smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

We think it not amiSs to direct attention to
the fact, that while in nearly all the Republi-
can counties in the State movements have
been set on foot looking towards the concen-
tration of the Union men upon single ticket
to be voted for at the next election, the case
is very different wherever there is a decided
democratic majority. In counties like Berks,
Montgomery, Northampton, Monroe, Lehigh,
ETC., the democratic leaders reject with scorn
all propositions of union upon the simple
basis of sustaining the government in its
efforts to put down treason. We do not hold
the voting masses responsible for these things,
for they controlled by the Breckenridge
leaders, who would prefer to see the country
destroyed rather than surrender their partisan
influence. We trust the Union men of the
State will not be led astray by the efforts of
these demagogues, but discern their duty
clearly, and not be afraid to perform it,
Reading Journal.
Year: 1861

TREASURY Notes.-The demand Treasury
notes have been put in circulation, and are ca
gerly sought after, especially by Western
men, who predict that they will soon drive
out all other paper money in that section.
Year: 1861

KENTUCKY.-H the Government has not al
ready sent aid to the Union men in Kentucky
it should do so without moments further
delay. The Union men of that State are, it
is true, in large majority, but they are neither
organized nor armed, while the Secessionists
have secret organization, are well armed, and
are banded together as one man. If they are
permitted to get the better of the u ion men
in single encounter, the Government will
have cause to regret it. A Louisville CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says: epic
MICS and barbacaes and active canvassing are
still carried on, and have been, more actively
after the election than before it camps cf
Secessonists are forming in the State. A
large gathering is to be held, including the
armed State Guard, in Owen county. near the
State Capital, shortly after our Legislature is
to assemble and am credibly informed that
the Secession Congressman of the First Dis
trict, II. G.. Burnett, has received from the
Southern Confederacy, through the agency of
George N. Sanders, 5000 stand Of arms, for
the Secession camp near GLasgoW, in our State,
called Camp Vallandigham that $500 more
are soon to be sent to him ; and that these
arms are to be used TO attack the camp of Ken
tucky Union men in Garrard county,"
Year: 1861

SrEoULAr1KG ON THE WAR-Some OF the Pennsyl-
vania papers are already hlntg that partes 10 'na'
State who affect an extraordinary PATRIOTISM and are
rampant for war, have only in view the pickings and
steaIings." The Harrisburg Onao" thus expresses
itself: >.


Within day or two revelations of an astounding
nature have been made, which go to show that un;
princpled men are turning the whole affair into grand
SPECULATION and legislative investigation is freely talk
ed Of We are told that the contractors who are now
engaged in Philadelphia in getting up clothing for the
army have turned the whole operation into grand
speculation, and are making nice thing OF it, 1t is
said that they charge the State for each military coat
made So 25, while they pay the women who DO the
work only seventy cents Hundreds Of Sns ~no
without pay and yet for every one that Is turned IN


somebody two dollars aGd the msnu
factpre of shirts Material is purchased at certain
price aud bills with certain percentage added La are ren
dered which percentage is of course tobbed BY scne-
hodv One firm in P6lladephia had offer to dispose
of large quantity Of cloth by making out one OF these
bills but being honorable men they refused TO become
accessore to such dshonoable proceedings, and lost
the sale of their merchandise. ----
Year: 1861

In rife practice with the ordinary riff owing to the
greater length of time requisite to load this arm there
some COMPENSATION for the more uncertain aim of the
musket in short ranges and large targets. When the
distance is under 10 yards, and the mark large the
effects of the two arms nearly equal But for dis
tances of 22O yards and beyond the balance greatly
in iavor of the rife This superiority of the rifle is
more particularly observable in the latest improvements
of this arm by Hall, in leading at the breecb.


Decker, a German author of reputation, lays down
the following the probable number of balls, out OF
100, which will attain their aim, when fired by well in
structed troops making full allowance for the overesti-
nation of distances in firing on enemy:
Year: 1861

ROCk SPRING HOTEL.


MARY S. MCCALEB, PBOPRIETREss.


