smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

From the Southern Path Finder, New Orleans, La.


Try them you that are afflicted, and we are sure
that your testimony be added to the already nu.
merou list that has received benefits that no other
medi ine can produce
Year: 1861

Speaking of fquinine, there is moth
ing that the Yankees have chuckled
over more than our supposed want OF
this article, the monopoly in this
country being III the city of Brother
ly Love, and its importation inter
dicted by the blockade. They for
get in this sunny South, this land of
flowers, where fields smile every
there with waving corn and the
promise of an abundant harvest, we
have a dozen substitutes, and from
the herbaria Of almost any country
housewife its place may be sup
piled.


1t is worth a ten years war to go
back to the good old days of hoar-
hound. boneset and snake-root. Did
you ever take it for the aSue! Why,
my dear friend, though per Sc it may
be little bitter to the taste, yet
dashed with sweet spirits of revolu-
ton and a few drops of the blockade
it is excellent, and the nose of a gay
joyous aud wine-loving Frenchman
was never more titillated by the aro-
ma, the banquet of his own choice
Burgundy, than yours would be, pre-
judice aside, by the sweet smell OF
Year: 1861




without much squabbling and fight
ing on the part of the feathered re-
cipients, who wanted to see fair play
that kind of " fair play" meaning
which would give to the complainant
the largest half of the "provant."
Presently it was all devoured, and
the "audience'' called for the ''per-
forrnancc" as promised.


Yes, yes. said the exhibitor, don't
be in too big a stew. Give us time if
you please. Strike up, music-give
them a lively tune.


At this cracked flute and an old
black greasy fiddle started off a very
quick time; and sure enough every
turkey in the coop began to dance,
hopping from one leg to another,
crossing over, balancing, chasseeing
doing everything, in short, known
to the saltatory art, except joining
hands and turning partners.
Well, that is curious exclaimed
the audience simultaneously. Never
saw anything like it before.
No said the exhibitor, expect you
didn't. Its all edication "a the poet
says I edicated them turkeys; and
there aint one of them that aint got
a good ear for music.


Hereupon he turned to the audience
and added:


Well, you've seen it, and seen
how natural they do eat F.; now we
want you to vacate the room, and
give them a chance that's on the out
side. There's new customers out
there a-wai:in, and if you'll only tell
them outside what you've seen with
your own eyes, you'll be doing a SER
vice to me, and give to them an equal
pleasure with what you have enjoy
ed.


This was done the audience re-
tired, and another took their place
including, however, one who had
been an auditor al the last exhibi-
ton. The same scene was gone
TIN ough with =; the same feeding, mu-
sic and dancing; only it was observ-
was even more lively than before.


1t struck the twice-observer that
Just before the music began, man
was seen to leave the booth on both
occasions; and unnoticed, he stepped
out himself the last time, and saw
the man busying hims If with put
ting some light kindling wood under
an opening beneath the coop.


The mystery was now out. TIL
turkey-cage rested over Il slow fire,
with tin floor, and when the music
struck up, the fire had become so hot
that the turkeys hoped about-first
on one leg and then on the other
and changed positions. seeking rest
and finding none, till the fire had
gone down, and they were ready for
another feed.


Hoe Potemkin -DeeetceG Ca,ha-
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON AND THE CORPoRAL.-
Some Of our volunteer officers show
their unfitness to command by keeping
aoof from their men, Instead of setting
them the example of maniness in toll
and endurance. The following Incl
dent is in point:


During the American Revolution, it
is said, the commander Of little squad
was giving orders to those under him,
relative to log of timber which they
were endeavoring to raise up to the top
of some military works they were re-
pairing. The timber went up with
difficulty, and on this account the
voice of the little man was often heard,
in regular vociferations of - 'Heave
away, there she goes, heave ho." An
officer, not in military costume, was
passing. and asked the commander
why he did not take hold and render
little aid. The latter, astonished, turn
ing round with all the pomp and splen-
dor of an Emperor, said: ''Sir, | am
corporal ~ "You are, are your re-
piled the officer; Il was not aware of
that and taking off his hat and bow
ing, the officer said, 81 ask your par
don, Mr.. Corporal" and then dismoun-
ted, and lifted till the sweat stood in
drops on his forehead.


When the work was finished, turn
ing to the commander he said, "Mr
Corporal, when yon have another such
Job, and have not men enough, send
for your Commander-in-chiet, and l
will come and help YOU a second time.


