smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

No Pay.-The post of Councilman has
been greatly sought for heretofore in this
city, but we question whether the strain will
be so great hereafter, when it comes to be
known that the service must be performed
gratuitousy, the honor being the only com
pensation offered those ambitious Of the al
dermAnio title


We notice in the Legislative reports that
the bill introduced by Senator Gnnckel, of
this city, providing that members of Council
of cities Of the second class, shall serve with.
out compensation, has become law. This
announcement will have the effect of sinking
aspirants TO Council to an economical mum
ber Members Of the School Board receive
no compensation for their services, but they
only meet monthly, and to an intelligent gen.
sleman the position is one which gives more
pleasure than trouble. The duties Of Coun.
Gilman are onerous and annoying, and draw
pretty heavily upon the time and patience Of
the incumbent, and should, we think, be fair.
ly remunerated Although position on the
School Board is without pay it is rather
sought by gentlemen Of culture, owing to the
congeniality of the service; but we predict
that the absence of any kind of remuneration
to cOuncilmen will have the effect of putting
the best interests of the city into incapable
hands We deem our City Legislature as i'm.
portAnt as that of the State, and its members
are entitled alike to remuneration. The sal
airy in either body is not the object for which
the places are sought, but remove it and who
that possesses the proper capacity will accept
position in either
Year: 1863

Another Nuisance.-W said the other
day that the carcass of hog had been a nui
sance for week or more at the corner of
Jefferson and Sixth Another carcass is on
Brown street, near Jones'
Year: 1863

WANTED-A little girl from the age OF II
To IA, who can come well recommended and
wishes to learn TO operate q Sewing Machine,
can get Employment at the Wheeler y Wilson
Sewing Machine Office.
Year: 1863

Bass-Shooting.- several years past
legitimate fishermen in this State have been
endeavUring TO get laws passed for the pro-
lection Of fish from the reckless horde who
are, with all manner Of contrivances, causing
their rapid destruction in the rivers and
smaller streams. A law having this end in
view was finally got upon the Statutes, and
several amendments were made to it, but it
has failed to fully answer the purpose.


The different kinds of nets used by Sharks
have been the means of destroying an i'm
mense number of Bass, but we believe as
great or larger number are "nip'd i the bud
by the practice of shooting them in spawning
time. The bass-shooters climb trees which
overhang the water, and shoot the fish while
they are watching their eggs. We are glad
to notice that an amendment to the fish law
has just been made which will put stop to
this reprehensible practice. Hereafter it will
be penal offence to shoot bass or in any
manner to destroy them during the period OF
incubation up to the first of June.


We cali the particular attention of fisher
men TO this important subject and we hope
they will keep sharp lookout for law-break
ers Let no one escape who is guilty of ia
king fish contrary to law. A few examples
made Of transgressors will have the effect o
breaking up the practice, and legitimate fish
ing may then be pursued with some sort o.
success.
Year: 1863

Ice lon Friday last Mr.. Asbury, the Gin
cinnati Ice King, arrived at Troy, for the pur-
pose of securing a supply of pure ice from
the clear water in the fresh, running ponds in
that vicinity. He intended putting on u large
number Of hands the next morning. in order
to secure in the shortest possible time, enough
of the article to fill his enormous ice houses
in the Queen City We hope he has succeeded
as the weather has turned out most inoppor-
tune for the business. We learn that the ice
only acquired three or four inches in thickness
at Toledo If we have no more hard freezing
weather the supply Of ice will be small and OF
poor description TO keep
Year: 1863

1t is an uudeniable fact that our country
is in peril; and We are sorry to say, it is as
much so from the conduct of our own peo-
pie as from the enemy. Nearly the entire
agricultural resources of the land, are now
applied to the production of provisions
and provisions consequently abound. And
yet prices rule higher and still higher; and
there seems to be no point which the seller
can reach, where he will be willing to say,
'it is enough" ....


