smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

Ours is not revolution. We were free and in
dependent people in States that had the right to
make better government when they saw ft-
President DluiS AuguItS Speech.


Still harping on the doctrine of secession at will
No such doctrine was ever held by Madison, or
jackson, or Polk or Wright or Douglas, or any of
the great lights of the Democratic party.


Mr.. Davis as the President of the whole people,
has no right to attempt to thrust his ultra secession
doctrines down the throatS of those who refuse to
accept them. vast majority Of the people of this
State, for example, never held so ridiculous or so
ruinous doctrine as that which asserts that the
States, under the old form of government had
right to secede land make a better government
when they saw fit" They have that right noto, in
theory, but let any one of them attempt to put it
in practice, aud they will soon find the sword of
Confederate power, welded by Mr.. Davis, waving
over their heads This is proved by the fact that
when it falsely charged that the people of this
State contemplated secession FROM the Confederate
government Mr.. Davis promised troops TO Gov.
Vance and Gov. Vance accepted them in advance,
TO be used to coerce North Carolina and whip her
back if she attempted to go out. Mr.. Davis, who
fights against coercion, would coerce; Mr.. Davis,
who glories in the right of secession as exercised
against the old government would not tolerate it
under the new. And Gov. Vance is the only Gov
who ever lived on this continent who has man
ifcSted disposition to coerce his own State What
exempars of States Rights


For proof of what we say we refer to the Cor
respondence between President Davis and Gov
Vance, published by order of the last Legislature


If "ours is not revolution" we should like to
know what is. If we should succeed in getting
away from the North it will be q revolution com
menced By acts Of secession; but if should fail
to get away it will be known in history as rebel
lion. That is the true, comm on sense view of the
whole subject.
Year: 1864

A SrRAw.-A vote for the Presidency was taken
at the conValescent and ecruiting camp in Angus
ta, Maine, few days since. There were present
1900 soldiers and the result of the vote was 45O
for Lincoln and so for Mcclellan The Lincoln
men were no doubt promised furloughs, and the
Mcclellan men were told that if they voted for the
man of their choice they should have no furlOughs.
The Mcclellan men were also no doubt called trait
ors and enemies 10 the Union of the States. When
the election takes place in the army tho Mcclellan
men will have their tickets taken from them and
torn up, and they will be threatened with heavy
punishment if they vote as they wish to do. This
was the course adopted in the recent election for
Governor in this State and it worked admirably for
the party in power. A man who votes with the
party in power is perfectly free to do So but if ho
has mind or opinion of his own he is deprived of
his right of suffrage, and IS compelled to occupy the
situation Of white slave. 1t was in this way the
recent elections were carried in North Carolina
Surely the Lncontes are as smart as the Yanceites
and Davisites and this being the case there can he
no hope that Mcclellan will be elected.
Year: 1864

Is RICHMOND TO BE SURRENDERED I'VE were
surprised and panied to see in the Confederate Of
Friday last, broad intimation that Richmond may
be surrendered to the enemy. The Confederate is
an ultra administration paper-its Senior Editor is
supposed to be in the confidence of the military au
thorities here and hence its statements on military
subjects are entitled to unusual weight. That pa
per thinks that eight thousand more troops from
this State, with what Virginia can add TO the army,
would save Richmond Does Richmond hang by
that slender thread?


We would regard the surrender or the capture OF
Richmond as supreme calamity to the Confederate
cause We fear the cause would not recover from
the shock, especially if Sherman should make good
his hold upon the State of Georgia. Experience
has shown the melancholy fact that every State
which has been overrun by the enemy has been
substantially subjugsted and the question at once
presents itself with fearful force, could North Caro-
lima and South Carolina alone Withstand the pres,
sure of federal arms, with Virginia and Georgia Civ
en- up to or held by the enemy3 Let the final
struggle, whether it is to end in victory or disas-
ter, be made at Richmond. Every hope, all thoughts
centre there; and the good wishes and the aid OF
every true Confederate must be directed to the
defence of Richmond Everything, in our humble
opinion, depends on holding Richmond
Year: 1864

