smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

1t seems not little remarkable that most
of the important battles of the present war
have been fought on the Sabbath. The
Bull Run fight which resulted so disastrously
to our troops, was fought on Sunday. The
recent fight near Somerset came off on Sun
day. IL is also a matter of history that
some Of the most important and decisive
battles Of former times took place on the
Sabbath. The great battle Of Waterloo
and the battle At New Orleans, iu 1915,
were both fought on Sunday. 1t has been
remarked, too, that those who made the at
tacks on that day have been uniformly de-
fcated. And this is strong argument
against contending forces violating that ho-
y day by attacks upon each other II
would be we'll for cur commanding eener-
ais 10 remember the fate Of those who have
thus violated the Sabbath, and il possible,
defer their bloody work until an hour less
sacred then the drst day of the week.
Year: 1862

What if people do speak against youi-
Let them feel that you are able TO bear it.
What is there gained by stopping to correct
every word that is whispered to your dis
credit Lies will die if let alone; but il
you repeat them to this one and another
because your enemies have the impudeneC
TO make them, you keep the fire Burning
and open the way for dozen slanders.-
Keep on the way;-go straight forward
and trouble not your head about what is
repeated, but feel all the better and wear a
less frightful face. Slander never killed a
sterling character and it never will
Year: 1862

Why is it, that like only dark, fierce
beauty, and hate azure eyes, and rose -bud
lips, and sunny hair ? Years ago learned
this for two blue eyes stole the light Of
my life away, and mass of golden curls
iuttered between me and happiness. Il
is an old grave, shut up and sodded over,
but I will go back and open it tonight
for am lonely. My head is giddy with
with the sound of music and the glare ot
gass, and my heart is sick with gay words
spoken by those whose eyes were wild
with sorrow, and gayer laughs, through
which, like the fall of clods on coffin
struggles up, the ring of death. How
many broken hearts are there here to.
night, wrapped up. and hidden beneath
satin robes. and blazing jewels, and be.
wildering smiles ? There is one, I know
I feel it beating. Shall tell you its sto.
ry? I will leave the giddy dance, and
the unholy mirth, and shut myself up in
this tiny room, at the door of which
lay off my jewels and smiles.


Struggling up from the days of my in
fancy, comes memory of walking about
in a great mansion, nestled down among
the hills, like a song bird in the forest,
for every beauty of its surroundings. AL
the day long used to chase the butter
flies down the dancing stream, or gather
great clusters of snow-whte lilies tc
wreath over the high, stiff parlor mantle
or sit in the little clematis arbor, ,and dream
of a sky that was bluer than that unroll-
ed above me, and love that was bright
er than any that was ever found within
those cold stone walls.


bad no father or mother. Far back
as | could remember, there came no Wis
ion of meek gentle face, or moist, loving
eyes, or warm caresses of love and when
| asked my Aunt how long it was since
they died, she would only say in an alb.
sent kind of a way, "Oh, long time
ago.


And with a little smothered sigh,
would go back to the dream, or chase the
butterflies over the sweetest flowers.
'sAnd the days went out. and the days came in a


ever they come and go,


Wearing a robe of summer green, OF mantle o


winter SNOW
Year: 1862

his voice saying


GLOW beautiful %


A lady, child it might have been,
clad in dark-blue riding habit, was
coming toward us, borne on white horse.
The sunshine played with her curls as
with a something kindred, and her eyes
would set one dreaming of the skies of
Italy. A look that [ shall never forget
passed over his face, as she reined in her
horse and spoke his name.


ernest p


edith p


His hand trembled as it clasped hers,
and she smiled on him such smile 1t
froze my heart in its beauty for l knew
when his cheek paled and his eye fell,
that he had felt its power before.


"And so you have not quite forgotten
Ee, Ernest %


"That were impossible"


'And yet you have been silent so long,
l thought my place occupied by anoth-
er -


And so he had loved before, and the
siren that enchanted him, had not vet
lost her power! I waited to hear nc
more. 1t was enough. He would not
not see me now. Hurriedly I retraced
my steps to my aunt's abode.


