smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

The following from the Brattleboro
PAenir will be interesting as it relates
to the accommodations with which our
friends in Capt. Grout's company will be
furnished: Fer


The 9Th Regiment will, 50 far as the
companies are organized, commence life
in camp about a mile south Of this village
and hundred rods southwest Of the site
Of Camp Phelps" Of the LIST Regiment,
at Camp Holbrook." The ground is
dry and well sheltered from the strong
winds that usually prevail at this season
Year: 1862

What of the platform While every
anti-war man in the State advocates that
platform, large body support it, claiming
it to be for the war and The suppsrt OF be
Government. The speech of Davis, some
sty, the convention is not responsible for /;
but claim that the Convention is RESPONSE
bic for publishing officially such sentiments
and thereby endorsing them to the fullest
extent If rat falls into a bucket OF water,
shall l threw it out and drink OF the water
or shall ! throw both away eRiirelyP
Year: 1862

THE Press AND EXEMPTIONs.- The Con-
federate senate committed, Tuesday,
the extraordinary inconsistency OF ex-
emption from military service the jour
neymen printres of newspapers, and re-
fusing to exempt editors, even voting
down an amendment that was offered
exempting one editor of every paper
If the freedom and influence of the
press are of much Importance, as the
majority conceded, they have taken
a very singular way of proving their
appreciation Of it What is a news
paper without an editor? 1t is the bust
ness of journeymcn printers merely to
put in type what editors put in their
hands, and to refuse exemption to ed
itors is simply to suppress all news
papers. We venture to say that the
press of the south has given an impet-
us to this revolution, in the beginning
and a power in its progress, second on
ly to that achieved by our arms. 1t
has been the very light and life of
of the southern cause, and now the
senate proposes to put out this light
extinguish this life, and leave the peo.
pie in the darkness and silence of tomb.
We hope the house Of representatives
will put veto on this oppressive ac-
ton of the senate, and secure to the
people, by the exemption Of editors,
that powerful palladium Of liberty
and irresistible incentive to patron
ism, free press. Dispatch
Year: 1862

n~ We commend the following re-
marks, from the Grenada Appeal, to
the careful perusal of every one


What the people of the South have
to fear, more than the emancipation
proclamation of Lincoln, is the hard.
ships and sufferings our soldiers will
be compelled to undergo during the
winter campaign that is now closing
upon us. We have alluded to this s1b-
.ject so frequently that we might well
abstain from further reference to it,
yet we are so thoroughly convinced of
its Importance that we are willing to
incur the charge of tedious repetition,
if we can, by constant ding dong"
put one idle hand to work, one more
spinning wheel or one more pair of
cards going.


The Northern papers that fall into
our hands, we observe, are themselves
beginning to chuckle over our pending
gloomy prospects in this particular.
They are free to assert, and to do it
with gusto, that the rigors of winter
will carry off more of our soldiers than
the casualties of the battle field The
question is one of such momentous i'm
port as to challenge the serious con-
sidcration and sympathetic regard of
every one who has the good of cur
cause and the welfare of our soldiers
at heart


The proportions of the war are SO
great as to render it impossible, by
reason Of its limited and cramped re.
sources, for the government to make
all the necessary provisions for the
Comfort and welfare of our troops in
the field. A great deal depends upon
individual exertion Every hand should
be busy and every resource exhausted.


What one cannot do another may,
and the exigency of the case demands
the thoughts and labors of all.


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Year: 1862

pa Brig. Gen. Tuttle, of the Fede
raj forces at Cairo wrote to the Mayor
of hicago few days ago that he had
received many applications from per-
sons in that oity to send them negroes
for servants. He wished the Mayor to
appoint o committee to see that they
were properly set to work, and he
would send them on. The Mayor replied
rather tartly that such proceeding
would be in violation of the laws of
the State, and an imposition upon the
Iaboring population. He would not
give it his sanction in any manner


So they go, They are crazy to free
the slaves, but alarmed and indignant
at any prospect of competition with
their labor.
Year: 1862

