smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

we pa5iish to day a brief communication from 4
citizen Of Granville, on the subject Of planting
cotton and tobacco. The statements Of this citizen
arc entitled to the SullestGrcdt He says that the
planters of Granville are preparing to put in full
crop Of tobacco and that in his opinion the earnest
appeal to them by Gov. Vance will haze no effect
This is sad intelligence.


Our correspondent urges the Governor to con-
vene the Legislature at once in order that steps
may be taken to prevent the planting Of cotton and
tobacco But would penal statutes be Of any avail
Perhaps they would; but if public opinion, the
Cause ITSELF and the prospect before us of great suf
erng for the want Of food cannot restrain the wor
shippers Of Mammon, would the law restrain them
Every person who in this crisis plants cotton or
tobacco for prcft, may be justly set down as op-
posed to the Confederate cause. This being true,
and generally admitted, has it come to this, that
penal statutes necessary to prevent portions Of
our own people from doing that which will benefit
the enensy end destroy our cause? If so, well may
the most sanguine patriot indulge gloomy fore
bodngs No people were ever overrun and con-
quered who were true to themselves; and if our
cause should be lost, and the federal Union should
be reconstructed, these results will be directly
traceable to the msinanagement Of our affairs, and
to the spirit of speculation, extorton and avarice
which appears 10 control 50 many of our people.


We concur with our friend of the Pro4>ess that


"Coercive legislation will never make people
patriotic; and if supply Of provisions for the next
year is to depend upon legislative enactments con.
cernlng the culture of cotton and tobacco our con.
ditOn is pittlabe indeed Reljpious md temnerance
fanatics have attempted to iegislate mankind into
their creeds, but force never makes man pious or
temperate. Our Legislature passed law to prevent
the dstillation Of grain INTO whisky but it is a
dead letter on the statute book for it is well known
that grain is being distilled in various sections Of
the State, and we not aware that any effort is
even being made to suppress it."
Year: 1863

TRY AGAIN And we have tried
hard, and have been anxious to get out
a full sheet of the Chronicle this week,
but we cannoe come it, the confusion Of
moving and fixing in our new Office has
thrown us back some, but next week
next week without fail, the Chroaicle
viii appear in its full size. And by the
by, we thank the authorities of the town
of Dodgeyille for the privilege granted
us 10 accommodations for our press, dc.
&C., in the Town Hall, and now we are
fairly installed, and fairly at work to do
the best we can in the printing line,
good and cheap, for all who may favor
US with q job.
Year: 1863




With good deal better understand
ing, good deal better feeling and a
good deal more hope the DocGEvILLE
CHRONICLE once more comes before the
people, Its publishers had we'll nigh
come to the conclusion to abandon the
enterprise of publishing paper and
closing the printing office from no other
cause under the sun than that of want
of means to carry it on, the expense for
, some time past being more than the in
come and consequently the concern was
running the publishers in debt (of all
things on this earth, save us from being
in debt without the means to pay.)
And moreover the publishers of the
CHRONICLE had made up their minds
from the little interest the people Of
Dodgeville took in the paper and the
little encouragement and support the
business men of the place gave to it
that it was matter of perfect indcffer
ence to them whether paper is pub
lished in the place or not, 1t seems
however that this was a misunderstood
ing on the part Of the publishers Of the
CHRONICLE. The people, or at least
good many Of them, have met and have
expressed their views, and an under
change Of thought have taken place be
tween the publishers and the people,
better understanding is obtained, and
now that we have come, as it were, nearer
together and understand one another
better. The CHRONICLE is to continue,
and the hope is that the Dodgeville peo-
pie and the Dodgeyille printers will
work in harmony together for their
mutual good. We have good deal Of
faith in men when, without passion or
excitement. they can come together and
understand one another and twill be no
worse for the people or the paper that
there has been coming together in this
way among us here so as to know one
another better. A great many misun-
derstandings may be cleared up by
calm talking.


