smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

~ Surgeon General Hammond has deter
mined to abolish the use of calomel and tartar
emetc in the army, it having proven impossi-
BILE, in any other manner, to properly restrict
the use OF these powerful agents, and it is
therefore directed that they be stricken from,
the supply table, and that no further requisi-
tions for these medicin es be approved by medi-
cal directors In a circular on this subject
just issued from the medical department to
surgeons i'll charge of hospitals and in duty in
the field, the Surgeon General remarks: ..No
doubt can exist that more harm has resulted
from the misuse Of both these agents in the
treatment of disease than benefit from their
proper administration.
Year: 1863

Some times the question is asked us, "why
don't you abuse the secessionists?


Our principal answer to this interrogatory
is, that we haze abused them. We have re-
peatedly denounced them as wicked as the
abolitionists. How any person could be any
more severe upon them, we cannot under
stand .HL,q. -l -.


Had there Fever been any abolitionists,
there never would have been any secession
lists. So we think that the best remedy for
the disease is to remove the cause To this
end we have turned our attention more par
ticularly to showing up the wickedness and
folly of Observation-Disclosures Courier.


We clip the above from that delectable
sheet that has so little to say against the reb-
els. $50 we think that the best remedy for
the disease is to remove the cause" We are
happy to agree with the Courier in one thing
at least, but we propose to look farther for
the real "cause.,' The Courier says, Had
there never been any abolitionists there never
would have been any secessionists." Gen.
Jackson was not of that opinion, for he said
that the secessionists would make use of the
slavery question to cover up their real mo-
tives. But for the time admitting the truth
cf the Courier's statement, we will state an
other proposition. Had there never been any
slavery, there never would have been any ab
oil tionists. We believe even the Courier must
admit that statement. We ask the Courier
if it will still favor 'the best remedy for the
disease" and will help Ito remove the CAUSE?


If it will not, then all must see that it is
inconsistent and untruthful. When it is re-
membered that all who sustain the Govern
ment are called abolition'sts by the Courier,
it will be seen that all Union men are, in its
opinion, as bad as the rebels themselves
Aint the Courier loysl () sheet ? Don't it
want to see the rebels whipped s-7ipson
. a Ho.erfieer .l r.f4-s -r-T.E.
Year: 1863

the facts in relation to the blunderS and mis-
fortunes Of our army. They have abused the
Governor Of our State for his zeal and energy
in placing Iowa troops at the disposal of the
Federal Government troops that have been
an honor to the State which they represent
and the man whose energy and prudence
made their organization effective on the field
and have shed lustcr on the Union arms in
many bloody strife. No man, either civil
or military, who has shown devotion to the
Union cause has escaped their condemnation.
Now, as last resort, when our armies are
everywhere pressing the enemy to terrible
straits, they are trying to undermine its in
tegrity by inaammatory and reasonable ap-
peals to the troops. ......--..e.


Now word to the Courier mans Vicks.
burg correspondent: No man with his heart
in the success of the Union cause could write
such letter. He puts false coloring on all
falsehood with regard TO facts, some Of which
are within my own personal knowledge
From the sentiments he makes manifest in
his letter. his appropriate place would be pri-
vate Secretary to JEFF. Davis. The Courier
I have passed around the camp to all that
know to be Democrats, and it met their un-
qualified condemnation; nevertheless, would
like my Democratic friend to continue to send
it. for feel curiosity to know how far de-
praved Northern editor can get, and how
long the people of Iowa will suffer soldiers
that stand between their homes and desola-
ton to be traduced.


skulk behind no ficticious name, but hold
myself personally responsible to the editor Of
the Courier or his correspondent, and would
as soon throw the guage Of battle to . North
ern Is Southern traitor. -,


. WV. G.. MooRE.
Year: 1863

A DYING SOLDIERS .TALE.-A boy of
eighteen summers lay on the battle, field
near Fredericksburg, mortally wounded.
He lay all day, unmindful of the Sc0rch-
ing sun and the roaring of artillery
cannon balls few past, tanning his pale
cheek, on their deadly mission. but he
knew it not At last he awoke to con-
sciousness and looked around him. The
moon was shining calmly on the boyish
face; the blood oOzing slowly from his
spine was evidence that his young life was
almost spent. For m 'ment he pressed
bis trembling hand to his side to ease the
throbbing pain, and the pale bIoodess
lips parted with a sigh of agony. A
wounded soldier near. hearing his groanS,
inquired If he was badly Wounded
Yes" replied the dying boy, 81 am dy
ing, and l want my mother for when
they compelled me to leave her she babe
me come back to her. for was the staff
OF her declining years l promised her |
would ; but l am dying now, and shall
never see her more"


