smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

The CoNTRAsr.-Hundreds of white women in
war. We conversed with one few days ago, who
has FIVE sons and one son.in.law in the army, and
whose last boy had been taken from hers and she told
she had plowed all her corn crop excep, piece Of
new ground, and she had appealed i'll to weal-
thy Destructive in the ne'gh5orhood to have it
plowed for her.


The men in the war fighting, the women rlowins,
many of the children without sufficient supply Of
bread, and no schooling while Gov. Vauces shade
officers are living like lords, with every necessary
ami luxury furnished them by the State. These
pccr old women who are blowing must pay their
pit1ance Of taxes-a great deal to them-to support
these pampered minions of the Governor in ease
and afluence. And still we talk about justice AID
political equality
Year: 1864

Maximilian arrived in Mexico on the 10Th, and
was met by cortege of 800 citizens on horse
back, and more than 200 carriages belonging to
the aristocratic families of the city.-Erchangs
Paper.


Miserable Mexico! After years of civil war the
masses Of her people are to be governed by an
Emperor, forced upon them by foreign bayonets
and the aristocracy of their own country The
people of the North American States are tending
in the same direction. The yoke of some emperor
may now be in course of preparation for even the
present generation. Who can tell? We know that
the sristocracy of the Confederate States are long.
ing for strong government and imperial rule. We
solemnly warn our people to be their guard.
We beg them to keep the most sleepless eye upon
their public servants. We conjure them to cote at
all hazards, and to vote for true men, and not to
support fer any office those who apologize for the
cncroachnslts Of despotc power. All power in
the Confederate States - e =


- r~-ss III Ine United States is in the hands
of one man. "Coming events cast their shadows
before"
Year: 1864




You will please answer these and other ques.
Governor: The people expect an answer.


We beg leave to conclude, Governor, with the
following extract from Lacon, to which we re.
spectfully invite your attention:


Liberty will not descend to people, people
must raise themselves to liberty; it is blessing
that must be earned before it can be enjoyed
That nation cannot be free, where reform Is CON-
mon hack, that IL dismissed oith kick the mo-
ment it has brought tho rider to his place. That
nation cannot be free, where parties are but differ
ent roads, leading to one common destination, plum
der. That nation cannot be free, where the rulers
will not feel for the people, until they are obliged
to feel aoith the people, and then it is too late
That nation cannot be free, that is bought by its
own consent and sold against it; where the rogue
that IS in rags is kept in countenance by the rogue
that is in rufles and where, from high to low from
the lord to the ackey there is nothing radical but
corruption, and nothing contemplate but poverty ;
when both patriot and paceman, perceiving that
money do every thing, are prepared to do every
. thing for money. That nation cannot be free
where religion is, with the higher orders, matter
of Indifference with the middle, of acquiescence:
and with the lower, of hnaticism. That nation
cannot be free, where the leprosy of sel6shness
sticks to it as close as the Of Elisha to his
servant dehlza: where the rulers ask not what
recommends man, but who; ard where those
who want rogue, have no occasion to make but
to choose. l hope there is no nation like this
: under heaven; but if there were, these are the
things that, however great she might be, would
keep such nation from liberty, and liberty from
her These are the things that would force upon
such nation-frs, government of expedients,
secondly, of difficulties; and lastly, Of danger
Such nation could begin to feel, only by fearing
all that she deserved, and finish by suffering ali
that she feared"
Year: 1864

