smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

the building Of log huts, he expects soon TO
put his army in motion. We think, too, that
the intelligent reader will be able to discover,
from the other army movements indicated, that
they are but parts of grand system Of COM
bined operations, in which the army Of the
Potomac will strike the heaviest and finishing
blows. The facts we have recited are
sufficient to show that the grand win
Ter campaign of our army and navy,
which will inevitably crush this rebellion,
has already begun, and that, so far as our army
and navy are concerned, there is no longer any
ground for complaint of wasteful and demo-
ralizing inactivity. The army and navy are in
motion, and we shall not have to wait much
longer for some decisive results.


Our second question, which refers to the
sinews of war, and to the prospects Of seasona-
BILE, broad and comprehensive measures of Con-
gressional legislation on the subject, we cannot
answer so satisfactorily to our readers. The
House of Representatives, paid off in gold, ap-
pears still to be ignorant of the fact that gold
in New York is selling at three to four per cent
premium. And why this premium, with specie
basis of three hundred millions in the country
1t arises from the absence of any provision on
the part of Congress for the interest and final
redemption of the present and prospective
paper money issues on the part of the govern
ment An expenditure of six hundred mil
lions year upon cash basis Of sixty
millions of receipts is shaking the confidence
of the country in Treasury paper and all other
sorts of paper money The safety of the Trea-
sury and the interests of the financial, COM
mercial and all other business classes of the
country demand cash basis for these war ex-
penses of the Treasury of two hundred mil
lions, or additional direct and indirect taxation
on the part of Congress equal to one hundred
and fifty millions income to the Treasury.


The war is progressing finely; but the sinews
of war will surely fail us unless Congress,
dropping this worse than useless agitation of
slavery, and these disorganizing inquiries con-
cerning the leaders of our army, shall promptly
interpose to save the country and the Treasury.
We want one hundred and forty or fifty mil
lions more actual cash receipts for the Trea-
sury. Let them be provided by taxation, and
the work of sustaining the paper issues of the
government and of our banks upon the par
basis of specie will be simple and easy. Next
give us general bankrupt law, to lift from the
shoulders Of our business classes some of the
oppressive burdens resulting from this rebel
lion, and our people will not complain of the
extraordinary drafts upon them to sustain our
army, the Treasury and the currency of the
country, from the dangers of a financial revu,-
sion.


AS the army is in motion for vigorous pro-
secution of the war, we call upon Congress to
provide the sinews of war without further
trifiing, equivocations or delay.
Year: 1862

ENGLISH VIEWS or Our FINANCIAL CoNDI-
TIoy.--In the last letter of that famous seer and
prophet Dr. Bull Run Russell, he predicted
that before the close of 1861 most extraordi-
nary financial crisis would take place in this
country; that a national paper currency would
be issued, and that the whole banking system
of the country would 60 down with rush. The
ides Of January are past aud his vaccinations
remain unfulflled. The community are of
course awaiting with some anxiety the action
of Congress in regard TO the manner In which
our war burdens are to be provided for; but we
have yet to discover the evidences of the
financial cstaclysm which was so clearly
prefgured to the acute vision Of the English
oracle.


There is an old but very true saying, that
''psople who live in glass houses should
not throw stones" In laying such stress on
our financial perplexities our transatlantic
cousins should not shut their eyes to the moral
contained in this pithy axiom. Notwithstanding
their boast that they were never so well pre-
pared TO 90 70 war with oil the world as o.
Year: 1862

The two great questions which now monopo-
lize the public mind are, first, when are we to
have great and decisive battle? and. second,
are they doing anything in Congress to save the
government and the country from the ruinous
consequences Of a threatened irredcemable and
constantly dcpreciating shinplaster currency?


