smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

The following plucky article we clip
from the Knoxville (Tenn. Wig. which
is edited by the renowned Parson Brown
low:


You Can't INrrMIDArE Subscri-
bers in South Carolina, Alabama and
Georgia, are constantly sending in their
insulting episties to us, and ask dis
continuance of their papers because we
are opposed to secession. We receive as
many new patrons as We lose old ones.
but If We were TO receive none, and ev-
cry man on our list were withdrawn, We
would have NO part or lot with the wick
edness and treason OF secession. The
effort to break up this government. led
on by South Carolina, is bold, wicked.
daring and damnable act, for which its
wicked leaders ought to be ignominious-
ly executed This whole scheme of
disunion is more consummate Abolition
contrivance than ever was devised at the
North, by the most ultra anti slavery
men, and will work the greater mis-
chief to the slave population of the coun-
try. II uW bring about Me operthrop of
Slavery one hundred years sooner than
the Republican party could hare done IL.


The cotton States may go out of the
Union, the border States may go out
with them = altogether may form
Southern Confederacy. We shall ad-
here to our Union, Constitution and
Laws, and denounee secession and the
miserable Southern Confederacy that
may spring from it, and those who
brought IL about, though it may cost us
our life upon the scatfold Nay. We
shall dare say in the teeth of South Car
olina, that the Federal Government ought
to enforce the laws. collect the revenue.
and lash the rebelious States back into
line at the point of the sword and the
mouth Of the cannon


We have no desire to live under any
government and be controlled by the
corrupt, wicked. aud hell-deseryine viii
lains who lead this revolution in the
South.
Year: 1861




squad of sailors from the Pensacola to work
them. There being no work for them to per-
form, they returned Immediately, but are some
what consoled in their repeated failures to get at
the traitors, with the reflection that they will
probably receive two months pay tomorrow.


The Mount Vernon landed her detachment of
the list at the White House Point yesterday,
and they searched the country for some distance,
but saw no traces of the battery alleged to have
been erected in that neighborhood. After return
ing to the yard, which they reached shortly
after dark last evening, and making their report,
Cant. Woods was ordered to return down tho
river, and capture schooner which has recently
been engaged in carrying troops and provisions
over to the rebels from the Maryland shore.
The prize wss captured, after short cruise,
and brought to the yard to-day, with two men,
who were on board Of her.


TRAITORS IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT


An old resident here states positively that be can
pont out twenty.sx clerks, in tho Interior Depart
mept who have uttered Secession sentiments, more
thsn once, within the last two months. He also
says that there is at the present time young man
seeking the position Of an Examiner in the Patent
Once, who has, until within few weeks been
rabid Secessionist, that bis parents arc even now
hitter in their denuncatOns Of the Administration,
and that through some unsccountable means Q
prominent Republican politician has been induced
to indorss the fellows spPicatioa.
Year: 1861

The Boston Post the old Democratic mouth.
piece in Massachusetts,, comes up to the mark
in this emphatic style:


The nation has great work before it
how great time alone can show. But we can
not exagkera its greatness-we may not
exaggerate its length-and the sooner we
take a long and large view Of it the better
We must look far ahead, and 90 in for the
war;, and in this view we must take things
coolly and pluckily, stifening our backbone
to go through with any thing and every
thing to insure the ultimate triumph which
we have reason to expect, and which we are
bound to have, and utterly ignoring, ifneed
be, all sorts of unfavorable incidents, the con
temptation of which would tend to disturb
and harass. 1t is wind and bottom that tell
it is the pace that kills, as the South are be-
ginning to discoVer-it is the last round that
the nation is to gain. Yorktown outweighed
the almost numberless defeats that Washing
ton experienced and met with so much Of
stern but cheerful mani ess. ...


Cool, enduring, unwaveriug pluck is what
we need and must have, in good and in evil.
We should know too, much to be disturbed
by partial misfortunes--we should estimate
events at their true, and not at their news
paper value, and even if the national cause
really went i'll for season (Which is not the
case at present, thank God and our brave
soldiers y we should still look forward to final
triumph, as bod-hearted soldiers of the right,
armed with all human skill and power can
do to command success. ....'. .r.
Year: 1861

THR reasons for making the attack by the
naval expedition at Port Royal will appear
ity is the rich spot of South Carolina that
the famous sea island cotton is grown in that
amPhibious region, and that tie negro popG-
lalion is more dense there than in any other
part of the South, while treason is proper
tionately rank, and TO crown all, the harbbr
ia the best on the Southern coast. ;
Year: 1861

ROCK SPRING HOTEL.


