smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

There are constant developments osm-
lag to light Of loyal element existing in
the seeded States, chapparently needs
tnly guidance, encouragement and pro-
lection to take 3 substantial and practical
shape. In Louisiana, in Mississippi, in
Arkansas, in North Carolina, is the spirit
Of loyalty TO The old Government being
manifested, and nothing is wanting but
the removal Of the terrOrs of rebel despOt-
ism, and to create feeling of personal Sc
eurity under the old flag, to induce men by
thousands to show their allegiance. While
Copperheads North are talking about O
restoration Of the Union as it was" the
Overborne, snd hitherto silent loyalists Of
the South emphatieally say, Give us the
Union, its protection and its safeguards
back again, though the entire abrogation
and eradication OF slavery be the result
These men, having tasted the bitterness Of
the rebellion, would gladly relinquish
slavery for the Union.


As fast, and as far IS possible these
loyalty disposed people in these States
should be taken under the care Of the Ns-
tional Government by the appointment of
militury Governors, as in Tennessee
Thus will the work Of reconstruction 20
rapidly forward.


The .COpperhesd bugbsar CRY of the
Union as il was" must frigbten or deter
no one, longer. We must get the strength,
the courage, and the bOldness to say that
we do not want the Union as it was, with
slavery in it, its master and its CURSE
Save the Union, but cast out from it, the
element Of its destruction, that thrice ac-
cursed system, whose bsleful influence has
arrayed States, discordsnt and bslliger-
ent against each other in deadly strife, and
drenched the land with blood.
Year: 1863

to the Committee, that their hand should
never falter, and never let an enemy escape
Only by putting the irrevocable penalty Of
death on every attempt to discover their
identity, and inhicting that penalty without
moments hesitation could they have kept
their mystery concealed so long. Only by
allowing no offence against their DEGREES,
no negl lect of their instructions to pass unno
tced and unpunished, could they have made
themselves so terrible and so feared that
neither Pole nor Russian dare to disobev; that
their slightest command is compiled with as
no despots orders ever were before, and even
the Grand Duke Constantine has been asses
sed by this Government, and forced to pay
in his own city, taxes to the very Govern
ment which he is there to subdue by all the
the rigors of military barbrrism.


Indeed, every action of every official of
the Russian Government in Warsaw, seems
to be known to the secret government,
whose spies must be in every Department of
the Russian Administration, to make such
minute and speedy reports. Thirty two
hundred thousand rubles vanished from the
Government Treasury in Warsaw, and when
on investigator was ordered, four department
atficers We're found missing, and receipt
from the secret government for the full
amount was found on the floor of the vault
A county squire who had been playin. the
spy for the Russians was condemned bv the
National Committee to receive . hundred
Iashes, of which fifty were given him by
four masked persons with the Instruction to
report to the Mayor rs soon as he felt strong
enough to receive the rest. lie did report;
for had he not done so, or had he endeavor'
ed to make the matter known to the police,
he knew it would only have resulted in bis
losing his life.


At a festival in Warsaw, band of musi
clans performed some dances and lively airs,
whan young man brought in a letter to
the director and left. The director opened
the note, and read it, and refused to touch
The instrument again. The music was stop
ped and nothing could induce the musicians
to commence again.


Since writing the above the European
mails have brought us news Of the first seri-
Gus reverse which has happened to the Sc
cre government. Three of its agents, com
missNned to intlict sentence of death upon
the Russian police officer Frtche, were caught
in the act, and their arrest had led to the
discovery of one Of the members of the Gov.
ernment who has ordered the deed.


Phil 10e
Year: 1863

When poor man has pretty daughter
about eleven or twelve years old-the age at
which Persian ladies are supposed to have
matrimonial views-a marriage broker waits
upon him and cndeavors to strike bargain
for her. The broker, generally a moolah or
priest, will, perhaps, offer from two to four
hundred tomauns, or say from five hundred
to a thousand dollars American money as a
fair price for Young lady. The bargain
completed, the girl probably becomes the
wife of some khan, rich enough to afford
himself such luxury, and to give the brok'
er "a handsome profit on the transaction. 1t
is usually all Il matter of business, and a
man posting up his accounts at the end of
the year nigh. note down that on such a
day he bought lady, pretty much AS if he
had purchased fine Turcoman horse or an
English rifle; only the price of the latter
two articles would be considerably higher
than the first. 1t is seldom that either of
the parties have seen each other, so that lly
lifting Of the veil upon the wedding dae
may be a delightful surprise, or a glum dis
appointment, according to circumstances.


