smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

The Commissioner of the Land Office
makes the following important announce
ment:


ga long standing rule of this Office does
not recognize the right of purchaser at
private sale to notice of the time and place
of proving up by pre-emption claimant,
who has settled upon and acquired an in
choate right to the same land prior to the
date of private sale. The law protects a
settler upon the public lands from the mo-
ment he enters thereon, and does not act
manifesting bis Intention to pre- empt it, and
follows up his settlement by performing all
the conditions and requirements of said law.
A person, then, who purchases the tract
after an inchoate right has attached on the
part of the settler, under the doctrine of
eaveat emptor, does so at bis own risk. 1t
would be unjust and oppressive to force
settler to to incur the expense of notice to,
and litigation with q person who has pur.
chased his CLAIM after the pre.emption right
had attached. The rule heretofore adopted
will, therefore, not be disturbed"
Year: 1860

WALKERS DEATH.-It is stated by an
eyewitness that while General WALKERS
body lay quivering in the agonies of death
the bullets of his executioners had passed
through his head-the second section was
ordered to advance and fire another volley,
which only mutilated the body, from which
the life was fast ebbing. Then single
soldier marched up to the body, and placed
his musket within few inches. of the already
dead man and fired, horribly defacing the
countenance and blowing the head nearly
from the body. During the whole time of
the execution not word escaped General
WALKER, except his whispered responses to
the spiritual consolation of the priests. The
story that be addressed the spectators a
short time before his execution, declaring
his regret for his course, was concocted by
the Honduran authorities, or was fabri-
Gated in Havana.
Year: 1860

The Rev. Thcordore Parker, one of the
high priests of the Black Republican zealots,
in letter which is published in the Now York
Tribune, (Which more than any paper, is the
organ of the Black Republican party, cordially
approves the foray of Old Brown and his con-
lederates and proceeds to lay down the fol-
lowing cardinal tencts in the Black Republican
or Abolition creed:


/. A man held against his win as slave
has a natural right to kill every one who
seeks to prevent his enjoyment of liberty.


2. 1t may be natural duty of the slave to
develop this natural right in practical man
ner, and actually kill all those who seek to
prevent bis enjoyment of liberty.


g. The freeman has a natural right to help
the slaves recover their liberty, and in that en-
terprise to do for them all which they have a
right to do for themselves.


4. 1t may be natural duty for the freeman
to help the slaves to the enjoyment Of their
liberty, and as means to that end, to aid them
in killing all such as oppose their natural free
dom.


5. The performance of this duty is to be
controlled by the frceman's power and oppor-
tunity to help the slaves.
Year: 1860




The following is synopsis of the message
transmitted by Governor Wickliffe to both
Houses Of the Louisiana Legislature


lie recommends that the State of Missis.
sippi be requested to grant aid to the New
Orleans, jackson and Great Northern Rail.
road


lie recommends the repeal of the law
which infiicts punishment and confinement
upon the slaves confined in the penitentiary.
He reviews the act passed by the last
Legislature to prevent the migration OF Tree
negroes from other States He is opposed to
the system of allowing slaves 10 hire Their
own time. @
lie recommends the passage OF stringent
law to prevent the sale of goods by sample or
otherwise by agents of Northern houses


He is in faysr of retaliating the hostility OF
the North by q system of licensing or special
taxation, and iufictng such discrimination on
Northern goods, when exposed for sale with
in the jurisdiction Of that State, rs viii amount
to an absolute prohibition, and thus make the
great commercial city of New Orleans the
largest importing, as she is now the largest
exporting city on the continent.


The Governor disapproves of legislation up
on the subject of our Federal Relations, and
saws that the Harper's Ferry disturbance is q
case in point as significantly indicating the
mode of warfare which the constantly accu.
mulating thousands Of the North propose to
wage upon us.


