smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

We are without any further intelligence
from our lines on the RapahanOck, the
down train on the Central Railroad, which
is our usual source of information from
the Army of Northern Virginia, having
failed to arrive last evening. This was
owing, it was understood, to the cars be-
ing appropriated by them ilitaFy author
tiles for the conveyance Of troops to GER
tain points threatened by the enemy,
which we are not at liberty to mention.
So far as we are advised, the situation on
the RappahannOck remains unchanged
both armies confronting each other, and
each unwilling to throw down the gage Of
hattie.
Year: 1863

er-in-law of "Dick Bustced," a writer


who acquired some celebrity from his


contributions to the light literature of


the day, and from series of essays


written over the signature of "Vaga-
bond" which originally appeared in
some of the weeklies, and were subse-
quently published in book form for


some time war correspondent of the


Times, joined the army at Port Royal,


being appointed to the Captaincy of a
company. He saw service in the
West, and went with Gen. Sherman to
the Lower Mississippi. Captain Ba-
deau also was wounded in the same
action where Carr got his last scars.
These are newspaper men who will
have something to talk about "when
the war is over" and whose patriotism
was not a mere thing Of words. Other
journalists are serving their country
bravely and cffectually at home, but
they must all yield the palm of sacri-
fee to those who have gone into actu-
al service where bombs fall and bullets
Year: 1863

Let sailors sing Of the windy deep,


Let soldiers praise their armor;
But in my heart this toast I'll keep


The Independent Farmer
When first the rose in robe of green,


Unfolds its crimson lining,
And round its cottage porch Is seen


The honeysuckle twining,
When banks Of bloom their sweetness yield
To bees who gather honey
He drives his team across the field,


Where the skies are soft and sunny.
The blackbird clncks behind the plow,
The quail pipes loud and clearly,
Yon orchard hides behind its bough


The home he loves SO dearly;
The grey old barn, whose doors unfold
His ample store in measure
More rich than heaps of boarded gold,
A precious blessed treasure:
But yondcr in the porch there stands,


His wife, the lovely charmer.
The sweetest rose on all his lands


The Independent Farmer.
To him the Spring comes dancing gay,
To him the Summer bushes
The Autumn smiles with pleasant ray,
His sleep old Winter bushes;
lie cares not how the world may move,
No doubt or fears confound him,
His little flock are linked in love,


His household angels round him;
He trusts in God and loves his wife,


No grief nor i'll may harm her;
He's natures nobleman in life


The Independent Farmer.
Year: 1863

Is that mother bending o CT me,
As she sang my cradle hymn
Kneeling there in tears before me!
Say my sight is growing dim.
Comes she from the old home lowly,
Out among the northern hills,
To her pet boy dying slowly
OF wars battle wounds and ills?
Mother. oh. we bravely battled--
Battled till the day was done;
While the leaden hail-storm ratified
Man to man and gun to gun.
But we failed and I am dying


Dying in my boyhood's years,
There no weeping self-denying,


Noble deaths demand no tears!
Fold your arms again around me;


Press again my aching head;
Sing the lullaby sou sang me -


Kiss me, mother, ere l. IN dead.
Year: 1863

All accounts represent the feeling at
W ashlngtOn, both upon the part Of the
Government and among all the supporters
of the war, to he buoyant and confident. 1t
IS regarded As almost certain that we are
about to enter upon u path OF splendid sue
c"Sses, which will settle the speedy fate of
the rebellion. The prevalence of such feel
ing at the n4jional Capital is an excellent
sign. Certainty nowhere else iss there so
good knowledge of our own resources
and preparations, and of the present condi-
ton and means of the rebels. If we are to
look for correct forecast anywhere, it
should certainly be at the national head
quarters. a great deal Of the depression
which has existed in New York and else
where through the North, has rested upon
no defEite data whatever Its foundation
has been mere discomfort with some par
tlcllur policy Of the Government, or With
the treatment Of some particular General,
rather than any substantial facts bearing
upon the vital elements of the war. -