In the Presidents recent speech in Columbia he
said he had rn at tho foot Of that Poerless states
man, John G. Calhoun and learned from him what
the people of his State had learned; not to fling
away the substance to secure a shadow" Is not
this the very thing we Of the South have done! We
went to war on account Of slavery in the Terrific
ries and the danger now is that shall lose it in
the States. Instead of spreading slavery in the
Territories, many Southern STAKEHOLDER has been
forced, by the cruel and barbarous policy of our
enemies, to be shot at by, and to shoot down his
own slaves on the field of battle Oh that our
managing statesmen would get wisdom, or at least
exhibit some common sense
Year: 1864

SoRGHUX SIRUP.-We learn from ell quarters
that the cane has turned out very well, and
that the yield will be in large excess over last yea
and of superior quality The Charlotte Democrat
says that good article of Syrup was sold in CnA+-
lotte last week ut five dollars per gallon. Farmers
about here, With less conscience, are still asking ten
and twelve dollars. We regret to learn that rum
is being made by some, AID that no one in Wake
County So far as have learned has yet been able
to Manufacture sugar.
Year: 1864

WAKE SUPERIOR CoURT.-Judge Saunders, at the
late term Of Wake Superior Court refused to grant
Judgments when the plaintiff expressed his u1wil-
lngness to receive Confederate currency In the
case OF F-J. Haywood Us. A. Solomon, which was an
appeal from the summary proceeding allowed by a
recent statute to landlord against tenant refnSing
10 vacate, his Honor after verdict in favor of the
plaintiff ordered trial because the plaintiff in
structed the officers to demand specie for the recoVe
~, on the ground that the jury assessed the dam
ages IN Confederate currency This was the only civil
suit tried during the term The case of State o.
Beasly and others, Indictment for riot wherein the
State journal printing Office suffered injury, was
continued Conservative.


Judge Saunders is entitled to the commendation
OF every true SOutherner for his refusal to allow
judgments to be entered collecable in specie Con-
federate money is the life blood of the Confederacy
and he who refuses or discredits it. is no friend to
the Southern cause.


Our readers know that we are no apoIogist under
any circumstances for mob law but the mobbing Of
the State Journal was a prompt, if not proper re-
taliaton for the mobbing of the Standard Office by
some Georgia troops acting under orders. Gov.
Vance solemnly pledged himself at the time, in
letter to the Secretary Of War; that if he the Sec
retary, did not punish the officers who led in the
mob on the Standard office, he would demand them
of the Governor of Georgia, to be tried and punish
ed by our civil tribunals. If such a demand has
been made we have not heard of it. Gov. Vance
knows that President Davis was anxious, in Au-
gust 1868, to suppress the Standard newspaper by
torco. We think the Attorney General might very
properly, under the circumstances, enter a nolle
proseqai as to the persons indicted for mobbng the
Journal Office. 1t would be wrong to punish those
who mobbed one office, and not punish those who
mobbed the other.
Year: 1864

We understand that five of the seven Counseiors
were present at the late meeting of tho Governor
and Council in this City, and that four out Of the
Ave voted against the proposition of the Governor
to convene the Legislature. Werepeat the opinion
expressed in our last that the Council acted wisely
Year: 1864

Some idea of the enormous amount Of to,
bacco smoking in the world may be formed
from the fact that one of the Brazilian mail
packets recently brought to England six mil
lion of cigars, and that an American mail
steamer, which left Southampton lately,
landed, before her departure, two thousand
bales of unmanufactured leaf tobacco. She
had brought it from New York, took it on
to Bremen, and without landing it there
brought it to Southampton. from whence il
was sent to London to be shipped for the
peninsula.
Year: 1864

In the Norwegian mines singular and
striking custom is observed in paying the


weekly wages Of men there employed. They


all present themselves on the Saturday even-
ing to the inspector, who hears from each


man the number Of hours be has worked on


the successive days of the week past, com.
pares the total given with his own notes on
the subject, and having settled the account,
calls the miner, bids him turn around, and
writes in white chalk on his back the
amount due him. Thus mysteriousy uum,
bered, the man has to 60 to the cashier who
also turns him around to look at the figures,
and pays him without his having word to
say. The method is an expeditions one
two or three strokes of chalk settle the mat
ter; it is prudent, for the miner has no
chance to alter figure in his own favor.
and economical, for brush removes all
trace of the inscription, and the same black
jacket is ready for the next Sunday.
Year: 1864