To-day, the brave and distinguished


Beauregard assumed the command Of
the Confederate forces within the Mill.
tary Department of South Carolina
and Georgia. He is no stranger
among US. Long before this bloody
tide of war had begun to and fro along
the border, we, of South Carolina, had
learned his honor and confde in his
unselish patriotism and his sagacity
as commander, and his name had
become a household word in our midst.
And now, when the hour of trial for
Charleston seems to be at hand, the
war worn hero of Manassas and Shi.
loh, with the laurel of new victories
fresh upon his brow, and with the
worldwide fame, comes again to the
scene of his former triumph, to face
once more the foe, whom he never met
but to defeat. We are sure that his
presence will simulate the mind of our
troops and fire people with his own
unconquerab'e spirit and that his know.
edge, judgment and energy will speed
lily supply whatever may be lacking to
render Charleston safe against the en-
emy's attacks. The eventfnl cam
paigns of the last two years have af-
forded abundant evidence of the tact
and success of Gen. Beauregard in
the management of armies of volun-
teers. He possesses, in an eminent de.
gree those qualities which exact at
once the cheerful obedience and the
enthusiastic admiration of his soldiers.
With such General, the defenders
of Charleston, in the time of extremity
will stand staunchly, shoulder to shoul.
der, to repel the foe, and, whatever
be the odds brought against us, we
may hope to witness a defence worthy
the ancient fame of the "Nest of the
Rebellion Charleston Mercury.
Year: 1862

The following confession was made by the
Hon. Mr.. Dawes Republican member Of Con-
gress from Massachusetts on the 25th of April
in which he exposed the corruption Of Lincoln's
Administration: .n.'h Eo9nf


"rhe gentleman must remember that in the
first year of Republican Administration, which
came into power upon professions of Reform
and r etrenchment, there isindubitable evidence
abroad in the land that somebody has plundered
the public treasury well nigh in that single year
as much as the entire current yearly expense of
the Government during the Administration
which the people hurled from power because of
its corruption."
Year: 1862

Conspiracy Of tile Radicals to Depose the


President


WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The N. York Her
aid says that most astounding disclosures have
been made here to-day, by letters and verbal COM
munications from prominent politicians, showing
that vast conspiracy has been set on foot by
the radicals of the Fremont faction to depose
the present administration, and place Fremont
at the head of provincial government; in 9TH
er words to make him military dictator. One
of these letters asserts that one feature of this
conspiracy is the proposed meeting of Governors
of the Northern States to request President
Lincoln to resign, to enable them to carry out
their scheme. F1.a


The writer, in conclusion, says Governor An
drew and Senator Wilson are at work, and they
are probably at the bottom of the movement.
From other well informed sources it is learned
that the fifty thousand independent volunteers
proposed to be raised under the auspices of the
New York National Union Defence Committee
were intended to be a nucleus for the organiza-
ton of this Fremont conspiracy. 1t was the
purpose of those engaged in this movement to
have this force organized and armed by the gov
d. ernment, and placed under the independent COM
mand of their chosen leader, and then to call
upon all sympathizers to unite with them in arms
to overthrow the present administration and es-
tablish in its stead military dictatorship, to
carry out the popular policy they desire the gov
ernment should execute. Failing in this, it is
stated that secret organization has been inau-
gurated, the members of which are known by
the name of Roundheads. 1t is intended this
organization shall number two hundred thousand
men in arms, who shall raise the standard of the
Year: 1862

News from Europe states that the victory
At Fort DoneIson had been received in Eng
land, and instantly produced q cOnsiders-
he rise in the prices Of American stocks.
irbis Is an important fact, considering that
We ere borrowers in the market. It is
none the less important in showing that
solid conviction abroad connects our ma
teriAI prosperity with the maintenance OF
The Union. Money holders know their in
tefests, and they know that the success Of
secession would be the death Of our prog
regs. In the fall Of Fort DOnelsOn they
discern the final extinction Of the slave
holders revolt.
Year: 1862

Reports were in circulation on Saturday that
a body CT Federal cavalry supposed to be a De-
tachmeEt Of Gen Pope's army, had made their
appearance at Conrads Store, rear the line of
Rockingham and Greene counties, and it was
copjectured that raid upon the Central railroad
was intended. From G nrads Store to the
Blue Ridge Tunnel the distance is only some
twenty miles, through an open country. Whist
some enxiaty is felt that depredatiOns viii be At
tempted upon this roed, there is ground for the
fullest confidence that our force along its line is
ample for its protection.


