smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

THE SHOOTING FIsH.-This very re;
markable fish is native of the East Indies;
Nature has constructed this aquatic sports
man in very singular manner but one ad-
mirably adapted to his sporting predilec-
tons The fish has hollow, cylindrical
beak. He frequents the rivers or the sea-
shore in search of food, and from the usual
Banner in which he provides for his daily
wants he derives his name When this
hungry gentlemen espies fly or an insect
not taking due care of himself, but sitting
on the plants that grow in shallow water he
swims away to the distance of four or five,
and often of six feet, that he may take aim
at his prey; and when he has done so to his
satisfaction, he then, with amazing dexter
ity and cleverness, elects out of his tube-like
mouth one drop of water, which is so well
directed and so swiftly shot FORTH that it
never fails to knock the fly into the waterJ
and once there all hope of escape is gone
the fish darts upon his prey and eagerly de-
YOURS it thus supplying US with another in
stance of the diversified modes by which ma
ture qualities its countless millions of crea-
lures with the powers necessary for procuring
food
Year: 1863

The Sun of Life has crossed the line;
The summer shine of heightened light
Faded and failed-tll where stand,


'Tis equal Day and equal Night.
One after one rs dwindling hours,


Youths glowing hopes have dropped away
And soon may barely leave the CLEAN
That coldly scores a winters day.
l am not young, am not old;


The flush of morn the sunset calm,
Paling and deepening, each to each,


Meet midway with a solemn charm.
One side ] see the summer fields


Not yet disrobed Of all their green
While westerly along the hills,


Flame the first tints Of forest sheen.
All, middle point, where cloud and storm
Make battle-ground of this thy life
Where even match, the Night and Day,
Wake round me their September strife
bow me to the threatening gale


know when that is overpast,
Among the peaceful harvest days,


An Indian summer comes at last
Year: 1863

The Louisville Journal of October 1st,
thus speaks of the political sentiment of
the people Of Kentucky and Tennessee


"The Nashville Press, a conservative pa
per, has a judicious article in favor of the
kentucky platform We are glad to see
this. We have no doubt, that, whenever a
civil election shall take place in Tennessee,
the contest, if there be a contest, will be
made by the whole body of the conservatives
upon the Kentucky platform, by general
consent 1t is the platform of doctrines
which the great mass of the Union men of
Tennessee, in spite of the industrious exer-
ton of abolition influences, warmly and
heartily approve, and any fair or even half
fair election will prove this fact. 1t is i'm
portant, highly important, that Tennessee
and Kentucky stand together, it is highly
and equally important to both, and therefore
we are glad to feel the utmost confidence
that there will be no doubt or misgiving or
hesitation on the part Of either as to the
ground, which, in standing together, they
shall occupy


Conservative Union Conventions in New
York. Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and per-
haps other Eastern States, have adopted the
Kentucky platform, and we trust to see the
same thing done in all the loyal States. This
platform, if not the only one, is certainly
the best, upon which the whole conservatism
of the nation, in opposition to radicalism on
the one hand and disunion on the other, can
unite. Partisan violence and rage for as
cendancy may lead some sincere Union men
in the loyal States to take position for a time
on one side of this platform, and some to
take position for time on the other, some
deyiatng in the direction of Republican
ism, and some in direction of opposition to
the prosecution of the war for the suppress
sion of the rebellion, but we trust that all
Of them will soon see, that, in united eff
fort to establish the principles upon which
the government of the country shall be con-
Quoted, their truest, wsest, and most states
manlike policy will be to take the Kentucky
platform as the common battle-ground against
all enemies.


We would not, except perhaps as a choice
between great evils, advocate the election of
any man to the Legislature, any man to
Congress, any man to the Governorship, in
any State, or of any man to the Presidency
of the United States, who repudiates the
Kentucky platform"
Year: 1863