The natural and inevitable result of this
state of things is two.fold. First, it must
and will ALLEVIATE from US the poor, who have
everything to buy and nothing to sell. 1t
already has done much mischief in this way
among the soldiers in the field, whose lives
have been freely exposed in battle, while
their families have been aeeced by the cor
morapts at home. Many desertion may
be doubtless ascribed to this cause; and
much lukewarmness and disaffection among
those still at home, may be similarly ac-
counted for. Secondly, it actually depre-
ciates the very money which is so eagerly
accumulated. In this way it must vastly
augment the expenses Of the government,
and lessen the chances of its currency ever
being redeemed. In this way it may lead
to repudiation-a reputation which the
army itself may insist upon, at the close OF
the war, as a just punishment of those who
have made fortunes out of the necessities
Of the country. t= 49,


The right spirit was recently exhibited at
a meeting in Albermarle County, VirginiA
of which the following is q part of the re.
port:


"There seemed to prevail no difference
of opinion as to the purpose of the people.
Each We'd with the other in expressions of
generous patriotism and finally the follow
ing resolutions were adopted with entire
unauimity and with loud acclamation !;


Resozued, That we, the people of Alber-
marie, do pledge ourselves promptly to
gather in and turn over to theagents of the
government all our produce tax; that in
addition thereto we will set aside one other
tenth to be sold to the government at the
prices obtaining before the war, and take in
the payment thereof Confederate bonds;
and that all the rest of our surplus products
shall be sold at or below the schedule of
prices fixed by the State Commissioners, Ell.
ther to the governpent or consumers, and
that we will invest the proceeds of such
sales as far as practicable in Confederate
bonds.


I'd. That the professional men, merchants
and mechanics amongst US, pledge ourselves
to pay in one.tenth additional tax:


Sd. That committee of five be appoint
ed to secure the signatures Of citizens to
this pledge, and carry out the purpose of
these resolutions. ."-Sumster 'Watctman.
Year: 1863

A good deal OF interest was felt at the
time when the Confederate officers, prison
ers on board the Maple Leaf, captured that
steamer and made their escape to Currituck,
in North CAROLINA. A correspondent of the
Wilmington IN. c. Journal furnishes the
following instance of heroism connected
with the affair, the hero of which is ga
poor old man, bowed down with age and
poverty" The writer says:


A few days after their escape squad Of
Federal cavalry, in securing the country to
arrest them, came upon the subject of this
notice-Dempsey Kight by name-iu the
highway. A small tin bucket, which the
old fisherman was carrying in his hand, at.
tracted their attention. They halted and
asked him if he had not been feeding the
escaped rebel officers. Too proud to utter
a falsehood, he uuhesitatingly answered in
the affirmative. Whereupon they demand
ed of him to reveal their place of conceal
meut, and with threats and blows sought to
wrest it from him. But the principle of
honor was too strong in the old mans
bosom, and to all their opportunities he
yielded not-their brutality he could not
resist. They swore they would have the
secret or that he should die. With this in.
teution they hurried him aboard gunboat
and again rendered him the alternative Of
death or of compliance with their wishes.
He answered that he was convinced that
they intended to hang him, but that he was
resolved to die before he "would tell where
those officers were"


Immediately they suspended him by the
neck, until life was nearly extinct. They
then cut him down, and, after reviving him,
they repeated the same question and receiv-
ed the same answer. Again his body hung
in the air, and. when his life was far more
spent than before, they again unloosed the
halter, receiving as before the same firm de.
nial. Exasperated to fury. they told him
that this was his only chance, and that they
would not cut him down again. Sustained
in this hour of sore trial by his sense Of
honor, which was stronger than his fear of
death, the old man replied, that convinced
as he was of his approaching end, yet he
deemed death preferable to dishonor, and
that he was ready to meethis fate. Again,
and for the third time, his aged frame quiv.
cred in the agonies of death, and when he
had ceased to struggle they once more re-
leased him. Applying powerful stimulants
they succeeded in restoring him, when, with
determination worthy of the elder Brutus,
he drew forth knife and attempted, by
cutting his own throat, to free himself Of
his prosecutors. By violence they forced
his knife from him, when, by a mighty ef'
fort, he dashed the fends aside and plunged
into the boiling surf to drown himself
With boat'hooks they 6shed him up, and
baffled by his unyielding will, they permit.
ted him to go ashore. This is true state.
men. of this Infamous transaction. Demp.
scy Kight still lives and plies his humble
calling as a fisherman, and that he is one
of Gods noblemen none will gainsay.
Year: 1863

No. 2S-qn Yet to quthorisc the Formation Of Volunteer


Companies for Local Defence.


