smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

thought to see thee never more
As if the earth had swallowed ne,
1t was to be with Us. swore,
Since from nv arms thou false, didst fee .
Never more would be fooled
By thy bewitching. charming face.
thought had my poor heart schooled
Thy name cen from my dreams to chase.
It was not light Gods how l striyed
With all my childish souvenirs!
1t was not light yet it arrived
And all ny pains were soothed by tears.
hardly thought I loved thee more,
had forgot thy mien and air,
Forgot that there were eyes in store
Which still could look 80 bright and fair.
But being lately banished here,
In dear converse with thee 10 finger,
seem to see, when thou art near,
OF former times the warning finger.
To see thy lips by others kissed,
To see thee lean on other shoulders
Now, first, know what have missed,
And that my early passion shoulders.
And when thine eye encounters mine
With that sweet glance, an angels, sure,
feel the dear old serpent twine
Around my heart its folds impure.
Thou bendest low to speak to me,
And thy old arts prevail again;
And before thee bend the knee,
The fool of love, with all its pain.
Release me, oh and suffer not
That I, like silly butterfly,
Should by the furnace bright and hot,
Be burnt for thy sad victory!
Let not the shadow of that bliss
From which forever We have parted;
From the enchantment of thy kiss
Oh, save thy victim, broken hearted


lBoSCAwEN.
Year: 1863

An IRoy EGG.-Iu Dresden there is an iron
egg, the history of which is something like
this; \ young prince sent this iron egg to a
lady to whom he was betrothed. She received
it in her hand and looked at it with disdain.
In her Indignation that he should send her
such gift she cast it to the earth When it
touched the ground spring, cunningly hidden
in the egg, opened, aud a silver yolk rolled out.
She touched a secret spring in the yolk, and a
golden chicken was revealed she touched a
spring in the chicken, and ruby crown was
found within she touched spring in the crown,
and within it was diamond ring. There is a
moral to the story.
Year: 1863

the pomp Of satiated luxugy-these constituted
the only claim to the popular admiration. If
Titus exhibited FIVE thousand wild beasts al
the dedication Of the amphitheatre, Trajan be
slowed ten thousand on the people at the close
of the Dacian war. If the younger Gordiau
collected together bears, elks zebras, ostriches,
boars and wild horses he was an imitator only
of the spectacles Of Carinus, IN which the rari-
ty of the animals was as much considered as
their herceneSs. Gibbons has well remarked a;
While the populace gazed with stupid Won
der on the splendid show, the naturalist might
indeed observe the figure and properties of 50
many different species, transported from every
tre of Rome. But this accidental benefit which
science might derive from folly, is surely insult
fcient TO justify such a wanton abuse of the
public riches" The public morality was sac
riiced on the same shrine as Its wealth. The
destruction of beasts became a fit preparation
for the destruction of men. \ small number
of those unhappy persons who engaged in fight
With the wild animals of the arena were trained
to these dangerous exercises, as are the mata-
dors of Spain at the present day. These men
were accustomed TO exhaust the courage of the
beast by false attacks to spring on a sudden
past him, strike him behind, before he could
recover his guard to cast a cloak over his
eyes, and then dispatch or bind him at the
critical moment of his terror or to throw q
capful of some chemical preparation into his
gaping mouth, so as to produce the stupefac,
tion of intense agony. But the greater part of
the human beings who were exposed to the
combats, perilous even to the most skiful,
were disobedient slaves and convicted malefac-
tors The Christians, during their prosecutions,
constituted very large number of tue latter
class. The Roman power was necessarily in
tolerant; the assemblies Of the new religion
became objects of dislike and suspicion the
patience and constancy of the victims increas-
ed the fury of their oppressors, and even such
man as the younger Pliny held that their
obstinacy alone was deserving of punishment.
Thus, then. the imperial edicts against the ear
II Christians furnished more stimulating exhi
bitions to the popular appetite for blood, than
the combat of lion with lion or gladiator with
gladiator. The people were taught to believe
that they were assisting at solemn act of
justice and they came, therefore, to behold the
tiger and the leopard tear the quivering limb
of the aged and the young, of the strong and
the feeble, without desire to rescue the help.
less or succor the brave"
Year: 1863