OLD STAND.
A THE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of returning
@ her sincere thanks her numerous Trends 1or The


liberal patronage her house has received for the past
few wears and would respectfully inform the public that
she prepared to accommodate boaders-etner
or Regular-on the most liberal terms


Her house being situated the South side OF chestnut
street, Front is in convenient location to business
Her table will at all found amply provided With
the best the affords Her are kept III the pe
possible manner rendering comfort and
to her guest in her power.
continuance of public patronage is respectfully solicit
ed MARY o. hcOAACO'
December IL. IS6O.-dtf.
Year: 1861

The firing of skirmsers is the effective from the
greater deliberaton in aiming and IN seizng upon the
opportune moment Voleys produce tremendous
staggering effect, By the simultaneous fail OF numbers,
when they are cooly thrown in at short ranges To
produce this effect they ought not to be delivered at
greater distances than 200 PAGES.


Decker condemns file firing, except for the purpose OF
occupying new troops when first brought before 40
enemy.
Year: 1861

GREAT IMPROVEMENT.
TTAVING been engaged in Mill building for the most OF
the time for the last twelve years. have invented


WATER WHEEL
which durable and at the time simple in its con-
struction capable of doing work. with less water
than any other Wheel in 1t suited to Grst Saw
Mills Cotton Gins and any other machinery that may be
attached This Wheel commands the admiration of every
who has witnessed its performance and is suited to any
location high low head of water and will grind from Sla
to oery bushels of per hour without any gearing or
get of ORDER and loss of time in repairing and
vet so cheap as place within the reach of every
who can have Mill of any kind.


am now prepared to furnish Wheels and put them IN op
Grafton, and fill orders in my line of business.


put up Gris Mills to clean the grain of all dirt trash
and chaft and grind nothing but the grain-Sdao Mails
straight and circular the most improved plans
Cotton GINS with improved gearing that is simple, dura
ble and works with than any in and al
other machinery that may be wanted


All work put up durable and in neat stye and guaran
eed to give satisfaction might give long list OF certl
Gates but my work will recommend itself.


Any wanting anything in my line OF business will dc
well to address the subscriber at Magnolia, N. G.


REFERS TOP. Murphy W. K Cromartie l.. g. Bass M anc
James Murphy, Esqrs. j. a. PARhEk:
March l4th, 1861. Z9Hm'
Year: 1861

Gov. ELL1s-It will be highly gratifying to the peo-
ple of the State to know that Gov ELL is rapidly
recovering and that there is every reason to expect full
and complete restoration of his health-StGe Journal
Year: 1861

The New York Day Book quotes the following from the
Lake Popery, saveryis incompatible with the spirit of
the age or in other words with liberty and civzation.
Their progress is al end fate or Providence seems
to have doomed them TO speedy destruction by e folly Q
their deuotees."


We glad to that at least paper York
has the nanness and to present such views to the
foreign population ct the North who expected
do all the fighting for the manufacturers monaires of
that region Keep it before them," that they are ex
pected to crush their champion and deverer Never
let them forget that they must be the victims that the
tanatclsm OF the Puritan mind intense against Roman
as 1t is against slavery as the backened walls
of the Convent Boston the ruins of their churches
in the " City Of Brotherly Hate testify.


n1nndD Disnnic
Year: 1861

LOOK To THE DEPARTMENTs.-The New
York Herald, of the 2Oth ult, contains COM
plete list of every brigade regiment, company
and commissioned officer, together with the num-
Der of men in each company of our army III
Virginia This information can only be OBJ
tanned from the War Department in Richmond
and il is evident that some official connected
Herewith is a spy and the bribed agent of that
infamous sheet We are informed that numer-
Gus old officers from the Departments at Wash
ington have been introduced into the various bu-
reaus at Richmond, on account of their expert
ence and facility in the dispatch of business
and in this way the traitor doubtless insinuated
himself into our camp. Let the Cabinet look
well to the elnatter-SdUdRHah Republican.
Year: 1861

TIE RIGHT TALK.-The S. T. Daily Evening
Journal holds this bold and loyal language
in an article relating to the rout at Bulls
Run.