The Corporal was thunderstruck. 1t
was General Washington who thus adj
dressed him.


A NOBLE WoMAN.-Robert Brand,
Mayor Of Galena, in a report to cit
izens' meeting, touching his duties in
connection with the wounded men Of
Company 1, Nineteenth Regiment, at
the late disaster on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Railroad, thus speaks Of the no.
BILE conduct Of Madame Turchin, the
Coloncl's wife on that mournful occa-
sion:


This report would be incorrect
were / to omit the names of Colonel
Turchin and his heroic wife to the
Colonel for his care and attention in
providing for his soldiers, and the
facilities he extended in the perform
ance of my sad duties to the dead. But
to hear the wounded men speak of the
heroic conduct Of the brave Mrs. Tur-
chin-when the accident occurred
when the dead, dying and mutilated
laid in one mass of ruin-when the
bravess heart was appalled,. aud all was
dismay, this brave woman was in the
water rescuing the mangled and wound
ed from q :vatery grave, and tearing
from her person every available piece
of clothing as bandages for the wound
ed-proves beyond all question that
she is not only the right woman in the
right place. but q tit consort for the
brave Turchin in leading the brave sons
Of Illinois to battle. Such misfortunes
bring forth heroic women whose SER
vices may be frequently needed if this
fratricidal war shall continue to the Bit
ter end. Sac. Union.
Year: 1861

GEDERAL LANE ON OUR VoLUNTEERs.-We
do not indorse any of the inferences which
might be drawn from the following remarks
of General Lane in the Senate, the other
day, but it would seem that his experience
ought to entitle his observ atoms to hear
ing; 'H--.


If the magnificent army we now have
should go into winter quarters, it would be
fatal to us and demoralize the army. The
people were as intelligent as they were
patriotic, and they would not require i'm.
possibilities nor insist up Oh premature action,
and thus we are brought to the question OF
strength and preparation. Why is our army
inactiVe2 Will it be answered that it is still
deficient in discipline2 That would be as
unjust as illogical. Ours is an army of
volunteers, who must not be judged by the
rules applied to regulars. The citizen
soldier is an individual, and no amount of
discipline can destroy that individuality.
-Four months OF industrious drill lis ample
time to prepare such troops for effective
service. Prolonged inactivity will finally
discourage their zeal. The prospect of action
must be ever present as an incentive. Inac-
tion is the bane of the volunteers. He had
had large experience in training volunteer
soldiers. The training of two regiments in
Mexico, his labors in Kansas, and the cam
paign of last spring and summer, gave him q
practical knowledge on this subject entitled
to consideration. The regiments that fought
and won the battle of Buena Vista were not
as we'll provided as the army of the Potomac
and not better drilled. He had witnessed
their drill and was satisfied they had reached
the maximum of discipline attainable by
volunteers, and every day Of inaction tends
| to their decentralization. -. .
Year: 1861

The APPROACH OF SLEEP.-Itis delicious
moment, certainly, that of being well nestled
in bed, and feeling that you will drop gently
to sleep. The good is to come-not past.
The limbs have been just tired enough to
render the remaing in in one posture delight
ful the labor of the day is done. A gentle
failure of the perceptions comes creeping
over one the spirit Of consciousness disen-
cages itself more and more with slow and
hushing degrees, like a mother detaching
her hand from that Of a sleeping child; the
mind seems TO have balmy lid closing
over il, like the eye; tits elosing-tis more
clOsed-tis closed. The mysterious spirit
has gone to take its airy rounds. Il no
Year: 1861

There is man out West SO forgetful Of
faces that his wife is compelled 10 keep
wafer stuck on the end Of her nose, that he
may distinguish her from the other ladies
but this does not prevent him from making
occasional mistakes, .'1a-J m
Year: 1861

An those who have been clamorOus for
the blessings Of peace, are now painting for
u war between the United States and Great
Britain. We suppose they think that two
wars make peace just as two negatives
make an affirmative. aI NJ
Year: 1861

CANr SMITH The recruits from Brnd-
ford, numbering about 20, arrived on Thurs
day evening and marched Immediately to the
camp ground. The Roxbury company re-
ceiyed a portion Of their uniforms the same
evening, and other companies will be uniform
cd as fast as they arrive. The camp is begin
ming to look lively, and in a day or two viii
be put in regomental discipline. Thus far
the regiment buds fair TO fully equal any yet
sent out of the State; and IL it does not, it
cannot be attributed to tho want Of energy
and perseverance on the part Of those who
have the immediate oversight Of their outfit.
Year: 1861

