smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

Our correspondent at Washington is, We trust,
mistaken IN tho announcement made in q tele.
graphic dispatch, published yesterday that there
i. to he no change in the blockade question by
proclamation OF the closing OF Southern ports.
That those ports should be closed is provided for
by an act of Congress, which may be considered
at least all indication Of the Judgment OF that
body. As to our right to resort TO such
measure, there ia 10 question, and nothing will
be- lett doubtful in regard to the rightfulness
of our position in case OF any difficulty arising
with any foreign Government as the consequence
of that act. But there is no such certainty on
the question Of blockade In announcing and
sustaining it, we act not simply under our own
municipal laws, with which no other nation has
the right TO interfere, but under the law of
nations, where i. is not only the right, but in
some sort the duty of other Powers 10 see to il
that that implied contract s neither exceeded
nor disregarded. IL would seem to be al act,
therefore, of common prudence merely to choose
that method of dealing with the question the
least likely to bring us into difficulty 1t would
not be- wise in us to run the risk of collision



ferred one form of words to another if that is all
the difference there is between the two methods Of
laying an embargo on commerce with the South.
And if there really is an essential difference in
method as well as in name, then unquestiOnably
we should choose that which is least likely to
lead to trouble. Our own opinion is that o
mistake was made at the outset in announcing o
blockade, that it has already caused some en-
barrasnent, which is quite likely to seriously
increase ii the less Objectionable course is not
resorted to where the appeal is to our own
Law and not tbc law of nations. Our corre-
spondent, we hope, is mistaken in supPOslDg
that there is a determination on the part OF the
Government to adhere to the original error
rather than resort t. the measure suggested by
Congress.
Year: 1861

Asa part of the history of this mOmentOus
pages this morning to the republication Of
number OF attacks on the Administration of Pres
ident Lincoln, which have recently appeared in
the press of the country. These attacks have
not been confined TO journals of any clique or
party Some of them have como even from
those who have been suppo'ed to sustain the
most intimate personal relations with leading
members Of the Cabinet; and on this accoun.
they appear the moro startling il rot more im-
portapt than they would otherwise seem to us.
Some Of these journals are, we presume, actuated
by purely patriotic motives; but others no doubt
are as loctions in their spirit rs they are exag-
perated in their structures. However this may
be, they are, for the present moment at least,
alike to be deplored.


While, as chroniclers Of current events, we
do not feel ourselves at liberty to Withhold from
our readers these evidences OF movement on
foot to change the Cabinet, we deeply dePlore
them. While the very existence of the Republic
is trembling in the balance, while even the hold
of tho nation upon its Capital Is precarious,

these Intestine feuds cannot but tend to give aid
and comfort to the common enemy And at the
same time it seems to Us but justice to declare
that the member of the Administration who has
been fixed upon as the object of perhaps more
denunciatiCn than any Of his cOileagUes-we
mean Mr.. Cameron-is, in many respects at
least, not rightfully accused. 1t is not bis fault
that the army to-day is not more numerous aud
better provided with all that constitutes eGicien
cy. 1t seems to be the fashion just now to heap
upon bis account all the faults that can be dis
covered or imagined. We arc convinced that
whatcver errors or sins he or others may have
committed, when the account Of the wal come'
to be fiaaly made up he as wei as others will
appear in different light from that in which
they are now frequently represented.
Year: 1861

both the great classes the weof and the badly yoff,
might now and ia the coming days of difficulty
give the world bright example. The finest
ladies will sbste their way of living as the
war presses its pinchDg actualties or posi-
bilities upon them; they will reduce their
" pieces " for the wash, and shorten their bills for
laces and tho other inscrutabes that go for gene
raj feminine effect. 1t is certain that they--eyen
the most frivolous children of fashion-are already
toned down, and lees devoted TO the weather, and
the opera, and the last dress, than before the
blood of men and brethren began to flow in de.
fense of the Union. Will not their charity be-
come mere direct, constant, and thorough, and
still be none the less abundant or womany than
in past seasons VIII it not be specially direct
ed to their unhappy sisters who want work with
out disgrace' If there is sewing still to be done
for the army--and the Winter campaign will as
suredly necessitate great many hearty stitches
shall it not be part of their mission in the
war to see that it falls into deserving hands,
May We not confde ia the sex to sustain and
comfort itself
Year: 1861