The rumOT with references TO the evacuation of
Winchester by the Yankees is not confirmed BY
our latest information from that quarter. The
enemy still hold The nights around the town,
which have been strongly fortified. The ac-
counts which reach US of the outrages commit
ted upon the people of the Valley are in keeping
with those that come to Us flom other localities
where the despo6o rule of Lincolnism has been
permitted to have its sway. At Winchester,
after one Of the battles in the Valley, the Yam
keas took possession Of the boarding house Of
the Misses Breedin, four orphan sisters, compel
ing the lady boarders to rise from their beds at
o'clock in the morning. and in one instance
refused to give young lady time to dress herself,
but forced her TO walk in her night dress to the
room Of the ladies Of the house They filed the
building with wounded Yankees, and took pos
session of every article of furniture, saws that
belonging to the chamber Of the Misses BTeedin.
The Yankee commandsnt assured them that they
should be paid for the less sustained, and ap-
pointed q committee to assess their value, con
sistiDg of three Federal officers, and two rank
Union citizens of Winchester. This committee
refused positively to allow compensation, alleg-
ing as a reason that the ladies were sincere sym
psthlzers with the Southern cause This is but
one instance Of Yankee honesty and Yankee
justice, as displayed in the Valley Richmond
Dispatch.
Year: 1862

Oath-taking is becoming SO popular in the
North that Lincoln is even going to require {
in his own domieil. The Washington cores
pondent of the New York World writes


Another vigorous movement in the right di-
rection is about being promulgated. The Con
federate sympathizers in Washington are to be
brought up under another of Pope's orders, and
if they decline to take the oath of allegiance
they are to be sent far beyond the lines of our
army There are hundreds in this city and
Georgetown who needed looking after months
arO
Year: 1862

Our navy hits its head again. we hear Of
sundry iron-clads at Southern ports " in state
of forwardness" The Arkansas remains quiet,
because of repairs aud the necessity of getting a
new crew-that which manned her on her way
down being only temporary crew. May be
SO but it is the rule, believe, for every Con
federate vessel and army to keep profoundly
quiet for from one TO nine months after fight
good story is told in this connection about Mr..
Mallory. He was showing sharp letter he had
written in regard to the early completion Of a
ship, and telling plaintively of a number OF
such letters he had written before to the same
firm The gentleman to whom he showed the
letter said, quietly D-n it, man, quit writing
and 90 down and cuss EN-, cuss EN-. They
care nothing for your writing-cuss 'em. cuss
'em"
Year: 1862

Late yesterday afternoon c courier arrived at
headquarters with letter from the commander
of the post, substantially confirming the above.
The quarters in the fort were considerably dam
aged BY she shells, but not q mau Of the garrison
was hurt. Is is thought one Of the gunbOsts
was considerably damaged, though nothing GER
tain is known Of her c5ndition.-SaUaaaaA Re.
publican, 3Otb
Year: 1862




Captain Robert P. Pegram, commander Of the rebel
steamer Nashville formerly attached to the United
States Navy, in which he held the position Of lieutenant
He born in Virginia and appointed from that State
His original entry into the navy Was in the month of
February 1929 His total service about seven
shore about eight years and the balance
Of his time unemployed. He was in the navy nearly
thirty-two years He had been lately engaged on the
as: survey He, too, like Hons and others, turned
is ,ck to the flag under which he had served for
loas period the breaking Of the present rebellion
Before this Lieutenant Psgram had for himself the
respect OF the pubcat large and of his fellow officers
by the good Qualities he had always shown and his
cool courage He had rendered himself popular by his
connection with the affair Of the Water Witch, in the
Paraguay waters, connection with the Japan exped
ton where his cooness and daring secured for him the
hanks OF the British Admiralty, and handsome sword
from his native State Up the time Of his taking com
mand OF the Nashville he had done nothing to bring him
prominently before the people, with tho exception OF
the affair at SewalIs Point, where he commanded the
gun that partly disabled the steamer Harriet Lane Capt
Pegram is the rebel service he has relatives
p. in high position there His nephew, John Pegram,
graduate Of West Point and! for long time in the ser
Of the United States, holds the position of
colonel in the rebel army, and in the engagement at
Laurel H Western Virginia, taken prisoner by the
Union troops.
Year: 1862

