smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

Our WoRsT Fee. The CLEVELAND
herald remarks in view of the critical no
sition in which the Army of the Cumber-
land has been placed:


The cause of the Union has more ia
fear from copperheads than from armed
rebels. The latter we can defend against:
the former strike in the dark and their
blows cannot be parried. The reverse of
Rosecrans is due to the Copperheads of
New York. Gov. Seymour would not
say that the State authority and State
military should be called out in case of
necessity to enforce the law that provided
for the draft, and hence Gen. Dix was
obliged to draw troops from the Army of
the Potomac to the number of twenty or
thirty thousand, These were of the yery
flower of our army troops who by their
tried valor and integrity were such as
could be relied upon in any emergency.
Lee OF course knew all this, and it was
when such forces were withdrawn from
before his lines that he ventured to send
heavy relnforcements from his army to
Bragg and to Charleston,


Cause and effect were never more di.
rect than the refusal of Copperhead Sey-
mour OF New York to do his duty as a
loyal Governor has brought upon the
country the terrible loss of life and disas-
ter that has occurred to our arms in North
west Georgia. On the skirts Therefore of
Copperhead treason in New York rests
the blood OF the brave Western boys who
have fallen in Rosecrans' army.
Year: 1863

The EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
IN REBELDoM. Peter Cooper, the well
known New York millionaire, in letter
to Gov. Seymour defending the policy of
the government, thus speaks of the eman-
cidation proclamation


81 learn direct from Mr.. Dean, the Pro-
vost Marshal of st. Louis, that the Proc
lamatlon of Freedom has done more to
weaken the rebellion and prevent the for
elgn recognition than any other measure
that could have been adopted. On his
late visit TO my house he informed me that
he had brought on d large number of rebel
ofhcers and men to be exchanged at Fort
ress Monroe. During their passage be
TOOK the opportunity to ask the officers in
a body what effect the Presidents Procla-
nation of Freedom had produced in the
South. Their reply was Ito use their own
vulgar mode of expression, that 1T had
played hell with Them Mr.. Dean then
asked them how that could be possible
since the negroes cannot read I? To which
one OF them replied that one of his negroes
had told him OF the proclamation five davs
before he heard it in any other wav.
Others said their negroes gave them their
hrst information of the proclamation. One
OF these officers then said with a defiant
ar that If We would only leave them their
corn, their bacon, and their homespun
winch their negroes produced, they would
hight us twenty years.
Year: 1863

t a March IL, 1868. z I


There is no news of Importance. The
enemy is massed on our right All quiet
along the river.


Worlds special from Stoneman's Station,
Virginia, 10th An important cavalry
movement is about to be made near this
place, the object of the attack being to dis
lodge force Of the enemy located at vi
tally strategic position If the result Of
this movement proves to be as now antici-
pated, it will be CT the greatest moment
Il will transpire within few days. -
Year: 1863

1t is useless to disguise the fact, saws
the Selma Reporter, that Northern
Democrats, as 8 mass, are not in favor
of the separate nationality of the Con
federate States, They wish for peace,
but not upon the basis of disunion.
They are still deluded with dreams of
reconstruction, and will continue to
cling to the hope of such q consumma.
tion, however fallacious such expec-
fancy may appear to us. 1t is for no
political principle that Yankees fight,
for the war with thom is mere mat.
ter of life and death. They believe
and very properly, perhaps-that they
will be impoverished and ruined by the
permanent dissolution Of the old Union,
and hence they will defer the recogni.
ton of our independence until despair
succeeds the desperation with which
they wage this useless conflict. What
we most need at this iuncture is q tri
umph over the invader that will drive
him to the Ohio rivera crushing and
telling victory that will remove tho
theator Of war from our territory and
bring its horrid realities home to the
perfdious Yankees If the South would
gather up all its strength into one tire.
mendors effort, we verify believe that
the cowardly vandals could be hurled
back upon their own soil, and a cry
extorted for peace that would listen to
no denial.