We hear from every source the most cheering
accounts of the preparations and the movements
made by General FREMONT for the conduct of the
campaign ia the Mississippi Valley. Since the
glorious, Yet fatal day when Lyon ie the Adroinis-
tration have put into the hands of Fremont the
most ample powers and the most ample pecuniary
resources. Unless we are greatly mistaken, the
heroic Pathfinder of the West will yet win for him.
self the highest renewn that is possible for on
American-that of a cOnqueror Of this great con-
spiracy against Democratic Institutions, and Of a
PacfcatOr Of the Union.
Year: 1861

THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that ten. R. $. Garnctt
has taken charge Of the Confederate forces in the
Northwest, we may expect an active and cner-
getic campaign. He has had large campaigning
experience in the Rocky Mountains and Mexico,
and is admirably suited to the position assigned
him. He has under his command a fine body OF
brave soldiers, who are ANXIOUS to take some
active steps to drive from the soil OF Virginia
melceuary foreign enemy, and bring tG proper
appreciation of their position the few doIuded
citizens in that section who have taken up arms
against the State. We have the most abiding con
fience in the ability and wisdom of Gen. Galnctt,
and predict for him Il brilliant and successful
campaign.


We are well convinced that reaction in favor
OF the State is going on in that section. Il only
requires a vigorous policyO bring back the North


west to a loyal adherence to the destiny Of Fr-
ginia and the South.


At latest accounts the Yankees were leaving
Philippi and returning to Grafton, or some other
point more distant from troops than that now
occupied. We must march to Wheeling, and give
the loyal citizens all through the West the tangible
assurance of the protection OF the Government OF
| the Confederate States.
Year: 1861

There is an illusion in the speech of
General Cameron, that should be read


and pondered by every young printer in
the country. When he rose to reply
to Il toast proposed -heiaar-ei--tl.
Secretary Of war, he told the company


that while the sentiment was being read
he could not realize that the compli-
ment was couched to him, because just
then he was gazing at mis- venerable
friend, Colonel Seton, one of the propri-
etors of the National Lntelligencer. who
only few years since, paid him his
wages as journeyman printer. We
want our young fellow craftsmen to
think of this acknowledgeihent and
study the progress of this distinguished
printer, who yet clings to the memory
of his type days, and who is still fa-
miliar with good spacing AM regu-
lar justification as the best compositor
who boasts cf his thousands. Only
ii few years ago, Simon Cameron set
type aud measured his matter in the
old Intclli3cncr Office Only a few years
ago, he was an obscure printer waiting
for copy To-day he is,npc of the most
prominent members of an Admins
tration that is destined to become
more memorable than any other that
has preceded it or will come after
it, in the history of the government
To-day he is at the head of a department
upon which rests the responsibility Of
rescuing this nation from rebellion
marshaling armies for the field, instead
of measuring 2nnttcr for newspaper,
There is sublime lesson in such tri-
umphs, which others besides printer boys
can learn. 1t tells US that there is
beck koning hand and cheerful path in
this still land Of the free and home of
the brave. 1t tells US that energy, stern
devotion to principle, character and in,
tegrity, will bear a man to higher honor
than perfumed praise or purchased favor
can win in lifetime.
Year: 1861

The old fashioned mothers have
nearly all passed away with the blue
cheek and home-spun WOODEN of a simple
but purer time. Here and there one re-
mains, truly accomplished" in the
heart and life, for the sphere of home.


Old-fashioned mothers-God bless
them-who followed US with heart and
prayer, all over the world-lived in our
lives and sorrowed in our griefs; who
knew more about patching than poetry
spoke no dialect but love; never preached
nor wandered; made melody with their
hearts, and sent forth no looks but liv-
ing volumes, that honered their authors
and blessed the world.


