smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

REINsTATED-We learn that Col Stenberger.
formerly in command ofthe Regiment of Wash
Ington Territory Volunteers, has been restored
to his military rank, and assigned to the com
mand OF cavalry regiment now in active service
IN the Army. We hope that the Colonel will
prove by his faithful and Jealous services. his
loyalty to the nations flag, and thus silence for
ever all question of criticism Oregonian.
Year: 1864

QUICK TRIP.-Passengers who arrived per
yesterdays boat from above, came through in
less than three days and half from Boise
Thomas & Co.'s line of stages regularly make
the trip through from Boise to Walla Walla in
two days and half. This is the regular sched-
ule time going and coming The distance is
about three hundred miles, and we question
whether equal time is made over any other road
on the coast.-Mountaineer
Year: 1864


Exempt from what? knapsack, gun,


blanket and uniform
Some weary marches in the sun,


And nights outdoors amid the storm.
That's all my boy, pray you wait


Before you laugh aud say "sll righlp'
Your papers have not waived your fate,


You have the battle vet TO fight
Exempt come have you brains, tongue
Within your breast living hear
Then stand whsfe you belong-amons


The men who fight on Freedoms part!
You need not search TO find foe
Behold he meets You in the street,
He follows you where'er you go.


He filings himself beneath your feet.
Stand TO your guns be brave aud calm


Beware the foe with whom yon deal
His mouth is full o. deadly harm,


His lies are worse than cutting steel.
Exempt there's no such thing my boy


You're not exempt while war endures;
Think you your pale face can destroy


Your country's right to rou aud yours7
Exempt no more oI that poor word


Or fill il with a better sense;
So shall your eoun,ry's voice be heard,


calling you TO her defence
Year: 1864

Too BAD-It is too bad that Mr.. Lin
coins friends insist upon his occupying the
Presidential chair for another term, when he
gave out long ago that it was contrary to his
wishes to be the next President. He ought
to have the sympathy of the whole country
in his tribulations if he is to be literally
drove into the Presidency by swarm of
greedy office holders.
Year: 1864

Thirty Frenchmen left this city one day
this week for the Kootenai mines. A large
number of persons are said to be on the road
beyond Snake river, going to the new Edo
RADIO, the majority of them being French
men.
Year: 1864

CITY CEMETERY-The City Council, ow-
ing to the fact that Mr.. Sparks has forbid
den the burial of persons upon his claim,
and deeming the site of the grave yard 10
Gated thereon too near town to purchase it.,
have bought forty acres Of University land
between Messrs. A. H. Reynolds and T.
Ferrells farms, one mile southeast of town.
The site selected is good one, being loca-
ted upon high rolling piece of ground,
and only requires the care that will naturally
be bestowed upon it when it comes to be
used as a place of burial, to render it beau
tiful spot The Council will take action to
enclose portion Of the ground at once, and
lay it off in lots, which will be sold at a
moderate sum-suficient only to dofray the
expenses incurred by the city in purchasing
the land and enclosing it. The lots will be
laid off sufficiently large for family burial
places.


In consideration of the fact that all bur
ials now made upon Mr.. Sparks land are IN
opposition to his published wish, and that it
will therefore be necessary to remove all
bodies laid there, we would advise all from
this time forth, to use the new cemetery,
where they can obtain title to their lots
and where the remains of their dead will not
be disturbed.
Year: 1864

THE TWO JoURNALs.-Two new papers,
devoted to the Union cause, have recently
been established in Oregon one at Albany
and the other at Eugene City. The former
is called the Albany Journal and the latter
the State Journal
Year: 1864

TITLE TO City PROPERTY. The Board
of Councilmen, being anxious to secure un-
disputed titles for property-holders in town,
have taken the necessary steps to make final
settlement at the land office, and will soon be
able to furnish deeds to property y-hoders for
lots or portions of lots if properly recorded
at the city recorders Office
Year: 1864