He recommends that the State Of Louisi-
and be prepared to meet her sister States ol
the South in convention, the complete reor-
ganixation of the militia of the State, and the
passage of a law providing ior the purchase
Of arms and providing armories for the pur-
pose of eqnipping our own men, and the pas
sage of laws encouraging domestic industry
and enterprise Of every description.
Year: 1860

| In our columns this morning will be found


the proceedings of, alarge and spontaneous


meeting of citizens of Chickasaw county
| The spirit and tenor Of the resoluticns-the


strong array of names with which they are
connected-and the remarkable unanimity
that maj lsed their adoption, invest this demon
stration with more than ordinary importance.
1t shows that the people have become arous-
ed to the real condition of affairs--to the per-
lis which abolition agitation has brought upon
the Southland to the necessity of prompt
and efficient action for the preservation of the
rights and liberties which she cherishes. The
demonstration is no sudden fermentation of
the public mind, but it owes its existence to
the workings Of calm and sober reason. 1t is
the unrestrained utterance OF a sentiment
which peryades the Whole State, and which is
as deep and resistless as the current of the
mighty stream which courses along her west
ern borders.


In the proceedings of this meeting the Leg
islature win find everything to encouraged it in
the steps for State resistance to Black Repub-
lican dsspotism, initiated at the commence
ment Of the session. The people are in favor
Of preparing for the emergencies which those
measures contemplate. They are in favor of
an effective system of military organization.
They are in favor of the appropriation to pur-
chase arms to defend the assailed sovereignty
of the State. They are in favor of dissolving
the Union in the event of the election of a
Black Republican to the Presidency. They
are in favor Of meeting in Convention theoth-
er Southern States, and the union in south
ern confederacy of those that are not willing
to trust their destinies to the keeping Of the
fanatieal and depraved sectional majority
which essays war of determination upon
them under the sanctions Of law higher than
the Constitution.


Sustained by popular sentiment as unmls-
taxable as we feel it to be just and patriotic,
We cannot doubt for moment that the Leg
islature will perform its whole duty with
aIacrity. We have no hesitation in saying
that hesitating policy, milk-and- water,
compromising course, will fall below the STAN
dard Of public expectation and secure for its
authors verdict of popular condemnatiop.-
Let the voice Of patriotism as it comes swell
ing up from the hearts of the honest and fear
less masses be heard and needed
Year: 1860




PRor. WooD's HAIR REsToAAT1yE.-For
the wear past we have been advertising the
above named Hair Restorative, and month af-
ter month its sale has gradually increased, un-
ii it now commands more ready sale than
any other article Of its kind, giving in almost
every instance entire satisfaction. A clergy
man. resident in q neighboring town, who had
for years suffered from burning sensation in
the head, with an occasionally dry, itching hu-
NOR, which prematurely turned the hair gray,
and latterly causing it to come off rapidly,
leaving the head nearly bare, seeing the adver-
tsement in the Gazette, was induced to try
it, and now, after the use Of two bottles only,
bis hair has turned quite dark and is very son,
the scalp clcan, and the subsequently bald
spots covered with beautiful growth Of silky
dark hair, the sight Of which, with his COM
mendation of the Restorative win command
an increased sale. We would state to any
who may wish to know, that we are permit
ted, privately, to give the name of the indi-
yidual to whose case we refer. Dec2o 50
Year: 1860

The EAoLE.-our neighbors of the Eagle
have donned a new and beautiful garbs We
congratulate them upon this improvement in
their interesting and valuable journal and cor
daily wish them an accession of advertising
and subscription patronage proportionate to
the increased inducements which they have
offered to the public. es 50 e. ssgaz
Year: 1860

n Number OF Persons Poisoned.


A Hungarian tradesman recently sent
number of cases containing drugs, spices and
bottles, TO a customer in Klausenburg The
WAGNER employed to convey these goods,
having been charged to take special care OF
the bottles, and fancying that they contained
some precious hqueUrs, opened one of the
bottles in a village where he stopped to rest
his horses, and gave petit verrs of its con-
tents to several peasants, two of whom fell
asleep on the instant. Supposing the liquid
TO be very strong brandy, other peasants
partook Of il, the WAGNER setting the ex
ample; but the violent sickness and other
symptoms of poisoning which speedily fol-
lowed these imprudent hbations, convinced
the unlucky peasants that their entertainer
had made them drink some poisonous COM
pound. A couple of hours after the passage
of the wagner through the village, two of
those who had drunk with him were dead;
and all the others more or less severely in
disposed.