But 1t may be freely allowed that the
progress of the war in our favor has not
realized the just expectations generally
cherished six or" eight months ago. Yet,
this is no good reason for the present de-
spondcncy: nor would it be were our
checks far more serious than they actuully
have been. We never had right to pre-
sumo that we should be excepted from the
varying fortunes which are incident to all
wars. All history, from that of the Jewish
people down, demonstrates that war, by its
alternating disasters and successes, is IIeav-
ems chosen discipline to fit nations for the
noblest tasks Of peace but it is marvellous
how constant has been the experience ofthe
Anglo-Saxon race that the side which is
worst batfled in. the beginning, is the side
which triumphs most gloriopsy inthe end


In not a single instance during the last
hundred years has this rule varied.-N.s I,
Times SF
Year: 1863

he pointed out the seductive influences of
intemperance, comparing the first steps in
the downward course to ruin to a piece Of
wood cast into the Niagara river, few
hundred yards above the falls. AT first it
floats gently onward, now laying with the
slight waves, now quietly playing in a
pleasant cove, then shooting gently forward,
until it is drawn into the current, borne
rapidly forward, and in an instant it makes
the final plunge and is gone forever! His
allusion to the grinding process by which
fine young men are turned out in a few
years miserable bleared besotted wretches,
was graphic description Of what is going
on in every mmunity.-RyuJGcta
Year: 1863

Whenever you see a lady and gentleman alone in
a cab, each looking cut of different window, be
convinced that they perfectly harmless, for they
have boen married some months at least.
Year: 1863

SepatersSaplsburyhas. been making ano-
ther speech in Congress, "A gentleman of
this State was present and says that during
its delivery nearly every Senator left the
chamber This shows the esteem In which
he is now held IN Wasangloh4s q
Year: 1863

WAETED-A SMART, ACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN TO


w do the general housework OF a small family; who
can cook. wash and iron, and is willing to make herself
generally useful and bring good city reference None
others need apply Call for two days at 81 Mddagh St.
Brooklyn.
Year: 1863

A CilrN.


FJNHE Professor begs to inform the students of the
French language that the next academic year
Will be his last in Portland. II will thus be the last
opportunity offered to them of learning that lam
guage from the only Frenchman now teaching in
the city.


BY the by it must be rather pulling to know who
is the genuine French teacher when Swiss teachers
come out as Partisan teachers, because they have
spent their babyhood in Paris, as if it mattered
much whether q baby be born in Paris or Geneva
Since the baby born in Paris brought in a ten
der age into witzerland the home of his parents
mastered the Partisan pronunciations when he left
France. Where did he acquire it, In what Col
lege did he study and graduate, These are the
queries student ought to make if he wishes to avoid
taking the brogue of the country iii which such
teachers have been brought up and educated. A
thorough Frenchman only can realize the difficulty
of eradicating accent THUS acquired.


The Professor thankfully acknowledges receptions
of sundry notes from his friends expressing their
warm and sympathetic APPROPRIATIONS. sep 9dlm
Year: 1863

o M to l.slaas aud closed steady Upon the street Stocks


we're dull and there little disposition to do business in
direction At the Stock Exchange Government Sccnr
Ties were steady Between the Boards and at tho Public
Stock Exchange there small panic, under the pressure
of cash stock and low Of prices was accepted Inc
market has been excited than for along Time ana oue
the good deal OF stock bought by inc pe"
for delivery At the Second Board the marko! was lower ana
psnky The Money market very srngen and the STOCK
market Is tending to panic.
Year: 1863

Has any one observed the fact the pro-
fession of democratic or republican prin.
ciplcs is esteemed crime by the party
now in power?


Do you perceive that the advocacy of O
free government, in which the power is
placed in the hands Of the people, is trea.
son now a-davs9


We are told very distinctly that to be
q democrat is to be a traitor-and the
democrats ought to consider themselves
very fortunate if they are tolerated at all
in this country. Atany rate, they won't
be tolerated after the South is put down ;
for then Halleck is going to send the ar
my North to crush out democracy.


For not believing in the present admin
istration, men have been shut up in Bas-
tiles, and one has been banished from the
country for holding the opinion that
States ought not to be coerced into the
Union.


