smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

"ere animals competent 10 adVlse as
to what should be grown and stored for
their winter sustenance, there would be
uuanlmous request for at least q few car
rots, turnips, or beets, to be fed with tho
hay which must form the staple Diet
This request should be freely granted
not merely in kindness to dumb creatures,
though that is something. 1t makes a
man feel pleasant to witness the welcome
which attends The distribution Of an occa-
sional juicy breakfast to stock that havo
been longing for something succulent.--
Variety of food promotes appetite and
growth rs well as pleasure to the animal
palate. 1t is also no small help to the
hay NOW and grain room to have we'll
filed bin of roots TO draw from. Al
though given weight Of grain will add
more pounds of flesh than the same
amount of roots, yet larger quantity Of
food per acre can be secured from tho lat
ter. Fifty bushels of corn is above the
average yield; with fair cultivation twelve
hundred bushels of mangel wurzels can
be produced, and much more by proper
manuring and tillage. But there is less
need than formerly to urge the cultivation
of root crops, particularly in the older set
tied portions of the country. At the far
West where corn and hay are almost SUI
perabundant, these may suffice; but
throughout the East the benefit of root
culture is yearly being more highly apprc-
ciated.


There is yet time to put inn winter
supply of ruta bagas, boets and carrots.
White turnips are better left until July.
Sugar beets and mangel wurzels should
be planted the present month. Carrots
head the list for all kinds of stock, includ-
ing horses; next We prefer beets; the
mangel wurzel Is most productive. All
roots need rich, deep, mellow soil. 1t is
discouraging to an entorprising beet or
carrot to plow its own way into hard
subsoil. Struggling roots here and there
NAV find n small creyice in which to bur
row, but the crop under such circumstances
will be stuntcd and poor. A we'll titled
field occupied by corn the previous year
will usually be favorable location; u
good dressing of old manure should be
we'll worked into the soil. Much labor
will be saved if the land be free from
weeds. The first crop of these may be
mostly destroyed bv plowing early, allow
ing them to spring up, and then going
over the whole with acultivator harrow.
The seed should be put in drills two feet
apart for mangel wurzels, or ruta bagas,
and sixteen or eighteen inches for carrots;
nothing is gained by crowdug the ground.
AT the first hoeing, thin the beets to ono
foot apart, the carrots to six inches.-
About four pounds of beet seed or two
pounds Of carrot seed per acre will be re-
quired. The after culture will consist in
keeping the ground clean and loose. AL
most the whole of it can be performed
with the horseshoe. 1t may not DO advis
able to commence largely at first, but we
feel assured that those who commence
with quarter of an acre by way of ex-
pertinent this year, will increase tho size
of the plot in future, particularly if proper
attention DO given to the first Investment.
-Am. Agricult'~ist.


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Year: 1863

THE Attorney General has decided
that unless the soldier or sailor who dies
of wounds received in tho service, and
while in line of his duty, be in the service
at the time of his death, his widow, &C.,
is not entitled to a pension.
Year: 1863

SHOCKING CAsUALITY-Two Gull
DREN SUFFocATED.-A letter mentions
the following sad occurrence near South
Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y: Three
children were left at home alone, while
their mother was away washing for some
family. The children were playing with
the cat, and hid from it in a cupboard the
door of which fastened with a spring
catch. The cat rubbed against the door
and closed it! The eldest child, a girl of
ten years, was cripple. She was near
the crack in the door, and could SEQ the
clock. The mother had promised to be
at home in four hours. She watched the
clock and when the time was up they
were all alive. Soon after the other two
children fell asleep and expired. The eld-
est child heard her mother come home,
but she was so nearly suffocated that she
could not speak. Bur her mother found
her in time to save life. The children
had made every effort to get the door
open, and had worn the skin off from
their little limbs, elbows and shoulders, in
their fruitless endeavors.
Year: 1863

loving mother, who sat waiting and full
OF tremulous tenderness at home-this
was oil to the fair, young sister, who had
sent out her last farewell on a sob" Our
boy is lost"


Dear children, whose eyes may be dim
med for pity of the broken-hearted old
man, this story is not all Of my fancy. l
had its principal facts from the lips of the
passenger who witnessed that fathers an
guish over his boy that was, and is NOT,
And have written it for you here, with
this still May afternoon leaning gstowards
tho night, with tho soft, furrowed clouds
folding away the fair face of the spring
sky.