The authorities of the hamlet sent con-
stables in pursuit of the WAGNER whom
they speedily overlook and brought back to
the scene Of his dangerous largesses. He
himself was excessively i'll from the effects
of the poison; but his evident ignorance of
the nature of the liquid he so imprudently
distributed seems to have induced the viii
lage Justice to let him off without further
punishment. The opening of the bodies of
the two men who had died from the effects
of the dose took place three days after their
decease. Their faces were very red, and
their ears scarlet; their tongue and throat
much burned their limbs nearly black.
The entire mass of the blood was found to
have been forced into the brain; the ven
tricles of the heart, in both cases. being en-
tirely empty.
Year: 1860

ELopEMENT OF A TERMAGANT WIFE.-7The
Worcester Mass Times relates that the wife
of Ebenezer Chamberlain, of Hartford, Ct,
recently took advantage of his temporary
absence in Vermont, to sell out the house.
hold furniture, pocket the proceeds, and
start for parts unknown with their boy, who
is eight years old. Mr. Chamberlain traced
his wife to Worcester, hut on, visiting her
she not only refused to return home or dis
close where the goods were, but attacked
him with stick Of wood and drove him out of
the house with bruised head and arm. For
this unseemly display of conjugal regard
Mrs. Chamberlain was fined So in the Police
Court, which she refused to pay, in conse-
quence of which she was sent to the House
of Correction.
Year: 1860

All visitors to Paris will have noticed the
shops of brio G-brac, or objects of curiosity
and oerta, so numerous and tempting in that
capital. At one of these establishments, in
the Rue st. Honore, gentleman was en-
gagged, a few days ago, in examining an
ancient ring for sale there, when he acci-
dentally gave himself slight scratch in the
hand with a sharp part of it. He continued
talking with the dealer for a short time,
when he felt an indescribable numbness and
torpor taking possession of him, and para
lying all his faculties, and soon became. so
i'll that the people in the shop fastened to
call in physician. The Doctor immedi-
ately declared that the gentleman had been
poisoned by some powerful mineral sub
stance, applied strong antidotes, and was
fortunate enough to relieve the symptoms
which had created so much alarm.


The ring was then examined by the med
ical man, who had spent some time in
VENICE and who found that this old jewel
was what is there called o Hdeath-ring," a
class of ornaments in frequent use in Italy
during the seventeenth century, when the
habit of poisoning was all but universal.
Attached to the part of the ring intended to
be worn inside the finger are two minute
lions claws, of the sharpest steel, and hav-
ing clefts in them filed with violent poi
son. '.


In ball, or other crowded assembly, the
wearer of this fatal ring, wishing to exer.
else revenge on any one present, would take
the victims hand, and when pressing it, eveI
so gently the sharp claw would be sure to
infict a slight scratch on the skin, and the
victim would be equally sure to be dead
before the next morning. Notwithstanding
the length of time which must have elapsed
since the poison was secreted in the ring in
question, it was still powerful enough tc
cause great danger, as has been seen, to the
gentleman who had so unWarily touched il
Year: 1860

of hope, and halloo like guinea. fowls in
barn yard. You all know or have
heard of the great Bruce of Scotland
Previous to his death be made a VOW, a.
he would make pilgrimage to the Holy
Land, and after his death bis heart was
placed in a silver case, and put in the
possession of Douglas. who had vowed
that he would take that heart to the Holy
Land. On bis way be had tilt with the
Moors Of Spain; wearing the heart Of
Bruce in his bosom, he rushed to the con.
fict. The Noors were about to overpow-
er the force of Douglas when reaching in
to his bosom he took the heart and throw
ing it before him cried--"lead on brave
heart, as thou were ever wont to do ~
Here to night on the shores of the Della.
ware, in the beginning Of this great con
Aict, the greatest, perhaps, that the coun.
try may ever witness, when We are stri.
king for liberty | throw before you the
heart Of Henry Clay, Of Kentucky. (Tre,
nendous applause.)
Year: 1860

As the time is near at hand for plant
ing peas, the following new suggestion
may be of interest and advantage to our
readers. A correspondent of one of our
agricultural exchanges says, the theory
recently advocated of planting peas very
deeply in the earth, in order to prolong
the bearing capacity of the vines, has
been well tested in Willismstovn, and
found to be correct. A farmer told me
that be plowed furrow beam deep, then
scattered the seed peas at the bottom, af,
ter which be turned q deep furrow upon
them with his plow, covering them if pos
sible to the depth of twelve or fourteen
inches. They pushed their way up
through the thick n ass of earth very soon,
and instead of turning yellow at the bot
tom and dying after the first gathering
they blossomed and bore until he was tir.
ed of picking the pods. If such re.
suit will uniformly be realized from the
plan, pea culture may be made more prof
liable than hitherto.
Year: 1860

