smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

Il session, adopted the Following hesoiuuon'


,esolred unanimously That this Convention bees, most
sincerely to mingle It's sympathes with the relatives and
friends of those who have fallen in the service OF their
country, whether in hare, amidst the ciango OF arms rom
and that the Executive authority of this State be requested
TO collect the of all such, and have them
into suitable Record Book, designating the corps 10 which
thew belonged their rank in the service, and the cause OF
death to be preserved amongst the archives OF the state
us token Of respect 10 their memories, ana legacy OF m
estimabe value TO theirfriends."


In accordance with the above resolution, have been
appointed by the Executive authority OF me stare 10 COL
ect and enroll the of brave soldiers who have
fallen from the Of the present war, that
they may be preserved among the archiees OF me state


As il is important, in order TO carry out this iaudape
purpose that list should be as perfect and complete as
possible am directed by the Govenor-in addition TO the
information to be obtained from official sources-to request
the families OF any soldiers who have died from sickness or
other causes home or in hospital to forward TO me ther
Names their rank the date and cause OF their dea ana
the regiment or corps 10 which they were attached


Please address me at Columbia as soon as possible:


WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON,


NAvonf frr tho Sfnfp
Year: 1862




Mr.. EDITOR: I know that You will
excuse me for writing this short communi'
cation, as hthiuk the subject is one Of nc
small Importance. desire to. call the at
tention of the Chief of Construction and
Manufactures, to the fact, that he can, at q
small expense and in short time, produce
substitute for Salt, in such quantities as
will supply the wants Of the State. 1t, is
no new discovery, but has been long known,
and often times used, for the purpose Of
preserving meat when Salt was scarce. II
is nothing more than Pyroligneous Acid ;
and, sir, if you will ask the first intelligent
physician or chemist you may chance to
meet, he will certainly tell you that this
acid will, without doubt, cure meat as well,
and preserve it as free from faint or any
unsoundness as the best Salt. 1t is easy
made from any kind of hard wood, and the
quantity of acid obtained is nenrly oue-half
the weight of the wood used, and in the
upper part of the State where wood can be
bought for $500 per cord, the acid could
be sold for fifty cents, and perhaps less, per
gallon. The acid has been manufactured
in the neighborhood Of the writer on q
small scale, and few families have used it
during the Summer and Fall for curing
meat, and it is perfect success. 1t does
not answer for the purpose of seasoning,
but small quantity of Salt does for that
purpose. The important thing is to save
the meat, and this acid will do it. The
only objection to it'll it may be called one,
is, that itimparts smoky favor to the
meat. It should be condensed in copper
tube or pipe, as iron turns it black. de-
sire to do 20 more than call attention to the
subject, hoping thtt We may soon see sever
al distilleries in operation, turning out at
least fifteen hundred gallons per day
Twelve or fifteen gallons will cure one
pounds of meat


Respectfully,


ONE WHO HAS EAT THE MEAT.
Year: 1862

s@ The Southern people expect now
only one thing, says the Richmond E1ami-
ner: war, until they are destroyed, or
peace is made with beaten enemy, on his
own soil. What Europe is going to do,
are questions which perlex US no more
We are determined on that simple and
clear road to our end, which is measured
by the blade of the sword. The South will
now fight while man remains in it, It
hunts for no allies, and will look for no
terms.
Year: 1862

Two gratifying papers we're communicated to the
Virginia Legislature yesterday Message IRON Gov
Letcber, and communication from the PresiGent of
the Contederacy giving the assurance that the army
will not leave Virginia until every means has been ex
hausd in her defence The language of the President
is clear and emphatic


We are proud OF the spirit of our Governments, Con-
derate and State relative to this QUESTION of holding
and defending this State to the last. The army will
not abandon the sacred soil of Virginia That has
been made the battle-ground ard that the ene-
my establish bis superiority in far Eight before it will
be abandoned to him. The evacuation OF the sea-coast
positions and cities became necessity. There
avoiding IT, 10 consequence Of the immense advantage
enjoyed by the enemy his possession of the entire ma
w of the United States and the material and mecsan
ical skill for the rapid construction of iron ad gun
boats while We bad neither navy, nor the material
AID the mechanical force, enable compete with
him in any sense 1t is true, we had The Virginia hut
beside her, nothing Her destruction and the ouesto
it involves, suggests matters of debate which afford
neither satisfaction nor benefit Row 10 discuss Our in
ability to meet the enemy on the water, as general
question, clear and Ddisputable and the withdraw
al from the unavoidable


Second to Virginia is the defence of this city, for
manifold reasons, and 1t is in keeping with the gne
purpose OF both governments that they should resolve 10
the uttermost to defend Richmond. All tie means in
the power of the State end tie ConeGeracy pledg
ed to this, and may be assured that the euemy will
not be allowed to crafty the prominent sire of his
heart to hector and domneer the Inhabitants of
this rfamed and beautiful town. until every means is
exhausted.