While their armies can live and grow
fat upon the heart of the South, it is
not strange that they are in no hurry
to offer us the olive of reconciliation
Those who are directly responsible as
the instigators of the crusade, are
growing rich off its spoils. New Eng.
land is in a condition of unprecedented
prosperity. She cares nothing for the
slaughter of Yankees, since it relieves
her Of redundant population. AS
another has truly said, "it is living
interests and not dead soldiers about
which they interest themselves. They
must be whipped back out Of tho coun.
try, and their militarY strength greatly
shattered, before the true cry for peace
on the ground of Southern indepen.
dence will ever be heard. These re-.
suits might be greatly fastened BY
foreign recognition, and the presence
of conquering Confederate fleet
Year: 1863

RYE STRAW FOR BRAIDING.--A wri-
ter in the Edgefeld Advertiser gives
the following directions for preparing
rye straw for brafling:


The rye must DO cut while in bloom
Cut as carefully y as possible to prevent
breaking, early in the morning, and
bundle it immediately. before the sun
has much power on it. It must then
be taken to kettle Of boiling water,
and each bundle stepped three minutes,
thon open the bundler and spread out
to dry and bleach, clear sun being
almost Indispensable to fine oolor.-
After it becomes properly dried, pu,
into o bundle again to bo Kept in dry
place, where the dust cannot soil il,
Year: 1863

WHEN you find x before your name on
your paper, please renew your subscription.
rs it is notice that the time for which il
has been paid will expire in few days.


Articles of much length, intended for publi-
cation, must be handed in in the forenoon 10
insure publication next day.
Year: 1863

The loss OF blood, combined with the effects
OF the chloroform and his previous physical
prostfation, caused him to remain insensible
for come time, but On rallying he discovered
your correspondent By his side, aud zecog~
Year: 1863

E,EctrloN OF DEsERTERs Last Friday
this division was drawn out to witness most
PAINFUL scene: such one a. sad necessity
has made only too common In the army of
late. the execution of two deserters. sub
stitutes, from the I4th Connecticut volun-
ieers. Elliott and Eastman bv name. The
necessity Of this thing has been evident en-
uugh from the first moment we saw the style
of recruits the draft was sending on 10 us.
Its salutary effect If evident enough in the
almost entire cessation Of dcsertion since it
has been generally understood through the
army that the death penalty WAS sure to be
inflicted 1t is almost laughablc to see the
anxiety with which the stragglers from the
various regiments have been rushing back
to their commands within the last few days,
and the eagcrness with which they put in
their excuses But there were some un-
necessarily revolving circumstances connected
with the exection of this sentence that make
il a scene 10 be put out of ones mind and
forgotten as soon as possible. The poor boys
we're not informed Of the fate that awaited
them. did not know that their sentence was
a fatal one, till l. clock oi the very Friday
an which they were to be ''shot to death
before the hour of + p. IN. Who was re
@fll-llNlf t'fI LlllH NItNA ~ lliAf
Withholding of the sentence | cannot say,
but the result Of the court martial had been
published more than a week. Then the am
munition Of the firing party NEW ammuni-
uun. lust served out. and such as we are eX-
pcctcd to use in the approaching, perhaps
most important, battles Of the war) was 50
poor in quality that only three out of sixteen
guns went off at all, the men were only


4 Il
touched. and he slid off the coffin ON which
he sat, on to his knees, slipped the handker-
chief of his eyes and stared full in the face,
the men who came up singly and put the
muzzle Of their guns 10 his head and
snapped caps at him. And the provost
marshal in charge had TO come up with his
ryolyer 10 put the poor fellows out Of their
lscry-and then more guns were loaded and
more poor ammunition experimental upon
and the sentence finally fully executed, but
made into such a scene of hutchery that all
yves were turned away from it and all hearts
shocked bv it. | would not have said a word
IN description but in the hope that, II such
things are 10 be done in future the arrange
ments NAV be perfected beforehand 80 as to
avoid like bungling. Still no blame can be
laid in this instance that | am aware of, up
on the humane and gentlemanly officer wh0
had the painful duty in charge. lie could
not be supposed to know that Uncle sam :
agents wcr. furnishing us ammunition where
of not five cartridges in a hundred would 90
If. He supposed that the government de
partments whose busnes, it II, and govern
ment inspectors. who at large salaries IN safe
places, pass upon all our supplies, would see
To it that at least We were furnished with
powder and hall and percussion caps. a ma
iority OF which would 20 of at some rate
Dunn Brotrn.
Year: 1863

The first report of the First National Bank
of New York was published Oct. I'd, and is
considered highly favorable. The bank has
only been in operation sixty days and will
soon increase IT'S capitol.
Year: 1863

