smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

CouLp'Sr AaREE.--Tho Breckinridge De-
mocracy assembled at Sacramento last
week, erected platform, but were unlucky
in not being able to find candidate will
ling to stand on It. The planks arc ah .ot-
ten in that platform, and the frst thing its
builders will know they'll fall through and
be found dangling By rope with an odd
sort of knot under the left ear; for this is
the end of oil traitors to the government.
Year: 1861

We have been authorized to announce the name
Oft. T. DAVENPORT as candidate fer the on IS
of Collector of Nevada County, subject to the
nomination of the Union Democratic Convention
70 he held June %.
Year: 1861

The PANIC HIGH PRIcEs-We see by the New
bern Progress, the Wilmington and other papers,
that there are certain men in almost every part of
the State, who endeavoring, with a view of
speculation, to get up panic in regard to provis-
ions The papers are all severe in their denuncia-
tions of men, who, are so sordid and graspng in
their dispositions that for the sake of few dollars
they would speculate on the present unfortunate
condition of things. Some men who seemed very
anxious to bring about the present state of affairs
now appear to have no stomach for the light, but
very busy in riding over the country with the
view of speculatng. We have heard of men so
mean that they would steal acrons from old blind
SOW, as she rooted them up from under the snow ;
but such men are gentlemen, in comparison to the
characters above alluded to. We say to the farmers
throughout the country be careful and do not suffer
yourselves to be imposed on. The State will pay a
fair price for whatever is needed, though all contri-
buttons will be gladly received, and we doubt not
that the people of North Carolina will prove that
they are liberal, as we'll as patriotic and brave
Should any case of speculation come to our knowl-
edge, we will hold him up to the scorn Of an indig-
nant community.-GreensbGrO Patriot.
Year: 1861

Nor RIGHT YET.-We did hope from the number
of lOre teasts held about Raleigh since the Procama
ton of Lincoln calling for troops to subjugate the
South, that should hear no more of party or
personal abuse among the leaders in that quarter
but in this we have been disappointed. "Holden
and Badger" and perhaps few others, are still to
be denounced. Hon. Geo. E. Badger, who has, so
we learn, two or three sons in the service of the
South and who expresses willingness to shoulder


musket himself if necessary is held up to the peo-
pie of the State unsound! How extremely ridicu-
loGs. We have always been democrat and Mr..
Badger we have always known as leader Of the
whg party but we have as much confidence in his
patriotism and loyalty to the South as we have in
that of any man in North Carolina; and we honest
ly think that if the patriotism of any man is to be
doubted it is the who attempts to create bitter
ness and to produce party dissensions at this time


Badger and Holden are as safe and Will be found as
patriotic in the present crisis as any other men in
North Carolina and we do hope this petty, despica-
BILE war on them will cease.-Nerbern Progress
Year: 1861

TIE POWER OF HEAETY LAUGHTER.-The
Nesc Harsn Palladium is responsible for the
following:


The following incident comes to us
thoroughly authenticated, although we
are not at liberty to publish any names:


4 short time since two individuals in
this city were lying in one room very sick,
one with brain fever and the other with an
aggravated case OF mumps. They were so
low that watchers were needed every night,
and it was thought doubtful if the one sick
of fever recovered. \ gentleman was ell
gagged to watch one night, his duty being
to wake the nurse whenever it became
necessary to take medicine In the course
OF the night both watcher and nurse fell
asleep. The man with the mumps lay
Watching the clock, and saw that it was
time to give the fever patient his potion
lie was unable TO speak aloud or to move
any portion of his body except his arms,
ut, seizing pillow, he managed TO strike
the watcher in the face with it. Thus
suddenly awakened, the watcher eprang
from his seat, falling to the hoor and
awakening both the nurse and ieyerpatlent.
The incident struck the sick men as very
ludicrous, and they laughed most heartily
at it for fifteen or twenty minutes W hen
the doctor came in the morning, he found
his patients vastly improved-said he mad
never known so sudden n turn Tor the bet
;er-snd they are-now both out and we'll
Who saws laughter Is rot the. best OF
medicine?
Year: 1861

