smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

| The above Vegetable, Animal and
Fruit foods we're analyzed in their fresh
aud natural state, after their husks,
scales, and shells were first removed.


l do not know ,cho is the author of these
tables, but should like to know if you or
any one of your readers can inform me.
For can not find these tables in any Of
our standard Agricultural books. 1t runs
in my mind that they were first published
in the Baltimore Patriot. And perhaps
its editor Gf you send him a copy Of your
paper containing this, marked around
with ink can and will enlighten US as to
its origin or author. Indeed, l consider
it a valuable table for reference, and rec
ommend it as such.


What has become Of the Union County
agricultural Society? Is it dead, or what
is the reason that none Of its members bill
up weekly Agricultural department in
your interesting paper? would gladly
send you an occasional article on rural af-
fairs, if l saw your own Agriculturists
more active and more appreciative Of such
information, or your paper had column
or two headed agricultural Department"
Politics, l know, must be attended to,
and is very good, in its place, but there is
such thing as having too much of it, and
that is just the trouble of our country
now. W., Northumberland Co.
Year: 1861

ren.. Democrats formerly professed great
and almost exclusive love for the Union.
And yet they are the very first to break
up and destroy the Union, simply because
they were beaten at the last election
Out upon such HJpocricy!
Year: 1861

Clover Seed-sixty-two pounds do 62


But the laws fixing these standard
bushel weights of said articles contain
Prcrisos that no person or persons shall be
prevented from buying or selling said ar
ticles by measure, that is, by the bushel
merely, without regard to their actual le-
gal weight per bushel. So let your rea-
ders, who desire to have this knowledge
ready at hand for future reference, cut
this ou. of your paper and save it. And
these, let me observe here, are the only
farm-products whose standard ,eeiyh per
bushel is fixed by law in Pennsylvania
for our bushel weights Of other things are
regulated entirely by the custom of our
people in buying and selling. And gen.
eral custom, in such matters, has the same
obligatory effect on buyers and sellers that
positive statute law would have. But
as there is sometimes a doubt as to what
the weight of a particular article offered
for sale should be per bushel, it would be
better if we had law fixing the precise
bushel or ton weight Of all our other mar
ketable farm-products.


NrTRITIOjSNEsS OF FOODS.


The following tables will also show
your readers what are the real and rclu-
hVe powers of nutritiousness of our sever
al Vegetable, Animal aud Fruit foods,
therein named-whch you will please
publish for the benefit of your readers.
For it is the evident interest not only of
the consumer, but also of the producer
Of breadsiutfs and Of other eatables, clear
ly to know what are our cheapest and
most nutritious foods, especially in such
hard times as we have had Of late years
and even now have.
Year: 1861

TExAs.-An unauthorized Convention in
Texas has passed secession ordinance
The Convention was not called by any legal
authority, and the delegates were elected
by those only who favor secession and a
union with other Southern States. The
friends of the Union and the Lone Star
party refused to participate in the election,
lest they should be regarded as indirectly
sanctiOning the movement. 1t is generally
believed that the Lone Star party are more
numerous than either of the others; their
object being TO set up an independent gov
ernment, and then commence the work Of
conquering Mexico.
Year: 1861

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF SECEssIoN.-The
Liverpool Post, journal Of great ability,
and better posted on American affairs than
most of the English papers, says, in regard
to the disunion movement:


Perhaps, rightly considered, the present
movement is palpable proof of the strength
of the American Constitution. There is
something hlse rank rebellion in South
Carolina. Civil war is talked OF, and the
Government is Inactive or trimming, yet
everything goes on as if nothing was the
matter. Trade is brisk, the banks are lib
eral, and money tolerably plentiful. In
any other country there wOnld be COM
mercal panic. a cessation of dealing, and a
terrible alarm. The army would be called
out, the national forces augmented, and
any number of suspected persons in prison.
But Jonathan acknowledges no alarm, and,
if not Indifferent to the result, seems to
care very little what it may be. The free
States are quite strong enough to stand
alone, aud while people talk of North aud
South they seem to forget that, greater
than both, there is a mighty West, drawing
with its happier influence the resources Of
the North and South. Treason and rebel
lion are therefore merely incidents in q
republic so vast, and are to be exlinguishe6
rather by neglect than by force. There
will be q quantity of talk, but probably nc
fighting.
Year: 1861