The people want neutrrl paper IN
Politics and a neutral paper IA Politics
they shall have so long as the present
editor conducts this paper, and it is
managed under the circumstances.
This, in fact, is most in harmony with
the editors own views, and if in any
thing he has said heretofore, he has
offended any man he is sorry for it.
There are many things that may be
written even for a newspaper that may
be Of as much use to mankind and as
we'll adapted for the Improvement of a
neighborhood as to enter into wild
battlement in one sided politics. Let
men think and act out their thinkings
honestly in politics as we'll as other
things. We have no intention of set
ting man against man, and party against
party on political questions in Dodge
vile or elsewhere These questions of
party we will leave to the people them
selves to manage while we shall at all
times sincerely aim at conducting OF
a paper that may be of real use to all,
and strenously stick to our motto NEU-
TRAL IN PoMTIcs :-FAIRPLAY TO
ALL. And now we thu owithe CHRONICLE
once more before the people with the
distinct understanding and trust to the
people in town and county to be sup-s
ported, any how, so as to keep out of
debt while running the machine a
economical as possible.
Year: 1863

DsgSome one has beautifully said.
"Ihe Water that flows from a spring
does not CONCEAL in winter, and those
sentiments Of friendship which flow from
the heart cannot be frozen in adversely"
Year: 1863

New York, Jan. 1.-THE Washing
ton specials state that the House yester-
day refused to lay on the table the bill
providing for the enlargement of the
Michigan and Illinois canals and wide
ming of the Erie canal, by vote of SO
against 43.


The passage of the bill would seem
certain.
Year: 1863

There is very large party in the North who
are not fighting for the Union aad the Coustitu.
tion, but for the destrution of Slavery. Their
platform is the Union, if they can have it with
out Slavery, but no Union with Slavery. They
are conditional Unionists of the worst sort.


Frankfort Commonwealth.


The Commonwealth is greatly mistaken as to
the magnitude of the party in the North who
prefer disunion, to the Union with Slavery
There are men, doubtless, in the North who are
conditional Unionists of this class, but they are
a mere handful, as compared with the whole peo.
Pile; they are not dangerous either, and have
never threatened to take up arms against the
Government. The masses of the Union people
of the North are for the Union, Internationally.
These desire that the Government shall use all
the means within its reach for the overthrow of
the rebellion they are in favor of taking all the
property of The rebels, not excepting the negroes
which is sustaining the rebellion, and turning it
against the enemies of the nation. The rebels
commenced the war; they are carrying it on for
the destruction of the Government; they are
sustained in their REASONABLE efforts by their
system Of slave labor. This is undeniable. Now,
is it not as much the duty of the Government to
destroy the means by which the rebel armies are
sustained, as 1t is to meet and destroy the enemy
IN the field? Is it not as clearly the duty of the
y government to take the labor that produces the
lood upon which the rebels subsist, as to take
the food that is produced, when found in q con-
luered territory? What would the Common
wealth think OF the army that would turn over
ammunition, provisions and horses to the rebels
" LAT should 1t think of the army that would se>
Year: 1863

shall mSA with honorable dealing. How
ever seau ana petty the other Powers Of Eu-
rope may p<cvs In their intercourse with
us, the great eNPhs will be the ally and
frisad Of the great yepVbuc end xhsn, in
time to come the ruling ssspxefs shall bs Rusria
and the United States. 1t WI be . source or
pleasure and qualification to fscall to mind
that In our hour Of need we found the
Russian government friendly and anxious to
serve our best interests. When the meanness
aud malignity OF France and England shall
have passed from our memory, there will still
remain feeling offriendship for Russia, who
not only sbstained from attack or insult in our
time of trouble, but took the occasion to evince
her friendly desire for the cessation Of our diff


Rculties and the renewal Of our great prosperity
and influence.
Year: 1863

MISSIONARY RIpGs, ria Caiclamanqo.
October Slight rain fell here during
last night and this forenoon.


The enemy threw another pontpon
,cross the river last night: and have been
at work on new one To dav. The Ten.
nessee is still rising. The enemy is
erecting platforms for siege guns on the
star fort, and are engaged in strengthen
ing all their other works. We have been
Smelling them slowly all aay.
Year: 1863

and its attendant train Of symptoms, il like
charm than a medicine There is nothing in the whole
range of the Naieria Meica that for moment bear
a comparison with il in this disease.


full account Il this wonderful plant may be found In
the eleventh edition Of the L. s. DspensatOry 1887
and 1888.


for engaged has just been brought to successful
termination and n is enabled offer to the public


combination of Cedron with other improved toncs. the
whole preserved in the best quality OF copperdstilled
Bourbon whisky, which he is confident has equal in
the world.


