smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

1tis proper to state, in reply to the Winston Sen
tine that Gov Vance entertains the most entire
spect for the decisions of the Supreme Court, as
coordinate branch Of the government, and as bind
Ing him in all cases where the law is in doubt; but
be has not withdrawn his orders to the Home Guards
to arrest deserters, because he does not consider
himself bound in law to do so under the recent de-
cision of Chief Justice Pearson except in the par
ticuar case decided; and because he could not de-
eide the question of courtesy to the Chief Justice in
opposition to the many evils likely to ensue, if the
State forces were withdrawn from this duty in certain
localities and deserters and outlaws consequently
allowed to have full sway. We learn that the Gov
has been exerting himself for some time past
to obtain decision of the Court itself which will
be final in this matter. He has at length had case
made up and would have done so sooner, but for
the absence of the Attorney General at his Courts.
The Governor for the reasons above stated has not
withdrawn his orders, nor has he issued any new
order except in Wake County with the view of hav-
ing case made up for final action. .


The, effort Of the Sentinel to make party capital
out of this matter will fail Gov. Vance has disre-
garded no decision Of the Supreme Court but, on
the contrary, holds himself bound in all cases to
respect and carry out the decisions of the Court.
Year: 1863

Departed this life at her residence in Davidson County
years consistent member of the Church. her Christian
chaaete shone forth in her whole walk and conversation
End though the latter years of her life clio uded BY
troubles they served but to draw her into closer
with her Saviour During her last illness she onged for
DEATH and when she felt his approach at hand she
expressed desire to be alone that she might be found
Ter Her wish gratied, for when her friends were


least expecting it. she quietly and gently breathed her last
on the morning of the llh inst Our loss her eternal


gain. I-TCox
Year: 1863




o. Near CHATTANOOGA Sept. 2S, 1868.
Sr:-lae yesterday evening received your letter of
formed that in the recent riot Raleigh N c. Maj Shep-
5era ana other officers of brigade prominent as
and as it was alleged if not with my consent
east WIN my knowledge There is not particle of truth
IN thS charge so far the charge concerns me arrived
at Raleigh with part of the brga de at the beginning
night and Immediately busted myself in procuring trans
Poeton Tor the troops in this direction Having arranged
tns IN an hour or two, returned the depot where the
Troops were lay down with my head tie and
ePt W eeVen O'Clock when the train to carry the troops
forward came in from GoldsSoro then put them aboard
the cars Whilst engaged in that work heard for the
nrsI e OF the Outrage on the printing Office 1t then
S s ale Tor me to do any thing preventive remedial
had not bad suspicion that outrage was con-
SmPlated> Nothing came to my notice on the way to
or after we arrived there to excite suspicion that
any P'ot was brewing against the Standard newspaper If
suspected such thing. should have taken the most
rigorous measures to suppress it And as far could
As to Maj Shepherd Lt Colonel it should be the impu-
aton OF completely is in especial manner unfounded
outbreak. When it commenced he was at hotel await
ing his supper and was found there BY Gov Vance He
immediately accompanied Gov Vance to the place. and
aided him to stop the work of destruction 1t he who
alter Gov Vances address, ordered the troops and they
without word, obeYed him. All this he told mehimsef
and he is of character and perfect veracy He is
now ABSENT having been wounded in the last of the two
battles on the Chickamauga. will send ~him CODY of
your letter to me- with instructions to give you according
your inl report OF all the facts OF the
case within his knowledge.


The true explanation Of the affair take to be this
when my brigade arrived at Weldon, found there a
party OF Norh-Csrolnians commanded by a Lieutenant,
who informed me that be ordered to the vicinity OF
SALISBURY thnk to arrest some deserters, and urged
me TO let his party go along with my brigade for the sake
OF dispatch said if he could find in the trai
i3 hls party He replied that he could take the tops of
the cars told him then that he might do Accor-
DINGHY he and his party took the tops of the cars and
with my brigade through Raleigh After we Jeff Rleigh,
THIS party freely avowed themselves the authors of the
deed and Claimed credit for it. They said they led some
OF my men into 1t with them and have doubt they did,
Dnt hink BOT many and these merely unorganzed indi:
VduaiS each acting for and by himself These things
learned from officers and men who heard the talk Of the
h-Carolinans on the train after it left Raleigh.
learned them first at Charlotte when the train stopped
there but the North Caronans were then off The cars
That had no opportunity tn question them myself Thus
Sir you have such account of this affair as it is in my
power to give you. | am, Sir,


Very respectfully, your 0bt serv't.