All Hindoo widows do not burn themselves
up on a suttee, for lately marriage took
place 10 Calcutta in which the bridegroom
was law student of the Presidency College,
and the bride widow fourteen years OF age,
educated in the school attached to the Free
Church of Scotland Mission. Independent
of its being widow marriage, which is of
itself very rare occurrence, it is noteworthy
that the parties were of different castles.
Year: 1864

A GALLANT PEDLER.-As lady Of great
personal beauty was walking along very
narrow pathway, she perceived, just behind
her, pedler of earhenware driving an ass
with two panners containing his stock in
trade. To give the animal and his master
room to pass, the lady suddenly stepped
aside, which 50 frightened the donkey that
he ran away, and had not ran far when he
fell and great part of the crockery was
broken. The lady, in her turn, became
alarmed lest the man should load her with
abuse, but he merely exclaimed, Never
mind, ma'am, BaIaam's ass was frightened
so by an angel"
Year: 1864

The London correspondent Of the San


Francisco Call writing under date of October
3lst, says:


Of late years, it has become the custom OF
Members of Parliament to visit their con-
stituents during the recess, and "give an &C.
count of their stewardship" They usually
review the work of the session, and give their
opinions about the state Of public afairs.
Some of these extra Parliamentary utter.
ances," as they have been called, are poor
more prominent of our statesmen conform
to the custom, there is always something
worth listening to. Lord Stanley, tho son
of the Earl Of Derby, is one Of these; and
last week, at Kings Lynn, ha delivered one
of the most able speeches l have read
for a long time. In the course Of it he made
some remarks about the war; and as they
may be of interest to your readers, copy
them. lie said:


First there is the American war, as to
which think the duty of absolute neutrality
is plain, so much so, that for my part do
not wish to violate that neutrality, even to
the extent of expressing sympathy with one
side or the other. speak of it simply as
an observer, and if were to venture pre-
diction, which is always hazardous, should
say that see no prospect Of its early close.
When two nations are worked up to pitch
of mutual hatred, in which their own losses
cease to affect them if only they can nflict
greater loss upon the enemy, nothing will
separate them except the utter exhaustion Of
one or the other. Neither, party, as be.
lleve, is half beaten yet, and, considering the
determination which the North has shown,
| think it likely, as did three years ago,
with its enormous superiority of force, il
will occupy and overrun in the end the whole
territory of the South. The North may
succeed so far as to crafty its feelings Of
revenge and its desire for supremacy; but
when it has done that, its political difficulties
will begin. | cannot realize the manner in
which a republican community of twenty
millions is to hold, consistently with its own
principles of government, or indeed, with
any principles Of government, another coml
munty of six or seven millions utterly disaf,
fected with its rule. That is the real per-
plexity of the American future. As to tho
drain of men and money, do not attach
much weight to it, The overflow Of Europe
will fill up all gaps in the population, and
although l should be myself equally sorry
to be creditor either of the North or Of
the South, yet a country with the gigantic
natural resources of America, cannot be per-
ruined. All we can do-alI We
ought to dds to let them fight it OUT"
Year: 1864

Too SHORT FOR THE PRIcE.-A man hired
an over-'cute fellow to saw = load of wood,
agreeing to pay him sixpence an hour. He
showed him a specimen of the shortest stove
wood but the fellow turned on his heel. de-
claring '.he WAS not quite so green as TO saw
wood short as that, for sixpence an hour"
Year: 1864

