smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

packed for transportation to the to-


bacco-loving people Of the North.


Some may think part Of this descrip-
ton highly colored, but it is literally
a true account Of what I saw
more than once and if what / heard
be true, the drugs and filth are hard
ly portrayed.


at might be supposed that people
here do not chew, but it is not so
almost every ybody does, but then they
chew the clear leaf Aud it is wor-
thy of remark that the hands enga-
ged in these make no account Of
throwing their spittle and their cuds
into the heap for the second mastica-
ton.
We have witnessed similar opera
tons in the manufacture Of chewing
tobacco, and excluding the part of
tanning it down with the feet, vouch-
safe for its correctness.-Ed Neacs.
The Expected Battle.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the New
York Herald writes:


The city to-day has been filed
with excitement. At sunset last even
ing the impression was general that
this mornings sun would rise upon
battlefield on the Potomac, where
the two great armies, for so many.
weeks gradually approaching each
other, would be met in the thunder
ing shock that would conyulse the
whole country, and decide the result
Of the contest between the Govern
ment and the rebels.


That attack was confidently ~ex-'
pected to-day. Il has probably been
prevented only by the heavy rain that
began this morning and has lasted
nearly all day. It cannot be mueh
longer delayed, and will probably be
begun with to-morow's dawn. H.
would be absolute folly for the enc
my to make serious attack upon our
front, defended as it is by chain I
Of fortications, and more than hun
dred guns, so placed that their fire
can be directed upon any one point
OF the line.
Year: 1861

The Secession party this county are bad
ly frightened They had some hope of elect
ing their Bull RIM ticket at one time. bu, the
tide Of patriotism is too strong for them
They will go down on Wednesday next never
to rise again, Let every Union man put forth
his energy TO destroy the power of Secession
ism in Yuba. This county is reproached with
being "A Secession stronghold. Let us vote
them down, and show the people of the State
that we are not disloyal The California
Express must be rebuked at this election. 1t
has'given mere offense to the loyal sentiment
Of this State, during the past few months
than any publication In America. Beat its
candidates. and you take away the props
that hold it up 1t cannot live without the
sheriff., Tax Collectors and tie couhty's pat
ronnge. The remedy is n pencrful one. Let
it lie applied If we are to have civil war
in California, as some profess to fear. and ns
the condition of affairs in Kentucky and Mis-
souri, would seem TO indicate. let not THE
county he in the clutches OF our enemies
Already, as we said before, they see the
handwriting on the wall Their countenonces
are long and their hearts quake. They see
that defeat awaits them. Let it be an over
whelnng one You Democrats who thought
to support the Secession ticket, retrace your
steps. Do not commit the overt act. which
arrays you upon the side of the enemies OF
your country. Do not vote for single sup
porter of Bolts, Mcconnell d. Co.'S platform
aud ticket
Year: 1861

ExrLlNG THEM ALL The Congress of the
retel States have passed a law granting
Union mel forty days to leave the land of
Dixie. II after that time any man claiming
TO he a citizen of the United States, or owing
allegiance thereto, he discovered within the
dominions Of Jefferson Davis, be will be
dealt with according to idWl What that
law may be, we don't know but it is safe to
say that his property will be eonfscated. if
1t had not been before, and himself ridden
on rail beyond the confines of the Con-
federate territory. Peace will then reign in
Warsaw If Uncle Samuel were TO do this
thing with those who act and sympathize
with the great rebellion, what a terrible
set mp, to he sure; but with JEFF. Davis, it's
al right Sac Bee.
Year: 1861

A Prominent DEMocRAT READ Our-The
Beauregard Democracy cannot understand
why they have lost their hold upon the peo-
pie. They should remember that they were
strong until they read Uncle Sam out of the
party The old map has considerable infu-
enre, for the reason that he has done more
for the people than ever Jeff Davis did I'm
Gle sam is n National Democrat, and will
not tamely submit to the assaults of swag-
gc'ing fIihustera Claiming to represent States
The McConnellites may follow Uncle jeff.
The supporters of John Conness recognize
Uncle Sam as their Commander.
Year: 1861

The NEws--We have nothing startling by
Pony. The overwhelming defeat of treason
at the Kentucky election does not seem tc
have entirely oubdued the frcnzied gang O
rebels within her loyal borders They will
be summarily dealt with before long The
Kentuckians in this State who think Ken
lucky ought to secede, should go home and
work far the traitors there. instead of remain
lag two thousand miles away from the land
of their solicitude.