These had federal representative population Of 2os,
and at tho before mentioned date there were in the
county 100 whites the age Of twenty who could not
read or write, twelve insane, blind, six deaf and
dumb aud SIX idiotc.
Year: 1862

General Clingman calls for one fifth OF tho
able bodied male slaves in this District, 70
complete the works necessry for the defencs
Of the Cape Fear


At almost any sacrifice this call should bs
promptly compiled with, we need not attempt
to isguse the fact that the enemy is certain
to make series Of determined and formidable
attacks upon our coast just as soon as his active
campaign in the field closes. We need not
hatter ourselves with the idea that we are to
enjoy an immunity from attack. We may
hope, but do not believe nything Of tho
kind; certainly we have assurance Of it,
and the known fact that arms and munitions OF
have found their way into this port, will.
not tend to render the enemy more lenient to
us. at n 4.ft.a.E p
The planters in this section must know that che
Cape Fear, and incidentally, Wilmington, is the
key to this whole section of North Carolina.
They must know chat in providing for the
defence of the Cape Fear and the coast, they
are, indeed, providing for the defence of their
own homes and hearth-stones directly,
aud more efficiently, than they can do in any
othei "ay. VA. Journal
Year: 1862

In speech in the House on Saturday last,
Mr.. Russell of Va. said:-


Some few weeks ago, gentlemen OF high
character, and Of the most respectable
connexions: was captured at his home in .
portion of the State which represent. He
was tied to the fence, and in the presence Of
his brother, who was likewise a captive, and
in the presence of two women, loyal to the
South, and whose husbands were serving in
Southern army, they began to shoot at the man
and as if to torture him to the utmost extent
they shot first at his teet, then at his legs, and
It was not until they had tortured him by lodg.
ing eleven balls in his body, that they sent ono
to his heart, to relieve him from sufferings BY
DEATH
Year: 1862

Miss Green, a loyal young lady in ono Of
the northwestern counties III Virginia, was ar
rested and put in Jail in Buchanon, Upsher
county, on charge of cutting telegraph wires
and saio that she would do SO again it set at


liberty, at the same time refusing to take the
oath Of Yankee servitude. One end of the
wire cut was found stuck in the ground sever
al inches, and when asked why she did that, she
replied that great many Yankees had been
killed, and as that wire pointed the way they
/ lad gone, it would doubtless be used to know
if there was room for any more.
Year: 1862

telescope Of such power that at four hundred
yards It is possible to distinguish the color of a
mans eyes. This rifle does execution at the
distance of more than a thousand yards and
Colonel Berdan has in his regiment no man
who cannot kill an enemy with at least two out
of every three shots, at the distance of quar-
ter of mile. These are the men who are
teaching the rebels severe lesson before York
town. A party of thirty such shots can pick
off every man from a battery of light artillery
in one minute, at a distance of nearly half a
mile.


How extraordinary such craftsmanship is we
can better appreciate il we remember that in
the Italian war each man killed cost four thou
sand two hundred rounds of ball cartridge; at
the battle Of V;ttoria, in the Peninsuar war;
eight hundred balls were fred for each man hit I;
at the battle of Cherubusco the Mexicans killed
one man for every eight hundred rounds they
fred, and the Americans, killed one for every
one hundred ayd twenty-five rounds. Colonel
Berdan's sharpshooters probably kill at least
one for every three shots.-N. Y. Times.
Year: 1862

In a double sense the flying and pillaging
rebels stop at nothing.


Wendell Phillips came out to learn some
thing about Western manners, and Cincinnati
gave him an egg sample.


1t is too bad Folks are getting to call the
Confederate armies the Con, ,fed-erate armies.


The rebel generals are great at strategy, but,
in learning their strategic movements, they
must have gone to school to crab.


The rebels like to fight On the tops of hills
and mountains, for then they can easily slope.


The rebels troops generally are not sound
upon the bayonet question. They won't come
to the point.


We are constantly complimcnting the rebels
with balls, and Oh how nimby the fellows dance
and skip.


We have some most formidable vessels und-
er the star-span5lel banner on the Mississippi
river. A good miny of the "weaker vessels
in our city sail under the rebel flag


Gov. Rector or Rtctum (or some such name, J
of Arkansas, calls upon the whole people of
that State to take up arms in the rebellion.


