smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

In the above we have not inserted the frac-
tional parts of dollars, for convenience sake, in
this matter of but little importance.


BELOW THE GRADE or LIEUTENANT.


The first column denotes the paw per month
of artillery and infantry. and of Dragons and
riiemen when serving on foot The second col
umn denotes the pay per month Of light artillery
and OF dragons and rihemen when mounted:
Sergeant Major. Quartermaster


Sergeant Prncinnl Mnsirian
Year: 1862

ing Colonel Fitch through seniority beevs would
likely that the power vested in tho latter gen
tlsraan viii be transferred to the rmer Should such
be tho sincerely trust he will continue the wise
ard conciliaory policy which has for COLONEL Fitch
the esteem and respect Of our people.
Year: 1862

W ASHlAGION, July 10.


The COnfscation bill has not yet been
returned to Congress with the Presidents
approval. It is generally thought that his
request for a prOlongation of the Senate
had reference to this measure. There is
some hesitancy in signing the act. A re-
port has been circulated to-day, that the
President Is preparing u vet0 message; /;
while another rumOr, among the politicians
is, that he will suggest notifications of the
bill. In either event there is no doubt,
judging from the large majorities by which
il was passed (two-thirds in the Senate,
and nearly the same in the House) that
Congress will not adjourn without secur-
ing measure Of that character.


The Border States Representatives to-
day finally agreed upon their reply to the
Presidents Emancipation Message 1t is
represented as being temperate and re-
speetful. They cannot for reasons stated,
endorse the policy, and differ from his be-
lief that the declination of these States TO
act upon or adopt it, may, or will prolong
the war They join in the recOmmehda-
tion that those States give it q respectful
consideration, but in no way commit them
selves to its support


Probably twenty members of Congress
have been in consultation on the subject.
Some of the members from the Border
Slave States were not present at the meet
ing, while others have left the city Several
will prepare a reply of their own.
Year: 1862

The Senator from Delaware seems to
! think that the harangues, as he calls them,
/ the abolition movements that have been


made in Congress, have had some effect on
this war. Sir, they have not had the
slightest impression. All that may be


said by all the orators in this and the


other branch Of Congress does not recon-


oilo or excite a single rebel. What is


done here is scarcely known there much


less cared for No, Mr.. President, these


men have united together in a conspiracy


determined to break down this Govern


menL They know very well that if they


fail their lives are forfeit, or they will at


least be driven in disgrace from this coun-


try and be compelled to wander over the


world. They therefore resort to all despe-


rate expedients. They do not stand pal


tering and demagoging about working side


by side with negroes. Their regiments


march up side by side with black men.


They make use Of black men in all the
purposes Of warfare. They do not stand
upon narrow prejudice Of caste They
make negroes work for them, they make
negroes 6ght for them, they make negroes
90 all that is necessary to be done in war
fare, to kin, to burn, to slaughter. 1 ask
you when that is done by the enemies Of
the Government, shall not we employ these
negroes for service in which they may be
made useful and beneficial? And, sir, for
every loyal man that Hindman-who is
barbarian, every inch Of him-for every
loyal man that Hindmau would hang in
the State Of Arkansas or anywhere else, |
would hang some rebel OF traitor who had
been taken in arms against the Govern
ment The law Of retaliation is the only
law that will bring these men to their
senses. Our authorities seem TO think
that all these abuses, all these extraordi-
nary exercises Of power, may be carried
on by the rebels day after day, and still
our Government must 60 on dealing with
them with a gloved hand, touching them
lightly, protecting the property and
houses Of men who are fighting against US.
With that kind Of warfare we shall never
end this contest.


tell you, Mr. President you cannot
conduct warfare against savages unless
you become half savage yourself Our
Sever fought the Indians sue
,essfully except by resorting to some mode
Df Indian warfare. dislike this mode Of
warfare as much as any living man; but
rather than see this country broken up
rather than see the Republic fail, and have
rs hand down TO those who come after US
eternal war and anarchy, a disgraced
name and o dishonored Government /
would practice every mode Of warfare
hat is prescribed in either ancient or mod
srn history do not know any other way
% bring the war to On end.
Year: 1862




How Conseripts are Raised In Arkansas.


