smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

A HOLE IN THE SUS.-John Mitchell writes to
the Charleston Mercury from Paris:


There is hardly daylight enough to read, but
only the kind of CHASTITY twilight which teens
with gloomy images. 1 walk moodily along the
quays, and almost fear to enter the broad shadow
of Notre Dame. In the korgue two corpses lie
stark. Men say here that something is the
cause of the cold, wet summer and autumn !;
they say that there is a hole in that luminary
,ni trou) which was well enough known befor,
but that it has grown larger of late, and is
now pit OF chasm vast enough for so small a
ball earth to roll about in it, like single
pill in pill box; and that the seasons are
altered and ruined forever. The vintage has
been both small and bad and what is worst of
all, como news from the Rhone region, and the
wines of this year, which were clearing in the
casks, quite usual, have undergone a second
fermentation during the late unnaturally warm
and damp weather. Everything goes wrong
mems blood and brain fcrment, also, unwhole-
somely; and it is generally thought that all will
explode together, somewhere about the first of
April
Year: 1861

Thar MILITARY BILL of Gen Cobb re-
ceircs The disapprobation of the press of
the State. Newspaper editors cannot see
why tax of IS cents on an individual
should be raised to So. As the Nevada
Rifles endorsed the bill and recommended
its passage, we suggest that they offer a
proviso that two-thirds of the tax be left to
the counties to uniform the companies that
may be therein, and if there be none, then
let the fund 60 to extinguish the county
debt. The gross sum sought to be collect
ed by the bill would not fall far short of
S2O0, 900 in the State. The bill in its pres
ent shape ought not to pass.
Year: 1861

NEVADA; March 9th, 1907.


EDIreft JOURNAL The article in your last
issue asking information relative to the Inai-
gent Sick, having by many been imputed to
the undersigned either as author or instigator,
permit him te state through your paper, that
he is neither the one nor the other, and that he
is entirely unacquainted with the writer of the
article.


Yet as the Democrat seems and no doubt is
entirely ignorant of the action of the Board of
1858 with regard to the Indigent Sick, the un-
dersigned will for the information of the querist
briefly and as he hopes truthfully state their ac-
tion. In 1857 the entire cost of the INDECENT
Sick including the payment of two Physicians,
was less than five thousand dollars cash. In
1857 the INDECENT sick cost the county more
than ten Thousand dollars cash. The contract
being awarded to the highest and not to the
lowest bidder, by which award the county lost
more than six thousand dollars. The under
signed bid to take charge of all the INDECENT
sick cf the County for $1,000 in scrip, and to
supply them with ALL and every thing required
be the number seven seventy, and such bid
was not made offered after the bids were
opened, but was perfectly fair and legitimate
and bond and security offered faithfully to dis
charge all the duties of the contract. His other
bid was two dollars per day for each patient
payment in scrip,-al and every article suppli-
ed, and like bond and security offered. By
even taking the latter bid, the Board would
have saved to the County more than two thous-
and dollars the difference between the
cash and scrip value the amount of warrants
issued. Full proof was offered that the under
signed was graduate of medicine, and certif-
Gates from some five or six Physicians of the
County, stating that they deemed him entirely
worthy of, and competent and qualified TO dis
charge all the duties of the office, and also
many good and tax pa:ing citizens petitioned
the Board not to involve the County in addition
al and unnecessary expense, thereby render
ing it unnecessary to increase taxation, all of
which was neglected and refused, to the nju-
ry and damage of the County as previously sta
ted, of more than six thousand dollars and the
tax increased on the INDECENT Sick Fund, from
the Old standard of 1j, to 25 cts. All these
matters transpired before the time of settlement
with the Physicians Of 1857. Nor was there
any officially in the settlement, the Board only
paying such amounts, and such bills as suited
their pleasure. These statements are based on
no dislike or i'll will to the board of 1S5S-but
are solely predicated on the records of the
County. c. I. OVERTON.
Year: 1861