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The supposition that new oats and hay
are injurious to the health Of horses has sx.
listed In the mind Of man for centuries back
and Is still transmitted from father to son as
an axiom never to be forgotten. II 10 gen.
orally admitted that now oats should not be
ted to horses for at least three months after
harvest, and this is also entertained by many
in regard to tho feeding Of new hay. 1t
real injury did really follow to the horses
from eating new oats and hay, It would DO
Of little account if tho previous years oats
and hay were always on hand and in sufi.
cient quantity. But this is we'll known not
to be the case. and there Is some years dif.
fculty in finding good food for horses. There
arc many gentleman in this city and else.
where that constantly keep ono years oats
ahead Tor their favorite horses, and Others,
again, refusing to feed either oats or hay less
than six months old. An excellent excuse
for an inefficient stable man-new oats and
hay-when he may be spoken to about the
low standard Of health the horses appear to
be in. The owner pockets tho excuse with
the pleasing conviction that every day the
oats are growing older, and consequently cx.
poets the horses to improve in the same ratio.


would here state that new oats and hay
have fur more injurious effect upon the
mind Of the groom than Of the animals under
his charge. In proof Of the assertion, state
that experiments just made by the French
Minister Of War. have proved that new oats
are not more dangerous to animals than new
hay, but both ore on tho contrary sweet
er and moro stimulating than the old.
Again, there are some persons who advocate
n mixture Of the old with the now on the
ground that part new would not bo so injuri-
Gus as the whole. All imagination. The
French say, mix so that the animal: will not
eat so fast and thereby prevent indigestion.
-R. Mcclure, US.
Year: 1864

Fattening bccf, pork md mutton should
=, ceiye extra attention during this month.
Animals arc in thrifty condition now, and
they will secrete fat and flesh very fast, cS-
en- on grass, because but little Of their food
will be required to maintain the animal heat;
therefore. il they receive agood supply oil
meal daily, much greater proportion OF 1t
will DO changed into fat and flesh than wonld
be the casa if the weather was freezing cold.


Fa.tonins sheep may bc fcdon whole grain'
unless It be old Indian corn, raised last year,
provided their teeth are not poor. Let atsw
good weathers and ewes be separated from
the flock and turned into good pasture.
where they can be fed on the poorest ears OF
Indian corn. In casc the ears are fully ripe
and hard. lot them be cut up with hand
axe. in pieces about one inch long. sheep
will then masticats every kernel. But bul.
locks. and SWINE In particular. should bo fed
with meal instead Of whole grain. Indeed,
i, will be very poor policy to feed snykind Of
whole grain to bullocks, or to old cows that
are being fattened, while the price OF grain
is as high as It now is. Keep in mind that
every kernel Of grain, before 1t can nourish
an animal at all, must DO reduced to q con.
dition so very enc that 1t may be said to be
in liquid state. For this reason, old grain
In particular must be ground into very fine
meal before In is fed and wo may rest as.
surcd that It will pay we'll to cook every
pound Of meal that is to be fed to swine. "A
Year: 1864

been very heavy, We did not far as able to dis
cover, lose a single


RKHnI puERrKRs.
The deserers still continue to come into lines.
Yesterday morning three came in. These had been
left ia the rife pits replace the three had desert
ed TO us on the preceding morning They say that they
had arranged with their predecessors to
In case they proved successful
Year: 1864

navigation OF that free and General Steele
is "a position where apprehsnsions need be enter
tanned tor nim


Important movements under General A. Smith are
progressing satisfactorily.
Year: 1864

The Yankees do not say word of their
heavy losses at Petersburg. They tell
all but that. A letter says:


At IL o'clock the line was ordered to
advance, and the enemy's pckets were
driven in. On reaching the residence of
Mr.. PEBBLES, on the Squirrel Level road
about four miles from Petersburg. a
strong line of works was discovered. with
an entrenched skirmish line in front. run
ming close to the front.


The Second and 4hird brigades of the
First division took the advance, and
charging, drove the rebels into their
works.