The boy went on to say, for it seemed
to relieve his mind to talk, "Whcn they
told my mother her only son was drafted
and would have to 60 to the war, she said
not word until we were left alone then
she came to me and laid her white arms
around my neck and kissed me. could
not speak then, so returned her caress
silently. At last she said George,
have buried two sons, and the next one
called was your father. With q sad, al
most broken heart, | heard the clods of
the valley fall on his coffin lid, but tried
to bear the great misfortune with Chris
tiaO fOrtitude. and | succeeded. for | had
my son to lean upon! But the cup that
Abraham Lincoln is pressing to my lips
tonight, is too bitter and she fell faint.
ing on my bosom. 1t would be useless
TO tell you Of the days spent by me to
raise money to procure substitute. We
were poor, and they told me to 60 and
they would care for my mother until
came back. They said it was but nine
mopths and It would soon pass away
But am passing away, and my mother
will be left alone!" Here his voice sank
to whisper, and his last words were
Mother-heaven l"--and the moon came
out from behind cloud, and revealed the
boyish face set in death. This was ALL
But is it wellf God forgive the agitators
Of this unholy war, and bind up the bro.
ken. hearts Of widows and mothers in
their great sorrow.--[COlumbus Crisis.
Year: 1863

That was sensible advice which was given
to the young bear, puzzled TO know how to
walk:


"ShalI l. said he. ''move my right front paw
first, or my left or the TIVE front paws first, or
or the two hind ones, or all four at once, and
howl" The old she bear came to his relief,
with the advice: "Leave of thinking, and
walk


1t is not uncommon for men to place them
selves in the predicament of the young bear;
to involve themselves in needless complexities,
by trumping up imaginary difficulties, or by
timOrously looking forward to the future
There are some who appear to take pleasure in
casting dismal horoscope of their lot, and
there is no one who does not suffer, more or
less, from dangers and perplexi!ies from trials
and sorrows, which have no real existence.


As general thing, one who is over anxious
about doubtful duties, may be sure that he
is shirkiBg present and plain duties. 1t seldom
happens that the duty of the present moment
cannot be dscerned. If that is done, it be-
comes a torch, throwing light on the duty next
at hand


In every department of life, the habit of
borrowing trouble is found gripping action and
sound thought. In religious experience it is
often a hindrance. Its victim, while neglect
ing plain duties, bemoans his present condition
and aments that be has not the emotions which
he should like to have, and torments himself
with doubts and lears- And more devout faith
would lead him to walk, cheerfully ard step by
step, his appointed path, ard to believe that
the merciEul Power which had upheld him
hitherto, would shield him to the end YelU
York Examiner.
Year: 1863

YOUNG LADIES, MAKE NoTE OF THIS "
"A late member of Parliament, writing to
his daughter, says" observe more than
nee you have offered me- as an excuse for the
few letters | get from you, the statement that
you are bad correspondent, and so forth !;
and have apologies occasionally from others
of my friends pleading, for the same fault, the
pressure of indispensable avoeations. Now,
such things are not in good taste The last of
them is ill-bred, and the former seldom sincere.
1t is no compliment to tell one that you attend
to him only on the cessation Of what is more
important TO you than minding him and
mnch suspect that, were any one to reverse the
case, and tell you, in plain terms, that you are
wretched or even lazy letter-writer you
would be pretty apt to lose your temper. =
Worse than both these, however is the really
sIpshod commonplace often adduced with an
air of originality and wit of appearing 20
pity your friend for having to read your letter,
ard telling him at the conclusion, | shall not
infict my trash on you any longer now re-
lieYe you from purgatory,' and the like. These
are gross vulgarisms and poor bats laid for
compl imentary answer. l know my dear Jane,
you'll take these remarks of mine in good
part. Look into the best collections of pub
lished correspondence, such as Madam de Sew
igne, Lady Wortley Montague, Pope, or Cow
per and, though, in all of them, you will OF
ten Gnd fun and humor, they are free from
everything like what | have now pointed out
for your avoiding"
Year: 1863

