smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

sg-The following is the address of Mr..
Dingley upon taking the Chair as Speaker of
the House of Representatives:


Gentlemen Of the House Of Representatives.:
/ tender you my grateful acknowledgment for
this expression of your confidence. In accept
ing the position which you have so generously
assigned me, am not insensible to the value
of the compliment it bestows, and the weight
of obligation and responsibility it imposes
responsibility from which might well shrink
could / not confidently rely on your indulgence
and cordial cooperation. In the discharge OF
the duties of the Chair, it will be my aim to
administer the rules of the House with fidelity
and impartiality having in view the fundamen-
tai principle OF Parliamentary law, that the
great purpose of all the rules and forms of a
legislative body, while they protect the rights
of minorities by guarding against the hasty
and irregular acts of majorities, is to subserve
rather than to restrain the will of the assembly,
to facilitate aud MOTTO obstruct, the expression
of its deliberate sense. am ready, gentlemen,
to proceed with the business of the House.
Year: 1863

The Governors Message in full, as delivered
to the Legislature yesterday, occupies our
columns this morning to the exclusion of
almost everything except local and telegraphic
news.


On the first page will be found interesting
details of the capture Of Murfreesboro'.
Year: 1863

LEA correspondent informs us that an
ambiguous paragraph in the Press has given
rise to the impression that Gen. Howard is to
be relieved of his present command, in Sedg-
wick's CORPS The impression is erroneous.
Year: 1863

Stand by the Army! in its brave hearts
unerrlDg guns, and deadly bayonets, rests
Inc only hope of the nation, at present.
The rebels have appealed to the sword and
oy the sword only can We meet them
Let US all be true to the Army and the Ar.
my will be true to US. Every good citizen
Will spend bis money in taxes and cootri.
buttons as freely as the soldiers spend
their blood. Shame on the bastard who
assails them in the rear.
Year: 1863

There are many preparations sold nnder the
name Of Bitters, put up in quart bottles, COM
pounded of the cheapest whisky or common rum,
costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon, the taste
disguised by anise or coriander seed. .i. t.


This class of Bitters has caused and will con-
tnue to cause, as long as they can be sold, hun,
drcds TO die the death of the drunbard. By
their use the system is kept continually under
the influence of Alcoholic Stimulants of the worst
kind the desire for liquor is created and kept up,
and The resultisall the horrors attendant upon g
drunkard's life and death. p


For those who desire and wiU hGpe Liquor
Bitters, we publish the following receipt: Get
One Bottle HoCRand's German Baters and mix
with three quarts Of good Brandy or Whisky and
the result will be preparation that will far ex-
eel in medicinal virtues and true excellence any
of the numerous Liquor Bitters in the market,
and will cost much less. You will have all the
virtues Of Hoohand's Bitters in connection with
good article of Liquor, at q much less price
than these inferior preparations will cost you.
Year: 1863

HIaHHANpED IMPREssM ENr.-We learn that the
Quartermaster at Weldon has ordered the farmers
of Northampton to drive in one tenth of their cat
tie This, If true, and we suppose it is, for our in
formation comes from reliable source is overreach-
ing the authority conferred upon them by the law,
and is a matter that requires attension. As well
ask for the tenth horse tenth Of the land, house
hold goods, kitchen furniture &c. as one tenth Of
the mich cows cslves &c.-Progress


What means that provision of the tax law re-
quiring the people to give in the number of their
cattle to the Confederate ASSESSOR Is it intended
merely to taz the cattle, is it the object of the
government to ascertain the number so as to equal
ize the impressment of them!


We heard day or two since, that Confederate
quartermaster in neighboring County had i'm
pressed for the government quantity Of corn which
had just been bought for the families Of soldiers in
q certain neighborhood. Wbathas been done with
this corn< Are we to have the impressment law
and the 1.-THE law upon US ut the same timer 1t
seems so. And is . forced loan to follow We
fear SO. God save these Confederate States from
the recklessness and wrong hesdedness Of officials!
The Destructves who hold the reins of power, have
shown themselves utterly incompetent to conduct
the affairs Of great people; aud If those affairs ap
pear to be in bad condition, it is not the fault of
the people, but their fault
Year: 1863

UesorttOns from the Army


We make the following extract from q letter dated
Lewisville, Forsyth County:


