrived
in New York, and regular shipments may be
expected to soon follow. We will stop the
growing of the Sea Lion across the water. BY
stuffing his capacous nav with fine Sea Is
land cotton.
Year: 1861

TAX SUIrs. - The District Attorney has
filed complaints with Justice Marple, in three
hundred and sixty eight cases, against delin-
quent tax payers in our county, and these are
not all. The present revenue law is very
stringent, and too severe and onerous for the
welfare of our people neither the State nor
Counties gain anything by the heavy penalties
of its provisions. Our incoming Legislators
should see that the revenue law is remodeled
and improved, for it is sadly defective, and its
effect is a burthen upon the people. We hear
complaints on all sides, and from many of our
sister counties We would say to all delin-
quent taxpayers, go and settle up with the
Justice before any further costs are made
They are heavy enough now, and no one
knows what they will be if your cases 60 to
Judgment
Year: 1861

The Baltimore Patriot has the following In
teresting announcement


The Richmond Enquirer publishes, for the
first time. an official report of the Virginia
State Convention last Spring. 1t is full ofin-
teresting developments, we are told, and we
wait with some impatience to read the history,
and hope they may not be garbled by the au-
tborities there. The chief instruments in the
yillainv to force the convention to measures,
are well known to have been the sldue dealers
men who WELD large amount OF money,
and are very numerous in Richmond, and whose
regular business is to buy up the surplus slaves
for the supply of the Cotton States. When
the latter seeded, there was law passed put
ting tax of Sl00 upon every slave brought
in for sale from State outside of the then
Confederacy: this was done to operate upon
the Border Slave States, from whence all such
supplies were derived. and hence the impor-
tance to the class alluded to of taking Virginia
out bv anu means some of which may be gath
cred from the following statement made by q
member of the Convention which passed an
ordinance for the secession of Virginia, himself
q linton men


"Wben the Convention assembled, the
Richmond Secession mob were enraged to fud
that clear majority was for the Union. They
counted the members and calculated that ii
the Union men could be kept away, they 1.-THE
Secessionists) would be in majority. Ac-
cordingly ten members Zone of whom makes
this statement) we're waited upon and were in
formed that they were given the choice OF
doing one of three thiDgs-ether to vote for
the secession ordinance, TO absent themselves,
or be hanged. Resistance was found to be
useless; the mob was prepared to so to any
extremity. and the ten yielded and absented
themselves. But even with this deduction,
when the remaining members met the majority
was found to be opposed to secession. 1ntIm
idation and violence were then again applied ;
the mob was ready to put every man to death
who opposed its will, and thus the farce OF pas
sing an ordinance was gone through with,
though it was never passed by majority, but
by mere plurality obtained by forcibly keep
ing away Union men enough to have turned
the scale.


Thus, by fraud and violence, was carried
that measure which is converting part of the
State into waste it was passed in fact, not by
the delegates of the State, but by the stipen-
diaries and assassins in the employ of the chiee
cOnsprators. For obvious reasons, no names
are here given but the statement is perfectly
reliable. Some such a course was attempted
also in Maryland, the particulars of which we
have from good authority. and Of which we
NAV hereae4er speak more fully
Year: 1861

Feather River was swollen by the recent
rains to within about six feet of the former
freshet. All crossing was suspended at the
ferries for two days; but no great damage was
done-tbat we have been able to learn. The
creeks and sloughs have been higher than be-
fore, but not enough so to do further damage
All communication with Marysville was stop
ped for two days; and the staging to Tehama
was not resumed until Thursday morning. The
bridge over Dry Creek, on the road to Lynch
burg, was swept away, and the Celestials, who
we're working on the banks of all the streams
in the vicinity, left on double quick for high
ground. The great mass Of the Chinese have
never seen a flood in California. and they do
not comprehend it very well. They are afraid
of water, in large quantities, and no shabbe
big water come in night and washee away
cabin, Chinamau and every thing Chinaman
catchee in Californy. The Indians appear to
be highly pleased at the discontinue of the
Celestials-there appears to be no affinity be-
tween tnem.