A letter from Madison, Ark, says;


find the utmost CONSERVATION existing
among the people all along the route, in
regard 10 the terrible military despotism
they are laboring under. Almost every
man capable Of bearing arms is being
forced into the rebsl army. 1t works thus
An order comes from an officer Of General
Hindman sand, by the way, there are
hundreds in this town who would willing
IL take the life Of that man-that q person
shall have three days in which to report
himself at headquarters or procure suit
able substitute. At the end Of the speci-
fed time, unless the man notified comes
forward he is hunted out and forced into
a guard house, where he is kept until he
expresses 8 willingness to shoulder mus
ket. The majority Of the army Of l2,OoO
men which Hindman has in this State, are
cohscripts gathered in this manner. The
greater number do not wait to be forced
/ into the ranks. If notified, they wait un-
til their time nearly expires, and then
come Voluntarily forward. But I am as
sured by hundreds that they only do this
becstse fAey are compelled 70, and that they DO
] not propose to fight.
Year: 1862

/ am aware that it is early in the sea


son to say anything on this subject. Bu


because it is early l broach the subject


| was talking with a farmer the Other
! day, who said he did not believe it wa:
any benefit to the crop to cut it up,-that
he found he could get from one to three
bushels per acre more if the corn was
allowed TO ripen on the stalks before the
latter were cut Up. He thought be GOT
more weight.


In most cases, | have no doubt he
would do so. But the fact does not Prove
it is the best practice.


| have seen farmers actively engaged
in cutting large fields long after every
particle of foliage had been Withered by
the frost. That is not expending labor
economically, unless a large herd is de-
pendent upon that kind of fodder. The
time to commence cutting up corn is as
soon after the ears are glazed as it is
possible 10 get at it. No matter if the
foliage is as green as in midsummer so
much the better-so much more valuable
will the fodder be; and the loss in the
weight of the grain will be more than
compensated by the increased value Of
the stalks.


In cutting up corn when the stalks are
SO full of sap, and the foliage so green,
it is not good policy to set them up in the
large shocks or stocks common in the
West. 1t is better to set them up round
an uncut hill-fifteen or twenty hills to
the stock-and bind them we'll to it. 1t
is not a difficult matter to make the corn
stand erect in this way. Then it is easy
to cut the ILL with hook, = hon /, is TO
be husked or removed from the field
Fields intended for winter grain can be
easily cleared in this way, and in good
season. The corn off, the stalks may be
stacked securely, and the fodder preserv-
ed fresh and nutritious for horses and
cattle.


l am glad to say that the ancient prac-
tice of topping corn does not obtain here
to any great extent. That it is practiced
anywhere is only striking proof of the
want Of a more general knowledge of the
flaws OF regotaoie Physiorogy. Cot orr
the top of your corn, and the ear ceases
to grow-the grain ripens prematurely. |
There are hundreds of experim ents that
prove this, some are on record.-R,ral
Ne,o Yorker.
Year: 1862

ABDUCTION BY AN OURANG -OUTANG.
"A recent traveller in Borneo relates an
abduction case which exceeds in novelty
anything which has occurred among the
fast population of our large cities. A
monstrous female ourang-outang, taking
a fancy 10 poor Murut gentleman whom
she saw bathing, dragged him by force
to a tree, which she compelled him to
climb, lodged him in warm nest watched
him with feminine jealousy, ted him with
fruit, palm cabbage, and forced him to
travel from ore branch to another instead
of treading the ground. The tale is a
tragedy, for the urgraleful Murat not
only ran away at the first opportunity,
but afterwards shot the forest syren with
a poisoned arrow.
Year: 1862

MEMORY OF THE DEAD.-ln almost
every household there is an enshrined
memory, a sacred casket, where a lock Of
shining hair, a ring or faded picture, tells
of some one long since gone. The
Younger children, as they grow up, learn
to look upon the picture of the dead
brother or sister as on the face of an an
gel. They wonder if they shall ever be
as good as they were. They look with
tender awe upon the various relics of a
sister never known, the broken plaything,
the unfinished piece of work with the
rusted needle just where she left it; and
seeing their mothers tears, and hearing
her speak Of the child that was or would
have been more lovely or intelligent than
any of the rest, they meekly wonder ii
they shall ever deserve to be loved as
she was who is now in heaven.