TIt is beautiful saying Of some BODY
that gratitude 10 the musie Of the heart
when it's chords are swept BY the gentle
breeze of kindnsss'' Many hearts, how
ever, might 40 we'll be strung with bed cord
for any music that ever comes from them.
Year: 1863

THE INDIAN TRouBLEs.-It is very evident that
some move must be speedily made to protect the
inhabitants on the southern and western Trinity
border. Trinity river is totally deserted from
and unless steps are speedily taken to guard the
settlers in Hay Fork valley, they too will be
obliged to leave. Either one of the companies
now in Humboldt county must be seat 20 protect
us or another will have to be raised for that pur-
pose. We hope between the Governor and Gen.
Wright something will be speedily done.
Year: 1863

"MY DEAR" said an anxious father to q bash
full daughter, 81 intend that you should be
married but do not intend that you shall throw
yourself away to any of the wild, worthless boys
Of the present day. You must marry man OF
sober and mature age, one that can charm you
with personal attraction. What do you think OF
iine intelligent mature husband of fifty p
The timid, meek, blue.eyed, little daughter look
ed in the old mans face, and with the slightest
possible touch Of interest in her voice, answered
81 think two of twenty five would be better
papa"
Year: 1863

Startling Ion Saturday last Mr.. Good
man, of the Popular Variety Store No ITO
Main street, actually received one dollar and
thirty cents in siiDer, in the way of change !
We have not been informed whether Good
man has taken an interest in Life Insurance /
Year: 1863

CALL FOR BEIGADIER GENERALS.
The following are the general orders
heretofore briefly referred to:


WAR DEPARTMENT.


ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE


WASHINGTON, June 20, 1861
General Orders No 1876.


The number of Brgadier Generals being
limited by law, the urgent necessity for Off
GERS Of that grade in the field requires that all
except those wounded in battle, whose health
is so infirm to have kept them from active
duty more than thirty days, should be mus
tered out and their places 1illed by Others ply
sically capable of service 1t is therefore
ordered:


First. That all officers of the rank of Brig
adler-General who have been absent more than
thirty days from duty on account of sickness.
other than those wounded in battle report the
present state of their health, and those who
report themselves unfit for duty in the field be
honoraby mustered out of the service within
ten days from this date.


Second That those who do not report unfit
for duty proceed within fOrty-eight hours after
the receipt Of this order to Join their commands
informing the Adjutant-G by letter of the
fact.


Third. That those who have been absent
more than thirty days by reason of wounds re-.
ceived in battle, report when they expect to be
able to resume duty, sending Surgeons GER
tificate setting forth the nature Of their wounds
and their present condition.


BY order OF the Secretary of War.


E. d. TOWNSEND,


Assistant Adiutant General.
Year: 1863

ESl met these two gentlemen yesterday.
They had just come down from Lake
Providence to transact some business with
General Grant They assured me they
were fully convinced that the new system
OF remunerated labor would, in the end,
benefit the planters; that it had worked
admirably for them SO far, and they were
perfectly satisfied with it.


| was not little interested in hearing
one of the Duncans combat the idea so
prevalent at the North, that this is, so far
as the South is concerned, Shareholders
rebellion He said it was not slavehold-
ers' war, nor rich mans war; that it was
an effort on the part Of the poor to raise
themselves at the expense of the rich.
The really wealthy men of the South, he
said, were opposed to secession from the
start, and are opposed to it now. It was
such men as Yancey, and a lot of bank
rupt merchants, who inaugurated it. Yam
cey was rich once but was insolvent just
before the war broke out. In proof of what
he said, Mr.. Duncan instanced the people
Of Copiah County, Mississippi. Copiah is
the poorest county in the State-haint
got enough good land in it to make a de-
cent tarm-nothing but scrub-oak and
horse-sorrel; yet it was the first county
to call Secession Convention; and in
that convention she declared, through AL
bert Gallatin Brown, that If Mississippi
wouldn't secede, tie free State Of Copioh
acOuld! Any one of the Duncans owned
more negroes at the time than were in the
whole county.