The Congress Of the Confederate States of 7meriea do
enact That for the purpose of local defence In any portion
Of the Confederate Saes any number of PERSONS not less
than twenty, who the age of years, or
otherwise liable to military duty, may associate them
selves military company, elect their own officers, and
establish rules and regulations for their own government
shall be considered us belonging the Provisional Ala
my of the Confederate States, serving without pay al
owances and entitled, when captured by the enemy 10 all
the privileges of prisoners of Prorided That such
company SHALL practicable, transmit their muster
roll list of the Of the officers and prrates there
Of the Governor of the STATE the Commanding General
of the Department any Brigader General in the State or
Confederate service be forwarded 10 the Secretary Of
War; but the President the Commander Of the Military
District may any me dishand such companies: F~ort
dcd That in the and Districts in which the Act
titled "An Act further provide for the public Defence
approved April l6 1852 and the Acts amendatory thereof
have been suspended persons of age, resident within
such States Districts, may volunteer and form part of
such companies, long such suspension may continue:
Prorided That person shall become member of such
company until he shall have first taken the oath of alegi
ance TO the Confederate States of America in writing,
copy of which shall be filed with the muster roll Of said
company, above prescribed.
Year: 1863

GEN. SooTT ON OUR GENERALs.e-The Washing
ton CORES spondert of the Cincinnati Gazette says
that General Scott was encountered the other
day by leading Washingtonian official, with
whom the old veteran fell into very unreserved
talk about our Generals. 1t will not surprise
any one to know that he pronounced Lee the
greatest General OF the war; or that he declared
that he was more disappointed in General McCle-
llan's performances than he ever was before with
those of any officer in our service. Gen. Grants
operations he spoke of as displaying more mill
tary skill than any other General had exhibited ON
our side and could only remember him in the
Mexican war as young lieutenant of fundoubted
courage but giving no promise whatever of any
thing beyond ordinary ability.
Year: 1863

All signs show that the Government is
:: In earnest about the draft, and that the 70.


cent victories will prove no bar to it's en-.
~forcemcnt~ In Massachusetts, and New


York it is already in progress, and will be


followed up elsewhere rs fast as the en-.
rol]ments are finished This is at it should
be- The necessity is an immediate one,
and the crisis must be met. The old resi-
:s.ments, tattered and broken in the shock OF
: battles, must be filled up and again pre-


sent an unbrokcn front to the foe. Bet
= ter than all, the military and political lead:
= els Of the South, and especially the people
: Of the South must be taught TINT we hare


hardly touched our resources yet. In the


full tide Of victory there is the greatest


danger. The strong hand Of the Govern
ment is upon the prize and the hand must


be closed. Like the giant that cained re-


newed strength from each contact with the


earth, the army Of the North must pre-
j. sent itself after Viclzsburg and Gettysburg
with its gaps all filled This, and this
, alone VIII teach the deluded masses of the


South, the power and determination of the


people they have to deal with, and ensure


Ms the consummation of IN honorable
peace Let Copperhead papers advocate
the draft, and they will hare peace. beg
ged as boon by rebels in arms. Let the
draft go on as rapidly Us possible"
Year: 1863

wheat is 50 or so cts. per bushel, it is
always too low, and the higher it goes
up the less inclined are they to sell.
Their cattle and hogs are helping
themselves to corn at home, or plum
dering their neighbors. In this way
they are continually in trouble, and
lead restless, unsatisfed life.


There is nothing more important
on the farm than system and order.
Never undertake to do too much
do one thing at a time, and do it well.
Lay down plan of work to be done,
and do that first which needs doing
the most, and finish it before you
leave it. Never put off till to-m0r-
row what can be done to-day; delays
are proverbially dangerous, and to
none more so than the farmer. New
er exceed your means by attempting
to cultivate more than you can do
we'll and in due season.