One beautiful trait of humanity is the
tenderness with which we cherish the
memory of the departed. Let death
take from the household the troublesome
and ungoverable child, and all hat is re-
nembered is bis sweet and gentle words,
lis rare qualities, his beauty and manli-
less. The child stands before his parents
eyes, not as what he was, but as he might
lave been had all God put in him been
perfected by love and grace.
Year: 1862




a fellows mouth, and they heard bullet
whizzing through the air, and he Just
stuffed the bread down his throat, and
then they laid down flat till it went over
them For his coolness and good soldier
ship that day they made him corporal,
and very anxious be was that l should
see and explain TO bis 'ould woman what
good luck had come to him. Next in the
desperate fight at Fair Oaks, and coming
out unscathed, began to believe even as
he did, that he couldn't be shot. But at
last death found him. Four dreadful
days he fought in those fierce battles be-
fore Richmond, with a dash and abandon
that only an Irishman ever carries into a
fight, never losing through those long, ag-
onizing hours one jot Of heart or hope.-
just at nightfall an exhausted few among
whom was he, we're ordered to hold a
narrow pass until the transport wagons
were out of danger, or until reserves
came up. Against the heroic few rushed
many fresh, well-armed foes; but they
held their ground, their number slessening
fearfully after each onset of the enemy,
but not a thought of yielding in any
,eart. At last when their strength was
we'll nigh gone, and their ammunition
clean spent they saw the glitter OF the
bayoaets of the long wished for reserves.
My man, jimmy Malony, looked in his
comrades bleeding and blackened faces,
and signed them not to notice !heir com
ing, Tor his quicG eye saw that the rebels,
just ready for another charge, would fall
right upsn the cleaning weapons. He
was not wrong too late the pressing
ranks saw the trap, and with an angry
oath the leader half checked his horse as
If to draw back. Then Jim's derisive
voice rang out;


"And faith, ye would come on fast
enough, when we were but handful, but
now you have got to walk up and get
your own share"


"Take that, you blasted hireling, and
see if it won't be long day before ye
open your mouth again" shouted the an
cry rebel, rushing against him with his
sword, as he shouted to his men to come
on.


"And It's about that we'll settle in par
adise," shouted jim, picking up a loaded
revolver and aiming it at the others
heart


He meant the ball should do its sure
work before the sword fell, but the ground
was damp with blood, his foot slipped,
and the same moment the sword made a
cruel wound in Jim's breast and his life
blood gushed out. Undaunted to the last
be gasped,


Il told you boys, they hadn': bulle:
would kill me. BE sure now that ye
light for yourselves and me, toe" and his
soul was gone.
Anne Bradstreet, do you wonder that
[ keep this stick of candy, that my tears
all on it, rs it speaks eloquently unto me
That long to work day and night, if by
hus working l may add one item Of
comfort to the lot of those who stood by |
Inns side in those awful hours, who
,ome from that field of blood, wounded,
aint, yet strong enough to tell with kind
ing eyes and flushing cheeks Of his gal
ant deeds, as well as Of hundreds more, {
ust as noble as his p It
Hayerhill, July l3.
Year: 1862

sT The yield of herrings on the Eng
lish coast this year is enormous. On
two nights in one week in August, three
million fish we're brought into a single
port. Their value was $4,000.
Year: 1862

SAVE YOUR RAas.-There is tremendous
excitement just now among printers, editors,
and publishers, about the increase in the price
OF paper. '.here is good cause for it. One
half of the newspapers in the country mast
stop, If the present high prices continue The
whole difficulty might be avoided, if more care
was taken to save and collect cotton rags
More rags are wasted annually than are sold ia
the paper makers. Itnow becomes patriotic
duty upon the part of every householder to
economize 10 that matter--to save, aud sell
everything about the house, out Of which
printing paper can be manufactured.
Year: 1862




I'VE have only given her back to God and
wherefore do we weep" There was a sigh,
half suppressed, for the memory of little one
who sleeps near home, as we turned away from
the spot TO look elsewhere.


