smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

Powder River and Grand Ronde Items.


Mr.. Shepherd furnishes us the following
items from the above localities


THE WATER DITcHEs.-The Oregon
Steam Navigation Company have bought
the water bitches at Auburn, and will at
once proceed to complete them. Mr..
Grenzebach, of the Dalles has been elected
President of the Ditch Company, and has
gone below for the purpose of bringing up
funds to prosecute the work


ANOTHER TowN.-A new town, as yet
without name, is being built in Grand
Ronde valley, about fifteen miles from La
Grande, on the western side of the valley
The principal population is composed of
emigrants, who have settled there for the
purpose of having school this winter
About twenty families have also located on
the eastern side of the valley, at a place
called '"rhe Cove"


Ts.-Improvements are 60
ing on with great rapldlty all along the
trail from this city to Grand Ronde valley,
and the evidences that this is to become an
extensively travelled thorOugfare are daily
increasing, Houses of entertainment are
being erected at every favorable spot, so
that travellers can now find stopping places
for both noon and night along the road A
public house has lately been erected at the
summit of the mountains, near Linkton's
MIL, and the proprietors are preparing 10
be ready to accommodate the travelling pub
lie with "food both for man and beast"


CHURCH AT AUBURN-The Missionary
Baptists are erecting a church at Auburn,
the first structure of the kind that has been
commenced there.
Year: 1862

Our news by telegraph from Fredericksburg
is Of the most Interesting character 1t would
appear that large portion Of our force is over
the river, and battle Is expected to-day, that
is, If the rebel army, or what Is len of 1t, has
not run away during last night.
Year: 1862

faithful lover of the Union, and an en-
emy to Sectionalism and Rebelism,


whether it be found in South Carolina,
Massachusetts,, or elsewhere.


If the people of Ohio do justice to
themselves and to the State, they will
elect the ticket by an overwhelming
vote, and we believe they win do it.


As to the address and resolutions,
they are just what the times and occa>
sion demand. They are able, forcible
and true, and contain the rallying
point-the touchstone-for all true
and loyal men, no matter what may
have heretofore been their party at
tachments or creeds. The times re-
quire that good and true men, those
who love the Constitution that our
fathers made, and the glorious Union
under which We have grown with such
wonderful rapidity and power, should
band together and struggle as one
man to save, if possoble, our Govern
ment from ruin. If the secessionists
of the South, and the Abolition fanat-
les of the North, are overwhelmed
and put down, it must be by the COM
pact cohesion of all loyal Union men
in the free States standing firmly on
inst such a platform as the one adopt
ed by the Convention on yesterday.


Friends of constitutional liberty, of
free government, of the Constitution as
it is and the Union as twas! to action
firm, vigorous and united action, and
let us make in the great State of Ohio,
in this hour of our country's peril and
disaster, mighty effort in behalf of
the Union. If we do this we shall
present such an array at the ballot box
that great forum of the people-on
the Second Teusday of October next,
as will record the vote of Ohio on the
side of the old Union, and render a
triumph in the good cause as effective
as score of the most brilliant military
victories. .. ...
Year: 1862

Constantly on hand. and for sale at PAR.
INTEREST TO COMMENCE FROM DATE OF PUR-


CHASE
The interest these Bonds is at the rate Of eper cent
per annum, payable lst Of May and November IN gold
which at the present rate Of premium on gold equivalent
10 pcr cent per nnnum


market, and pay the largest interest on their cost
They destined 10 become the best know most
and available OF all the bonds Of the
They the bonds upon which the government
es through the confidence and patriotism of the people,
Tor continued financial support


We them for sale 10 facilitate investment In them
and them accessible 10 the public every dol
invested in them through contributes TO the direct
and immediate supper, r,.r q The xrcI sSssrnmIent


BANKERS. & WALL s~,nr,u
Year: 1862

Chevalier Wykoff will Tomorrow appear
before the House Judiciary Committee, who
are investigating the Government censor
ship. The Iiveliest curiosity exists to know
what it is all about. Something funny is
ANTICIPATED.
Year: 1862

STRENGTH OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE


SENATE.