THERE is a sentiment as beautiful as it is
Just in the following lines; He who forgets
the fountain from which be drank, and the
tree under whose shade be gamb0led iu the
days of bis youth. is stranger to the sweetest
impressions of the human heart"
Year: 1863

GooD BARGAM.-A Republican out
West, says the only way to put down the
rebellion is to get the South to swap jeff
Davis for Old Abe and his whole Cabi-
nett The West is willing to make the
trade.
Year: 1863

NATIONAL MINsrRELs-fhis star troupe Of
their kind, performed in this place ou Monday
might last to very good house Their per-
Mmauces were well received by the audience,
particularly the earnest Z" Prayer TO Father
Abraham" which brought down the house in
perfect storm of applause. Walter Is re
markably gifted in prayer
Year: 1863

UNPARALLELED CRUELTY-At q eharivari
of newly married couple recently in Olympia.
W. T., an old man who participated in the
affair lost one Of bis legs. The serenading par
ty was very anxious to get hold of the person
Of the bridegroom. in order to make him ''stand
treat" and 10 this the front door of the build
ing was partly opened, when this old man
thrust bis leg in to keep open. Those inside
becoming eyaSperated at the conduct of the
party without, pushed the door against the in
truding limb and held it fast, while one of the
number procured q saw and actually sawed
the mans leg off inst below the knee The
agony of the poor man was not very excrucia-
ting. however, as the leg he lost was wooden
one Oregonian.
Year: 1863

CorPER.-The copper mines in this county
are destined, ere long. 10 exert powerful in


fueuce upon its prosperity. We have hitherto
forborne saying much upon the subject as
none of the various lodes had been sufficiently
prospected to indicate their richness. Even
now. although many shafts are being sunk, on
ly one, so far as We are advised, has yet reach
ed paying ore. That one is on what is gene
rally termed the Bliss ledge The ore
there found, at depth of only about Is feet
Mas been assayed, and found 10 yield fraction
over 80 per cent. of pure copper. The com
pany has been incorporated, and already stands
high and is rapidly advancing. Another ledge
or lode, of apparently about the same width
and general appearance as that Of the Bliss
ledge runs parallel with it, on the East, at
distance of about half mile This has been
claimed for some distance, and is being pros
pected by one company with every prospect of
success. Other minor lodes are also receiving
due attention from prospectors aud have ex-
hibited undoubted evidences of paying quanti-
ty and value. Sufficient proof may, therefore,
be considered as having been shown that cop
per mining will hereafter be one of the mate
rial interests of the county. Should such prove
to be the fact. of which there can now be no
doubt, works will undoubtedly be erected
somewhere in the mining district for smelling
the ore. Coal for that purpose can easily be
procured from Mr. Miller's mine in Table
mountain, which, by the way, is improving in
quality as the mine is being developed, and the
cost aud transportation of which will be com
paratively inconsiderable. Success to the cop
per interest and to the Copperbeads :"
Year: 1863

Mission OF THE DEMOCRATIC Parry
Judge George T. Curtis, in his brilliant speech
before the Democratic Union Association of
New York city, truly said, the mission ofthe
Democratic party is TO save the Constitution
OF the United States" Does any intelligent
man doubt that it will accomplish its glorious
mission
Year: 1863

The Alta and Bulletin it is understood, have
agreed to become organs of the anti Conness
party. which they are busy in organizing, to
avenge themselves for his election Eugene Gas
serly is their candidate for Governor.
Year: 1863

A Baltimore correspondent writes


"a STAKEHOLDER in Dorchester County,
in this State, recently said to his slaves
that they had his permission to volunteer


in the army, but requested them, when
they had made up their minds to so, to
inform him, and as they had driven him
many time to Cambridge, he would him
self drive them in his carriage thither on
this important mission. Sure enough.
they needed his request, and he drove
them to town in his carriage, on their
way to Baltimore, after fitting them Gu
quite literally. Last Friday he came to
the city and went out to Camp Birney,
to get his certificates for the three hun
dred dollar substitute money for each
slave, and to grant his obligation to free
them when the State laws would allow
him to do so. They met him as atfec-
tiona,ely and as demonstratively as sons
would meet their father. But his is an
insulated case in the dark field of slave
,,, -
Year: 1863