The President nobly takes the stand that though
Richmond should fall there plenty Of batle-ftlds
yet in Virginia to fight for the cause for twenty years
The sentiment is truthful patriotic. The Conted-
crate Government assures Us that the Old Dominion is
not to oe given up. God forbid that it should 1t
would be giving up much more than Virginia. The
cause would be- indeed, itself we'll nigh surrendered in
that event The Government is not only just but WISE
in its determination to stand by Virginia he last.


Richmond DISPATCH
Year: 1862

Thank God the Convention has adjourned-we ear
nesy hope never to meet again. 1t expired for want
of quorum On TUESDAY (bis moroing, at IL O'Clock.


1t has adjourned to meet again any time previous to the
lst of November next the call of the President,
of three OF five members named in case Of bis DEATH If
not called by that time the adjournment is sane de


The people may now breathe freely. Holden and
Graham and Badger ard those who follow tbem have
been loied in their every attempt o advance themselves
through party machinery Holden has not been made
Governor, even for the unexpred term Of Gov Ellis
and what is more, he neuer aUW be Governor. Those
leaders, who have wantony and long red with the
public patience ard public time and public money are
represented to US sinking away to-day from the Cap
itol-their heads bowed and their prospect bghted.-
The only cheerful men we see are those who desired
long ago to brig this miserable affair to an end.
Year: 1862

The ESCAPE or STEAMER PLANTER TO THE ENEMY S
FLEET.-We are informed that this shameful proceeding
is due wholly to the criminal absence OF tie Master,
Mate aud Engineer from their posts and that General
Ripley had arrested them for the pnrpose of having them
Court MsraIec. The escape too- place 10 broad day.
light, the taking advantage OF tne absence OF all
the officers, and the vessel having been her way
by both the police detective ard sentinel on duty they
supposed her the lawful errnd OF conveying
from one post TO anoth r. Charleston Courier.
Year: 1862

The city has been nlsd with rumors day or sudden
novemcst on the part OF General Mccellans army This
activity attributed TO the recent raid Of the rebel cava
ry upon the Pennsylvania border but there no sub
stantia evidence that the plans formed by General
Mcclellan have been materially charged by anything that
has occurred.


The busy note of preparation for Gnal and decisive
Year: 1862

Eg Speaking Of tho evacuation Of Columbus.
the war correspondent Of the New Orleans Cres
cent says


II anything is admirable in connection with
this evacuation, il is the secrecy that sbrouded
the intention Of It at headquarters It was kept
so secret that when at last the order was given,
it fell upon the army Ike n thundsrboB But it
was right, ior it was highly important to keep
the enemy in ignorance Of the design
Year: 1862

EY By dint of hard labor for many weeks, the
Federais have at last succeeded in getting two
Of their small steamers IN the main channel OF
the Savannah, between Forts jackson and Pu-
lsski. Ths fact is Of no special Importance, as
they had already full control Of that portion OF
the river Let them bring IN something worth
LIZ insf
Year: 1862

II Governor Shorter arrived at Mobile on
Sunday, and, says the AdUsrtiser, soon gave
token Of the yigor and energy which he win
bring to bear in the work of defending Mobile
by issuing q proclamation which calls for a very
general levy of the militia Of the southern part
Of the State. Under the authoritative eye Of
his excellency military, matters in the city will
doubtless soon assume q satisfactory aspect.
Year: 1862

| While the gastric juice has mild, band,
sweetlsh taste, it possesses the power of
! dissolving the hardest food that can be
swallowed-it has no influence whatever ON
the soft and delicate fbres of the living
stomach, nor has it any upon the living
hand, but at the moment of death it be-
gins to eat them away with the power of
the strongest acids.