USEFUL MEpIcAL UIyrs-We find the
following remarks (by the editor) in the
Cincinnatus, scientific and agricultural
journal published at Cincinnati, Ohio:


If a person swallows any poison what
ever CT has fallen into any commissions
from having overloaded the stomach, an
instantaneous remedy Is a teaspoonful of
common salt and as much ground mustard,
stirred rapidly in teacup OF water, warm
or cold, and swallowed instantly. 1t Is
scarcely down before it begins to come up,
bringing with it the contents of the stom-
ach; and lest there be any remnant OF poi
son, however small, let the white Of an
egg or teacupfull of strong coffee be swal-
lowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; be
cause these nullily many virulent poisous
In case OF scalding or burning the body,
immersing the port Ill cold water gives en-
tire relief, as instantaneously as the light
ming. Meanwhile, get some common dry
-four, and apply it an inch or two thick on
the injured part the moment 1t emerges
from the water, and keep sprlnkllng on
the -four through anything like pepper
box cover SO as to put it on evenly. Do
nothing else; drink nothing but water;
eat nothing until improvement commences
except some dry bread softened in very
weak tea of some kind. Cures OF frightful
burnings have been performed in this way,
as wonderful as they are painless. We
once saved the life of an infant which had
been inadvertently drugged with lauda-
mum, which was fast sinking into the sleep
which has no waking, by giving it strong
coffee, cleared with the white OF an egg
a teaspoonful every FIVE minutes until it
ceased to seem drowsy.
Year: 1861

ONE very cold night, jolly old fellow,
who had partaksn rather freely OF Zip ut a
tavern, started for home in sleigh. and
on the way was upset, and left by the side
OF the road Some persons passing the
same way short time after, discovered
the old fellow in q sitting posture. holding
his feet up ID the moon, calculating to
some invisible person, named John:


Pile on TIE wood-it's laundering
cold tIe!'
Year: 1861

4 Ll1x's CorRTsHIr-The Westminster
Review observes: Let us first sketch the
story Of q lions life-bccinning with his
marriage. which takes place toward the
end Of January He has first to seek his
wife. but as the males are far more abun-
dant than the females, who are often cut
off in infancy. il i not rare TO find a young
lady pestered with the addresses of three
or four gallants, who quarrel with the ac-
erbitv of Jealous lovers. If one OF them
does not succeed in disabling or driving
away the others, madam. impatient and
dissatisfied, leads them into the presence
Of an old lion, whose roar she has apprec!-
ated at distance. The lovers fly at him
with the temerity of youth and exaspera-
ton. The old fellow receives them with
calm assurance, breaks the neck of one
with his terrible Jaws. smashes the leg of
the second. and tears out the eyes Of the
third No sooner is the day won and the
field clear than the lion tosses his name
in the air as he roars, and then crouches
by the side of his lady, who, rs a reward
for his courage, licks his wounds carcss-
ingly.


When two adult lions are the rivals, the
encounter is more serious. An Arab,
perched in a tree one night, saw lioness
followed by a tawny lion, with a full grown


mane: she laid down at the foot of tree
the lion stopped in his path and seemed
to listen The Arab then heard the dis


tant growing of lion, which was instant
ly replied to by the lioness under the tree.
This made her husband roar furiously.
The distant lion was heard approaching,
and as he came nearer the lioness roared
louder. which seemed to agitate her hus-
band. for he made toward her as if to force


her to be quiet, and then 81 rang back to
his old post, roaring defiance at his distant
rival This continued for about an hour,


when black lion made his appearance on
the plain The lioness arose as if TO 90
toward him, but her husband, guessing her
intention, bounded toward his rival


The two crouched and sprang upon each


other. railing on the grass in the embrace
of death Their bones cracked, their flesh


was torn, their cries of rage and agony rent
the air, and all this time the lioness
! crouched and wagged her tail slowly in
| signs of satisfaction. When the combat
| ended, and both warriors were stretched


upon the plain, she arose, sme.t them


satisfied herself that they were dead, and


trotted oil, quite regardless Of the compli


mentary epitaph.