"The Standard is almost universally read and
its views endorsed in my neighborhood, yet not
single deserter shows his head here There has not
been ono seen in my Captains district except pass
ing through by night for q long time, and in fact
they are rare IN all the Western part Of this Coun.
ty; and yet the people take the STANDARD, the re-
puted cause~and motive power Of deser,ions gene
rally" -


This agrees with statement made to us by an.
intelligent friend some time SINCE that in the whole
range Of our large circulation in bis County there
was but ore deserter in all the families that sub
scribed for the Standard


The truth is, the charge that the Standard has
encouraged desertion or that its tendency has been
that way, is the result Of political preudioe-and
prejudice, it is well known, "squnts when it looks
and lies when it talks"
Year: 1863

1t will be seen that some Counties have furnished
none or but few men. In the East this is owing
mostly to the presence of the enemy, while in tbs
West the conscrip:s for the most part volunteered
to escape enrolment. The estimated number Of
volunteers to avoid coascription is between three
and four thousand, probably more-but owing to
the rolls not being returned to the Adjutant Gen
eral by recruiting officers, the correct statement
cannot At present be made. North Carolins hes
furnished ut least one hundred thonsand men to the
war, being more than any other State has flrnshed
in proportion to population. IA
Year: 1863

To lie Psoxorrp.-BuRSsIDE is after tho
Knights Of tho Golden Circle in Indiana
lie Is going to promote some Of them to that
antique order Of Knigh:hood, known as the
order Of the Hempcn Moose!
Year: 1863

THE BLOODHOUND CoSsCR1PTIoN.- ALI
accounts from Mississippi during the last
three weeks have concurred as to the fact
that the rebel military and civil authorities
in that State are carrying out their conscrip-
ton by the aid of bloodhounds. 1t Is stated
that in three counties around Satartia, over
one hundred of these horrid brutes are being
used to capture Union men. This is revolt
ing beyond measure, and, if we are not much
retribution. There is no doubt that thou
sands of the rebel sympathizers in Kentucky
who have denounced the draft as an outrage
demanding resistance at the point of the bay
onet fully approve and justify in their own
hearts the unspeakably internal conscription
in Mississippi, and if they had their own way,
they would have bloodhounds imported and
let loose upon Kentucky soil with a view to
forcing every Union man into the rebel ranks.
Year: 1863

A pedagogue was about to fog pupil for
having said he was fool, when the boy cried
out "Oh, don't, don't, won't call you so
any more: I'll never say what think again
in all the days of my life. e8 s a
Year: 1863

What Is the use of trimming alamp


If you never intend to light itf ..,
What is the use of graphing a wrong
If you never intend to fight It
What Is the use of removing your hat
If you do not intend to tarry7
What is the use of wooing a maid
f, If you never intend to marry7
What Ia the use of buying cont


Ii you never intend. to wear II
What Is the use Of house for two


If you never intend to share It'll
What is the use of gathering gold


II you never intend to keep iii
What is the use of planting field
If you never intend to reapit!
What Is the use of buying book
If you never intend to read itH '
What is the use of cradle to rock


If you never intend to need itl
Year: 1863

Mr.. EDITOR Il may be expected to
take some notice of the ''Shoycl &
Tongses," who burnt his way into your
paper and threw himself across my
path In late number. Not for his
sake should | have done this, but only
to crafty natural expectation of those
readers who may be looking to see how
[ will stand affected.


The shovel and tongs being imple-
ments used for stirring the fire, are
natural emblems of that which is hot.
and for this reason they were unqucs-
tionably chosen as a cognomen over
which to write by one whose inspira-
ton of ideas was clearly engendercd
by the spirit which always dwells III
drinking saloons, (whose champion the
writer assumes to bel, and which is
we'll known to be of a hot and burning
efficacy, and by which he appears to
have been possessed.


There may be wit, Or what passes
for wit in the circles that most do CON
gregate in such places, in the article of
''Shovel & Tongses - but I cannot see
it, and | doubt if among all your read
crs there is one sober person who can.


