smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

When female is in trouble or afflicted with
disease and requires medical surgical assist
ance, the inquiry should be, where is there ply
sician who is fully competent to administer re-


ef-one whose knowledge of the female system
is perfect. who thoroughly understands the ap.
plicaton of medicine to disease, whose scientific
attachments in surgery have made him prcemnent
in his profession. and whose respectable standing
in society recommends him to the confidence of
the community? Unless these. and many more
questions. can be satisfactorily answered. the
afflicted should pause before consulting any one.


DR.. J.C. YOUNG. understanding how impera-
lively necessary these requirements are feels
called upon TO interpose and by calling the at
enion of the afflicted to the fact that be has been
professor Of obstetrics and female diseases for
twenty years and is fully qualified to administer
in all cases, both medically and surgicay not
in superficial manner, but in as thorough
manner as years of study and practice-b both in
hospitals and private famileS-can make to save
them from the hands of the unqualified, unscru-
pulous and designing. Therefore. families can
rely upon him as upon father. All in affction
can find in him one who can feel and sympathize
with and bericnd them in troublesome in whose
secrecy the utmost confidence can be placed
Come, all ye that afflicted and in trouble,
and you will be relieved and cured.


MS-Apartments privately arranged. so as to
preclude the possibility OF exposure. and afford
those who wish home all the advantages of con-
slant attention and unremtting private attend
Year: 1863

One of the coolest propositions Of the
season is that of the Chicago Times and
other tory papers of the State, for the
Legislature to pass a penal law against
secret political organizations. Why,
these fellows are STEPPED to the lips in
conspiracies hatched in the secret organ
izations of the knights of the Golden
Circle and its ofshoots. They talk of
penaltiesl 1t would only be a rehearsal
of the story of the guillotine having its
inventor for It's first victim. We don't t
wonder these fellows cry out against re-
cent political organizations They know
their power. They know by such organ
izations many Southern State was car
ried out of the Union against the will of
a majority of the people. They know
also, by counter secret organizations,
other States acre SdUed to the Union.
"And that's what's the matter" If there
is secret political organization in Illi-
nois inimical to the Times, and its tory
supporters, they have themselves alone
to thank for it If they fear it, let them
reflect that their own secret organiza-
tions, their own midnight reasonable
plottings made it necessity. And every
treason plotter in the State may well fear
it. 1t is upon his track. Itis not wholly
secret Its existence and its sole pur-
pose-the preservation of the Union and
the Constitution, and the defense of the
glorious old fag-is openly avowed
From the friends of the Union, the Con-
stitution and that flag, it invites co-ope-
ration. To such its secrets, if any there
be, will be cheerfully and gladly exposed.
For the enemies of the Union, the Con-
stitution and the flag it has nothing but
opposition-sleepless, constant, vigilant,
unwearied, eternal opposition; opposi-
tlon in any shape or manner they may
see fit to desire or provoke.-Peoria
Transcript
Year: 1863

good many of the Southern women, it is
said, are anxious to enter the rebel army. Some
of them might make formidable soldiers. If we
may judge from their conduct toward Federal
prisoners, their hearts are so hard that mimic
bullet would glance off from them in a tangent.


If we would make a peace that will stick,
we must first do some good sticking with the
bayonet.


The rebels erect some of their Notifications
with much toll but in this cold weather every
one of them has his shiyer- de- freeze without
working for it. He doesn't labor for it, he
labors under it,
Year: 1863


Whereas, II is manifest that combinations
for forcbs resistance to the lave of the State Of
New-York and the execution OF civil and criminal
process exist in the City and County of New-York,
whereby The peace and safety OF the city and the
ves and property Of its inhabitants endangered
and


Whereas, The power Of the said city and county
has been exer,ed, and ia not sufficient to enable the
officers of the said city and county to maintsn the
laws of the State and execute the legal process Of
its officers; and


Whereas. Application has been made to me by tho
Sheriff Of the City and County of New-York, TO
declare the said city aud county to be in state Of
insurrection;