All through November the south wind
poured steadily up through the Kyle, and
filled Ronaldsay with mist and gloom. But
IN the first week in December, when the
days were getting towards their shortest,
the north wind came down, drove the mist
away, and invested the island with a cold,
cruel, merciless beauty. Under an inexora-
bic brazen sky, every crag came out clear
and sharp as crystal, every cataract was
turned into a glacier, every little spouting
burn on the hillside into beautiful ice pal
ace. The lochs were frozen three feet thick;
but the curling stones lay neglected under
the bedplace and the faded ribands upon
the handles only served to remind the young
men of the merry risks last year, before the
potatoes rotted and left them all starving
The old folks died first. That was as it
should be. One could not complain of that
one might envy them, but one could not
complain They had had sixty years of this
sort of thing and it was hard if they were not
to enter into their rest before the misery grew
to its full head The loss OF the dear old
faces at the freside was very sad, and the
hearts Of those who were left behind starv-
ing ached sorely but God had taken them
from their misery, which grew more terri
bic as the winter went on, and He knew
best Then the children began to die, and
this was very bitter-very, very hard to bear.
The bonny barelegged little things, who had
done no wrong; who padded in the surf,
that made wreaths of those internal potatoe
flowers, and called them the lilies of heaven.
This would not do to think of. To be lock-


ed up here in an island in the Atlantic, with
out one chance Of making ones voice heard
till it was too late, and to see ones own bon
ME darlings dying before their face Hush
1t was well for the McTavis that these men
are Scotchman, not Irishmen 1t was we'll
for the peace of the kingdom that these
things happened in Ronaldsay and Lewis,
and not in Manchester and Birmingham
Twas a weary Halloween for the poor souls.
The men who dug the graves noticed that
day by day the frost got deeper into the
earth. The fishing lines froze like wires,
the blocks refused to run, the sails were still
as boards, and the women who YEARLY, with
blue fingers, Knocked the limpets off the
rocks, to save themselves from starvations,
began to notice that even the salt water in
the little pools among the rocks was begin
ing to freeze. and they came home and told
the men, and the men lost heart, and went
no more fishing. How could they Did
you ever sIJ nOur dIJcr nUur usnIng,
fourteen degrees of frost, and in a state of
starvation The men stayed at home and
laid in the bed-places. And then they
began to die, Yes The Oldest of the able
bodied men began to lie down, and to fall
asleep in strange, quiet way. Perfectly
happy, perfectly calm. They would lie for
day or two, and at last give over speaking.
In the morning they would be found quiet
ly dead, without the sign OF a spasm on their
faces This is no noyelist's fancy; the au-
thor has seen what he is describing Hen
RI Kingsley an "Austin Elliott"
Year: 1863

BULLYING THE WoRLD.-Don't try to
bully the world 1t doesn't pay. Whoever
enters the ring for a rough-and tumble fight
with Public Opinion, is pretty sure, even
tually, to be "doubled up" Society is a
Briareus, and who but a madman, would
think of encountering hundred armed fell
lows with single pair of fists Better
shake the multitudinous hands of the giant
good naturedly, than unnecessarily provoke
him to wrath. Despise the world, if it SO
pleases you-though to do so is proof of
arrogance, conceit and egotism-but as you
have to live IN the world, to lean on the
world, and cannot get along without the
world, it is just as well to treat it civily-
Shrewd men, who understand their race,
never seek a quarrel with society They
ol.et PO5zroIv IvI al rIv,Is ~
ual to persuade, lead and quietly control
community, but not to fight it down. If
you desire to reform social evils, or to dis
abuse your fellowmen of their prejudices,
the surest way not 10 succeed is to resort to
denunciation and abuse. Kindness, coneil-
iation, the influence Of good example-these
are the true aud effective means and appli-
ances of reform. Provoke the world, set its
will IN arms against you, and you can never
carry your point, be it what it may. For
mankind has more power to resist, than any
unit of the mass has to insist. With what
mildness, with what patience, with what low
ing kindness Christianity was taught by its
Sacred Founder, and his knowledge of hu-
man nature was more profound and perfect
than that Of any mortal. The Evangelists
and the Apostles besoagh the world to hear
them: they did not attempt to JrOaobeat it.
"Almost thou persuadeSt me to be a Chris
tian, said Festus to Paul 1t would be
well if some Of our modern reformers had
the courtesy and wise consideration of that
great apostle. Whether your object be to
do good to the world, or to make the world
of service to your own interest, don't assault
it violently, for it is too strong and too OBJ
stinate to be carried by storm. Ishmel
tried that plan, and it did not answer. Thou
sands have tried it since, and been worsted
in the conflict.
Year: 1863

some Of which YOU kindly allude, induced me
especially to expect that if justice and good
faith should be pTactised by the United States.
they would encounter no hostile influence on
the part of Great Britain.