The whole article reminds me of the
story Of the lion ana the skunk. The
latter, conscious that he could never
become famous on his own merits, and
hoping that the well known reputation
Of the lion might become passport
for him to eminence, endeavorcd to
draw the lion into controversy. With
this object in view he sent him chal-
lenge. But the wary lion, seeing thro'
the motive, and being properly mind
ful of his own reputation, replied, "In
a controversy with you, Mr.. Skunk, I
could gain nothing and you could lose
nothing, so mean IS your reputation
aIrea0y. You would have over me, in
some respects, decided advantage
In your peculiar kind of strength, I
readily admit that you arc stronger
than /, and that you might do some
brave fighting; SO that if in the end I
should come off conqueror the victory
would be, for me, too dearly bought
l should have sacrificed my good rep
utatlon to no other purpose than mere,
ly helping you to little fame, while
every one who should meet me for a
long time afterwards would Instantly
recognize me that [ had been in com
pany with skunk. I must therefore
decline to meet YOU


Believing with the lion that discrc-
ton is the better part Of valor, and that
it is equally indiscreet and unwise to
meddle with hot animals as with some
strong ones, I shall not hereafter con
slider myself under any obligation to
notice such articles as the one herein
alluded to, whether they be written
ocer the signature Of "Shovel & Tongs-
es" or eaa0er the name of "deer Gack."
Having in my first article marked out
the course that intended to pursue in
my communications, I cannot be fur
ther turned aside; nor shall spend
my time and strength in striking and
kicking at every lll-mannered cur that
chooses to bark and snarl behind me.


SQUARE 6 COMPAss.
Year: 1863

At the "Crow Inn," at Antwerp, some years
ago, a white spectre was seen bearing lamp in
one hand and bunch Of keys in the other--this
unpleasant visitor was seen by variety of travel
ers. passing along the corridor


Nothing would satisfy the neighbOrs that IN
unfortunate traveller had not been at one period
or other, dispatched in that fatal room by one Of
the previous landlords of the house the hotel
gradually obtained the name of the "IIauuted
Inn," and csased to be frequented by its old pa
irons.


The landlord, finding himself on the brink Of
ruin, determined to sleep in the haunted room,
with view of proving the groundlessness of the
story. To make the matter more sure, as he
said, be caused the hostler to bear him company,
on pretence Of requiring a witness to the absur-
dity of the report; but in reality from cowardice
At the dead of the night, however, just as the
two men were composing themselves to sleep 10
one bed-leaving another which was in the room
untenanted-the door flew open and in gided
the white spectre


Without pausing to ascertain what it might at
tempt on approaching the bed, towards which it
directed its course, the two men rushed out of
the room and by the alarm they created, con-
frmed more fully than ever the evil repute Of the
house.


Unable longer to sustain the cost OF SO unpro-
ductive an establishment, the poor landlord ad-
vertised for sale the house in which be and his
father before him were born and had passed their
lives. But bidders were as scarce as customers !
the inn remained on sale for nearly year, du-
ring which, from time to time, the spectre reap
peared.


At length an officer Of the garrison. who had
formerly frequented the house, moved to compass
sion in favor Of the poor host undertook to clear
up the mystery by sleeping in the aforesaid
chambsr nothing doubling that the whole was
a trick of some envious neighbor, desirous Of de-
Year: 1863

The Confederate soldiers fight with desne-
r2t0n, because they fight for their homes the
Union soldiers have nothing to fight for.


The above is declaration made by copper
head Of the town of Dover, recently, and it
awakened Ill my mind train of serious rehec-
tlons. That Confederate soldiers fight bravcly
none pretcnds to deny: they are of the Anglo
Saxon race, and it is a race that FIGHTS well
They have Inducements to fight. The leaders
know that for them there arc but two issues to
the conflict Success places them in authority
with government in which all power and au-
thority will be in the hands Of an aristocracy :
and defeat they know involves expatriation or
the tclOn's doom. Thus situated, they have in
ducemcnts to fight well; and the ignorant and
d 'ludcd masses Of the South fight well. They
believe the falsehOods that have been told them
by their ambitious leaders, and look upon the
Union troops as band Of savage marauders.
who come to desecrate their homes and rob
them of all that is dear to man. Thus prc-
pared by their ignorance to be lead blindly by
rulers; thus stimulated by secession lies and
secession whiskey, they too fight bravely.


The Union soldiers have nothing to fight
for!" How strangely perverted how utterly
devoid of patriotism must the mind of him be
who makes the assertion.