The rebels, with three guns, opened on
our advancing column, but it pushed on
and never halted until the rebels were
driven from their position with the loss
Of one gun ard about sixty prisoners.
Colonel Welch, Of the One Hundred
and Sixteenth Michigan was killed while
leading his men over the enemy'.s works


After reforming our lines, another
charge was made, when the rebels were
forced back half mile further, where
they took still stronger position and
made desperate resistance to our ad-
vance,


The Ninth corps having the advance
here, the rebels succeeded in throwing
a force around the Pegram House, on its
left, and threatened to turn our flank !;
but General Grifiin's division being at
hand, they were checked.
The fighting was of the most desperate
character, and continued till after dark,
cur men holding at that time all the
ground they had taken from the enemy
Our loss in the battle will amount to
about five hundred, while that of the
rebels is probably not SO large, as they
fought nearly all the time behind breast
works.


A heavy battle is expected to morrow,
and it is believed that we shall take Pc
tersbug during the day, such is the con
fidence of our troops
General Burnham, commanding bri
gade in the Tenth corps is said to have
been killed.
Year: 1864

teen years Of age. and invites all under
that age to join also


ite the special desire of the officers
of the Institute that the battalion should
be entire More than half the cadets are
under seventeen, and they surely will
not permit their battalion of three hun.
dred to be broken by their failure to vo-
iunteer, and thus loae share of the lau-
rels which may be won on the battle
field. Another important reason for the
desire to preserve the battalion entire is
the fact that the corps will be relieved
from duty as soon as the Institute is
ready for their reception.
Year: 1864

From Missouri We have advices up tG
Saturday last a party of Confederates
entered the town of Franklin, ON the
Pacific railroad. on that day, and burned
all the railroad property there. On the
Southwest branch of the same road
there was also said to be a considerable
force of Confederate cavalry.
Year: 1864

How can the Wilmington journal
saddle the "new press association" with
those dispatches from jackson and
Richmond which so lisgusted its editor,
and which were published before the
new association was formed? And
with what justice can those dis
patches provoke the ,jouraat to such ut
ter indifference to the association and
('most unkindest cut of allr) to this
great city? 1t would be too bad that the
Jouraat should leave the Confederate
capital and the association entirely in the
dark by Withdrawing the sunshine OF
its appreciation from them because it has
made so inconsistent deduction from
its own premises
Year: 1864

The Christtaa Sun, OF yesterday,
states that the enemy seam to be making
preparations to make determined at
tack on Wilmington. They appear to
be collecting fleet fcr that purpose, as
a number of vessels have been added to
those heretofore lying i'll and about the
Year: 1864

Iron AND STEEL.-Steel- is iron passed
through q process called concentration. the Oh
ject of which is to impregnate it with carbon.
Carbon exists more abundantlv in charcoal
than any other fusible substance and the
smoke that goes up from charcoal forge is
carton in fluid state Now. if YOU can
manage to confine that smoke. and put piece
of iron into it for several davs and heat the
iron at the same time, it will become steel.
Heating the iron opens its pores, 50 that the
smoke or carbon can enter into it. The fur
mace for this purpose is a conicsil building of
brick, in the middle of which are two trouchs
of brick or stone, which hold about four tons
of3iron. AT the bottom is large CRATE for
the fire. A layer of charcoal is put at the
bottom of the troughs, then alaver of bar iron
and so on alternately, until the troue hs are
full. They are then covered over with cav.
to keep out the air, which, ifadmitted. would
prevent the cementation. Fire is then com.
munieated TO the wood and coal with which
the furnace is filled, and continued until the
conversion of iron into steel is completed.
which generally happens in about eight or ten
days. This is known by the blisters on the
pars, which the workmen occasionally draw
out IN order to determine. When the conver-
s91 s'9n Is completed the fire is then let 20 out.
anu the bars remain in the furnace about
eight days more to COOL The bars of steel
are then taken out. aud either sold as blister


gu s'eei or drawn TO convenient size. when


is called tilted steel. German steel is made
ou' VI TINS oilstered steel. by akinr the
80 l"'o snort pieces and welding them to