HENRY l., BENNING,


Brigadier General
To s. Cooper Adi't AID Insp General Riehmond Va
Year: 1863

ACCIDENT AT THE POWDER MILLs.-The Incorpo-
rating House of the Powder Mills, near this City,
was blown up on Friday morning last. The less
of building, machinery, powder, &c. amounts to
about $4,000 The accident will somewhat inter.
fere with the operations of the MILL but will not stop
it and We glad to be able to state that no one
was hurt BY the explosion.
Year: 1863

His ErceLIsHcy jefferson Duris, Riehmond, "a:


Ny DEAR SR-You have received by telegraph bef ,s
this information of the riots occurring in this City.


am anxious about their effects upon the COUNTRY
though greatly hopes that the mob Of citizens which
destroyed the office of the State journal will as couu-
terrrtant and help to aay excitement the damage being
equal to both parties. = The soldiers who origi.
mated the mob, belonged to Bennngs brigade and were
apparently led by their officers, several of whom in
the crowd but heard of their Names except Major
Shepherd. have also for believing it was done
with the knowledge and consent of Gel Beunng he re-
marked to gentleman hour two previous that his
men had threatened it, During its continuance he could
not be founda messenger sent by to his supposed
quarters at the depot refused admission to him. and
although he bad ample opportunity after the
have written to dscsming the outrage upon


the honor and peace of NorthCs ma be did not do
As it my intention to enforce the laws gdy against all
citizens who participated in the second mob feel it
my duty to demand that punishment may be inflicted
the officers who assisted countenanced the first Should
this not be done shall feel it my duty to demand the
persons of these officers of the State of Georgia
the demands of Justice feel very sad in the contempa
tou of these outrages The distance is quite short to
either anarchy despotism when armed soldiers led by
their officers with impunity outrage. the laws of
State. pray you to See that it does not occur
again Should newspaper in the State commit treason,


would have its Editor arrested and tried by the laws
which many of respect thank you for your prompt
orders eegphed Major Pierce concerning the passage
of troops through this City. They being enforced
and peace be preserved if they rigdly obeyed.


z. B. VANCE.
Year: 1863

To the Citizens of the 9th Congressional Dis


trict.


several nominations and soic
itstons from my friends l. this late period, have CON
seued TO become candidate represent the people OF the
9th Congressional District in the next Congress OF the Con-
federate States. offer apology for the late appear
ance of nv acceptance the mob of the Standard Olce
As my principles reached that place short time before the
Office mObbed, they consequently were lost was
informed last night by private letter from the Editor
Thus he announced my being candidate without
my views
Now fellow citizens state to you in form condens
ed as possible my position concerning the various ques
tious now before the public and which will most probably
come b, fore next the Congress:


Ist. If elected, shall support any measure that will
bring about honorable without fther euSiOn of
blood. All must end, and think this only
be closed BY negotiations.
Cd am opposed to mobs, or mob violence.


3d. opposed the suspension Of the writ of hG6sds
corpus.


4h shall sustain with all vigilance the supremacy of
the civil over the military law.


h The liberty press and of speech should not be
encroached upon for they the bulwarks of our ber
ties.


9Th Congress should adopt some plan to place
rency meI basis and save the credit of the Cened-
crate government.


nth NV impression now is that shall vote for the
peal of the Thing Law, unless nstructedby my consti
uents.


Sh The wages of our brave soldiers should be largely
increased aud their families especially provided for by the
government .-
You now have my sentiments, though brief. If you
will receive for not visiting the counties of this
District l inform you that during most of the
paign was unable to travel l glad that you once
have the privilege of going to the ballobox free
men and voting for the whom you wish to represent
you Should be your choice will endeayor to make you
q faithful and honorable representative.