The rebels will not attack Washington.
They would rather be behind than in front OF
masked batteries.
Year: 1861

New SrABLE.-Messrs. Alley May have
erected fine new brick stable on street.
above Fourth, running clear through to
Maiden Lane on the west. The stable and
corrall attached. are perfect in all their np
pointmenis. They also have horses and
buggies to let Aleck is good judge of stock
Year: 1861

WLruL FALsEuoODs.-Already the Dixie
ties. in frenzy of desperation, have COM
menced to tell Democrats that there is to be
fusion of the Republicans and Union Demo-
cracy. The story is weak invention. We
assure every one who desires to know the
truth. that the Union Democratic nominees
both State and County, will, each and every
one of them, remain in the field until sun
down ofnext Wednesday. and that they viii
fight to win. The stale cry of fusion is the
only stock in trade of the Dixieites now
Let it pass by as the idle wind. THERE
WILL BE NC FUSION.
Year: 1861

But this is no time for detail of causes.
The conspiracy is now known. Armies have
been raised War is levied to accomplish it
There are only two sides to the question -
Every man must he for the United States or
against it, There can be no neutrals in this
war; only pdtriots- or traitors


UNITED NORTH INSTEAD OF THE DIVISION ANE
CIVIL WAR HOPED For BY THE REBEL CHIEFS


| know they expected to present an united
South against divided North. They hoped
in the Northern states party questions would
bring civil war between Democrats and Re-
puhlicans, when the South would step in
with their cohorts. aid one rarity to conquer
the other, and then make easy prey of the
victors Their scheme was carnage and civil
war in the North.
Year: 1861

from which mankind suffer over a large part of
the globe, Is the consequence of diseased action
in the system, induced by the poisonous miasm of
vegetable decay. This exhalation is evolved by
the action Of solar heat soil, and rises with
the watery vapor from it. While the sun is below
the horizon this vapor fingers the earth's
face, and the virus is taken with it through the
lungs nte tie blood. There acts an irritating
poison the internal viscera and excre;ing organs
Of the bedy. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not Only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
n the circulation. and produce violent eonstitu-
tional disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver. and become
disordered also. Finally, the instinct of our
ganisn, as If in an attempt to expei the noxious
infusion, concentrates the whole blood of the body
the internal excretorcs to force them to cast it
out. The blood leaves the surface. and rlishes tp
the centra! organs with congestive violence. This
is the CHILL. But in this effort it fails. Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the GEN.
tral organs and rushes to the surface, as if in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory-thc skin. In this
also it fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGUE.
Such constitutional disorder will of course under
mine the health if it is not removed.


We have labored to find. and have found, an
Year: 1861

has won for itself such a renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint, that
It is entirely unnecessary for US to recount the
evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. As il has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up the best
II ever has been. and that it may be relied on TO
do for their relief all il has ever been found to do
Year: 1861

A WOLF CAUGHT BY MAN ON SKATES
While James Graham, our wide-awake She.
riff was out with a party skating on the
river, a few days since, he observed, as he
was gliding swiftly along over the smooth
ice in advance of his companions, large
wolf crossing the river just few rods ahead
of him, when he inlmedia tely gave chase
The frightened brute tnrned down the stream,
finding his pursuer would cut him on before
he could possibly reach the opposite bank,
and ran as fast as he could. which was not
his greatest pace, owing TO the smoothness OF
the ice The Sheriff intent on his game, bent
his whole energies to aeceIerating his pace,
keeping his eye on the gaunt creature before
him, and being superior skater. he gained
upon him at every stroke; but when within
almost reach of the animal, he happened To
east his eye ahead, and there, within halt q
dozen yards, was an open stretch OF water OF
several rods in width, into which the wolf
sprang, followed Of course by the Sheriff,
VINO was unable to check his momentum soon
enough To avoid the disaster. Finding him
self lin for II" he laid hold Of the growing.
snapping brute, thereby buoying himself up
until his comrades arrived, when he was
pulled out, and the cause OF his cold ba tn
forthwith kiiledt--M. Joseph Trneslsy.
Year: 1861

me cry Council will hold its regular month
~ meeting after the lapse of a few days. when
the tax bill for the present year will come up
sirable that the burthens of the people he NOT
increased, If such a course can be pursued
consistently with the honor of the city and
sne duty OF her representatives to sustain her
the world """
Year: 1861