The vote on Senator Wilkinson's motion
in the Senate, to strike out from the House
bill the appropriation of $ll,O for extra
expenditures on the improvement of the
White House, is regarded as test vote oil
the strength Of the Administration and op
position party in the Senate. 1t shows an
unequivocal Administration majority.
Year: 1862




WHEREAS THE UNDERSIGNED HAS BEEN INFORMED on
w good authority that great irreguary exists in the taking
killing the wild cattle the mountains Hawaii, be-
longing the Government parties who
pretend claim right under bills Of sale from His Maj
the Government and Whereas from the nature of
country other II almost impossible to place
guard Of His Majesty and Of the Govern
men whereas all parties having legal claims the said
wild cattle have already had time sufficient If they have used
diligence remove the same


therefore, undersigned hereby notice to all
purchased wild cattle running the mountains Ha
the lst day of January 1851 the
already before the st day OF May next
after parties taking will be prosecuted


Interior Office, | l.. kAMEHAMEHA


Jan. "a, 1855. 4S-u
Year: 1862

and foreign countries France and the Brit
exceped be charged with
single of postage if not exceeding the weight Of half
double exceeding half but exceeding
ounce quadruple exceeding but exceeding
ounces, changing for every
fractional part of al the first


To France and Algeria


postage letters is IS
exceeding the weight of double that exceed
ing but not exceeding ounce and addition
being charged for each fractional part
ounce the addition of Hawaiian postage at the rate of
fractional part in weight,
with cents postage added to the total amount


BIZ Sealed Mail TO Great Britain direct.
Hawaiian Postage only collected the of cents fer
each in weight.
Year: 1862

SHARP PRACTICE The Hartford Post gives tho following summary of case in the Superior Court:-

 In 1859 Mir. Converse, the Deputy Sheriff of Hartford County, went to the house of Geo. Hen ry, Collinsville, to attach some property, win . regularly executed writ. He did attach COW found in barn, but going into Henry's store, left his writ lying on the counter as he went out MT. Henry immediately locked up the store and the writ inside, and went to dinner Mir. Con- verse, after an attempt to procure the writ and make his return, left to get another one, still keeping the COW. Before this was done, how ever, MT. Henry sold the other COW, the law be- ing that if g man has but one COW, that cannot be attached. Mir. Henry then also entered an action against the Deputy Sheriff for trespass, and the case was appealed from the Justice Court to the Superior Court.
Year: 1862

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March II, 1862


EDS. Con-. knowing the great inter-
est of the wholesale merchants of your
city in the reopening of the Southern
trade, have taken special pains to in
form myself as to the probability of a
speedy resumption of lucrative CONNER
cial relations with the portion Of Ten
nessee now under the control of the Fed
eral Government. That the anxiety Of
your business men in reference TO this
subject is vivid, may well be supposed,
and that the more Sanguine among them
have entertained high expectations since
the occupation of this city by the Fed
eral troops. | infer from your CONNER
ciaI columns. | would feel much graft
fed by being able to announce, that
Northern trade can safely, Immediately,
and prohtably follow in the wake of the
Northern army to this section of the
country. But the result of my investi-
cations does not warrant me in giving
expression to any such opinion. l hold,
on the contrary. in view of-what I have
seen and learned during the last two
weeks, that the prospect of successful
mercantile ventures in this direction Is
rather faint, and this because


l. The only means of buying at the
command of the tradesmen and people
of this vicinity arc Southern funds.


,. The quantity of cotton, tobacco,
grain, and such other produce as might
afford a basis for an exchange trade, on
store in this city, is very small.


). The mass OF the agricultural popu-
lation within the Federal lines is fright
ened and unfriendly. aud viii not bring
their productions into market until ne
cessity cOmpels them to do so, which
Will not be the case for some time.


In regard 10 reason first, it is evident,
in the face of the war, and the incidental
uncertainty of The fate of most Southern
Banks, that an exchange of Northern
goods for Southern money is the only
means of buying, as stated, of the trades
men and people at large, hereabouts-
would involve risk that no prudent
Year: 1862

AL expenses whatever Of
detention and delivery ef-
fectsd In virtue OF the pre-
cedins provisions shall be
borne and betrayed by the
Government or authority
Of the frontier State or
Territory in whose name
the requisition shall have
been made.
Year: 1862