October 2s, 1853. s6-td.
Year: 1863

/; Hon. Jas. a. Sed,ion Secretary of HGr.


DEAR SR-The letters. of Gen. Benning and It. COL
Shepherd of the I'd Georgia regiment reference to the
mob in this City, received. They satisfactory
far their denial Of their participation is concerned
though cannot but think Gen b. is mistaken in suppo
sing that there umber of North Carolina troops
in the riot In my letter to the PresdenI said that
Benning remarked to Col Whford ransportat agent
here, hours previous to the mob that he should not
be surprised if did tear down the Standard of


ice he had heard it threatened and that during the
aence of violence sent for him and he could be
found and that my messenger sent for him, driven
away from the depot by the soldiers This raised susp-
in my mind that he might have cnnVed at the
duct of men, which heightened by the fact that he
offer apology regret verbally otherwise me-
for this great insult to the authority and laws of
eSn sitae which thought and still think he mi ght and
should have DONE


As to It. Col Shepherd (whom the men 10 the darkness
called Major) suppose must have fallen into q very
great mistake cDncerung him II he is the officer upon
scene violence then him great many thanks for
his staucsinSe of accusation Of gui It,. Somehow


got it into my head that the officer who assisted


1t Col Harris, and up arriving at the &IaddFd Office


hear soldiers calling for Major Shepherd" but did not
know 1t the officer with This mistake very
natural owing to the confusion and darkqess and
regret that did 1t Col Shepherd injustice His was the
his name. There several company officers in the
crowd, as Judged by then swords aud by hearing
call out frequently Captain" Lieutenant" &c.


This you will the substance of my complaint to
the President wished punishment inflicted upon the
private soldiers but if they really led or encour-
aged by officers it wou be highly proper and polite that
Mey should be punished.


Very respectfuIySyOur Ob's segv'ts,


Please send copies to Gen B. aud Lit. Col s.
Year: 1863

b terms of Tie Standard henceforth will be three do-
~ r the Weekly six months, and four dollars for 'he
weekly six months invariably in advance Owing


condition of the currency and the uncertainty of the
.ss subscriptions for longer period than six months
will not be received
Year: 1863

When Chaplain at a post or in regiment finds
tnat ne has ceased to be useful from whatever cause


ne owes it to himself and to the soldiers to resign
his place and await a call to some new position.
Ie cannot serve God and Mammon." Easy living
that is, the world-must not be preferred to the
Spiritual welfare of the soldiers ...
Year: 1863

NOMFS tho complainant by his solicitor and
" on his motion, and it appearing to the court
that the defendant is nonresident of the State
of Arkansas: it Ii therefore considered and
ordered by the court that the defendant be
notified of the object and pendency Of this suit
the object Of which is to obtain by decree n
fee simple title to certain town lots situated in
the town of Magnolia, county Of Columbia, and
State Of Arkansas, from said defendant, and
compel the defendant, Timothy Williams, to
perform his covenant in q certain obligation,
or writing under seal, executed on the 25th Of
June, A. D. 1853, from and by said Timothy
Williams to complainant as assignee, by pub
lication Of this order in some newspaper printed
and published in this State for two consecutive
weeks, the last insertion to be at least four
weeks before the first day of term Of the
circuit court, to be holden in and for the county
Of Columbia aforesaid, on the third Monday Of
October next, whom and where the defendant
is required to sppsar, plead. answer or demur
to said bill, or tho Same will be taken Is con-
fsssed.


4 true copy from the record.