Biting OF q Mans 4Sose.-Patriek Sullivan
was before the Mayor yesterday, ON the
rather serious charge of assanlting and beat
ing Johp Fitzgerald and depriving that indi-
vldual OF the major portion OF his proboseis.-
The disagreeable operation had been per-
formed some time since, though il did not by
any means tend TO improve the tout ensemble
OF the sufferer. The testimony was of such a
conflicting nature that the Mayor deemed ii
his duty to discharge the accused. Had il
been clear on the point, no doubt Sullivan
would have been called on TO suffer severely,
as the Virginia law frowns on those who
commit MAYHEM.
Year: 1861

LIQUIFYING QUARrz.-The New York Commer-
ciay 4dcertiser thus refers to manufactory which
has lately been opened in that city for the above
purpose, in which twenty powerful machines are
employed night and day:


As fast as the rock is converted into powder
1t falls in trough below, and is thence collected
into common receptacle, whence it is conveyed
to a " digester," where singular transformation
takes place. 1t is here rendered soluble by means
of super heated steam and chemical alkaline
preparations, which converts the mass into Ll-
0uor of Flint" The metals which combine with
the rock or quartz are not affected by this action,
and may readily be separated thus rendering
the process Invaluable when applied to rock con-
tanning the precious or useful metals"


Not only, says the .adodrtiser, can coarse pave
ments be made in this manner, but bricks can be
manufactured much cheaper aud of better quality
than from clay by the present process;


"The invention is not confined to these uses
even, for the finest marbles may be moulded at
will and made to assume any shape desirable.
Paint made from it is incombustible and will
protect anything covered with it as perfectly as
if it were made of stone. A slight and ineXpen-
sive previous preparation of the wood of ships
bottoms with one or two coats of the properly
prepared flint, will make petrilied surface,
combining with the woody fibre, as durable as
copper, and it will always keep free and clean.
N fact. this new agent, or rather this new dscov-
ery from Natures great laboratory is applicable
TO so MANY purposes that in its present infant
state we cannot conceive what may not be done
with IL -
Year: 1861

THE SILENT CTIEs-A New York paper says
that the growth of the population in the cities
of the living cannot compete with the rapidity
which fills up, with silent throngs the city of the
dead Greenwood Cemetery was opened for in
terments in 1872 and in 1860 its inhabitants
numbered eighty thousand.
Year: 1861

WE are in the bondage of old superstition, and
the worship of nine hundred and ninety nine
churches in thousand is yet tnged with the
sombreness illustrative Of the heather element Of
fear. The lghtness, the gaiety, the cheer of true
worship, is but little known among men. What
the hiiarity of children is, breaking away from
masters and schools and romping home to over
power the household with joy, such is to be the
worship of Gods children. The name of Fdther
ought not to make any man tremble that is
child. -Bcecher
Year: 1861

THE Portland Courier is informed, on the most
reliable authority, OF most singular and unpre-
cedented circumstance which took place in con
nection with the late earthquake. A married
woman residing not thousand miles from Var
mouth, but whose husband had been absent about
two years, was delivered of healthy and spright-
ly child shortly after the shock.
Year: 1861