Rev. G. W. Smith, Presiding Elder OF
the Indiana Conferences, gives the follow
ing account of Morg antown. in that State,
one Of the peculiarities of which is that it
is built on lake.


ave read Of "city upon a hill," but
Morgantown, in my district, stands upon
a lake! This was not known for a num-
ber Of year, after the town was settled.
The discovery was made by digging wells
to procure full supply of water. The
supply OF water in the wells which had
been used, failing in the dry season, a
few years since, one of the citizens con-
cluded to sink we'll deeper and see if he
could not strike strong vein. When
some thirty-6ve or forty feet below the
earth, the man at work in the we'll sud
denly struck bis pike through a crust; the
water gusbed up with such rapidity that
with difficulty be was saved by the meu
at the windlass In a few moments the
water was some fifteen feet deep in the
well. In two or three instances after.
wards, men were near being lost by com
ing suddenly to this inexhaustible foun-
tain Of water. Wells have been sunk in
different parts of the town from each 9th.
er, and | believe forty feet is the creates
depth to reach this lake. Lead lines
have been dropped into several of these
wells, but no bottom has been found. IL
digging down to this lake they invariably
pass through strata of sand. leaves and
timber, resembling driftwood. This is
some twenty feet below the surface of the
earth. After passing through these
strata, a stratum of hard clay is found
and when with some eighteen inches oi
the lake, hard crust is reached, which
is sure indication that thOy are DeaI
the water. When they reach this crust
they commence a wall thereon, carrying
it to the top of the we'll, then put dowr
large auger. and bore a hole to the wa
ter, which gushes up with great force, fill
ing the we'll from Is to 20 feet in a few
moments. When the auger strikes th'
lake the atmosphere bursts up for few
seconds, producing sound resembling
very much the blowing off of steam from
an engine. have not given all the par
ticulars of what has been discovered o
this mysterious lake. Enough is known
to settle it beyond doubt that the who'll
town stands upon lake under ground.
Year: 1860

N Tile Hartford C0raut says that
the illegal vote polled for the Shams at the
election in the cities of Connecticut was
not less than Three Thousand, and con-
cludes: 1--WE shall have one advantage
in the November election for President:
All the States vote on the same day. and
the voters will be wanted in New York
City, every man Of them. If the Demoera-
cy entertain the fsintest idea of carrying
the Empire State; SO shall We escape the
honor of being assisted by Woods tools
in our comparatively unimportant State.
The Democrats will not be able to poll SO
large q vote in November as they have
polled this Spring. That may be coun-
ted on for certain"
Year: 1860

@Two persons were once disputiDg
SO loudly on the subject of religion, that
they awoke big dog which had been
sleeping on the hearth before them, and
forthwith barked most furiously. An old
divine present, who had been quietly sip
ping bis tea while the disputants were
talking, gave the dog kick, and ex-
claimed, "Hold your tongue, you silly
brute! you know no more about it than
they do"
Year: 1860

Take somO LAMP oil and mix it with
little white lead, till the oil becomes of
straw color. Wash the legs perfecly clean
and rub them dry. Then apply the mix
turo aud rub it we'll on the affected parts.
By doing this three or four times, the
horse will be cured.
Year: 1860

Oh, Heaven is nearer than mortals think,
WheH they look, with trembling dread
At the misty future that stretches on


From the silent home Of the dead.
'Tis no lone isle in the boundless main,


No brilliant bUt distant shore,
Where the lovely ones, who are called away
Must go to return no more. Hr.N
No Heaven is near us the mighty veil =
OF mortality binds the eye,
That we cannot see the angel bands


On the shores Of eternity. ........
Yet off in the hours Of holy thought.


To the thirsting soul is given,
The power to pierce through the mist Of sense
To the beauleous scenes Of Heaven.
Then very near seem its pearly gates,
Aud sweetIy its harp-strings fall
Till the soul Is restless to soar away


And longs for the ange-call
Know when the silver cord is loosed,


When the veil is rent away,
n OF long and dark shall the passage be


10 the realms Of endless day.
The eye that shuts in the dying hour,


VIII open the next 10 bliss ;
The welcome will soond in heavenly world
Ere the farewell is hushed in this.