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Propagating by cutting is not
nearly so well understood by people
generally as it should be; we may
say by gardeners, generally. Near
ly all soft wood will grow from cut
tings in the hands of a careful per-
son. 1t is common way to multiply
grapes, currants, gooseberries, &c.
But few persons unacquainted with
horticulture will attempt the same
thing with the raspberry and null
berry, with which, following the
same method, they would be nearly
if not quite as successful.


So with Towering shrubs which,
in propagating, are usually laid
down." there is not the least diff
Guilty, though with some the success
is not so uniform as with others
All the arborvit@s can be propaga-
ted by inserting the branches Of last
years wood four or five inches, with
out removing the leaves.


Now is the time when this work
should be done. Prepare the bed,
dig deeply, pulverize the soil well
and put it in good order. To be
sure Of the cutting growing, it
should be inserted five or six inch
es in depth, and place from four to
six inches apart, the earth being
pressed firmly around them. They
should be mulched and watered mod
erately daily in warm weather when
the ground is dry. They can either
be potted in the fall or let remain
over winter, slightly protected with
a little straw or long manure.-[ Ger.
Tel.
Year: 1863

The following touching and felicitous illus
trstion of the power of ideas, was given by
Wendell Phillips in a public speech in New
York:


was told to-day, story so touching in
reference to this, that you must let me tell it,
II is temperance case, but it will illustrate
this Just as well. A mother on the green hills
of Vermont, was holding by the right hand a
son 16 years old, mad with the love of the sea-
And as she stood by the garden gate one
morning she said: Edward, they tell me
for l never saw the oceau-that the great tenn
tation of a seaman's life is drink Promise
me before you quit your mothers hand that
you will not driuk" Aud, said he, flor he
told me the stOry,l 81 gave her the promise,
and went the globe over Calcutta and the
Mediterranean, San Francisco aud Good Hope,
the north pole and the south. saw them all
in forty years, and l-neyer saw a glass filed
with sparkling liquor that my mothers form
by the garden gate on the green hill side of
Vermont, did not rise before me; and to-day
at the age of sixty, my lips are innocent of the
taste of liquor" Was not this sweet evidence
Of the power of single word? Yet that was
not half. For said be, Yesterday there
came into my counting room a man of forty
years and asked me, DO You know me? No
'Well,' said he, 1 was once brought into your
presence on shipboard; you were passenger;
the captain had kicked me aside; you took me
to your berth and kept me there until ! had
slept off my intoxicalion- You then asked
me if / had mother. l said l had never
known word from her lips. You told me of
yours at the garden gate, and to-day 1 am
master of one of the finest packets in New
York, and l came to ask you to come and see
me- How far that candle throws its beams.
That mothers word on the green hillside of
Vermont! o. Mani be thankfui for the
mighty power Of single wordr'
Year: 1863




In Ohio, every body seems TO be happily
disappointed at the favorable appearance of the
wheat fields. TIE dry fall gave but little
promise and with the early opening Spring
the fields were looking discoaragingly bare
but Providence has vouchsafed exactly the
Rheather in April and May to remedy the de
feet of the dry fall. Wherever seed germi-
nated it has followed the injunction to in
crease and multiply !" and at this date the
stools are fine and large, hiding the bare ground
and giving promise of fair yield. These re-
marks apply generally to the whole State oil
OhiO-yet there are isolated fields. and occa-
sionally considerable range of country, where
the crop will prove almost a failure. We
have noted very carefully the reports of our
Ohio exchanges, to which may be added the
testimony of our numerous Ohio Farmer cor
respondents, and they all sustain US in the O.
pinion that the crop will far exceede the first
expectations OF the season, and will prove
nearly if not quite an average one. In the north
western and western counties the crop is gen
orally good-in the range of counties through
the eastern middle of the State, including
Stark, Wayne, &c, it is hearty any fne-in
the Southern counties it is also reported as pre-
senting handsome appearance. Reports
from the Miami valley vary-but the weight
of evidence is in favor of an average crop
OF the Scioto valley and some of the counties
lying on its northern outskirt, report is not so
favorable on the tenacious clay lands and in
the rich loose loan of the valleys a good
deal was winter killed, but what is Jeff gives
hope of fruitful yield AS we before remarked,
the weather during the close of April and in
the opening weeks OF May dissipated the
fears with which the farmers entered upon the
year. and gave them additional reason for the
fullest faith in the promise of an appropriate
seed time" as well as a cheerful " harvest"