This, Gerard tells US, is an example oI


the conjugal fidelity of milady; whereas


the lion never quits his wife unless forced


and is quite pattern ofcoDjugal attention
Year: 1861

DESCRIPTION OF JEFF. DAv1s.-The Philadel- phia Bulletin describes Jeff. Davis, the leader of the Southern conspiracy, as he saw him at dinner

 But Mr. Jeff. Davis stands out with stere- oscopic relief worthy of one of McAllistcr's best group. We never could divest ourselves, in thinking of Jefferson. of the idea of the gen tleman who had swallowed about three feet of lightning rod, and who had never been able to digest it. He was stunningy erect. and his manner had scorn enough in it to set up reegi- ment of first class snobs. He had peculiar manner of tossing his imperious nose, and there was a constant indication of his olfactories hav- ing encountered something that was particular ly inodorous Jefferson was not sociable and chatty and accessible to all as Mir Pierce was but upon inc contrary, he was so immensely dig nified and reserved that he made every body who had uncomfortable intercourse with him, feel as though they had met with man who placed quite as high an estimate upon himself as any did upon him. The fact is, MT. Jefferson Davis did not impress us mere favorably, and if in the course of human events and the fortunes ot war it should come to pass that the naughty traitor should fall into the hands of the soldiers of the Union, and that he should get the hempen era vat which his treason deserves, our recollections of our experience of him eight years ago will not greatly aggravate our grief nor will It m duce us to wear mourning for him.
Year: 1861

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss
y At a session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Thursday the tenth day of October,
in the wear one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one. Present-Cliford Shanahan, Judge of Pro-
bate. In the matter of the estate of Nancy
Robinson, deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of John H. Oakley,
praying for proof of will of said deceased and for
letters of Administration.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
ninth day of November next at ten o'clock, in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate,
are required to appear at session of said court,
then to be holden at the Probate Office, in Cass-
apolis, and show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing c. SHANAHAN,


A true copy. Judge cf Probate.


October 10, 1861. oct17 7-26w3
Year: 1861

To the Edii0r Of Tde =. y Crlbuas


SIR: The patriotism Of our town is unquestloned, rs
proved by generous gifts of men and money but we


mud it lust now rather severely tested by the pTesenee
of regiment Of raw recruits, who seem to he unuef
little any military restraint and some oil tpei, ~
gret to say lacsing selrestrant and regard I0l he
customs and rights of civilized society 1hey utie u
streets Of pleasant village with ther proIay nu
low songs, they insult women even on our
and il is not safe for woman TO he out aohe al'er
dark. In the retired parts of the town they enter
dwellings and force the occupants 10 serve meals loI
than I know Of one where they elnpDasHed
tbe;r claim on an old man by hraudishing drk-snlfe,
and another where q lone woman IN helpless fright


beved their orders TO the best of her arder and IN
soa cases they demand title dessert in the shape OF
a few quarters In part Of our town an insult to


woman was in good time by OF our Hibernisn
brethren and the thIee offenders were sorely mau ed


As the regiment has been IN town but four dals, We
are alarmed for If they do these things IN green
tree what shall be done in the dry. cannot think
that these laweGs men boys, as many seem to be,
represent the whole regiment, bat we desire TO know
how men under military rule can have much free
dom. and under what grade Of military discipline II
comes We ask also where is the necessity or wisdom
of locating body of soldiers in quiet country VII
lage where there limit 10 the places near the cly
furnishing healthy quarters without exposing COM
muuty 20 nuisance and imposition IL Is unfortunate
that the whole body of should suffer IN pubc es-
timstion from the delnqueDces OF perhaps few but
how can il be otherwise Can you not suggest rem
edv for as public fet ling is moving, shall soon
be in a very unamiable state OF excitement, and he
Obliged call civil authorities for the recovery
Of peaceabe and decent possession of streets and
sidewalks a undesirable necessity. LADY.