8. The gloomy prospect of the future arises
not only from the mad policy and their power
by military force in its direct application in the
loyal States, and its direct application in the Sc
ceded States, for should they fail thus to carry
a majority in the electoral colleges in case of a
division between Lincoln and Fremont, to make
sure of the result in the House of Representa-
tives, where the military elected Representative
of Delaware will not only misrepresent the peo-
pie of his own State but vote down the thirty
two Representatives of New York with her
teeming millions Thus, also a few false Rep
resentatves of seeded States, the creatures of
military power, and single Representatives of
those party creations and executive appendages
called new States, carved out of the western
wilderness, may come in and vote down the
great States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinoig


Can any of common understanding shut
his eyes to the danger of carrying elections, and
especially that of President by such means p
Will the millions consent to be governed by the
thousands through force and fraud


The answer to these questions ought to be a
warning to those in power to retrace their steps,
to confne the war to its legitimate object, the
suppression of the armed rebellion, and leave
the people of the redeemed as well as the loyal
States to the free enjoyment of their constitu-
tional privileges.
Year: 1864

WERE it not for the resistance of the air,
ball fred from canon would perpetually cir
culate round the earth 1t is with such state
ments as this we are continually startled. What
a horrid thing it would be if the ball thus fred
should 90 round the world and come back and
''hoist the engineer with his own petard" be-
hind "Do you see that hill said wonder
monger to friend at Lake George, pointing to
hill about fifteen hundred feet high. eyes"
was the reply "Well,' continued he, "if 1t
wasn't for that the whole of this water would
run down the Hudson River ~ The other was
inundated.
Year: 1864

UYwIsE MEN.-The following are few of the
characters coming under this head:


The jealous man who poisons his own ban
quet, and then eats it.


The miser who starves himself that his heir
may feast.


The mean man who bites off his own nose to
despite his neighbor


The angry man who sets his own house on
fire, that he may burn up another.


The slanderer, who tells tales, and gives his
enemy a chance to prove him liar.


The self conceited man, who attaches more
consequence to dignity than to common sense.
The proud man, who falls in the estimation
of sensible observers, in proportion as he rises
in his own.


The envous man, who cannot enjoy life and
prosperity because others do.


The dishonest man, who cheats his own soul
more vitality than he does his fellow men.


The robber, who for consideration of dol
lars and cents, gives the world liberty to hang
him.
Year: 1864

ED1roR1AL 1NGRATITUDE.-A certain editor
having recently undertaken to comment in
his paper, upon the remissness of a policeman in
the discharge of his official duty, the indignant
star, upon seeing the paragraph, thus gave vent
to his feelings "The ungrateful man If l
had been vigilant, he would have been in the
lock-up for drunkenness, instead Of being allow
ed to write his complaint against me at home.
Year: 1864

SUEING HIS MoTHER.-One of those extraordin-
airy cases that now and then shock the moral
sense of mankind, has just transpired in Scot
land A farmer prosecutes his mother, ninety
one years old, for the cost of her board with
him for nineteen years past. 1t seems that his
aged, and widowed mother, had been living with
him. aided by taking care of his children, eight
or nine in number knitting stockings, &c. The
court decided that he was under natural and
legal obligation to maintain his aged parent,
and it is not averred that there was any agree
ment or understanding that she was to be made
liable for such support. The case was therefore
dismissed. Such instances of total depravity
are happily rare in the world
Year: 1864

How SOLDIERS DEMONSTRATIONS ARE MADE
The National InteAigencer has letter from a
soldier in relation to the demonstration of SOL
diers got up for political effect, in which the
writer speaks of a Republican demonstration,
got up by the officers, in regiment to which
the writer belonged in 1862-63 thus;


There was an election on dress parade in this
military style The Captain commanding the
regiment read a series of resolutions in a low
tone of voice, and said all those in favor of
these resolutions will "order arms, and the
words 'forder arms" was said in louder tonej
and most of the regiment understood it to be an
order to "order arms" and the resolutions were
not understood by scarcely man in the regi-
ment and it was not until saw them in paper
which received from home, that understood
what the resolutions were They were to the
effect that the regiment was in favor of the Re
publican candidate for Governor; and after read
ing them selected a comrade of mine whom
knew to be a Republican, and we wrote two
tickets for each man in the company, on one of
them was written Republican, and on the other
Democratic, and asked the men to cast the one
they would if at home and voting for Governor;
and there were seven Republicans and nineteen
Democrats and it was as strong Republican
company as there was in the whole regiment.
Year: 1864