Keep memorandum Of your work,
household expenses, cost of labor,
ETC., and balance with the income Of
your business.


Under such management yCu viii
at all times understand the exact
state of affairs. The farmer should
know his profit and loss Just as much
as the merchant. Observe these few
hints and you will find less rough
corners in the routine of your farm
operations.
Year: 1863

1sT BRIG 3RD. DIt. 14TH ARMY CoRPs,


MURFREEsBoRo, Tenn. Feb. 18th, '63. J


EDITOR GAZETTE: We will not undertake
to give you any news, as you doubtltss have
your correspondents who keep you posted from
time to time. Let us then rather take cur
sorry view of different things, as we find our
selves meeting them in our stroll round the
camps. Let us enter into conversation with
the boys who are sitting idly around, and sound
them concerning the present difficulty, with
which we are so intimately connected.


Would they like to see peace once more es-
tablished that they might once again be re-
stored to the pleasures and comforts of home !?
Ah, you touch tender cord, aud read their
answer,in the many manly bosoms strangers to
feafx heave with emotion at the word
hon nid- they be willing to lay down
then ans, and let peace be made on any terms
that the spoiler may see proper to dictate


You know that you trample upon doubtful
ground as comes the emphatic response, No.
Rather than do this, they would lay down their
lives in defense OF their country. Northern
traitors may shrek for aye; no sympathy will
they find in the breast of most of our soldiers.
But rather would they meet contempt as cow
ards, too cowardly to come out openly before
Year: 1863

Address Of the Ohio Soldiers Of the Western


Army to the People Of Ohio.


We have already published telegraphic
abstract of the Address of the Ohio Soldiers
of the Western Army to the people of Ohio,
but it is a production so admirable in tone, so
well timed, so eloquent, just and truthful, that
we spread it in full before our readers. We
earnestly commend it to the attentive perusal
Of all, and especially TO those who are be-
sought to join hands in opposition to the Gov
ernment, under the prostituted name Of De
mocracy, Democrats and Republicans-ofR
GERS and privates-all speak in one voice, and
that Of unmeasured condemnation of the dem
agogues and traitors who would disgrace aud
ruin the country. and render verse than use
less all the precious blood and treasure spent
in its defense. The Address deserves to be
printed in letters Of gold and preserved as an
honored and sacred memorial in every house.
hold in the State God bless our gallant
Armyl
Year: 1863




There is no man, who has particle of pub
lie spirit or of patriotic feeling, who does not
in a crisis OF such magnitude as that in which
we now find ourselves, experience a good deal
of pain in calling down public reprobation
even upon those faults and follies of the Gov
ernmeut of which it has been undeniabIy gull
ty. No Government, and above all, no popu-
lar Government has ever carried on such
contest as this, without committing every day
a thousand bluuders; and as pupular Govern-
ment derives all its strength from the popular
he who excites or endeavors to excite one jot
more popular distrusts of it, or popular repro
bation of its arts, than is necessary to correct
its errors, or increase its vigilance, affords
just as effectual aid to the enemy as though he
got up panic in the ranks on the day of bat
tie.


There is just the same difference between
the candid criticism of men who wish well to
the National cause, and the malignant exag-
Grafton of all evils and of all mistakes, which
from the staple of democratic comment on the
war, that there is between conservative sur
gerry and experimental dissection of the living
subject. Among the volunteer doctors who
hurried TO the field Of battle of Anlietam, from
Philadelphia and Baltimore, there were large
numbers who, having cut off as many legs and
arms as possible, refused to dress any wounds,
and left Immediately for home. To use the
words of one Of the medical directors, their
only motive in visiting the scenes of slaugh
ter was "morbid lust for amputation." And
the spirit of those worthless was precisely that
which now animates a large number Of our
Democratic writers and lecturers. They des-
cant on the sufferings of the nation, gloat over
each spasm, stick their knives and probes in =
to each wound, rub their hands in giee, as the
SYMPTOMS seem to aggravate, and brag of their
skill in predicting the precise moment of dis
solution, with all the expltation and ribaldry
Of party of medical students investigating
the seat of vitality in dog or a rRbbit.-N
Y Times.
Year: 1863

We intend to stand between you and the desc
lating host of the rebels whose most cherish
ed hope and desire has been, and is. to take
possession of and ra7age our own beautiful
Ohio. Once already we have stood as a living
wall between you and this fate, and we may
have to do it again.