YonkeTt, ~ Y, juno 3, 1851.


p S-A postscript is wOmans prerogAtive.
have inst learned that the building occupied by the
troops mas been leased for this business for year,
which makes the case still more serious
Year: 1861

TEsTANrSrs VS.. CoRKsoREws.--A distinguished and
popular divine of neighborng city tells good story
az the expense of the CLOTH He says he assisted lately
al the laying of r.stone of church in the
rural districts During the ceremonies it was thought
proper to read chapter from the New Testament, and


call was made for the book. There six clergy
men present who Immediately felt in their pockets.
but strange to say not one of them had copy Of the
Testament about him. and being at distance from any
house, it was necessary TO omit that portion of the
ercises The clerical portion of the party adjourned
by invitation to the house Of of the deacons where
a collation. was provided. A bottle of wine being
brought in cOrkscrew was called for Strange to say.
each of the six clerical gentlemen put his hand in hs
pocket and produced of the needed Instruments
Year: 1861

RELIGIOUS WANTS OF THE YOLUsTEERs.-Thers
will be public meeting at Cooper Institute this
ing, under the auspices Of the Young Mems Christian
Association consider the spiritual condition of the
volunteers, and to provide some way of supplying
them The object is of importance, and will COM
mend itself to all who wish TO the best interests
of the thousands now gathered into regiments or IN
camps away from home associations and brought lat"
contact with every variety of temptation The Christian
Association has entered upon tswork earnestly and ito
demand upon the community for sympathy and COOP
GRAFTON i. one not to be easily ignored Let there be
crowded house.
Year: 1861

Bulls HEAD.-Contrary to all expectation, at the
close of theopening day of the great weekly market
Tor beef cattle in Forty fourth street, the business OF
the closing day better for drovers than the open
ing one and all the buocks sold out at early
hour at satisfactory prices. Owing to considerable
demand from graziers and a small demand for ship
ping purposes the market lively than it has
been before on Wednesday for long time, and not
withstanding there over 100 more cattle this
week than last the price is not reduced equal to bss
pound Let lower than it was quoted in the Last
report of the market.
Year: 1861

Rev w. Mcmahon, venerable Methodist
minister, who founded the first Methodist
church in Huntsville, Alabama, says:


II had preached this year to hardened
congregation of wealthy sinners, where
there was no society, and l suppose they
thought themselves free from responsibility,
so far as pay was concerned. When was
preaching my last sermon to them / re-
marked that | had preached to them some
time the best could, and that if had not
preached as we'll as others, had preached
as cheap gospel as any other man ever
did; that for all my labor among them I
had not received as much as would wrap
my little finger with crocus. AS l was TAX
ing my leave of them there was some feel
ing manifested, when a large fat old man
came up to the pulpit, bubbering and wip-
ing his eyes, and said: God bless you,,
sir; if we poor critters don't pay you tho
Lord will understand, said /, that the
Lord is very good for his own contracts, but
1 never heard that he was bound to pay
your debts"
Year: 1861

Two persons were once disputing so
loudly on the subject of religion that they
awoke big dog which had been sleeping
on the hearth before them, and be forthwith
barked most furiously. An old divine pres
ent, who had been quietly slipping his tea.
while the disputants were talking, gave the
dog akick and exclaimed "Hold your tongue,
you silly brute you know no more about
il than they do"
Year: 1861

The United States Census of the past year,
with the Report of the Commissioner of Statis-
tics, furnish much interesting information rela-
ative to the growth of our State. To these
sources, but chiefly to the latter, which will be
laid before you in few days, am indebted for
the following facts, which exhibit, in part, the
gratifying progress of the State in its material
development during the past ten years.
Year: 1861

The entire debt of the State and of the people
of Ohio, is considerably less than the increase
in the value of property in the last ten years.
Small as is this debt compared with the resour-
ces of the State, it is yet heavy burden on the
industry of the people, which can only be less
ened, or removed by augmented production and
increased economy
Year: 1861

have much satisfaction in communicating to
you the official report of the past years opera
tions of the State Reform School. Many mate
rial Improvements in regard to economy, general
management, and discipline have been introdu-
ced into its administration. The enterprise
should no longer be regarded as an experiment.
Brief as is its history it has established its claim
upon the public confidence. Its success has
realized all the reasonable expectations of its
early advocates. The practical examples of re-
formation which it has furnished give the most
gratifying assurance of its permanent usefulness.
Its administration is excellent 1 commend the
Institution to your fostering care.
Year: 1861