Who ARE EXEMPT ?---fn view OF
the enrolment now being made, and the
nrobable draft not far distant, it Is q mat
tar Of interest to know who are liable to be
drafted and who are exempt. According
70 the amended "Enrollment Act" which
passed both Houses of Congress; and be-
came a law on the 18th of February last,
three classes of persons are especially ex'
empt. First, those who are physically or
mentally unfit for service; second, those
who are actually in the military or naval
service of the United States; and third,
those who have served in either the army
or navy for two years during the present
war. snd then honorably discharged
There is another class, of cases contempla-
ted by this act namely, those who bytheir
rules and articles Of faith are conscientious.
ly opposed to bearing arms. These persons
are still liable to draft, but are not obliged
to 90 into active service. They are to DO
considered as non combatants, and shall be
assigned to duty in the hospitals, or to the
care of freedmen, or shah pay the sum o. o.
$500, to be applied to the benefit OF sick
and wounded soldiers. As the law is, none
but those coming under thesaboVe classes
are exempt, but all persons over the age OF
twenty and under forty-fve years shall be
enrolled, and with these exceptions, liable
to be drafted 1t has been supposed that
the "only son of widowed mother" depen.
dent upon him for support, as under the
old law, would now be exempt; but the new
law expressly states, that no one not men,
toned therein shall be exempt. The $500
communication clause is still in force, and any
one drafted can free himself by furnishing q
substitute, or paying the money. An
amendment has recently been introduced
in Congress abolishing the $500 clause
thus oblging the person drafted to furnish
a substitute Or go himself. Whether this
will become part OF the law is question
of some doubt. In any event, it would
probably not effect the present enrolment
Such are in brief the prominent features OF
he enrolment act, under which the draft
will be made, if made at all.
Year: 1864

The New COMA friend has presented
us with q specimen Of the new two cent
piece. We. have already given our readers
a descrion of the new coin, and need only
say that it is very pretty pocket piece.
Year: 1864

tB Accounts from Meck1euburg state that
an emigration N nsasse is going. on from the
dueby TO America, and that the lnndholders
are looking forward With dismay to the mo-
mcnt when they will have no hands to cultl-
rate their estates. Mecklenburg is that
happy valley in which the ancient privilege
Of the mobiles to fog their sesfs-o1, in South
en phrase, to wallop their own niggers-has
been revived by recent act Of legislature !;
and We may readily imagine that the people
ore making all haste they can to get out Of
reach Of their aristocratic taskmasterR.
Year: 1864

estimates Of our condition and prospects


it is criminal to discourage the people b!


mere rumOrs and reports. Let us, there


fore, make plain statement Of the facts


which can be regarded IS entirely reliable


The losses Of General Mesde's army III


to last Sunday, snd but little fighting has


been done since, amounted to about l6, 600


omitting cut Of the calculation the number


who struggled to tn rear, many Of them
to Washington, under pretence Of being
hurt. These strsgglsrs have been sent
back and arrangements are being made TO
prevent struggling hereafter.


Another fact is that General Grant has
received reinfOrcements which more than
replace his losses. His army is in much
better condition, beth as to numbers and
spirit, than ever befOr He understands
them, and they understand that the Com
msnding General does not intend to move
northWsrd but southward. The men have
never felt this before. An indecisiVe en-
g8gement has always been the signal for
retreat. When Grants orders that be in
tended to move southwsrd we're read be-
fore the regiments of his army, the an
nouncement was received with cheers
Again, though the wOuaded have been
many, yet the best care has been given
them and they are now enjoying all the
blessings the Sanitary and Christian
Commissions can bestOW, in addition to
the aid afforded by the Government.


Instead Of encouragement we have the
best reasons to feel obeered with the sue
cess Of our arms thus far TIE rebel army
is smaller than ever. General Grant has
out maneuvered Lee andwon the confidence
Of his troops. His subordinate Generals
eo-opsrsts cordially and earnestly and are
re lcnger governed by those selfish mo
tives which have psrslyEed the efficiency
of the Army Of the Potomac so frequently
heretofore. No doubt there will be bitter
fighting, but we believe that General
Grant will yet prove the eonqueror OF Lee.
We have reason to be thankful for the
success thus far granted and cannot but
believe that in the end we shall see the
defeat and destruction Of Lee, which is
equivalent to tae breaking down Of the re-
bellion.
Year: 1864

The cool assumption involved in claim
ing q seat in the United States Senate
from the State of Arkansas was to-day dis
PLAYED, Senator Jim Lane, Of Kansas, be-
ing the fitting spokesman for the claim
ant
Year: 1864