Men of Ohiol You know not what this
Western army mas suffered. You know not
now, the hardships and sufferings of your sold
iers in their chilly tents, their shelterless BIZ
Year: 1863

-'tSquaG


at the senlle ear ofexecutive power, and hatch
ed its mischievous plot in the very corridors
of the Presidential Mansion2 As it was in
the day Of glory and might, or as it was in
the night OF its weakness and shame2 As it
was when strong, honest men gave direction
to its councils, or as it was when turPitude
claimed and took precedence Of decrepitude in
the conduct of its affairs For upon this in
quiry must largely depend the real significance
Of this rallying cry-wbciher il meant re-
establishment Of the flag and re-sssertion Of
the national authority over every rood Of our
domains, Or if but an empty formula, to be
interpreted to suit any occasion.


The Union as it was, say. rather, the Union
it will be when, the Constitution maintain
ed in all its spirit and viger, even its very
forms preserved inviolate, peace restored upon
the basis of our indivisibility, the selfprolec-
ting power of popular government asserted,
our multiplied millions shall present TO man
kind an example of government mightier,
freer, and happier than the world has ever
seen. Then will be realized the conviction OF
a great English statesman, who rising above
the mists of prejudice and traditional enmiiy
which have beclouded so many of his country
men, has asserted the justice and hopefulncss
of our cause, in words contrasting most CRATE
fully with the ribaldry and cynicism by which
we have been so constantly assaied:


"1 cannot myself believe in such a fate befal-
ling that fair land; stricken though it now be
by the hand of war; cannot believe that civ
ilization in its journey with the sun will sink
into endless night to crafty the ambition OF
the leaders of This revolt, who seek 'to wade
through slaughter to throne, ard shut the
gates of mercy on mankind 1 have another
and far brighter vision before my gaze. 1t
may be but vision, but will cherish it.
see one vast confederation from the frozen
North, in one unbroken line, to the glowing
South, and from the wild biIlows of the Allan
tic to the calmer waters of the Pacific main
and see one people and one law, and one Ian
guage, and one faith, and over all that wide
continent the home of freedom and a refuge
for the oppressed of every race"
Year: 1863

the world. They are far worse, and by the
soldiers would be held in less repute than the
rebels, who live up to their principles, and de-
f-nd them at the point Of the bayOnet. They
are destined among men to hold The position
that the Bat holds among birds and beasts,
an outeast, spurned by both parties, an injury
to the North and disgrace to the South


Poor paupers whos nobody owns


Do they concur with Lincoln in his Eman-
cipation policy? Were they not so situated
that they can see the benefit Of such a course,
they might say No; but as it is, most emphat-
ically Yes. In the negro, strange as is the as
sertion, they see revealed the main prop of the
Southern Confederacy. They see why Davis
can bring to bear such large forces to oppose
them at what point soever we choose TO ad-
vance. In the negro is his trust; on them de-
pends the subsistence of bis army. They cul-
tivate and have charge Of the plantations,
raising breadstuffs and vegetables and furnish
ing meat for bis men, so that it requires but
comparatively a small white force to oversee
domestic affairs. and the others are in the army.
Why then; I ask, not strike at the root to
efectually cripple the tree. Deprive them Of
the negro, and it is taking from them so many
prisoners, for part Of the army must be taken
to furnish food for the remainder, seeing that
without food men cannot fight. FULLER.
Year: 1863

~ There is still great complaint Of
the scarcity of change. Although large
quantities of it are brought on here every
few eeeks, yet it mysteriously disappears.
The secret Of it. we think, is. that when
ever any persons desire to buy articles
Of less value than one dollar. they produce
q bill. and receive change for the balance,
which they stow away. and repeat the
operation every tina they buy. If mer-
chants would make it rule not to change
q bill when purchases are made to a less
amount than ifty cents. we believe the
change would be forthcoming.