From the Richmond Sentinel. OctUbtf II J


We understand that in consequence q
the action of the British Counsuls rela
tive to foreigners enlisted in the Con ed'
craze service, the President has felt it hi
dety to dismiss them all from the Con(ed
eracy. We shall tomorrow lay before
the country the official correspondence,
in which the action of the Executive is
made known and the grounds of it ex,
pained.
Year: 1863

Es' Shoemaking is done extensively
in Iiaverhill Mass. by tho women. The
Banner says they work in gangs Of six
or seven hands each, the same as most
of the young men do, and make the shoe
straight out. from the lasting to the fin
ishing.
Year: 1863

Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
No craven images may be
Worshipped, save in the currency
Swear not at all; since for thy curse
Thine enemy is none the worse:
At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend:
Honor thy parents that is, all
From whom advancement may befall:
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Oficiously to keep alive:
Adultery it is not fit
Or safe (for woman) to commit:
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When It's as lucrative to cheat:
Bear not false witness let tho lie
Have time on its own wings to fly:
Thou shalt not covet but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.


ARTHUR HraH CLoUGH.
Year: 1863

WASHINGTON, March l9, 1868.


To the Editor Of the Chicago Erening Journal:


No friend Of the Administration can shut
his eyes TO the fact that it has not answer
ed the expectations Of the public TO my
mind, President Lincoln lost sight of the
fundamental princi pie OF our Government,
i. e., the right of tho majority to rule,
when he appointed the first Democrat to
Office. The people, by legal, constitu-
tional majority, voted the Government in
to the hands Of Rcpubllcans-voted for a
ckangc-voted that Republican men and
Republican measures should rule for four
years. "A portion Of the Democratic par
ty, and by tar the larger portion, rebelled
against this legal constitutional decree,
and in so doing struck blow which they
intended to be death blow at the vitals
Of republican institutions. They under
took to enforce their rebellion by armed
resistance; and in this emergency Presi-
dent Lincoln, instead of standing by this
imperiled principle, and holding, for veal
or woe, the reins which had been placed
in his hands by the people, handed one
balt OF them over to the very party which
the people had voted out and the mujority
Of which was in open rebellion.


That be did so from the feeling that
even loyal Democrats required consider
alton for their fidelity to the Government,
and from The best and most magnanimous
of motives, is certain. That every Gov
ernor Of the loyal States did likewise, and
that most of them preceded him iu this
work, is equally certain but the plan of
conciliasing foes at the cost of friends was
merely mistaken policy, while the giving
Office to party voted out by the people
was forsaking of the first principle of our
Government; and not until the Admins
tration comes up to the constitutional
ground of holding and welding the pow
er voted into its hands, will the full conf
dence Of the people be restored. This d.
viding the Government by its friends has
been the main cause of weakness.


Another cause Of distrust has been the
unpopularity Of the Lady of the. White
House. The impression has been almost
universal that she is and has been in SYM
pathy with the rebels that she betrayed
the secrets Of Cabinet meetings to secession
agents; that she selected her friends
amongst persons, of tlippant character, &c.,
and so on to the end Of chapter which
made her out anything but suitable per-
son for the high position she occupies.


I came to Washington so strongly pref
udiced against her that I quite made up
my mind not to see her, for fear should
be tempted to write something to increase
the feeling agaiast her, and SO lessen the
confidence Of the people in the Adninis-
tration. l let four public receptions pass
without calling, and was with difficulty per-
suaded to go to the Levee on the End inst.
AS had sent my baggage to Philadelphia
before concluding to go, was forced to 60
in my old black travelling dress, which
Year: 1863

The Secretary Of tho Treasury has
placed in the hands of the Paymaster Cen
eral sufficient money to pay the entire army
up to the lst of March. Sufficient has also
reached its destination to pay the army of
the West.
Year: 1863

We do not understand why sympathizers
with rebels in arms against this Government
should be allowed to enjoy its blessings, much
less to remain in this city protected by the very
laws which they despIse, to convert movements
Of the Army into reyerses upon which to spec
ulate in the gold and stock market, through
their agents, who are despatched to Philadel-
Thia and New York, whenever there are active
operations Of the Army, TO communicate with
the sccessionlsts who represent them in those
cities.