We pass from the clasp Of mcurDIss friends
q. To the arms Of the loved and lost;
And those smiling faces will greet us then,


Which here We hSYs vSlded moSe. f''A
Year: 1860

CIRCUIT Court DocKET.-The Circuit
Court which opens in this city On Monday
next, will have but small civil docket
The docket sometimes goes as high as three
hundred chancery and common law cases.
This year that docket will not exceed one
hundred and fifty cases. The common
wealth's docket will, also, be very small.
Year: 1860

THE PANoRANA-Dr. Kane's panorama
of the Arctic regions is now on exhibition
at Liberty Hall, and We advise those of our
readers who have not as yet svailed them
selves of the opportunity Of seeing it, to do
so without delay, as we understand it's pro-
prietors do not contemplate protracted stay
in this city.
Year: 1860

A DRUNKEN MAN BOILED TO DEATH-A
man named John Strube met with a horrible
death in Westmoreland county, Pa, the other day.
He engaged in some capacity other at the
salt works, and while intoxicated, fell into a vat
of boiling salt water. He was cxtricated with all
possible despatch and when taken out, presented
horrible spectacle. The flesh fell from his bones
in large flakes, while he was so horribly dsfgured
that he bore but little resemblance to human
being He lived short time suffering the most
excruciating agony, and then expired-another
victim to the demon intemperance.
Year: 1860

ABoLIrIoSIsr CAUGHr.-A negro was
brought to Jail in this place day last week
who was travelling towards a free State under Z
forged pass He said he belonged to Mr. Ram,
sey, of Rome, Ga, and that one DIR. Clark, OF
Walker county, had given him pass to aid him
in getting to free State. Now this Clarke is d
rascay old mongrel of white and negro
who has long been attempting to palm himself
off upon the community an Indian Doctor, and
has frequently been indicted in Walker county
on charges of hog-stealing, trading with negroes,
&c.


On Tuesday last, this old Black rascal came to
RinggoId, when he was immediately arrested
upon a warrent from Judge Lynch. lie was
taken to the Jail door and brought face to face
with his colored accuser, who faced him in all he
had said before Whereupon the portly and dig
nihed Doctor manifested series of threatening
gyrations and vituperative expressions that We're
truly amusing to the spectator. After allowing
him to relieve himself by giving full vent to his
feelings, he was escorted to the thicket by order
of Judge Lynch, where he acknowledged his allie
glance to the g stars and Stripes the latter OF
which he very sensiby felt.


After he had been honored with hundred or
so, he released, and went on his way rejoic
ing-as well he might-that the penalty for his
offence was a hickory withe instead of rope
RinggOtd (Ga.) Express.
Year: 1860

AMBrGUoUs.-The State Sentinel says ii
has no doubt the Charleston,Ionyention will
re-afIirm the Cincinnati Platform with a
recognition Of the decisions Of the Supreme


Court; and that a platform thus framed
viii be acceptable to the Northern Democ-
racy. A little explicitness just here will do
no harm. What does the Sentinel mean by
recognizing the decisions Of the Supreme
Court? Does it mean that though that
Court prevents the people of the territories
from Regulating their domestic institutions
in their own way" it should be submitted 70
Does it mean that Popular Sovereignty is to
be the doctrine Of the Democratic party un-
til the Supreme Court decides tia humbug,
and it is then to be abandoned We would
like to have no thimble rigging on this
point. Let the Sentinel define what it means
by "a recognition of the decisions of the
Supreme Court"
Year: 1860

BosToN, Jan. "a, M.-The Mayor of Law
renee and the committee of relief having in
charge the distribution of funds contributed
to the aid of the Pemberton Mill sufferers,
announce to the public that so generous have
been the contributions in money and cloth
ing from every quarter, that no more assis-
tance than what has already been sent
with what is now pledged and subscribed
will be needed to provide literally for the
wants of those really needy.
Year: 1860

BsS~ We have many melancholy proof
that disunion is the forerunner of civil
war, and civil war of a national dissolution.
-Southern L1adiansan


So've We; and we have always thought
a dismemberment of the confederacy would
be equivalent to separation of its parts, or
what is equally fatal to the perpetuity of the
union, disorganization of our general gov
ernmenti The thought is very painful.
- Cairo Gazette