smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

v Me Dntaes oJ CWcerS ana FT1rdteS.

 SEc. Whenever the commander in chief shall deem it necessary, he may issue his orders, di- recting the brigade inspectors to meet the adiu- tant general, at such time and place as he shall appoint, to confer with him and to receive his directions in regard to their official duties, and to afford him such assistance and o-operation as the public service may require; and said off eers shall be allowed five cents per mile for tray el to and from such place of meeting

 SEC. 40. The duty of the quartermaster gen. eral shall be to take care of all the public prop erty committed to him, and belonging to his de- partment; to execute all orders received from the commander in chief relative thereto; to re- ceive such arms and equipments as the govern ment of the United States may from time to time to time transmit to this state; to cause the same to be deposited in the state arsenal at Hartford, and to distribute them to the militia, in such manner as the commander in chief may direct to perform all other service which may be required of him by law and to make report to the general assembly, on the third day of it's session in. each year, containing complete inventory of all the articles belonging to his department, specifying the place or places where they are deposited, and also of the articles con sumed or expended since his last previous re- port, together with a particular account oe all expenditures of money incurred in his depart ment, of which no account shall have been pre- viously rendered to the general assembly: and he shall become bound to the state treasurer in a bond of twenty thousand dollars, with Surety. conditioned for the faithful discharge of the d1. ties of his office.
Year: 1862

SEC. 50. There shall be one parade annually in the month of May, for one day, by company also, one parade by regiment or brigade in eacf year, in the month of September or October fol three successive days.

 SEC 5l. The commanding officer of eacl company shall order out his command in tho month of May, annually at some proper place within it's limits, fully armed and equipped fol the purpose of discipline and inspection. He shall also order hls company to assemble at such time and place in the month of September ol October as may be designated by his superior officer, iii pursuance of this act, for brigade or regmental inspection and review.

 SEC. 52. The commanding officer of division when he deems it expedent, may, with the con. sent and appreciation of the commander in chief

 issue orders to the commandants of brigades, to assemble their respective brlgades for an en campment, three successive days, at such time as the commanders of each brigade shall desig nate between the tenth day of September and the fifteenth day of October in e-ch year or if said commandant of division shall deem ii more advantageous, he shall direct said comman. dants of brigade to issue orders to the comman ding officers of their respective regiments to order out their several regiments separately within the time above specified, for the purpose aforesaid, at Sucn time as the cOmmandant Ol said brigade shali designate; and the comman. (der of the troops to be assembled shall appoint the place for such encampment, and give due notice thereof to the commander of the division [ if it be an encampment of brigade but if it be an encampment of regiment, such notice shal be given to the commander of the brigade tt which such regiment is attached

 SEC. B. Whenever the members of any com pany or band are to be assembled for parade o the choice of officers, notice specifying the time and place of such parade or choice of off cers, when read in the hearing of the person tc be warned, or left with him or at his usual place of abode, or addressed by mail to snch person three days previous to the day of such parade or the choice of officers, shall be considered legal notice.

 SEC. 54. The commanding officer of the day, at any parade required by this act, may cause those under his command to perform any held or camp duty which he may deem proper and may also put under guard for the day, any officer or soldier who shall disobey the orders ot hiS supe- rior officer, or who in an5wise interrupts the exercise of the day; also all other persons who shall trespass on the parade ground or in any way interrupt or molest the orderly discharge of duty by those under arms.
Year: 1862

Swift and his Servant.
Dean Swift, while on a journey, and stop.
ping at a tavern, desired his servant, Johr
who, by the way, was as eccentric as his
master-to bring him his boots.


John brought up the boots in the same
state as they were in the evening previous
Why didn't you polish my boots p sale
the Dean.


There is no use in polishing them said
the man, for they would soon be dirty
again.


Very true,' said the Dean, and he put
on the boots.
Immediately after he went down to the
landlady, and told her on no account to
give his servant any breakfast. The Dean
breakfasted, and then ordered his horse
out.