A long time ago the Democratic party
blszeaed spcn lis banner the mette: * that
government is best which governs least"
This sentiment of the outlaw and the iiber-
tine was prcased to the title page of the
Democratic Review, a publication In its
political opinions of the men now on the
stage of action, and to whom the destinies
Of the nation are, unhappily, in a great
measure committed. Thus was the govern
ment of the United States suffering deple-
tion, by a debauchery of the principles of
the people. But the great argument of the
subtitle Calhoun, on the powers of the
American Union, and how those powers
were derived, sapped the strength of the
government, almost, we fear, beyond the
hope of recovery. That argument is SO
adroitiy made; language is so skilfully
fnarshalled, as to almost defy the power of
the most able lcgicisn to detect the fallaces.
It is SO captivating to State Rights men,
and so mastery done, that it stands, and
will stand as a textbook, an inexhaustible
fountain from which disorganizers will
draw all their arguments, as occasion may
offer, in support of secession and nulli6-
catiou.


A worm is sometimes found in the fairest
rose; a serpent appeared in Eden j; Judas
among even the apostles, and among the
statesmen of our country an evil genius was
fated to appear whose mission should be
mischief and destruction. That genius was
John C. Calhoun. Insidious as the worm,
subtitle as the serpent and ungrateful to his
country as Judas to his master, he executed
as far as WAS in him the work of evil. He
government, undermined others, invited at
lack from the top of its walls, and left be-
hind him the Internal missiles for perverse
followers to handle against the Constitution
and the Union. The great devil departed,
but has been followed by ten thousand imps
of hell who are banding together in the
southern states of this Union for the avowed
purpose of destroying the fairest governs
ment on which the sun ever shone.


The dragons teeth sown by Calhoun have
sprung up armed men, who, with slavery as
the pretext are bent on ruin and destruction
to the American Union. With these reason
can have little or no effect. They must be
overmastered by public opinion, or made to
feel the smart of justice.


By calm and conciliatory course the
northern slave states may be saved to the
Union, for time, at least, but the spirit of
Disunion is abroad, and nothing but thor
ough eradication of the seeds Of Calhounism
from the breasts of the southern people can
secure perpetual peace to the country, if
even that can be effectual
Year: 1861

UNION BALL AT NORTH SAN JUAx.-The
ball at North San Juan on Monday evening
was immensely attended. A perfect jam testi
fed to the almost unanimous Union sentiment
of that glorious mountain village.
Year: 1861

PERSONAL. That genial and talented gentle
man, Brother Avery, editor of the Marysville
Appeal, was in town on Tuesday and honored
us with visit. He was on his way from the
Union Inauguration ball at North San Juan. It
may not in this connection be improper to tell
the patrons of the Appeal in this vicinity. and
they are many, that Brother Avery we fear is
working too hard to give them the excellent
paper he does. Intellect is getting the better
of the physical with him.
Year: 1861

IT Is HERE.-Spring is upon US. The
universal air is beginning to be burdened
with its odors. The citizens of Marysville
have scented its coming from afar off and
their spirits arc rejoicing. In front of every
house in town may be seen at least a half
a dozen phare phemales, clad all in odi-
Gus shakers and soiled gloves, tearing up
by the roots of sundry cherished shrubs
and plants with apparently as little COM
FUNCTION as they tear out fellows heart,
sometimes. And after they get them up,
they take great ugly sharp instruments and
clip them and cut them down to a shape to
suit themselves, and then dig a hole some
where else and bury them almost out of
ight.-Ndtional Democrat
Year: 1861

GRAPE Growing REPoRT.-Hon. ]. NJ
Avery, of the Assembly has sent US pub
lie document emanating from committee
in the Assembly and devoted to grape
growing.


There is nothing new in the report what
ever. What the country wants is not gen.
eralities, not history of the planting of
the grape on the Pacific by the old padres,
but information derived from experience
in this State if possible, and, if not, from
experience obtained in cultivating the vine
tiles Of soil necessary to produce the diff
ferent kinds of grapes in perfection; the
mode of planting and modes of cultivation;
what kinds would be likely to do best in
this section and what in that; and, in
short, we want such information rs will in
struct the people in a knowledge of how to
grow grapes successfully in all parts of the
State. We want an encouragement based
on the results of experiments made in vine
planting.