1t affords us much pleasure to announce
that our much esteemed friend, DR.. d. w.
Maull has been promoted to the position of
Surgeon-in-chief, and attached to the staff
of General Hays, in the third Division,
Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. DR..
Maull was one of the first in our State, at the
breaking out Of the rebellion, to grid on his
armor, and take the field in defence Of the
Union, and has served his country faithfully
ever since, both in military capacity and as
a Surgeon. This mark ofthe appreciation OF
the authorities is a well merited tribute TO a
worthy officer and accomplished gentleman.
BY this appointment the Doctor will be
separated from his old and much loved Re-
gimeni, the gallant First Delaware-the
members of which will part with him with
deep regret as he was universally respected
and esteemed by both officers and men
But as true-hearted Delawareau, he will
always feel deep aud abiding interest il
their welfare and look with pride and plea
sure on their glorious deeds, in the great
battle for Constitutional liberty. The Doc
tor has our best wishes for his health ant
prosperity in his new scene of labors.
Year: 1864

which he paid. He then said to the
Editor, "Is that all owe your" He
was answered eyes" "Well now /
want you to stop sending it to me, for
/ do MT want it, If you must send me
a paper, send me blank sheet, for
there is not as much good reading mat
ter in your paper as there is in John
Rogers primmer.


When the laws were published in the
paper having the largest circulation in
the county, lists were handed in to the
committee by the publishers Of both
papers, and the Gazette had seventeen
more subscribers than the CHRONICLE.
The CHRONICLE list was afterwards in
creased several hundred, and had very
much the largest circulation of the two
until the Bell paper and party were sold
out by the Editor of the Independent
Republican to the Gazette Office, since
when, probably, the Gazette has little
the largest circulation, but no more bona
.fde paying subscribers than the CHRoN-
ICLE, nor does the Gazette subscrip-
ton list pay as much cash as the
CHRoNICLE list does.
Year: 1864

1t Is unwise to hope for domestic
happiness in the possessoi Of single trait
Of character; it is better to look for a COM
bination and they are to be most congratu-
lated who can discern aud WOO and win the
possessor of the largest amount Of good
points. First of all the man whom you
love, the woman whom you adore, should
possess high sense Of right and wrong;
next bodily health, and thirdly moral bra
very, a courage to be Industrious, econotn,
ical, self-depying. With these three traits
principle, health and soul that can do and
dare all that one ought to, domestic felicity
will abide. None ought to marry who can
not command the means to enable thom to
live in comfort according to their station in
life, without grinding economies. -.
1t is useless TO talk about love in a cot
tage. The little rascal will always run away
when there is no bread or butter on the ta-
bic. There is mere love 10 full hour-b
rel than in all the roses poses and woodbines
that ever grew. No mechanic should mar.
ay until he is master OF his trade; nor profess
sional man, until his income is adequate to
the style OF life which he determines upon;
nor the merchant, until his clear and annu-
al gains are equal to his domestic expendi-
lures, unless indeed, there are, in either
case, independent and unconditional sour
ces OF income. No man has a right to mar
ry, who has to work like horse from morn
ing till night to supply family necessaries,
whether it be by brain or body; for if the
body is thus made drudge of, it perpetu-
ates impaired power to the race; while il the
brain is over-wrought, its effects will be seen
in children Of feeble intellect, if indeed they
are not demented. To calculate therefore
on reasonable share of enjoyment the par
ties most interested, should aim to find in
each other, as may be of high moral prin-
ciple, Or bodily health, and either tho actual
maintenance or an individual ability to ss-
cure without per-adventure. Halls Jour
nal of Health.
Year: 1864

a Coon CoMPARIsoN.-One of the
New York papers compares the publisher
of a newspaper who allows his papers to 60
to all parts of the country before getting pay
from them, to a farmer who would sell his
wheat on credit, and not more than single
bushel to any person, IF any farmer will
try the experiment of thus distributing the
proceeds of his labor over two or three
counties with an occasional bushel or two,
to far distant States, for one year, we will
guarantee that he never will after that
years experience ask publisher to supply
him with a paper year OF two without the
nav for il. t.1 IT.. il6sl
Year: 1864

Mr.. 5. WILKINSON, in letter to the
N. Y. Tribune, thus graphically describes
scene atBelle Plain landing:


Early was the hour. Medical Inspector
General ,Cuyler was upon the deck Of q
propeller, as mutually commanding, os
eourtsously kind, as strikingly handsome as
ever, filling the hold Of the vessel with slight
" wounded, to be carried out to streamers OF
deep drsught lying at anchor waiting FOX
them.