Il is now pleasant duty % acknowledge
the demonstration YOU have given Of your
desir" that spirit Of peace and amity tow
ard this country may prevail in the councils
Of your Queen, who is respected and esteem
ed IN your own country only more than she is
by the kindred nation which has its home
on thi. side Of the Atlantic.


know, and deeply deplore, the suferings
which the working men at Manchester, and
in all Europe, are called to endure in this
crisis 70 has been often and sJudi0usly ro-
presented that the attempt to overthrow this
government, which WAS built upon the foun-
dsti1n cf human rights, and to substitute for
il one that should rest exclusively on the bs-
sis of human slavery, was likely 10 obtain
the favor Of Europe. Through the action Of
our disloysl citizens, the working men Of Eu-
rope have been subjected % a severe trial, fog
the purpo-e Of forcing their sanction to that
attempt


Under these circumstances I cannot but
regard YOUR decisive utterances upon the
question as an instance Of sublime Christian
heroism which has not heen surpassed in aDJ
age or IN any country. Il Is indeed an ener-
getic and reinspiring assurance Of the inher-
ent power Of truth, and Of the ultimate and
universal triumph of justice, humanity and
freedom DO not doubt that the sentiments
you have expressed will be sustained by
your great nation and, on the other hand I
have no hesitation in assuring you they viii
excite admiration, esteem and the most recip-
rocal feelings Of friendship among the
American people. hail this interchange Of
sentiment, therefore, ss en- sugury that,
whatever misfortune may befall your coun-
try or nly own, the peace and friendship
which now exist between the two nations
will be,as i. shall he my desire to make them,
perpetual.
Year: 1863

4 yerY moderate run Of success to Gen.
Hooker in his new position will tend to
the creation Of widespread belief that
he has been one of the best abused men in
the army. Lees report has done much to
clear up the question Of how large share
OF the defensive campaign in Pennsyl-
Tania, which drove rebels back from Get
tysburg, is to be set down to Hooker.
The country will like ii in. him that he has
been anxious for something to do, and that
when the opening came he did not fall to
work to study the dates Of commissions
and measure the length Of shoulder
straps before accepting the call He is IN
earnest, whole souled fighting man, whose
whole heart is in the val, and # any one
persists in doing him intentional injustice
it will be discovered and righted by the
country,
Year: 1863

ONH Of the Iowa soldiers Of color recently
undertook to carry the "gal OBJ his heart"
across ditch, when his heel caught in his
coat tail and he fell with his burden into the
mud. 1t is said he turned pale, and left for
camp on the double quick, without offering
further assistance or word Of apology.
Year: 1863

A good deal Of dissatisfaction is expressed
all over the country at the delay there is in
paying the accounts of dead soldiers, and it
is hoped that the evil will be speedily RENE
died, .a.
Year: 1863

ANOTHER TUrTLE PLATroRM.-The princi
pal advocate of the election of Tuttle is the
Chicago Times. The Rebel State Committee
have recommended the circulation Of that
paper throughout the State to aid his election.
The following editorial extract from the Chi
cago Times gives the platform on which that
paper is working for him:


CHE WHO SUPPORTS THE WAR is
AGAINST THE UNION, because the war is
the most terrible engine for the destruction of
the Union which Belzebub himself could have
Invented. THE PROFESSED DEMOCRAT,
therefore, who has his senses about him and
is deliberately FOR THE WAR, is not Dem
ocrat in fact, but an Abolitionist of the most
radical, violent and destructive kind"
Year: 1863

REBEL TESTIMONY TO THE EFFECT OF THE
EMANCIPATION PRocLAMATIoN.-In a plain
letter to Gov. Seymour, Peter Cooper, of New
York, relates the following, as having BEEN
told him by Provost Marshal Dean, of St.
Lois. in support Of an assertion that I" the
proclamation of freedom has done more to
weaken the rebellion and prevent foreign re-
cognition than any other measure that could
have been adopted"