When our government is assailed and it,
property seized, its flag insulted and its lawful
authority trampled upon, have we nothing to
fight for? When band of base conspiritors
attempt to wrest from us a third of our terri
tory and turn the fairest portion of the land
over which our flag foated into an alien and
hostile government, have we nothing to fight
for? When men. openly preach the miserable
doctrine OF secession and attempt to enforce on
us that doctrine, which annuls all government
and gives up this fair land of ours to disinteqra
ton and perpetual anarchy, have we NOTHING
to hight forP Never, since the demon of wal
was first let loose upon our race, have men had
50 much to fight for as we have now in the pre-.
sent struggle.


We fight for the glorious heritage beoueatb
cd us by our illustriOus sires We fieht that
our country may be unbroken, that she NAV Cd
on in her career of prosperity and greatiess
and remain the home of the oppressed of ever,
cline. We fight to maintain the doctrine upoI
which QUE whole government is founded-that
the majority legally expressed at the ballot boN
shall rule. That in matters of governmenta
policy the voice of the people is the voice Of
God.


Our foreftthe fought that they might tr,
the experiment Of self lfgovernment; we fight t.
Year: 1863

maintain the government founded by them af-
ter chat government has been shedding upon
us for almost century such prosperity and
happiness as never Eefore been enjoyed by men


No wonder that i'll defence of interests so dear
hundred Of thousands of our fellow citizens
have voluntarily rushed to uphold our flag,
and that so many valuable lives have freely
been laid upon the altar of our country, and in
the face of this noblest uprising Of the masses
that the world ever saw, men in our midst en-
are only there because of that noble Sef-imlno-
lation, are found who can say the Union have
nothing to fight for He that can make the
declaration must be lost to all that ennoblcs onr
nature. *x*
Year: 1863

ExPERIENCE or A DELAWARE SoLDIER.-A
soldier of the lst Del. Regiment in letter to
his wife since the late battles near Ffederieks-
burg says: .ea.


OF one thing you may be quite certain: we
shall conquer or die. Noapount of fatigue and
want, together, can beat down such men as
the Delawarians have proved themselves to be.
| have marched all night, brcakflsted on a
an artilleryman, and then fought all day, and
made my supper off bull-frog But after all
that fatigue, how gloriously sound was my
sleep on the bare ground and behind some logs
to keep off the enemy. - shots So soundly did
| sleep that when | woke in the morning j
found that d thirty-two pound shot had cut
down tree close by me. 1t fell clear Of me,
and neither the conclusion of the ball nor the
fall of the tree disturbed me,
Year: 1863

PARALYsIs.-We are sorry to learn that
Chancellor s NJ. Harrington was on Friday
last the subject ofa stroke of paralysis, inyol-
wing the whole Of his left side. lie WA, at the
time i'll his usual health, AMI on Il visit to one
of his farms near Dover, when suddenly struck
down. lle wa, in the latter part Of the day
carried to his residence, in Dover, in a helpless
con lltlon, but is at the present time, better
We sincerely hope h. may speedily recoyer
ami be spared yet long time to fill the useful
place he does, as an official and citizen OF our
State.
Year: 1863

From the tone of the rebel papers it woulC
seem that the death of the dasIimg jackson il
teit as one of the most serious losses of the war
and not atoned for by their late victory a
| fredericksburg. One of their papers says they
could have better lost brigade or division.
The Chattanooga Rebel says that IT the lossspi
Gen jackson is more to be lamented than a
dozen such victories are to be vaunted" The
Richmond Enquirer says Jackson alone is a
dearer loss to us than Hooker and his whole
hundred and fifty thousand would be to thepl -
The Why says = that since the death of Wash
mgton no similar event has so profoundly and
S'rrowfully impressed the people of Virginia


While rejoicing that such an obstacle to the
progress of our arms and instrument of death
to our brave soldiers is removed no one can
but regret that one of Jackson's purity and
earnestness of character should have been found
engaged in snch bad cause and with such
bad men. In u better cause he might have
gained great and imperishable name
Year: 1863

REPORT OF TIE COMMITTEE on THE Con-
Duct OF THE WAR.-We are indebted to Judge
Fisher, our laCe Representative, for the first
part OF The Report of the Committee on the
Conduct of the War; as authorized by Con
grcs>. This is a valuable document and will
be turned to by the historian as an accurate
compendium Of the Mcclellan campaign on the
Potomac and the Peninsula The entire Re
port comprises three parts, or books, the two
latter Of which are now in the hands of the
printer: Judge Fisher has our thanks for thi,
kindness.
Year: 1863