There is dust on the sea, on land, in the
valley and on the mountain top; there is
dust always and everywhere the atmos-
phere is full of it; it penetrates the moi
some dungeon, and visits the deepest
darkest caves Of the earth no palace door
can shut it out, no drawer is So secret as
to escape It's presence every breath of
wind dashes it upon the eye, and yet the
eye is not blinded, because there is foun-
tain of the blandest fuid in nature inces-
sanity emptylng itself upon the eyelid
which spreads itself over the surface of
the ball at every winking, and ashes ev-
cry atom of dust away. But this liquid,
SO well adapted to the eye itself, has some
ascidity, which under certain circumstance
es, becomes so decided as to become scald-
ing to the skin, and would rot away the
eyehds were it not that along the edges of
them there are little oil manufactures
which spread over their surface coating
as imperious to tho liquids necessary for
keeping the eyebaH washed clean, as the
best varnish is imperious to water


The breath which leaves the lungs has
been so perfectly divested Of its life giving
prepensities, that to re- breathe it unmixed
with other air, the moment it escapes from
the mouth, would cause Immediate death
by suffocation, while if it lowered about
US, more or less destructive influence
over health and life would be occasioned !;
but it is made of nature SO much lighter
than the common air, that the moment it
leaves the lips and nostrils it ascends to
the higher regions above the breathing
point. there to be rectifed. renovated and
sent back again replete with purity and
life. How readily it ascends is beautiful
y exhibited any frosty morning.


But foul and deadly as the expired air
is, nature, wisely economical in all her
works and ways, turns it to good account
in its outward passage through the organs
and voice, and makes it the whisper of
love. the soft words of affection, the ten
der tones of hnman sympathy. the sweet
est strains of ravisbing music, the persua-
siye eloquenee Of the finished orator


IF well made man be extended on the
ground, bis arms at right angles with his
body, circle making the navel its center,
will just take in the fnger-ends and the
feet
Year: 1862

BY virtue of execution issued out of the Circuit
Court for the County of Jefferson and State of Wis
eonsin, in favo of Benjamin b Morris and to di-
reced aud delivered against the goods and ehattels
lands and tenements of LymanE Il Boomer have levi
ed upon all the right title and interest which tho said
Lyman f. Boomer had the 18th day of September
A. D. 1859 at any time thereafter in and tc the fol-


lowing described real estate situate in the City of
Watertown County of Jefferson and State of Wiscon
sin to vii The South west quarter of Section nine in
Township Eight North of Range fifteen east, also the
North half of the South East quarter of the
tiou and much of the South East fractional quar-
ter of section eight town and aforesaid lies
on the East side of Rock River and north of line
commencing at the South East of said Section
eight and running North So degrees West to Rock
River, also the North East quarter of Section eight
aforesaid, which shall expose for sale and sell at
public auction, much thereof as is necessary to
the amount of said judgment with interest and
to the highest bidder at the Planters Hotel
the city of Watertown in said county Monday the
l4th day of April 1862 at the hour of o'clock in the
afternoon of that day satisfy said judgment inter
est and costs. HEBER SMITH,


Dated Feb d, 1867 Sheriff jefferson County
Gill, Barber & Fribert, Plff's Att'ys. 3S:6w
Year: 1862

The distance from top to toe is pre-
cisely the same as that between the tips
of the fingers when the arms are fully ex-
tended.


The length cf the body is just SIX times
that of the foot, while th., distance rom
the edge of the hair on the forehead to
the end Of the chin, is one tenth of the
length of the whole statue.


OF the sixty-two primary elements
known in nature, only eighteen are found
in the human body. and of these seven are
metallic. Iron is found in the blood, phos.
phorus in the brain, limestone in the bile
lime in the bones, and dust and ashes in
all. Not only these eighteen human ele-
ments, but the whole sixty-two of which
the universe is made, have their essential
basis in the four substances-oxogyn, hv-
drogin, nitrogen and carbon, representing
the more familiar names of fire, water.
saltpetre and charcoal. And such is a
man, the lord of the earth IA spark of
hre, drop of water, grain of gunpow-
der, an atom Of charcoal But looking at
him in another direction, these elements
shadow forth the higher qualities of a d.
Vlner nature. of an immortal existence
In that part is the caloric, which speaks of
irlepressible activity in that is the water,
which speaks of pnrity; in that grain is
the force by which he subdues all things
to himself, makes the wide creation the
supplier of his wants and the seryitor Of
bis pleasure while in that atom of char
coal there is the diamond, which speaks at
once of light and purity, of indistructibil.
ty and of resistless progress, for there is
nothing that outshines it !; 1t is purer than
the dewdrop; "moth and rust corrupt il
not, nor can ordinary fires destroy it
while it eats its way alike through brass,
and adamant, and hard steel. In that
light we see the purity and goodness Of
divine nature; an eternal progression to-
wards omniscience in that indestructibil
ity an immortal existence; in that pro.
gress steady accession toward the home
and bosom of God.
Year: 1862

tive US this day our daily bread" p"


