smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

GIVE regret to learn that Rev. Mr.. Steb-
bins was so unwell that he was unable to see
his friends last evening. 1t is probable that
he will not be able to leave for New York this
week.
Year: 1864

We understand that the efficient and
untiring services of the gallant partisan
Mosby, have been complimented by
promotion; so that he is to be known
hereafter not as Major but as Lieut..
Colonel Mosby.
Year: 1864

FRoxEx TO DEArn.-A member OF
The Invalid Corps vas found dead near the
ou.-posts Of Camp JEFF re vie. yesterday morn,
ing. He had been TO town aud had taken on
90 much whisky that he was unable to navi-
gate with certainty, but succeeded in nearly
reaching the Camp. when the fumes Of the
liquor overcams him and he fell and never re-
gained bis feat again. Hs was found frozen
stark dead 10 the morning. Our informant.
who was at the Camp at the time, did not
learn bis name or the company to which be
belonged.
Year: 1864

t~We see it stated that all correspon-
deuce from the army Of the Potomac i
ordered to be discontinued for period Oi
sixty days. This is thought By the


commander to be necessary TO prevent our
movements being communicated to the
enemy. In consequence Of this, DO new
need be expected from this army until a


battle is fought.
Year: 1864

If you fud yourself inclined to wake up
at regular hour in The night and remain
awake, you can break up the habit 10 three
days by getting up as soon as you wake,
and not going to sleep again until your
usual hour for retiring.
Year: 1864

.lrroh the Detroit hovernserl


We have just been put in possession of
the facts of sad case OF monomana, which
had sad case of termination. A young
lady residing in Brooklyn, New York, about
l9 years of age, about year since became
inspired with the idea that she was second
and modern Joan Of Arc, called by Provi-
dence to lead our armies to certain victory
in this contest. The hallueination was q
strong one, and change of scene being sug-
gested by her physician, she was brought to
Ann Arbor, in this State. Her mania, how
ever, increased until it was found necessary
to confne her to her apartment. She, how.
ever, succeeded in making her escape, came
to this city and joined the drum corps of a
Michigan regiment, her sex only known to
herself, and succeeded in getting with her
regiment to the Army Of the Cumberland
How the poor girl survived the hardsbips of
the Kentucky campaign, where strong men
fell in numbers, must forever remain mys-
terry.


The regiment to which she was attached
had place in the division of the gallant
Van Cleve, and during the bloody battle of
Lookout Mountain, the fair girl fell, pierced
in the left side by Mimic ball, and when
borne to the surgeons tent her sex was dis
covered. She was told by the surgeon that
her wound was mortal, and he advised her
to give her name that her family might be
Informed OF her fate. This she finally,
though reluctantly, consented to do, and the
Colonel of the regiment, although suffering
himself from painful wound, became in
terested in her behalf and prevailed upor
her to let him send dispatch to her father
This she dictated in the following manner
Mr.. -, No. -, Willoughby street
Brooklyn:


Forgive your dying daughter. 1 have but
a few moments to live. My native sol
drinks my blood. l expected to deliver my
country, but the fates would not have it so.
am content to die. Pray, Pa, forgive me.
Tell Ma to kiss my daguerreotyPe;
EMILY.


P. S.-Give my gold watch to little Eph.
THE youngest brother of the dying girl)


The poor girl was buried on the field on
which she fell in the service of her country,
which she fondly hoped to save.
Year: 1864

