smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

purchase money, which is about four thousand
dollars


The chairman of this commission requested
the said Stearns to collect the rents, which are
5000 year, and apply it apon the mortgage
debt, which he agreed to do.


Said Stearns has brought foreclosure upon
the mortgage and obtained u decree. which is
not entered on the docket, but will expire in
April, 1862 The farm is worth about $4,000,
ana the steps necessary to be taken to protect
the interest of the State therein must be deter
mined by the legislature, and power given to
pay the decree, if necessary.


Suits have been instituted by the states at
torney Of Washington county, against said Bates
and all his sureies upon all the bonds of the
late treasurer, and the same is now pending in
the court in Washington county. Upon these
suits the property of the sureties (who had any)
was attached. A suit has also been instituted
by said states attorney in favor of the State
against said Bates and p. Belknap, declaring
against them as co-partners, and your commits
sioners are of opinion that they are liable as
such to the State for the money taken and u.s.
ed by them to purchase property on joint ac-
count.


Said Belknap has transferred large part of
his visible property, to prevent the state ON
reaching it by attachment


Whether the state will lose all or any por-
ton of the money so taken from the Il easury,
depends upon the re ult of the litigation already
in process, and such means as mas be used to
enforce the rights OF the state. There is no
prospect that the parties will voluntarily do any
thing, which will be just or satisfactory to the
state.


Your commissioners have received no propo-
sition which they could regard as advantageous
to the state to accept, and they have not dis
charged any of the suretes of said Bates nor
do your commissioners find that any of the in
nocent sureties of said Bates are suffering on
account Of any suits against them in behalf of
the state.


Your commissioners have taken large a.
mount of testimony, but they are of opinion
that the interests of the state require that it
should not be made public at present but it
will be available in the prosecution of parties
connected with the defacation of the late treas
urer yet your commissioners, being servants
of the state, will be subject to the direction of
the general assembly.


All of which is respectfully submitted,


LEVI UNDERWORLD


JOHN B. PAGE, Commissioners.


II w. HEATON.


MONTPELIER, Nov. -, 1861.
Year: 1861

Major General Halock arrived in Washing
ton last week. He reported himself early to
Gen. Mcclellan and was cordially welcomed.
lie was accompanied by Gen. Mcclellan to the
Executive mansion, where he was introduced to
the President and members of the Cabinet and
the same welcome was extended to him. 1t is
not yet been decided to what department Gen.
Hallock will be assigned lie is not second in
command as is stated by some of the New
York journals, but the third of the Major Gen
erals created by the last Congress.
Year: 1861

The Woodstock Standard says: Probably
no State in the Union will be compelled to put
forth the effort to supply her quota that Ver-
mont will Not because her people are not as
patriotic and brave as any, and as ready to
spl their blood in defense of their cherished
institutions, but because her young men, have
left in such large numbers during the past few
wears to seek their fortunes in the great West
and California. 1t is noticeable fact in many
Western regiments Vermonters may be count.
ed by ffties and hundreds. We have no large
cities or manufacturing towns from which to
draw as our sister States have done, but are es-
sentially rural community, and owing to these
facts if we should fall short in numbers, it ought
not to be set down against us. OF one thing,
however, the country may rest assured that is,
that what our quota lacks in numbers will be-
made up in the efficiency of our troops"
Year: 1861

BALrrM RR, May l6.--The New
f"rk and Massachusetts troops with
drew from Federal Hill this morn
ing. taking halt their battery with
them, ami returned to tho Relay
IIouse.


There is n report Of tho removal
Of the remains Of Washington. aud
that it WAS done on the ground that
the North was about to DO the same
thing.
Year: 1861

A FACT IN HYDRosTATIcs.-M of our
hydraulic miners, who imagine that the
pressure of column of water is increased
or diminished in proportion to its approach
to, or departure FROM true perpendicularity
might save themselves much labor and ex-
pense in the construction Of penstocks and
horizontal fumes. The pressure of col
umn of water is governed by its hight, and
not by its perpendicularfty. Suppose a
right angled triangle, the base of which
shall be six, the perpendicular eight, ana the
hypotenuse, of course, ten. Let the per-
pendicular and hypotenuse be tubes of equal
caliber, supplied at the same level, by com
mon reservoir. The pressure at the lower
termination of the hypotenuse will exactly
equal that of the perpendicular, although
the water has to travel in an inclined plane
and accomplish journey two feet longer.
Transcript.
Year: 1861