We see no reason why such fellows should
be allowed to remain in Washington. Why
not send them across the lines, where they can
apply their Infamous trade in practical way
under the iron rule Of JEFF. Davis.


We cannot conceive of a more contemplate
wretch than a man who is so great a coward
that he dare not place himself within reach OF
those with whom he sympathizes, who would
put arms In his hand and make him practice
what he breaches, but who sneaks away from
his friends leaving them TO struggle hravely
alone, while he seeks shelter among men whom
ne hates in his heart, and under a Government
that he is secretly laboring to break up, not
0nIy in the capacity Of a spy, but as a coiner
of lies ts affect the money market and bring
i.scredlJ upon the Government at home and
-rroai.


This Is not all. The most dangerous class
If persons in this city, aud in the large cities
4 the Sorth, are secesh women. They are
numerous. They claim and receive the protcc'
ton Of this Government. They make 1t thelI
business to ensnare our army and navy officers
and men into their residences, some of which
are private boarding and lodging houses.


Some Of the most dangerous of these spies
and secessionlsts have been long residents here.
Their relatives and friends are in the Southern
army. They ought not to be allowed to en-
mare Federal officers, nor to have the limits OF
the city. Send them across the lines 10 suffer
with the boder and more honest traitors that
they may sympathze and suffer together. W,
have had enough of liberation 1t don't pay
Severity should be applied, and 1--WE must b,
ref when traitors brave the held."
Year: 1863

Yesterday afternoon a flag Of truce was sent
across the Rappahannock by General Leo with
a letter to General Hooker, in which 1t was
stated that Lees army was deficient In sup
plies and their communications cut off, so that
It was difficult to reinforce their commissiarat,
rendering it necessary that General Hooker
should send over supplies for the wounded sol.
dlers in the hands of the Confederates.


Medical and hospital supplies were sent oveI
In response to this communication, which In
dlcates so plainly the great success Of General
stoneman's cavalry expedition.
Year: 1863

A large number Of the prisoners captured in
The late battles are both willing and anxious
70 take the oath Of allegiance. They say they
zee nothing bnt starvation staring them In the
face # they return, and that 1t will be folly to
yToIong the present struggle
Year: 1863

We quarrepd this morning, my wife and I,
We were out of temper, and scarce knew why,
Though the cause was trivial and common;
But to look in our eyes you'd swore that we both
Were a couple of enemies. spiteful and wroth-
Not a welded man and q woman.
Wife, like tragedy queen in play,
Tossed her sweet little head in as lofty way
As so little woman was able;
She clenched her lips with a sneer and frown,
While /, being rougher, stamped up and down,


Like q careless groom in stable.
You'd have thought us the bitterest (seeing III
them
OF little women and little men,


You'd have laughed at our spite and passion;
And would ne'er have dreamed that a storm lik'
this
Would be rainbow'd to tears by that sunlight,
kiss,


Till we talked in the old fond fashion.
Yet the storm was over in less than an hour,
And was followed soon by a sunny shower,


And that again by embraces;
Yet so little the meaning was understood
That we almost felt ashamed to be good.


And were blush our faces.
Then she, as a woman, much Drawer became,
And tried to bear the whole weight of the blame


By her kindness, her self-reproving;
When, seeing her humble, and knowing her true
all at once, became humble, too,


And very contrite and loving.
But, seeing acted an humble part,
She laughed outright with frolic heart


A laugh as careless as Cupid;
And the laughter wrangled along my brain
Till almost fell in passion again,


And became quite stubborn and stupid.
And this was the time for her arms to twine
Around this stubbornest neck of mine,


Like the arms of maid round lover;
And, feeling them there, with their warmth, you


know,
laughed quite different laugh; and SO


The storm Gas 1 called i'll was over.3
So then we could talk with the power to please;
And though the passing of storms like these


Leaves a certain fond facility
Of getting easily angry again,
Yet they free the heart and rebuke the brain,


And teach US a rough humility.
You see that we love one another so well,
That we can find more comfort than you can tell


In jingling our bells and corals;
In the fercer fights of world SO drear,
We keep our spirits so close and clear,


That we need such trivial quarres.
In the great, fierce fights of the world, try
To shield one another, my wife and l,


Like brave, strong man and woman;
But the trivial quarrels O. days and nights
Unshackls our souls for the great, fierce fights,


And keep us lowly and human.
Clouds would grow in the quietest mind,
And make it unmeet to mix with its kind.