fighting the only fit occupation for him,
while the inferior race does the work. What
q charming set Of neighbors these would be,
with two Governments established on this
theory. / have not known OF anybody who
would suggest the way Of dividing the Mis-
sissippi, and what time we should have
with Custom Houses and passport system,
with such neighbors having no other bust
ness but to fight us, who desire to pursue
the peaceful avocations Of private life. But
we have taken Vicksburg; we have taken
New Orleans; we have taken the Missis-
sippi River, and before the 4th Of July next
we will have taken Mobile and Atlanta
[cheersl, and see from their paper they
admit eleven surrenders, which they say are
the most disgraceful of history. But there
is one fact which should not be forgotten.-
Right or wrong, the North has relied upon
itself in this struggle. 1t did not ask the
aid of any foreign Power; but the South,
which claimed all the chivalry, basely, at
the moment of the outbreak, bended the
plant hinges of the knee, and lowly and
obsequiously sought that Louis Napoleon
and Great Britain would come over to help
them. Laughter And before the war
had continued long, it was conclusively dem
onstrated that each section of the American
people was superior to the authority OF Eng
land in the fight. 1 beg of you, on the
bended knees of my soul, as LONG as you
think the American name worthy Of any
regard, to consider whether the position
which | have assigned to the North does
not give it deserved eminence. Standing
by itself in majesty, disdaining any aid from
that power of England, which has nothing
better to do to-day than to murder New
Zealanders and Japanese, and leave Den
mark out in the cold, though related to it
by blood and marriage. But l look to you,
who will enlist under my friend, Gen. Han
cock, one day to avenge the insult which
the nations of the old world have attempted
to put upon us, and though it may not be
true that the Cossack shall let the velvet
snout of his horse rest upon the waters of
the Thames in England, yet | hope to Ged
that the banner which see before me may
be carried by our posterity from people
ranging from the Aristook to the Pacific,
and may teach the whole world that as we
were peaceful in our prosperity, we were
fearful in the hourof our revenge. Cheers
Year: 1864

Be simple, unaffected, he honest in your
speaking and writing. Never use long


word where a short one will do. Call a


spade, not a well known oblong instrument
of manual industry let home be home, nc t


a residence place a place, not a locality {:
and so of the rest. Where a short word


will do, you all ways lose by using long
one You lose in clearness, you lose in hon
est expression of your meaning and, in the


estimation of all men who are competent to
Judge, you lose in reputation for ability


The only true way to shine, even in this


ia Sc world, is to be modest and assuming


Falsehood may be very thick crust, but in


the course of time, truth will find place to


break through, Elegance of language may


not be in the power OF all Of US, but simple
ity aud straigntforwar1ncss are.


Write much as you would speak: speak


as yop think, If with your interiors, speak
no courser than usual; if with your superb


ors, speak no finer. But what you say, and,
| within the rules Of prudence. say what you
are. Avoid all oddty Of expression. No one
| ever was a gamer by singuarity of words, or
| in pronunciation. The truly wise man will
| so speak that no one win observe how he
speaks. A man may show great knowledge
| of chemistry by carrying about bladders OF
| strange gases TO Dreatht, out ne VIII enjoy
| better health, and 6ud more time for busi-


ness, who lives on the common air. When
| hear person use a queer expression, or


providence a name in reading differently
| from his neighbor, the habit always goes


down, minus sign before it stands ON the
side of deficit, not Of credit. Avoid, like
wise, all slang words. There is no greater
| nuisance in society than talker of slang.
TT is only fit (when inocent. which it seldom
| is) for raw school boys and one term fresh
. men to astonish their sisters with. Talk as


sensible men talk use the easiest words in
| their comm0nest meaning. Let the sense


conveyed not the vehicle in which it is con-


veyed be your subject Of atten ton.


| Once more, avoid in conversation all sim
| gularty of accuracy. One Of the bores OF
| society is the talker who is always setting
you right who, when you report from the
| paper thet 10, 600 men fell ia some battle,


tells you that it was 9,999, who, when you
| describe your walk as two nAes outand back
| assures you that it lacked half furlong Of it.
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy Of
detail. but in conveying a right impression
and there are vague ways of speaking that
are truer than stlict fact would be-


When the Psalmist said, Rivers of waters


run down mine eyes, because man keep not
thy law" he did not state the fact, but he


stated truth deeper than fact and also truer
-Deon Aiford. sss s
Year: 1864

e When the news was received here
that Chambersburg had been burned by the
rebels, some of the abolition jacobins openly
expressed their delight declaring that it was
just what they wanted to hear OF, as the
"copperheads" had suffered heavily 10 the
loss of property and it would operate to ex
asperate the people of the North. Such dew
lish malignity turks only in the hearts Of
fiends Shame Shame i-Bedford Gazette
Year: 1864

E A lady at Brussels is known to be
so extremely humane that she will not allow
even her carpets to be beaten, ard was fright
fully shocked on hearing boy, who was re
lating story about donkey, tell his com
panion to cut his tail short and she actually
tainted away when relative said he had
been killing time.
Year: 1864