BUST ON THE CoLoRADo.-A correspon-
dent of the San Francisco Herald, writing from
the Colorado river, says:


"In one place pointed out to companion
a mass of brown rock, resting on pillar ofyel-
lowish clay; and asked what it lookedlike. CThe
resemblance, though rude, was striking. as far
as the face was concerned, and could not fail to
attract notice from where we stood; and my
comrade answered in moment, at is the bust
of d. c. B." Several others rode out Of their
way the next day to look at it, and all pro-
nounced it decided likeness. From where We
stood the face was in half profile.
Year: 1861

The PALMETTO FLAG.-The following dis
patch was telegraphed from San Francisco
to the Sacramento Bee, on the goth inst:


The first and only Palmetto flag raised
on the Pacific coast, was hoisted yesterday,
on board a schooner going out of the slip
between Washington and Clay streets. The
thing was observed by several persons, who
ran to the end Of the wharf close to which
the craft was obliged to be veered to pass a
vessel which lay across the entrance to the
slip. They ordered the men in charge to
haul down the obnoxious bunting. and
threatened to enforce their demands in q
summary manner if not complied with.
Some boys commenced pelting the man at
the helm with potatoes of which many sacks
were piled upon the wharf Seeing these
demonstrations the men on board the
schooner hastily pulled the flag down but
this did not satisfy the crowd, who ordered
the stars and sripes'to be run up, which
was Immediately done, and the fun was
over.
Year: 1861

SURVEY OF THE HARBoR.-The General
Government having detailed Capts. Alden and
Gilmer, of the U. S. Navy, to make a survey of
the Bay of San Francisco, in accordance with
the prayer of the Chamber of Commerce, it
becomes necessary to make provision for the
payment of the expenses that may be incurred.
For that purpose, bill has already been intro
duced in the Legislature, and it is to be hoped
that it will at once be passed. OF the nature
and character of the bottom Of our harbor, we
are all profoundly ignorant. Nothing has ever
been done but to run down the lead here and
there, and determine the depth Alta.
Year: 1861

CALAvERAs FINANcEs.-The San Andreas
Independent says: The Board of Supervisors
Of Calaveras county announce the cheering in
telligence that within the year ending the lst of
the present month, the county debt has been
decreased twenty thousand dollars, and that an
early extinction of the whole indebtedness is
anticipated. They very laconically inform the
public of their gratitude at this happy turn in
our county affairs, to which, in behalf Of that
public, we briefly respond, amen
Year: 1861

Ten MILE FooT RACE.-On the First OF
March ten mile foot race, for $500 a side,
will take place at the Pioneer Course, near
San Francisco. The runners, Henry Her
rick and the shepherd Boy" have been
training for the past month, and will keep
it up until the contest is decided.
Year: 1861

We the people of the Confederate States each State
acting in its sovereign and independent character, in
order to form permanent federal government, estab
lish justice, insure domestic tranquility and
the blessings of liberty ourselves and posteri
ty-nvoking the fsyer and guidance of Almighty God
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
Cnnfederafe States of America.
Year: 1861

A CAREFUL MoTHER.-Punch gives us q
little occasionally, which is highly sa-
worry and aromatic. Mothers and maternal
aunts will find the following tender epistle
from one of the former to one Of the latter,
pleasing if not wholesome, from the moral it
conveys:


Dearest Susey: -Plantagenet will come by
the train which arrives at ii O'Clock. Have
lunche on ready for him at II. Mutton broth.
the inside of chop, the thigh of pheasant:
he dimes at 2-soup, little fish and o snipe
will do for him. When he goes to sleep
after dinner, put some worsted gloves on his
hands, We are breaking him of sucking his
thumbs. Warm the drawing-room sofa for
him, and put three blankets over him. If he
cries when he wakes (which he probably will
do), buy him several toys and give him
wax doll or two. He pulls them to pieces,
and they amuse him. If you have company at
dinner. let him have large dish of gravy
near him, he always puts both hands in
When he is q man we will leave this Off
Let rYant sit up with him all night; fhe
wakes let her have something hot tor him.
Be sure that you grease his nose Tor him well
before he sleers-he is given to snoring-a
tallow candle next the lighted end, is best
Truly yours, MATILDA BROWN.
Year: 1861