The Fourteenth Corps which is well up IN the ad-
vance is located upon both sides Of the railroad run
ming to Chattanooga three-inile post being IN
its midst Therefore 1t is three mes TO the cIshed
or TO the centre of the city The city is said to be
two miles through in any direction This would
bring cur eneampment to within two miles OF the
outskirts or suburbs Of the city Our lne OF battle
or ut least our skirmsh line, is full mile in adj
vance OF our trains Thus take it any way, and
give us all the advantage possess we are at least
one mile from the cityand two miles to the centre
thereof There arc many eininenees hereabonts'
from which the city may be seen plainly with the
naked eve With glass from high knoll to the
right of the Twentieth Corps headquarters one may


distinctly view the operations and gestieulatlons oi
groups OF men and women assembled upon the fools
Of stately buildings and upon the elevations beyond
tba gift
Year: 1864

For some days pastseveral gangs OF guerilias have
bee,, seen in our rear between this place and the
river Three men of Elliott's command were shot
last night only two miles from General sherman 5
headauarters. This morning squads of cavalry have
been sent out upon all the roads between here ana
the river and those caught bushwhaeking Will be
summarily disposed of--so understand.
Year: 1864

The report Of the Secretary Of War
and the accompanying documents will
detail the campaigns Of the armies in the
GeId since the date of the last annual
message, aud also the operations of the
several administrative bureaus of the War
Department during the last year. 1t will
also specify the measures deemed essen
ti2l for the national defe1cc and to keep
up and supply the requisite military
fUrce.
Year: 1864

ally unjust and unfriendly towards the
United States, but, on the contrary


there is every reason to expect that, with
the approval of the Imperial Government
they will take the necessary measures to
pteVent new incursions across the border.
Year: 1864

There will be offered for sale at public auction on
THURSDAY, june 2, st u O'Clock, m, at the
Emitted States Navy Yard, Washington. about sew
enty-fve thousand pounds of Copper Scale.


1t can be examined at any time previous to the
day of sale upon application to the Commandant of
scale have shown 40 Der cent. of metallic Copper


Twenty per cent of the purchase money must be
deposited at the time of the sale, and twelve days
will be allowed TO remove it fror the yard and If
ret removed, the deposit will be forfeited to the
Government.


All payments to be made In Government funds
And be efore the scale is removed from the Navy
I'd a
Year: 1864

SPIDER CAPTURING SSAKE.-The
OrleaNs, (New York, Republican re-
lates that one day last week ex-CQmp-
troller Lorenzo Burrows discov 1rcd, IN
a building belonging to him, small
snake suspended by the neck uu-
der shelf. On exa nination the sus-.
pension proved to be accomplished by
nothing stronger than the thread of
SPIDERS web


The main web or most Of the spider
was just under the shelf, perhaps two
and half feet from the floor. From
this suspended cable formed of q
number of strands, and from this hung
the snake. The upper part of the
snakes body seemed to be wound
around with the tiny Ilread, which
was SO tightly drawn around his head
and throat as to prevent the reptile
opening his mouth. Having thus Sc
cured him, the spider seemed intent on
drawing his prey up to the nest, and
when discovered had so far succeeded
as to have half the length of the snake
from the floor.


The snake manifested dislike to,
the treatment by the occasional vio-
lent struggles, in which he would
spring from the floor and exeIt his ut
most powers to break his filmy bands.
The struggles were very complacently
and unconcernedly watched by the
spider from the nest above. The
snake was about foot in length, and
the spider was by no means large
specimen of his Species The appar-
emily unequal struggle was witnessed
by over one hundred persons during
the day, attracted by the report of the
singular contest. But that the cable
was acci lently lrol;en By a person
who entered the room, the spider
would have undoubtedly drawn the
snake to his don. This singular case
presents double room for wouder-
first at the strategy" of the spider in
getting his coils about the snake, and
second, at thu wonderful strength
evinced in drawing up reptile at least
one hundred times his weight.