Were nature less wise as mother;
And with storms like ours. there must futter out
From the bosom the boarded up darkness and


doubt


The excess of our love for each other!
Year: 1863

.RTOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue ae a


IN license granted by Clifford Shanahsn, Judge
of the Probate Court for the County of Cass in the
State of Michigan shall offer for sale at public
auction the following described Real Estate situate
in said County of Cass, to wit: Commencing
thirty rods north of the section corner on
the line between sections eleven and twelve in
running thence west ten rods, thence north eight
rods thence east ten rods, thence south eight rods
to the place of beginning. containing eighty rods
of land it being lots nine and ten on the west side
,of the highway of Village lots in Nicholsville on
SATURDAY,, the Eighteenth day of April next, be.
tween tie hour of nine O'Clock in the forenoon and
the setting of the sun the same day on the prem
ises above described for the payment of the debts
Of Administration.


February Il, 1853. feb2S-16ws (
Year: 1863

THE GREAT CAvALRY FIGHT.


Elsewhere VIC devote considerable space
to an account Of the late great cav
airy battle at Beverly Ford, Va, the
most remarkable encounter Of the war,
and which derives an increased local
Interest from the fact that our own brave
9Th Illinois cavalry had hand in the bat
tic. The origin OF the fight was singular.
il came to pass much as If citizen in his
apartment at midnight cropping his way to
dasten window, should stumble in the
dark upon an armed burglar already with
in the apartment. So Pleasanton's Fed
cral troopers, feeling their way along the
north bank Of the Rappahannock, on the
lookout for rebels, came plump upon
heavy rebel cavalry force actually on their
way northward for raid into MARYLAND.
How they fought and repulsed them, how
sabre crossed sabre, hi1t rang on hilt, steel
pressed against steel, in the first great cav
airy fight Of this war, is set down else
where, and later dispatches state the rebel
leader Stuart dead, and our force pursuing
his flying force.
Year: 1863

On Saturday afternoon, at 4 O'Clock, the
body of the late Admiral Foote was taken to
New Haven by the steamboat. The Committee
on National Afiairs-in the Common Council
desired TO have public ceremony, but the ar
rangementS Of the family would not admit of
it, The body lay in state for several hours,
and at O'Clock was taken, under an escort of
marines, TO the boat. The final funeral SER
vices were to take place this afternoon.
Year: 1863

LAND OFFICE, Bangor. June l. 1853.
L pursuance of law a defined in chapter 8. Sec
ton 81, Revised Statutes. and of orders from the
Governor and Council. approved February 8. aud
March % 1853 hereby give notice that the follow
ing schedule of Lands will be offered for sale on
Tuesday at II O'Clock noon, the first day OF Sep
tember next AZ the Land Office, at price per acre
not less than the minimum fixed In the advertised
list.


The sale to be by sealed proposals in conformity
with the provisions of the foregoing Chapter and
Section, which require that ten percentum of the
minimum price of the township part thereof shall
accompany each proposal. which shall consti-
tute part of and be allowed in the cash payment to
be made upon the township tract purchased


The person making the highest bid above the min.
imum price shall be declared the purchaser, and on
payment of one-third of-the purchase money in
cash. including the ten per cent of the minimum
price deposited the Land gent shall make ont and
deliver to him conditional deed in the usual form
of State deeds of the tract by him purchased taking
for the remainder of the purchase money, three
promissory notes for equal sums, payable annually
in one, two aud three years. with interest, and a
bond with sufficient surety for the payment of fair
stumpage of all timber cut thereon. to be applied to
the payment of the notes.


The sum deposited by any other bidder. who
does not become a purchaser, mo be withdrawn by
him at any time after the bids declared and re-
corded