The capture of the privateer schoOn-
cr Savannah, with thirty fclons on
board, who had just signalizcd their
character by seizing the brig Joseph
+. Richards near Georgetown, >. G.,
brings the questions Of piracy and
the punishment of piracy, before the
government and the country. So far
as the President and Cabinet have to
deal with the matter they are solemn
ly pledged by proclamation to regard
them as pirates, and to hang them ac-
cordingly. So far as the coults of
justice may have to deal with them
they cannot be viewed in any other
light. They are taken plundcriug
private property on the high seas.
They are found sailing under letters
OF marque granted, not only by no
recognized power, but by parricides
and traitors against the government
OF the United States. They are thus
branded with the double ntamy of
piracy and treason. How they can
escape the gallows or the yard arm,
it is difficult to see.


There has been good deal of COM
plaint against the Administration for
its leniency toward the rebels captur-
cd with arms in their hands, and to-
ward spies who, by the usage of civ
ilIzed warfare, are subject to the death
penalty. 1t has been asked, of what
use is it to arrest the scOundrels if we
are only allowed to furnish them
few days rations, and then set them
at liberty. Whether this torbearance
is we'll or i'll timed we will not under
take to decide. The case now before
us is widely different. Robbery on
the highway is one thing, and robbie
ry Oh the high seas is quite another.
The laws of civilized nations, with
abundant reason, prescribe imprison-
ment for one, and death for the other.
But there are peculiar reasons why
these, the first corsalrs taken on the
ocean, should be swung aloft in the
eyes Of all nations. If public ex-
ample be made Of them, it will go far
towards ending the eXecrablc business
set on foot by jeff. Davis and his reb-
el Legislature. 1t is doubtful whether
a second rover would venture ma
rine league from the shore after his
ears were burned with the intelligence
that thirty Of his colleagues had
adorned the yard arm of the Mime.
sofa. On the other hand, if these
scoundrels are permitted TO go un-
hung not only is the Government
brought into meritcd contempt, by
coming short Of its own solemn cove
nants and engagements, but the pre-
MUM of impunity is set upon the cor
sair business, proctded Imerican commerce
Is their prey. The vagaLonds Of all ma
tons will be let loose on our mer-
chantmen, for the temptation will be
prodigious and the risk merely nomi-
nal. But the evil does not stop here.
Necessarily the confidence of our own
mercantile classes i'll the stability and
energy Of the Government must be
weakened, and their support with
Year: 1861

The farmer has been sometimes
styled Natures noblcman, title
which expresses not inaptly his pccu.
liar relations to the mysterious ruling
power of the universe. The term


nobleman, has generally been used to
designate one who assists monarch
in the administration of his govern
mcnt. In like manner the farmer co
operates with nature in the produc


ton and distribution Of her inestima


bic gifts, which are necessary to tho
support and comfort of man and beast


There are many who think farming q
low and sorvile craft, and some even
60 so far as to affirm that it scarcely
raises one above the brates, but these
| look upon as the conceptions Of vul


gar and grovelling minds, which are
not apt to form their opinions from


philosophical observations, but are
chiefly influenced by outward appear
anccs and prejudice, and often | am
led to suspect that there is no small
mixture Of slothfulncss and discomfort
in their combinations. Therefore, IN
order that we may not be led into any
grievous errors, on narrow and one
sided views, let us give the subject a
fair and candid examination, and for
this purpose suppose we look for a
moment at first principles. The har-
mony which is exhibited in tho mech.
anism Of the globe, and the nice
Year: 1861

A gentleman who has recently trav


clcd through the Southern States, and


conversed with many of the people in


that section, and the soldiers connect


ed with the Southern army, informs


the Philadelphia Press that they are


utterly incredulous in regard to the re-


ports they hear from the North in ref


erence to the number of men who


have volunteered to serve the nation


al cause, and the money and other re-


sources at our command. We are not


astonished at this. The masses of the


Southern people are at best but poor
ly informed on any subject, and they


have been grossly deceived by their
leaders about the character and posi-
ton Of the Northern people. They
have been taught to believe that near
ly all our wealth was derived direct
ly or indirectly from the South, and
that the moment she closed against
us what was supposed to be her capa-
clous purse, our very existence would


be endangered, and that we could no
more subsist without her lordly and
muniticent patronage than live with
out air and water. The evident delu-
sion involved in this doctrine will,
however, speedily be dissipated, even
though the severest financial blow we
have suffered arises from the fact that
hundreds of millions of dollars in
merchandise and in money that the
North, out of her abundance has ad-
vanced to the South in her thinly vc-
neered poverty and destitution, is not
now collcctable, and that in reality
this naughty traitor section is at this
moment indebted to us for nearly all
the signs of prosperity which exist
throughout its dominions.