Over to l Democratic-yet up to this
time we have not seen that Pike county
has raised one Company, but Monroe bad
got almost one on the 6h June A fact
of this kind needs no comment. But let
us have no more boasts about Party In
connection with Volunteering.
Year: 1861

them. By their evidence the accused was con-
vcted of having fitted out the bark sailed her TO
the Congo River, where he took on board nearly
900 negroes, and soon after leaving the river
was taken, with his living cargo, by the Uni
ted States cruiser Mobican. The defense at
citizen; that the vessel was sold to foreigner,
after leaving the United States, and that he did
not command her when she had the slaves on
board. But it was proved that he was native,
that if the vessel was sold, it was done in an ir-
regular manner, to nobody knows who, and that
Gordon and nobody else sailed her out OF the
Congo. The Hon. GILBERT DEAN, as counsel
for the defense, made an able plea in be-
bali of his client; Mr.. L. S. District Attorney
SMITH responded, demolishing his arguments,
and in twenty minutes after the able and
direct charge of Judge NELSON, the Jury found
verdict of guilty. The penalty of the crime
is death. We believe this is the only cOnvc.
ton obtained on the capital charge for many
years; but the evidence was so clear and con-
elusive that it is difficult to see how the jury
could have found any other verdict than one
against the prisoner. Probably the success o.
the prosecution is due in great measure tC
the fact that the Jury was kept together BY
the Marshal and carefully guarded against i'm


proper influences. The result of this cast
cannot fail to fail with crushing effect upor
the already tottering fabric Of the African slave
trade in this country.
Year: 1861

The Senate Committee at Washington are
making an examination into the surrender OF
the Pensacola and Norfolk Nayy-Yards last
Spring. "They will probe these matters to
" the bottom" our special dispatch says, and
we may be allowed to express our satisfaction
at the assurance. As they go so far back as
TO begin at the beginning, it is reasonable to
presume that the probing" is to be continued
through the intervening months from the sur
render at Pensacola to the affairs Of the West
ern Department.
Year: 1861

A dispatch from Washington intimates that
the reverend editors of The Independent are
about to be sent to Fort Lafayette, the para
graph which We copied from that paper and
commented upon two days ago being considered
as REASONABLE. We trust that previous good
character may be permitted to be urged in
mitigation of 60 severe penalty.
Year: 1861

A Committee of the Chamber Of Commerce,
and another Of the Union Defense Committee,
waited yesterday morning upon Gen. Scott,
and each presented him an address, The
interviews between these gentlemen and the
veteran General were solemn and impressive.
A full report will be found in another column.
Year: 1861

We propose to pubAh shortly for general Information
list of those would like give public lectures during the
coming Winter In order to make this list as complete as pos
sbe we shall be glad receive the address Of auy person
whose name would properly belong in such list Those who
choose may also inform rs upon what subjects they propose
20 speak.
Year: 1861

zen who has given bis blood as if it were
water and his money as if it were drOss to
the Republic, thinks as We do. And by what
right is such patriot to be classed with trsi-
tors in arms against the Republic BY what
law even of the commonest personal ciyiity,
do these Ibelers couple the names of the sound
and the rotten, of the patriot and the anar-
chist. of footpads and freebooters, with the
honest names Of Christian gentlemenf And
who are these new Mentors who assume to
direct, advise, censure, persuade and e1hort
An immense majority of the voters OF the
North-arraigning their intelligence, question
ing their motives, inputng to them sehshne"
or Stiffness, venaity or incapacity Where Is
the record of their political successes Where
were they, when this storm was gathering,
that they did not by notable plOtage save US
from the cruel shore Of death which threatens
usi


Abolition and Secession Light aud Dark
ness, Truth and Falsehood, Right and Wrong,
Fact and Fallacy, are as nearly alike. Heaven
help us if, in the dark days which are weigh
ing down our very souls, we shun truth be-
cause it is not pleasant, and strive TO exercise
this devil of Slavery by the gibbcrish, nine
times worn out and ninety times weaker than
water, which sham. conservatives SO gbly ut
ter. Better fling at once every musket into
the Potomac and recall our gallant men, than
TO prate. foes at home which will make theil
doughtiest deeds of none effect II we must


have the disgrace of substantial defeat ie'
US meet it at once, and before We have mur
dered-yes, that is the word-any more men
If we must yield at last to the Shareholders
and think their thoughts and do their dirty
work, let US ct least save our cash, for tina
will be consolation in tho lower deep o
our degradation!
Year: 1861

Sixhundred thousand persons die in the United
States every year, six hundred thousand funerals
move in procession to the grave. aud three mil
lion mourners go about the streets.


