smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

In addition to the pay as above stated
one ration per day and abundant supply
Of good clothing is allowed to every SOL
dier. Quarters, fuel and medical atten-
danrs, are always provided by the Gov
ernment without deduction from the sol.
diers' pay. If soldier should become
disable in the line of his duties, the laws
provide for him pension, or he may, il
he prefer it, obtain admission into the
Military Asylum, which will afford him q
comfortable home so long as he may wish
TO receive its benefits.
Year: 1861

To relieve certain appreheDsiOns pre-
valent among some of our own citizens,
as we'll as those of the other portions OF
the Free States, in relation 10 the supply
of arms, we feel authorized to state that
there are at the Springfield Armory nine
,y thousand stand of efficient arms, and
that there are in this ueighborhood also
in possession Of the Government not less
than ten thousand in addition. TO those
ia immediate demand. !. Thus we, have
within one days Railroad transportation
arms for one hundred thousand men
Floyd. with all bis fine administrative
talent as Iobber. did pot leave the Ncrsp
wholly dsfe useless. Phil, Enquirer.
Year: 1861

A terrible story is told of the sunerings of
u Catholic priest who lost his way while trav-
cling from ST. Paul, Mimi, to Pembina Ho
became bewidered in a swamp, and his
horse, which was in very poor condition. laid
down and died the very first night afterwards
Then ii violent storm came on, and for five
days and five nights the poor man was ex-
posed without shelter or food, except the fcsh
which he stripped from the bones of the IN
imal which lag beside him. Just as ho had
resigned himself to his fate and while he was
waiting for death tn release him from his suf-
terings, party of emigrants who chance,l to
encamp over night near him, heard his means
and rescued him.
Year: 1861

exact size of the orifice of the she'll is bored
through tho bullets and sui phur; this cavity is
h;led with powder, eveH with the interior edge
Of the OrIfce, ix.inch shell of the kind he re
described holding about a half a pound the
fuse fitted into the orlfice, is a recent Belgian
invention, made Of pewter, and resembling the
screw-cap used for the patent fruit cans. An
examination OF this pewter cap shows, how
ever, that it is made of two hollow discs OF
metal screwed together, and filled with meal
powder a number of fine hole are drilled in
the lower disc, while the outer disc is entire,
and marked with figures in q circle, l, ,, g. 4
In this state the shell is water and weather
means of a small steel instrument scoops out
portion OF the outer soft metal surface, and
lays bare the charge Of composition powder
below it. If The shell is desired to explode in
one second after leaving the gun, The scoOPing
is made on the figure one if in two seconds,
on the fgure,t two and TO on the idea being that
the shells Of this description shall first strike
the object aimed at and do execution as q ball,
and then explode, sending the bullets forward
as if from another cannon located at the point
where the flight of the shell is arrested. Large
shell of eight or ten inches, arc filled with
/ powder only, and bursting, do execution by
means of the fragments. These large shells
are generally through a brass plug screwed
into the mouth Of the shell; in both ses the
iuse is fired by ignition OF the charge in the
gun,
Year: 1861

Of her husband who now lay Wondering
on the drenchcd soil of Paoli-there was
a tap at the door. She opened it, and
that husband, living though covered with
wounds, was in her arms.


He had fallen at Paoli, but not in
death, he was alive, and his wife lay
painting on his bosom.


That night there was a prayer in the
woodembowed cottage Of Wissallicon.
Year: 1861

The great annual May festival of the Germaas
began yesterday The usual fancy and handsome
procession was formed in the forenoon, and passed
through the principal streets before leaving for the
Fair Grounds, late Creole Course. The great nov


city in the procession was king Cotton" A
large car, decked with shields bearing the names
of the Southern States, and begrt with living shrub


berry, contained a pile of cotton bales on which
was seated stout and whskered Teuton dressed
as King, with crown, ermine and scepter. 1t
was an original and striking tableau, which every.
body cheered. The bakers had their oven in a
bower cf shrubbery, as usual, and were kneading
dough and baking pretsels which they threw to the
crowd as they passed along, The Germans from
Year: 1861

Tonight, and every night this week, the ladies
will hold fair at St. Alphonsus' Hall, on St. An
drew street. between Magazine and Constance, for
the benefit of the St. Elizabeth Orphan Asylum.
The best and fairest of the ladies up town are en-
listed in the cause, and the entertainment will be
one of the frst-class The object of the fair is a
noble one, and we bespeak for it the most liberal
patronage.