An Irishman out West, conceiving that
a little powder thrown upon some green wood
would facilitate its burning, directed small
stream from a keg upon the smoking pile
but not possessing hand sufficiently quick
to cut this off at desirable mouent. was
blown into million pieces. The coronerfor
the occasion reasoned out his verdict: 1T
can't be called suicide, bekase he didn't
mean to kill himself; it wasn't a visitation
of God, bekase he wasn't struck by light
MIN he didn't die for want of breath, for be
hadn't anything left to breathe with; it's
plain he didn't know what he was about; so
shall bring in, died for want of common
sense.D
Year: 1861

Toilet sponges may be bleached snow
white as follows: Select the softest suitable
for the purpose, then dip it into hot water
take 1t out, cool and squeezeitin hand. Now,
put into utedhydrochlorica acid (muriatic, J
and allow it to steep for half an hour; then
take it out and wash in hot water again.
Now steep it for "a hours in fresh bath OF
dilnted hydrochloric acid to which six per
cent. of dissolved hvposulphite of soda has
been added This treatment will make the
sponge quite white; it is finished by wash
ing again in warm water.
Year: 1861

YANKEE SPECULATION "A peddler from
Connecticut lately travelled through Virginia
shaking hands heartily with every one he
met, whether he purchased or refused his
merchandise. Directly it was discovered that
10 every one with whom he had shaken the
friendly hand he had communicated the itch.
Immediately after this discovery, another
peddler. his partner, come along with good
stock of sovereign itch ointment. It is per-
haps needless to say that be made large sales
at good per centage.
Year: 1861

her to whom they must have been so much
more than to any one else. How she sur
mounted such acts as the publication of "Fare
thee welp' and certain others of his safe ap-
peals to the public, NO cRe could exactly un-
derstand. That she forgave them, and loved
him to the end, is enough for US to know
for our. interest is in the greatness Of her
heart, and not in the lttleness of his.
Year: 1861

MARRIAGE OF LORD AND LADY BYRoN.-An
article in the February number of the Allan
tic Monthly, entitled Lady Byron" which
we presume is from the zen of Miss Harriet
Marlineau, gives the following facts in rela-
tion to the marriage and married life of the
poet Byron:


The engagement took place in September,
1914, and the carriage III the next January
Moore saw him in the interval, and had no re
naming hope, from that time, that Byron
could ever make or find happiness il married
life. He was satisfied that love was in By
ron's case only an Imagination and he
pointed to declaration of Byrons. that
when in the society of the woman he loved,
even at the happiest period Of hisattachment,
he found himself secretly longing to be alone
Secretly during the courtship, but not
secretly after marriage.


'Tell me- Byron" said his wife, one day,
not long after they were married, and he was
moodily staring into the fire-''am in your
way?'


'Damnably," was the answer.


1t will be remembered by all readers that
the reason assigned for the good terms on
which he remained with his half-sister,
Mrs. Leigh, was that they seldom or never
saw each other.


They married on the second Of January.
The wedding day was miserable. Byron
was in one of his melancholy moods, aud
wandered along in the grounds till called to
be married. His wayward mind was full Of
all the associations that were least congenial
with the day. His thoughts were full Of
Mary Chaworth, and Of old scenes in his life,
which be fancied he loved because he was
now leaving them behind. He declared that
his poem of the '.Dream" was true picture
of his wedding morning; and there are
circumstances not told in his Life which
renders this probable After the ceremony
and breakfast, the young couple left Seaham
for Sir Ralph's 1.-THE brides father] seat at
Ianaby. Towards dusk of that winter day,
the carriage drove up to the door, where the
old butler stood ready to receive his youag
lady and her bridegroom. The moment the
carriage door was opened, the bridegroom
Jumped out and walked away. When his
bride alighted the old servant was aghast.
She came up the stairs with the lStlesS gait
of despair Her face and movements express
sed such utter horror and Gesoation, that the
old butler longed to offer his arm to the
lonely young creature, as an assurance Of
sympathy and protection. Various stories got
abroad as to the case of this horror, one
probably as false as another; and, for his
own part, Byron met them by a false story
of Miss Millbankers lady's maid having been
stuck in. bodkin-wiSe between them. As
Lady Byron certainly soon got over the
shock, the probability is that she satisfied
herself that he had been suffering under one
of those dark moods to which he was subject,
both constitutionaIly and as the poet Of
moods.
Year: 1861