This is the conclusion at which we must ar
rive, assuming the population of the country to
be only twenty five millions. (and 1t is doubtless
much more tbaG that. and applying 10 tkat popu-
lation the mean deathrate deduced from caleu-
lations.


The vital statistics of England show that for
each death there occur about twenty eight cases
of sickness. or two years of perpetual sickness.
From which it results that these six hundred
thousand deaths which take place in the United
States every year, are accompanied by sixteen
million eight hundred thousand cases of sickness,
or one million two hundred thousand ysars OF
sickness that is, one million two hundred thou
sand persons are perpetually sick.


Now every enlightened aud candid physician
will tell us that one half OF these deaths and one
bali this sickness is unnecessary and preventable
aud produced by the violation OF the laws oil
health, either in regard to the air we breathe
the food we eat, or the clothing we wear The
highest English authority upon physiology says
that the average annual mortality Of England
IS Just douole that to which ii might be reduc-
ed" by proper attention TO hygiene that only
$4,000 (of the annual deaths) are inevitable,
the remaining 1913, 900 being preventable


But so far as we have the data necessary for
making the comparison, it appears that the stand
ard of health and the length of life in this coun-
try are lower than in England; the mortality
there being about 22 in every 1000 Inhabitants
annually, while in the United States it is about
"a per 1000.


Therefore we may without exaggeration, as
sumo that one half Of the entire sickness and
mortality which prevails in the United States Is
avodable or, in other words, that not less than
three hundred thousand persons die unnecessary
aud preventable deaths every year.
Year: 1861

SUPPREssED,-The Knoxville Wig, the gallant
Parson Brownlow's paper, has been suppressed
by the Secession military power 1t was the last
Of the Union papers in the seeded States. Bat
do we hear any condemnation of this despotic
act from the lips Of the sympathizers with Seccs


sion in California No; not whisper OF cen


sure will be heard from them in this case but


had such an act been done by Federal troops
they would have boiled over with Indignation
There is not paper in the eleven seeded State;
which dare say one word against the Southern
Confederacy, or in favor of the American Union
This is the kind of liberty which now prevails il
the land OF Secession aud rebellion.-S +. Herald
Year: 1861

A RtcH INCDENT-A correspondent of a Nash
Vile paper tells u story about a person who was
going to Chattanooga on the railroad When the
train entered the tunnel in total darkness, said
person asked stranger how long IL would b.
going through. Stranger was a bit of o wag, and
told him about two hours Person thought he
would avail himself of the opportunity to don u
clean shirt, aud about the time he had shuckcd
himself" the train dashed out into daylight, eN-
posing his person to the astonished gaze Of about
one hundred Of male and female passengers. lie
had on no linen, and about as much other clothes
as the Apollo Belvidere-aud no chance to run.
Year: 1861

How DO You LIKE THE PICTURE I've have
heard of persons in this section who were anxious
to obtain portrait of JEFF. Davis. Here is one,
painted by himself in an address delivered at
Faneul Hall, Boston, in 1885, when he used the
following language


Among culprits there is none more odious to
my mind than public officer who takes an oath
to support the Constitution-the compact be-
tween the States binding each for the common
defense and general welfare of the other-yet
retains to himself mental reservation that be
will war upon the principles he has sworn to
maintain. and upon the property rights, the pro-
lection of which are part of the compact OF the
Union. 1t is crime too low to be named before
this assembly, 1t is one which no man with self
respect would commit. To swear that he will
support the Constitution-to take an office which
belongs in many OF its relations to all the States,
and TO use it as means of injuring portion OF
the States, OF whom he is thus the representative,
is treason to everything honorable in man. 1t is
the base aud cowardly attack of him who gains
the confidence of another, in order that he may
wound him.
Year: 1861

MOUNTAIN MEssENGER.-The Mountain Messen
ger, published at La Porte the office and material
of which was destroyed in the fire at that place
two months ago, has again made its appearance
May it escape the devouring element hereafter
aud may its proprietors receive a pecuniary rec
ompense for their loss by liberal patronage.
Year: 1861

