smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

Tie New York Eoening Post, decided
and unqualified Republican paper, but
manly enough to speak its honest convic-
tions without fear of the party lash, has a
leading editorial on the Presidents last
call for troops which contains some bold
thoughts. The Post goes on to speak of
what one hundred thousand men might ac-
complish if we had them ready for the field
now, as we ought to have, and says:


But the shape in which the President
has chosen to put his demand is, we are
constrained to say, pretty sure to do the
very reverse. To threaten a peremptory
draft now, when everybody believes that
the war is nearly ended; to demand men
for three years when the struggle should
be and must be over in six mo tbs; to
call for half million men when the cOun-
try had rightly or wrongly imagined that
hundred thousand would suffice to ter
inmate the struggle; this does appear to
Us to misunderstood the spirit of the Amer
ican people, and to blunder


This is apparent, in the first place, be-
cause it is sure to be misunderstood by all
our enemies abroad and at home. 1t will
be received as confession of weakness
and not as sign of strength; it will be
regarded as a compliment to the resisting
power of the rebels; it will be quoted as
an official acknowledgment that unless our
army, already SO vast, is made stronger by
half a million of men, we shall fail. In
the second place, because, instead of stir
ring the hopes and reviving the enthusi-
asm Of the people, it rather depresses them;
it gives voice to the doubters, and silences
thoae who never doubted before of our
success. In a great crisis like this it is
important to keep up the spirits Of the
people, to maintain their hupefulness, to
encourage them to new Efforts. But this
proclamation, oold, lifeless, rigid, bound
round with red tape, clothed in the formal
language of the bureau, sounds as though
its author thought the peop'e could bear to
be chilled and disheartencd Its tore is
not that of The chief of republic calling
upon his fellow-citiz,ns to support cause
in which all are alike interested, but rather
it is the tone of European sovereign, tell
ing his subjects what he requires Of them.
Year: 1864

a correspondent OF The New York
Times says:


The army wonders that Gilman's band
of highwaymen, scattered and few, should
have burned and plundered in the very
suburbs of the city of Baltimore, inturrupt-
ed communication for days with the Ma
tional Capital, and there should have been
Only one Ishmael Day, and he valetudi-
marian to fire shot in protest. l merely
express the opinion of the gallant men
who are sacrificing all earthly considerations
on the altar of patriotism, when I say that
they are humiliated and disgusted. Af-
ter three years experience of invasion, is
it still necessary that raiding parties should
get as far North as Lake Ontario, leaving
ruin and desolation in their track, before
the slow-learning people of the North can
be made to understand that they live in a
time of war, and must suffer, and sacrifice,
and yield all things, and subordinate ali
things to the emergency? Why do not
the people awake? Why is there no
thorough enrolment and organization of
the militia? After these experiences, will
they continue supine, buying and selling,
marrying and giving in marriage, doing
ordinary work in extraordinary times, or
will they devote atleast little of their at
tention and time to military drill and pre-
para.ion?


These questions presented themselves
forcibly to my mind last Wednesday,
which spent in Baltimore. There was
city almost isolated from the rest of
the world, and believed to be in inn
minent peril. The inabitants were al
most frenzied with terror. Business was
suspended. Old men and young men
were rushing to arms. Citizens patroled
the streets, armed, and unorganized Vol.
unteers, mounted and on foot, presented
themselves at Gen. Ord's headquarters and
the various militia rendezvous to enroll
for the defence of the city. For these raw,
undiciplined men, from the pressing me-
cessities of the case, the arsenals were de-
p!eted of valuable arms. Would it not be
insulting to the common sense of General
Ord, Gen. Wallace or any man of military
experience, to suppose that they coald
have confidence in the ability OF these un-
trained men to stand up against the as
saults of an organized body of far inferior
numbers. j head one General remark as
ne saw squad after squad of these "min-
ute men I" receive splendid new Sharpes
carbines from the arsenal near the City
Hotel, those arms are being issued for
the rebels as surely as they make an at
tack" and the truth of the assertion the
veriest trio in military matters ccu:d not
gainsay. In view of these facts, then, the
cry Of the army is to urge everywhere
throughout the North the immediate snd
thorough organization of the militia. Neg
lect this important matter longer, and an
experience more bitter than has yet befall-
en- may teach, when too late, its necessity.
Year: 1864