UNAccoUNTABLE PHENoNENoN-The Palestine
(Texas) AdOoeate of the oath OF October, has the
following statement "About six miles from
jacksonville, on the road leading to this place.
we came across queer pheno menon, few days
since as we were returning home. large ditch
was scooped out of the side of red mountain,
by huge volume of water 4; rocks weighing
several tuns were torn from their base and thrown
distance of twenty to thirty feet saplngs
were torn up by their roots, everything gave way
to the immense force of the water. The trench
commenced near the top of The mountain, on the
north side, and there was no accumulation OF
water above the head Of the ravine, the grass
and weeds were untouched, and every thing goes
to prove that it fell in column at one place,
Some idea may be formed Of the volume of wa
ter, when we say that it left traces down the side
of the mountain. 10y which we determined that it
was about thirty feet wide and ten feet deep
descending at an angle Of about eighty degrees,
it swept everything before it, The main trench
washed out was about ten feet deep. Upon in
quiry ia the neighborhood. we learned from a
Mr. George that it occurred on the night of the
30th September, and he described the night as
one of terrific grandeur the flashes of light sue
ceeded each other so closely that 1t was nearly as
light as day, and the thunder never ceased to
roar for several hours he was therefore unable
to tell any thing in reference to this phenomenon
except that the next morning it was as we have
attempted to describe it.
Year: 1861

DEcENCY IN JAPAN.--Under porch, and in an
angle by the side of their house, man and his
wife are enjoying tub of warm water in the
open air. lie is seated on the rim of the tub
with his legs in the water; his wife, fine buxom
young woman, is busy with bundle of flax, in
stead of sponge, rubbing down his back both
are Just as they came into the world, and evident
ly as Indifferent TO their neghbors as their neigh
bors are to them. Nobody looks at them, yet it
is contrary to our ideas of propriety, aud we do
not like seeing naked children in the neghbor-
hood but SO it is Once a Week.
Year: 1861

UNION SAVERS. The New York Tribune
has been sneeripg and abusing Democrats
and conservative men Cor years for trying
to preserve the Union Now, it has set
up in the same line of business. But how
difierantly We never undertook to save
it by shot and shell That was left to the
humane members of the Peace Society +.


Wayne COUNTY Herald
Year: 1861

oa the next page Of this paper, we print
the new Banking Law complete. It is one
Of the most important acts. of the LeRisla-
turc now in session, and will without doubt
engage the attention OF all our readers, A
brief examination shows us that it is not
what VIC expected and desired; but per.
haps it IS the best TINT could be gotten.
Year: 1861

AN "UGLY CUSTOMER "A friend at Manassas


has sent lis twelve pound ball discharged from one


of the enemy's riHed cannon, and picked up on the


field. It may be seen at our Office
Year: 1861

The last Eewbern Progress sounds the alarm
about the sea-coast 1t speaks warmly of the i'm
portance of providing fully for its defence The de-
clarations Of the Northern press and Of abolition
Senators in the Rump Congress, show as the Pro
gress thinks that they have their eyes our coast
We are glad somebody IS stirred. We have done
our duty our Generals have done theirs and if our
coast is seriously assailed and the enemy should
gain any advantage over US, the people will know
where to fix the blame. We are glad to know that
Gov. Clark is deeply interested in the security and
protection of coast as he is in the general well
fare Of the State. President Davis we learn is also
looking to that quarter with interest and soon we
shall be ready for the invader. When we saw Gen.
Gwynn last We know he was deeply interested in his
command, and is now doing his whole duty.
Year: 1861

...ss .s..s From the Londcn Times, april is.l


This annexation gives room for numerous re.
Elections and speculaiions. Had ID been q real
and voluntary return Of q colony to the mother
country, after trying and experiencing the evils
OF q turbulent independence for forty years, 1t
might well have deserved to be ranked among
the most curious events In history. Our INTEL
ligencb, however, from Cuba, seems to discred
1t this yiewof the subject, and to tend to the
conclusion that IL 10 rather to be considered as a
carefully prepared and deeply concerted scheme
on the part Of Spain to recover the first OF her
colonial possessions.Y Even IL this be so, the
eEentis hardly less curious. Il was said but
little. while ago that the North American States


were threatening Spain with an invasion of


Cuba'unless che could be prevailed upon to sell
them the island, and now we find Spain her.
self becoming the aggressor, and, Instead of
surrendeIing one colony, actually undertaking
the conquest of another. Those who have felt
land there are very few who have not--the


enchantmSnto of the old romantic literature Of
Spain will feel certain instructive pleasure In
eeeing nation with whose name are connected
40 many glorious and romantic associations