One of the female school teachers in
New York was complained Of last week
for punishing pupil by Wiping his ton
que with q wet towel, on which little
CASTLE soap had been rubbed. Her pay
was suspended for two weeks.
Year: 1864

ihE owner of e boat on the Niagara river
ued up his vessel along shore with a hav rome
A blii belonging to his neighbor. jumped
ABOARD the boat. and proceeded to satisfy his
appetite from the hay. Eating off the rope.
Dull and boat went adrift. Being captain
and all hands. and very poor sailor at that,
he was unable to manage the luhberly craft.
and away they went pelI NELL. down the rap
Ids and over the falls. The owner of the
bull brings suit against the owner OF the boat
Tor carrying off his BULL and the owner ofthe
boat against the oKner of the bull for carry
ing of his boat. =;
Year: 1864

YoTISG ~ CAHP-The Rochester Dem0eraf
in discussing the question OF voting in camp, OF
by proxy, has the following:


We have seen an election carried on in the
army OF tile Potomac. regiment OF OhiC
cavalry cast their solid vote against Vallsndg
ham. voting while in the saddle, and facing ID,
enemy on the morning of day of almost inces
sant battle And that act of the Oh soldiery
citizens ia LOYAL blue-standng in line across
the road al Brandy Station, each right hanc
eraspins he ready sabre, which in al hour vai
to hew the rebels in front, and the left deposit
ing the ballot which was to rout the Copper
heads in the rear; it was one Of the most sub
lime and significant spectacles We have eve
witnessed, and how truly American
Year: 1864

official testimony is very vOluminous. and
in the course Of ten or twelve days will
he laid before the public. We are in
debted for our statement to the kindness
Of Colonel CraddOck, who was present, and
assisted the commission in its iabors. The
facts speak plainly enough for themselves.
No words of comment is needed from GO.
Year: 1864

A LITTLE girl, after returning from
church where she saw q collection taken
up for the first time, related what took
place, and among other things, she said,
with all her childish innocence, '"That a
man passed round a plate that had some
money on it, but didn't take any,"
Year: 1864

The Chicago Convention was perhaps the
largest National Convention that ever Assem-
bled. 1t contained all the delegates, all the
alternates, large portion of the managing
politicians outside OF these, large representa-
ton from the secret societies, and some thous-
auds of hired rOughs and claquers from New
York city. And all were united and harmo-
nious iu one purpose-to cheat the people.


There was not a sentiment declared in that
Convention in favor of preserving the Union
by putting down the rebellion. All the bitter
ness of the Convention was for the Govern
ment; all its sympathy was for the rebels
The most malignant and notorious traitors of
The North have not exceeded the spirit Of that
Convention. Yet it confessed that the popu-
lar heart was so sound in loyalty that the
Democratic party had no chance of success
without nominating candidate who could be
represented as in favor Of maintaining the
Union, and putting down the war of rebellion
by military power.


The spirit of the Convention was undis-
guisedly for the Conlederacy. Not a single
expression OF hostility to secession was made,
nor of any determination to preserve the
Union by force, in case all attempts at nego-
Jl9JlOn or compromise idlleO. Inc SO-C0lleu
peace men had entire possession OF the Con-
vention Not asingle war Democrat lifted up
his voice for the Union at oil hazards. Yet
they all agreed that it was necessary to de-
ceive the people by the semblance of war
candidate, aud they all united in this fraud.


We accept their estimate of the loyalty of
the American people, and we recognize this
virtual confession OF the men who assume TO
be leaders OF the Democratic Party, that their
treacherous peace sentiments are not the SEN
timents of the mass OF the party. But we
question if they have not deceived themselves
by supposng that the people can be captured
by So palpable cheat. The Democratic Con-
vention ventured its whole chance of success
on IA low estimate of the popular intelligence.
Its whole labor was to tqbrcate a trick TO
swindle the people. We doubt ir it is sure
reliunce. We read in the Scriptures: In
vain Is the net spread in sight of the bird."-
Tbis trick was spread in sight of the whole
people, and they are old Birds [Cincinnati
Gazette.
Year: 1864

The Hamilton (Ohio) Telegraph says that
many of the Copperhesds of Butler county
who had been positive in the assertion that
the Government would not dare to enforce
the dreft are now procuring substitutes, and
that there will be no resistance to the draft in
that county.
Year: 1864