One Of the modes of fraud by contract
ors is Illustrated in the following passage
from Senator Doolittles report:


Under the old system Of bidding it fre-
quently occurred that contractor would
bid to deliver articles at a mere nominal
price which were Of well known and estab-
lished value in the market, while IN the
same class for articles Of equally well
known and establl he'd prices tie sum ma
med would be double their real value. For
instance, Smith Brothers, OF Boston, bid
Year: 1864

EgWashngtcn said that the triumph of a
sectional party would bring about disuuion.-
Webster said that the triumph Of Abolition
would bring disunion. Clay said tie same
So have all truo patriots said. And so has ex-
perience at last taught us.
Year: 1864

SAVE THE 0Lp NEWSPAPERS. IT wenty
per CENTS the sum of the depreciation
in value for working up into material for
remauuf1clure which paper loses by the
process of fprnliug. While the price Of
printing paper is thirty cents per pound,
the loss BY the destruction Of newspa.
pers is quito serious item. We trust
our readers will bear this fact in mind,
and preserve their newspapers for sale
Though they cannot always secure the
full remainder Of the value, they may
approximate 10 ii, ard little calCua
ton will soon convince them that the
yield from the sale Of all the papers
which they get is an item worth saving
to themselves and tho community at
large, in war times, at least.
Year: 1864

family has been expelled from the Confeu
crate States that am aware of; but, on the
contrary, the moderation of our Govern
ment toward traitors has been fruitless
theme of denunciation by its enemies and
many well meaning friends of our cause
You say my Government, by acts of Con-
gress, has coniseated tall debtsdue North
ern men for goods sold and delivered" The
truth is, Congress gave due and ample
time to your merchants and traders to de-
part from our shores with their ships,
goods and effects, and only sequestered the
property of our enemies In retaliation for
their acts declaring us traitors, and confis-
eating our property wherever their power
extended, either in their country or our
own. Such are your accusations, and such
are the facts, known of all men to be true.


You order into exile the whole popula-
ton of a city, drive men, women and chill
dren from their houses at the point of the
bayonet, under the plea that it is to the in
terest of your Government and on the claim
that this is an act of "kindness to these fam
lilies of Atlanta" Butler only banished
from New Orleans the registered enemies
of his Government, and acknowledged that
he did it as a punishment. You issue a
sweeping edict covering all the inhabitants
of city, and add insult to the injury heap
ed upon the defenseless by assuming that
you have done them kindness. This you
follow by the assertion that you will "make
as much sacrifice for the peace and honor
of the South as the best born Southron."
And because l characterize what you call
kindness as being real cruelty, you pre-
sumo to sit in judgment between me and
my God, and you decide that my earnest
prayer to the Almighty Father to save our
women and children from what you call
kindness is a "sacrilegious, hypocritieal ap-
peal"


You come into our country with your ar
my avowedly for the purpose of subjugat-
ing free white men, women and children;
and not only intend to rule over them, but
you make negroes your allies, and desire to
place over us an inferior race, which we
have raised from barbarism to its present
position, which is the highest ever attained
by that race in any country in all time. l
must, therefore, decline to accept your
statements In reference to your kindness
towards the people of Atlanta, and your
willingness to sacrifice everything for the
peace and honor Of the South, and refuse to
be governed by your decision in regard to
matters between myself, my country and
my God. l..


You say "let us fight it out like men,"
To this my reply is, for myself and be-
lieve for all true men, aye, and women and
children, in my country, we will fight you
to death. Better die a thousand deaths than
to submit to live under you or your Gov
ernment and your negro allies.


Having answered the points forced upon
me by your letter of the 9th September, /
close this correspondence with you, and
Notwithstanding your comments upon my
appeal to God in the cause of humanity, L
again humbly and reverently invoke His
aid in defense of justice and right.


Respectfully, your obedient servant,


J.B. HOOD, General.