''Show your wound my m,n !" said he
to red legged person who might have been
born in Austria. but certainly was never born
in America, and who crawled or the propsl-
lor's deck with the abjectness of coward,
and the OVERRIDING of a bad perform er. He
frightened UP in some terror but quickly
selected his left shoulder as the locality of
his disabling wounded. The surgeon ordered
to examine it reported that it did not exist.


st hit me, but it didn't go in," said tho
detected skulk, with feeble impudence.


"Go ashore! and return to YOUR giment"
said Inspector Cuyler, with severity


And so it is with another, and another !;
towards with the most trifing hurts, who
abandoned their comrades and abandoned
their. country in critical battle, and sought
the delights Of hospital or the adulation of
the corner groceries out Of which they were
enlisted.


1t was joy to me to hear on the deck Of
this propeller that the Government had
ordered double inspection of the moderately
wounded, and rejection hero and arrest
by the provost guard of all who are fit for
duty, and the sending of the others to tho
hospital nearest Camp Distribution, to bs
cured Immediately, and Immediately
returned to the army. The country needs
them, and they have contracted for an in-
mense price to ightfor her. -...- -
Year: 1864

REPUTATION IN LIFE.-The two most
precious things on this side Of the grave are
our reputation and our life. But It is to be
lamented that the most contemplate whis-
per may deprive us of the one, and the
weakest weapon Of the other. A wise man
will, therefore, be more anxious to deserve
a fair name than to possess it; and this will
teach him so to live as not to be afraid to
die. l.-
Year: 1864

The Editor of the Gazette says we
were picked up in the publication of
very dirty article" in our paper of
two weeks ago. Our readers generally
think we published a very dirty article
last week, at the head of our editorial
column, to wit the leading editorial"
of the Gazette of the previous week.
Year: 1864

QuIr-CoERcEp-The New York Journal of
Commerce of November 10TH after having
sustained party in the Presidential cam
paign whose leaders, pipe layers, and gener-
al managers are rebels to the core, and so
known by every individual who reads or
hears, withdraws from the political arena,
and declares that that paper was never par
tisan sheet. and that inasmuch as the Union
party has elected the whole Government it
would be unwise to longer meddle with the
affairs of State, thus gracefully bids farewell
to politics:


In Withdrawing from political discussion
we do not withdraw from supporting the
Government of the United States, the Con-
stitution of our fathers, the Union ofthe States
1t is our Government, and we are now and
forever hostile to every form of rebellion
against it. As citizens. we shall, with purse
and person, sustain the constituted authori-
ties. As publishers of daily journal, we
are of opinion that we shall best serve the
cause of the country, and do it and our read
ers the greatest good, by withdrawing from
the political field and devoting ourselves
lication of a good commercial and family
newspaper.


This is certainly conclusion worthy of
being adopted by the lesser lights of profess
ed Democracy, and much would be the bene-
fit to the commuuity-to the naton-if the
balance of those sheets that have so long
been teaching treason would adopt the same
commendible course.
Year: 1864

MEDALS are presented once a year at Brus-
els to those who have exhibhiited remarkable
scts of ccurge and deTotedness, by which
the lives of others have been saved. This year
the recipient of medal, who was most heart
dy cheered by the spectators. was Joseph
EapoIean Tasset of Table, child of FIVE
years of age, who had been left alone with q
little brother of six months in a house al
Table, which took fire. On seeing the
aemes this little boy at first was frightened
eqd ran out of the house. but went back
through the flames and smoke, took his infant
brother from his cradle and carried him to
place of safety.
Year: 1864

An IMMENSE HosPITAL TO BE BUILT.-The
medical department the army is engaged
in preparing the plans for an immense hos
pital. to be built upon the Severn river, near
Annapolis, Maryland. This hospital will
eclipse in extent and accommodation any 9TH
er institution of the kind in the world 1t is
intended to have it surrounded with extensive
grounds for the exercise and amusement of
the patients. it having been found by ex-
perience that ample opportunities for out
door exercises has more beneficial effect
and contributes more to the speedy recovery
of the patients than any other accessory of a
hospital. The farm upon which it is propos-
ed to locate it comprises about thousand
acres, the owner of which is a Secess;onist
and within the rebel lines
Year: 1864