One of the first visits she rece YES after
neT marriage Will NloSI pIoUaOly Oe from
her father, who will tell her that her
home is cold and cheerless since she
has left it, and that her mother is get
ting old. The pathetic appeal is sure to
touch her heart and she will employ the
first money she can coax out of her husband
to buy her father a new wife, All Persia
seems fairly mad according to our northern
notions. A beggar asking for aims in the
street will found his strongest claims to your
charity on the startling fact that he has five
wives at home, and has nst married young
one You take servant from rags and
hunger, and he spends the first few tomauns
he can scrape together in your service in
buying bran new wife. But the eldest.
or first married wife, is usually house keeper
and mistress She even distributes food to
the rest, who hold her in much respect and
some awe. The number Of marriages is
undoubtedly increased by the strange con
ditions under which some of them take
place. marriage contract is seldom in,
tended to last the life of either party. A
lady may be taken on lease like house, for
a definite period; and this species of matr,
money is much encouraged by the moolahs,
who derive liberal fees from it,
Year: 1863

ascertain by actual measurement, the
quantity Of cotton planted, cultivated or
gathered by such party or parties, and
make return thereof to the court from
which the rule issues. the expenses Of such
rule and survey TO be taxed in the bill Of
costs on the final adjudication Of the
case.


w. That it shall be the duty Of all
persons who cultivate cotton 10 render in
on oath to the collector Of the District in
which they reside toe number of hands
owned or employed by them in agricul.
ture, between the ages Of twelve and ff.
teen, fifteen and City five, and fhy. five
and sixty five, during the present year,
under penalty Of one hundred dollars
to each hand omitted, to be returned TO
the Tax Collector, to be recovered as spe
Gifted in the former section of this Act,
which returns the Tax Collectors are here.
by required to receive.


V. That it shall be the duty OF the
Judges Of the Courts OF General Sessions
to give this Act specially 10 charge to
the grand juries al each term of said
courts, during the present year.
Year: 1863

SAssAFRAs Blossom A SUBSTITUTE FOR
GREEN OR BLACK TEA.-It is said that if
the blossom Of the sassSfrss (Which will
now soon be in full boom) be gathered
and dried in the shade, be used in making
tea, instead Of the root, it will be found
an excellent substitute for tea, which now
sells ~ from twelve to fifteen dollar, .
pound. BY many who haze tried it. il,
Is pronounced 10 he most delicious and
psla,abe beverage.
Year: 1863

Ar HoNE.-Captain L. Hickman, of
battery K, First Ohio artillery, arrived at
home few days since, from the Army of the
Potomac upon sick leave, having left his
battery at WsrrentOn Junction. The Cap
tain did good service at Gettysburg and in
the subsequent pursuit of Lee. Hssays that
when the word was passed at Gettysburg that
Lee was retrsating such new life was put in
to the men that every man there was equal to
three before. There were no stragglers, and
nothing was then the matter with any Of
them.
Year: 1863

The NAsHyIILLE UNION was commenced last slring
for the purpose Of opposing the Rebel Southern Con-
oderacy and Of advocating the restoration Of Federal
authority, without any abatement all the statos
which have attempted TO secede. lis object was TO
proclaim tho doctrines Of Liberty and Union, as they
were oxpounded by the fathers OF the Republic
but which for more than year--the long and
dreary carnival OF treason--had been unspoken and
uHwritten In the Capital Of the State Of ANDREW
JAcKs0s and treasured up only In the hearts Of
the faithful We believed that bhe right way TO con
duct loyal journal, in a city like Nashville, at such
time as this, was to raise the waverng aud timid
up to the true standard Of patriotism, aud not TO
lower the standard Of patriotism aor the manner Of
other Journals to snit the depraved tastes Of tho
semlloyal and symp,thizers with the Richmond dy-
nasty.