We have learned, with sorrow, that Saera'
mento City had not sufficiently perfected her
defences to resist the last food but there is
time enough yet to reclaim the city and put
her high and dry for the future. The people
there, all had notice this time, and prepared
themselves for the occasion.


The Sacramento River has been very high
much more so than at the late freshet.


On Thursday morning, the bar, in front o.
town, was free from water; but, after the stea
dy, warm rain of that day and night, it AROSE
again to its former hight, and on yesterday
was entirely covered Feather has been Big
River for nearly month past-capable o
allowing boats of heavy draught to come tc
town.
Year: 1861

BAD TRAvELING.-The lower part of Bird
street, below the ditch is almost impossible at
every rain, to pedestrians a little filing in of
=" tailings" on the north side, by the road over
seer would cure the crying evil.
Year: 1861

A FABLE SUITABLE TO PRESENT AFFAIRS.
In former days, when the Belly and the
other parts of the body enjoyed the faculty
of speech, and had separate views and de-
signs of their own, each part, it seems, in
particular for himself, and in the name Of
the whole, took exceptions at the conduct
of the Belly, and were resolved to grant
him supplies no longer They said they
thought il very hard that he should lead an
idle good-for-nothing life, spending and
squandering away on his ungodly self all
the fruits Of their labor and that, in short,
they were resolved for the future to strike
off bis allowance, and let him shift for him
self as we'll as he could. The hands pro-
tested that they would not lift up finger
to keep him from starving; and the mouth
wished be might never speak again If he
took the least bit Of nourishment for him
as long as be lived "and," said the teeth,
"may we be rotted If we ever chew NOR
sci for him in the future" This solemn
league and covenant was kept as long as
anything of that kind can be kept, which
was until each of the rebel members pined
away to skin and bone, and could hold out
no longer. Then they found there was no
doing without the Belly, and that, as idle
and Insignificant as he seemed, he contrib
uted as much to the maintenance and wei
fare of the other parts as they did to his.


This fable was related by Menenius Agrip-
pa to the Romans, when they revolted
against their rulers. II is very easy to see
how the fable was applied; for If the branch
es and members of community refuse the
government that aid which its necessities
require, the whole must perish together.
Every mans enjoyment Of the products of
his own daily labor depends upon the gov
ernment being sustained in condition to
defend and secure him II.
Year: 1861

qe an oah 70 oe maoe IL snail be made by some otcer
OF such corporation.


SEC IL. BE further enacted That the courts are vested
with jurisdiction and required BY this act to settle all part
neTShpS heretofore existing between citizen and who
is an alien TO separate the interest OF the alien
N.Y. and to sequestrate it. And SHALL alsO all Joint
rights when an alien enemy concerned and sequesrate
the interest of such alien enemy.


SEC 90. Be further enacted That in all cases of ad-
minstraon of matter thing under this act the
court having jurisdiction make such orders touching
the OF the property effects under the drec


ton or control of the Receiver inconsistent with the
Receiver at time ask and have the instructions of
the court or judge respecting his conduct in the dspos
hon management of any property, effects under his
control.


SEC 81. BE 10 further enacted That the Treasury notes
of this Conederacy shall be receivable IN payment of all
purchases Of property effects sold under this act


SEC 22 BE H further enacted That nothing in this act
Snail be construed to destroy impair the lien other
of any creditor, citizen resident of either of Con-
federate States of other person. citizen resident
of country State Territory with which this Confed
eracy is in friendship, and which person in hostility
TO this COnederacy And any lien debt claimed against
any alien enemy, within the meaning of this act shall be
prOpounded and filed in the court in which the proceedings
of sequeStraOn had. within twelve months from the
institution of such proceedings for sequeSratOn and the
court shall all parties to be made and notices
To be gven and shall hear and determine the ectve
rights of all parties concerned Provided however, that
sales payments of money shall he delayed for by
reason Of such rights proceedings but any money
allied bv the Receiver whether paid into the court treas
urv still in the Receivers hands shall stund in lien of
that which produced said money and be held to the
demand of the creditors aforesaid in the
propounded and filed aforesaid within twelve months
aforesaid shall 10 exist against the estate proper
ty, effects SequeStraed or the proceeds thereof.