But this is not enough. Every trick is
rcsorted to in order to drive democrats
into the commission of some unlawful
act that the administration may have an
excuse for annihilating them with grape
and canister. Ben Butler and his admi-
rers are anxious to hang every man that
dares to speak in favor Of the Constitu-
ton or Of American Liberty; and the
people have become so much accustomed
to these things that they no longer mar
vel when they hear democracy and trea
son used as synonymous terms. They
no longer murmur when the shoulder.
strapped myrmidons Of Lincoln talk cool
ly of establishing . military despOtism
and putting down every vestige Of free
dom Of speech and the press.


Even the World, paper that handles
the party in power with kid gloves that
avoids all offensive epithets, and contents
itself with argument instead of denun-
ciation-a paper that has always gone in
for a vigorous support of the war--is
spoken of by the abolition press as if it
were o monster of crime, Behemoth ol
treason that ought to be put down at any
price!


The evidence is as clear as if written
with a sunbeam upon the heavens that
the party in power are the deadly enc
mics of American liberty, the sworn foes
of Republican Government.


Before the November elections, they
were posting fast into the worst despo.
tism that ever cursed the earth /; now they
are gnashing their teeth and splitting their
venom because the uprising of the long
oppressed democracy holds them partially
in check and in some degree prevents q
consolidated despotism.


N. Y. Copperhead.
Year: 1863

For two weeks or more, as our reader:


are aware, the gallant army of Rosecrans


has been moving. Private letters received


in this city, dated more than ten days ago,
report one Of his divisions more than hall


way from Murfeesboro to Chattanooga,
and there can be no donbt that this city is
the goal towards which his legions are
tending. Its great and controlling strate-


Eetic importance renders it certain that


Bragg will dispute the possession Of the


llace, with all the force be can command:


and no one need be surprised to hear of
another great battle fought there at any


Rosecrans' army is composed almost en-
tirely OF Western men; it is 1arec, and
capltally appointed in all respects, and
when the fight does come it will be an aw-
fal death struggle for victory on both
sides. The Western boys mean victory
and nothing else when they 60 into the
light, and the rebels will 60 in with the
knowledge that The life Of their infamous
confederacy is at stake.


A glance at the map will show thu if
Rosecrans can take and hold Chattanooga,
he cuts the great east and west railway
line Of Rebellion, thereby giving that con
ce1n another deatb-thrust. With that
most important stronghold in our posses
sion, 1t will not be very difficult for our ar
mics to conquer the remaining sections of
the Confederacy in detail. We have
strong faith thot Rosecrans and his brave
Western boys can and will do it. Look
tor stirring hews from that quarter within
4k%eek or two at most.
Year: 1863

H We understand that some Of the
citizens Of Iowa Point accuse the people
of White Cloud of having set FIRE to the
houses recently burned at that place.
We trust they are not so foolish Is to
suppose the people of White Cloud
would 90 that far to kill dead thing.
Year: 1863

AND QUEENSWARE,


which they offer to sell at less prices than at
any other house in the West We have left
our native State, and have come to this coun-
try for the purpose of carrying on the mercan-
tile business; and we wish to establish a repu-
tation, and for that reason we think the people
will find it to their interest to examine our
stock before purchasing elsewhere.


We will be receiving new Goods every week
Produce of all kinds will be taken in exchange
for Goods, at the highest market price. Cash
paid for Dry Hides and Beeswax.


October %, 1861 4W.
Year: 1863

EDTToR LEADER The Ladies Benevolent
Society Of this village gave our citizens a
very pleasant entertainment on Tuesday,
February 18th, which passed off to the entire
satisfaction Of all present, and did honor to
the various committees who had the thing in
charge. The supper could not be exeelled.
It was followed BY twelve tableaux, some Of
which were really artistic, and drew great
applause from the audience. Receipts Of the
evening were nearly one hundred dollars,
which viii be devoted to the relief Of our
sick and wounded soldiers.


Occasional, JR.
Year: 1863

a Eerm1dnpIe Expedition into South Car
olina---Ths PT6elamSfion in Earnest.