An old farmer in Norwich township, Frank
lin county, raised the present season, on less
than nine acres of ground no less than five
hundred and sixty,fve bushels of oats. A
pretty good yield, and which, at present prices,
will net the farmer Il very handsome sum on
the amount invested. This yield does not look
like failure of the oat crop.
Year: 1864

ed, or even if you hope TO be engaged,
don't hirt. A systematic may succeed in
showing her power by rendering her lover
jealous unhappy for time, but she sure to
end by disgusting andalienating him. The
best way to fix and rivet the affections of
true man and anything below that
mark is not worth any womcn's winning
and wearing-is to be natural. Some
young ladies, whom l see daily, and have
at this moment in my minds eye, are ain
gular unfortunate In their attempts to
attract admiration. There are just such
girls everywhere, and l dare say, every
femals reader Of this article knows at least
one or two of them. They never attempt
to put on grace or a virtue, without run
ming into its PARALLEL faults. Thus, when
they would seem cheerful, they giggle, and
when they propose to themselver to be
bashful and retiring, they play the prude.
Reserve with them degeneraies into tho
sullens, and when they would be lively
they are hysterical. Even religion when
it is their cue to be saintly-they put on
as if it were full dress of blaokcloth; and
in fact, under no circumstances do they
| appear as heaven made them. From top
not to gaiter sole they are all artificial
No man ever loved, or ever will love, an
artificial woman every long, take that
for granted.


So, my pretty dears, all You who de.
sire good husbands--fellows that you can
anchor your hearts on, and so feel safe
and happy in the hardest typhoon that
misfortune ever bew--bo as the Lord
made you, and put on airs or affections,--
No birds arc worth nesting, that are to
be caught with chaff.


You don't want popinjays for partners


Neither do men, that are men, want pop


Inlay wives. DIPLOMATIC little, if you
like courtship-maneuvre for substantial


and honorable victory, for the sake of its


fruits, if you will but beware or practising


any deceit, or resorting to any stratagem


that, discovered in future, might render


the nuptial couch bed of thorns. Be


sure to your. selves. Govern your hearts
with your heads, and choose wisely and
deliberately. Marriage is not lottery
| to the prudent and discreet,
Year: 1864

our opinion that We labor under deu-
sion and if the people of the South can
ever speak we shall find that we have been
fighting against a majority in many OF
those States who have been overcome and
held in subsection and led TO the battle
field by the armed traitors, while they de-
sire nothing more than the perpetuation of
the Union aud the Constitution their faith
ers gave them. AS long as this is an ac-
tual conflict of arms we must war upon all
engaged in it. We can not enquire how
they came 10 be in battle against the Gov.
ernment; but we have the duty of destroy
ing all who are so arrayed. But victories
over the rebels gained by the uprising of
the Southern people would be- of much
more value in restoring the Union than
victories in the field; and they would OBJ
viate the necessity Of more bloodshed. To
this we hope to zee it como at last--a par
ty in rebellion against the rebellion; and
that we shall see, whenever the people
there dare to discuss the question.


The reason why there can be no sus
pension Of arms and no consideration with
the people Of measures looking to reunion
and peace, is simply this-tbat The Radj.
Gals ,csU mot permit IL. Jeff Davis and
his friends are contending for independ.
ence; they will not admit the idea of re
union, They would rather lose ten bat
ties than have one State like North Caro-
| lima hold a convention to consider tha
subject; for every word spoken would be
more disastrous to them than a bullet from
a loyal rife. They have taken all ant
will die rather than submit. So on ou
side we aave a party that are fighting f0
emancipation 1t is all they care about -
IHey haUo a, Rc@re IN 5ce a TcS'0ratiOH 0
The GoUernmeat mare thdn Jc0. DaCiS has
They do not hesitate TO declare eycrywher
and in the most open manner that the
prefer dis-union to The old Union, with tn
Constitution as it now is. Aud this the,
term loyalty, and denounce restorationist
as traitors. Strange enough they make


large part of ,ho people believe that it
treason; and there are very few publ
men in the country who dare to discuss
farther than the parties will permit them
the question of restoring the Union as
was established by the fathers Of l776,a an
understood by jefferson, Madison, Andre,
Jackson, and john Quincy Adams =


While, therefore, the JEFF. Davis part
rules the South, there can be no peace, c
approach to p>acc. as there ran be no ce'
satjon of war; and while the Garrison an


Phillips men control the popular currer
of the North, there can be nothing BIT


such measures as will be raised at Il
, South so long as man can be had an


in the end, if they rule in that end, the


will not restore the Union, hut give US
conquered couatry to be held at Russ
holds Poland, and Austria holds HUI
gary.
Year: 1864