AS he was ready to start, John ran tc
him and said:


Mr.. Dean; havn't got my breakfast yet


'Oh,' replied the witty divine, there's nc
use in your breaktasting for you would soon
be hungry again"


John finding his theory thrown back on
himself, submitted to the privation with
the same stoicsm as did his maste,
with the boots. On they rode, the Dean
in front reading his prayer book, and tho
man behind at respectful distance, when
they were met by gentleman, who, ate,
eyeiog the Dean very closely, accosted the
servant with


L say, my man. you and your master
seem to be sober pair; may ask who yor
are, and where you are going?


We are going to heaven replied John
my master is praying, and am fasting.'


The gcntleman looked again in wonder
ment at the master and man, and rode off
Year: 1862

How TO CLEAN \ HARxEss-Take cas-
tile soap, and make strong suds with warm


water, and wash the harness with it thor
oughly; let it dry, and then oil it with good
clean oil, and it win look equal to new
The soap is equal te. one oil:ug, aud it leaves
the harness perfectly cissn, and u much
better than to use clean warm water.
have used hens oil with success, and think
il better than neatseoot oil for the purpose
Year: 1862

STEAMBOAT MATTERs.-There seems to be
as yet but little known in Sacramento con.
cerning the arrangement between the Steam
Navigation Company aud the Opposition.
entered into at San Francisco. Ii is
certain, however, that the steamer Sacra-
mento has been drawn off under an arrange
ment with her owners. which will continue
Ia effect until the Nevada is ready to resume
her place on the river. II she is never rails
ed, the present arrangement will be per-
manent. If raised, aud no similar agree
ment can be had With her owners. then the
present arrangement with The Sacramento
will cease. The general basis on which
outside boats are induced TO lay up is to
pay them from the receipts of the Company
the same dividend on their estimated value
as Is paid TO stockholders OF the Company.
There is no transfer of ownership TO the
Company, but the same relative position is
occupied as to dividends. 1t is now gener-
ally conceded by steamboat men that the
Nevada will be raiseu at an early period,
but she can be put In running order again
only by great outlay Of money aud with
considerable loss of time.
Year: 1862

This should be commenced as soon as
the corn win do, and finished before the
roots Of the corn have spread so as to be
broken much by the plow. Corn should
row both ways, and if you have nothing
beyseF than shovel Plow. two burrows in
n ro~ each way, and the third time
through three in row will do very
well. If the ground is clean it viii not
require Rhch work with hoe. If the
weeds spring up after the third blowing,
it may be well to run through lightly
with a ealtiFator. SO as not to break the
roets Of the corn. If the ground has
su6icient moisture, the corn will send our
new roots bat if it is dry, breaking the
roots will materially injure the crop.


If this management fails to bring good
corn in ordinary seasons, some one else
must prescribe, g l. GRivrIue.


Table Rock. N T,
Year: 1862

Il may seem ofliIlle use for one brough.
up in . country where good farmers would
raise q whole acre of corn in seasOn,
and sometimes more, 10 talk 70 men
brought up in a prairie country about
corn Bpl remembering that many Of
your readers have had no more expe-
rience in prairie farsaing than lhe writer
these lines are pehnsd with the hope that
they may be of advantage to somebody
Whatever may be said about anything
else as staple, corn must long continue
to be one Of the chief products of Nebras.
ka. It is idle to talk about raising hogs
or cattle, or sheep even, TO profit, withour
something besides prairie hay. believe
there is nothing can be raised for food
so cheaply, pro6iably. and surely, as corn
How to raise the most with the least ex,
pense. becomes an Important inquiry.


PREPARATION OF TRE GROUND.