He mil ht furnish volume of certificates but the pub
lie have long since learned to estimate such things
herrue value The safest plan is for every to test
for himself the virtues Of a new medicine. Give the
Year: 1863

MO MANS NAME Is MORE INTIMATELY CON-


neced with the history Of the hatera Nedica Of the
United States favorably known pioneer In
medical discovery, than that Of JOHN BULL Of Louis
vile Ky. His inimable preparation Of Sarsaparia has
long stood the head of the various compounds Of that
valuable drug. His compound Pectoral Of Wild Cherry
has become a household word throughout the West and
South and his Worm Lozenges IN less than year after
their introduction attained reputation widespread
the continent Of North America But the crowning
glory his life be attained in his latest dis
covery rather combination, for he does not claim to
been discoverer of CEDRON which is the basis
Of the tters offered to the public That honor be-
longs to the native inhabitants oi Central America TO
whom i's virtues have been known for than two
hundred years Armed with IT, the Indian bids defiance
the deadly malaria and handles without fear the
most venom0us serpents Ii is belief with them that
while there breath left in the body the Cedron is potent
to cure, n matter what the disease may be.


While Dr. Bull is not prepared to ndorse this extraya
giant pretenon he T. nevertheless satisfied from thor
of the evidence relating to its virtues
that remedy and preventive for all diseases arising


from exposure either to changes Of weather and climate
the miasmatic influences il stands without rival
and justly deserves the reputation has long enjoyed
Central America and the West Indies. In
Year: 1863

DEsERTER KILLED.-The escape of the
deserters from Camp Mcclellan on the I'd
inst, has necessitated increased vigilance
and faithfulness from the guard, whose
duty it is to watch the enclosure in which
the guard house Is situated. On the morn
ing of the 2lst inst, the officer of the guard
discovered that board had been removed
from the roof of the guard house, and
thereupon he instructed the sentry to
watch the aperture closely, and shoot any
one attempting to escape. Shortly after
this c. Van Sicken, member OF Co. /, s7th
New York Volunteers, was shot in the act
of getting out of the opening, and fell down
inside mortally wounded. He fingered
until the afternoon of the I'D, when death
ended his sufferings. The deceased deser-
ted from his regiment in Virginia nearly
wear ago. An investigation OF the affair
shows that the officer of the guard, Ser
geant j. w. Deemer, strictly performed


bis duty in the sad affair." Davenport 39z
Year: 1863

In reply to tho article in yesterdays
Chicago Post. in relation to the share Of
the Irish Catholics in tho recent riots in
New York, We have only to reaflrm what
we hare before said--that the mob was an
Irish Catholic mob, and nothing else. On
tlis point The direct testimony is conelu-
siye; it cannot be questioned And we
tcll the Post again that, while we do not
make this fact q ground Of accusation
against ali 1rishmen and ill Catholics, it
is important to proper understanding Of
the relations of parties and nationaities
in this great struggle against rebellion,
that The truth should be known. We have
stated it. II the Post is suited to say that,
in making the statement, We have held
the Church responsible Tor the disorder
and bloodshed that disgraced that city,
TINT is its business, not OUTS. We know
nothing Of the grounds upon which it pro-
SEaf1S
Year: 1863




-~. a4,orr, employ their influence and
exegtions in helping the British aristocracy
to break down the best and feest Govern
ment on the earth, and to reduce to the
rank Of a third class nation the only power
able and willing to crush the ambition or
humble the pride of the British olisarchy.
The conduct Of the Irish toward this ben.
ehcent country in the hour Of it's direst per-
il is not only ungrateful and wicked but
absolutely suicidal to the Irish if they sue
coed in oycrthrowing it,
Year: 1863

DEPRECIATION OF GoLD.-Every year
witnesses recurrence in England of the
fear that men of fixed money income are
to be seriously troubled by depreciation
in the value of gold through h its over pro-
duction. The Cassandra cry this year
comes from Mr.. Henry Fawcett, who, in
a paper read lately. before the British As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
makes the calculation that if the present
Weld from Australia and California con-
tinues during the next ten years, f2OO,-
100000 of gold will have to be absorbed.
After making the most ample allowances
for the additional gold which would be
required in consequence of the increase In
wealth and population, he thinks that
during the next ten years not more than
100000, 600 of gold can be absorbed by
Europe without depreciation inits value.
The moral of the statement is that this de-
probation will fall with particular severity
on persons of fixed incomes, and that it is
sufficiently probable to induce every pru-
dent man to take every precaution to OBJ
viate its consequences.