"The presage Of success will undoubt-
edly encourage and embolden rebellion but
that is not all that it will do. 1t will bring
down pent-up floods from every Union State,
and will nerve the Federal army to strike a
surer, more decisive blow. Two hundred
thousand troops have already been ordered
TO Washington /; five hundred thousand more
will be eager to go. Experienced and veteran
military men will be advanced to the places
hitherto numbered by pasteboard Brigadiers,
fustian Generals and ambitious civilians, and
military capacity will take the place of po-
litical favorites. The war is now fairly
begun; reuel hands are red with the blood
spilled in the defence Of the true flag of the
Union, and the universal voice of the Union
States will be, let it go on until rebellion is
trodden to dust and until jeff. Davis hangs
by the neck in the sight of approving Heaven
and applauding nations. We shall hear no
more of compromise" except from traitors
not at least, while the blood Of brave men
oozes down through the ''sacred soil of Vir-
ginia,' or while the hoof-markS of rebel
cavalry point toward the Capitol. There is
no more middle ground to be occupied.
Compromise is cowardice hesitation is lurk-
ing treason; apology for rebellion brands
the sneakug traitor, and refusal to aid and
sustain the Federal Government reveals au
enemy of the Union"
Year: 1861

The STAMPEDE.-The cause of the panic
at Bulls Run, and consequent rout of our
army, is thus briefly related by the Union S
second dispatch


Our army was capturing battery after bat
terry. The ammunition of our artillery had
been expended in the contest, and as tha can
mons were rushing at full speed to the rear
for new supplies of ammunition. the move
ment was construed by civilians and teamsters
there into retreat, and panic occurred
among them. They ran for their horses
without waiting to ascertain the facts, cut
the traces, and with the horses commenced
. preciritate retreat. The CONSERVATION
thus created was communicated to the troops
in the rear of the column at the very moment
a charge of cavalry corps from Manassas
was made upon them. 1t WAS nothing less
chan stampede. The enemy themselves
were unaware of it.
Year: 1861

Jones was riding up in Westchester County
and saw a board nailed upon a post in the
yard of farm house, with the sign painted
on it, 'sThis farm for SAIL Always ready
for little pleasantly, and seeing woman
in a checked sun-bonnet picking up an
apronful of chips at the wood-ple in front
of the house, he stopped, and asked her,
very politely, when the farm was to sa,l7
She went on with her work, but replied to
his question instanter, "Just as soon as the
man comes along who can raise the wind''
Year: 1861

This is nothing less than the abolition
of slavery by which alone the future
peace Of the county can be assured, and
secession become an impossibility. We
do not mean that the war was commenced,
or rather accepted, by the government for
that purl ., nor that the grand rally Of
the North .or the Union was made with
that end in view. Only the few, who
have made the relations Of slavery to our
national destiny study of years, under
stood the tendency aud necessary effect Of
the wsr, and gave their voice for it as a"
anti--sl.very measure. We know that
the direct governmental object of this
stupendous conflict ie, the preservation Of
our nationality, the salvation Of that uni
ted country for which our revolutionary
ancestors went to battle and to DEATH
Nevertheless, it may be true, and it Is
true, that the overthrow of slavery is the
only means of insuring the overthrow Of
treason now and tor all coming time. No
one now doubts that the existence Of sla-
very has induced the collision of interests,
the antagonistic politics, and the cmbit-
tered state of mind, which have culmina-
ted in this terrible war. Shall. we, then,
omit to nse the providential opportunity
to eradicate the cause of our national
evils? Can Intelligent citizens, can Sc
pavious statesmen, forbear to accomplish
for their country complete and perma-
nent deliverance?


But morality a. we'll cs policy has its
word to offer on this grave point. 1t may
be that rs Christians We shonld be guilty
Of something worse than gross political
blunder, were We to fail at this critical
time, to strike bold and decisive blow
for universal freedom. The sin Of oppres-
sion Is that for which the nation is suffer
ing divine judgments, and how shall We
answer to God, OF. meet the slave at the
great day. if We refuse now to ''break ev-
Try yoke and let the oppressed 80 free?