The UNION therefore, has held as friends all who
support and as foes all who oppose the Union Of the
States. Its watchword is FREEDOM AND NAuoNAInr


with rebels and traitors Il has no compromise to
make 1t contends for the Federal Constitution and
the Laws made in pursuance thereof as tho SUPREME
Law OF THE LAND anything in the Constitution and
Laws Of any Of the States TO the contrary notwth
standing.


II contends for the Union OF the States, because
without it the preservation Of our liberties and ins
tuUOhh anu tuc OtRhhllAtloh ol boClelg Ideu are
wholly impossible. Therefore, whatever stsAds in
the way Of crushing out the rebellion and restoring
he Union must perish, matter by what name 1t
be called.


When thousands OF our citizen soldiers lay down
their lives upon the altar Of their country a sacr
Ace above all earthly price, and precious in the sight
Of Heaven, God forbid that any ignoble motive of
selfnterest should make any man waver in his 10y
atty. If there be any such, let them look at the
blood Of Shiloh, Fort Donelsou Murfreosboro and
Fredericksburg, and blush at their wiekedness and
folly. Love for our country should now Overshadow
every other feeling and he is patriot who loves
his houses lands, negroes with 1.-THE of the devo-
tion which he feels for his country. Even prudent
selhshness should compel men 10 be patriots for who
San hope TO his own treasures from the wreck Of
a ruined and dismombered Unionf


We want to 500 the land once blessed with tho
enduring sunshine Of honorable peace based upon
the complete and unconditional submission of the
robels now In arms and not lit up with the decetful
glow Of peace based upon omasculate loyalty and
concessions to traitors-the glow Of meteor which
would shine only 10 betray, and going ont would
leave US in darkness tenfod more gloomy than that
which prevailed before.


These are the 1entiments aud views which the
UNIoN will continue to advocate through whatever
Of storm or sunshine may await Il in the future, and
we ask the support OF all who believe It to be import
-ntthat thoroughly and vigorously loyal newspaper
should bo published in Nashville.
Year: 1863

Only WoUNDED.-During
the battle of MurfreesbOrO two
men, a 'rennesseean and Ar
kansian, fell in with each 9TH
er and made an agreement that
the first one of the two that
got wounded should be taken
off by the other. Pretty soon
Arkansian man called out to
the Tennesseean that he was
wounded and to take him of.
According to contract, true to
his word, tile Tennesseean
sbouldered him and carried
him away to the rear While
going along a cannon ball came
along and took off the head OF
the wounded man, but the
barer did not observe it. When
he arrived where the surgeon
twas he laid him down and
said, doctor here is friend Of
mine; can't you do something
for him ?" The Doctor, in sur
prise, wanted to know why he c
brouht that dead manto hm!
The 1ehnesseean turned and
Hooked at him, and very cody


remarkhd: Why, blast him,
he told me he was only woun-


ded."
Year: 1863

The astounding propositions which have signal
lied the first days of this present session, for pla
cling the entire population of the Confederate States
in the field, leaving no producers of food to feed
the enormous army so raised, and no taxpayers to
find the money to furnish it, have created a con-
siderable sensation. A feeling of despondency has
been produced by them among reflective observers
not by the prospect of the universal cessation of
national lie and organization, which the realization
of those wild projects would certainly cause-for
no one can fail to see that there is no danger of
realizing patent impossibility but by the singu
lar want of discernment which they indicate. 1t is
difficult to believe that many members of the Con-
gress really intend the establishment of dictator
ship in this country, still less to make Mr. Davis
dictator. Yet it requires but little reflection to
perceive that such law lately suggested in his
message suggestion which members of Congress
have taken in trust from it. is nothing more nor
less than that.
An entire nation cannot remain in the field more
than twenty -four hours under the penalty of death
by starvation. A law requiring the whole popuIa-
tion to take up and go into camp, is nulllty
| Few will dispute the remark, and the President
blandly proposed that the power and discretion
! should be given him to detail" such persons as
| he pleased TO continue the pursuits of civil life
! The relative numbers of those in the army and
those out Of it, might not be changed by law OF
! universal enrolment if accompanied by this pro-
| vision The sole difference between the present
and prospective condition OF the military force and
nation, would be the change of detail" for sex
empts." One of these words designates persons
who continue the work that must be done in war
and peace under the authority of law the other,
! those who go about their business because OF the
favor of the President and his oiceholders, great
and small. This is proposition to give them des.
potic control over every individual in this country
and to destroy every check upon their will. The
parasites of power are pleased with it. There ex