The NAVY DEPARTMENT CALLED TO ACCOUNT
At the meeting of the New York Chamber of
Commerce on Wednesday it was resolved ''that
in the opinion of this Chamber the chief cause
of this disaster (the destruction of life and pro-
perty committed by the rebel iron-clad steamer
Merrimac in Hampton Roads) lies in the culpa-
BILE neglect in which the naval defences Of
Hampton Roads were suffered to remain, after
the knowledge of the near completion" of said
rebel iron-clad steamer. This accusation is
levelled at Secretary Welles, and we shall be
glad to hear what defence he can advance
against it. He was we'll informed of the intend
ed experimental trip of the Merrimac; he knew
that she was a dangerous customer; and if he
could have done nothing else to render her per-
fectly harmless, he could have ordered the sink
ing of an old hulk or two in the narrow channel
Of Elizabeth river, which would have suficed to
shut up this deep draughted rebel monster in the
harbor Of Norfolk to the end of the war. If
this simple contrivance has not yet entered the
head of the venerable Secretary, we would call
his attention to it. 1t may not yet be too late
to lock up that rebel monster; otherwise she
may slip out in the dark.
Year: 1862

New IRoN-CIAD VEssEIs-oF- WAR--Sweet are
the uses of adversely. The lesson taught by
the late naval battles in Hampton Roads has
not been thrown away upon the government or
the country We have lost some ships now, but
the loss will prevent greater losses in the fu-
ture. The Navy Department is awakened from
its dream Of false security. Already it has issued
orders to clothe the new sloop-of-war Adiron-
dack with iron mall This fine vessel, with her
armor on will only draw thirteen feet of wa
ter. We also perceive that the Committee on
Naval Affairs in the Senate, who were before
adverse to the proposition submitted to them
of expending fifteen millions of dollars oniron-
plated vessels, on the ground that they were
still an experiment, have suddenly changed
their opinion, and will report in favor of the
resolution. We have no doubt that the Senate
itself and the other branch of the legislature
will see the necessity of adopting it at once.
With the Monitor and the mailed frigate now
being fitted out at Philadelphia, the mailed
frigate built at Mystic, Conn., and now being
Adirondack, we shall soon have force
sufficient for the protection of our wooden
walls till the new vessels ordered by Congress
are ready for action, giving the government
e naval force with which it can sweep the
seas and reduce the strongest Notifications
Every ship-of-war we have ought to be convert
ed into steamer and clad with iron. like the
Merrimac The old sailing vessels-of-war are
behind the age. Not only are wooden walls
useless against iron sides, but even stone walls
must succumb to such engines Of destruction
as the Merrimac and the Monitor. Our forts in
future must be built of iron, and those now in
use must be plated with it like the new gun
boats. Should war ever break out between
this country and any of the great mari
time Powers of Europe, we would imme-
diately have brought to bear against us vessels
like the Warrior or La Gloire, Of the impregna-
BILE and destructive character Of which we have
just had sample in the performances of the
Merrimac. We have learned from our late
experiences of these iron vessels, that they
render the ordinary coast and river for
tifications of but little use. Instead of
lavishing money on the erection of granite
forts and earthworks, it would be bettor for lis
for the future to spend it on the construction of
iron-pated vessels and floating batteries like
the Monitor, which, from its defeat Of the rebel
iron monster, we take to be the most perfect
model of this kind of vessel now aaoat. The
subject is one that merits the attention of the
States having line Of coast to defend Our
New York Legislature should Immediately vote
a sum sufficient to build large floating bate
ry on the Ericsson pattern. Our citizens would
have more confidence in it than in all the forts
that we possess.
Year: 1862

RED TAPE AND WROUGHT Iron SHoT.-It ap-
pears there were on board the Monitor, in her
attack upon the Merrimac, fifty wrought iron
shot of one hundred and sixty-eght pounds
each, which Captain Ericsson believes would
have reached the vtals of the rebel monster
had they been tried; but that they were not
tried because of an express interdict from the
Ordnance Department Red tape; old fogyism
But who authorized this extraordinary bit of
red tape from Washington wh9(should like
TO know.
Year: 1862

KNOCKED IN THE HEAD-All our old fashion,
ed wooden vessels Of war and all our stupen-
dous and expensive old fashioned stone for
tresscs. A half dozen iron-clad vessels, of tho
style of the little Monitor, would be worth
more to us now than all the other ships of the
United States Navy, and dozen Of Ericsson's
little revolving batteries on land and adoat
would be worth more for the protection of the
harbor of New York than all our forts from
Governors Island to Sandy Hook and from He'll
Gate to Montauk. Ericsson's impregnable bat
terry marks the most important revolution in the
art of war since the invention of gunpowder.
Year: 1862

plain the scene which we have barred to view. In
the light OF this explanation, we are happy to he
lieve that the disease, in the virulence with which
II has prevailed here, not national, but loo al
and was the result Of local and personal causes
Year: 1862

