smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

From the baltimore american Of last epenin9


We are requested by Gov. BRADFORD to say that i'm
medstey after the resolutions introduced at the meeting
in the Institute Monday evening were read he stated
to the Chairman Of the Committee of Arrangements that
II he as the presiding officer Of the meeting was expected
to submit the question their adoption to the meeting
he should feel constrained accompany it with the deca
ration that he did not in al of the resolutions
The chairman did not deem il and vote was
in fact, taken them.


These resolutions meet with opposition from the
most enthusiastic and unconditional Union men Of Balti-
more They regard that portion of them relating
clpstsn calculated to lead to discord and divisions
Whilst all acknowledge that slavery is doomed in Mary
land they contend that il has been brought s present
dying condition by those who have naugurated and sus
tsned the rebellion They desire to hold them exclusively
responsible for its overthrow and to take no part them
selves in pushing il to the wall


The resolutions not having been voted on by the meet
ing regarded by them in the same category OF the
speeches delivered being the sentiments Of those who
proposed them The Union sentiment of Baltimore is
strong and unconditional that it ready applaud and sp
prove any thing and every thing that does not ayor OF
rebellion treason and the people 10 too high spirits
the evening Of the meeting to be critical on any thing
that was read or said TO them.
Year: 1863

SUFFOLK, (vA.) APRIL H. 1863


Yesterday was a busy and lively day here con-
slant struggle kept between our own and the rebel
skirmshers and sharpshooers varied by the cannon of
our gunboats and forts and batteries the place whence
the rebel muskery proceeded Only once during the day
did the enemy show battery and then heavy fire from
three forts speedily drove him away Once he tossed
couple OF shells the woods at skmshers without
any effect Besides this, his only firing from infantry
We must have killed and wounded a great many and
several Of our men-mostly from the Eighteenth Indiana
who always in the advance-bave been wounded and
taken prisoners. have yet heard of none killed De-
sertes and prisoners came in quite numerousy during the
day. The firing ceased after dark and was only
broken at intervals through the night by the deep booming
of gunboat cannon bayiDg deepmouthed welcome to
the ioe and doubt disturbing HIM in his cOnceamen in
the woods


This morning We were dropping shells from batteries
and gunboats in all directions, and sharpshooters
brisky coquettiDg with the enemys The fire parcu-
lary lively for two three miles down the Nansemond
from our gunboat that shot at in while by the
rebel rhemen Report says that big siege gun being
planted by the rebels at old signal station which in
plain sight At the rate at which the shot and shell are
being deposited in that vicinity they finding it rather
uncomfortable working.


Nearly all the regiments are on hand and enthusiastic
for the encounter If siege intended here, look out
for page of which shall all be proud. This is the
fourth day of the enemy appearance and far they have
done literally nothing
Year: 1863

would doubtless be glad to do for he has great faith
in negro troops. The only trouble is that he can
not get enough of them, for, in the first place, the
blacks of South Carolina either cannot or will not


flock to his banners, and, in the second place. such


was the persistence with which those actually with


in his lines refused to be "called into the con-
Aict" that he had to impress most of the freed
men now actually enrolled in the ranks Of the South
Carolina Volunteers. 1t is plain, therefore, that
Gen. Hunter cannot hope to swell his army by


coored recruits until he has so far conquered the
insurgent forces that stand between him and the


"loyal blacks" of South Carolina as to enable him


to impress more of the latter. What prevents


him from doing SO? Certainly not the doubts
Of those who have but little faith in negro troops


for their dubiety is powerless to discourage the


contamination of any measures the Administration
may take under this head and certainly cannot pre-
vent Gen. Hunter from calling as many negroes as
he may please into this conflict. If he does not
employ as many as he wants, we suppose it is for
the same reason that Jack did not eat his supper,
and not because of any doubts expressed in New
York or elsewhere to the military prowess of the
black race.


The Indifferent success of Gov Andrew in filing
up from all parts of the United States the negro
brigade which he was authorized to raise in Massa-
chusetts suggests to practical minds that the negroes
will not come into this conflict for the calling"
10 spite of the earnest adjurations addressed to
them by the Governor and by Frederick Douglass,
in spite of the liberal bounty offered, and, more
than all, in spite Of the opportunity ito strike
blow in vindication of their manhood" they
Shrink" from the inspiring summons. We do
not wonder at it. Our only wonder is that Mr..
Chase, in the presence of such facts, should ex-
claim, the American blacks must be called into
this conflict, +" as though any body in the Loyal
States was preventing them from being called. If
the Government does not straightway put as many
blacks into the field as it wants, we wish it to be
understood that the fault does not rest at the doors
Of any body but the Administration in shrink
ing" from employing them, or of the negroes them
selves in shrinking" from being employed.
Year: 1863

JAMES G. wELLING, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.