Three months after word came to me
that they were married, Ernest Temple
and the beautiful Edith Wells. 1t was
in crowded room, but didn't faint
Edith Wells mi ght have done that; I
was not SO weak. But my heart was
turned to stone, and the timid, clnging
child was belle that night, and went
forth strong self possessed woman, fol-
lowing in the way of the world. My
aunt raised her hands in astonishment
that the lesson she had been vainly str-
wing to teach me for years had all come
to me in single evening. But discern
ment was not one of her virtues, and I
kept my own secret.


have changed, they say : the crimson
life tide has learnt the way to my rosy
cheeks, and do not need now to be told
that am beautiful. Hearts have been
laid at my feet, true hearts and false ones,
and the world has learned to call me CO.
quette. lie was here night, he whom I
love, whom | hate! his eyes wearing the
wild look of sorrow mine have learned to
hide, and his laugh bearing in it the ring
of death.


I stood by his side and listened to the
mock echo and he saw my curling lip,
and that I had read his soul, and knew
that had read his soul, and knew all its
bitterness. And when [ had left the
crowded room, and stood in the soft
moonlight, among the shadowy trees, he
came and knelt at my feet like coward
who dare not suffer in silence, and told
me how he had loved me all through the
years that the butterfly of the sun had
been his bride, how he loved me still, and
ever must. And [ went away with Il
low laugh and left him moaning sHave
you, too, grown soulless ? you, the snow
white lilly, that came like a hidden foun-
tain between me and the dearest of earth
ly unbelief ?''


"Well the world says so; and am ly-
ing on the messy carpet like a broken
reed by the brook Of its love, wondering
if all it says is true
Year: 1862

An Incident has recently transpired
which brings out in hold relief a most
touching incident of delicacy in one
whom the public looks upon as the grim,
stern and even Draconic Secretary of
War, Mr.. Stanton. 1t shows that deep
down In his heart there wells up foun-
tain of almost feminine tenderness
About two weeks since a private in one
of the New York regiments was killed
while on picket duty at our out post on
the Potomac. He was young man, be-
loved by his companions, and the sole
hope of a widowed mother When she
heard of his death she hurried on here
from Rochesser, hoping, through the aid
of the Government, to have her sons re-
mains sent to his native place. She found
that it would cost her more than her slen-
der purse would permit. Disappointed,
and with her cup Of sorrow now filled to
repletion, she was about to return un-
successful, when an old army officer,
Captain Mcguire, volunteered to aid her
through letter to the Secretary of War.
Mr.. 5 anton was so impressed with her
story that he Immediately sent an order
to the proper officer, with instructions to
have he dead soldier disinterred, proper


ly c"ffined and forwarded, with every
memento of respect, to his home free of
charge, to the devoted mother who had
offered her all on the altar of her country.
Year: 1862

CTATE OF MICBIGAN-COunty of Cass:-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, un Wednesday, the second day of July.
in the year thousand eight hundred and sky
Two Present, Clifford Shanahan. Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of im"thy Wooden,
deceased I'm reading and fling the petition duly
verified. of Zacheus Wooden, PRAYING ,or letters
Of Administration on the estate of said 'eceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
second day of August next, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and the heirs at law of said deceased and
h other persons interested in said estate, re-
quired to appear at session of said court thon to
be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis and
show cause if any there be, WHY the prayer OF the
petitioner should not be granted


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
Of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy Of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican. newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN,


[ true copy.l Judge of Probate.


July 2 1862. iulyI0-l2w3
Year: 1862

CTATE OF County of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Monday the thirtieih day of June,
in the year Thousand eight hundred and sixty
two. Present = Clifford Shanahan, Judge of
Probate In the matter of the estate of Hazard
Andrews. deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of Fanny Andrews, praying
for letters of Administration ON the estate of said
deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered. that Saturday, the
twenty sixth day of July next, at ten o'clock, IN
the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of SAID
petition and that the heirs at law Of said deceased
and all other persons interested i'm said estate,
are required to appear at a session of said court,
then to be holden at the Probate Office, in Cass-
apolis, and show cause, if any there be, why the
PRAYER OF the petitioner should not be granted


And it is further ordered. that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
Of the pendency OF said petition and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be puo
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County OF Cass, for
three successive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing. g. SlIANAHAN,


A true copy.l Judge CT Probate.