MARY S. MCCALEB, PROPRIETRESS


OLD STAND.
"a THE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of returning
n her sincere thanks to her numerous friends for the


liberal patronage her house has received for the past
few years. and would respectfully inform the public that
she prepared to accommodate transient
or Regulation the most liberal terms.


Her house being situated on the South side OF Chestnut
der table will at all times be found amply provided with
the the market Affords Her rooms are Kept IN the best
possible manner rendering every comfort and convenience
to her guest in her power.
continuance public patronage respectfully solicit
ed. MANY 3. AcCALEb'
December II. l86O-dtf.
Year: 1861

Billy Wilson's Zouaves, who were sent to
Fort Pickens and are now located on San'a
Ross island, near the fort, are represented to
be in excellent health, spirits, and discipline,
and anxiOusly awaiting fer the time when
they may receive orders to pOunce upon the
enemy. When the regiment first went to
Santa Rosa, the men exhibited considerable
insubOrdination, butthey have since been bro
ken in to their duty, and have become quite
cOntented with the service. Had the Fire
ZOuaves been put through similar course OF
training it would have saved the regiment
from the utter and disgraceful Generalization
into which II feU
Year: 1861




The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune writes:


There are many new grounds for the be-
lief that the defensive in which our army
has necessarily stood for many weeks is
presently to be abandoned. It might, in
deed, be said to have been abandoned with
the first step forward that was taken a week
ago, in the occupation Of Munson's Hill,
F. lis Church, and other points until then
possessed by the Rebels. But that was
merely a venture, at the start--a feeling OF
the position, which subsequent events have
proved sufficiently secure for rs. From that
slight and not contemplated advance, the
larger and more overwhelming movement
will proceed. There seem to be no reasons
why it shonld be delayed. The enemy,
either through necessity, or by accident
made bad move, and the advantage is for
US to take, if we choose. We began to do
So by instsntaneously occupying the ground
which they deserted. The Importance of the
change which our position then underwent is
not to be estimated only by the number Of
miles we have progressed, but rather by the
new strength of situation we have acquired.
Considered as a matter of distance it may
naturally appear Of little moment. Three
or four miles beyond our former lines do not
appear to count much in march which is to
be measured BY much yaster figures; but
still it is an advsnee-the first for many
weeks, the first under the new order Of af-
fairs. From defensive, our attitude is open
" changed to offensive. The first step is
taken, and, with an army like ours, that
must mean that there is to be no retrogres.
sion. All cautious preparation and reserve
must vanish with the first sound of the at
tack. What was wisdom before might now
be Perilous timidityi and where a calm re
teence was lately the rule, a vigorous bold
| nessWill be promptly resumed.
Year: 1861

Washington Correspondence n. Y. World.


Much foolish gossip has been created By
the fact that General Mcclellan has order
ed snowy uniforms for himself and staff
Heretofore he has been distinguished by
the plsinness Of his attire, but as he is
soon TO take the field, it is desirable thai
the men should know him at glance from
the line, and other officers Of the army un.
der his command. Like cousin joe in
the play, he viii be buttons all over, and
gold lace aa kbitEm. There is q necessity
for this, IS all military men will under
stand,
Year: 1861

The BURIAL PLACE What a multitude
Of thoughts crowd upon the mind IN the
contemplation of such n scene How
inuch Of the future, even in its tar distant
reaches rises before us with all its persua-
sive realities Take but one little narrow


space of time, and how etiecting are its
associations. Within the flight of one
half eentury, now many of the great, the
good and the wise will be gathered here
How many, in the loveliness of infancy,
the beauty of youth, the vigor of man
hood and the maturity of age, will lie
down here, and dwell in the bosom Of the
earth The rich and the poor, the gay
and the wretched, the favofites of thous-
and, and the forsaken Of the world, the
stranger in his grave and patriarch, SUI
ronnded by the kindred of long Lineage!
How many will here bury their brightest
hopes or blasted expectation How many
bitter tears will be shed How many as'
onizing sighs will here be heaved do"
many trembling feet will cross the path


ways, and returning, leave behind 'hen


me dearest objects Of their joys !-E'erea
Year: 1861

For asking ten cents copy for
the Daily News is, that the article of
paper il not to be had. and that which
we have on hand, was obtained at an
enormous price, therefore we do not
care about printing more than enough
for our subscribers. The terms of our
paper by the week or year is the same
as heretofore, but single copies of the
Duly Ne,cs, to non-subscribers, scl2
be Ten cents.
Year: 1861