The breadth of land cultivated falls below
that of the crop Of 1862. The excessively
dry fall made a sad hole in the number of acres
that almost every farmer had intended to SOW
and probably in this way at least one-sixth
of the land intended for wheat was left uncul-
tivated. This deficiency will be met, probably
by an increased breadth of spring crops, and
thus the years yield will exhibit no decrease in
the total amount of food crops Ohio Far
mer.
Year: 1863

Mr.. R. Buchanan, a well-known


successful wine producer Of Ohio


gives in the OHIO Valley Farmer


the following statement of the rails


ing and fermentation of wine:


Wine farming will, in few years


become simplifed, and almost as
easily understood as corn planting


There is no mystery in it. Expe.
rience alone must teach the proper
position, as well as the soil; the
right distance apart for the vines
the most judicious method for spring
and summer pruning; and as for cul-
tivation keep the ground clean with
the plow or cuItivator, like corn.


Making the wine is as simple as
making cider. The grape punches
are cut from the vines, and all un
sound or unripe berries picked off
the bunch and thrown into a basket
to make-with the addition of SUI
gar-vinegar or an inferior wine
The perfect grapes of each days
cutting are taken to the wine house,
and in the evening, after being
mashed in barrel with a beetle
stem and berries-or passed thro'
wooden rollers on a small mill, are
put on the press and the juice ex-
tracted. About one-third runs off
without any pressure. The outside
edges of the pommace is cut off for
eight or ten inches, after the first
pressing, separated with the hands,
and thrown on top, when the power
of the screw is applied and another
pressure is made. This is repeated
two or three times. The juice from
the last pressing, being very dark is
put with the inferior wine. The
other is put in large casks, filled a
bout fve-sixths full, to ferment and
make good wine. No sugar or brandy
should be added to the best Cataw-
ba juice-or must-as it makes a
better wine without, and is strong
enough to keep well. One end of
a siphon is placed in the bunghole
of the cask-the other being croock-
ed over, rests in bucket of water.


The fermentation commences in a
day or two, and the carbOnic acid es-
capes through the water. In ten or
fifteen days. the siphon may be re-
moved, the casks filled up, and the
bung driven lightly-in a month
tightly. In mid winter the Wine is
drawn off into another cask, and the
lees of the wine, with the pumace of
the grapes, is used to make brandy.


The wine will be clear and pleas
ant to drink in a month or two after
the fermentation ceases. The sec
ond fermentation occurs in the spring
about the time of the blossoming
of the grapes--thisis is but slight, and
it will be merely necessary to loosen
the bungs when it is over, the wine
will be clear in two or three months,
and safe to bottle, but the operation
had better be deferred until Novem-
Der. And this is the whole process
of making still wine-the wine for
general use and being a natural
product of the pure juice of the
grape it is more wholesome than any
mixed or artificial wine, however
snowy and high priced it may be.
Year: 1863




There il the greatest coward about snakes
up in Westfeld that lives in America. He
came from the East last spring and bought a
farm, and for the first six months in the coun-
try he hardly slept two hours a night. He
had fine patch of oats on his farm, but was
Arid to cradle it, One day he concluded he
would take lock to see if there were many
snakes in the patch, so he got his old horse
and after leading him through the gap, and
laying up the fence to keep the hogs out, he
took an old scythe snathe in bis hand to fight
with in case Of an attack, mounted the horse
and struck out into the oats. holding up both
legs as high as possible. He hadn't gone far
when he saw whaling big snake slipping a.
long the oats after him. Away he went,
round and round the patch, and away went
the snake, right along with him; sometimes
on one side and sometimes on the other; some
times behind and sometimes before. He
couldn't get out OF The lot because tine fence
up, and the snake kept consl anlly with
him, there was no chace but to urge the old
horse, and try to keep out of its way. He
went it that way till every stalk OF his oats
we're tramped down, and until the horse was
just about dead when he discovered that he'd
been running from the shadow of the sythe
Snatbe
Year: 1863

sANGUINE MEN THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL.