for use. proper SIZE
Year: 1864

OH COPPER NosE.-A story is lust getting
into circulation concerning Superintendent
in a section fast growing famous for the rich
ness ofits mixed copper, gold and silver ores.
He is especially heavy on the various mani
festations of copper. and professes to be able
to distinguish the slightest trace of that met
al in piece of rock at sight. One day the
boys had been engaged in scufle, and one
of them got slight tap on the vermillion
colored coneh shell, which he faeetiousiy
styles nose. just enough to start the claret.
Some of the sanguinary fluid fell upon piece
of quartz. and as the Superintendent came up
to camp, the sufferer held up the bit of rock
with the red side exposed, calling out to him.
= See here. old Boss. do you know what this
is?'' " Yes. sir, said the Superintendent.
with emphasis: that's red oxide of copper
the richest kind. Bet yer lite it's big
lead thai came FROM The reply elected
roars of laughter from the spectators. The
man who furnished the ''red oxide of cop
per" has gone by the designation of ''Old
Copper Nose ever since. and it is still an
open question between him and the Superin-
tendent as to which got the best of the joke
Year: 1864

NJ Office is hereby given that will. at the ex-
IN piration of thirty days after the publication of
this notice. thereafter as my application
can be heard, make application to the Hon. Board
of Supervisors of Shasta county for license to es
tablsh and keep public ferry across the Sacra-
mento river at the most eligible point above, and
within one half mile of the mouth of Cow Creek,
where said creek emp;es into said river.


And at the same time I will petition the said
Board or Supervisors to lay out and declare pub
lie road, commencing the Shasta and Copper
City road. in Bear Valley thence running south to
Cow Creek Valley. and down on the west side of
said creek, by way of Fort Reading, crossing the
Sacramento river and continuing on in direct line
as to intersect the present Shasta and Red Bluff
road at Leans and Foster 3, on Cottonwood creek
mr5 WIN. MAGEE
Year: 1864

is purely scientific preparation, discovered by
long research and study, and can be depended on
as being all that it is represented; is perfectly
harmless and will not stain the finest cambric.


If the use of this preparation is persevered in,
according to the directions (which will be found in
full each bottle). there will be necessity of
any one having gray hairs, no matter to what age
the person may live.
Year: 1864

One WEEK MoRE.-Thc Army ofthc Pc.
tomao il not yet inside Of the walls of Rich
mond There were several bets made
among some Of our citizens that Gen Grant
would cat his 4th Of July dinner and smoke
his 4th Of July pipe in the rebel capital
He may do so yet, but it is hardly probable
and those who have been foolish enough to
take risks better compromise or get an cx-
tension.
Year: 1864

The following noble sentiments were
uttered by Daniel Webster. They are
indeed, pearls Of the rarest value:


1T is only shallow minded pretend
ers who make either distinguished origin
matter of personal merit, or obscure
Origin a matter of personal reproach
A man who is not ashamed of himself,
need not be ashamed of his early con-
dition. It did happen to me to be born
in log cabin, raised among the snow
Of New Hampshire, at an early period
when the smoke first rose from its rude
chimney and curled over the frozen
hills, there was no similar evidence of a
white mans habitation between it and
the rivers Of Canada. It still exists.
make it an annual visit | carry my
children to it, to teach them the hard
ships endured by the generation before
them. l love to dwell on the tender
recollections, the kindred ties, the early
affections, and the narration and Incl
dents which mingle with all | know of
this primitive family abode; I weep to
think that none of those who inha bited
it are now living; and if ever I fail in
affectionate veneration for him who
raised it, and defended it against savage
violence and destruction, cherished all
domestic comforts beneath its roof, and,
through the fire and blood of seven
years revolution, war, shrunk from no
toll, no sacrifice to serve the country,
and to raise his children to a condition
better than his own, may my nameIand
the name Of my posterity be blotted
from the memory Of mankind
Year: 1864

Don't take a newspaper; don't read
one Of any kind. If you hear persons
discussing this or that great battle, ask
stupidity what it means. Emulate Rip
Van Winkle; steep your senses in NOR
al and mental oblivion, and pay no atten-
tion to what is passing about you. in
this way you may save two or three dol
lars--the price Of a paper--and lose
five hundred or Eve thousand dollars BY
not being informed about markets, sup
ply and demand, and thousand other
things as essential to an enterprisine
man as light and air. If you have chill.
dren, don't take any paper for them
tell them shook larnin' aint no count"
Let them tumble in the highway un-
washed, uncombed, and in rags and tat
ters. If they don't graduate in the
State Prison it will be through no fault
Of yours. If you are farmer, plow,
SOW and reap as your stupid father did
before you. Scotf at all newspapers,
and sneer and deride at progress Of al!
kinds; then if you do not succeed in
making other people think that they are
all wrong, and that you alone are saga
cious, it must be that the world is curl.
ously awry, and needs reforming badly.
The sooner you undertake it the better.