One Of the most frequented spots for the
years to come, will be the long row of newly
turned up soil that marks the column of sol
diers graves. How it is filing up you will
readily guess when told that one coffin laid by
the halt dug grave when we went in, and when
our brief two hours were past we met two
more going to bear him company. Do you
wonder at this when l repeat what they told
me the other day that there were one thous-
and patients in the General Hospital in this
city? The board at the head of the grave
bears number, The Hospital and Cemetery
records tell the rest. Truly the paths OF Elm
wood will be trod by many fathers, mothers
and other friends in years to comedwhose tears
will water the soil Of a common country, Ii
will be to them pleasant though sad place
with its beauties from every cline, its orange
trees, its oaks and hiscllory, its shells from o
cean, gulf aud river, alt ombiniDg to.niaKe !
hallowed' spot. God grant, friend reader
that none of your dearest ones may "sleeP'' 81
far from home But If it be otherwise, if yo'
be one Of the mighty multitude who suffer il
this our hour of trial, may their resting Plac
be like this where loving hearts have an ID
terest which will keep their dust hallowed.-
Come in the early spring-iime to see ther "hom
in the quiet city," and go again with bette
hearts and stronger purpose to the duties Of lltt
Year: 1862

H- Il is probable that, for the want Of print.
ing paper, the HERALD will not make its appear.
anee next week. We have paper on board the
ship Massaehwetts, now fully due here; should
she not arrive, however, before Wednesday Of
next week. We shall have no alternative but to sus-
pend for . week or more. portion Of our pre-
sent edition is printed on brown paper, in con-
sequence Of the white being exhausted. This
disappointment is owing to no fault or neglect
Of ours but is due mainly to the failure Of the
nails The paper was ordered some four months
ago, but the order did not reach its destination
unlil last month. ........ ....-.a..
Year: 1862

A CuR1os1rY.-A piece Of petrifed
wood was brought into Leavenworth city
by surveying party, and exhibited at the
Mansion House, last week Its length is
about two feet, and the circumference one
foot, and resembles at distance a chunk
or the broken section of a half-rotton tree,
the grain of the wood and the heart of the
tree beidg quite distinguishable, but its
great weight and hardness soon unde-
csives one ~It.was found upon the top OF
high bluff, ten or twelve miles from tim
Der, in the vicinity of the Republican riv-
er, sixty or severty miles west Of here. Il
is the most perfect specimen of petrihca'
ton we have ever seen.
Year: 1862

Thanksgiving g.-Governor David Tod
TO whose charge the Temporal interests Of
the State have been entiusted-has appointed
Thursday, the 9th day OF the present month,
hs day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.


We will not stop to enquire what right the
People of Ohio have vested in their Governor
which authorizes him to Direct them when to
be thankful what items Of Divine gracious
ness to return thanks for, and TO regulate
their spiritual affairs in any way whatsoever.
A Custom which originated in the meridian
Of huge pile of imaginary Granite designa-
ted as plymouth Rock" is doubtless the peg
upon which our Governors have, since the
adoption of our State Constitution, annually
hanged pretentious document whose lite
rary significance is as pharisaical as its
effect is questionable, However, il. is a GUS
tom for the Governor TO issue Proclamations
for Thanksgiving and no matter how incon-
sistent their language with facts, the people
observe them-Aiter a fashion peculiar to indi.
yidual idiosyncracies, and ability to procure
tprkeys and other luxuries solid and liquid,
Involving expense without regard to any ratio
Of Thankfulness made known in theological
works Of which we have any knowledge.