Attest: DAVE DIXON, Clerk.
Year: 1863

press of important job printing for
the Government offices, renders it impos-
Sbe for us to issue the regular number of
The Telegraph" this week, and may also
prevent the the next issue. We are GER
hin our readers will bear the delay with
patience. Just now the demands of the
Government Offices are all important.
Meanwhile we publish FIVE extras, ID
order to disseminate the news.
Year: 1863

We invite the particular attention Of our readers
to paper which We reproduce to-day from ihs
Raleigh Standard of the 3lst utimo. As the
writer in the body Of it refers to himself in terms
which ascertain his name to the people of North
Carolina from his historical connexon with fact
in their recent history, it cannot be improper for
to say that this article is from the pen of Hon.
r. s. DoNNELL, formerly member of Con-
gress from that State. He represented the Second
District of North Carolina in the year 1848, and
his Influential position among bis fellow citizens
may be further inferred from the fact that he is at
present the Speaker of the popular branch of the
Legislature Of the State. We further understand
from an officer Of the army in North Carolina,
through whom we have received this paper, that the
Hon. +. b. Satterthw.ite, President of the Cover
nor's Council" aided in the preparation of this
calm appeal which, before its publication, was SUBJ
mitted to Governor Vance, and received his appro-
val Under these circumstances, the document will
be read with peculiar interest for the hopeful symp
toms it affords of returning wisdom aud loyalty in
State which, before the phrenzy of secession had
seized on portion of its people, remarkable
for political steadastness and public virtue as for
the Individual worth OF its citizens
Year: 1863

disclosed by the testimony on some Important
points. As this case promises to be one of great
Importance, from the novel principles involved in
Its inception. progress and ultimate issue before
another tribunal, we have no doubt Congress will
see the propriety Of calling for the papers. We
shall then be able to compare the Secretary's ab-
stract of the record with the record itself, and to
note the correspondence, want of correspondence
between them on two essential points.


We shall further urge that all the proceedings
had by the present Court Martial, called to take
charge of cases that would have been tried by their
predecessors if the latter had not been dismissed
incompetencyor naladministration of justice, be de-
manded by Congress in like manner for publication.
This will be simply an act Of justice to officers who
now doomed to transact business under the shadow OF
orders which cast grevous reflection on their in
dependence. They are chosen to do what the late
court was judged either incompetent unwilling to
do. Wedo not doubt they will do their sworn duty.
But We desire that they shall not only do it, but
that they shall be in the eyes Of the nation to
have done it. For in the case of courts it is not
enough that they should be just; they must also
seem just if they to be held in reverence by the
people
Year: 1863

Finger-rings and folderols may do well to
look at, but they add nothing to the value of
wife-all young men know that. Ifyou
know how to talk, do. it naturally, and do not
be so distressingly polite as to spoil all that
you say. Ifyour hair is straight don't put
on the curling tongs to make people believe
that you have negro blood in your veins. If
your neck is very black, wear a lace collar,
but don't be so foolish as to daub on paint,
thinking that the people are SO blind as not
to see it; and if your checks are rosy, don't
apply pink saucers for deception, and become
the gossip of the neighborhocd.


Finally, girls, listen to the counsel of your
mothers, and ask their advice in everything.
Think less of ffashion than you do Of kitchen
duties-less of romance than you do of the
realities of life-and instead of trying to catch
a beau, strive to make yourself worth being
caught by them.
Year: 1863

IF coming events cast their shadows be-
FORE" it will be worth while to keep hook
out for the indications of what we may expect
to see in the way of bonnets. Already has
the vegetable world been well nigh exhausted
for the fruits, the foliage, and the flowers un-
der which the tall gothic head dresses of our
bellies have lately been tottering. Now there
is tendency toward geological ornature of
the bonnet Birds of Paradise were once the
fashion of our grandmothers milliners are
now busy with the introduction of the hum
ming bird to the heads of society. 0fcourse
the live humming-bird has not yet been adj
ded to the attractions of the new fashionable
bonnets, though there is no good reason why
it should not be. In South America it is no
uncommon freak for the beauties to beiewel
their dresses with live fre-hes put up in lit
tie glass cases., and the effect is stated. to sur
pass that of the finest diamonds. Why does
not some enterprising milliner contrTe bon
net with little cage upon the pinnacle of it,
containing real, live humming-birds There
is only one drawback to the idea. Fashion
is always liable to be overdone, and if one
belle is seen abroad with live humming-bird
bonnet on, we may expect to see rival beau
ty out some morning with cage of canaries
upon her head. Then the period of the
mocking-bird will probably arrive, and there
is no guessing where the thing would stop.
At one of those wild fancy balls lately given
by the Empress Eugenie, who seems to be
little eccentric aloud dress, $ lady appeared
in the character of forest with live owl
tapping about upon her head. Natural his
tory will be a more fascinating study than
ever, should this kind of thing become the
mode, when every belle will be professor of
ornithology, and every bonnet a monograph
of birds.
Year: 1863