We are happy to say, in reply to the first of
these questions, that the army is in motion
that the several detachments of the powerful
column Of General Buell., in Kentucky. from
different points, are closing around the rebel in
land stronghold of Bowling Green while from
our own stronghold of Cairo formidable flo
tilla, with a corresponding land force, is on the
eve Of starting towards the fortified rebel camp
at Columbus on the Mississippi river. The
rebel army at Bowling Green is supposed to
be not less than sixty-fve thousand men, and
twenty thousand. On our side, the advancing
forces of General Buell. will, it is believed, pre-
sent an aggregate of not less than seventy thou
sand men; and that the column Of General
McClernand, from Cairo, with some important
reinforcements from General Smith, at Pa
ducah, will amount TO full thirty thousand
men. Both of these moving columns are
admirably equipped and amply provided with
good artillery; and from the splendid fighting
qualities already displayed in every sort Of en-
counter by our Western Union troops, we have
no hesitation in submitting the prediction that
before the end of the present month we shall
have some grand and decisive Union victories
in the West


At the same time the Burnside naval expedi-
ton has moved down from Annapolis to Hamp-
ton Roads fortress Monroe), and is only
waiting the signal for dash upon the enemy at
some important point or two on the Southern
seaboard. The practical knowledge derived
from the Cape Hatteras and Port Royal expedi-
tions has contributed materially to make this
expedition Of Burnside certain success against
any point which II may assail, and to justify the
opinion that Burnside, having dislodged his
enemy from his first position, will instantly fol-
low him up, disperse his forces or capture
them, and strike at their main arteries Of inland
communication between Virginia and the cot
ton States. simultaneously with the thunders
of our artillery in the West we may expect'to
hear Of the shelling out Of the enemy some
where in the southeast by the Burnside cxpedl
ton.


But what Of our grand army Of the Potomacs
Is General Mcclellan, with his two hundred
thousand men, to remain stationary all this
time! Beauregard, it appears, is under this
impressions; for he has put his troops at Cen
treville, and along Bull run and the Occo-
quan, actively to work in the erection Of log
huts for their winter quarters. But this signi-


aes nothing. We presume, on the contrary,
that, as General Mcclellan has not proceeded to
Year: 1862

present, there is no Disgusting the fact that
they were in mortal funk at the idea of thek
being compelled to resort to the alternative
which they made contingent on the non-sur-
render Of Mason and Slidell. We can judge
of the extent Of their apprehensions by the
eagerness with which they seized on the hopes
held out by the pacific tenor of Senator Stewards
despatch of the 23d of December last And
that they have good grounds for those fears will
be seen from the following paragraph, copied
from the Western Times, an English provincial
journal of high standing in the manufacturing
DISTRICTS


rupts trenchng so much our space, we omit it, Tho
Gasate Of Bankrnpcy will afford great treat to those
fond of this sort Of reading


The truth is that England, financially and
commercially, was never in more rotten con-
dition than she is at the present moment Her
people are staggering under such a load Of tax
alton that they are unable to support any fur
ther burdens. With her cotton mills closed or
working on short time, her exports to this coun-
try reduced by one-half, famine decimating tho
Irish portion Of her population, and starvation
impending over her English operatives, she was
in no condition to pick up the gauntlet had we
chosen to fling it to her. She might, it is true,
have damaged our navy, temporarily OBJ
structed our commerce and wrought us some
injury on our seaboard; but the cost of all this,
like the last straw that breaks the camel's
back" would have so ground down her people
and bankrupted her resources that rebellion
and revolution at home would have been the in
evitable result. 1t is well for the people Of
England that the prophecies of the London
Times in regard to the intentions and dispo-
sition of our government on the Mason and Sill
dell affair were no nearer the truth than those
with which DR.. Bull Run Russell, LII. D., and
A. S. S., has been recently favoring its readers
on our financial and commercial prospects.
Year: 1862

but little is suppFessing the insurrection If it


Se at the expense OF the constitution. for the


chains which the bondman wears are none the


lighter because they were pressed by bis own


and not anoiher's hands. As we expect to


come cut Of this contest with our flag full


anu complete in all its proportions, not a stripe
erased or a star obscured, so let us preserve


the constitution, perfect in all its paris. with
all lis GUARANTEES for the protection o: life and


liberty uuimpaired. and the instrument itself
rendered doubry dear from the fact that it has


been saerediy maintained and proven equal to
every ca ergenzy, under circumstances the
most trying to which a nation was ever sub
J"ct. Then, when this struggle is over, we
will have an assurance that our government
IS stronger than ever before, aud that consti- |
tutional liberty is established on foundation
wHich no human power will ever be able to
Subyert
Year: 1862

The New York Evening Post says that nc
unessiness need be felt in regard to defcien.
cy of our supply of saltpetre. 1t is assumed
that the amount now in Government stores is
sufficient for all emergencies, while as to arms
we are abundantly able to help ourselves from
the armories now in operation, and with our a
bility TO construct new machinery whenever il
may be needed.