"On bis late visit to my house, he inform
ed me that he had brought on large number
of rebel officers and men to be exchanged at
Fortress Monroe During their passage lie
took the opportunity to ask the officers in a
body what eff ct the Presidents proclamation
Of freedom had produced in the South. Their
reply was to use their own vulgar mode of
expression) that "it had played hell with
them" Mr. Dean then asked them how that
could be possible, since the negroes cannot
read? To which one Of them repl ed that
one of his groes had told him Of the proc
lama ion five days b fore he heard it any
other way. Others said their negroes gave
them their first information of the proclana-
ton. One of these officers then said with a
defiant air that if we would only leave them
their corn, their bacon and their homespnn,
which their negr es produced, they would
fight US twenty years."
Year: 1863

money-the security to person and property
all depend upon the maintenance Of the Gov
ernment. If the rebellion succeeds our
paper money is worth nothing-the pensions
to widows and orphans are worth nothing
How foolish, then, with our all depending
upon the result Of the struggle, is it for any
one to embarrass the government by voting
for the party which is throwing difficulties in
the way Of the administration, and by this
means, as the traitor Maury says. giving
''aid and comfort to the South" The Cop
perhead leaders Of the North wish to get into
power in order to oppose the government
more effectually-in which they have the
earnest prayers Of the rebels-and yet there
are men considering themselves loyal who
are foolish enough to support the tory ticket.
1t is suicide-it is ma ness
Year: 1863

STATE RIGHTs AND THE UNIoN.-Mr. Peter
Co per, of New York, in letter addressed
to Governor Seymour, puts in very clear
and forcible light the great truth that the
saving of the Union is duty paramount to
that Of maintaining State rights. No State,
he argues, could have achieved or maintained
its independence without the aid Of the 9TH
ers nor could any single State now exist
separately from the Union, except feebly and
amid ever recurring wars, as do the Central
and South American republics. Therefore
State rights, properly so called, can only be
maintained within the Union. The Union is
necessary to their vitality; and the best way
of upholding any essential power Of the
States is by upholding the rightful authority
and vigor of the Union.
Year: 1863

SUSPENSION OF THE Wharf.-The sacred
writ of ha6sds corpus, welded by disloyal
men for disloyal purposes, remarks the Alba
ny Eoening JourndD, threatened to BATTLE
the efforts of the Government to strengthen
the army and so give the finishing blow to the
accursed rebellion. a bevy of briefless bar
risters in the city of New York had found a
plant judge ready. for consideration. no
doubt, to issue all the writs applied for upon
any sort Of evidence. The process had been
so thoroughly systematised that men could be
released by the writ faster than they could be
drafted and examined. And the same class
of lawyers in our own city had laid their
plans for an active business in the same d.
rection whenever the draft should commence
here


But the proclamation of the President has
nipped all these finely laid schemes in the
bud; and alll rebeldom and all copperhead
dom will howl out their indignation accor
dinghy.


But let them howl So howled the Feder-
alists against Gen. Jackson's suspension Of
the writ in 1914. But the loyal people re-
joiced and sent the discomftted conspirators
into a retiracy from which they never
emerged
Year: 1863




THE OATH Bound TRAIroRs.-The editor Of
the Montezuma Republican has come in pos
session of copy Of the cath administered to
members of the "Order of the Star" (the
same which was exposed in the affidavit Of
Mr.. Rogers, as published by us week or
two since) The following are two of the
most important sections of the oath:


"That you will not voluntarily take up
arms against brother of this organization,
North or South.


"That you will not tell, divulge or make
know to any man, woman or child out of this
order the proceedings, signs, grips, and pass
words of this order, so help you Cd, under
the penalty of DEATH"


jeff. Davis could not desire more faithful
servants than the men who are spreading
treason throughout the North by organizing
lodges of this order. If he can prevent the
people of the North from enlistng in the
army to fight their Southern BRETHREN" it
will be an easy matter for him to fix up mat
ters to suit himself. Every miscreant who is
thus bound by solemn oath not to fight
rebels and to resist the draft will vote for
Tuttle. Can patriots vote with them
Year: 1863

CoLoRED TRooPs.-According to state
ment In the New York Times, the numerical
strength of the colored regiments actually in
the field is somewhat over 10000 men-less
than has been generally supposed. This num-
ber does not include colored men who have
been regularly enlisted in the service and now
employed as teamsters and in various other
capacities by the Government. The number
so employed is about $4,000. The skeleton
regiments scattered through the country
principally in the Southwest) are being rap
idly recruited to their maximum standard,
and before the end Of the year it is estima-
ted that the Government will have 1000
negro soldiers in the field