The season of the year Is now approach


ing when those who purpose setting out


shade or fruit trees should make their ar


rangements for proper prosecution of


the work. There is no more economical


mode of beautifying or increasing the val.


ue Of ones premises than by planting trees


Of this character, and too many of either
cannot be set out, provided they are of the
right kind, and Characteristic of the lccal-
ity which they are intended either to i'm
prove or adorn- Compare the farmhouse
that sits embosomed in refreshing shade
and fragrant shrubbery, with the one that
stands bare and exposed to the full glare
Of the MONDAY sun. We need not tell our
readers that everybody prefers the former
to the latter. And then how necessary to
have few nice shade trees scattered about
the pasture-felds. beneath which the low-
ing herd can recline when the sun is too
warm for them to crop the herbags Cat
tie thus protected are kept in better eondi-
tion than those which are constantly exposed
to the heat of the day. And who does
not want fine orchard on his farm, or
few choice fruit trees around his dwelling?
In the old world there is much greater at
tentiOn paid to tree planting than here
In some countries of Europe the authori-
ties of the town cause beautiful trees to be
planted along both sides of the public |
highway, so that travellers may journey for
miles beneath the most delicious shade
Then again almost every town has its
shady square, and the different cities ex-
tensiye parks How excellent an example
for the people of this country to follow,
and how pOsterity would thank ue were it
more generally initiated.
Year: 1861

BURYING BEEs-The French bury their
hives during the winter as the most effect
ual mode Of preserving their bees. For
this purpose trench is dug to the depth
of a yard, a layer of gravel laid in the
bottom of the trench, table placed on the
gravel, and the hives ranged on the table
and covered with straw on all sides. The
trench is then filed with earth, lightly
shovelled in, and the bees are left to them
selves until the return of warm weather.
1t is essential to the health of the bees that
the spot selected for burial should be per-
fectly dry and clean, and removed from the
passage of men and animals.
Year: 1861

A wag was once heard to say that the
difference between the southern and north
ern people is, those in the South Wilfneye
sell anything they can eat while those in
the North never eat anything they can
sell. $3.50 o.iftss.sz -ifs;lasr l-zE
Year: 1861

DYING IN INDIAN FLE-Thc Captain,
elect Of a military company at Nicksburc,
Miss, in returning his thanks for The hon
or conferred upon him, pledged himself to
rush into the thickest of the fight, ard
either achieve glory fer the company or
die in the attempt. The First Lieutenant
pledged himself to be Immediately behind
the captain, and if he fell to endeavor
worthily to Gll his place. The Second
Lieutenant followed in similar strain
and declared that when the First Lieu,en-
ant should fall be would lead them to
glory or death. Tie Third Lieutenant
was then called out. lie said when the
Captain, First Lieutenant and Second
Lieutenant should be killed under such
circumstances. he didn't think it would be
prudent to lead the soldiers further, aud
he should then order retreat
Year: 1861

MYSTERIOUS MURDER CAsE.-On Saturday
last, the officers of the Tuolumne County
Water Company received information that
the body Of one of their employees, named
Jacob X. Giddes, had been discovered under
very suspicious circumstances, near the
company's upper reservoir up 10 the noun
tains, The Coroner was Immediately sum-
moned and party sent up to investigate
the matter. The party arriving at the 10.
cality, discovered the body of Giddes, in a
very advanced state of decomposition, mid
way between bis cabin and the reservoir;
be had been shot through the chest. but
whether from the front or back, il was i'm
possible to say owing to the condition of
the body. Nothing was missing from the
cabin. By examination of memorandum
book found on the body, 1t was found to be
dated for the last time on the 9th June,
leading TO the Inference that it was ON that
or the following day that the murder took
place. The authorities have clue TO the
mystery, which of course it would be i'm
prudent to divulge at present, further than
TO state, that the deed is supposed to have
been committed by a crazy Frenchman.-
columbia Times.
Year: 1861