1t may be asked, and it has been re


Pea,edly asked, Can this. prayer, so suita


BILE to the poor man, who has to toll for biz
breakfast before he is allowed to partake
of it. be lifted up as suitably by the ricf
man, who has as much goods laid up fol
many years to come, whose barns are full


while all the good things and the grea


things of this world are at his disposa a ?''-


This prayer suited David, the shepard sol
of Jesse; and it suited no less his owl
princely son Solomon, Job, when be was
the richest Emir of the East, needed tc
pray thus; Joseph, with all the granaries Of
Egypt at his command did also pray: .Our
Father, give us this day our daily bread y
One act of indiscretion, one extravicant
speculation, on the part of the rich, may
sweep away the Accommodations Of lifetime.
And therefore the richest needs to pray
that God would continue to him what in
the past be has given him-daily bread =
A blight upon our harvest, a worm gnaw-
ing at the root, premature or unexpect-
ed frost, an over rwhelming deluge of wind,
and rain, and lighting, and tempest may
leave us without bread for the next wear ::
and the poor in their hunger will lay their
hands upon the wealth of the rich; and
the wealthy will feel amid the horrors of
such eonvulsion that they too needed to
pray, though they believed it not, Give
Us this day our daily bread" Rich and
poor are bound, ,and tied. and linked togeth-
er more than at first sight appears When
the rich think they have only ground for
pride or for praise, and none for prayer,
they are more to be pisied than the poor
est man who earns his daily bread, and
lifts his daily litany, "Give US this day our
daily bread" But to show that the rich
need to pray this as well as the poor, we
must not forget the fact, that to have bread
is not necessary to have nourishment,-
We need not merely bread, but the power
of extracting nutriment from that bread
after We have eaten it. The poor pine
frequently for want of bread but the
rich perish as frequently for want of an
appetite to eat it. l know not which is
most to be pitied-the poor man, who has
an appetite, and no bread OF the rich
man who has plenty of bread, but no ap-
petite, or capacity of being nourisbed and
fed by it. Money can purchase bread =
but all the money of England cannot pur-
chase health And if it needs two things,
health within as well as bread without.
that man may live, then the richest and
the poorest must kneel upon tho same
dead, low level, 80 Lord our Father, give
US this day our daily bread" We need
also the blessing with the bread, or
the bread will be poison and that bless
ing will make crumb banquet, with
held it makes banquet poison ''for man
doth not live by bread alone," but some
thing needed to give that bread value, by
every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God DR.. CUMMING.
Year: 1862

IA In the pursuit of wealth. knowl-
edge or reputation, circumstances have
power to mar the wisest schemes The
hoard of years may be lost in a single
night. The wisdom hived up by whole
night may perish with the memory of a
fever
Year: 1862

We sometimes catch ourselves wondering
how many of the young ladies whom we meet
with are 10 perform the part of housckeepers'
when the young men. who now eye them 50 adj
miringlv, have persuaded them to become their
wives We listsn to these ,urg ladies of whom
wo 81 e1k and hear them not only acknowledging
but boasting of their ignorance Of all household
duties, as if nothing would so lower them IN
the estimation ofthcir friends, as the confession
of an ability to bake bread aud pies, or cook
a piece Of meat, or disposition to engage in
any useful employment. Speaking from our own
own youthfI employm'n Mt speki'g {. ON our youth
ful recollections, we are free to say that taper
fingers ard lily hands are very pretty to look
at with a young mans eyes, and sometimes we
have known The artless innocence of practical
knowledge displayed by young miss TO appear
interesting than otherwise. But we have lived
long enough 70 learn that life is full OF rugged
cxperienee, and that the most loving, roman
tic and delicate people must live on cooked or
otherwise prepared food, and in homes kept
clean and tidy by industrious hands. And for
alLtheprsc ical purposes Of married life, 1t Is
generally found that for husband to sit and
gaze at wife's taper fingers aud lily hands, or
for wife to sit aud be looked at and admired,
does not make the pot boil, or put the smallest
peiee Of food therein.
Year: 1862