1t is the opinion Of eminent military men
that colored regiments will form the basis of
our future armies, and that the Government
will have to rely mainly on colored troops to
finish up the rebellion.
Year: 1863

wish this war was ended,


And father was at home
Then mother would notcry so much
Oh! why don't father come home Z
I'm sure my mother loves me,


But why, cannot tell,
She makes no more new clothes for me,
Sews on clothes to sell.
asked her once aboutit,


But mother could not speak
She only pressed me to her breast,
While tears fellon my cheek
I'm sure there's something


Has happened, for I know
Ny mother did not do this way


About twelve months ago.
] am too young to reason much,


But think it very strange.
That just because dear fathers gone
That everything should change.
For since he went away, the man


That used to bring us bread
Has ceased to come this way
I'm thinking he is dead.
see the milkman still goes by.
Butwhy, cannot tell,
He will not stop at our house,


Nor even ring his bell,
The butcher, too, that used to be
So kind, polite aud clean,
Will not bring me one bit of meat
think he is right mean,
/ told ma to change them all.
Andtry some other men
She sighed, and then came down her cheel
Big tears, like drops of rain,
Ma used to have nice furniture,
But why, cannot say,
She let man whohaI car
Haul nearly all away.
Iwish this war was ended,


And father was at home
Then ma, Tn sure would smile again
Oh when will father come
Year: 1863

Our friend Mercer, Of the Nashville
Union, certainly does moi entertain a
high appreciation Of the rebel prisoners
thai have been sent into that city recent
ly from General Rosecrans victorious ar.
my judging from the following para,
graphs.


If tho rebel prisoners who have been
brought in here recently are fare sam
pie Of the rebel forces, the Southern
Confoderacy will hardly hold its own;
but !, will certainly mako cleanly peo.
plo hold their noses.


If tho Pythagorean Of doctrine Of the
transmigration of souls be true, how Da.
tural would be the transmigratiOn Of
the spirit Of a "Buttcrnul" into the body
Of skunk


The rebel soldiers do net look like
landowners, generally. All the dirt
they own could probably bo removed in
n short time by a brisk application Of
soap and hot water,
Year: 1863

ave coDversed for few moments the
other day with young North CarOlinian
who has recently escaped from his State
He is now Lieutenant in the Union army
He informed US that his county was nearly
unanimous for the restoration Of the Union
The brave old North State will soon be al
right"
Year: 1863




We learn from citizen of Orange, that a most
destructive hailstorm passed over the lower part of
that county, and the upper part of Granville Sa
turday evening last; and from citizens of Wake
that hailstorm passed oyer portion of this coun-
Y west of Raleigh, and east of Raleigh on Buf-
faloe creek on Saturday night last The storm
swept from the residence of Harrison Parker Esq,
in the neighborhoOd of Red Mountain, over large
tract of country, beating the wheat oats and corn
into the earth; and in Wake, from the Chatham
line by Green Level to Salem meeting house, about
one mile and ahalf in width, destroying oats, corn
and wheat and almost stripping the trees of their
foliage. Such storm, and such destruction Of
crops had net been witnessed for years. A portion
of the wheat was in shock, and this, we learn,
literally beaten to pieces while in the fields but few
heads were left standing. The corn be replant-
ed, and fair crop may yet be made, but the wheat
and oat crop is a total loss.
Year: 1863

We trust every Conservative in Wake County
will bear in mind tina. an election will be held on
Friday next the 26th instant, for a member of the
House of Commons in place of Gen. Fowle, and go
to the polls and vote for Calvin j. Rogers, ESQ.,
Kemp P Battle, Esq, who had been urged by nu-
merous friends to allow his name to be used, is not
a candidate, but has declined in favor of Mr. Rogers
aud the latter is therefore, the only Conservative
candidate in the field We knOU Mr.. Rogers to be
a true Conservative We knoo his views to be cor
rect in the present condition of the country and
can confidently say to the Conservatives that they
will not be disappointed in him. if they should elect
him, feel sure they will. Mr. Rogers is a
gentleman of excellent practical sense a farmer,
and thoroughly identified in interest and feeling
with the people of the County.


We have not heard of any Destructive candidate
being in the field, but we advise our friends to be
the alert against Destructive tricks. The leaders
in Raleigh will most probably "send sOord" to the
people of the County, and some Destructive will be
voted for. full turn out is only necessary to
defeat their efforts, and to elect Mr.. Rogers by
triumphant majority