MEAT PRESERVED IN lee MANY THotsAND
YEARs.-We have now evidence of man
having existed in Europe with three speci-
es of elephant, two of them extinct, namely
the mammoth and the Elepus antiquus, and
a third. the same as that which still survives
in Africa As to the first of these, TIE NAM
moth. am aware tha. some writer's contend
that it could not have died out many thou
sand years before our time, because its flesh
has been preserved in ice in so fresh state
as to serve as food for dogs, bears and wolves;
but this argument seems to me fallacious.
Middendorf in 1913, after digging through
some thickness of frozen soil in Siberia. came
down upon an icy mass, in which the carcass
of mammoth was imbedded so perfect that
among other parts the pupil of the eye was
taken out, and is now preserved in the Mu-
scum of Moscow. t


No one will deny that this elephant.had lain
for several thousand years in its lev envelopes;
and if left undisturbed, and the cold had
gone m increasing for myfiads of centuries,
we might reasonably expect that the f oxen
flesh might continue undecayed until Sec
oud glacial period had passed away.
Year: 1864

The lake is about twenty miles from Sol.
Lake City. Its only equal is the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea is thirteen hundred feet below
the level of the sea, the Great Salt Lake is
forty-two hundred feet above it. In general
terms the length of the lake is forty miles
and its width about fourteen miles. 1t is.
beyond ell question, one of the purest and
most concentrated brines in the world. 1t
has been found that it will yield about twenty
per cent. of pure common SALT about ten per
cent of foreign salts. The most objection.
able parts of the latter are the chloride of
lime and the chloride of magnesia. The
water is perfectly clear and has q specific
gravity of l.lI0-the water being 1000
Fish cannot live in it, and it is .acartained
that man cannot sink in it, ~rfhesse are
about thirty islands in the lake-the largest
being the Antelope. which has an elevation
OF about three thousand feet above the level
of the water. On many of the islands are
numerous springs of excellent fresh water,
with an abundant supply of grass, which
makes them superb places for herding stock.
Ghe lake is shallow and can be easily forded
from the main land to many of the islands
which abound in it. This lake drains an
immense area, and it is matter of some
little surprise that with an immense and an.
nual supply of fresh water, its saline quail
ties are not materially diminished. The
traveller stands upon its desolate shore, awe
stricken with the great evidence of Gods
existence. Vegetation ceases near its waters.
The gulls which fly about him only add to
the solemnity of the scene. The islands,
arising from the surface of the lake appears
to be posted as sentinels over the vast sheet
of water in which no living thing moves.
breathes or has any existence. Far away
as the eye can reach, is an expanse of water,
cold, silent, and almost motionless-the
cause OF It's existence a wonder. and as he
turns from the shore and leaves its influence
behind him, a strong sensation of relief is
experienced. There is something in its
presence that lie cannot account for: and
gladness to be away from it he is not willing
to confess, and scarcely able to explain
Fasaoe Star.
Year: 1864

A PIcruKE OF THE FUTuRE.-Carl Schurz
during speech delivered st Philadelphia
drew the following beautiful picture of the
f1suro:


But what of the slave lord? Will he forget
lis rancor also! What if he does not? His
class was always weak in numbers, and the
system which made it powerful in society is
gone, Some Of the once. mighty cavaliers
will suddenly sink in the flood, and their fos-
sill remains, fattened and petrifed, will be
found, like those of the antediluyian mastadon
between the strata of the new social organ.
ization. Curious geologists will dig them
out, and then children of the South will won
der how such monstrous animals conld ever
existed. But others will :save themselves
In the ark of the free labor system. They
will in time see the wisdom of accommodating o
themselves to the new order Of things, and
md out it is better to be an equal among
freemen than to be the master and at the
same tine the slave of slaves. And present
iy the South will bloom like the bursting
bud of a flower. he immense resources of
the soil will. as by enchantment, spring to
light under the magic touch of free labor,
and her riches will be enjoyed bv free,
happy and (who doubts it?) loyal people,
And then will come the great day when the
people of the regenerated South will stretch
their hauds across the Ohio and Potomac
and say . Blessed be you breih.rn of the
North We were sick and wretched, and
yeu have made us well Not only our slaves,
but we were also in bondage, bu. you have
broken cur fettersr' This will be peace and
Sconciliation indeed; reconciliation in obe-
6ence to the great moral laws of the uni
verse, and to the progressive spirit of our
age "a piece founded upon harmonious coop
eration, mutual benefit and good will toward
all men. Such must be and such can be the
external peace of the Union.