Mr.. Duncan is of the opinion that if a
property vote were taken in Mississippi
and Louisiana, both States would return to
the Union by overwhelming majorities
Year: 1863

A CUTE TRIcK.-A fashionable looking
lady not long ago drove up in handsome
private carriage to n well known lunatic
asylum, situated few miles from Paris,
and requested to see the proprietor. Her
wish being acceded to. She Informed the
doctor that she desired to lace her hus-
band under his care, to see il cruel ma
ola under which he labored, namely, that
be had lost large number of jewels,
could not be removed. After some hesi-
tation, the doctor consented, and the Ia
dy, on receiving his assurance, drove
directly to the first jewelers. in Paris,
and selected jewelry to the value Of sew
Sral hundred pounds. Requesting one
ofthe shopmen to 60 with her to procure
the money for the goods she had taken,
she drove with him to the insane asylum,
and on arriving there he was shown into
a room. The lady then sought the doc
tor, told him of the arrival Of her hus-
band, and getting into her carriage again,
drove rapidly away. The poor fellow,
after waiting and waiting grew impatient
and violently rang the bell. The doctor
made his appearance, and the young man,
commencing eagerly to enquire after the
lady and his jewels, was forced into O
straight jacket, the malady complained
Of as the doctor imagined, making its ap.
peaFance. He was confined several DAYS
before the lady's ruse was discovered.
Year: 1863

SPIRIT OF THE WEsT-The first number
of this new paper, hailing from Chicago,
is received As a Literary paper it Is
equal to any of the eastern publications,
and we see no reason why it should not
prove success. Certainly the number
before Us indicates that the Spirit of the
West will rival its Eastern competitors
as a leading Literary Journal
Year: 1863

We have at present upon our table schemes
Of finance that will fill the columns Of the
Enquirer for two weeks, were we to cSoit
all matter, advertisements included. The
subject Of finance is before the Congress, and
,as this body has the subject entirely under
its control, and as the public, however much
interest they may feel in this subject, cannot
effect or accomplish any thing, we would
suggest that all schemes relating to finance
be sent to the committees Of Congress. The
Enquirer" is over-stocked; and, IS at present
we have no Intention Of publishing work
on Confederate Finances, we have no use for
those at present in hand. or for any more
The committees of Congress. we hope, will
gladly receive and patiently examine those
that have so weighed upon our patience and
good nature. If the committees stand in need
Of suggestions, the rejected addresses" now in
this Office are at their service.
Year: 1863

On the 18th of July great Union meet
ing was held at Concord, New Hampshire, at
which Major General Butler made long
and patriotic speech. The following is the
closing paragraph, and gives us Buffers
plan of closing out the rebellion:


First, drive out the military power that
now holds the States, the fve hundred thou.
sand men there. Drive out the leaders; send
them to Mexico, if you choose, to make a
portion of Louis Napoleon's army send them
anywhere; get rid of them. Ny friends,
there are too. many Of them to hang; we
have right to hang them. but many things
tlat are right are not expedient. Send them
away; get rid of them extinguish them so
far as the land is concerned. 1t must be so /;
because we could not live with them in peace
when they were friends and can we live
with them as enemies? And when that is
done, and loyal men ask to come into the
Union to become portion of this great EN-
pire, we can admit them precisely as we have
admitted Western Virginia, and as / hope
we shall soon do Louisiana. Having got rid
OF those men who assume to be leaders, we
can reconstruct the Union, and my word for
it, my friends, bear with me or against me,
as the case may be in the future, in that
way only is there to be any reconstruction
of the Union. And when the nation is re-
constructed, when its laws are extended over
all that great territory again, when instead
Of having our attention diverted and driven
now as it is TO the question of war, we can
bring the whole energy of the public mind
and the whole talent of the public statesmen
of the country to this question, then will be
the time when we can deal with and settle,
in the providence of God, to our satisfaction,
and to His, this great question of what is to
be done with tho African race. Before that
time, in my judgement, it is of little conse-
quence to speculate upon the negro question
in any shape. Drive Lee and his myrmidons
away from tie gates of the capital, and then
look after the African. You see / am end
ing as began. end the regellion, and get rid
Of the suspension of habeas corpus; end the
rebellion and get rid ofmilitary arrests; end
the rebellion and get rid of military power /;
end the rebellion and become re- united end
the rebellion and then settle tte question Of
the African. Let me bn understood |
think it is best-if it is the best way to use
the African for the purpose of getting rid of
the rebels use him. But deal with him not
as the end but as means, not as result but
as an instrument in our hands-placed there
by God, for the protection of this country in
this hour of her peril "
Year: 1863

The celebrated female hound, Of pure En-.
glish blood. recently owned by j. W. Hode-
kins of Dexter, with her adopted family VI
five young foxes, have been purchased by a
gentleman of Bangor, and are on exhibition
at No. Is, Main street.