We notice the committee recommend
commission be appointed to further the
cause of vine growing. If the commission
be established of competent persons, it
will rebound to the good of the country
and we shall be ready to concede to the re-
port before rs the merit of suggesting a
step progressive in the right direction.


CHANGE OF VENUF.-The Legislature has
passed an act granting a change of venue
in the case Of Horace Smith, from San
Francisco to Placer County. Welook upon
the act as one on which the Governor may
very properly fix his veto. A more glaring
interference of one department of the gov
ernment with another has never occurred
Why the Legislature should step in and as
sumo the business of the Judiciary in Hor-
ace Smiths case more than any other, is
not clear. Ifhe is guilty of murder let him
take his chance before his peers, in like
manner as the humblest citizen. Let US
have no favors shown the influential, more
than the obscure when life is at stake fol
crime. Impartiality and nothing more has
any one: the right to expect who has vio-
l,ted the laws. Gov. Downey will veto that
act, we feel confident
Year: 1861

THE Territorial Enterprize calls attention to
the numerous uncovered shafts in the vicinity OF
Virginia City, says great many accidents have
happened from them and that they ought to be
guarded in some manner.


The same paper mentions the fact that school
house and Methodist church are to be built at
Silver City, and a Hook L Ladder Company or
ganized.
Year: 1861

FORT CAPTURED AND RETAKEN.-Fort Neale
revolutionary earthwork near this town,
was taken possession of on Saturday night
last, and on Sunday morning the commu-
nifty was intensely excited at the report that
the Palmetto flag was flying high above the
ramparts, and had been nailed to the flag
staff. This outrage was borne in silence
during the sacred hours of the Sabbath day
and night, but early on Monday morning
our citizens were startled by the report of
cannon, fired in quick succession. On in
quiry, it was ascertained that company of
jolly tars hadrecaptured the fort, shot down
the Palmetto flag, trampled it in the dust,
and ran up the stars and stripes in its place.
Forthwith, the national ensign was floating
in the breeze from every masthead in the
port, and we had general rejoicing on the
occasion Washington (N. N) Dispatch, o.
Jan. 29h.
Year: 1861

We would suggest to the boys the
proprie.y OF having Il meeting at the
Court House this evening, to appoint
a suitable person as their leader and
orator tor tomorrow. We think the
people OF Shreveport would admire us
and it would be infinitely better than
running about the street making a
noise.


This would be manly. and il would
show the people what boys can do.
Let US have Il procession, don't he
scared. for we can tind among lis a
boy who will deliver as powerful an
oration rs anybody. BE sure 10 meet
at the Court House tonight.


BOYS.
Year: 1861

The following letter was handed to
us for publication; we publish por-
ton Of it with pleasure, but do not
think it was intended to be made pub
lie; however, here it is, with the ex-
ception Of some portions that do not
concern the public, and which we
have taken the the liberty to omit:


NORFOLK, June 1s, 1861.


Dear MotAer.-I received your
kind letter, day-before-yesterday and
with it the bundles of paper sent by
Mr.. Gill.





All are well in camp, and in fine
spirits; we are very glad to hear that
the good ladies of Shreveport have
been so kind to us. We feel cheered
also by the provision Of the Police
Jury.


We are encamped on the sea shore,
and the breeze is quite cool; day-be-
fore yesterday it was most too cool,
and would have been comfortable
if / bad my great coat on. The en-
emy is encamped about four miles
from us just on the other side of the
river. We can see them plain, and
hear their drum beat when they 20 to
drill. Several ships of war are nea,
us, and they are close enough for us
Year: 1861

Brigadier- general Pierce: - The
origin OF this Massachusetts, military
genius is involved in obscurity. He
suddenly burst upon the afrighted
Virginians at Hampton a few days
ago, and already his soldiers accuse
him of cowardice and utter incom-
potency, and ask that he may be sent
back to Boston.
Year: 1861




The following which we find in the
New Orleans Picayune. is too true,
and unless we are very guarded, when
and where we least expect him, the
enemy exhibits himself to our full
gaze, and CONSERVATION.