Another fair begins tonight, in the Third Dis
trict. It is for the benefit of the Rev. Father
Moyuihans new church, ST. Peters, now approach
ing completion, on Craps street, and will be held
in that beautiful edifce Father Moynhan has
been patient and industrious in building church
that will be an honor to himself and to the city
and we hope that this fair will aid him materially


in paying the bills yet due. The fair, it is needless tc
add, will be gotten up in beautiful and tasteful
| style, and will be a delightful place to go these
| pleasant evenings. We should state that Father
Moynihan has latterly and very generously ceaset
making collections for the church, in consequence
of the great drain upon the city by the war move
| ments.
Year: 1861




Rqtmored Destruction Of a Virginia Battery, etc.


IN CAMP, May 49, 1861.


About one mile north from Norfolk our camp
is pitched, and the wide, level field is white
with canvas tents and alive with officers and
soldiers engaged in all the mularious occupations
which render military life, even in camp, anything
but an idle one. Whenever, during the short time
we have been here, the troops have been put
through regimental drill dress parade, the ladies
somehow have managed to get wind OF it and
hocked here in great numbers, many of them es
corting their male friends to the ground who would
otherwise probably fail of gaining admission. Yes
terday was Sunday, and all the afternoon the
streets and alleys of our canvas-town were gay
with bonnets and pettcoats, until twilight came
down. broke up the warlke exhibition of forming
and charging columns, and dispersed the soldiers
to their quarters.


Commodore Pendergrast experienced an exam
ple of Southern vigilance and spirit a few days
ago which must have been rather mOrtifying. He
is engaged as the reader is probably aware in en-
forcing the blockade Of the Virginia ports he had
been in the habit of permitting the regular packets
between New York and Norfolk to transfer their
passengers and baggage to the little steamer VIM
Selden at Old Point Comfort, to be conveyed to
The latter city II was quite reasonable TO suppose
that the Federal Commander had some other OBJ
ieet in view than TO facilitate travel or to obige
the people of Norfolk, and Gen. Gwynn soon be
Year: 1861

DEFINITION OF QUAcKERY.-Those hu-
man beings called patients are little un-
reasonable. They come with a small
scratch, which nature will heal very nice
ly in few days, and insist on its being
closed at once with some kind of oiner's
glue. They want their little coughs cured
so that may breath at their ease, when
they have TO lungs left that are worth


mentioning. They would have called in


Luke the physician to John the Babtist,
when his head was in the charger, aud
asked for balsam that would cure cuts.
This kind Of thing cannot be done. But
it is very profitable to lie about it and say
that it can be done. The people who
make a business of this lying, and profit
ing by it, are called quacks.-Dr. Holmes.
Year: 1861

The practice of sWindling has been car
ried on to such an extent that an important
bill has been introduced in Parliament,
which will be carried. It is a measure for
the prevention of frauds upon the revenue,
by means of fraudulent invoices. Dishonest
merchants have been in the habit of send
ing two invoices with their goods-one for
the custom house, the other for the mer-
chants own books. The former is, of
course, the smaller in amount. The duties
have therefore been calculated on the
smaller value, and the revenue has suffered.
Dishonest tradesmen have by these means
had an advantage over honest people. The
new bill provides that, if double invoices
are sent differing from each other in this
way, the seller in the United States OF
England cannot receive payment from the
buyer. He thus runs the risk of losing his
goods if he lends himself TO fraud.
Year: 1861

TOBACCO ADYAEcING.-The lovers Of the
weed should begin to smoke and chew spar
ingly. The Philadelphis Gazette supposes
tobacco will be as dear in Philadelphia in a
short time as it is in London. 1t states that
Richmond supplies the Philadelphia and
New York markets with nearly all their
whole stock of plug tobacco, and since the
war commenced, manufacturing is almost
suspended. Over FIVE thousand negroes
usually employed in the tobacco factories, are
either idle Or engaged in work connected
with Notifications. Since the blockade Of
the port the prices have still further advanced


A Philadelphia house that a short time ago
made $50, 900 investment in choice pigtail
and ladytwist is now rejoicing in a return
of iorty per cent over the original margin.
Year: 1861

How to Check che RnvuEes Of the Army
Worm.