Now therefore I, HoRATIo SIrnoUR, Governor
Of the State Of Eew-York, and COMMANDMENT Chief
Of the forces of the same d. in its name and by its
authority, issue this proclamation, in accordance
with the statute in such csses made and provided.
and DO hereby declare the City and County Of New
York To be in state Of insurrectiop, and give 10.
tice to all persons that the means provided by
the laws Of this State for the maintenance Of law
and order will DO employed to whatever degree may
be necessary and that all persons who shall, after
the publication of this Proclamation, resist or Gic
or assist in resisting, any force ordered out by the
Governor to quell or suppress such ipsurection,"
will render themselves liable to the penalties pre-
scribed by law. HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
ksp Yovk, July H. 1853.
Year: 1863

When was young crime was crime-it had no


other name.
And when twas proved against man. he had to


bear the the blame.
The called the man who stole, thief-they


wasted no fine feeling;
What folks call petty larceny in my day was


called stealing.
They did not make reprobate the theme of song


and story,
AS if the bloodier were his hands, the brighter


was his glory.
And when murder had been done, could they


the murderer find,
They hung him as they would crow, terror to


mankind.
But nowadays it seems to me, whenever blood


is split,
The murderer has his sympathy proportional to
And when the law has proved man to be sec


ond Cain,
A dozen Jurors will be found to bring him in


insane.
And then petitions will be signed, and texts of


of scripture twisted,
And every effort will be made TO have the law


resisted,
Until the man who proved to be as bloodthirsty


as Nero,
Will walk abroad like other men, only greater


hero.
When ] was young if a man had failed, he shut
up house and ali,
And never ventured out at night if he ventured


out at all.
And his wife sold all her China plates, and his son


came home from college,
And his girls left school, and learned to wash


and bake and such like knowledge.
They gave up cakes and pumpkin pies, and had


the plainest eating,
And never asked folks home to tea, and scarcely


went to meeting;
The man that was bankrupt called was rather


Stunned of men,
And hardly dared to show his head among his


townsfolk then;
But now. a-days when merchant fails, they say


he makes penny
His wife don't have gown the less, and his


daughters Just as many;
His sons do smoke their choice cigars, and drink


their costly wine,
His wife goes to the opera, and he has folks to


to dine.
He walks the street, he drives his9gig, ,smen show


him all civilities,
And what in my day were called debts, are now


called liabilities,
They call the man unfortunate who ruins half the


city.
In my day twas the creditors to whom we gave
| the pity.
Year: 1863

SOUTHERN UNITY The Richmond
Enquirer of May 30th, admits that there
is large number of persons in the Con-
lederacy whose fidelity to the rebel cause
depends entirely upon rebel successes, and
who, anticipating the fall of Yicksburg, be-
gin already to talk of peace and compro-
mise, and of overtures to the Northwest
That paper says:


If it be fated that, in spite of all human
valor and devotion can do, Vicksburg and
its brave defenders should become the prey
of our enemy, then indeed will come the
tug of wal Then, also, will come the po-
litical crisis Whatever of imbecility and
faint-heartedness and downright latent to-
tryism and treason exist in this Confede-
racy will receive a new accession of weak
ness, many will begin again to cry out for
an honorable peace" as they will call it,
by means of submission to one section of
our invading foes who are now wsfaging over
our country with fire and sword The doc
trine of the necessary unity of the Missis-
sippi Valley from Lake Itasca to the Gulf,
will be again revived by political geogra-
pliers of feeble knees-as if the Mississip-
pi river were different from all other rivers;
as If there was any more unity or continu-
ity in its shores than the shores of the sea;
as if the Great West had a right to our
country because the water flows from their
lands into ours; all this sad nonsense,
which is nothing but cloak for treason
and an excuse for cowardice, would be
echoed and reverberated over the land
again.
Year: 1863

NEMEsIs.-This name is applied to that
retribution which often Furnishes person
for particular misdeeds. If, for instance, a
house owner we're harshly to eject tenant,
and afterwards, being in reduced circum-
stances, should be elected from his home
in like manner, this might appropriately be
spoken Of as being brought about by the
Nemesis Origin: In mythology, Nemesis
was the Goddess Of Vengeance
Year: 1863