The old homestead! We wish we
could paint it for you, as it is--no we
dare not as it is-as it was; that We
could go together from room to room.
sit by the old hearth, round which shat
circle of light and love once swept, and
there linger, till all those ampler, purer
times returned, and we should grow
young again.


And how can we leave the spot, with
out remembering one form that occupied,
in days gone by, ''the old arm chair
that old d-fashioned mother-one in all
the world, the law Of whose life was
love; one who was the divinity of our in
fancy, and the sacred presence in tho
shrine of our first earthly idolatary; ono
whose heart is far below the frosts that
gather SO thickly on her brow; one to
whom we never grow old, but, in the
plumed troop or the grave council, are
children; still one who welcomed us
coming, blessed us going, and never
forgot us-never!


And when in some closet, some
drawer, she finds a garment or a toy that,
once was yours, how does she weep, as
she thinks you may be suffering or sad.


And when spring


t'Leaves her robe on the trees,
does she not remember your tree, and
wish you were there to see its glory?
Year: 1861

in the most vital point; so long as there
is great proportion Of the Republic
who live free as the wild Indian, know
ing no leader but their own choosing,
knowing no law but that of right, and
the honorable observance of friendly In
tercourse, America is unconauerable;
and all the armies of the combined world,
though they may drive them from the
seacoast and across the Alleghany noun
tains, would not be able to subsiuc the
free-souled hunter among the mountains
and great prairies and mighty rivers of
the West.
Year: 1861

pee The world is for the workip
hour: hut home is the place of refuge.
weak; our refroshment is there, our rest
is there, We reflect there, we recover
fro;n sickness there, and if die in. peace
we die there
Year: 1861

Many of our public men have been blessed
with wives and mothers who were the ornaments
of their sex, and by their quiet and ennobling
influence contributed largely to the subsequent
greatness Of their children and husbands. Mr..
Parton tells the following story Of Gen. Jacksons IS
wife:


When Gen. Jackson was a candidate for the
Presidency in 1928, not only did the party op-
posed to him abuse him for his public acts, which,
il unconstitutional or violent, were a legitimate
subject OF reprobaton, but they DETAINED the
character of his wife. On one occasion a news
paper published in Nashville was laid upon the
Generals table. He glanced over it, and his
eyes fell on an article in which the character OF
Mrs. Jackson violently assaled. So soon as
he had read it be sent for his trusty old servant,
Dunwoodie.


"Saddle my horse" said he to him in whis-
per- "and put my holsters on him." Mrs. Jack
son watched him though she heard not word
she thought she saw mischief in his eyes, The
General went out, after few moments when she
took up the paper and understood everything
She ran out to the south gate of the yard of the
Hermitage, by which the General would have to
pass. She had not been there more than few
seconds before the General rode up with the
countenance of a madman. She placed herself
before his horse, and cried OUT


go, General, don't go to Nashville Let that
poor editor live. Let that poor editor live"


"Let Inc alone he replied how came you to
know what am going for ~


She answered, 81 saw it all in his paper after
you went out put up your horse and go back"


He replied furiously, but will go-get out
of my wayW


Instead of doing this she grasped the bride
with both hands.


lie cried to her, 81 say, let go my horse; I'll
have his hearts blood-the villain that reviles
my wife shall not live"


She grasped the reins but the tighter, and be-
gan to expostulate with him, saying that she was
the one who ought to be angry, but she forgave
her prosecutors from the bottom of her heart,
and prayed for them-that he should forgive, if
he had hoped to be forgiven. Al last. by her
reasoning, her entreaties and her tears, she so
worked upon her husband that he seemed modified
to some extent She wound up by saying "No.
General, you shall not take the life of even my
reviler-you dare not do it, for it is written
Vengeance is mine, | will repay, saith the
Lord p"


The iron-nerved hero gave way before the
earnest pleading of his beloved wife, and replied:


81 yield to you; but had it not been for you,
and words of the Almighty, the wretch should
not have lived an hour"
Year: 1861