In the slow progress Of events, the army
in Kentucky is likely to come into possession
Of the Mammoth Cave, where saltpetre is n
bundant.
Year: 1862

Finding diversity ofopiuiOn among
fatmers in regard to the quantity Of seed
necessary to stock given quantity OF
ground, and thinking that some Others as
we'll as myself might be curious to know
Year: 1862

When was young, crime crime--it had no


other name
And when twas proved against a man, he had to


bear the blame,
They called the man who stole, a thief-they vast


cd no fine feeling;
What folks call petty larceny. in my day was called


stealing
They did not make a reprobate the theme of song


and story,
As ifthe blooder his hands, the brighter


his glory,
And when murder had been done, could they tho
e murderer ind,
They hung him as they would crow, terror to
But nowadays, it seems to me, whenever blood is


split,
The murderer has sympathy proportioned to his


guilt,
And when the law has proved man to be second
dozen jurors win be found to bring him in insane
And then petitions will be signe1, and texts of


Scripture twisted,
And every effort will be made TO have the law re-


sisted
Until the man who proved to be as bloodthirsty


Nero,
Will walk abroad like other men, only greater


hero.
When was young if man had failed he shut up


house and all
And never ventured out till night, if he vcntured


out at all
And his wife sold all her China plates, and his


came home from college,
And his girls left school, and learned to wash and


bake and such like knowledge.
They gave. up cakes and pumpkin pies, and had the


plainest eating,
And never asked folks home to tea, and scarcely


went to meeting;
The that bankrupt called was rather


Stunned of men,
And hardly dared to show his head among his


townSfolk then.
But nowadays when a merchant fails, they say


he makes penny,
His wife don't have gown the less, and his daugh


ters just many;
His sons do smoke their choice cigars and drink


their costly wine,
His wife goes to the opera, and he has folks to


dine.
He walks the streets, he drives his gig, men show


him all civilties,
And what in my days were called debts,


called liabilities
They call the man unfortunate who ruins half the


city,
In my day it the creditors to whom we gave


the pity.
Year: 1862

The CONDITION OF ENGLAND The Lon
don Morning Herald of July IA, contains the
following picture of the present condition of
England:


"We are actually spending more than our
income we have used up every extraordin-
airy resource, every additional windfall we
have reduced our balances at the national
banker's in one one word, we are drifting
into state of chronic deficit We are in
financial straits we are enduring cruel
pressure of taxation, made unnecessarily
painful by prohigate faancier, whose poll
cy it has been to subordinate the public in
terests to the greed of clique and the con-
venience of Cabinet. And all this while
our revenue has lost its much boasted recup-
arative power. Receipts are waning, trade
is falling off, the country suffers from deep
and wide spread commercial distress. If un-
der such circumstances, an extravagant ex-
penditure is still to go on in conjunction with
rotten and ruinous financial policy, much
more than the reputation of minister al
ready self,discredted, much more than the
the stability of government already totter-
ing, will be ieopardized.''
Year: 1862

To PREVENT DRowNING.-At this season
of the year when so many accidents occur
from persons bathing, we think the following
remarks may prevent the loss of life :
" Men are drowned by raising their hands
above water. the unbuoyed weight of which
depresses the head. Animals have neither
notion or ability to act in simler manner,
and therefore swim naturally. When a
man falls into deep water he will rise to the
surface. and continue there if he does not sl-
evate his hands. If he moves his hands un-
der water in any manner he pleases, his head
will rise so high as to allow him liberty to
breathe and if he moves his legs as if in the
act of walking up stairs, so that he may use
less exertion with his hands, or apply them
to other purposes. Persons not having learn
ed to swim in their youth, will find the above
plain directions highly advantageous.
Year: 1862