We are in possession of an infallible re-
ceipt for making lady's cheeks red with
out paint, For their especial benefit we
publish it without charge Here it is
Place her at washtub with her sleeves
rolled up, and her hands full of dirty cloths
Then let her beau suddenly enter. and her
cheeks, will be glowing red in an instant,
Snooks says this receipt has never been
known to fail. Just try It, ladies, and if it
fails, let us know, that we may publish
Snooks as unreliable authority. Will
your
Year: 1863

THE INSANITY OF SEcEssIoN.-Of all
the wild ideas that have entered the rebel
brain, that of debating terms of peace upon
soil of the loyal States is the most insane.
We coincide with the Richmond journal
lists, that mere repulsing an occasional ad-
vance by the Army of the Potomac cannot
save their cause, and that while acting on
the defensive, they must eventually be
overwhelmed" But they have had sufi-
cient experience of the temper and resour-
ces of the Northern people to satisfy ra-
tional men that all attempts TO cross the
Potomac or the Ohio and threaten the 10y
al States with the horrors of war, tend to
strengthen the Government, increase the
Union armies and hasten the downfall of
the rebellion. jeff Davis has been round
ly abused by the rebel press for insisting up
on policy of defense, but he sees more
clearly than his censors that by pursuing
different course there is nothing to be
gained A German writer, whose works
have been literally quoted of late, has en-
deavored to show how the rebels might cap
ture the city of Washington and close the
war in triumph, and a number of rebel
writer's earnestly favored a scheme of that
kind but apart from the difficulty of ta-
king the National Capital, in consideration
that such disaster would stir the loyal
States to their profoundest depths, make
war the business of twenty millions of peo-
pie, and bring down upon the daring inva-
ders such host of patriots as would dwarf
even the great armies we have already put
in the field. has doubtless governed the
decision of the rebel chief. Davis knows
that if ever the independence of the "Con-
federacy" is to be recognized, it must be
through the accession to power in the loyal
States of disunion peace party. The Of
fensive policy destroys the prospects of the
assistant rebels of the North. A successful
rebel defense, on the other hand, may pro-
tract the war, discourage the people of the
North, secure foreign recognition, and give
the peace politicians ground favorable to
their peculiar operations. Perhaps the
Richmond journalists will shortly discover
that their Chief comprehended the necessi-
ties of the situation better than his critics.
Union.
Year: 1863

and IT, attendant u symptoms, It like
charm than medicine There il nothing In the whole
range of the Materia Medica that for moment bear
q comparison with il ia this disease.


full account Of this wonderful plant may be found in
the eleventh edition Of the L. s. Dspenssoy pages 1887
and 1888.


A series of experiments, in which Dr. Bull has been
for engaged has just been brought successful
termination and h IS enabled offer the public


combnatisn OF Cedron with other improved tonics the
whole preserved the best quality of copper distilled
Bourbon whisky, which he is confident has equal in
the world.


He m1 furnish volume Of certificates hut the pub
lie long learned 10 estimate such things at
herrue value. The safest plan for every TO test
for himself the virtues Of new medicine Give the
Year: 1863

A SITUATION wANTED-BY A RESPECTABLE wo.
a. man. as cook Is an excellen, washer and ironer.
Moa!d wish little girl fourteen old the house


Would prefer the country Good reference Call
Year: 1863

In every instance where the question
has been raised to allow our soldiers to
vote in camp. the bogus democracy op-
posed it. They defeated the measure in
Indiana, Illinois and New York, and op-
posed it with all their strength in every
other State where an effort was made to
allow them to vote.


The same party has been untiring in its
abuse of every man and soldier who as
been heartily laboring to put down the re
bellion. 1t has also carried its oppositio n
to the Government so far as to incite its
members to riots in opposition to the
draft.


Every man engaged ia shooting enrolling
officers in Indiana or any other State, la,
belonged to the bogus democratic party, and
has been encouraged to deeds of viole nee
by the leaders of that party.
Every state In open rebellion to the
laws, is a democratic State.
Every rebellious Governor is a Demo
crat.


Every deserter from the Union army is
a Democrat. and has been encouraged to
desert by the leaders telling him that he
was fighting for the negro. DC.