The Port Royal correspondent Of the
New York Tribune, writing upon the 1sth,
gives the startling and important an
nouncement that for some weeks prepara-
a- ton for fOray upon the most extensive
scale into some Of the most thickls-pOp-
ulated slaYe districts Of the three States
comprised in the Department Of the South,
have been in progress with the greatest
possible secrecy. The plan is to surprise
the Rebels, not with the phantom, but the
reality Of servile insurreetion, BY the sud
den appearance in arms, in the region Sc
lected, Of a body Of nc less than 5000 ne
g1oes, properly led by whites and sup
ported by regular troops Communica-
tiOn has been opened and kept up for some
time By trustworthy contrabands with the
bOndmen Of the chosen field of operations,
and they know when the liberatint host
will appear, and are ready to rise in
thousands and swell it to wave SO
nighty that it will sweep both Rebellion
and Slavery out Of existence wherever it
may roll.


This will put the Proclamation into ef-
feet with an emphasis which win be felt
from one end Of rebeldom TO the other. By
"servile insurrection no indiscrininste
massacre is intended, as the Ooppsrhead
journals will assert, for the regular troops
that are being sent to cooperate and sus-
tain this native force will countenance no
such thing, but the blacks will be placed
under the pUteetiOn of the Stars and
Stripes, and win from that time become
soldiers Of the Union, who viii tight only
for the restoration of that Union and the
honor of the Flag.


It has been said that the Proclamation
viii be dead letter, for the slaves will
either never hear Of it, or be powerless to
act upon it if they do. If this plan is car
riej out that opinion will be most en-
phatically refuted
Year: 1863

DEsEKTERs.-Bight or ten deserters
from Michigan regiments were brought down
on the Toledo train this morning, in charge
of Lieutenant and a file of soldiers, who
were taking them back to Washington.
Hooker is disposed to deal more severely
with deserters than has been done hereto
Year: 1863

We do not credit that the administration are
gone stark mad, and therefore we do not believe
that they are bent on provoking civil disturbance
in the North, but they must be made to know, il
they do not know, that the high h-handed meas
ures which Gen. Burnside has inaugurated in his
military department, respecting the freedom of
speech and OF the press, cannot be pursued as q
policy without the greatest danger Of provoking
civil disturbances. If it is believed that such
measures are necessary 10 the free enforcement
of the conscription or any other law Of the land,
or to the unobstructed prosecution Of military
operations, there was never a greater mistake iD
the world. If it is believed that they will have
the effect to compel men to think better of the
war policies of the Administration than they
would otherwise do, there was never a greater
mistake in the world; they will have the very
opposite effect If the Administration, or Gen.
Observation-Disclosures is responsible for the meas
ures-had set out to do that which would alarm
and exasperate the people of the North, and drive
them from the support of the war, a more power
full means in that behalf could not be devised.
Devoted as this people are 20 the Union, they are
more devoted TO civil liberty, and it is these
measures of Gen. Burnside which alarm them
for the safety of civil liberty. They Fnow the
useessness of those measures for their professed
object, and, sensitvely jealous of their Consttu-
tional rights each new encroachment upon those
rights is cause for new apprehension that the Ad
ministration have serious designs upon their in
tegrity. And they are not wrong in this appre
bension, whatever the design of the Administra-
ton for the lessons of history justify the gravest
apprehensions.


1t is the Northwest which has, with more
promptness than any other section, answered ev-
cry demand of the Government upon her. She
has exhibited no indispOsIion TO yield compliance
with every lawful demand hereafter, though the


L n
OF her people Why, then, this raid upon her
Why this usurpation and violence Of arbitrary
powerT Why these trespasses upon the dearest
rights of citizenship ?-[ Chicago Times.
Year: 1863