The editor of the Lancaster Pa, Examiner,
in letter to that paper from Washington, tells
the following good story of General Scott ;
" Several days ago the General was called upon
by Virginian, whom he recognized as an old
acquaintance, The visitor after taking seat,
frankly acknowledged his allegiance to the
Southern Confederacy, but presumed that as he
came messenger of mercy, he might safely
claim oy the courtesies OF war a friendly pro-
lection. Upon an assurance of entire safety he
told his story thus am in allinnce with
the Confederate army, to which have literally
supplied men money and arms, and while JUS
tify and support a resistance to the Northern
invasion, my individual sense of honor and per-
sonal respect for your military greatness, i'm
pelled me to hazard my life in crossing the Dor.


dcrs that might frankly tell you that in den
of conspirators plotting your assassination,
there is one who at regular intervals, without
suspicion or arrest, visits your camps and com
muncates with your officers! From my own
personal knowledge he has, under the guse of
patriotic devotion to the government, removed
every obstacle, and he has thoroughly perfected
Year: 1861

AT our special request We. are permitted to
publish the following extracts from letter from
j. NJ. Stone, son Of Rev. j. F. Stone, of this
village, giving the only particulars we have
seen of the death of Major Winthrop and we
may add that the letter proves also that Private
Stone was, in the affair at Great Bethel one
of the foremost and bravcst, as we'll as most COL
lected and consderate of the soldiers of the Re-
public:


was at the extreme right of our company =,
or rather companies, with one of my comrades,
a Mr.. Smith, when Major Winthrop was shot
had just stepped down from u log from which
had fired when he stepped up in my place and
had just raised his rifle to his shoulder, when a
ball struck him in the right brea st and he fell
back into my arms. [ turned to call for help
to carry him off, when, behold, there was no
one near US. sent Smith to procure help, as
we could see several of our troops retreating
across the field, but they refused to come to my
aid, as s. told them that he was dying when he
left me- They called to me to come, but |
could not leave dying companion alone and so
near the enemy. | supported him as best [
could until could reload my gun, and then
held him in my arms till he died, then laid him
in the shade, and was fortunate in overtakng
our company, unharmed. Perhaps you may
think that did wrong in running such a risk !,
but how could do otherwise? Had we known
when the order to retreat was given, we might
all have escaped


The Regulars at Fortress Monroe say that
they never knew any soldiers do So much work
in so short time, as the '' Green Mountai in
Boys did in building their entertainments at
Newports News.
Year: 1861

Indifferent to the issues before them is cers
tain. At the house of planter the other
day one of them asked my friend, Will We
be made to work, massa, when old English
come :? An old domestic in the house Of a
gentleman in this city said, There are few
whites in this place who ought not to be kill
ed for their cruelty to u.s. Another said,
Oh, just wait till they attack Pickeus -
These little hints are significant enough,
coupled with the notices of runaways and
the Judgments in the police jails, to show
that all is not quiet below the surface. Tho
holders, however, are firm, and there have
been many paragraphs stating that slaves
have contributed to the various funds for
State defense, and that they generally show
the very best spirit.
Year: 1861

The WAR AND THE MISSIONARY Cause
We were reading an exhortation given by
preacher to his people who had given liber-
ally for the war. This might have been
pleaded in bar OF giving much for missions,
but the preacher did not so understand it
rather he made that very circumstance an ar
gument for liberal doings in the missionary
cause. He maintained the doctrine th at the
cause of the country and the Church were in
dissoulubly blended that Gods cause must
be sustained if we expect his blessing, and
that Christians must give as much to Gods
causs as to the soldiers.
Year: 1861