Another tallacy extensively believ-
ed at the South is that while the chiv-
airy are all models Of courage, the
people of the North are essentially
cowardly and utterly incapable of en-
countering in arms the Southern for
ces. The course of events, up to this
period, if it could be understood in
the South, would go far to destroy the
idea, but a pitched battle is, perhaps, |
necessary to entirely eradicate it. 1t
is said that when one Of the fugitives
from Alexandria had retrcatcd as far
as Manassas Gap junction, he met a
South Carolina soldier, who
expressed an earnest desire for a |
hand-to-hand conflict with five or six
of the New York Zouavcs but his
Alexandria friend gently remarked ::
" have seen them, and can assure
you that one would be quite enough !
to monopolize your attention. If
brag and buster could decide the fate
Of battle, we should be completely
at the mercy Of our antagonists but
unfortunately for them the argument
henceforward is to be conducted with
more substantial weapons.
Year: 1861

Do you know the type-setter is a
wonderful architect? You see those
bits of lead and zinc lying over,
across and against each other, like
the tangled braids of a mermaid's
hair? And yet they form an army
more powerful than ever fought on
tented field. Yesterday they stood up
proudly, professionally speaking, in
one form truly, in q thousand
forms. You may look upon the little
bits with smile on your lip, but you
little dream they are stronger and
wiser than you-that they will speak
when you are dead and forgotten.
They have sometimes made you smile,
and sometimes shudder. "Stocks +"
Isn't there something in that word ?
Haven't you been head and heels in
them for years, and don't your feel
ings rise and fall with them alternate
ly? A little further on you come to
the word Married" All VIC thought
that would make you smile. We saw
you kiss baby then and that word
unravels it all. You haven't forgot
the day when you went courting, have
you? Then there was magic in the
utterance. You stood at the altar on
the strength Of the happiness You felt.
and if you have not always loved the


girl as you ought to, there is no one
you love as well. You secretly bless
the day when the single word "mar-
ried" was wreathed like a sacred
archway over the joys of you and
yours. FONT you remember little
Minnie-she whom you loved so well
she with the blue eyes and auburn
curls ? When Deaths dark Angel
folded her little delicate hands over
her snowy bosom, and sealed her low
ing eyes with its icy fingers, don't
You remember how the great tide of
sorrow came surging DER your smit-
ten heart? You little thought the
Year: 1861

other day when you picked up the
papers-the word "Dicd," of only
four letters--which you laughed at as


they lay dusty and dirty in their


square homes-would make you weep
would make you think of her whom


God hath taken.


If you come to this Office tomorrow


the printer will show you how to dis


tribute knowledge. lie will pull to
pieces tough, wiry arguments that
yesterday dcfcd the world Those
pretty palaces which the poet wrought
will have to come down, and their
golden fancics become tomorrow the
lnteguments Of the politicians prose
In they go-those metallic dwarfs,
scattered broadcast like good seed,
which shall bring forth sixty, aye au
hundred fold. "Sixty lives lost" and
Prentcc's last joke march in together,
and the printer whistles Yankee
Doodle as carelessly as if human life
was below par, and so it is. This is
the printers life and business.


A Printing Office is great bowling
alley. The printer sets up pins-thc
world keeps tally, the editor puts the
ball in motion, and away it goes,
carrying death and destruction in its
front, sending q pin here and a pin
there, while noisy rabble always
stand by to cheer and hiss down the
players. Some play for money and
a fcw-a precious few--do it to pa
tronize the boss and bless mankind.
No matter what the balls are made of
or how they go, if they only hit the
mark. The crowd pocket the spoils
and the honors are left to the propric-
tor, who goes behind the SCIENCES and
starves in his shirt-slcevcs. And such
is life.


