24 Mar 1862
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1862
Page
1
Advertising rates and policies for The Rolla Express are listed, including prices for single and multiple insertions, column widths, and yearlong options. Notices for executors final settlements and miscellaneous ads appear with payment terms and publication rules.
Reporter accompanies Lieutenant Jeffers as the Monitor departs under Commodore Goldsborough to relieve Cumberland and watch over Merrimac. The vessel is described as oval, 172 feet long, four feet wide, with a square smokestack and iron deck, offering remarkable invulnerability and battle readiness amid rough sea conditions.
The piece discusses Captain Rodman as the inventor of hollow-core casting for guns and perforated powder. It argues hollow guns are stronger and cooler, allowing use of better iron, with examples of a 15 inch Rodman and a 13 inch Union gun. a hypothetical 20 inch rifled bore is claimed to threaten iron-plated ships.
The article discusses using wrought iron or steel balls against iron plates on ships. It describes potential effectiveness, cost, and practicality of twenty inch guns and armored vessels, noting trials of mailed ships and patents for stud balls as possible future innovations.
The Maypass papers indicate a planned Confederate new defensive line stretching from New Mulrid to Cumberland Gap with forts manned to match the stake in the war. Johnson may fortify Cumberland Gap, risking a strong federal position, but the line is expected to be moved south and eventually wiped out. Jeff Davis admits failures while Confederate conspirators face punishment for treason.
A notice warns retail dealers of a fraud where a counterfeit looking 850 seven thirty treasury note is cut into coupons and passed as a demand note. The scam could yield about 1095 over three years with half yearly government collections. It reminds traders there are no $50 notes, only 85s, $10s, and $20s.
The Westfield and John P. Jackson divisions of the mortar fleet are commissioned at the Brooklyn navy yard under Lieuts. Renshaw and Woodworth. Each ship carries 112 crew and 4 32-pdrs plus 2 pivot guns. Clifton to be commissioned. Octorora and Portar’s flag ship expected at sea within a week. Racer Griffiths and Ward reach Key West after leaving the yard.
The table shows 1850 and 1860 apportionment by state, noting Northwestern gains and older free states losing share. It highlights Texas Arkansas and Louisiana expanding while South Carolina falls to four representatives, with strong language urging South Carolina’s removal from the union if citizens’ wishes could be consulted.
Ayer's new remedy for fever and ague is praised as safe and effective, avoiding quinine and other strong medicines. The Herald notes its claimed lack of health impact, safety, certainty of care, and low price, promising access for all. A second quip suggests tax on carpets might require upholsterers, and a preacher jokes about receiving many clippers from female congregants.
A Historical survey lists eleven attempts to resist federal power since the nation formed. It cites 1782 officers’ conspiracy, Shays’s Rebellion of 1787, the Whiskey Insurrection of 1804, Hartford Convention of 1814, 1820 Missouri admission clash, Georgia Creek lands dispute, Cherokee resistance in 1830, South Carolina nullification in 1832, Rhode Island suffrage conflict in 1842, Mormon resistance in 1856, and labels the present secession as the eleventh.
An aged stagecoach companion recalls Captain Webster and Daniel Webster while tracing a moral about worldly fame. He notes Ezekiel Webster died pleading in court at Concord, and Daniel Webster became a lawyer near Boston as the noon sun highlights a statue like life.
A young girl returns home breathless claiming she caught a fish in the stream with a crooked pin and thread line. She explains the fish bit and dived, leaving mother puzzled as no fish is seen.
A five year old boy ill with ague is told by his mother to take a powder. He jokes that the powder is not a medicine but a gun, quipping that it taints a gun as he writhes with illness. The fragment hints at political satire and playful street dialogue.
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