DIsGRAcEFUL AFFAIR AT FUNERAL.-On Sun
day the remains Of Mrs. Portteus. the wife Of
Thomas Portteus, was taken to Acton, in this
county, for interment. The funeral cOrtage ar
rived at the Church about O'Clock p. NJ, where
the funeral sermon was preached, after which the
congregation repaired to the grave yard TO per-
form the last sad rites. A young lady in the
crowd wore a butternut breastpn, and while the
earth was rafting on the coffin two women point
ed to the ornament, their eyes flashing fire. They
followed the young lady few steps from the
grave, and each seizing her by an arm strove to
take the pin. The mother of the young lady
coming up, struck one of them with her parasol
in the face. AID irregular fight ensued among the
women. When women get niger on the brain
they are as crazy as men laboring under the same
disease, and lese all feeling and sense Of pro-
priety
Year: 1863

some of my most attached friends were also his,
and from them / learned to cherish for him senti-
ments of affection and respect. In all the rela-
tions of life he pure and above reproach-a
devoted husband. indulgent father. warm friend,
kind neighbor, and upright Judge. He discharged
the duties of the different public positions which
be held with honor to himself and satisfaction to
the community. 1t was, however, as Judge of
the District Court of Indiana, which Office he
held for twenty years, that he was best known,
and his character and services most appreciated.


Judge Huntington's perceptions were quick,
and his judgment was practical and accurate.
Whenever a difficult question was presented to
him for decision, he endeavored to subject it to
the test of his common sense; and If it was of
such a nature that he could bring it to a moral
solution, and could feel satisfied where the justice
of it lay, there he rested. In such n case, even
contrary adjudications had slow and difficult
impression on his mind. He was the soul of
honor; his contempt for meanness and for all
low and vulgar qualities, never failed to obtain
expression. when provoked by their presence.
He was eminently genial and social in his nature,
and in his personal address was uncommonly en-
dowed.


The influence of his presence was positive. II
insured him consideration from strangers, and was
felt in the daily intercourse of life


His administration of justice was wise pure
and impartial, and won the respect and confidence
of the people, equally with the bar. The Cour
deplores his loss, aod in honor to his memory
directs that the address of Mr. Voorhees,, together
with the resolutions of the bar and the responses
of the different members of the Court, be entered
upon the records


And in further honor to his memory, without
transacting any ordinary business. it is ordered
that the Court be adjourned until tomorrow
at 9 o'clock
Year: 1863

From all the information before us, we are dis
posed to believe that the two regiments-the one
from Hanover Courthouse and the one which
visited the suburbs of the city, rendezvoused yes
terday evening at the Old Church, in the lower
end of Hanover county, from which place they
could bear either northward toward Port Royal.
or eastward to their gunboats on the York River.
Mr.. Lipscomb, the keeper of the tavern at the
Old Church. was in town last night, and reported
the Yankee cavalry in heavy force at that place.
and that they came from the direction of Rich
mond.
Year: 1863

A Cool EDIToR-The man who in the late
" tin panic" or crisis" replied to the remark
of polite notary, that he had brought no
tice of protest for FIVE thousand dollars. proba-
bly, a mistake, "Oh no-a regular pu'st -
that man, we say is almost equalled by the
editor of western paper, who owes bank a
thousand dollars, for which they hold his note.
The defauting wag announces it thus in his
paper:


There is large collection Of autographs
of distinguished individuals deposited for safe
keeping in the cabinet Of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank. each accompanied with a
note 10 the handwriting Of the autographist.
We learn that they have cost the bank great
deal of money. They paid over thousand
dollars for ours. We hope great care is taken
to preserve these capital and interesting relics,
as should they be lost, we doubt whether they
could be easily collected again. Should the
bank, however, be so unfortunate as to lose
ours. we'll let them have another at half-price,
in consequence of the very hard times"


That editor is a cool one. He should have
a government contract
Year: 1863

RELIEF FOR NEURALGIA-As this dreadful
disease is becoming more prevalent than for
merly, ard as the doctors have not found any
method or medicine that will permanently cure
it, we simply state that for some time past a
member of our family has suffered most in
tensely from it, and could find no relief from
any remedy applied, until we saw an article
which recommended the application of bruised
horseradish to the face, for toothache. As neu-
ralgia and toothache are both nervous diseases,
we thought the remedy for the one would be
likely to cure the other, so we made the appli-
cation to the side of the body where the disease
was seated. 1t gave almost instant relief to
the severe attack of neuralgia. Since then We
have applied it several times, and with the
same gratifying results. The remeny is simple,
cheap, aud may be within the reach of every
one Lawrenceville Herald.