Mr.. Hodgkins, on the Sth of last April,
was out on a short hunting expedition with
this hound. She soon struck the trail Of a
fox, and drove it into its burrow. She rush
ed in after the fox, dragged it out and killed
it, thus gratifying the strong instructive pas
sion of her blood and race, to run down, over
come and destroy her adroit aud cunning
enemy. Mr.. lIodgkins came up just as,
leaving her lifeless victim, she was about to
plunge again into the burrow, when hearing
the whining cry of young foxes, he restrain
ed and prevented her. He opened the bur
row, took out five little foxes and put them
into his pockets. They screamed bitterly
from fear and for the loss of their dam.


In a moment the hound seemed to compre-
hend in their pitiful condition, and the fact
that she had been the cruel cause of it. She
threw herself upon the body of tie dead fox,
embracing it with her legs, rubbing it with
her nose, as if trying by every means in her
power to restore her to life ard her bereaved
young. Finding this impossible, she eage
ly and forgetful of everything else, followed
Mr.. Hokgkins home, keeping as close as she
could to the young foxes. Suspicious that
her natural appetite would triumph and impel
her to destroy them, be chained her and kept
her separate from them. But she was so ex-
cited and grieved, that his children, ignorant
of the cause of her suffering and pittying her,
let her loose; and, 10! springing into the
kennel where they lay huddled together, she
carressed and nestled down among them as
if they had been her own progeny. Her I'D
der had been dry fer more than year but
soon the milk flowed freely. and she has since
sucked, nourished and protected them with
most affectionate tenderness and care.


Concious that, by her own wanton cruelty.
she had bereft them of their dam, she at once
determined to fill her place and be to them
all that the former could have possibly been.
And well has she done it. As she fondles
them, and they in turn, jump and sport up
on and around her, her large, mild, iDtelli-
gent eyes express the consolation she feels in
making all the recompense in her power for
the injury she had done them, and in seeing
them so playful and happy.


1t is a rare sight-too rare to be forgotten.
Bangor Times.
Year: 1863

The rebels begin to have vivid giimpses Of
& the situation,n since the fall of Eicksburg
and Port Hudson, the defeat of Lee. and the
nearly successful assault upon Fort Wagner,
which the Charleston Mercury says is the key
to Charleston. That paper of the l4th July,
says:


I" 1t appears to us useless to attempt to dis.
guise from ourselves the situation. By whose
fault we got into it, is vain now to inquire,
the Yankees have gotten possession of the
southern half of Morris island There is but
one way to save the city of Charleston. and
that is, the speedy and unfinching use of the
bayonet. If the fight on Morris island Is to
he now fought by engineering and cannon
merely, the advantage is with the enemy.
With their iron clads on water, and their
men in occupation of the land, it is likely TO
become question of time The fall of Fort
Wagner ends in the fall of Charleston. Fort
Sumter, like Fort Wagner, will then be as
sailed by both land and sss, and the fate of
Fort Pulaski will be that Of Sumter. Gen.
Gilmore, Commander of the Department, is
the man who reduced Fort Pulaski"


The Mobile Advertiser says:


The Confederacy has seen darker DAYS
and emerged from them. 1t is not dark
enough to justify the prudence of those who
are ready to submit and anxious for peace
and security of their property on basis of
submission, to show their hands yet There
have been signs of this white feather futter.
ing during the past few gloomy days. Let
US warn them that it is base to feel and dar.
gerous to be premature in utterance of such
sentiments. The land has made too many
sacrifices for its freedom to falter at the last
hour. The timid and faithless must not be
allowed to falter in the footsteps of revolu-
ton it must roll on in triumph, although ity
wheels have to roll over them and their for.
tunes"


The Columbia (Georgia) Sun says


The people Of the Confederate States will
soon be called upon to undergo a severe tri.
al, one that will fully test the sincerity of
professions heretofore made. We cannot es-
cape the ordeal. The time for trying mems
souls is not far distant. Many, we fear, will
be weighed in the balance and found want
ing on that arsadfni day"