In ny recoliections of school and college, I
remember that. as between two youths of
equal ability and ambition, the odds of success
in rivalry were always in favor Of the one
least sanguinely confident of succeeding: aud
obviously for this reason: He who disIrusls
the security of chance takes more pains to ef-
fest the safety which results from labor. To
find what you seek in the road of life, the best
proverb of all is that which says Leave no
stone untnrned." As all men, however, have
in their natures certain degree Of hope, so
he is -ihe wisest who husbands il with
The greatest care. When you are engaged in
any undertaking in which success depends
partly on skill partly on luck, always presup-
pose that the luck may go against you; for
that presupposition redoubIes all your efforts
to secure the advantages which belong to
skill. Hope nothing from luck, and the pro-
baoility is that you will be so prepared, fore
warned and forearmed that all shallow OBJ
servers will call you lucky.
Year: 1863

After all, what capital, kindly,
honest, glorious, Jolly good thing a
laugh is What a tonic! What
a digester! What an eXorciser of
evil spirits Better than q walk
before breakfast, or q nap after
dinner How it shuts the mouth
of malice, and opens the brow Of
kindness! Under every circumI
stance, and everywhere, a laugh is
a glorious thing. Like "a thing Of
beauty" it"is joy forever" There
is no remorse in it 1t leaves no
sting except in the sides, and that
goes off. Even single unpartici.
pated laugh is great affair to
witness. But it is seldom single !;
it is more infectious than scarlet
fever. You can not gravely con-
template a laugh. If there is one
laughter and one, witness, there
forthwith are two daughters. And
so on. The convulsion is propagaI
ted like sound. What a thing it is
when it becomes epidemic.
Year: 1863

MODE OF DRAFTING.-The fol-
lowing suggestions of the Boston
Daily Advertiser are timely and
important:


1t will be agreed on all hands
that the conscription should be
conducted with absolute fairness,
and it is important that the fact
that it is thus conducted should be
made palpable to everybody. We
desire to suggest, therefore, to
those who may have it in charge,
the adoption of what we believe is
the French mode, namely, to make
public the whole list of persons
liable to conscription in each dis
trict, and ON a given day to draw
o number for eadh person. The
conscription will then include as
many as may be necessary of those
who happen to draw the smallest
numbers. In this way everybody
is sure that the chances are equal.
When the plan is to put names
(not numberS) in the wheel, as was
done in the case of the draft last
fall, there is room for the public
to doubt whether all the names
were really placed in the box to
begin with. No analogous doubt
can possibly arise under the other
plan.
Year: 1863

ua-The vulgar ostentation : of
many of the shoddy gentry MAY
be pardoned when we think of
their ignorance. 1t happened a
good many years ago that an ILL
bred fellow, who had suddenly
risen to wealth by some profitable
Government contracts, stood up at
the opera with his hat on" We
must forgive the man." whispered
the Duchess of Gordon, che has so
short a time been used to the lux.
ury of a hat, that he doesn't know
when to pull il off. "
Year: 1863

a8- Advertisements inserted In the Special Column
harssd at the rate Of twenty cents per line for the
'r>t Insertion for each additional insertion ten
eu.si the Local Column thirty Oents per line for
the rst Insertion for every additional insertion A.
teen suts.
Year: 1863

~ The struggle for the nomination.ior
Mayor Of this city, at the hands Of the
Democratic party, is likely to develop a
schlsm that no diplomacy can heal. The
War Democrats are so alarmed and in
censed by the undisglised treason of the
Times, that they have resolved to give their
sufrages to no man who reflects the tenn
per and policy Of that secesh concern
while the veritablc coprerheads, compris-
ing nearly all the c1nigrants from the slave
States, are equally determined that no man
who believes In shooting the rebels for the
sake Of preserving the Union, shall sue
coed. The fight is q pretty one us it
stands. :