BEES AND FRUIT TREEs-A writer in q literary
journal OF Paris states that the bees greatly i'm
prove the modification of fruit trees. Orchards
in which several hives are kept, always produce
more fruit than those in which there are none.
In the provinces on the Rhine, the fruits are far
more abundant and finer than in other parts of
Germany, and there it is the custom TO keep
large quantities Of bees. Plants too, which bees
visit, thrive better in the neighborhood of hives
Year: 1861

Cousin JosEPHNE.-She's my cousin, so what
harm for her blessed little arm round my willing
neck to twine, and her dear delicious lips, with
their rosy, futterng lips ever SO much, Just to
touch mine? She's my cousin, SO you see, she
can't fall in love with me that always keep in
mind, and, indeed, Ive always kissed her as you
would little sister, just so that she might think
me kind.
Year: 1861

No PLACE FOR THE Pooe MAN.-We clip the
following suggestive paragraph from the Cincinnati
Enquirer:


The New York Evening Post, desirous Of getting
rid of its surplus ab0rhg population, is descant-
ing apGn the great scarcity Of IabOrers ut the
West ana recommending the class TO come this
way. We can say to all such unemployed laborers
in New York that they had better stay where they
are as the labDrers who are now in the West can
not be employed By coming West, the New York
laborers would only add to their own embarrass-
ments.


To this we would add the hope that none of the
poor devils whom Abolition has starved out, will
come South.
Year: 1861

There is, we take it, no more reason for
tonccaling the fact that our forces
at Leesburgh met with severe repulse
on Monday, than there is for sup
pressing thenews ofour victory at Ionton
on the same Jay. The disaster counter
balances the success, and we start off anew
with the account with the rebels un-
changed. We regret, however, to be COM
PEELED to say that in the Leesburgh affair
we haye only the repetition OF the old story
three rebels to one loyalist, gallant
fight, and Federal repulsc In this case,
the consequences we're unusually fatal
:he life Of Col. Baker and we know not
how many of his gallant men paying the
penalty Of the policy to which our armies
seem doomed. But We hare not The psr-
lcrlars, and withhold comment, content
10 believe that the check and the failure of
the reconnaissance were unavoidable.
Year: 1861

put the initials only Of the Magistrate
for the reason that this legal luminary J.
still living. and propably too modest 10
covet the fame TO which he is justly en-
titled. Don't he deserve pension, and
the unanimous thanks of those interest
ed in the rapid peopling Of the State az
well as those who can't wait for conmis-
sion
Year: 1861

With the consent Of the. President of
the Confederate States to raise Regi-
ment Of mounted men for special SER
vice in the State of Louisiana, and the
promise of an immediate acceptance Of
the same by the Hon. J. P. Benjamin
Sec. of of war pro tenn | call upon those
who are determined to maintain their
rights as freemen, and the honor Of their
country to fall in with me, and as early
as possible organize companies. From six
ty five to one hundred men will consti.
tute a company, each man to BIZ furnished
with double barrel shot gun or rife
and if possible brace Of pistols; the
size of the horse will not be objected t.
if he can carry his rider with ease, this i
no time for words or l would show tin
advantage that the State will deriy
from such Regiment as this is designa
ted to be. We shall be governed by al
act of the Southern Congress entitled
"An act to provide for local defence an
special service" For further particular
call at my residence, or address me, Bi
Bend P. o.


Big Bend, Avoyelles 9th Oct. 1861.


B.W. LAKEWOOD.
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, Feb. o. 1861.
The news Of the seizure Of five New York vessels in
the port of Savannah by the State authorities of Georgia.
created great excitement here. AS soon the
reached the CAPITOL Mr.. John Cochrane of New York,
promptly offered resolution directing the Secretary of
the Treasury inform the House whether he had any
official information the subject.


The government have received official information
the subject. All that is known in regard to 1T is
ceived through the newspapers


The administration have been called on by a number
Of leading commercial men Of New York who are
here know what will be taken regard to this
matter. The government cannot act without official
knowledge.