IKE Enemy at oxv Doors.-While
we are remaining in fancied security,
and boasting of the impossibility
of the invasion Of our shores by the
enemy, feet takes possession Of
Ship Island and the sound, and cuts
off our communication with Mobile.
while another of the enemy's ship
blockades the mouth Of the Atchafa-
laya. Where is our feet Of gunboats,
and why are they permitted to lie idle
when there is plenty Of opportunity
for them to exercise their skill and
bravery by having small tea party
with light craft Of the enemyl


Well may our contemporary ask
Where is oar feet of gunboats," etc,
At the very commencement of our
present difficulties, we directed atten-
ton to the city Of New Orleans as the
point Of attack by the federalists. We
have not yet had any good reasons to
change our views on the subject, on
the contary we look upon it now as a
fixed fact. The skirmishes which
have taken place amount to nothing
yet, in the end they may prove very
disastrous. for it isevident that our at
tention is to be edirected in every quar-
ter but the right one. This much we
give the enemy, is a great advantage.
Our troops are concentrated-where
A great distance from the principal
point, New Orleans. The ma jority
Of our readers, doubtless, will disa-
gree with US, as regards the probabil-
ity of the above city being the scene
of action, We cannot hel p it; we think
thus, and therefore express our
thoughts.


At the time of the withdrawing of
our States from the Union, illusions
were made to them, as they follow
ed each other, step by step, in the
great movement. DO our readers not
remember that it was ut the
North, eve can let that State go,
but Louisiana. we must keep, we can
never relinquish our claimsupon her"
etc, yes, those We're the expressions,
or language tantamount to the same
thing. They look upon the Crescent
city, with untold jealousy; they
fear her future, for they know her
Importance, and in her prosperity
they see the downfall of their once
great city. They feel the hand Of
poverty pressing upon them they
rave as their rival looms up before
their vision, recognized by the for
eigners, in the same light that they
We're wont to shine. When our re;-
ders mediate upon this, we know
they will think as we do, for It's but
natural.
Year: 1861

Those friendly to our undertaking, who
may hear of any local, or other items, that
will prove of interest to our readers, will
favor us by handing in the same at the Office


the News.
Year: 1861

DR.. Flagg of Cincinnati, well known
for his connection with Nicholas Long
worth in the extensive production of Ma
tive Wines, contributes for the Country
Gentleman, the following protest against
recipes for sugared wines:


II Is not by masking up sour, wild, un-
ripe grapes with water, sugar and whisky,
that our farmers are to become wine-
growers, however we'll the mixture may
please the palates of unsophisticated wo-
men and children, and hard-working men,
whose olfaotories never knew any other
wine than Madeira of American manu-
facture. Tell them that good wiue is
never made of sugar in any part of the
world, and that to weaken with water or
strengthen with spirits is downright
wickedness! The grapes must be fully
ripe, dropping off ripe, and to render them
so, the vines must grow on stakes OK very
low trellises. The expressed juice must
then be put into clean "wine green" casks
and cared for very much in the same way
good cider is managed. This done faith
fully, and the product will be wine that
Will not terment over again IN the stomach
deranging the livers and muddling the
brains.


All tricks of adulteration and debase-
ment our people will take to naturally
enough by mere virtue of their national
ity, and without being told. After they
shall have learned how to made good,
pure wine, then they may, for home use,
make a cheap beverage in the following
way. Into large cask fling the cheese
from the wine press, after all the juice
is extracted, or elae well mashed wild
grapes Of good flavor, till the cask is half
or two-thirds full; then ill up with water
and add one pound of sugar to the gallon
of water; let the fermentation begin and
complete Its work in the essk, and then
draw off the clear wine and put away in
as cold cellar as you have, and keep it
well filled and closed up. Drink it with
in the year.
Year: 1861

always accompany the pistilates. Tie
ratio of one row of male to three on four
of the female plants. Staminates are
self fructifers, and may be grown sepa.
rate from the pisulates, where it is desir-
able to do so, but no pistilate, according
to the theory now generally acknowledged
can produce its maximum of fruit unless
it be grown in the close vicinity of a
stamtnate variety.