June 80. 1852 jry3-llw3
Year: 1862

l.
Shall I go to the battles now, Mary,
And leave our quiet home?
Shall leave the plow in the furrow
And take the sword and gun?
can see by your trembling lip, Mary.
And the tear that you brush away,
That the beating of your faithful heart
Is bidding me to stay.
But my brother now is cold. Mary.
Within a Southern grave,
He fell upon the CORY field


With thousands of our brave;
Amid the shouts of traitor hearts,
His noble form went down,
And methinks he wears, this very day,
The patriot martyrs crown.
But he dropped his sword and gun, Mary,
At the icy touch of death.
And thought caught some earnest tone
F'oat on his dying breath;
They are ringing in my ear. Mary,
Aud haunt my midnight dream,
go who shall bear my armor now,
As l cross death turbid streami''
1t seems like call to me, Mary,
But love you, darling, So
1t will pain my heart to leave you,
Should decide to go;
know you are thinking now, Mary,
of the day when We may part,
And the shadow of that darksome hour,
Is clouding all your heart.
You're looking at our darling boy,
The sunlight of our home,
And you picture in that fancy sketch,
An orphanage to come;
But other homes are deselate,
And other bosoms bleed,
For sturdy hands and honest hearts
Our country now hath need.
Shall go to the battle, then, Mary,
And leave our quiet home!
Shall we trust the God above us,
For happiness to come.
MethiIks hear your woman's heart,
In earnest tones reply
Be true to manhood and thy God,
And heed thy country's cry.
Year: 1862

An unknown schooner loaded with oats
and another, name unknown, wAh six of her
crew, were lost on the beach.


The steamer Louisiana struck on the bar,
where she still remains. The report OF her
burning is incorrect-she may get off. The
Eastern Queen and the YolliFeur are also
ashore. The latter will probably get Off
The water vessels attached to the expedi-
ton had not reached their destination when
the Eesstern State left, and had it not been
for the condensers on board of some Of the
vessels, and vessel on shore, the most ter
rible suffering must have occurred among
the troops, as it was the water casks were
composed of old whisky, camphene and
kerosene oil casks. 1t is thought the pi-
lots Of Hatterss are proved traitors, having
Intentionally run several vessels ashore.
Year: 1862

was surrounded and the Cumberland Gap lost Then we hear
OF Buell. making marvellous retreat to iook after Loss-
rae And yet for all this We see fine audons published o'
his ,peadid retreat Add further from success In
reaching the region Of Tennessee than were one year
ago And during all that time Buell. has not fought one single
battle except the aid he accidentally lent at Shiloh Connec'
ted by marriage h, family with Of the most rabd
seceo,s OF the South lis political sympahies have been
repeatedly expressed IN their behalf and his whole career has


6ed that be has conscientious scrupes asaint hurting the
Rebel. or circumyenrg their schemea And 1t would seem
obvious II this tenderness Of feeling had not been fully known
to tie Rebel leaders, Gen Bragg would never have trusted
himself and his army in Buels before Louisve nor
would Kirby Smith have dared 10 stand in front OF Cpcnnah
with any expectation Of getting back again Nor have


we the sghte.. expectation that Buell. will ovoske single
regiment Of that force that he ought to have captured


There are mysteries in well as in peace There are
things done ought not to have been done and there
are things cit uudone that ought to have been done, 10y those
in command tha, frequently to signify that there no
sounGneu In them.
Year: 1862

If there be any legal voter of Ponnsylvanis
or Ohio in our City or elsewhere away from
home who has still time to reach his poOpsr
yoting-place before the close Of the polls 10.
morrow night, We entreat him to "stand not
on the order of his going. but 90 at once"
The late Volunteering has enormously depleted
the ranks Of the Union War voters IN both
States, leaving those of their odxersares nearly
full, and there is grave danger from this
source OF disasters TO the National cause. Let
every voter, then, who can work and vote IN
tlis contest resolve to grudge no sacrifice, but
Do his whole duty.
Year: 1862

Flo'i the OteuDenVlIe herald, Oct. ",


1t is evident that nothing can save the
Government now, but prompt, energetic ac-
tion-dscontent is prevailing at the North
and the Administration will have in an
other six months, unless success attends its
direction Of the war, an enemy in the rear
as well as in the front.