Official-E. III. WIGFALL, A. d. G.
Year: 1864

From The Griffin (Ga.) REBEL


Old Jubal Early, or as General Lee calls
him, his 'bad old man." has won name
during his sojourn in the valley of Virginia
of which he is well worthy. Did you ever
see him? If not, you have missed one of
the greatest curiosities of the war. He is a
man of considerable corpulence, with full
face, which has the appearance of the full
moon when it is at its height in redness.
He is about six feet high, and of immense
structure. His voice sounds like a cracked
Chinese fiddle, and comes from his mouth
somewhat in the style of the hardshell Bap-
tist, with long drawl, accompanied with
an Interpolation of oaths. In winter his
head is encased in net striped woolen scull
cap drawn about his ears, while his body is
contained within the embraces of Virginia
cloth overcoat, striking his heels. His legs
are covered by leggings of the same ma
terial, wrapped from the feet upwards as
high as the knees with white tape. He is as
brave as he is homely, and as homely as any
man you ever saw, except Parson Brown
low, who is said to rival his satanic majesty
In personal appearance. There are many
anecdotes related of Old Jubal, but l can
at present call to memory but one. During
the battles in the Wilderness on one Occa-
sion regiment from South Carolina was
ordered to charge the enemy. For some
reason they faltered. Old Jubal hearing of
it rode up to the head of the column, and
in that popularity of tone for which he
was noted, cried out "Blast you, you got
us into this.damned scrape, and by God you
shall help us out" The regiment was so
cut by the remark that they rushed upon
the foe, driving him from every position.
Year: 1864

7 MiNi1 kErt6N Il HE u


WE have considerably enlarged TIE DAILY ONO
ST LTEsMAH, and now print it on plain and hand
ono new type. and clear white paper. -,


In Politics, The ONO STATKsSfAN L. Nm War NJ In
Peace for the Country for the Constitution, and for
Union Of equal States. with equal privileges. and
with equal and exact Justice TO all its citizens. We
are for the Old Flag with nots Star Stripe
and the Old Union far as stspossible restore it,
and for the existing Constitution in its spirit letter
and purpose. lfg g- htiru irt9at


Upon the coming events Of the year, rest the hopes
of tho People and Government. We are in the midst
Of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
And close depend upon wiSer truer and more patri-
otic Policy than have seen during the present Ad
ministration. Weowe it to the memory Of our Faith
ers and to the hopes Of our Children TO the future Of
our Country and to the best interests Of mankind to
change Policy which is drifting farther and far
ther from the landmarks Of our patriotic sires.
TEE STATESMAN will do oil 1t can to aid in bring
ing about this change; and hence. the Publishers in
vito support and encouragement from all those who
while wishing for good NEWSPAPER, also wish to
have sound Constitutional journal. a ..


We publish paper in which we seek TO give the
TRUTH. Our Commercial Reports, our Markets. our
Political and General News carefully freed from
the ensational character. and we seek to mako TIE
STATESMAN trustworthy in every particular,


Al For News, for Instruction. for Good Morals. for
Sound Political Sentiments, for Steady Defense Of
American Institutions. Take. Read and help to Cir
culato. TIE OHIO STATESMAN. .r.


The WEEKLY ONO STATESMAN is enc Of the
argest, cheapest, and best printed Papers in the
West. Each number contains complete resume Of
u, the Military and Political news Of the week; tho
atest telegraphic and market reports; carefully
prepared collection Of literary reading for the home
and family; and an abundance Of paragraphs upon
every topic Of interest or importance. The wide
circulation already obtained by this paper, an evil
dence Of its popularity, and Of its being adapted TO
tho wants Of the people. .. .5s- ..7arE
Year: 1864

An HONEST REPUBIcAN.-The Newburyport
(Mass.) Herald, an honest Republican paper,
says:


'We never did knowingly, and never intend
to infringe upon the Constitution, and trample
down the laws and usages, and compromises on
which the nation stands, for the emancipation
of slaves in the Southern States. Holding to
State Rights, the right of each community to
legislate upon and control its local affairs,
which idea is at the bottom of American free
dom-the very keel of our ship of State, we do
now repudiate and have always repudiated all
interference with local matters in States to
which we do not belong. 1t was never neces-
sary or justifable. We have no slavery in Mas
sachusetts, and we would resist to the death its
imposition upon us but if we had slavery here
established by the free will of the people, as
just, right and expedient for US, though we
might differ from the majority, we would re-
sent and resist any interference on the part of
Maine or Vermont, or any other community or
Government under Heaven, to forcibly or
lawfully abolish that slavery When even sla-
very is abolished by violence, at the expense Of
the Constitution and Union, it will not make the
negroes free, but it certainly will destroy the
liberties of thirty millions Of whites. There
can be no other result"
Year: 1864

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The nnumerable caravan that moves


To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry slave, at night,
Scourged to his dungeon but, sustained & soothe
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that draws the drapery of his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Year: 1864

In the beginning of the war a patriotic land
lady, in her desire to emulate the generosity of
many city governments and other corporations
in continuing the wages Of absent soldiers, gave
notice that if any of her boarders wished to en-
list, she would allow their board bill to run
right on all the time they were gone the same
as if they remained.
Year: 1864

When DR.. Johnson asked Widow Porter to
be his wife, he told her candidly that he had no
money, and that he had an uncle hanged. The
widow replied that she cared nothing for pa
rentage, that she had no money herself, and that
if she had not a relation hanged, she had fifty
who deserved hanging. So they made a match
of it,
Year: 1864

carman in New Orleans ran over and put
out the light of a very young American citizen
of African descent, and was heard to exclaim :
"God bless the Emancipation Proclamation If
had done that two years ago, it would have
cost me five hundred dollars p
Year: 1864

REFREsHING.-We had the pleasure Of see
ing, few days ago, some specimens of gold
bearing quartz brought in from the lode be-
ing worked by the Highland Company, of
French Gulch. The specimens are rich. and
the sight of them creates yearning in our
buzzun for stock in that mill but, like every
good thing we know of, there is none in
market
Year: 1864

ELEccIoS Day IN SHAsTA.-Never did our
town. on the day of an important election,
present so quiet yet jubilant an appearance
as on Tuesday last. The dregs in the cup Of
universal good feeling towards the Govern
ment were not in sufficient quantities to roll
the general joy therefore broils and conten-
tions were not of the DAYS amusements.
Year: 1864

MISSEsorA.-From private source we
learn that in the above mine they have struck
the best defined and most promising lode In
the Pittsburg district. Owners of stock are
jubilant. and we are glad Of it. Meeting of
stockholders tonight.
Year: 1864

A "BIG Injun" having strayed from the
camp, found himself lost on trying to return
TO it. After looking about he drew himself up
and exclaimed, =" Injun lost !" but recovering
himself, and feeling unwilling to acknowl-
edge such short sightedness, continued No
Injun no lost-wigwam lost Striking his
breast) Injun here !"


What blessing are metaphors to our gen
Grafton A poet or other who can make moth
ing clear, can stir up enough sediment to
render the bottom of basin as invisible as
the deepest gulf in the Atlantic. The shall
lowest pond, if turbid, has depth enough for
a goose to hide his head in.


Swearing is not only reprobated by the
laws of good taste and good manners, but
forbidden by the commandment of God. He
who makes oaths, would seem to tell us that
his bare word is not to be taken.


Glory to the man who rather bears a grief
corrOding his breast than permits it to prowl
beyond and to prey on the tender and com
passionate


Write your name by kindness, love and
ulOlCJj Ou GhO dllb VI VIC pSOplG DOu COu6
in contact with year by year.. and you will
never be forgotten.


In the march Of life, don't heed the order
" right about" when you know you are about
right.


Modesty is pleasing quality, and is gen
orally attendant upon merit 1t is engaging
in the highest degree, and wins the hearts
of all.


None are more disgusting in company,
than the impudent and presuming. Moth
ing can atone for the want of modesty with
out it beauty is ungraceful, and wit detesta-
ble


If you would be pungent, be BRIEF for it
is with words as with sunbeams-the more
they are condensed, the deeper they burn.


Anger may dwell for moment in the
breast ofa wise man; but rests permanently
only in the breasts of fools.


None are so resentful of the unfavorable
opinion of others as those who are continual
ly decrying themselves.
Year: 1864

=


rs we should if it we're an Individual
debt--that is, if we economical to the
utmost degree.