The subscription price of this paper for year Two
DOLLARS, payable in advance.


reduction of 20 per cent (onefth of the full charged
will be made to any who shall order and pay for
time ten copies Of the Weekly paper and reduction Of
25 per cent (or oneourth of the full charge to any
who will order and pay for, at time, twenty more
copies.


No accounts being kept for this paper will not be sent
to any unless paid for advance any longer than
the time for which it is paid.
Year: 1863

THE steamer Mount Washington, referred to above
was formerly the Mount Vernon of the mail line between
this city and Aqua Creek and the rebellion has been
IN service dispatch boat in the Potomac Hota For
several months past she has been doing duty the neigh
borhood of Norfolk
Year: 1863

Secretary Of the Nary Reports from Lieuts Gushing
and Lumsen received The enemy have crossed the
river and there every Indication that they are retreainQ
though they still have artillery aud sharpshooters on
the Nansemond Our boats shot down number Of their
men to-day, with canister aud have three wounded
making in all five killed aud eighteen wounded in our little
hota to which from what can learn the fight has been
pretty much confined.


S. p LEE A
Year: 1863

All hail to the friends that assembled in kindness,
To cheer earth's dark borders with radiant light
The eye that. unchanged, hid its ustrs in blindness
Reflects the psre JOY that it gathered with sight:
No longer his footsteps surrounded by danger,
Uncertain and faltering hold their dark way;
No longer to Truths steady purpose stranger,
He walks in the sunshine of glorious day.
All nail to the art that gives true social pleasure,
That brings back the wanderer safe to his home
Its maxims impressed may each brother long


treasure,


As guides still to lead, though in darkness he
Like hopes steady beacon on life's stormy ocean,
Its rays will illume when dark billows shall roll
And fears shall come with their threatening com


motion


Will give not pang to the calm, trustin G soul.
All hail to the thoughts In sweet charity, binding
Each heart to true hearts in the swift fight OF


time,


How dear to the bosom the precepts reminding
Of glories immortal, of pleasures sublime!
With purpose fraternal, each sad heart consoling,
When sorrows dark waves Ger brother are


rolling,


He gives with his aid compassionate tear.
All hail to that Being whose wisdom has made US
Inspire by the faith of His Spirit Divine.
Well ask, in devotion, that Spirit to aid US,
Our hearts to improve and our thoughts to refine,
With man for our friend, and with kind Heaven to


guide US,


How safely the dark road to life may we go!
Such goodness to lead, and such true hands be-


side US,


A JOY nigh immortal we gather below.
Year: 1863

The last words just struggled out OF
the white lips, and the young captain
lay dead under the old tree, where the
sun hung its broken festeons of gold,
and little way off the cannon hurled
its thunder, and the fight ragged hot on
the battlefield of Antietam.


''Never ! my poor little fathers boy,
never ]" said the young mother who had
sat sewing by the window in the pleas
ant autumn days. And it would have
wrung your heart to have heard her
voice.


"But not when the three years are
gomez" pleaded another voice-a little
child's full of wonder and vague pain.
"Won't papa come back then, and
hoist me away mp to the wall, and say
'papa's man p he said he would when
the three years were gone, mamma p


"Iheyl ii never he gone for Us, my
child" said the poor mother, and she
clasped the little golden head to her
heart, and with wild sobs rocked her to
and fro, and the great anguish of her
desolation was beyond reach of human
speech or aid, and only God could COM
fort her!


And all over the land, in these fair
summer days, are wives and mothers
weeping in just such desolation, and
wondering little children understand
ing not that they are fatherless.


And SO we stand still in the darkness
of the night which has fallen upon US,
and look off to the last in faith and
hope with eyes that watch for the
morning. s.
Year: 1863

This boy of whom / write reined up
his rocking horse suddenly, and looked
in his mothers face. with a question
starting out of his large brown eyes,
and widening and glowing ali over his
face, child's face, brave, sweet,
beautiful face, full of promise and
prophesies.


"What is it, Theodore ?" asked the
lady, who sat sewing by the window,
and down through her words there slip.
ped the caress which was in her heart.


Chow long are three years, mammal"


All, the child little guessed that all
over the land were hearts asking this
question, looking off to those three
years, whose long path of storm, and
bloodshed, and death, must be trodden
before we should reach the promised
land Of peace before the loud thunder
of the tramp OF armies all over the land
and the red waving of banners, and
the awful thunder of cannon sounding
its echoes through the hearts of the
sullen mountains, should all be hushed
into that new psalm of peace, which
We trust is yet to rise and overflow with
its golden tides the whole land and seas
thereof.