The fact is, the people read the Governors
Proclamation, and do not take the trouble to
enquire whether its statements and deduc.
tons are correct or the reverse they accept
its suggestions, and follow it's recommenda-
tions to the best Of their ability, as soldiers
obey the command of their officers to charge,
without pausing to call in question the wis
dom Of the movement


Gov. Tod may be able to ''see it." but we
confess that we cannot clearly set forth the
Special Providences" for which stated and
Unusual thanks should be offered on Thurs
day next. 1t may be possible that the Gov
ernor has arranged for some Great Blessing
70 transpre before the day designated. In
that event the feeling of thankfulness with
the people will doubtless be large in proper
ton to the blessing they can see and feel
We hope that wO will have occasion for
enough thankfulness on the day set apart for
sAeh exercise, to justify us in the purchase of
q turkey, and such accompanImsnts as would
grace the board Of an humble Christian In
any event. may we soon have substantial
cause to be thankful and rejoice in that the
''bOttom Of the rebellion has, by some means,
been "knOcked out," and the Union as ii was
restored to us


, As Thanksgiving is question Of Time
and Occasion, let people offer thanks when
they feel they have something calling for
such devotion.


In the meanwhile we have no turkey.
Year: 1862

Exchanging - yesterday afternoon 1870
rebel prisoners passed through here On route
from Camp Chase for Vicksburgh, Miss, to
be exchanged They looked as though they
ought to meet the Confederate Quarter Mas
ter with supply of clothing, so they could
be put into preseutable shape. Camp Chase
must be hard place ON clothes. v
Year: 1862

Grass IN NEw ORLEANS-CAlhOun Benham,
or some "Other man" Of the Secession faith, re.
marked in the early days Of the rebellion that
grass would grow in the streets Of New York.
That prophecy has not exactly been fulfilled,
but rebel city Of some distinction has fallen
into this sad plight. The New ORLEANS Pieav
"ns says the heavy growth Of grass in some
OF the streets Of that city "wOuld pay the
mower for his trouble"
Year: 1862

n HAVE associated with in business Mr.. G.. W.
Sloan, who has been assistant in the store for
number of years past Hereafter the business will be
continued at the old stand under the firm of


BROWNING & SLOAN.


feel grateful for the liberal patronage which have
ever receivedtrus by strict attention to business and
the of customers merit and retain the


K. BROWNING.
Year: 1862

The crisis Of the war is at last upon us,
and reverse upon reverse comes in quick
succession. We have scarcely recovered
fiom the depression consequent upon our
defeat at Fort Henry and Roanoke. ere
we are called upon 10 meet still heavier
calamity in the fall Of Fort Donelsou and.
tho su.readcs of our bravo troops holding
that important post, 1t is true, the facts
concerning this last disaster have not yet
reached US from sources entitled TO our
belief; but enough is known 10 convince
US that we have sustained another stag
gering blow. We have not been Of those
who entertained the belief that our arms
would always be successful, or that Il was
within the bounds OF possibility our small
army could meet and drive back the over
whelming horees Of the enemy at every
point at which they could penetrate, and
are not, therefore. taken by sdGprise. nor
greatly discouraged, by the untoward
events which have taken place in the
West, and on the Atlantic coast. We
have not known our own strength,
although we nave been greatly too con-
tidenl Of the weakness and cowardice OF
our foe. II these disasters shall turn our
thoughts In upon ourselves, and shall
arouse us TO the full comprehension Of
our perilous situation, and to the energy
and activity requisite for the occasion,
they will not have overtaken us in vain.


We do not believe the defeat at Fort
Douelson is Of the proportion our tele-
grapic columns would give us 10 UNDER
stand. IL must be remembered the in
,eiligence they furnish comes from the
enemy, who are not apt TO deprec:ste the
victories they gain. And we see much to
encourage us even in this dark hour
Our permanent Government is launched
up on the stormy sea, il is true but We
think her timbers are stout enough 10 bear
the strain, and that the noble structure
will be none the worse for The rough usage
10 which it has thus early been subjected.


The War Department received Monday
evening from Gen. A. s. Johnston, a tel
egram announcing the fall of Fort Donel-
son, but couched in SO ambiguous style
that it became necessary 10 request more
Ineligible information. No answer has
yet been received from that officer, prob
ably on account OF the interruption OF tel.
egraphic communication, occasiohed by
the severity Of the weather. Richmond
Disp0tch, FEB. l9M. 4.-. s..rs,.-.s.