What we pay for foreign luxuries
diminishcs the capital Of che country
and our ability to meet our public OBJ
legations. Our imports of luxuries
are of much loss to us; they also ten
to raise the price Of gold, and. Of
course, in so far to add to the total
expenses Of both Government and
people. 1t is the plain and manifest
duty at this time of every man and
woman to bring down their expendi-
lures. 1t is an obligation that we
owe to the country not to buy foreign
silks and satins, and jewelry and wines
or costly furniture from abroad. -
Every person should feel that for
himself he is bound to save all that
is possible. Old cloths should he
wcrn, old furniture used, luxuries he
dispersed with, to meet this terrible
crisis. We have no right to buy
useless indulgencies while we are
laying up great debt for the future
1t is not honorable; it is not patriot.
ic nor even prudent. No people can
be spending thousand millions on 4
gigantic war, and at the same time
be holding q carnival Of cxtrava-
gance and gluttony. Somebody muSt
pay for it all. Our apparent super
fluffy of money should either be in.
vested in permanent investments, or
should 90 to cure the sad ills OF war
Our great success, financially, in the
beginning OF this struggle resulted
from the universal economy OF the
people. We saved enough then to
pay the current expenses Of the war.
This has all passed by. Every one
is spending money for every possible
vanity. Careful fnanciers estimate
that S50p,000,00O per annum can be
saved by rctrenchment.


Unless the people shall see the folly
and wrong of this extravagance; I'M
less Congress shall still further checl,
the national wastcfulness by severe
and heavy taxation, we drift inevita-
bly, toward dreadful abyss Let us
be warned in timc.-N Y. Times.
Year: 1864

free governments, and would lead to
its complete decentralization and ruin.


l believe the masses OF the Demo.
cratic party are for peace, that they
would be placed in n false position il
they should nominate q war cardi-
date for the Presidency, and see to
make the issue upon the narrow ba.
sis Of how the war should he prose.
cuted. For my own part. as | have
already indicted, I fear that our old
Government cannot he preserved ev-
on under the best auspices, and I'M
der any policy that may be now adop-
ted; yet desire TO see the Demo
cratic party with which I have al
ways been connected preserve its
consistency and republican character
mistaken.
Year: 1864

- The 6rst news Gen. Sherman
will receive from home on reaching the
coast, will be the sad intelligence OF the
death Of bis youngest child. This is the
second member Of his family that has
died while he was absent in the ield.
Year: 1864

Ia The Richmond Wig is delight
ed to hear that Gen Dix intends making
his Department too bot for Southern
refugees, who have fed to IL to keep out
OF the reach OF danger. 1t hopes If there
Is no law TO reach their eases the Gen
eral will make one.
Year: 1864

Ihsve . very large stock Of the above
Goods / am also prepared 70 make up
Clothing in the best possible manner, for
have got the best workmen IN mg en-
pIoy in the West, and warrant als goods
made by me. And as ny expenses are
not heavy, / can and will sell goods low
er than any other house in the city Of
the same kind All ask Is for those ia
want Of fine clothing 70 call and sea
what / have got No troabie 70 show
zoodA
Year: 1864

IMPROVEMENT OF THE PoToMAc.-The bill
introduced in the House to establish a co-po-
ration for the improvement Of the Potomac
river gives 10 the company for building
breakwater from the lower End of Mason's
Island (tor the purpose of changing the chan
mel OF the Potomac to The north bank of the
rlver) tn right in fee to the lands reclaimed
from overflow. For fixing the Long Bridge
and Alexandra and Washington railroad in a
manner suited to the new course Of the river
the company are 10 have tolls over the Long
Bridge. The latter corporation is to have
damages. section Of the bill specifies how
that the right to levy tolls NAV be reclaimed
Year: 1864

VIII be inserted at three dollars per square
for The first, and one dollar and fifty cents per
square for each subsequent Insertion. A square
TO sonsist Of the space Of 10 lines. BREWER type.
No advertisement considered less than a square.


The number Of insertions must be N ritten Oh
each advertisement, or they viii be inserted ill
ordered out and charged accordingly.