lists small faction in this country who have Ions
clamored for this measure, because they expec


power, profit and revenge from it.-Richmond Er
| dniner
Year: 1863

A PROBLEM FOR CoNGREss-Q. NJ. D.-When
Congress is done with the currency question We
trust it will take peep into the QuartermaSter De-
partment There is something rotten there, and the
stencil is dreadful All over the army, curses, both
loud and Deep are hurled against the A. Q. Ms.
Why IS it that quartermasters in the army, gen.
eral thing, ride the finest horses wear the best
clothes, live the highest and drink the deepest !?
Where does the money come from, when 1t takes
six months pay of captain 10 buy suit of clothes
Let Congress look toit Napoleon occasionally shot
few quartermaSters for the benefit of the army"
He was very successful commander. Perhaps We
had better initiate his example inthS, as IN other
things.-Nqcon Georgia. Confederate


The Quartermasters and all other Executive Off
GERS are under the control of the President Why
is it that he does not compel those of them who
corrupt and negligent to be honest and faithful? 1t
is common thing to hear of neglect and corruption
on the part of subordinate Executive officers and of
military officers who oppress and trample on the
people, and who hold political meetings in the army
and mob printing offices; and yet if the country
could hear that one of these officers had been
punished by the President the country and all hon.
est men every where would have more confidence
in the President.
Year: 1863

We continue to receive complaints as to the bad
conduct of some of the Confederate troops in the
Western part of this State. The ladies of Wilkes
County complain that detachment of troops in the
neighborhood of Trap Hill, instead of arresting de-
serteIs in a proper way, are plundering houses,
taking grain, stock, and provisions from women and
children, getting drunk, fiddling, dancing, &c And
friend writes US from the same County that some
of the soldiers have recently driven from thirty to
forty head of cattle to Jearsons Ashe County, sold
them to the highest bidder and pocketed the money.
. Can this be possible? Ifso, we blush to record
such conduct on the part Of any Of our leave de-
tenders.


We also learn shat the inhabitants of Davidson,
FORSYTH, Madison, and other Counties are afflicted
in the same way.


Now, who is to blame for this We answer, the
officers ,Oho command these troops. We learn that
the attention of Governor Vance has been called tc
these outrageS and that he is making eorts to pre-
vent their repetition. But some atonement is due
for the past Punish the officers, and our word fol
it the soldiers will do better in future We glad
to have it in our power to say that many of the
soldiers conduct themselves as they should. We
appeal to all of them not to trampe on the weak and
helpless. Let them remember that they too have
wives and mothers and sisters, and that 1t is wrong
to punish the innocent on account of the guilty
and let them also remember that all their sacrifices
in camp and on the battle field will be in vain, il
law and order and respect for persons and roperty
are not maintained.
Year: 1863

We publish extracts to-day from the report Of the
Secretary of the Treasury, showing the condition of
the Confederate finances.


The Secretary, in urging his forced loan, and the
consequent reputation Of such notes as shall not be
funded, says:


mo contract, however solemn, can require na-
tonal ruin and, in such case, the maxim must pre-
vail that the public safety is the supreme law"


No nation can be saved by Reputation of SOL
emn contracts. The nation that attempts thus to
save itself will be lost Confidence is as indispen-
sable to nations as to individuals and the nation
that loses the confidence of the people who compose
it, can never regain that confidence. Mr.. Memmin-
ger and Mr. Davis advocated secession from the old
government because minority of the American
people threatened to break the "solemn contract"
of the federal Constitutions and now, in three short
years from that period, they propose that the new
government whose affairs they have been called to
administer shall break its "solemn contracts" and
in the language of the most desperate leaders Of the
French revolution "the public safety is to be the
supreme law!" Constitutions and contracts, and
plighted faith nothingI Is this political moral
ity2 Are we to "do evil that good may come" "
If the Confederacy breaks its word today who will
u
present or old issues of treasury notes. who viii
| take its new notes?