Mr.. a. G. Gibbs, Of Audrain county,
having had some experience with these
pesta, gives the following plan, in the Mex.
leo Hammer, for checking their Roadway
and killing them;


As they commonly go in abrcAst-say
they attack your fields on the West, run
two or three burrows with the ploW, North
and South, making the ditch nearly per-
pendicular on the east side, let the dust dry
on the sides, SO after the worm gets in and
attempts to crawl out the dust will give
way and they will fall baok--then scatter
straw in the ditch, and in the heat of the
day set the straw on FIRE, and if you find
that some get across the ditch, start roller
on the east side and keep it running all
day. Yon can, also, let in your chickens,
turkeys and hogs upon such crops as they
will not injure; and if it is necessary, fill
your ditch with straw again, and turn all
your attention to the worms till you get
them stopped.
Year: 1861

7--I--L-- BALTINORE, june Y.


A gentleman who calre a passenger from
Old Point this morning, and who spent some
time at the Fortress during yesterday and
Monday, says thepassengers were greatly as
tonished On reaching here, to learn of the
greatly exaggerated accounts relative to the
repulse at Great Bethel.


Tp to the the time the boat left last eve
ming, be was IN conversation with both Off
GERS and privates Who were in the engagage-
ment. Some modification was expressed at
the bad management Of Gen. Pierce but
none as to the extent of the loss which was
thought 10 be less than at first supposed, or
of the temporary advantage gained by the
rebels. e.g
Year: 1861

INSANITY OF QUEEN VIcTORIA-We have a
letter from an American in london who is
likely to be well informed, from which we
make the following extract:


81 am sorry TO say that Her Majesty the
Queen is in state of insanity, and very little
hopes are entertained Of her recovery. They
talk of having herg 60 to Germany. I hear it
talked that there viii probably be a regency.
journal
Year: 1861

MAY BALL.-The annual May Day
Ball at LeOlsirs comes OF on Wednesday
evening next The Uoion Band will furnish
the music, and Squire Horton. Of the Howard
Hoass will get up the supper. Those who a.
tend will undoubtedly enjoy themselves to
their hearts content.
Year: 1861

have as much as he can eat at meal, but
no more, and whatever he leaves should be
removed, and the trough cleaned. His meal
times should be morning, noon and evening
but he may always be supplied with vegcta-
bles, because he will eat no more than he
likes, and they should be put into his wash
trough. after having been boiled or stewed.
Potatoes stewed or boiled do pig infinitely
more good than raw ones, and are next in
point of nutriment to the different kinds Of
meal.-GlHny's Farming for The Million.
Year: 1861

of life, so wild, 30 clear, so agonizing, that
even angelic spirits might come to listen and
avenge! Will you not, then, rush to the
support Of your Government and the rescue
Of your country from the reign Of terror that
has no parallel in the history Of civilized
man?'
Year: 1861

such prizes and capture shall be condemn
ed in the district or circuit court of the
United States having jurisdiction of the
amount, or in admiralty in any district in
which the same may be seized, or into
which they may be taken and proceed
ings first instituted.


SEC. 3. find Be It further enacted, That
the Attorney General or any district at
torney of the United States in which said
property may at the time be, may insti-
tute the proceedings of condemnation,
and in such case they shall be wholly for
the benefit of the United St1tes; or any
person may file an information with such
attorney, in which case the proceedings
shall be for the use of such informer and
the United States IN equal parts.


SEC. A, find be 1t further enacted. That
whenever any person claiming to be en-
titled to the service or labor of any other
person, under the laws of any State,
shall employ such person in aiding or
promoting any insurrection, or in resist
ing the laws of the United States, or
shall permit him to be so employed, he
shall forfeit all right to such service or
labor, and the person whose labor or
service is thus claimed shall be thence
forth discharged therefrom, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding.
Year: 1861

Milk weighs ten pounds TO the gallon
by The above rule on gallon of milk would
weld l 10 cheese. Thus 10 lbs. x lilo
two places pointed off for deClmils make
it l 10 lbs., a result which would not be
near correct except in few eases. The
true plan, is for every dairyman to make
his own rule-make a scale or rule by
which he can tell the quantity of milk
used for each cheese at a glance-record
the amount on a piece of paper or book
kept for the purpose-welgh his cheese
when it comes from the press and put the
weight down on his record, and at the ex-
piration of the season, or at any time, he
can compute and see what yield he is
getting. If he records the process Of
manufacture and the quantity of cheese
when cured, he can ascertain what the
causes are that produce particular results
in cheese making.