ACCUMULATION OF TREASURE During the
second quarter Of the present year the
amount Of treasure received 10 San Fran
cisco from the mines was SIl ,5l0,974. Du-
ring the same period there has been shipped
from that city treasure to the amount Of
S8,626,2l6. According to this showing, the
amount Of treasure accumulated here since
the first Of April is 81, ,sS5,75S.
Year: 1861

A writer on the French side of the New Or
leans Bee urges that we give full vote through
out the South at the Presidential electiol in No
vember. he says that this is advisable in order
to disproye Lincoln's assertion that more than
half the Southern people are opposed to The
movement for Southei II indept ndence.


We cordially unite, says the Richmond Whg,
in the recommendation that there be full vote.
notwithstanding there is but one ticket IN the
field not, however, to satisfy Lincoln OF The tai
sity of his STATE menr, for he knew it was false
when he made it. But there may be some peo-
pie in other counties who have been deceived
by the declaration of the Northern press, and if
there be not full vote they may conclude that
those who stay away from the po Is are either
indifferent or hostile to the new Government.-
To remove any errors OF this sort from the minds
of European nations is worth attending to. If
the North are deceived about this matter. thew
may remain SO, and it is not worth white to un-
deceive them. But the case is different as to
other governments.


We renew the appeal, too, to voters ia making
their choice OF Representatives in Congress, to
disregard every sentiment and consideration tba,
might bias their Judgment, and look only TO uuai-
tication tor the post to be Fl led. Virginia looks
back now with noble pride TO the great men
who represented her In the councils of the old
revolution. Has she no such sons now to rnain-
tain her reputation and guard her interests! Per-
haps not, but yet many of wht M any State
might be proud, and to whom any people might
entrust their rights. 1t should be the corscien-
tious duty OF every citizen to see tha. his vote is
cast for such man. Our present delegation is
one OF great ability; let there be no filing off.
Year: 1861

So much has been said about this vessel, which
arrived at Savannah q short time ago, both by
the Northern aud Southern press, that descrp-
ton would rot now be inappropriate:


She has the rig Of full-rigged brig, and COM
ing into port under SAIL with heht head OF
steam. and her smoke stack down, her appear
ance, at short distance, indicated nothing more
than an ordinary brig. She has no sign of port
holes from the outside, and the only indication
on the decks that she is designed for war YES
sci, is the presence of four ring bolts firmly fixed
in the decks. She is designed to carry four guns
on deck and although there are no guD- carriages
to be seen, yet there are four ten inch rifle can
non slung in way that they could be brought
into action, bad there been occasion, on very
short notice. Her bulwarks, instead of being
solid, as usual, were constructed Of fancy wire
netting. She presents beautiful appearance
externally, and when she is fully fitted nr action
she will 10 doubt prove an ugly customer for the
enemy to cope with.
Year: 1861

For the Spectator.
A Dreadful Result of Our Victory at Ma.
nassas.


Mr.. EDITOR :-U nmstakable signs of the times
point to what may prove u fatal result of our
victory at Manassas-0a OUer confident and
boasyuS spirat-and its necessary consequence
inactivity. In the beginning OF the war, whilst
we Knew our cause was just we also felt our COM
parative weakness and hence betook ourselve
by day OF humiliation, fasting and prayer, to
our only sure refDge-the great God of battles,
We adopted our motto: '.God and our rights"
The result was seen in the battles which ensued.
but nowhere more remarkably than at Manassas
In the mysterious panic of the enemy and their
utter overthrow, jast at the moment of their ap-
parent victory. We have since INDUCED in
boastful spirit and said i, was the strength of
our bow and the might OF our arm which got
this victory, and have forgotten the mighty
God who brought about this result We have
dropped into fatal Indifference. and vain, con-
fident spirit that, we fear, may require terrible
defeat TO dispei, Many have ceased TO t0al, and
We fear to pray, for our success. Levity is TAX
ing the place OF the gravity becoming the ca
lanlties we are suffering. Amusements have
supplanted the little ''lint and bantage circles,
and the little "wha-can- we-do-for-our-army cir
cles" which once showed the interest we felt in
our soldiers aid cause.