"Stop herl Stop herp Never, on
board some steamer ploughing her path
through the storm, may you hear that
cry; but oh, on another sea, where have
gone down many and princely freights,
there will assail you terrible storms of
wind and wave!


"Stop herl Stop herI" In the gales
Of passion and tho storms of life may
your soul learn the meaning and majesty
of that call


"Stop herl Stop herp' Iftho break
crs arc ahead-if the rocks lie before
if the path on which you are going is in
anywiso the path of sin, the way of DEATH !


Be vigilant, be prompt on tho broad
Atlantic of your life, for there "the winds
may arise, the rains beat" and where loss
and ruin lie before the path o: your fair
and stately ship: "Stop her! Stop
herv'-Arthur's Home Magazine, July.


A New YORK COLONEL AND VIR-
GINA G1RL.-Still further on, certain
Colonel, Staff Officer OF one of our Gen
erals, noted for his talent for repartee, and
the favorable opinion which he entertain
ed of his own good looks, stopped at the
house of farmer, and discovered there
fine mich COW, and, still better, n pret-
ty girl, attired in a neat calico dress, cut
low in the neck and short in the sleeves.
After several unsuccessful attempts to en-
gage the young lady in conversation, he
proposed to her to have the cow milked
for his own special benefit. This she in
dignantly refused. The Colonel not
wishing to compromise bis reputation for
galantry, remarked, that if all the young
ladies in Virginia were as beautiful as
the one he had the pleasure Of addressing,
he had no desire to conquer the Confede-
racy. With toss of her pretty head,
and slight elevation of her nose, she an
swered thus


"Well, sir, if all the gentlemen in the
army arc as ugly as you are, we ladies
have no desire to conquer them" How
are you Colonel!-C Correspondence NeaO
York Tribune.
Year: 1863

Our Flag We ere at q loss for words to
sufficiently express our thanks to the patriotic
ladies Of the Fifth aud Sixth Wards, Tor their
manifest appreciation of the labors Of the
Dayton EMPIRE in the cause Of constitutional
liberty, by the presentation of a magnificent
flag, the work Of their own fair hands 1t
has encouraged and nerved our hearts to re-
newed and greater exertions in the great bat
tie for the preservation Of the Union, the
Constitution, and Freedom


We fling the starry emblem of liberty to
the breeze, and God grant that the flag of
the free" brought forth untarnished IRON the
fiery ordeal of the American Revolution, aud
transmitted to us as priceless Inheritance
by our patriot forelathers, may never wave
over people ems laved.


In connection with the flag was presented
beautiful wreath, emblematcal Of Love,
Purity and Fidelity


God bless the ladies and the dear old flag
"Long may they wave.


Indictment Weather The rain this
morning greatly nteriered with the turnout
to the Democratic mass meeting, Quite a
number of beautifully decorated wagons, ban
ners, &c, were kept away on account of the
weather.
Year: 1863

4 young gentleman happening to sit at
church in a pew adjoining one in which sat
u young lady for whom he conceived a sud-


den and violent passion, was aesirns of en-
terlng into a courtsh p on the spot; but the
place not suting formal declaration, the
eXgency OF the case suggested the follow
ing plan: He politely handed his fair neigh
Dor Bible open, with a pin stuck in the
following text - Second EpistIe of John,
verse fifth: And bpscech thee lady, not
as though | wrote Il new commandment un-
to thee b that which we had from the be-
ginning. that we love one another She re-
turned it, pointing to the second chaptrr Of
Ruth. verse tcntl-'rhen she fell on her
face, and bowed herself to the ground. and
said unto him, why nave found grace in
thine eyes, that thou sh"uldet take knowI.
edge Of me, seeing that | am II stranger 2


He returned the book pointing to the thir-
teenth verse Of the Third Epistle of John
Having many things to write unto you, |
would not write with paper and ink, hut I!
trust to come unto you, and speak face to face,
that our joy may be full From the above
interview marriage took place the en-
suing month. n
Year: 1863

g<5"A A very skiltul mason was employed
to build an oven, winch he com cted in his
usual style The first time it was used, the
whole structure tnmhed into ruius, and the
ow er having found the mason, tho follow
ing conversation occurred:


i have some news for you.


'1h what is it?