We must say, however, that in our own
country the danger to men of fixed in
comes as well as to all other classes, is far
less from the depreciation Of gold than
from that Of greenbacks,-LouisuiHe Joar-
nal.
Year: 1863




NEWSPAPERS IN THE ARMY.-The exclusion of
the New York newspapers from the Army of
the Potomac is one of the most transparent of
all the blunders Of our military authorities in
that quarter. To our intelligent, reading and
thinking soldiers their newspaper are almost as
much Of q necessity as their morning rations.
1t is great comfort to them TO read from day
to day all that is going on at home, and the
latest news from all our armies, including the
news Of their own achievements The news
paper thus brings all our armies and soldiers
together, and serves TO consolidate them in their
common cause Of the Union. It is therefore
not only exceedingly foolish, but positively
cruel, to deny the soldier his newspaper. The
addition to or subtraction from our circulation
Of a few hundred or few thousand papers Is a
matter of no Importance to the NEw YoRK
HERALD; but we do regard II as a matter Of suf-
fcient Importance where our faithful soldiers
are concerned to call for the special attention
Of President Lincoln to the subject. We hope,
accordingly, that be will, by some general or
der, secure TO the soldiers OF our various armies
the privilege of their newspapers against the
silly caprices Of laundering generals.
Year: 1863

IRIsH GRANTs.-I TOUCHING SCENES
The warm heartedpess of the Irish people is
touchingy illustrated at times, especially on
the arrival of immigrant ships from across the
Atlantic The Philadelphia Gazette, noticing
the arrival at that port on Tuesday of the
ship Tonawanda; from Liverpool, with AL
passengers, principally Irish immigrants, notes
the following affecting scenes:


Upon the dock there must have been sever
al hundred people, friends and relatives of
those now for the first time touching Ameri-
can soil To describe what followed passes
our power. In the crowd we're servant girls
by the dozen, who, by their scanty earnings.
had saved the money by which was paid the
passage of no inconsiderable number of those
who now descended from the deck of the Ton
awanda to the dust of Walnut street dock
Among those whom we saw in the crowd was
a deaf and dumb man. He had come to meet
a widowed sister with several children. When
he saw the woman coming over the ships side
with her children, he made rush at her,
took her in his arms, mumbed inarticulate
sounds, and then gave expression to bis feelings
by laying on his back aud kicking upwards
in very joy. He sprang up in moment or
two and went to the children. The youngest


one he stood on its head against wharf pos
and was about 10 toss another into the air, in
the exuberance of his joy, when an officer re-
stored him to his wits by tearing off part OF
his coat collar.


There was girl there who had brought out
from Tipperary az old mother, AT the joy OF
seeing her the daughter tainted, and was kind
ly carried to the Ridgway House for restora-
tiou Excessive Joy affected her as the oppo-
site extreme-excessive grief Her transport
had almost proved to be productive of serious
consequences.


People who dishonor the fourth command
ment should witness the landing from an emf
grant ship Of "A coneourse Of the Irish peasan-
try. Ii they knew the manner in which most
of the passages are paid-by the slowly accu-
mulated savings of laborers, male and female
they would perhaps learn lesson not always
to be learned in the higher walks of life.
Year: 1863

The New York Observer thus forcibly re-
plies to the urgent appeal of the London Peace
Society that we make peace:


Now, will the London Peace Society tell
US horo to make peace? We had peace, and
loved it, and suffered for it-submitting for
years and years TO the dictation of those who
are now fighting US. We yielded to them for
fifty wears, and would have yielded to them
probably fifty more, if they had not battered
down our forts, plundered our garrisons,
threatened our Capital, and reared rebel
Government among our own citizens.