The LINCOLN Government viii not be pert
mitted to say what articles shall and what
shall not be exempted from tbs operation Of
the blockade which it has established. They
havc discovered, it seems, that the blockade
is njuring themselves more than Us, aad are
endeavoriug to tighten the burtheEs Of the
war to the Western farmers, by permitting them
to bring their productions, which they cannot
ssll and which bid fair to rot on their hands
into competition with those Of our own agri-
cplturists. They are cunningly seeking to
draw the money from the South to enable
them to carry on the wsr against her. We
take it for granted that the Southern Govern
ment and people will at once put veto on
that proceeding. We have furnished the
North already, in times that have gone by, the
means which they arc now using for our sub.
jugation, and it can scarcely be expected that
in an actual state of war, We shall permit them
to levy the ways and means for our extermna-
ton from our own pockets. Experience has
fully proved that we have nothing to fear from
the enemy in open battle; bat when he wields
the arts of trade, traffic and diplomacy, then
Icnk
Year: 1861

ALEXANDER the Great hearing that there was
a man Of the same name with himself il his
sent for him, and said unto him, fight better,
or change your name"


Ought not old ScoTT to profit by this exam
pie? He lost the battle Of Manassas lie
confesses himself to be great coward. Why,
then, should he cling to Winfield" name
indicative of victory? Why does he not
write Losefeld" a. descriptive Of his pre-
sent stGtttsz
Year: 1861

We have received a copy of the Pastoral
Letter to the clergy and members Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, in the State Of Ar
kansas; by the Right Rev. HENRY c. LAY,
ID. D., Missionary Bishop Of the Southwest"
The letter gives lucid and interesting record
of the work Of the Episcopal Church in that
diocese, and is accompanied by paper of
marked ability on "0ur Relations to the
Church in the United States" Bishop LAY,
after an examination Of The Constitution and
Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the old United States, comes to the conclusion
that the Episcopal Church in the South has
an unquestionable right to claim ultimately
distinct organization as National Church
ard is prepared to unite with his brethren in
organizing General Convention Of the
Church in the Confederate States. In refer


erce to his own jurisdiction in the missionary


field, which was derived from the General
Convention Of the old United States, he pro-
poses to advise with his brethren In the Epis-
copate. Bishop LAY is a native of Chester
field county, in this State, and one of the most
eloquent and gifted of the Southern clergy.
Year: 1861

When on a drear and stormy night
The pale moon sheds a tlitful light
That half reveals the distant grounds,
The loyal sentry, on his rounds,
Is glad to look aloft and find
The old flag streaming in the wind
The star gcmmed flag -oer land and sea
The banner of the brave and free!
While patriot ardor fills his breast,
He is relieved and goes to rest;
Another sentry takes his place,
And. while he treads with measured pace,
lie too may look aloft and find
The old aag streaming in the wind
The star gemmed flag g-o'er land aud sea
The banner of the brave and free
So, SCoTr thou hero of three wars,
Defender of the Stripes and Stars,
When victory is thine again,
Ere death subducs thy mighty brain,
The NATION will look up and find
Its flag still streaming in the wind
The star gemmed ilag-o'er land and sea
The banner Of the brave and free


National Htiaiiqencer.
Year: 1861

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.-A member OF the
Connecticut 9TH Regiment Volunteers, with Gen.
Banks Division, in writing home relates the fol-
lowing incident


con last Thursday | was on the second relief
guard from / p. NJ. until | a. m, when | was
reathng my beat, guarding two springs Of water
| thought saw an object moving toward one of
the springs at the furthest end of my beat |
stood for moment and watched, when remain
ed stationery, but when turned to go on it
moved again and at that challenged, but got
no answer | then challenged again, aud was
about to do so for the third and last time, when
the thing sank on the ground and began to move
Off At that ! fired, at distance of about six
rods, when he fell with groan like bull. As
soon as | saw him fall, got my neIghboring SEN
try to help me carry him to the officer OF the
guard to see where he was hurt. On eXamina-
tion, we found he was shot Gas the doctors say in
the groin. We had his wound dressed and took
him to the hospital, after taking away from him
a pound and half Of arsenic, with which he was
about to sweeteu our spring


The camp was thrown into some excitement by
the shot. We found Il revolver on him, and why
he did not use it don't know, lie is not fatally
injured and am glad Of it, as he deserves a
worse death"
Year: 1861

TIE Sandy Valley (Ky) 4dvocate is very
pointed in its reference to those Northern men
and newspapers who are devoting themselves to
the interests of the rebels. 1t says:


"Thc most contemplate flunkeyism of which
we have any knowledge is found in the Northern
men and newspapers who oppose the prosecution
of the war for the preservation of the Union and
the suppression of treason and rebellion. We
hate a traitor from any quarter of the country,
but we dispise Northern men who profess to be
for the Union, and oppose the war on constltu
tional grounds Such men are Valandingham,
of Ohio, and Ben Wood, of New York, protesting
to be Union men, yet its most dangerous enemies
They are Mortified because Lincoln has violated
the Constitution, yet Southern traitors have VIC
lated the same Constitution, and those men can
express sympathy for them From such Union
men NAV the Lord deliver us"
Year: 1861

Tue Hon. Joseph Holt concluded glorious
speech in Louisville, recently with the following
forvent appeal


Even as with the Father Of US all would plead
for salvation, so my countrymen, as upon my
very knees would plead with you for the life,
even with the life of our great and heneAcient
institutions But il the traitors kuife now at
the throat of the Republic is to do its work, and
this government is fated to add yet another to
that long iRe OF sepulohres which whiten the
highways of the past, then my heartfelt prayer
to God is that it may be written in history, that
the blood Of its life was not found upon the skirt:
Of Kentucky
Year: 1861

the effect of the bombs which fall into it consequently
there is large opening left in the deck. 1t will mount
four guns, which are now lying beside il, three 81
popuders and oue Al 4pounder. They will be mounted
a. on one side it being the only that is protected,
the other side and ends having only railing around
among the soldiers it has the opprobrious ephet of
Slaughter Per- and each company fearful that they
shall be called upon TO man it.


From the mater as of which II is built it must be ex-
tremely combu.tibe and heated shot will be very liable
to set it on fire. Again, it will have to be moored and
kept in exact position for if it swings around or its
mooiirgs are cut, as they night be, by chain shot it
would be completely at the mercy Of the fort, which
might easily sweep the exposed deck by grape or CAMS
ter shot,
Year: 1861

sT The true secret of living at peace
with all the world is to have an humble
opinion of ourselves. True goodness is
invariably accompanied by gentlencss and
humble-mindedness. Those people who
are always sticking on their dignity"
are continually losing friends and making
enemies, and fostering spirit of unhap-
pincss in themselves.


BLoNDIN.--" A polc-item man who always
keeps his balance
Year: 1861

The North is said to be vastly superior to the
South in pecuniary resources; SO much so, that IN
the present contest they expect TO swallow Us down
at one gulp. Everybody knows that the xccumuls-
ted wealth of the North is far greater than ours.
But war is a rapid and incessant dram. 1t will ex
haust any amount of accumulation unless the pro-
cess OF filing up accompanies that of enlp'yi"g. In
other words. cut OF the spring and the ressuoir
dries up.


Now, the spring of Northern wealth is commerce.
and it may throw some light on the subject to in
iuirc whence that commerce flows. Statistics viii
show. We are compelled to resort, for illustration
o the year ending June 3O 1853, as the oficia
tatt ment for the year succeeding cannot be found
the city, after diligent inquiry. But one years
business is as good as another for this purpose.


The folio v ing Is a statement of the exports OF
American produce. and the imports OF Foreign
FOODS. IN five Southern and five Northern States,
or the wear ending June 50, 1856:
Year: 1861

A PATRIOTIC SCRIvEN CoUNTY GIRL.-A friend in
forms Ms that he was in Bulloch county, last week
where meeting Of citizsns was held for the puT-
nose of raising funds for the aid Of the Confederate
Government. A young lady of Scriven county was
on visit there. who had been making preparations
70 spend the summer in the upper section OF the
state Her attention having been directed to an ar
ticle in the News giving account OF the outrsges
nerpetrated on the Virginisns by Buffers Hessian
invaders, she read it with flushing brow and indig
nant frown, and laying down the paper declared her
altered determination. She promptly contributed


fv dollars to the fund for the aid of the C0nfede
rate government, saying that she would speHd no
money this season in travelling pleasure, nor for
dress. but would devote every dollar she could
snare and the labor of her hands, too if need be- to
sustain the soldiers who lighting our ruthless
abolition invaders-Sardnnah( GG.) Nelos.