The second rule is no more reliable
than the first. We hold that the quantI-
" Of salt required by cheese is in propor-
ton to It's richness, It's dryness, and the
heat to which it is TO be subjected.


The quantHy of salt necessary in cheese
when milk Yields 100 lbs. cheese to the
100 gallons, has been found by expert
ence to be about 2 lbs. a OF. If the yield
is increased TO 10 lbs to the 100 gallons,
the product will contain about 10 lbs.
more butter than No. / and will need 10
OF. more salt
Year: 1861

Pure soft water should be used, or the
mixture should be heated and skinned
then allowed to cool and poured off free
from sediment About half gallon of
water should be added extra, while heat
ing.


The wine should be put into none but
very clean keg or barrel, and of size
that can be filled nearly full. Set in a
cool place with the bung out until it is
done working, when the bung should be
put in tight, and allowed to stand six
months; it may then be bottled for use.


At this point it may be very much i'm
proved in body and flavor by adding the
following: Put into gollon of pure
spirits of brandy proof. 2 pounds of
bruised fresh Malaga raisins and about
one dozen cloves; let this stand for seve-
raj days, until the favor of the raisins is
thoroughly extracted. drain it off clear,
and add it TO the gallons, when it is
ready for bottling. In either case, the
wine will improve very much by age
P. G. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1861

In the January number of the Dairy
Farmer the following rules for cheese
making are given:


list. To ascertain how much cheese
you ought to get from your milk-multi-
ply the number of pounls of milk by ii
point off two figures for decimals and
The product is pounds and decimals of a
pound of cheese direct from the press"


I'D. For ascertainIng the quantity of
salt for cheese. MULTIPLY the number of
pounds of milk by three and point off
three places for deCimils, your answer Is
in pounds and decimils of a pound.


No rule will answer for all dalrles, as
the amount of cheese made from given
quantity of milk will depend upon the
richness of the milk, the time of year,
and the skill in manufacture. This is
shown very clearly by the following ab-
slract made from my dairy register: In
1857. my cheese was made 10 a tub with
dairy stove for heating, Tin curd cutter,
&c. The average yield of cheese and
shrInkage for the different months was
as follows:
Year: 1861

high as Fort St. Philip, which is a small work
capable of an armament of only twenty guns
in all. heavy fire of shot and shells was
continued, with but few and short pauses, for
nine days and nights, but making no impress
sion either on the fort or garrison, they re-
treated to their former position at the mouth
of the river"


These passages show that our success at
lIatleras Inlet was an unusual one, and that it
might have been easily reverse. But they
also show that those writers who are camor.
ing for other expeditions against the cities OF
the south do not fully understand the hazards
of such undertakings. What we really want
is not series of combats between our vessels
of the line and the southern forts, but a series
of military and naval expeditions, in which
the ships will protect the landing of troops
near the important points oil attack, and then
engage the attention of the forts while the
troops organize an assault in the rear. All the
larger cities OF the sOuth-Chareston Savan-
nah, Mobile and New 0rleans-are well de.
Tended on the sea side by powerful fortiica
liOus. We have reason to believe that these
are well furnished with ammunition and men,
For six months or more work has been going
forward in them to put them in a state of com
plete preparation To carry them by means
of ships would be 10 light task, while the at
tempt might be an occasion of serious discOm
future. Yet none of these cities are protected
in their rear. Large forces could be landed,
above or below them, on the coasts, and
marched upon them without much resistance,
and with tie strongest probabilities of success
Year: 1861