Corn may be raised in this country in
considerable quantities with very little
care in preparation or after culture. In.
deed l have seen corn raised in thi.
country without any other blowing than
a rough furrow il which to plant the corn
and little blowing between the rows
while the corn was growing; but no man
that calls himself a farmer ought to be
satisfied with anything short of lhe'mosr
thorough system of culture that can be
made profitable in his clrcumstances.-
The most important part of preparation
is the blowing. Experience has proved
that the true policy is to let the plow run
deep. The common practice is shallow
blowing, probably because it can be done
quicker and with less team; but it is far
better 10 plow one acre per day in such a
way as to raise Efty bushels per acre,
than to run over two acres and get only
thirty per acre. If the ground has been
plowed shallow previously, the best way
is to go down AN inch or two at time
There is no fear Of stirring the ground
TOO deep. If the season is wet, It serves
to drain Off the surplus water quickly
and if dry, the roots can strike below the
scorching, parching influence Of the sun
Perhaps many of your readers viii Ihinl
it folly to talk about blowing with dOu
bic team in old ground. but when they
put the plow down about ten or twelve
inches, they viii ind good team nsces
sary.


Quite d difference Of opinion exists
among farmers as to the best manner o.
planting. Some prefer shallow furroW
and light covering. while other like t.
have it deeper. In many places in The
East, corn buried as we plant il here
would never see the light. I have otter
seen the ground thrOwnupin ridges, snC
the corn planted on the ridge with abou
an inch in depth of covering. I have
seen it planted ia different ways in thi.
country; but after Eve years experienc,
and observation, a good furrow to droI
the corn in, and two good hoefuIls Of dir
to the bin for corn, suits me about as vel
as any way.


-
Year: 1862

Long II IL to Last!


Shallow thinkers and ire-eaters at the South
used to indulge largely in the pleasure Of sup
posing and predicting that the withdrawal Of
the Southern trade would quickly produce o
most tremendous smash up in all the great
marts Of business at the North; that the great
ness Of New York would pass away and be re-
membered only as thing Of history, and that the
noisy, bustling, impossible Broadway would
lapse into such state Of quiet abandonment
that the Russ pavement therein would soon be
hidden under a verdant crop Of grass. Two
years Of virtual separation have passed-two
years Of utter deprivation Of Southern trade
two years Of costly, devastating war-and in
what respect are those predictions veriieds
What has become of the prophets? Like the
nine hundred thousand warriors promised Of
Greeley, they have all vanished into thin air.
and the New York Of to-day is moro noisy,
more bustling, more thriving, more prosperous
than the New York Of any time between now
and the days Of the Knickerbocksrs. In fact,
its population and business have outgrown its
facilities, as the jammed up condition Of Broad
way, from the Park to the Battery, daily testi-
fes. In homsly phrase, it has grown too big
for its brseches. And New York ID but the
great representative city of the free States
oonverging and rejecting the wealth, the pros
psrity, the nourishing trade Yhich all the loyal
States are now enjoying.


We do not, of course, fall into the absurdity
Of believing that this state Of things has any
thing Of psrmanency about IT, II 10 factitious
and extraordinary, and whom the time comes
that the country will begin to fall back into ito
normal condition the change cannot fail to be
accompanied with terrible shocks. The South
ern trade was, undoubtedly, Of immense benefit
to oil the Industrial interests Of the North, and
TO the commercial interests Of this city in par
ticular. Its withdrawal, under ordinary cir
cumstances, IL such thing had been possible,
might have proved almost as disastrous as the
most malevolsnt secessionist could desire but,
under the actual circumstances, ia loss worked
no perceptible injury. The stimulus given to all
industrial pursuits by the demands which tho
war gave rise to more than counterbalancsd
tho loss OF The Southern trade. Manufactures
foarished as they never did before in this ceun-
try, the agricultursts had ine crops aad re-
munerative prices, and all the industrial classes
found profitable employment. Such is still our
conditisn, and will be until the crash comes.
The demands which war has made upon the
national resources have been The means Of cirou-
iating ten or twelve hundred millions Of dollars
throughout the country, and the immense issue
Of government currency, added to the inorsassd
| isane Of tha hank cpxrsnaxA.h .haa contributed
Year: 1862

will be in the very best condition to enforce
the Proclamation. With an army of a mil.
lion OF men, yea, with ten vast armies of q
hundred thousand men each with a navy
that ought to be able without difficulty to take
every part of the South, and fully to open up
the Mississippi, she will have the power, says
a New York editor to enforce the Proclamation