Where the grouud is generally covered
with snow during the winter / do not
consider it Important to cover the vines
as a winter protection. | never cover
mine, having many large beds, covering
about half an acre, and my plants are
seldom injured by frosls, But plants set
in the fall are liable to heave out of the
ground in the early spring, and 1t is there
fore advisable to plant them early enough
to become well rooted, and in the spring
to press those into the earth that have
been thrown out by the frost.


When plants are covered for winter
protection, something should be first laid
down among them TO raise the covering
an inch or two from the ground, in order
to allow the air to circulate under the
covering, or the plants will be liable to be
smothered Any coarse litter, such as
barnyards afford, is suitable to cover the
plants, but always in manner to afford
some air among them.-T. b. MINER, IN
the Country Gentleman.
Year: 1861

It would no doubt be interesting to far
mers to read lengthy article on this SUBJ
iect, but as they want nothing but ''war
news" al the present time, will simply
give few leading thoughts, for their
present consideration.


Now In crossing one animal with an
other, sometimes when they are both good
ones. they beget a most miserable progeny
and sometimes they get a progeny that is
far superior TO either he dam or the sire
This is called breeding back, that is,
they inherit the points, characteristics,
virtues, or vices of some one of their
great progenitors. We have practical IL
ustratlons Of this fact very often in the
human family. 1t sometimei occurs that
a bull which is not most perfect animal,
even when crossed with a common cow,
will ge. calf that appears to have "bred
back so far that his points of excellence
far exceed those of his sire or grand sire.
Now then, If such an animal will trans
nit his good points TO his progeny, with
almost unerring certainty, he will prove
to be most excellent animal to breed
from. A bit of personal experience in
Year: 1861

this matter will explain this subject more
satisfactorily, perhaps, than many elabOT-
ate paragraphs, not entirely practical.


A few years since, a neighbor Of mine
had a very nice bull calf, which be invited
me to look at. l knew the dam of the
calf to be quite an ordinary cow of native
breed, and the sire less than half Dur
ham, and by no means excellent even at
that grade. / perceived at a glance lha.
the caf had inherited more excellent
points than either his sire or dam ever
possessed. and l Immediately purchased
him. While I owned him, and even now,
be transmits to his progeny more of the
genuine characteristics of thorough-br
animal, and with more unerring certain
ty than any thoroughbred bull l have
ever known.


These are some of the advantages of
crossing cows of the native breed with
bulls of improved breeds; and while we
cannot reasonably expect to make very
great improvement in herd Of cattle in
only one season, still there can be but lit
tie risk in experimenting a little in this
direction. The stock produced by cross
ing first rate bull with good cows is all
most always far better than the cows, par
ticularly for making beef, and usually
they are better mixers, although il is not
always so, for l have seen and owned
cows of the native breed that could not be
surpassed for giving milk Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1861

DR.. r. Thompson writes to the Ohio
Farmer, that to cure the semi-osseous de-
posit, called ringbone, the animal must be
thrown and well secured; with a strong
scalpel make a crucial incision over the
highest part of the tumor Having dis
sected the four angles of the skin, back
TO line corresponding with the base Of
the tumor, expose the entire surface Of
the morbid mass to view. The next step
in the operation is the removal of the un-
natural growth by the appropriate use of
a carpenters three-fourths or inch gouge;
either manipulated with the hand alone,
or assisted by the gentle use of light
mallet. With a proper knowledge Of the
parts involved in the operation and due
care, there need be no iears of opening
the articular capsule. Leaving the sur,
face of the bone as smooth as possible
the angles of the skin are brought firmly
together by means of strong needle
and cord the size of slender fishing line
A few slips of adhesive plaster will add
much to the security of the dressing. and
consequently to the more speedy healing
of the wound. To these ends, also, the
quietude of the horse will contribute
greatly. Over this few turns of ban
dage may be thrown and grmly secured
Should the parts become swollen, tepid
water and whiskey may be freely applied
by pouring every eight or ten hours, until
the swelling subsidies. Whether there is
anything new in this do not pretend to
say; but this do know, that by this safe
and simple operation saw horse cured
of the ''ringbone" within the space-of two
weeks, where previous to the operation
he could scarcely mark the ground with
the tip of the hoof, so great was his suf-
fering.