1t was in the month of May, 1893, that the
ship that bore the celebrated French zoologist,
NJ. Geoffrey, was lying becalmed between
Cape Bonand and the Island of Malta, whenthe
ennui of the passengers was disspated by the
two pilot fishes, that directed their course
toward the ships stern, which they inspect
ed twice, swimming from one end to the 9TH
er. Not finding anything, they for time
departed The SHARK, it is asserted, never
lost sight of the pilots, and he seems to have
followed them as.if he had been an iron
shark, and they had been magnets The
sailors threw overheard large hook baited
with pork. The three, observing the splash
of the bait, stopped, The two pilots advanc-
ed as if to examine the cause. While they
were gone, the shark was seen playing up
on the surface of the level sea. now diving,
now re. appearing in the same place. When
the pilots discovered the pork, they swan
swiftly back to the shark, took the lead, and
all three made towards the ship. The shark
did not seem to discover the bait till it was
pointed out to him by the pilots, when he
made rush at it, and was hooked and hois-
ted on board. Here the pilots seemed to
have led their friend to his death.


The next witness, captain of the royal
navy, gives these leaders credit for greater
sagacity. Captain Richards, while on the
Mediterranean station, saw following the
ship a shark, attracted probably by a corpse,
which had been committed to the deep. The
dav was fine. \ sharp hook, baited with
pork, was thrown out. The shark attended
by four pilot fishes, repeatedly approached
the bait Whenever he did so, one of the
pilots was distinctly seen from the taffrail
to run his snout against the sharks head, as
if to turn it away. After some further play
the shark swan off in the wake of the vessel
his dorsal fin being long distinctly visible
above water. When, however, he had gone
n considerable distance, he made sudden
turn, darted after the ship, and. before the
pilots could overtake him, snapped at the
bait and was fast. On hosting him up, one
of the pilots was observed clinging to his side
until he was out of water; then it fell off,
All of the pilot fishes then swan about while
as if in search of their friend, With every
appearance of anxiety and distress they
then started suddenly down into the depth:
of the sea.


Mr.. Mayen deposes that he saw no less
than three instances in which the shark was
led by the pilot fish. When the former
neared the ship the pilot swan close to his
snout or near his pectoral fins. Sometimes
the pilot fish darted rapidly forward ant
sideways, as if looking for something. anC
constantly went back to the shark. Wher
the latter was within twenty PAGES from thu
ship, a piece of bacon fastened to grca
hook, was thrown overheard. Quick as
lightning the pilot fish darted up, smelt til,
bait. and instantly went back again to th,
shark, swimming many times round his snout
and splashing as if to give him exact infor
nation as to the bacon. The shark ther
put himself in motion, the pilot showing
him the way, and in moment was fast t
the hook.
Year: 1862

SOMETHING FOR Swans A gentleman
who was among the Salmon river auventurers,
says that party with whom he travelled had
with them n Chinaman as cook. There is
nothing strange in this, but to us there is
something strange and suggestive in the fact
that this Chinaman was able to talk-perhaps
not fiuently, but so as to make himself un-
derstood-with two different parties of In
dams who came into camp. The Indians
were supposed TO be Bannocks, though they
claimed to belong east of the Bannock county,
in the neighborhood of the Wind River Noun
tains.- Territorial Enterprise.
Year: 1862

A New WAY TO MAKE Coon W1vEs.-A
western paper says: ''Young ladies who are
accustomed to reading newspapers are al
ways observed to possess winning ways. most
amiable dispositions, and invariably make
good wives.


If this wise observation should prove true,
what a nation of good wives our Republic
will show from this time forth! Where is
the young lady in our land who does not
read the Newspapers 90
Year: 1862

SENSIBLE ADvIcE.-The Stockton Indpen>
dent has the following rational advice to anti
quated grumbers who don't take the pa
pers = " We learn that most of those who
will suffer by being sued for their taxes this
year, are such as do not take newspaper, but
trust to gossip for their news. If people will
persist in taking position twenty years be-
hind the age, they must expect to suffer for it.
Take a paper and keep yourselves posted
Year: 1862