About nine-tentlls of the loyal portion Of
our country are more than beginning to real.
izemost sensibly the truth Of proposition cx.
pressed in the Philadelphia Press, that, +" il
slavery lives, tho Republic dies )" and 81 the
Republic must live, therefore slavery must
die" How is this Let us sec. If five
hundred thousand mechanics and five hun
drcd thousand farmers of the North are call
ed into the army. it must seriously disarrange
the business of the country. But the South
can spare two-thirds of their white men for
the army, while the slaves, the working class,
are left to carry on the business of the coun-
try TO raise supplies for the army, or to do
the drudgerv work of the rebellion. So the
rebellion will probably never cease while
slavery continues, as it is the very prop on
which it rests. Slavery therefore, more than
any thing else, is prcjudicial to the very exis-
tence of our nation,-.he deadly Upas that
stands precisely in the way. putting in jeop-
ar,ly the life of the Republic. 1t must be
dug UP root and branch. In Gods great
nalne let it perish.


The sentiment of the loyal portion of the
country is generally in favor of the Procla-
nation. The press almost universally speaks
in favor of it. On the 2i.h of September n
Governors Convention for the loyal States
met mt Altoona, Penn. Sixteen States were
represented. After consulting, they adjourn
ed 10 Washington and had an interview with
the President. Here they drew up an ad-
dress, which received the signatures of the
sixteen. save one,-GOvcrnor Bradford In
that address they candidly congratulate the
President for his Proclamation. believing it
would do good rs Il measure OF justice aud
soum! policy.
Year: 1862

w AS the President journeyed through
maryland to Antictam the citizens turned out
a.i along the road to greet him. His journey
was an ovation. Very different from his first
.n me through Maryland, when his life was
Year: 1862

ment but BY the high price which her bonds COM
panded in the Richmond market H.was the duty,
as 1t should be the pride Of people to maintain
this character under all circumstances. r,5


Again thanking the assemblage for the honor
done him by calling upon him, he bade them good
night and retired to his room. His remarks, as
we have stated were most enthusiastically received
and we glad to learn that they gave satisfaction
to many ofthose present who had voted against him.


Col. Vance left in the cars for his home, in Bum
combe, on Sunday evening. We are gratified to
have in power to inform our readers that his


Inauguration as Governor, on Monday the sth day
of next month, UiU be public A large concourse
will no doubt attend to witness the inauguration
The oaths of Office will be administered by Chief
Justice Pearson or by some one of the Judges of
the Supreme or Superior Courts.
Year: 1862

The Milton Chronicle, in recording the reelection
to the Senate of Col. Brown, from Caswell says:


"The old "war. horse"-Hon. Bedford Brown
might just well make up his mind to die in public
harness, for no amount of begging or pleading for
"rest from public labor avails him any good The
people wont let him retire from public life; they
will run him, will elect him. in spite of all that he
can say and do to get them to let him alone. We
hear of man in the County who declares that he
means to vote for him long as he lives, and after
his ICol. Brown'sl death, he'll stuff pair of his
breeches with straw and vote for them Few men
have such hold the affections and confidence of
the people. The reason is he has never deceived
the people, and has ever proved honest politician
a hgh-minded statesman, who would rather do right
than be President of Republic His competitor
Mr.. Smith, is gentleman, no doubt, of equal
political honesty, but never having been in public
life is not so generally known"
Year: 1862