The Memphis Appeal says that we have no
way to measure the strength of the confederate
defences on the Mississippi. We must have
them measured by the Foote.


The rebels needn't issue any more procama-
tons for the enlistment of cripples. If their
army will only stand, we shall soon make more
cripples in it than they can take care Of


The rebels no doubt are badly off now, in
respect to their commissary departments but
when our Foote shall have full sway among
them, they will have an abundance of we'll can
vassed hams.


We hear great deal about the wretched
cond tiol of the Southern troops, and no doubt
'ts all true, but yet, whenever our forces come
upon rebel stronghold, they are very sure to
find the rebels ceH off,


The Norfolk Day Book says that, when the
Merrmac goes out, she twill carry every thing
before her if.' Sc. Let her go out with an
"if" and the Monitor may dispose of her with
a but.


We learn from those who have seen the reb-
ell troops that they seem very vain of their
shirt-tails. Almost every man of them makes
large display of that beautiful decoration
displays it flying straight out behind him.


Mr.. Sinms, of Kentucky, has damaged the
rebel cause by his foolshly violent speeches in
the rebel Congress. The rebels would do them
selves favor by putting catapasm upon his
mouth-thus effectually closing up Simms'
hole


They say that the secession ladies are shock
ingy bitter. We suspect they are; at an rate
we wouldn't have one of them touch our lips
for the world. We shouldn't expect to get the
bitter out of our mouth for a month.


We cannot be expected, while attempting the
full discharge of our duty to the country, to
give attention to the insects of the rebel press
that are buzzing around us and alighting when
they dare. We sometimes think it almost a
pity that man isn't furnished with caudal
appendage like an OK, so that while his hands
are busy with their proper work he might brush
the flies away with his tail.
Year: 1862




"The Yankee girls are not so beautiful as
the fair daughters of the South but as gem
eral thing they are good specimens OF the gent
Ter sex. In given number of ladies of New
York, Baltimore, Louisville and St. Louis.
more pretty faces are TO be seen than in an
equal number of Boston ladies but ii seems to
me that in nothing else do the latter yield the
palm to any of their sex in Europe or America.
In general intelligence they have no superiors
anywhere. Nor are they the less modest for
this. None evince better sense, or are more
attentive to their domestic duties. Their tastes
in dress are very different from those of their
sisters in other cilies-in New York. for in
stance. This will be sufficiently explained for
the present by the observation, that have met
several ladies of the highest culture and of the
greatest wealth, wearing dresses the tout en-
sembte OF which would not cost as much as the
bonnet alone of fashionable New York lady."
Year: 1862

A LII persons indebted to US who have no
II made settlements, are hereby notified to
come forward and arrange their liabilities,
either with money or by note, as We are com
PEELED to have some money and desire to close
up our books We much prefer to exchange
accounts for money, but if you have not the
money come forward, gentlemen, and close mn
your accounts by note.


We are just receiving fresh supply Of choice
and select articles, which we propose to sell on
reason BILE terms for eash. As the houses with
which we have been 1ealing refuse to sell to us
on any terms whatever except for the money,
we are compelled to change our business from
a credit to cash system, and for the present
at least we will deal strictly on the cash system
and no other.


HART q OGDEN.


Washington, April 30, 1861. 1e-
Year: 1862

TERRIBLE ExPLosIoN-Pomder Mil
Blown Up. At twelve o'clock last night
enc Of the state powder mills, that at the
old United States Marine Hospital at
Gretna, blew up with report that shook
the whole city to its foundation stones


A pillar Of fame shot up to the sky,
FOR an instant illuminating the whole
heavens, and then came the noise and
shock-too great, too sudden. too over
powering to be mistaken for anything
than what it really was.


At first it was difficult to know in
what direction the explosion had been,
so difusive was its effects, but as the
building became wrapped in flames its
location showed itself, and assured our
people that it was not the arsenal which
many had feared.


the explosion, at that hour of the
night, could not have been the result
of accident. It must have been the dia-
bolical work of some incarnate fend.
1t behooves the men Of New Orleans to
look about them for traitors in our midst.
Let them be hunted and placed out of
the reach Of doing mischief.


(Delta..)