Is it time to grow lukewarm, to forsake God,
to court amusements and to indulge in levity
We have thousands of sick to be restored we
have three hundred Thousand brave and valuable
men in the field, and to keep them efficient re-
quires not only all that the Department at Rich
mOnd can do, but the earnest, private efforts OF
every true Southern man and woman who longs
for cur independence.


We are upoa the ece Of another great battle.
Let us awake to the nature of its untold results.
Let us show our patriotism not only by what we
can sag but by what we can do Not in finding
fault, but striving to remedy the evils We see;
not in provoking God by lrvity, profanity, and o
wicked neglect of Him and His truth, but by
solemn regard to his precepts and earnest prayer
in public and private. Let dignifed gravity
pervade the public mind. Let our temples be
filed with His worshippers and by taking Him
for their defence and shield, secure His mighty
aid, which will give Us the victory and speedy
and peaceful enjoyment of our rights.


AN OFFICER IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE.
Year: 1861

We learn that en- unsuccessful attempt was
made last Friday week by e-party of Federals to
land force at Chingotesgue, on the Eastern
Shore, for the purpose of destroying vessel on
stocks t. at w.s nearly completed. They came
up in steamboat, and portion of them effect
ed landing, but they found to their cost that a
force bad gathered to give them welcolne.-
Capt. Fletcher, militia officer in that vicinity,
had gathered some of his boys, with their duck
guns and fowng pieces, and with these means
they attacked the yandals, who sought shelter in
the ship yard behind the frame of the vessel
But, Notwithstanding this they were so roughly
handled by the Eastern Shoremen ii at ftteel OF
them came in for their allotment OF land in Vir
ginia, besides considerable number carr ed off
from the scene of action wounded. OnIy one of
our men slightly wounded. They Were finally
driven off and effected their escape to the steam
er amidst a shower from Captain FletcheI's men,
who then determined to burn the vessel them
selves and did 80 accordingly.
Year: 1861

The Northern objection to Fremont's procla
nation is that if carried ont, it would defeat 8
re construction of the Union. If that is the on
y objection, they may as we'll withdraw it. for
no power on earth can ever make US as one peo
pie with the North again. No two nations in
Christendom differ more widely in character
than the Southerners and Yankees, and it were
as reasonable to expect voluntary and Intimate
association between the most refined gent eman
and the veriest knave and blackguard as between
two people who are, in the aggregate, represen
te. by the two characters just contrasted. The
North may indulge the vain hope, but recon
struction is an impossiblity. Clarksuille (Tenn)
Chronicle
Year: 1861

The R5chmond Examiner, in speaking of the
kind of meu who should, at this time, be elected
to Congress, says:


"Ihe questions which will come before the
next Congress will require the very highest ca
paclty and patriotism. The country is in need
or her ablest and best men. Everything may
depend upon the wisdom of the selections
Nothing should be left to chance, and in every
case where man has shown himself an able and
faithful public servant in same or similar capac-
tiles, good sense would seem to dicate that he
should be voted for now 1t will Eot do, at this
Time, to disregard conceded Abilities approved
stat9esmanship, long experience of practice in
public affairs, and the Judgment and temper
winch Is only derived from such experience, for
the sake of experimenting.
Year: 1861

Us An itinerant quack doctor in Texas
was applied to by one of Col Hays Rangers,
GO 60 extract the iron point of an Indians arrow
l-om his head, where it had been lodged for
so!1e tune: cannot 'stract this, stranger, y
said the doctor, because to do it would
zone con nigh killing you; but can give you a
P'I4 that will melt it in your head.'
Year: 1861

Very REV. AND REV. EDIroRs:-I would
wish to know whether in your opinion nat
rralzed citizen, even in the South can take
nart with the Southern COnfederacy without
ihe guilt of perjury? In becoming citizen,
he he sWore fealty, not to any State but to the
limited States. Does that oath mean any
tbing7 If not, to take it was sin. If SO, it
must bind to fidelity to the constitutionally
elected President and Congress