The Government was in the complete
control Of the Democratic party when the
rebellion commenced and it made no effort
to suppress it, but encouraged the rebels
to proceed.


Every man to-day engaged in open re-
bellion, or resisting the draft, firing in tho
rear, or in any way sympathizing with the
rebels, if he goes to the ballot box, votes
the Democratic ticket.


Do the honest lovers of their country
and her institutions, desire to &C t and be
identified with snch party.
Year: 1863

ALMOST INcREDrTABLE.-We witnessed
sight last Saturday that to some of our
readers we doubt not, will seem almost
increditable. We started on drive to the
country Saturday morning. and when
some distance ont OF town we heard the
sound Of an AK. as if some one was chop
ping quite rapidly. On looking around
to see who was at work SO indust.iously,
who should we see bat old father Shse-
maker. OF this place. now ONE HUNDRED
AND FIVE YEARS OLD. busy at work chorping
cord wood! A considerable quantity of
cord wood was cut and stacked up in piles,
and team was loading at one Of these
piles as we passel. The teamster inform.
ed us that the old man had cut some eight
or ten cords during the summer. Joseph
Shoemaker, a contemporary of General
WasHISGroS. having voted for him for
President Of tho United States, chopping
cord wood in the year 1868! Who can
beat this?- Columbia City Repx5iicaa.
Year: 1863

rebel armies. and now it is far more for
midable. Now, indeed, the only serious
obstacle to the suppression of the rebellion
is the attitude and action Of the democrat
ic party. Take that away, not to add its
influence to the power of the Government,
but simply to remove it from the contest
and make it nothing, and the Govern
ment can see its way right to the end oi
the war. and the restoration Of peace
that will never be broken by rebellion
again. The Democratic party. by open
disloyalty. armed organizations. resistance
Ito the laws, and menacing attitude
holds up the stone which. but for it,
would fall at once and grind the rebellior
to powder. This is evident to the rebels
and the whole world. Democrats who
don't wish to assist the rebellion should
think of it.-Ind. Jour.
Year: 1863

wni add tLAt have not been honored with notice
even o( tho reception Of my letter.


Ths oGer OF general amnesty, In my humble opinion
would with the appreciation Of all the governments
and peoples the world and the refusal by the South
would bring down upon 1t the OF all mankind
At the tme the refusal Of the President to grant
such amnesty, when invited to do so-as hope he
will b. in the l suggest-would raise against him
the indignation Of the people OF the North and Of all
other nations With sincere prayer for 'the Union "a
IL Was" remain, your obsdient servant,


WIN CHASE BARNEY.
Year: 1863

The st. Adams Messenger calls upon tho
Legislature for a more efficient military or
ganization nor is it alone in this matter
Some persons may doubt whether there are
able-bodied men enough Left for very ex-
tcnsive organization, however efficient the
men themselves may be. But tho lists Of
commuters under the draft shoy that there
are a few more lett
Year: 1863

Deserters from Lees army say that the
rebel soldiers are becoming barefoot. and
that approhensions are felt by their officers
that great suffering will ensde this winter
among the troops unless the blockade OF
Charleston, through which port most Of the
foreign goods have reached the Confederaoy,
is raised speedily.
Year: 1863

While George w. Woodward, our Demo
cratic candidate, remains quietly at home, at
tending to the duties assigned him by the peo-
pie when they elected him Supreme Judge, and
where he will remain until the people call him
to fill another station, our provincial Governor
deserts his Gubernatorial chair and is wander
ing about the country, forming political combi-
nations. soliciting votes in person, and Judging
from the tone Of his party press, slandering his
opponent, and trying to deceive the people by
professions of patriotism, in order to carry out
his own selfish ends. He claims to be the Pc
culiar friend of the soldier and the foreigner,
while it is well known that he refused rations
to some of our brave volunteer militia, who
came here to defend our borders against the re-
cent raid, and belonged to the proscrptive
Know Nothing party, and served as Secretary
of State under the Kuow-Nothing administra-
ton Of Governor Pollock.