The oven you built for me has fallen
down.


oh that S nothing newt it had fallen
up that would have been news indeed" In
spite Of veyation, Il owner had to laugh al
the mason's c,olness, and left him to seek a
good workman to rebuild the oven.
Year: 1863

letter to the New York Tribune, dated iu Washing
ton the 9Th instant that the
from Gen Jefferson Davis and his Adjuant General to
Gen Lee reveal the later campaign the why it
not carried out the points to which the rebel Govern
ment sending reniorcements and the precarious cond
tion in which it considers its capital to be- According to
these dispatches the writer learns through truswor
thy channels Gen Lee invaded Pennsylvania without the
altogether approve of the movement The object OF the
ssmpagn The capture Of Washington, which TO be
effected in this wise Lee draw Hooker into Penn
syvania sufficiently far to Washington, which
Beauregard with thirty thousand men TO be concentrated
at Culpeper Courthouse then to attack and take
But further appears from these dispatches Gen Davis
felt unable to spare Beauregard thirty thousand
any number Of men, t. operate with Lee He said that
he considered the need Of Johnston who constantly
calling for rein0rcenents to make his army sufficiently
strong to relieve Vicksburg the vital point" decidedly
imperative than that Of Gen Lee, and had therefore
sent him all the that could be spared by Beauregard
or Bragg Nor could renforcemens be sent from Virg;
MIA Richmond Gen Lee is officially assured, is seri-
ousy threaened and small its garrison that the cit
zens are organizing for its defence The rebel Adutant
General Cooper gives the number Of troops Richmond,
at Pete and the Backwater aud undertakes to
state the strength Of the national army by which be
ceives the rebel capital to be threatened.
Year: 1863

Under this heading the Baltimore American Of yeser-
day says The evil OF short enlistments is in the
return Of regiments at the time when the Government
most needs their services Within few days three reg
ments have passed through here northward, with full
ranks, neither Of which had fired shot in action
been battle Does any suppose that there
in the rebel that has been nine months
in the field without opportunity to test its mettIe "


On Tuesday last the Twenty.6fth Maine Regiment, mum
berng about hundred men Col Fessenden marched
from Virgins and took the train for their homes their
term of service having expired The Twenty seventh Ne
giment from the State numbering ak hundred men,
Col H arrived here Tuesday afternoon and let yes
terdsy morning The Twenty third Maine Regiment also
started for home Monday
Year: 1863

JAMES G. WILLING, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.


The subscription price of this paper for year il Two
DOLLARS, payable in advance.


Aeducon of 90 per cent fifth Of the full chargel
will be made to any who shall order and pay for at
time ten copies of the Weekly paper and reduction OF
95 per cent Cor oneourth of the full charge to any ono
who will order and pay for at time, twenty more
copies.


No accounts being kept for this paper it will not be sent
to any unless paid advance any longer than
the time for which il is paid.
Year: 1863

The President on Saturday morning, in the fol-
lowing brief address, announced to the country his
posing the Army Of the Potomac, who have SO gal
lantly maintained ut this important crisis the cause
Of the Republic:


WASHINGTON, July 40 A. n. 1863
The President to the country that from
the Army Of the Potomac up to clock NJ Of the Sd
such with the honor promise
great TO the Of the Union and to claim the
coincidence Of all for the many gallant fallen; and that for
this he especially desires that this day He whose will
not should be done be every where remembered
and reyerenced with profoundest gratitude.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Year: 1863

We find in Western paper the subjoined cx-
ScHoFTELD, which it is proper for US to copy as
explanatory of his for an important official
act In this case, however, the insertion Of the
letter is a pleasure well duty; for we have
seldom seen any thing from the Presidents pen
at once so characteristic of the simplicity which
marks the expression Of his thoughts, and Of the
good sense and directness which distinguish his
decisions whenever left to the guidance of his own
untrammelled judgment Excellent in all its
parts, as a whole the letter is unique How
clearly he points out to his lieutenant the path of
duty and safety in his difficult trust With what
sagacity he counsels him, eff both factions abuse
you, or neither, you will be right. Bepare Of
being assoiled by one and praised By tte other


EXECUTIVE MANSION,


"WAsHINGToN, MAY "a, 1868.