Think Of it. fellow Christians shall
the result of this war be, that tie South
be conquered, only that she may hold her
slaves more securely in the Union than
ont of Are wo sending our sons and
brothers to battle that We may have the
privilege, for generations to come, of put
ting down slave instructions and sending
back fugitive bondmen? Yet this will
be the iguoble result, if, in the progress
Of the war. slavery is not abolished. We
must Gee to it, that VIXEN the Union 10
reestablished, At the p1oe Of treasure and
blood, it is placed on the basis Of equal
and exact justice to all; that there shall
be but one system and interest from the
St. Laurence to the Gulf-ths system
aud interest Of freedom. ..-.. :, .....


By the act Of the STAKEHOLDER himself,
the system by virtue Of martial law, has
come under the direct power Of the Fed
eral goveru neut. We have already
spread before our readers the unanswer-
ed and unanswerable argument Of John
Quincy Adams to that effect. Gen But
ler's sound ss we'll as witty decision, prop.
erly sustained by the Cabinet, that the
slaves Of rebels are contraband of war,
and therefore to be con6scated, shows how
vulnerable the system is, " such = con p q
test But this must be followed up by an
Year: 1861

D- New York city is require to raise
s11,0so,922 BY tax, this gear, two millions for
the State, two and half million for the coun-
", md the balance for the city. The total
valuation is Eve hundred and eighty one mil
nens, and the rate Of taxation will be 1.05 per
onr$
Year: 1861

gentleman must have strange, very con fused notion of government. Government is simply legal entity. instituted for con venience, that can will as they would will, and act as they would act, when they are not or cannot be present. The circumstan- ces that require that legal fction-govern- ment, are now absent; the people them selves in our persons are present, and of course governmaent is by us wholly super ceded. Where then is the government to which we owe allegiance. As to the go- vernment of the United States, although l too have loved it, and in the last campaign battled hard and long for that party which I considered most likely and capable of saving it, still I am now forced to acknowl- edge that government hopeless failure, and averse to its unblushing despotic sectional ism, for one am willing to throw it off entirely.
Year: 1861

If the historian of this country would write
true narrative of all the troubles which have be-
fallen it, he would pass by every other apparent
cause-even the institution of slavery itself-and
boldly assert that they arose from, and were
founded upon an accursed thirst for office. No
age, class or condition of society has been ex-
empt from this contagious influence and so
shameless and corrupt are the means used to se-
cure place and power, that common honesty
dares not enter the arena in contest for the
prizes.


There is one effectual remedy for the cure of
this disease and only one, which will prove to
possess radicalvirtue, to-wit: The salaries should
be cut down to such a figure as to make the bur-
thens of position onerous instead of profitable,
when they would be very apt to descend, unsolic-
tied upon the shoulders of such as were most
competent, if not the most willing to bear them.


The great mistake of small minds, elevated to
public station, has been, to magnify their own
importance at the expense of the State to i'm
agine the Government to be, first in the officer,
next in the Office; whereas, in fact, it was never
contemplated that either should be more than
humble servitor to the accomplishment of a grand,
overtowering design; in other words, the incl
dents to an all-pervading cause.


The public officer has grown to be too much
of an aristocrat. Having once been chosen to a
responsible trust, he becomes a politician by
trade ;-entertaining the vain conceit that his
services are indispensable to the Government !;
that he must become the leader of party; and
from that time forward he has decided disrelish
for everything which has the appearance ofdrudg-
cry in the department of honorable labor. If he
should chance to have arisen from the cobbler's
bench, he despises the cobblcr ever afterwards.
If an industrious mechanic when elevated to Of
fee, he becomes too often a loafer and hummer
when he loses it. The salary being large, ena-
bled him to assume position above his educa-
ton and deserts-to adopt eXtravagant modes of
living-to believe himself somebody, when others
knew him ninny-and in this way, when his
term expires, he is thrown upon the world sort
of vagabond, before whose vision the illusory
form of fat office is constantly floating, to be
continually pursued, and if possible again pos
sessed through the agency ofparty trickery, pipe
laying and secret caucus menguvreing.


