Then & Now 1861: Lots of news for local readers

The following blurb were culled from the March 28, 1861 edition of the weekly "Oneida Sachem", which later became the "Oneida Daily Dispatch":

"The latest intelligence from California renders probable the existence of a dis-union conspiracy among Southern officers of the army there, in concert with a gang of desperate adventurers calling themselves “Knights of the Golden Circle.” The loyalty of the mass of people, however, is said to be proof against the machinations of the traitors."

http://www.oneidadispatch.com/article/OD/20160322/NEWS/160329933