Speaking of the deception which the Aboli-
ton party are trying to practice upon the peo-
pie, the Pittsburg Post says:
Year: 1863

Can any thing be more ludcrous than the


leaders of that infamous and profigate organ
ization, who have just emerged from the dark
plottings and windings of Know-Nothing lodges,
objecting to the election of Judge Woodward,


because, as they allege, he is not sufficiently
friendly to our foreign born fellow citizens.


These brazen and shameless political mounte-


banks must imagine the people the veriest dupes.


Think for moment Of party, just after hav-
ing counscled, not only the disfranchisement of
a man because of the accident of his birth but


his prescription, because of his religion, now
appearing as the special champion of civil and


religious equality. Could political profigacy
and duplicity exceed such an exhibition of par
tizan efrontery? Imagine set of desperate
partizans exulting in the slaughter of men, wo-
men and children, because of their religions con-
nections, or the dashing out of brains of inno-
cents upon the bosoms of their mothers, and the
jeers and derisions with which they hailed the
cracking and crumbling cathedral as it tumbled
by the torch Of the incendiary, and we have
fair conception of those who are now objecting
to the Democratic candidate because Of his want
of sympathy for civil and religious freedom.
Year: 1863

we have already referred to the dolngS


of the Legislature of 1S61-the same which


came in with Gov. Curtin, and participated


with him in the enactAnents and omissions


of that eventful year. Let us see now how
far the Republican party of this State was
affected by this legislation.


The people DID pass, at the next election,
in the way that had been predicted, upon
the acts, or at least the crowning act of that
memorable session. by refusing to return any
man, outside of Philadelphia, who had Civ
en- his vote for that measure, with only the
single exception of one small constituency,
which was specially interested in the Sun
bury and Erie Railroad, and whose repre-
sentative has the advantage of controlling
the newspaper of the district; and the great
Republican or Peoples party fell at once
from its high estate into minority in the
House at the very next session. The party
was made the scape-goat for all this, and
relegated to the wilderness, with the sins of
the Legislature and the Governor though
largely shared by the Democratic element
itsef-laid upon its back. Whether Justly
or not, it was at least the popular belief,
that they had sold the people and betrayed
the State. If the Governor himself-the
cause the highest al and most most powerfa1lIhasd
been the candidate, instead of the inferior
agents of all this robbery, does any body
doubt that his fate would have been the
same, or even worse9 Is he's any body
weak enough to think that these things are
already forgiven and forgotten, merely be-
cause the press has spared him out of con-
sideration for his office-because of the en-
crossing interest of the war-or for the sake
Of other people, whose influence has been
strong enough to silence it9


But there is more to the same purpose,
and more for which we have to thank our
present Governor. If the first session of
his rule was disastrous to the State and to
the party, the next was equally unfortunate
to both. If the locks Of the strong man
were shorn in the former, it was only to turn
him over bodily to the lords of the Philis-
tines in the latter. If the one bankrupted
the Treasury, and shook our power in the
State, the other consummated the work of
ruin, by betraying us directly into the hands
of the enemy, and comforting upon our bleed
ing country and ourselves the unexpected
boon of Copperhead Senator. 1t is as
demonstrable as any proposition in geome-
try that the friends of the Union who are
now expected to trust this man anew, are
indebted to him for the loss of vote in the
supreme advisory council of the nation in
the most important crisis of its history.


And this we shall proceed to make out in
our next number, which will be devoted to
the cunning structure and untimely catas-
trophe of the Hopkins Committee-to be
followed, in due course, by fuller presenta-
ton of the still more destructive effects of
the action and non-action of the Legislature
of 1862, upon the declining fortunes of the
great Republican party, with Andrew G.
Curtin as its sword-bearer-with Jonah,
and not Palinurus, at the helm.
Year: 1863

one and all, had fervently engaged in the


devotions of a national fast with its hours


Of humiliation and prayer Tae distance
from the battery to the town is within
fraction Of six miles. lg


Fire upon the city was renewed on Sun
day night about IL o'clock. One of the
shells passed through mosquito netting q
few inches above the heads Of two children
who were sleeping in their little bed; but
the result was proyidentially as bsfore-no
person injured. Thirteen or fourteen eight
inch shells were thrown into various parts
of the city. 1sg .r.