Girls, you want to get married, don't you 7
And, what natural thing it is for young la
dies who have such hankering for the stcr-
ner sex 1t is a weakness of woman, and for
this reason she is called the weaker SEX
Well, if you want to get married, don't, for
conscience sake, act like fools about it. Don't
go into a fit of the nips every time you see a
hat or a pair of whiskers.


Don't get the idea into your heads that you
must put yourself in the way of every young
man in the neighberhood, in order to attract
notice, for if you don't run after the men, they
will run after you. Mark that.


A husband hunter is the most detestable of
all young ladies'. She is full of starch and
FUCKERS, she puts on many false airs, and she
is so nice that she appears ridiculous in the
eyes of all decent people. She may be gene
rally found at meeting, coming in, of course,
about the last one, always at social parties,
invariably takes the front seat at concerts
She tries to be the belle of the place, and
thinks she is. Poor girl You are fitting
yourself for an old maid, just as sure as the
Sabbath comes on Sunday. Men will firt
with you and fatter you, Simply because they
love to do it; but they have no more idea of
making you wife than they have of COM
mitting suicide. If l was young man |
would have no more to do with such fancy
than l would with a rattlesnake.


Now, girls, let Nelly give you piece of
I. IL, ~ .hn
that if you practice it you will gain the rep
utation of becoming worthy girls, and stand
a fair chance ofgetting respectable husbands.
1t is well enough that you learn to finger the
piano. work embroidery, study grammer, &C.,
but don't neglect letting your grandma or dear
mother teach you how to make bread or get a
meals victuals good enough for king. No
part of house-keeper's duties should be ne
elected; if you do not marry wealthy hus-
band, you will need to know how to do such
work, and if you do, it will be an advantage
for you to know how to oversee a servant girl,
and instruct her to do these things as you
would have them DONE In the next place,
don't pretend to be what you are not. Alice
tstion is the most despicable of accomplish
ments, and will only cause sensible people to
laugh at you. No one but fool will be
caught by aifectation-it has a transparent
skin, easily to be seen through. Dress plain,
but neatly. Remember that nothing gives a
girl so modest, becoming and lovely appear
ancc as neat, plain dress. All thefiummery
and tinsel work of the dressmaker and milli-
ncr are unnecessary.


If you are really handsome, they do not
add to your beauty one particle; if you are
homely, they only maze you worse Gentle
men don't court your faces and jewelry, but
your own Gear selves,
Year: 1863

The high price Of fuel, which bears SO hear-
ily upon soldiers families and the poor gene
rally, has led to the formation Of society for
The object of inducing soldiers wires and
other persons Of small means to lay aside
such Sums as they can, the same to be depos-
tied as the Society may direct, with which the
Executive Committee will purchase fuel In
the summer and fall, and distribute the same
in the winter, at greatly reduced prices. It is
not intended to meddle with those engaged in
their legitimate calling as dealers in wood and
coal, but to make such efforts as the Society
can to furnish wood and coal to depositors at
reasonable rates. At present, the efforts Of
the Society will be confined to tile relief Of
soldiers filmilies, trying to benefit them in
such degree as tho latcncss Of the season will
permit.


Beginning with March next, deposits will
be received, not to exceed - cents per week,
and the work carried on with yigor and econ
omy.


Wood eau be bought, oren now, within an
hundred miles Of the city, for SITS per cord.
The wood will he sawed by machinery, cost
ing about fifty cents the cord. The rules and
regulations Of the Society will be published
Year: 1863

GONE 10 BE1pEwE11--A man named burns
who was Ened day or two since, aud his hne
suspended to gire him IN opportunity OF
leaving the city, was found In tho city after
the expiration of his farlough, taken to the
Police Court yesterday morning and sent to
Bridewel to work out his fine, which will
furnish him with business for about two
months.