SopsIng itselfs from the ignominious slumber Of


sHo hundred and fifty yeara, and coming for


ward once more 10 play distinguished part on


that theatre of the New World which Was once


almost oxclnnively her own. We know too liz
Year: 1861

BAPTIST SERvIcE.-We are authorized to saw that
Elder j. Y. CRoss of the Regular Baptists, will
preach at the Methodist Church, on the Cd
and 4th Sabbaihs in every month. at o'clock p.
NJ, in this city, and would suggest that all


who desire the prosperity of religious teachings.
attend and hear what each and every denomination
has to say. We would be pleased to see a Baptist
church constituted at this place. as We have none
and it Is hoped that the good people of Van Buren
and vicinity will give such encouragement as will
induce some one to engage in the enterprise not
that We particularly partial to any one denomi
naton but desire the prosperity of all whose teach


ings good /; and as conceive better course of
training should te brought about among the people
to guide and direct them in the future not but
efforts have been made to reclaim the wicked in
their wayward course, but that every effort should
be brought iao exercise to restore the mind. of the
people to happier state than that now existing
among them. The Baptists are a denomination
whose doctrines and teachings are not so well
known in our towns and villages as through the
country. and it is necessary all should receive at
teniion-as We informed by the scriptures that
Christ gathered the good into vessels and cas-. the


bad away"
Year: 1861

Waffle people of this whole com


nunity are making preparations for what
ever contingency may arise. and are q unit
In their efforts to resist to the last, the CO.
eEclve policy OF the Administration. Ar.
kansas has the material-the resources, so
far as men for soldiers are concerned. All
that IS now wanted are leaders-men of
character and acknowledged ability-men
IN whom the people have confidence Such
men we have among us, and when they
shall raise their Standard. the people will
flock to them. The people are true to the
core. and the exigencies of the times will,
we have no doubt, bring out the leaders.
Year: 1861

We think we are safe in saying that Ar
kansas viii turn out more men for the pres
eat war than any other State in proportion
To her population. Our citizens have been
accustomed 10 the use OF arms from infan-
cy-they possess the love of country-they
are emphatically fighting people-they
are, whatever may have been their opinions
heretofore, now a unit, and may be depen-
lied upon in any contingency. When the
Old men of sixty and seventy years. and
the women are ready to fight. there need be
no fears o; the rest. Stand to your guns.
Year: 1861

LADIES AID ASSOCIATION The Ladies
of this City have formed an Association for
assisting in fitting ont the volunteers for the
war. They are prepared to do any thing
and everything in the way of making Cloth
ms. sewing OF all kinds. making Cartri-
legs. etc. etc. The Ladies are alive to the
interest of the South and are prepared to
10 their part in sustaining its honor.
Year: 1861

A Company was organized in this City.
last Saturday. under the name Of the Home
Guards-the purpose of the Organization
beng for homo defense. The Company is
composed Of members over the age of forty.
Eve. and some of them ranging up to sixty
and seventy. No member is admitted who
dbroad - an election for Officers .4vs.assz-z-
Year: 1861




EDs. LEApgR-Gentlsmen Please tender
to the Bolivar street A. n. f. Church
(through your paper my thanks for the
many favOrs conferred on me while had
the charge Of said church, and especially
for the timely aid afforded by a festival got
up for my benefit, through the untiring ex-
ertiOn of Sisters Jones, Lynch, Garrison,
Green, and others. May that church and
society receive an hundred fold reward by
the hand of Him who promised to recognize
the gift Of even drink of "cold ,Oater to one
in he name Of a disciple" God bless the
labOrs of their present pastor beyond their
present expectations, is the prayer of


Your obedient servant,


A II WoOD
Year: 1861

The companies assigned to this regiment
which have already arrived are among the
very best that have yet been in camp Tay-
lOr, and T. the companies Jet to come (fOur
in number) sreup 10 the standard Of those
here, the regiment will undoubtedly include
the best bone and muscle Of sny regiment
furnished from this State.
Year: 1861

We learn that uniforms for the troops in
Camp aylOr viii undoubtedly be distributed
this week. The reason assigned for this not
being done sooner is, that material could not
bo obtained for their manufacture.