Before our Government can ever hope to be
perfect in its forms of administration-State or
Nationalist responsibilities must be entrusted
to the virtues, and not the cupidity of its execu
tive officers.
Year: 1861

FOURTH OF JuLY.-Itis thought by many cit
izens-in which opinion we heartily concur-that
the largest and most notable celebration of the
approaching Fourth of July should take place
that has ever occurred in North San Juan. The
Union Club, at its meeting to night, will proba-
bly, adopt measures to give the ball a start when
it will be kept rolling by our townspeople gener-
ally, until the object intended has been fully
complished.
Year: 1861

NJ There are some half dozen Union men in
San Juan and vicinity, who have taxed them
selves by paying for five and six copies each Of
the PRESS. How many more are there in good
living circumstances, who have not yet felt it in
cumbent upon them to subscribe for single
copy?
Year: 1861

a. The Ladies' of San Juan and the surrounding
country respectfully invited to CALL and patronize
their Home Dry Goods Store, resting assured that the
quality and prices of the articles sold shall give entire
satisfaction. apr27
Year: 1861

A UNION MAN IN DEED.-Mr. D. P, a resi-
dent of Columbia Hill-where the rush was
made to cripple us in our resources-came into
the Office on Tuesday. and after paying year in
advance for three new subscribers. renewed his
own subscription, and paid five dollars for that.
This was twenty dollars sum more than equal
to the amount received from those who published
their cards of withdrawal. If fifty other good
Union men in the county, would take it upon
themselves to furnish five new subscribers, with
the advance subscription of each our losses would
be about doubly made up; and this could easily
be done, if the Union sentiment is strong enough
to prompt those best qualified for the task, to un-
dertake it. And if those subscribers who know
themselves in arrears would come forward and
settle, another great point would be gained, and
a much healthier financial tone impaired to the
paper.
Year: 1861

Capt. BatterSby:-I have now in use at my Of
fee, the "Leclair Lamp" which l obtained from
you. have given it fair trial, and am satisfied
that it is superior to any light have ever used.
The fame is soft and brilliant, giving equally as
much light as two Kerosene lamps of equal size,
and at least three sperm candles. For cheap
ness it cannot be excelled.
Year: 1861

Our stock Of these articles is very complete, and
has been imported expressly for trade We shall
continue to receive by nearly every vessel arrives
from the Atlantic States, additions to our present
large stock.
Year: 1861

two and half years in constant service, and that
during that time repairs Of any nature have been
made upon her. This should be remedied at once. AS
she is now it is not possible to get more than i've or
six knots out of her under steam when, on the other
hand If she is in good rm twelve or thirteen KNOTS
under steam and sail, can easily be obtained.


II ia somewhat strange that neither the Niagara nor
Mississippi both of which have been laying at Pensa'
cola for some time past have not been around this Sec
ton of the gulf We have not seen our flag officer In
an age but he has been within ITO miles of us all the
time These two vessels could not be of any service
in case Gen. Baxton Bragg should attack Fort Pick
ems, for the simple reason, they are OF such heavy
draft they could not cross the bar. 1t will require at
least six steamers to thoroughly blockade these passes.


Since we have been here we have taken as prizes
nine vessels laden with wine, brandies, &C., and
sent them to Key West for trial. The capturing OF
these vessels and conscatng their cagoes trouble the
Rebels vastly, as 80 soon as you stop their grog
they bitterly lament.


The TRIBUNE is all the 60 with our men, in fact,
with all the upon the different vessels here am
constrained to believe it occupies the place Of its
cotemporaries did come time since. 1t is one of the
most amusing sights in the world to see with what
ayidy it is grasped and read whenever it arrives.
Several copies were left up at Pilot Town the
other day. and the inhabitants were very much pleased
to get them.


The name that has been given US by the rebels IL
Lincolns Black Fiend Of the Gulf Well perhaps
we deserve it.