"Now we want peace. and how shall we get
it? Shall we give up the principle for which
we are couteudiug? II has cost us already the
lives of hundred thousand men and more
treasure than we can count. Shall we ac-
knowledge the right of any faction of our peo-
pie to dsmember the nation at their pleasure?
Shall we abandon our national existence alto
gether, and sink iuto the condition of con.
stitutional mobpcracy, liable to be dissolved at
breath of popular discomfort? This we do
if we consent 10 secession. What would the
London Peace Society advise if the Scotch
people should throw off allegiance to the Brit
ish Grown? If England should march her
armies north, would the London Peace Society
interpose and beg her TO make peace? Did
the Society ask its own Government to let the
East Indians alone when they asserted their
independence?


I'VE do want peace. We are perishing by
thousands in this horrid war. 1t is a shame, a
! burning shame, that such war as this should
/ be, in the nineteenth century, in the midst OF
the full blaze of the Gospel and the light Of
the highest civilization. But 1t is not our
fault, and we cannot stop it. If the London
Peace Society would address tselG to their
own neighbors, the merchants and manufac-
turers of England who are sending out arms
and stores to aid the rebellion; If the Peace
Society would address the Government and
people of England, who have fostered the re-
belliou and given it all their moral support;
if the Society would send its appeal TO our
Southern people, who have committed ;he
/ highest crime known on earth, in disturbing
good government and bringing on us and them
the awful mseries of useless, wicked, vast
ing war, then the Society might do some
good" .
Year: 1863

II thou. Wouldst make progress, keep thy
self in the fear Of God, and be not too free /:
curb all thy senses under discipline, and give
not thyself up to mirth. Give thyself to CON-
junction Of heart, and thou shalt find devo-
tiOn. Compuncfion opens the way to much
good, which dissipation is won't quickly to
lose. Ills wonderful that any man can ever
abandon himself wholly to joy in this life,
when he c0nsidereth and weigheth his exile
and the many dangers Of his soul. Through
levity Of heart and neglect Of our defects we
feel not the sorrow Of the soul and We often
vainly laugh, when. in all reason, we should
weep. There Is 20 true liberty or profitable
joy but 10 the fear Of God, with good con-
science. Happy is the man that can cast
away all the hindrance Of distraction, and


recollect himself in unity of holy com
punctiOn. Happy the man who casteth away
from him whatever may stain or burden his
conscience. Strive manfully; habit is over
come by habit. If thou canst let men alone,
they will let thee alone to do whatever thou
hast TO do. Busy not thyself in matters ap-
pertaining to Others and entangIe not thy
self in the affairs of the great. Have always
an eye upon thyseIf in the first place, and ad-
monish thyself preferably TO all thy dearest
friends. If thou hast not the favor of men,
be not afflicted; but let il seriously concern
thee, that thou dost not carry thyself so well
and circumspectly as servant of God and
devOut religious man ought to do. 0ftentimes
it is better and safer for man not to have
many consultations in this life, especially such
as are according to the flesh. Still that we
have not divine comfort is our own fault, be-
cause we seek not compunction of heart, and
not wholly renounce vain and outward salts
faction. Know that thou art unworthy of
heavenly consolation, but rather deserveth
much tribulation. When a man hath per-
feet compunction, then the whole world
is to him burdensome and distasteful. A good
man 6Bdeth abundant matter for sorrow and
tears, for whether he considereth himself, or
thinkest of his neighbor, be knoveth that no
man hveth here below without tribulatious.-
And the more strictly he doth consider himself
the greater is bis sorrow. The subjects of
just sorrow and interior conjunction are our
sins and vices, in which we are so enwrapt
that we are seldom able to fix our mind on
heavenly things. Didst thou think oftener of
thy death than Of long life, no doubt bat
thou Wouldst be more in earnest for thy amend
ment. Didst thou also well ponder in thy
heart the future pains of hell Tor purgatory)
as Roman Catholics believe in, methinks thou
wOuldst bear willingly labor and sorrow, and
fear no kind of austerity. But because these
things reach not the heart, and we still love
hattering pleasure, therefore we~remain cold
and very sIothful Oftentimes it is our want
Of spirit that maketh the wretched body com
plain for so slight cause. Pray, therefore,
humbly to the Lord to give unto thee the spir-
it of cOmpunetiou, and say with the Prophet,
"Feed me, D Lord, with the food of tears, and
give me to drink of tears in measure Amen


DELAwARE, o., 1868. UNAS.