APPROVED August 80. 1861.
Year: 1861

Words are little things, but they strike
hard. We WELD them so easily that we
are apt to forget their hidden power. Fit
ly spoken, they fall like sunshine, the dew,
and drizzling rain-but when unfitly, like
the frost, the hail and the desolate tempest.
Year: 1861

11 We get reports by persons who left Fair.
tax Court house yesterday morning, that the
insurgents are beginning to retreat. They
seem to have nothing to live upon, except what
they plunder from neighboring farms and plant.
ations
Year: 1861

FIGHT AT AQUA CREEK.-Informatio reach.
ed the Navy Department Yesterday afternoon,
by the Keystone State, which reports that, on
passing Aqua creek, at noon, the Freeborn
ard Anacostia were engaging the battery there
with success.


The Navy Department Immediately dis
patched two men of war down to support Cap.
tain Ward.


These was little if any doubt that the New
York seventy. first regiment would proceed at
midnight to Aqua Creek, arrangements having
been made for their transportation.


Up to half past eleven o'clock last night, the
Government had received no further advices
from that point beyond what has been stated


The Keystone State witnessed the fight for
several hours. According to report of an off.
Ger of that vessel, there are two batteries, the
one on the low ground having been damaged.
1t is supposed from the movements of the Ana.
costa that she had been struck by a ball.
Year: 1861

of fair paper however, for which there is no sae at
9lI v cent month. There s a ready market only
for such names as class No j. and go at y cent
thereabout.


The business Of the Philadelphia Cusom-H House for
the month of May 1861 as compared with the two pre-
Year: 1861

There was no public celebration in Hoboken, but IN
other respects the day was very generally observed
Many thousand people crossed over from New York 70
spend few hours away from the noise and hustle ot
the city, and the Elysn Fields and other places Of
public resort were .hronged all day with an orderly
clsss Of people, There were breaches OF the peace
worthy Of note, and not single arrest was made
Year: 1861

Isabel has been disappointed in her hired help,
and my mother is away from home, so I am
helping her clean house"


81 did net know-I thought you had no
tsste"-stamRered Amy, uncOnsciOusly speak
ing out her thoughts.


"You supposed that was nothing more
than an ornamental piece of furniture. Ask
Isabel about that" said Dick, half piqued,
half smiling. " But can be of any use to you
now?"


II had a note from my cousin, for Mrs. May
field, said Amy, still speaking scarcely above
her breath.


"She has gone down to the farther orchard, ;"
said Dick. 1T is some distance, and not a
very straight path. If you will wait until
remove little of this lime, / shall be happy
to escort you down there


Half an hour ago Amy would have haughti-
~ informed him it was quite unnecessary for
her to trouble him-nOw she stood and waited
1t was long walk, under tho overspreading
shadow of noble apple trees, bending with their
weight OF crimson and russet fruit, and though
meadows ankle deep in purple and bloom, and
nodding plumes of golden red, yet, for all that
Amy was quite surprised when Mrs. Mayfeld
came In sight, carrying little basket of rose
checked peaches from pet tree beyond.


We believe it is one of woman's special and
inc0ntrovertable privileges to change her mind
therefore nobody was much astonished when
three months subsequently, there was rumor
of the engagement Of Mr.. Mayfeld and Miss
Brownleigh Still, however, Dick always de-
clared that 1T was an insoluble mystery to him
that when serenades and schottisches poetry
and perfumes had all failed to win an entrance
to the maiden's heart, a whitewash brush
should have been the unromantic weapon
which at last brought down the barricades.