WAGON ROAD ELECTION IN AMADoR.-The
propositon to donate $4,000 to the Anna
dor Wagon Road Company has been carried
in that county by majority of between four
and five hundred votes. Preparations are
being made to commence work on the road
at an early day.
Year: 1862

We copy from the Marysvile Express the
following railroad bill recently passed by the
Legislature in relation to the transfer OF
subscription to the Central Railroad. The
object of the bill is to assist in extend.
ing the California Central Railroad from
Lincoln in this county to the city of Marys
willie:


The People of tie State of California repre-.


sented IN Senate and assembly, do enact as


toIlovS


WHEREAS, Bonds to the amount of $l00,-
600 only have been issued under an Act of
the Legislature of This State duly approved
on the 2Sth day of April, 1857, aud enti
tied "an Act to authorize the Board of Su
pervsors of the county of Yuba to take and
subscribe 100000 to the capital stock of a
Railroad Company and to provide for the
payment of thA same, and other matters
relating thereto;' now it is hereby enact,
ed:


Section That the said Board of Super
visors be, and they are hereby authorized to
issue The remaining 100000 in bonds OF
said county to the California Central Bail
iOhh opli] oii SuCil lcliiiS diu CpuNllOUS
as the said Board and the said Company
may agree upon. Said bonds shall be exc
cnled IN the manner prescribed in the Act
aforesaid mentioned in the foregoing pream
bic to this Act, and shall each be for the
amount, and shall draw interest at the rate
and shall be made payable in the manner
! prescribed in said Act, mentioned i'll the pre-
ambIe; proVided, that the said Board of Su
vlsors shall not issue any bond or bonds OF
the county of Yuba under this Act which
| taken together with all others heretofore is
sued for Railroad purposes, or which may be
issued by virtue of any law now in force, or
any contract now existing, shall exceed in
the aggregate of such bonds so issued the
sum of 100000; and provided further that
no bonds shall be issued under the provisions
of this Act until the propositions shall be
submitted to the voters Of 1uba county at
the general election to be held in September
Of is year, in exact accordance with the
provisions of Section "a of said Act men
toned in the preamble of this Act, and a
majority of the votes east upon such propo
sition shall be in favor Of the issuance of
said bonds.


Section 2-This Act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Year: 1862

SENATOR WADE.-We do not hear anything
within the last few days about the re election
Of the Hon. B. +. Wade to the Senate. We do
hope the Legislature Of Ohio will not do itself
the dishonor to adjourn without securing to the
country the eminent services rf that true and
tried friend Of right principles for another term
OF six years.


The Democracy prats much about sinking
party in patriotism. We do not find them will
ling, however, to siok anything unless by so
doing they can pop Democrat up. Certainly
no candid man will claim that Ohio has not a
fair Republican majority, nor that Senator
Wade is not the best possible representative Of
that majority that Ohio could send here, nor
still further that the Democratic members who
now hinder his election would have been there
but Tor the magnanimty Of the Republicans.


Then II the will Of the majority were TO be
consulted, and the Democracy were willing for
once to reciproca,e this magnanimity, in day
we might gladden. the country by announcing
this great Champion OF Freedom once more
chosen. How soon may we have this pleasure
Year: 1862

Rrcipa FOR MAKING RHrBARB WHB.--A cor
respondent Of the Bsrks County IatelIigeneer
gives the following recipe for making "Amsr-
lean Champagne, or wine from The stalks oi
the rhubarb or pie plant:


Cut the rhubarb into small pieces, put it
into Just enough water to keep it from burning
boil until quite tender, strain through coarse
cloth. To one gallon Of this liquid add two
gallons Of wa,or; to each gallon thus made
put four pounds Of sugar; tsr'nent in an open
vessel forty.eight hours, then take off th'
scum, and add one pint of best brandy to ever.
four gallons after which put it into an air
tigh, cask; then let it remain six months M
disturbed VIXEN it will be ready for bottlng
In each bottle put one raisin, and seal TIL
bottle we'll.
Year: 1862