The latest Muuchausen story was related
by boy who was begging in the streets of
Plymouth the other day He said he was
cabin boy on board an American liner,
and Tor some OF his mischievops pranks
was headed up in an empty water cask,
with only the bung hole 10 breathe through.
On the following night squall came up,
the ship went down with all on board ex-
cep. himself, The cask containing him hav-
in rolled over into the ,on a sudden lurch
of the vessel. Fortunately it kept 'bung
up" and after thirty hours floating about
he was cast on the coast, where, after he
had made desperate efforts to release him
self, he gave himself up to die. Some
cows sirowling along the beach were at
tracied 10 the cask, and in switching around
it, one of Them accidently dipped her tail
into The bung hole, which the boy grasped
Immediately. and kept fast hold of with ad-
mirable resolution. The COW started of,
and after running about three hundred yards,
the cask struck rock, and was Knocked TO
pieces. AIer wandering for several days
he hailed a vessel, was taken on board, and
carried 10 Falmouth, from whence he pro-
ceeded 10 Plymouth.
Year: 1863

Hush the muffled drum and the shrill
mournful notes OF the fife, admonish us that
another soldier is being borne'by his com.
rades TO his last resting place. There IS
scarcely day, that one of these solemn
professions does not file slowly by in fronl
of our window.


We look upon the sad scene as it for a
moment, arrests the attention either of Gu
riosity or respect, of the busy and laughing
world. The moment il is gone, il is forgot
ten forever, and nameless and unknown,
he sleeps we'll


One of those professions has just passed
A plain wooden coffin, in a two horse
wagon, few manly comrades, are all the
trappinss OF woe that accompany all that is
mortal OF some one, who must be as dear
to some poor broken heart, as are the
haughtiest or proudest of the land.


There in that plain box is all of what
was once the happy, laughing boy upon a
fathers knee-a fathers pride, a mothers
cherished idol. A cold letter from a
strange hand will bear the heart breaking
tidings TO The far distant friends. Il will
tell them how the idol son, how the dear
and loved father, and cruelest stab of all
how the husband shut his eyes in clammy
death talking wildly and incoherently to the
last moment, of his absent and loved wife
How he called in his wild delirium the one
name-addressed his companions in the
endearing terms of long agony. names thai
had never before escaped his lips, save in
the sacred joys of that most sacred relation
in life. Such are the cru shing and blighted
memories nailed down forever in that plain
box, over which the busy and the thouoht
less world have not time even to devote a
passing thought. In that springless, hard
wagon accompanied only by a few weather
beaten comrades, are being borne 10 the
rude grave dug in the sand, all these hear
rendering relics Let the brave boy that
has offered up his life as sacrament for
his wounded country, sleep in peace and
though it be-in glory. The dank and rot
tenine weeds OF the lonesome forest will
soon obliterale forever all the marks of hi:
final resting place, but upon a tablet o.
broken hearts will be iudeIibly inscribed
MS troubled life, and its good desds.
Year: 1863

THK last dodge of the conscript deserters
is to don Confederate uniform and come
into camp as deserers. They are then sent
10 Washington, take the oath OF allegiance,
and are forwarded TO The North. Seven
were caught al this game last week.
Year: 1863

To PREvhsT COLDS IN CHILDREN-The
best preventive of colds in children is 10
dress them warm and give them exercise
daily in the open air, and wash them thor
oughiy every day in cold water, if they are
strong enough to bear it; if not add little
warm water and rub the skin dry keeps
the pores open. II they do take cold, give
them warm bath as soon as possible. If
thai is no, convenient, baihe the ieet and
hands, and wash the body all over with
warm water, and then give cup of warm
tea, and cover The patient in bed. AVOID
exposure on the following day.
Year: 1863

AN editor oui West gives the following
notice ;-"Our purse is Lost The finder
is requested to return it, being careful not
TO disturb its contents, which were a brass
rule, piece of leaf tobacco nicely twisted,
the stump of cigar, and very good leath-
er suingn
Year: 1863

THAT was a very pretty conceii of ro-
mantle husband and father whose name
was Rose, who named his daughter wild,
so that she grew up under The sppellation
wild Rose But the romance of the
name was sadly spoiled in a few years, for
she married man by the name of Bull