These facts satisfactorily show that our school
system is rapidly demonstrating its excellencies
The steady increase in the number of children
in attendance upon the schools, the improve
ment in the qualifications of teachers, the num-
Der and character of the high schools of the
State, and the great improvement in the archi-
lecture of the school houses, are indicative of a
pervading educational interest among the people.


do not deem it necessary to recommend any
essential modification of the school law. The
small appropriation which the Commissioner re-
commends for the encouragement of Institutes
in the more sparsely settled counties would, l
doubt not be productive of good.
Year: 1861

The space-penetrating power OF the kosse
telescope surpasses the comprehension Oh
the human mind to apprehend in all its
vastness. One astronomer remarks that
the appearance of Jupiter, as presented IN
this wonderful instrument, Is as Ii coach
lamp were advanced into the tube; and
another declares that the sublimity OF the
spectacle afforded by some of the globulaI
clusters of nebula is such as no one can
express.
Year: 1861

WILL " Go IT ALONE. The Louisville
Democrat, a moderate, conservative journal
is opposed to having kentucky identify her
destiny with either the Northern or the
Southern Confederacy, in the event OF
split in the Union. The Democrat thinAS
that State should set up for herself an ln-
dependent Government.
Year: 1861




The views which the Tribune has been labor.
ing to impress upon the country for many days,
are summed up in the following which We cut
from its issue Of Friday:


"The secession conspiracy came to q head in
South Carolina a little more than six months
ago and from that hour every sympathizer
with the traitors has been preparing for the in
evitable contest. The net result is-according
to our best accounts-an aggregate muster OF
one hundred and seventy five thousand men at
arms under the banner Of JEFF Davis.


"The calculation Of the consprators before.
hand was that the slave States could send into
the field four hundred thousand combatants.
We do not consider that extravagant, il it had
reference merely to levy en- nidsse, for spe-
cial OCCASION say, to resist an advancing host
in the heart of the rebel regions but we doubt
the ability Of the insurgent States to Keep in the
field more than two hundred thousand fighting
men. OF these, half will be absolutely required
to guard exposed points and man essential for.
tifcations; SO that one hundred thousand will
be the highest number disposable for active
service. In an emergency, larger army can
be concentrated for q battle in some position
central to the rebellion but for any offensive
operation, any movement that requires ample
baggage and baggage-wagons, provisions, mu.
nitions, field artillery, pontoons, &c., one hun:
dred thousand is the full disposable strength Of
the rebellion. And the ability to keep even
that number in the field throughout an average
campaign is yet to be demonstrated"


We can only oppose to this, the expression
of our clear conviction, that the 1ribune's esti.
mate is threefold the number Of troops actual.
ly in arms under the banner of JEFF. Davis; F"
is threefold the number in the power of that
dynasty to keep under arms and is more than
thrsefod the number, which it can make dis.
posabe in the field, by means Of transportation
of the lines of railroads.


1t would seen impossible SO to manage a
war between twenty millions of people perfectly
united, and FIVE or six millions seriously d.
vided, as to render the result either doubtful,
or remote, but if that is possible in any way,
it is by calling out a superfuous excess Of
troops, to exhaust the treasure, use up the re.
sources, and weary out the patience and endu.
rance of the stronger party. What is needed,
is not so much more soldiers, as q more ener.
getic employment of those already mustered
into the service.
Year: 1861

Col. jackson was ready to assure them that the
States of the South could never msconceive
the State of Maryland, and that, in the same
cause, it would only be with feeling Of graft


tude they would remember that they had not
been subjected to such painful experience"
Year: 1861

SOUTHERN MAILs.-It will be seen by the
order of the Postmaster General of this date, in
our advertising columns, that he continues the
offices and mail service in the seeded States,
until the day when it is notified that they will
be assumed by the Post Office Department of
the (so.called) Montgomery Government. Mails
for the South made up here on, and prior to,
the 3lst instant will be, if possible, got to their
destination, ria the West


We learn that mail service will be kept up
between Alexandria and this city.
Year: 1861

Fall d Co.--This well known firm adver.
tise their extensive and we'll assorted stock Of
goods in this mornings DMooRAr. They
cell everything in their line Of business and
warrant what they sell.