In the Hospital at Fortress Monroe are sew.
eral Secession prisoners, and to put down any
false rumors Of their bad treatment, which
may have gone abroad, must say they are
treated as we'll, il not better than Unionists.
Indeed, their ungratefulncss makes one feel
that they are faring far better than they de.
serve This morning, whilst was in the hos.
pital, saw rebel soldier, at whose bedside
stood lady tenderl, bathing his brow with
some soothing lotion, Upon inquiry found
that the patient was Texan major, and his
nurse one Of those noble women who have
left home and friends in the North to minister
10 the comforts Of the wounded and soothe the
last moments of the dying gazed at them
moment, when the major turned over on his
side, rndGiy pushed his nurse from him, and
said, Cd d-yOu, leave my head alene, uil
you!" Such ingratitude as this, showing it.
self as it does, in indigniies to that sex we
all should treat SO gently, deserves a far
worse fate than good bed and comfortable
home, furnished by a Government which the
ungrateful wretch was doing his best to cast
down.
Year: 1862

Gg Will not oul patrons take some
interest in trying to get our paper INTO
the interior, into the hands of the citl-
zens outside our pickets, towards Kin
ston and Goldsboro. We send large
numbers outside every week, and are
anxious to send more, so as to dissem-
mate the news and loyal doctrine as
we feel able to expound. We want to
spread it before the people of Carolina
We feel very we'll satisfied that tier
fty~'.-siw-v-uSnv- wTrn- yuur paper, give
it to some citizen and it will get pass
ed round, and perhaps outside where
it will accomplish something.
Year: 1862

A CHaERING PRosPEcE-A wit says that tho
successes OF our navy on the Southern coast
VIII soon enable the President to be hospitablo
enough to open ttle pert almost every day
after dinner.
Year: 1862

OPENING OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS TO TRADE.


WASHINGTON, May ., lsG2.-The prelimina'
ries for the opening Of the port Of Now Orleans
to foreign ind loyal domestic trsde have been
arranged. and only the official announcement
OF the Union occupation Of that city was
waited for before the issue Of tho proclama-
ton. This official intelligence WIS received
to-day, and tho announcement Of the opening
of this important Southern port will be made
Immediately after the return from Fortress
Monroe of the President and Secretaries Of
War and the Treasury, who are hourly e1-
pected.
Year: 1862

The Western Virginia Legislature assemble:
in Wheeling on the 5:h instant and Governor
Pierp9nt delivered his message on the same
day The message is almost entirely devoted
to the new State question, and takes strong
ground in iayor OF the PARTITION OF the Old
Dominion.
Year: 1862

In front Of this deserted Fort General HGn
cock formed his troops. while Captains Eslno
bg and Wheeler opened their batteries upon
Fort Page The firing wal very spiri!cd for
somo minutes, when the batteries wero ordered
G advance and take position about hall wsy
between toe deserted Fort and Fort Page, o
distance Of only hyc hundred or six hundred
yards f.om the enemy. where they poured A
terrible fire on the Fort.


Our position was very precaiious one, be-
ing an open Held with an open spscc in uur
rear, extending back distance Of two miles,
and surrounded 90 all sides by woods Cane.
raj Hancock at ones saw that it would afford
splendid opportunity for the enemy to got
in his rear, and sent back for re.inforcements
Through sone mismanagcmcnt, our Generals
had failed to havc up sufficient force within
supporting distance. and before they could be
brought upon the field the quick sight OF the
rebel General had seen our weakness and
sent free Of four thousand infantry and a
regiment Of cavalry to attack us in the rear.
Year: 1862

ILLINOIS CorToN ABRoAD.-A sample o,
Illinois cotton, grown in Christian county
IN 1861, was sent to Manchester, and was
inspected by most competent judge, who
laid the subject at once before the Cotton
Supply Association of Manchester, England.
a letter has been received in Chicago from
one of the most prominent members of the
House of Commons, as follows:


"Your sample of cotton is a most well
come indication of the power of the Federal
States to furnish cotton by free labor
Taking Sd as standard value of good New
Orleans cotton, estimate your sample as
being worth twenty-five per cent. more or
1Od pound; but from what 1 see of the
staple, and its strength when unmixed with
defective and blighted portions, think that
with judicious cultivation it might acquire
a value of five per cent. in excess of New
Orleans cotton, but not equal to Sea Island.
A supply of 10000 or 10000 bags per week
of il would be great boon to this country.
The letter you enclosed to me l have sent,
with the chief part Of the sample, to the
Cotton Supply Association"