BY Of the receipt of information to-day Of the
seizure of New York ships at Savannah together with
the action OF the New Orleans Custom House in
obstructng the interior in effect Of levying
tribute and the declaration Of Montgomery Congress
in opening the Southern ports free TO foreign commerce.
John Cochrane, Of New York, will call up Monday and
press 10 passage the bill heretofore introduced by him.
providing for the thorough execution of the federal
nue. laws, and for the protection OF the commercial
teress Of the nation against agous attacks upon them
by the seeded States
Year: 1861

MONTGOMERY, Feb s--3A.M.
The Convention have just got through with preparing
the FIRST copy for the printer Of the Consttu
toD Its title lis. The Constitution for tn, Provisional
Government of the Confederate States of America II
follows the main the constitution the old Union
The preamble reaos follows


We, the Deputies OF the sovereign and inde-
pendent States OF South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.
Aabama, Mississippi and louisiana invoking the
Of Almighty God do hereby, in behalf
these ordan and establish this constitution fos
he Provisional Government Of the to continue
year from the Inauguration of the President, until
permanent constitution confederation between the said
states shall be put operation Whatsoever shall first



The Seventh section, First article is follows
The importation of African negroes from any foreign
country other than the savehodng states Of the United
states hereby forbidden Congress s required to
pass such laws as shall efectually prevent the same
Article s.condCongress shall also have power to pro-
hibt the introduction Of slaves from any state
member of this confederacy.


Article of the third clause of the second section
Gays


slave in one State escaping to another shall deli
vered up the claim of the party whom said slave





which such slave my be found and any abduction
forcibie full compensation including the value
Of ave and all costs and expenses shall be made to the
party by the state in which such abduction res cue
shall take place.


Article sixth of ths second clause, says
The government hereby instituted shall take immediate
steps for the settlement of all matters States
forming and their late conederates the United States
in relation to the public property and public debt the
time Of their Withdrawal from them, these hereby
declaring to be their wish and desire adjust
everything pertaining to the property, common
liabilities and common oblga ions OF that Union upon
principles of right, justice, equity and good faith
The tariff clause provides that the Congress shall have
power to lay and collect taxes dutes mposts and ex-
cses for necessary pay the debts carry
the government of the confederacy and all duties,
imposts and excuses shall be uniform throughout the
confederacy.


All the other portions of the constitution arc almost
identical with the constitution of the United States
The constitution adopted unanimously last night,
at half past ten O'Clock.
Year: 1861

We have learned since the above was written that as
the of the seizure Of the New York vessels
became known TO the parties in this city having custody
of the seized muskes the latter were placed in the un
conditional custody Of G. Lamar, Of the Bank Of the
Republic Of this city, and information of the fact WAS
communicated by telegraph to John Boston, Esq, the
Collector Of the port of Savannah, and Col Lauton the
military commander Of that place. We therefore antic
pate hearing d the surrender Of the vessels at early
moment.
Year: 1861

We feel that we need make our readers no
apologies for giving in cur columns the Presi-
dents message entire 1t is a peculiar crisis in
our National history, when we are all looking
with interest to the head of the Government for
those principles and measures that will be
adopted to guide on our Ship of State through
the perils that now frown SO alarmingly around
it.


The message is frank outspoken document,
free from political pettyfoggng or special
pleadings, and is evidently dictated by spirit
of undisguised patriotism, and firm and con-
scientious purpose to maintain the Constitu-
ton, and enforce the laws. Itseems to us, that
the pulsations Of hopeful patriotism will be
stronger and freer throughout the country en-
reading it's decided and manly utterances. 1t
throws light on the policy of the Government


in regard to Fort Sumter, and the course pur'
sued cannot fail to meet with general approval
among the real friends of the Government, and
gives us the gratifying assurance that the Ma
tional defence is to be prosecuted with the
requisite strength and vigor to suppress treason,
and overcome the present formidable rebellion.
Our readers will of course give the document
perusal for themselves, and we trust it will
nerve them to more vigorous maintenance OF
our sacred cause, and enable us all, in the final
words of the message, to " renew our trust in
God and go forward without fear and with man
ly hearts ts-Mcssenger.
Year: 1861

Our stock Of these articles is very complete, and
has been imported expressly Tor our trade We shall
continue to receive by nearly every vessel at arrives
from the Atlantic States, additions to our present
large stock.