Mother come back from the shadowy land,
Leave for moment thy sister bandi
know that thy dwelling there is fair,
Unshaded by sorrow, and dimmed not by care
But hast thou forgot that there still is one
To sit by the darkened hearth alone
That the world is a dreary path to stray
When the loving and loved ones have passed


awayI


Oft they tell me of Lethe's stream,


That is quaffed by those on the far-off shore,
And they say that but as a passing dream


Seem the things of earth for evermore:
1t may be that others, all others, forgeti
But feel in my soul that thou lowest me yet.
And yet know thou oanst miss not me,
Never, oh never, as | miss thee.
l miss thee at morning when sunbeams wake
The lights and shades on the dear old lake;
All through the long hours of the summer day
miss the voice that has passed away;
But most of all in the evening hour,
When / sit alone in our favorite bower,
Round which the roses loving twine,
True to my hand as once to thine.
And the faint, sweet fragrance that fioateth


there,


The stars that float through the heavenly air.
The river that murmurs the same refrain,
All, all seem to WOO thee back again.
To others the world is the same as Of yorc,
But 10 me it can be the same no more
A shadow is resting on vale and hill,
The sad night-voices are sadder still,
The wood: paths green is a sadder hue,
The summer Sky not so bright blue,
The lay Of the song-brds too soon is past
And the flowers cherish fade too fast
Mother, come back from the shadowy land,
Leave for momentthy sister band;
Take me forever with thee to dwell
Where they know not the parting word, Fare


wellg


Deaths river is dark, but fear it not,
For love can tighten the darkest spot
oh for the love of the far-off shore
With thine arm around me for eyermorc.
Year: 1864

The instant the head is laid on
the pillow is that in which conscience
delivers its decrecs. If it has con-
ceived any evil design, it is surround
ed by thorns. The softest down is
hard under the restless head of the
wicked. In order to be happy, one
must be on good terms with ones
pillow, for the nightly reproaches it
can make must be hard; yet it is
never so delicious, so tranquil, as
after a day on which one has per-
formed some good act, or when one
is conscious of having spent it in
some useful or substantial employ
ment.
Year: 1864

There was S32,250, due a Russian
land owner shrough the police Office Of
his town, but they would't give him with
out a bonus of about $1,000 lie went
to St. Petersburg and got authority to
get his money, and the night after four
men tried to rob him. He shot two of
them and on taking off their masks found
they were the chief Of police and bis se-
creary.
Year: 1864

TRADE VERSUS WAR.-Wars prob
ably will never cease out ofthe earth.
Like the poor, they will be always
withus. Nevertheless they grow
fewer and milder. The heart of the
world will rest at peace, and wars
will only fringe its borders-in the
outlying countries not yet brought
within the pale. And in efecting
this happy change, the influence Of
commerce-thc operations of self
interest-will accomplish more than
all the moralizing Of sages or the
preachings of philanthropy. Have
we not felt, during this present year,
how firmly the golden meshes oftrade
have wound themselves round the
heart of the nation ? Unfelt, unnotic-
ed in ordinary times, it is only when
we raise our right arm in anger to
strike that we become sensible of
the golden meshes that have slowly
encircled us. We are bound over to
peace by chains which are not un-
pleasant to us. This, too, may have
its bad side, but that is a question
beyond our subject. Let it suffice that
other nations also, our neighbors and
rivals, are gradually coming into the
same golden bondage, and that the

more potent that bondage becomes.
the less need will there be for "a
policeman" in Europe.-Blacktcoo
Year: 1864

A SCoTCH PoUND.--A story is told
Of a person presenting himself to the guild


wife in a remote district, and asking for
a pound Of butter. The ouncle weights
were rummaged over and over, but the
pun stane' was nowhere to be found
the smallest weight at hand being the
meal-stone quarter, which obviously
would not do. The honest woman took
long thought, till, whilst pondering
deeply, her brow frightened up. i ken
how wen manage it moo = she exclaimed,
The guide mon brought hame a pair O
tangs yestereen, which weighed in the
smilhg just twa pun. Sac stand by, and
III soon weigh you wi them your butter
Producing the tongs in triumph, she put
one leg in the scale, and let the other
hang out. The beam got its swing and
the stranger carried off his butter, highly
satisfied with his experience of CAL
loway pound.