By not reading papers you will sue.
ceed, if a farmer, in having the finest
crop of knotty, wormy apples that can
be found; potatoes that would take the
prize at any fair for rot; cabbages that
are all leaves and no head; turnips de-
stroyed in the shoots by worms; hay
moldy and dusty, because you despised
barometers and cut it just as the mer-
curry was falling; corn half crop, be-
cause you exhausted the land with it for
years, and starved Nature to such a
pitch that she had nothing to yield in
return; all these calamities and MANY
more, will befall you because you don't
keep pace with the times. You call it
"hard luck, but men Of common sense
call your course by name you never
heard of-stupidity; that's more 'book
larnin'." m


A man that does not take a paper Of
some kind or another in this time of the
world, must expect to be prey to al!
sorts of swindlers, victim to bad man
agement, and out of spirits, out Of pock.
ct, temper, money, credit, in short, every
thing under the sun that tends to make
life bearable The newspaper is the
great educator of the people, after all;
so let us then exclaim, "THE Press
FOREVER Scientific American
Year: 1864

We doubt not that God is a lover Of
beauty. We speak reverently. He
fashioned the world in beauty when
there was no eye to behold them but his
own. All along the wild forest He has
carved the forms of beauty. Every
cloud, and mist wreath, and vapor vale
is shadowy reflection of beauty. Ev-
cry spring and riyulet, river and ocean.
il CLASSY mirror of beauty. Every
diamond, and rock, and pebbly beach is
mine of beauty, Every sea and plan
ct, and star is blazing face Of beau
ty. All along the aisles of earth, al
over the arches of heaven, all through
the. expanse Of the universe, are scat
tered, in rich and infinite profusion, the
life gems of beauty. All natural mo
ton is beauty. in action From the
mote that plays its little frolic in the
sunbeam to the world that blazes a aong
the sapphire spaces of the armament.
are visible the ever varying features OF
the enrapturing spirits Of beauty All
this great realm of dazzling and bewil-
dering beauty was made BY God.
Year: 1864

come and didn't I look as much as
tonished when he called as if it hadn't
all been arranged two days previous
How was John to know when he felt
such an irresistible impulse to be kind
to the old man, that his hair had grown
white while loving his mother ? How


was the old man to know why he loved


John so well, and thought him one of the
finest young men he had ever seen
How was | to know that / was to turn


out to be what | always so mortally
hated-a feminine match maker?
Year: 1864

There is world Of JOY shut up in
the little word, saved How many a
dawn Of rich and golden beauty for the
soul has it ushered in, after gloomy
night Of deferred hope and anxious
watching. 1t is always sweet word to
hear-a sweeter word to speak. So full
Of happy music when the lips utter it
so full of happier meaning when the
heart feel it. The voice never breathes
it, but the face becomes radiant with
joy, and the eye sparkles with delight
Every cord vibrates with inexpressible
pleasure, as its music falls upon the ear,
long waiting in anxious expectation.


Z 1t has history Of its own, written
in the mingled experiences Of sorrow
and the JOY of many a soul. Few there
are who have not uttered it in more Or
less of its meaning through whose soul
it has not sent thrill of delight, filling
it too full for utterance. Sound it out
in the still Of the night, and some ach
ing heart will take it up, and send it
Fjoyfully back through the gloom and
darkness. Whisper it ever 50 softly,
and there will be some soul that cannot
contain itself for very joy, 1t is the
avenue through which the soul breathes
overfowing gratitude. It's whole ex-
preston is that Of thankfulness.


Saved and from what? All from a
life Of intemperance, Of misery, Of crime,
Of degradation, Of shame, of infamy
and from death. If you have known
what it is to have had the dear object
of your hearts best affections snatched
from any Of these calamities, you have
found no word that would SO ftly express
the outgushing thankfulness Of your
heart, as the little word-sayed.