That times are very hard and money very tight,
lhat the people have not Ork, and in bad plight
And that for Carpets and Crockey they cannot pay high,
And that, for all extras, they must pass them by
Of this and other matters the people they complain.
And makes me feel sad to their taces filled with


pan:-
And by selling cheap-if this will make them smile
Even il my money lose, they can share it awhile.
Therefore, have concluded, without regard to cost, to


sell
All OF my Kitchen foods Cutlery, and Carpets, as well
Also, my Crockery and Glass Ware at discount am


selling,
with Brooms and Bru hes and everything, all cannot


be telling.
Therefore ladies and gentlemen, come and buy upon this


invitation,
For have full supply of House Furnishing Goods at


my Poetical Station
II is located in the Bay State Block at the Poets



Here have good Stock of Goods and CHEAP as any


upon nv honor.
Now come and ALL buy your goods, and times


for better will change,
Andif your money little, it will hold out you buy at


the POetical Exchange.
And should capital at the end Of the warbe light,
Why then here is energy and ambition wch is in tor the


fight,
Forife s battle field and if do right customers


will rally,
And can put flight hard times, with ole vigorous


sally.
And in conclusion my customers thank the


that are past;
Also for those which receiving in the way Of pat


ronage-may it always last.
n B-1he people respectfully invited to call al
the Poetica Exchange, and examine my Goods, which
new ard of the latest pattern.
jeIe diff ORSON N HEATH.
Year: 1861

The PALMETTO FLAG.-The "Independent
Republic of South Carolina" has at last fixed
the design of her flag. 1t is to consist of
blue field, with white palmetto tree in the
middle, and white crescent, with the horns
pointing inwards, at the upper corner. The
first attempt of a vessel TO enter a foreign port
under the new flag, was made at Havana by a
bringantne from Charleston. She sailed in
past the Moro Castle with her "Palmetto' flag
Tying aloft. But Immediately, by order of tbs
officer in command of the fortress, she was
brought TO anchor under its guns, and kept
there until the flag of the United States was
displayed at her masthead, when she was per-
mitted TO proceed up the harbor. We wonder
what they are going to do in Palmetto dom a.
bout this outrage upon their flag in a foreign
port. This insult ought to be avenged forth
with. newborn nationality cannot afford TO
have its emblematic ensign thus dshonored.
Year: 1861

THE ExTRADIrIoN CAsE.-An item of news
by the last steamer, to the effect that the Court
of Queens Bench in England had granted
writ of habeas corpus in the case of the negro
Anderson, fugitive from the State of Mis-
souri,, where he shot gentleman, who at
tempted to arrest him, now in Jail at Toronto,
Canada, is likely to impart much Importance
to the case. 1t has been already stated that
the Canadian Court decided that he ought to
be surrendered, on the rcquistion of the Gov
ernor of Missouri, but that the surrender is
delayed for such further legal proceedings as
are applicable TO the case. Ifthe action of the
Court of Queens Bench shall have the effect
to remove the prisoner toEngiand, and to dis
charge him from custody, it may become a
subject of diplomatic correspondence between
the two countries. The principle involved is
similar to that in the case of Kentucky against
Ohio. The offence committed is against the
laws of the State from whence the fugitive
fed but as slavery does not exist in the Brit
ish dominons, it cannot be crime there for
negro to kill the person attempting to prevent
his escape from slavery. If the British Gov
ernment intended to limit the operation of the
treaty to crimes pronounced such by English,
and not by American law, 1t should have done
so by express terms, instead of seeking TO e.
wade what appears to be plain agreement be-
tween the two countries.
Year: 1861

THE UNION IN ADMINISTRATIONS is not
as reckless in plunging into the abyss of dis
union as some of her Southern sisters. The
bill for an immediate State Convention has
been voted down, and the question whether a
State Convention shall be held or not is to be
referred to the people. Strong hopes are
entertained that her people will recognize that
their true interests are amongst those who can
and will construct the Pacific Railroad, and
that, with the exhibition of a conciliatory spirit
on the part of the North, the secession move
ment will be crushed out.
Year: 1861

TENACIrT or THE 'SACRPD 1t has been
judicially decided In New York that where a
husband knocks his wife down twice by blows
on the nose, once by blow on the cheek and
then shakes billet of wood at her, ssthe prov
ocation is too slight to dissolve that sacred tie
which binds her to her husband for life, for
better worse" The husband must keeu,
doing SO if he wants his wife TO be freed from
him. Aut how longi