DEAR SIR: Having removed Gen. Curtis and assigned
you to the command of the Department Of the Missouri
b tmay be Of for to state you why
did it, did not relieve Gen Curtis because Of my full
conviction that he had done wrong by oms-
sion. did it because of conviction 10 my mind that the
Union of Missouri, constituting when united vast
majority OF the whole people, have entered into pestent
factiona quarrel among themsevesGen Curtis, perhaps
not of choice being the head of one faction and Governor
Gamble that Of the other. After months Of labor to
conce the difficulty it seemed to grow and
until felt it my duty to break up somehow and
could not remove Gov. Gamble had to remove Gen.
Curtis Now that you in the position, wish you
undo nothing merely because Gen. Curtis Gov Gamble
did il; but to exercise your judgment and do right
for the public interest Let your military measures be
strong enough to repe the invaders and keep the peace
and not strong to unnecessarily hara and persecute
the people. II is difficult role, and much greater will
be the honor if you perform it well II both factions or
neither, shall abuse you you will probably be about right
Beware Of being assaed by and praised by the other


"Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN


Gen. j. M. SCHoFIELD."
Year: 1863

ADJUTANT BAxrER the heca-
tomb which tho devoted Seventh offered up
in the ravins at Ringgold, there was none
brsvsr, boldsr, more patriotic, With abrighter
or more brilliant career before him, than It's
Adjutant, Norris Baxter. At the top Of the
slops be fell, cheering on the regiment. But
mortal men could not face the hellish blaze
of the ensmy's fire, and the regiment slowly
fell back, leaving poor Baxter away up the
slope. The rebel robbers carried him Of
over the crest of the hill, and stripped him
Of watch, money, clothing, ali, leaving him
naked to die. He was afterward found by
onr men, but not till too late, he died soon
after being taken back to Chattanooga.


Baxter was but twenty three at his death.
He entered the ranks Of the Seventh as q
private on the very first raising of the regi-
ment, and had BY merit won his way to his
present position He had been in all the
battles Of The Seventh but Antietsm, and
distinguished himself in every one. Never
home on furlOugh, he was always ready for
duty.


Both his parents aud large family Of
brothers and sisters live to mourn him.
Year: 1863

will stop. You internal rebel. Stop now, or
I'll throw you out of .he window"-the train


was going at twenty miles an hour-"I know
your rights as paroled prisoner: you are uli-
der the protection of the government. That
does not authorize you TO abuse and insult it.


You have abused your privilege No man in
rebel uniform shall abuse my government in
my hearing without paving the penalty of his
insolence." BY this time Allston's big copper
mead friend attempted to say something. mot
word from you, (said Col. NJ. you miserable
copperhead; You sat here and listened to this
rebels treason without resenting il; if you
had grain of manhood you would have saved
me the necessity of interfering. Not word
from you, or I'll take you in hand You are
meaner than this rebel" That settled the
fellow, and he subsided. A third attempted
to interpose and was summarly dried up in
similar manner. The rebel Colonel sank back
in the corner Of his seat and tried TO look
composed, but his mind was evidently "all
torn up" He did not whisper again while
the gallant Moody was on the cars.
Year: 1863

religious viewsand inhabit regions close.
ly connected BY natural and artificial ties.
They will, therefore, both be always Anne.
rican. The only great difference between
them is of social and political nature,
namely, that which arises from the exis-
tence of African slavery in one, and its
absence in the other. ,4I...


This fact, however, offers no obstacle
whatever to such separation as is inyol-
we'd in independent political jurisdictions |;
on the contrary, it greatly facilitates it.


Before the Federal Union was establish
ed all the States were independent, and
associated under Articles of Confederation,
in the nature of treaty. The argu-
ments now adduced to show the impracti-
cability of present separation between the
North and South, go with equal force 10
prove the impossibility of what then actu-
ally existed and was accepted in the case
of the thirteen original States of the
Union. The latter stood toward each
other precisely as the North and South
would stand, should they stop the war
and enter into treaty. 1t would simply
be resolving the North and South into
confederate States, resuming, as to them,
the old basis of the Confederation. This
would be the whole of it. 1t is therefore
a very simple operation.


I do not suggest this, however, on the
idea that should it ever be adopted, the
separation it implies would insure on ul-
innate reunion on an anti-slavery basis.