Nothing would SO powerfully draw togeth-
er the loyal masses as vigorous and sue.
cessful campaign, To try to hold the people
up to the support of such an undecided,
Eishy washy, no policy Administration as
President Lincoln's has proven to be, is utter
folly. Should the war continue another
year. with no better results for the Union
cause than during the pastG-with no more
vigor and snap on the part of the Admins
tration, the Union party of this State will
be beaten by fifty or hundred thousand ma
jority.


The floating populace go with the success.
ful party, right or wrong. Hope and Joy draw
human hearts together, while grief chargia
and disappointment have the opposite effect,
This is true in every condition OF the human
action, and in nothing is 1t truer than in a
mighty struggle like the present.
Year: 1862

We will own to feeling decidedly
happy over the result of the election,
on Tuesday. We are full of rejoicing;
yet we rejoice not as partisan, but as
a citizen and patriot. We know that
whatever is good for the country is.
good fer Republicans as well as for
Democrats. We believe the result cf
the election will be beneficial to the


country, and therefore we rejoice. The
victory yield not one cent of its re-
wards to us that it does not yield to


any other citizen Or taxpayer. There
fore it is not a partizan or financial
view that causes our rejoicing; but we
rejoice as all loyal people rejoice over
a victory of the Union arms in the
field; we rejoice in the belief that this
victory, like a great victory of the
army, is a long step towards ending
the war and restoration of peace-a
glimmering dawning of that bright
and peaceful future to which the heart
Of every patriot looks with yearning


and with prayer. We rejoice in the
belief that the WOOL Is falling from the
eyes of the PEOPLE, which has been
placed there by POLITICIANS, and that
they are beginning to see more clearly
how they were got into this terrible
difficulty and how they were to get
out Of iti They all admit that for
several yeats no people On Gods earth
enjoyed the blessings of life, liberty,
happiness and extreme luxury, as did
ths eitisens Of this Republic. These
Year: 1862

We are told by the Presidents friends
that the issuing of the proclamation to free
the slave isa military necessity. II it is a
military necessity, T is certainly singular
that the necessity does not exist until the LIST
Of January, 1868, when the proclamation
goes into effect. A military necessity i'm,
plies immediats action. There cati be no
delay about 1t. 1t is no more a necessity in
January than it Is now. The truth is, that
military necessity demands that the procia-
nation should not be issued. 1t will do the
Union cause incalculable harm and no good.
Year: 1862

The YeriS for Democrats and


Conservatives.


| The recent elections show immense
Democratic and Conservative gains,
and in many instances most signal and
unexpected victories. This is cheer
ing and encouraging to the friends. Of
the Constitution and the Union. But
it should nc. be allowed to induce in
a single instance relaxation of effort;
on the contrary, it should stimulate to
redoubled exertion.


There is no mistaking the single
great issue now before the people of
this country. 1t is SO plain that ev-
cry man, who is not willfully blind,
can read it. 1t is-shall the Consti-
tuition be maintained and the Union
preserved? This constitutes single,
plain and definite issue: for without the
Union, we cannot maintain the Cons
stitution, and without the Constitution
we cannot preserve the Union. Both
must stand or fall together. An as
sault upon the one is an attack upon
the other. He who violates the Com
stitution levels blow at the Union,



and he who seeks to impair the Union,
or the rights of any State as member
of the Union, seeks to nullify and de-
stroy the Constitution.