| We enter solemn protest against this whole
doctrine We intend to maintain truth and urge
the redemption of plighted faith, happen what may
To break faith-to enact lie on the ground that
the public safety is the supreme law, would be to
disgrace the Confederacy and dishonor the sovereign
States that formed it. Save US, save US, oh some
benignant power, from the political morality of Mem
minger and Benjamin. If the public safety is to
be the supreme law" Mr.. Davis may be crowned
King, or invested with the imperial purple for such
a doctrine would justify that, or any thing else
What would the people of North Carolina have said
if they had known in 1861 that in less than three
years after they joined the Southern Confederacy
it's highest officers would advocate doctrine which
would put under foot Constitutions, plighted faith
and solemn contracts3 So it is. But why dwell
upon it, for
| "Earth is sick,
| And heaven is weary of the hollow sounds,
Which men and nations wheneer they speak
Of Truth and Jus tce "
Year: 1863

We are constantly receiving complaints from our
subscribers in the army of Virginia that they do not
receive their papers regularly We assure our SUBJ
scrbers in the army that their papers are mailed
regularly and if they do not receive them the fault
is not ours. A private in the army Of Virginia
writes us as follows:


81 have been informed that your paper is stopped
in Richmond Is that so think it very hard, in
deed that men who have beer serving their country
for nearly three years in the ranks should be de-
pryed of the privilege of reading paper published
in the capital of their own State Way don't they
saw, sycu shall read this paper, and none others,
instead of secretly suppresSing your paper ?"


A soldier writing from Weldon, says


al am very anxious to get the Standard, as it
speaks nv sentiments. We can scarcely get one in
our regiment | sometimes buy one from citizen
after it is nearly worn out at 25 cents copy and
glad to get it Our officers swear it shall not come
here, but have concluded to risk a subscription.
Three fourths of our regiment endorse your course


Ave learn that the Standard is not permitted to
circulate in certain Hospitals in the Eastern part Of
this State and that soldiers who endorse Holden are
refused furloughs when they are entitled to them
Party spirit it seems, is every where, cursing and
running the country. Weather beaten, wounded
sick, exhausted soldiers punished because they
think for themselves And this in free country
What are We fighting for? Liberty? Ifso, let u:
have il,
Year: 1863




Mr.. EDITOR We were in hopes that the Legis-
lature would take some steps towards peace. The
people of this District White Oak, are for peace,
and judging by the Conservative vote for members
of Congress, so is the State. May l not add
that the Conservative party is gradually permeating
the whole Coniederacy, and that the day is not far
distant when its power will be every where visible.
Let us keep our army in the field, but let US talk
for peace at the same time. Negotiations must
commence, and why should not North. Carolina
commence themS She has more troops in the field,
than any other State in propGrtion to population,
her citizens have ever been foremost in all contri-
buttons for this war, and now why may not she be
first in peace ?" Let US have Convention. We
can then have peace. l remember the Destructive
speeches of Mr.. Lewis & Co., in 1861, just before
the first Convention. He was going to swallow all
fankeedom. Ifyou talk to them now about peace,
they cry out for "the last man and last dollar
Why don't they all volunteer in defeuee of their
bloody principles as there is no law that ever saw
to hinder themg But Mr.. Editor, if we in real.
ity reduced to the last and last dollar what
good has all this strife effected Who is bene6tedH
They remind me of the man. his wife Bette, and the
bear The bear chased them awhile, when the old
man took tree and left Bette to escape as she
could; but Bette killed the bear, and the old man
sliding down the tree bawled out "look here what
bear and Bette killed" They won't fight, but
will be willing enough, should arms be victori-
Gus, to say a0e killed the bear.


But our boys in the army say that when the Yam
KEGS whipped and they return, should they ever
hear no fight war man say aoe whipped the Yam
KEGS, they will whip him. l close for the present


WHITE OAK.