[ have confidence in the inherent vital
ity of Northern civilization. I have no
fear to set it in competition with that of
the South. Let them proceed side by
side in the race of empire, and we shall
see which will triumph.
Year: 1863

Let the business Of every, body alone


and attend to your own; do not buy what
you do not want; use every hour to adj


vantage, and study to make even your. lei
sure hours useful; think twice before you
throw away q shilling--remember you
will have another to make for il; find rec
reation in looking after your business,
and so your business will not be neglect
ed in looking after recreation; buy low;
sell fair, and take care of the profits;
look over your books regularly, and if
you find an error, trace it out; should
stroke of misfortune come upon you in
trade, retrench, work harder, "but never
fly the track" confront difficulties with
unfinching perseverance,, and they will
disappear at last; though you should even
fail in the struggle, you will be honored;
but shrink from the task and you will be
despised.


BY the following of these rules, how
ever, you never need say "failp Pay
debts promptly, and so exact your dues;
keep your word.
Year: 1863

LIVE FOR SoMETHING.-Thoasands Oh
men breathe, move and live, pass off the
stage of life, and are heard Of no more
Why? They did not a particle Of good
in the world; and none were blest by
them, none could point to them as the in
struments of their happy redemption !;
not line they wrote, not word they,
spoke, could be recalled, so they perisbed
their light went out in darkness, and
they were not remembered more than the
insects of yesterday. Will you thus live
and die, o man immortal? Live for
something. Do good and leave behind
you a monument of virtue that the storms
of time can never destroy.
Year: 1863

Among the Seminole Indians there is a
singular tradition regarding the white
mans origin and superiority. They say
that when the Great Spirit made the
earth, lie also made three men, all of
whom were fair complexioned +; and after
making them he led them to the margin
of small lake and bado them leap in and
wash. One obeyed, and came out of the
water purer and fairer than before the
second hesitated moment, during which
time the water, agitated by the first, had
become muddied, and when he bathed he
came out copper-colored; the third did not
leap till the water became black with mud,
and he came out its own color Then the
Great Spirit laid before them three pack
ages, and out Of pity for misfortune in col
or, gave the black man the first choice
He took hold of each of the packages, and
having felt the weig ght, chose the heaviest;
the copper-colored then chose the next
heaviest, leaving the white man the light
est. When the packages were opened,
the first was found to contain spades, hoes,
and all the implements of labor the sec-
ond enwrapped hunting, fishing and war
like apparatus the third gave the white
man pens, ink and paper-the engine Of
the mind, the means of mutual improve
ment, the social link of humanity, the
foundation of the white mans superiority.
Year: 1863

people, nor that political cant about the
Union SO prevalent among the dishonest
ones. have simply regarded it as form
of government, to be valued in proportion
to, its merits as an instrument of national
prosperity and power. GA &&e
Year: 1863

STARTING IN THE WoRLD.--Many an
uuwise parent labors hard and lives spar
ingly oil his life for the purpose of leay-
ing enough to give his children a start in


the world, as it is called. Setting a young
man afoat with money left him by his re-
latiyes- is like tying bladders under the
arms of one who cannot swim; ten chan
ces to one he will lose bis bladders and
20 to the bottom. Teach him to swim,
and he will never need the bladders.--
Give your child a sound education, and
you have done enough for him. See to it
that his morals are pure, his mind cultiva-
ted, and his whole nature made subser-
Went to laws,which govern man, and you
have given what will be Of more value
than the wealth of the Indies. y byesa5
Year: 1863

That QrnriSa.-A G bodily number
assembled IN McCune's Ha las. evening
for the purpose Of making themselves
generally useful aud Hgteeable. and they
succeeded admirably The gentlemen
also took very active part a number Of
them qniltibg and rendering what other
assistance they conid to help on the work
The Hospital Baud was sn attendance q
and dlscoursed sweet 'uusia to the joyous
throng There was NO end to the ice-
cream and other refreshments. and no
lack OF customers
Year: 1863

FoRwaRp.-The dry spring which we
have thus far had has enabled the farm
srs to get in their crops unusually early.
and already the well cultivated fields are
dressed in "living green" Success 70
our sturdy yeomanry; upon their hbors
depends the existence ofthr nation.---and
whatever be our financial and political
misfortunes. We may safely count in this
land Of broad and fertile plains and sunny
skies upon an abundance to eat for both
man and beast. The present spring is 50
forward as to give promise Of a good crop
in the coming autumn.