When the printer dies, the world
just gets glimpse of his value as
his coat-tails vanish into glory, and
then it looks very bad, rubs its head
a little, calls him a clever fellow
says his only fault was in being poor,
aud then the world shoves his sym
pathy out of sight into that idiom, the
human heart, and on rolls the Jugger-
naut as though nothing had happened.


Some day the people will wake up
and find screw lost in the jagged |
machine Of human progress. If you
10, don't waste more sympathy than
possible on those NEUROLOGICAL fellows
who print your books and papers.
Year: 1861

Almost every day now brings Ii.
news OF Importance. Yesterda,
brought us the intelligence of the cap
turc Of the privateer Savannah, from
this port. The loss of the schooner
in times like these, would scarcely
call for q moments consideration
But the circumstances are such as to
render the fact Of great import-per-
chance the results may be still graver
With the insane and blood-thirsty
spirit ruling the Government of the
North, there are probabilities that the
crew of the Savannah will be cxecu.
ted. The United States Government
have said 1.-THE popular clamor has
approved the bloody declaration.
Will their bloatcd vanity and malice
give way to the mildcr voice of ma,
tlonal law-of reason and discretion D.?
viii they not go Oh in their mad path
way Of violence and lawlcssncss ?
Their course up to this time has been
uniform. Will they at this day pay
regard to reason, justice or law? II
thSy w l4Ot, Nuht llCu


Aye what then?


Let one Of these men perish, and
we look to the authorities at Rich
mond for immediate and bloody rctri-
button. We look to them, and we
shall expect them to settle stirct ac-
count of blood for blood


If hair of the head of single
man Of this crew is injured, South
Carolina will demand that the outrage
be atoncd for--an eye for an eye
a tooth for tooth-a life for a life.
Aye and size uat haze i-no more
and no less Oh the battle field, and
after the battle. Let one Of these,
her citizens commissioned in her cause
perish Us Il pirate, and woe to the en-
emy who falls into our hands.
Year: 1861

When, toward the close of some
long summer day, we come suddenly.
and as we think, before his time, up
on the broad sun, sinking down in
his tranquility" into the unclouded
west, we cannot keep our eyes from
the great spectacle ; and when he is
gone the shadow of him haunts our
sight we see everywhere, upon the
spotlcss heaven, upon the distant
mountains, upon the fields, and upon
the road at our feet, that dim, strange,
changcful image and if our eyes
shut, to recover themselves, we still
find in them, like dying flame, or
like glcam in dark place, the un-
mistakable phantom of the mighty orb
that has set :; and We're we to sit down
as we have often done, and try to re-
cord by pencil or by pen our impress
sion OF that supreme hour, still IL
would be there. We mast have pa
tience with our eye, it would not let
the impression go that spot on which
the radiant disc was impressed, is in-
sensible to all other outward things
for time its best relief is to let the
eye wander vaguely over earth and
sky, and repose itself on the mild
shadowy distance. So it is when
great, good, and beloved man departs,
sets, it may be, suddenly y, and to us
who know not the times and the sea
sons, too soon. We gaze eagerly at
his last hours, and when he is gone,
never, never to rise again on our sight,
we see his image wherever we go,
and in whatsoever we are engaged
and if we try to record by words our
wonder, our sorrow, and our affection,
wecannot see to do it, for 4" the idea of
his life" is forever coming into our
" study Of the imagination into all
our thoughts, and We can do. little else
than let our mind, in wise passive
ness, hush itself to rcst.-H0re Sub
serle, By hin Bro,cn, H. u.
Year: 1861

There are things worse than war
Deterioration and moral cowardice are
worse than death and when it be-
comes necessary to die for great
truths and principles, how sweet and
how beautiful is the sacrifice! Let
no one imagine that this is our day OF
deepest darkness. Twenty millions
.of people rising as one man, thrilled
by one pulse, swept 10y one spirit of
self-sacrlice, holding that right aud
justice to be dearcr than life, and that
life for these may be and SHALL be Of
fered up, will appear in history as the
brightest omen of the century. Civi.
lization and free government are not
to fail here, but to come forth more
glorious and secure from trial. This
is the clear pointing Of the finger of
God, and for this he strikes the awful
hour and summons men to their duty
Meanwhile we hope that from all the
altars OF religion will be brcathcd the
holiest sclectcst influence into the
cause Of constitutional liberty as the
cause Of God.-Religioms Maga=ine