Cosr OF TAKING BEAUFosT.-It is estimated
that about three thousand FIVE hundred shot
ard shell were fired at Forts Walker and
Beauregard. in the late bombardment at Port
Royal. The average cost of each shot is set
down at eight dollars, making the total cost of
the capture of Port Royal harbor S2S,000.
Year: 1862

The PEOPLE vs.. GREER.-Ths cause was
J tried in the District Court last week. The
defendant was indicted for the murder of Dutch
Fred at Dogtown. The case was submitted to
the jury on Saturday evening. They remained
out two days and nights and finally were dis
charged without being able to agree upon a
verdict. We have heard that they stood-9
for murder in the second degree, and 3, for
murder in the first degree The case goes over
for the term.
Year: 1862

THE New YEAR.-New Years Day was
one of the brightest and most genial of our
Winter months Every body wore bright faces
and greeted each other with a cordial Happy
New Year, Business was in a manner sus.
pended after tie middle of the day. and the
community went forth to enjoy the bright sun
shine, so much in contrast with our long and
gloomy spell of weather for month past.


Every body smiled, and smiled again-pro-
duced by the general enjoyment of all around
the boys and girls. by their toys and trinkets,
and the men and women, by their more staid
and substantial mode Of enjoying the day, un-
til the day waXed faint, and all melowed down
in social satisfaction. As the day of the New
Year burst forth so bright and beautiful, so
may our beloved country come forth from the
clouds Of contention that now eushtoud her
peace and prosperity.
Year: 1862

BALL oS THE sTH.-The anniversary of the
Battle Of New Orleans, will terminate with
Calico Party in the evening, at the Oroyile
Armory. All hands round, and glide in the
graces Of the may dance.
Year: 1862

1t has been our practice, heretofore, TO pub
lish synopsis of the proceedings of the Board
at their regular meetiags, for the information
of the people of the county. But such sum-
mary Is not sufficient to give an insight into
many important and lengthy orders made by
the Board, that directly affect large portion
of our people.


Orders have been made. changing the town
ships of The county, in which whole townships
have been annihilated and merged into others.
Still, the people have had no notice of the
changes. Liiigauts complain that no notice of
such changes has been made. and they put TO
costs to learn what everybody ought to be no.
tilted aboat, through the papers We hear
many complaints Of the Board not publishing
more than they do.


The law requires of the Supervisors to pub
lish the quarterly report of the County Treasu-
rer, by the way, as very important matter to
the people Of our county. But no such order
has ever been made by them. By referring to
page 7l5 of Woods Digest, article 3444, it
will be seen that the law is imperative on this
subject; and other items might be enumerated
in which the Board would enlghten our peo-
pie by sending orders TO papers Of the county +;
and, by the way. the Board cannot complain
that all the papers in the county are Union in
their sentiments and principles, or that they
require or demand heavy and unjust charges
for doing their work. One, at least, asks but
what is fair and just, without rafting"


We would say to the Board, that the people
have o greater cause to grumble from your not
publishing your doings, than they would to the
small cost of doing it. Then, gentlemen, ad-
vertise-eyen if you are compelled to do so in a
Secession paper-and thus fulfill the require
ments of the law and its spirit and intention.


JEFF. DAVIS MEssAGE.-This great literary
curiosity is well worth reading and preserving.
1t will have place in history, the Rebellion
Record" and will be forever held up as the
most brilliant specimen Of political mendacity
ever published among an enlightened people.
He says. the nature of the hostilities which
they (U. S. have waged against US must be
characterized as barbarous,n and that the
troops must expect to be dealt with as offend
ers against all law, human and divine" In
other words we understand him to say that he
is right and every body else is wrong, and that
the doctrine taught by the black flag unfured
in South Carolina, is to be the doom of every
United States soldier falling into the rebels
power-death without the benefit of clergy or
burial TIE natural law of retaliation which
his doctrine invokes, will bring about what
they have predicted, but as yet never expert
enced war of determination and subjugation.
May Heaven avert it, bat if it does come, the
curse Of it must rest upon the traitors head.


If such documents are required from the
head OF the Rebellion to keep alive the rebel
cause and give strength to its back bone-its
days are numbered and will soon expire.