There is no more delicate plant
than the cane. The germ is one of
the most delicate and tender in its
first appearance, and hence most like
ly TO be liable to injury by cold and
damp or chilly weather. Indeed if
the seeds are on the point of germin-
alton one chilly night will destroy it;
hence the unsuccessful planting and
the complaint that scarcely one seed
in ten grows. This then being an ex-
otic, very tender and delicate, should
be moro carefully dealt with and moro
tenderly cared for. lf it is planted
too early there will be a slow and
delicate termination, and when tho
plants appear above ground will have
the appearance of being sickly, and if
chilly weather succeed will most eyi-
IDENTIFY become dwarfed. Then no
wonder we complain of weeds and
slow growth. 1t will require a "long
and warm spell to bring it out" sure,
for it being more delicate than corn
is more susceptible of injury in this
state When then should we plant?
Wait until the ground Is warm and
vegetation growing freely. If the
ground is thoroughly pulverized and
the seed put into the ground at a
depth of from one to half inch accor-
ding to soil, it will not b. half as long.
coming up, and when it does come, the
plant will appear fresh and green in
stead of sallow, and will grow right
along,


l have a schedule Of experience Of
40 persons from last year, and that
Year: 1862

The probability Of the capture Of the rebe
leaders says exchange, is becoming an in
teresting matter of speculation. Until quite
recently they might have easily effected their
escape into Mexico, but, with our possession OF
lhe roads leading from Richmond, and the
command of The Mississippi, that avenue Of re-
treat is cut off. The blockade is becoming
more and more effective, while the capture OF
the Southert. ports gives us command Of all the
lines of railroad leading from Richmond TO
the seaboard. The leaders will, therefore, hard
ly expect to escape our vigilance. They know
also, that in case of their being taken, they
have nothing to expect from our mercy. This
will render them utterly desperate, and induce
them TO proong the contest TO the last. Should
they succeed in Withdrawing into the Gull
States. and transferring the war to that quar-
ter, they will reduce them to u condition Of
lcsolalion which has no parallel in the history
Of the american continent.
Year: 1862

Tho conscription act passed by the Coniede-
rate Congress is thu most damaging proceed
ing yet taken by the leaders of secession. They
have asserted for year the almost unanimous
adhesion Of the Southern people, and yet, in
direct contradiction Of this assertion, they have
found themselves driven TO adopt the method
Of the most despotic Governments in order to
provide recruits for their armies.
Year: 1862

As soon as the seeds begin to crack
the ground in upward vegetation, lay
over each hill half of a newspaper
or other sheet. a little raised in the
centre, and place a hocful Of dust
at each corner, so that the winds can
not blow the papers away. Keep
them on ell the third leaf grows, and
no bugs will trouble the vines, and
they will grow as fast as in hot
bed IT. r. N.
Year: 1862

stolen, the Government must be over
thrown if the negro could not be recover
ed-.but your polite, fastidious and chiv-
alrous merchants can go among what he
calls "blue-bellied Yankees buy their
goods on credit, and then, when payday
comes, tell his creditors in the North %,
/ have seeded! = 1t is an outrageous
crime to steal negro, but it is gentle
manly financiering to defraud Northern
creditor of fifty or hundred thousand
dollars. Hundreds of instances could be
related showing how far the rebellion was
imperiled and advanced by this swindling
spirit. Yet these very men who had dis
graced themselves by these frauds, would
talk gravely about the sin of slave-steal
ing. Now, take the value of all the ne
groes that have been stolen from the
South, and then take the sum of all the
Northern debts that have been repudia-
ted by Southern men, and the latter will
surpass the former at least ten to one.


Who own many of your public build
ings, railroad stocks, bank stocks and
other property? Northern men. Yet
you who clamor about your Southern
rights can coolly defraud your Northern
friends of millions of dollars. The rebels
of Tennessee must be coerced. They CO.
creed Tennessee, or tried to coerce her,
out of the Union, and they must be coer-
ced into the performance OF their duty
You talk of Withholding your cotton and
starving out the North. Just MAKE the
calculation which will starve out the
soonest-the North with her breadstuffs
and no cotton, or the South, with cotton
and no breadstuffs