There are two great and powerful
factions in this country-one a Nor
thern, the other Southern faction
each apparently excited by the bitter
est and most relentless hostility to-
wards the other, and denouncing and
prosecuting all whom they imagine do
not share the full measure of their
sectional vindictiveness and partisan
malice, These two factions, notwith,
standing all this apparent emnity, are
evidently working to common end
the subversicr of the Constitution and
the overthrow of the Union.


Nor is this strange, Both factions
are sectional. Both originated in mere
sectional opposition and hate. They
have involved the country in a civil
war-section against section. The
longer the war lasts, the more savage,
ferocious and exterminating it becomes,
and the more extravagant the condi-
tions of reconciliation and reunion on
each side become, the less will be the
hope or the prospect that the Consti-
tuition can be maintained supreme over
the whole country, and the Union of
all the States preserved.


The conviction is becoming general,
that nothing but the Democratic and
conservative reserve force of the coun-
try, which has not become identified
with these sectional factions, can op-
pose an effectual barrier to their mad
Disunion schemes and save the country.
That reserve must now be brought for
ward, and be made strong enough to
head both the hostile factions, whose
Vaccinations for common purpose
the overthrow of the Constitution and
the Union-are becoming daily more
and more effective, and will, if not i'm
mediately and successfully resisted,
consummate the objects intended. Let
every loyal Union man, who feels him.
self pledged to sustain the Constitu-
tion and the Union, rally to their sup
port, against all factionists, whether of
Northern or Southern growth, or wheth-
er they want to make negro slavery Or
negro equality the corner stone of the
new American Republic. - Statesman


- --~-~ -
Year: 1862

GENERAL PopE.-Every day increases the
enthusiasm In favor Of General Pope. His last
order will be read with pain by the rebels in
this vicinity, inasmuch as they will no longer
be able to communicate with Richmond via
Fredericksburg.
Year: 1862

Summer is over, and the fruits arc to be gath;
ered for the winter is coming on apace With
what mad speed, with what slow and heavy
football, time brushes or drags along, as one or
another of us views it. To one, looking bacl,
to May, it seems but last week; to another, the
spring time is far away in the remote past, SO
tsar that the odor of its flowers comes not down
on any wind, and the memory of its breezes is
absolutely dead in the hot and sultry atmos-
phere of the war summer We are none of us
very much disposed to look back over the events
of this summer and the less disposed to do so
now that we enter the autumn with the roar OF
cannon, the terrible solemnities of what may
be the great battle of the Union.


Never did American autumn, proverbial for
its glories, find America in such state as this
The sun shines on the broad country with all
the ripening warmth of our September suns, the
winds blow softly over hill and valley, the morn
ing sky is hazy, and the evening sunsets are red
and golden, the moon looks out of the blue a.
bove us with the same old, silver radiance, and
yet we look on all with new eyes, with chang
ed hearts. We are not, as people, what we
were. We have learned new and terrible les
sons. We have seen that though national
growth may begin in winter, and progress
through spring to summer richness, and almost
autumnal ripeness, yet the very day of its full
grown strength may be the day of its most fear
ful trial, when the tempest will threaten to tear
it up and dash it to pieces. We have watched
our own hopes growing mp and gathering beau
ty and strength, to see them blighted. We have
learned what it is to send our best and bravest
out to die for their country, the very period
when we fondly believed that their country was
far beyond the need of any such sacrifice. We
are not, as we were two years ago, in heart in
thought, in anything but hope But the autumn
Year: 1862

1t is not within our power to express the
hundredth part of the thoughts that crowd for
utterance, but we will say in terms as compre-
hcnsive as now occur to us, that the proclama-
ton on which we thus hastily and briefly COM
nient, sounds more like the knell of Freedom
and the wall of the departing Angel of Peace,
than any that has been promulgated in the world
since the Revocation of the Edct of Nantes
Year: 1862

To the rebels flagrantly in arms; to the hos
tile people of the South and to those in the
loyal States who sympathizc with the Southern
detection, the proclamation will come with heal
ing on its wings 1t will command their un-
mixed qualification, and will be counted by them
not only forming set-of to their recent
disasters in the field, but as adding at least a
hundred thousand men to the side of their sink
ing caltse.