! part from thee, my own beloved,


In sorrow and in pain
For many day s mus, come and 60


Ere We shall meet again.
And many changes time will bring


Ere that blest day we'll see
But though all things should pass away.
Thou wilt find no change IN me.
My future may be fair and bright,


Ny path be filed with flowers;
And peace and plenty spread their wings
Across my earthly bowers;
Bnl come what may, or come what will,
Upon the land or sea,
Thou wilt find that | am true 10 love,
Thou wilt find no change in me.
Whatever..may Thy lot beiide,


To thee III; closely cling
And round thy fair and fragile form


Love ample mantle hIng;
And, oh, let mol Thy faithful hearti


Fall in It's love for me;
For come what may, or come what will,
Thou wilt find no change me.
Year: 1861

a cooper, finding considerable difficulty
in keeping one o. The heads of cask he
was finishing in its place, put his son in
side 10 hold the head up. Alter complei-
ing the work much 10 his sarisfac lion, he
was aslonished 10 find the boy inside The
cask and without a possibility OF getting
out, except through the bung-hole.
Year: 1861

A German gentleman wroie ar obituary on
the dealh of his wife, of which the follow
ing is a copy tIf mine wife hat lived until
next Friday she would have been dead
shust Two weeks. Nothing is possible wit
de Almighty AS de tree falls SO must it
stand"
Year: 1861

There is wonderfully plastic power in
commerce to adapt itself to surrounding
circumstances. We see this fact illustrated
in the present condition Of the country
When the secessionists first began to move
in their scheme for rebellion, the wheels Of
commerce came to sudden stop. As time
wore on and mems: minds became fanil-
iarized with the idea, business began slowly
to revive; and, although there is not now
tllat activity. and momentum which We
would have witnessed had treason been
crushed out by IN energetic administration
Of the laws, the channels Of trade are new
crtheless measurably full, and quito as
much is doing as the condition Of affairs
will warrant. In fact, the danger now lies
in doing too much, rather than in not do
ing enough. This is especially true Of the
Northwest. Tho immense surplus Of
breadstutfs from last years harvest,
the, average product Of provisions
always large item in our exports-to-
gether with The fact that for three years we
have been paying our debts and practicing
a rigid economy in our living, have placed
this section in condition Of comparative
elseand independence. Itscustom is now
eagerly sought by Eastern merchants, who,
three years ago, turned up their noses at
every application from this quarter
for credit, who never grew weary Of saying
hard things Of us, but who exhausted all
the arts Of toadyism and all the blandish-
ments Of q Voluntary seryility, to secure
Southern favor and patronage. To obtain
the latter they readily sold their principles
along with their goods, and-for justice
ever rindicates hcrsclf-got pay for neither.
Those Of them who escaped the per1ls Of
bankruptcy, now see their error, and will
go as far, it is to bcfeared, to secure west
ern custom as they formerly went to repel
it. Their dr11mmers are travcrsing every
State and Territory Of the Northwest, and
western merchants arc welcomed to the
seaboard cities rs they never were before.


In the face Of these facts We desire to
speak loud word Of caution. Let no
man be tempted into heayy purchases, and
above all, let none be so induced BY the Of
er Of long credits. The times are troub-
lous and full Of peril. Noman can foretell
what will be the result Of our present COM
plications, Within the next ninety days a
war for the supremacy Of Slavery and the
overthrow Of Freedom upon the Western
continent, may hare been commenced.
That war may be brought to our very
doors. If begun, it will be- disastrous be-
yond all precedent, and its duration be pro-
portionately long. Existing difficulties
may he settled without an appeal 10 arms;
but If they are, it will be upon basis to
insure the prostitution Of commerce for
many years In my event, therefore, it
will he unsafe to incur indebtedness.
Whatever may happen-whether peace or
war-whether base surrender of the North
or manly resistanceto despotlsm in govern
meat and to practical atheism in religion-it
will be eminent.y safe to be out Of debt.
VIC urge our Western merchants TO be
guided by this policy-to buy sparingly, to
buy only as they can pay in hand, and to
observe the same policy in selling their
stocks. Let not the disasters Of 1857 bcre-
peated in 1861.