SUGGEsTIONs.-We observe that the Richmond
press very graciOusly suggests to the members of
Congress- the proFrety and necessity of so amend
ing the Conscrpton Act as to embrace every man
III The Southern COnfederacy between the ages of
10 and 90 years! The Richmond Dispatch exhibits
It's lack of knowledge of the real condition of some
portions of the States by observing that the agri
cultural interests of the country could not he Sc
iI,CuSly I interfered with by such an arrangement.
vest OF Raleigh to the Tennessee line we may with


rum say, that three out of every four of the white
,aeS between the ages of 16 and SO are laborers in
'i .ne wheat and cornfields. Such law embracing
u CnOse ages would reduce good portion of North
carolina to beggary. If Congress is determined to
adhere to the principle of conscription instead of
volunteering or the draft which consider vastly


more IN accordance with the Constitution the spirit
anu genius of the government and the temper Of our
people, let it change entirely the principles Of SUBJ
S'iIutlon and exemption in the bill
Year: 1862

GEN PETTIGREw.-We are highly gratified to
learn, from a near relative of Gen. Pettigrew re-
siding in our City, that two of his wounds have al
ready healed, and the other is improving, though
his right arm is still paralyzed. The General has
reported for service and suppose will soon be in
the field again.
Year: 1862

Some of our State contemporaries are not disposed
to lumber" their columns with the election
turns, but they promise their readers the general
result when ascertained. We do not wonder at
this. The medicine is by no means palatable to the
patient For our part, ue print ne,os paper, and
feel it our duty to give the news as fast as it
reaches us
Year: 1862

WEST PoIT SOLDIERs.-We are indebted to an
esteemed friend for list, made out with much labor
and care, of the graduates OF West Point Military
Academy, who have become prominent officers in
this war This list is valuable, and should be laid
away for future reference.
Year: 1862

MGLANCHoLY.-T The Buffalo Commercial
says that one of our soldiers who was in
the Pittsburg Landing battle happens to
be rnordinately fond of card playing -
During the fight lie had three of his fin
gers shot eff. Holding up his mangIed
member, he gazed at it with look Of in
effable sorrow, and exclaimed, as a big
tear stole into the corner OF his eve: |
shall never be able to hold q fill hand
again ~
Year: 1862

a9- Washington is said to be already
crowded with applicants for appointments
under the Eew tax bill. When it shall be
come necessary to select tax gatbere.s there
will be vast army Of willing souls from
which 10 choose.
Year: 1862

to the community from the proposed tax VIII
be the certainty which it will afford to adver-
tisers of the actual extent of the circulation OF
the different journals At present great deal
of money is spent in this way which never
yields cent return. By the force of impudent
assertion and lying, many journals succeed in
getting advertisements to which they have no
legitimate claim, their alleged circulation being
for the most part fictitious. AS soon as tax in
spectors are appointed, and quarterly returns
are made from each newspaper Office, there will,
of course, no longer be any possibility Of
these bogus concerns swindling the public.


But it is not alone on the newspaper press
that tax should be imposed. Magazines, re-
views and periodical publications of every sort
should be embraced within its operation. We
do not in fact, see why books should be e1-
empted from it. If heavy stamp duty were
to be laid on the piles of trash in the shape Of
novels, which are daily issued by American pub
fishers, the public taste and morals would alike
be benefited by it.
Year: 1862

The Hon. BEN. WOoD AS NOvELIsT.-The
firm of Carleton Il Co. has in press, and will
soon publish, novel, by the Hon. Ben. Wood,
entitled "Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Seces-
SION" This novel will be such great literary
curiosity in its way that we sincerely hope that
the government will not find it necessary to
suppress the work, as it suppressed Ben. Woods
romantic productions in the defunct Daily NeDs


Ben. Wood came very near having an intimate
personal acquaintance with the interior of Fort
Lafayette at one time, and we suppose his novel
describes what would have happened if he had
been sent there. In this view of the case, it
strikes us that the title Glove of Secession
would be much more appropriate for the book