"Why doyou ask me that, Tbeodore?"
asked the mother, sitting in a shower
of summer sunshine, half diluted by the
creeper of honey-suckle that made a
red heat Of bloom about the window.


because papa said be should be
back in three years that morning that
he left. He took me right up in his
arms by the door, and hugged me so
tight it hurt me, and he said, Little
fellow-papa's boy! BE very geod
while papa's gene-he'll be back in
three years, or less" Are they almost
gone noU, mamma?' pushing away
with one hand the sheaf of shining
curls which drifted over his forehead.


There were many unshed tears in the
mothers voice as she answered.


"No, my dear child, the three have
only commenced going now. 1t will
be a long, long time before they come
to an end"


''But how long Pas long as to last
Christmas? That's great way off,"
with the pretty impatience and imperi-
business of childhood.


"My child" said the mother, and
the tears aoere in her eyes, "three
years are 30 long a time that l cannot
explain it to you. They are longer
than YOU can remember; almost as long
as your life has BEEN"


The boy looked very sober moment,
dropping his bright head low over his
horses neck. Then he suddenly sprung
from the wooden animal and rushed to
his mothers side.


Theodore wants to see his papa
again." cried the child, articulating the
loss and want he felt in his heart at
that moment.


The mother took him up silently.
That simple utterance was the one her
heart carried, craving and lingering by
day and by night-carried it in brave
enduring silence, and anguish, and
ysarning as woman must.


But, as ] said, the mother bent down
and took her boy on her knee and
talked to him as the wife of . true SOL
dier should-with sweetness and cheer
in her words which gave them new
meanings. "Papa is gone off to the
war to do his duty there as a brave
man and true patriot should. twas
very hard for him IN laava v,e-~. ~
Year: 1863

An Erie paper has the following
A short time since an affair occurred
in quiet neighborhood in this city,
which, though performed by COW,
has not been equaled in pantomimic
effect or farcical execution since the
performance by the " Bull run in the
China Shop"


A family of three persons-one lady
and two gentlemen, were startled from
quiet condition of mind about the
time they were preparing to retire for
the night, by an unusual clatter in an
adjoining shed. One Of the men in his
stocking feet, cautiously opened the
door leading from the dining room to
the outside apartment, and discovered
COW with her head stuffed into bar
rel of swill, with her horns fast, and, in
her efforts to extricate her antlers, she
had overturned a table upon which
there had been stacked quantity of
tin ware, croekery, iron pots, &c.
Hence the clatter which was loud
enough and long enough to resurrect
the dead.


The gentleman at once proceeded to
drive away the cause of this disturb
ance, and in doing so brought dog
into the ring, who, with bound, fas
tened upon the COW and caused her to
shake off her dishonesty acquired head
dress, and with nose down and tail
asant, she made dart through the
door, left open, into the dining room,
where she came in contact with table
laid ready to receive the breakfast Of
the following morning, and sundry 9TH
er things, the upsetting and banging
about of which created the greatest
confusion imaginable.


Meanwhile the other gentleman, who
had already retired to an adjoining
bedroom, arose in bis neither garments
and opened the door Of his room to see
what was going on outside. The COW
thought the opening of this door af-
forded her an opportunity to make her
escape, and accordingly rushed into the
bedroom. Here she met with opposi.
ton. The space in the room unoccu.
pied by the bed was scarcely large
enough to admit her in full length, and
SO Narrow that she could not turn be-
sides the occupant of the room received
her by the horns and endeavored to
back her out.


Now commenced the genuine sport
of the scene. The little fellow inside
was pitching and rearing and swearing
at the head of the COW, first OH the bed,
then in the alley, and next in close prox-
unity to the ceiling, his limbs and skirts
gyrating and Tapping around with won
derfnl velocity, while the man in the
dining-room had seized the animal by
the tail, and was pulling, tuggiug,
laughing and yelling, and the COW bel.
lowing and fighting desperately. To-
gether the men see-sawed her back and
forth some time before they succeeded
in backing her cut. Finally she was
driven into the street, but no fire or
moving ever created more confusion in
affairs of household than was here
created by the presence of this COW.


sW What is the most difficult pune
Year: 1863

AN ACT to enable qualified voters of this
5 State, in the military service of this State,


or of the United States, to exercise the


right of suffrage.


Sec. 1. Belt enacted By the General Assens-
blyoftae Safe Of Ohio That whenever any of
the qualified voters of this State shall be in
the actual military service of this State, or of
the United States, and, as such, absent from
the township or ward of their residence, on
the days appointed by law for holding County,
State, Congressional, or Presidential elections
within this State, or on the days appointed by
the Governor for holding special elections to
fill vacancies, such qualified voters shall be
Year: 1863

Do NOT DESFISE THB SHoF.-The impor-
tance Of mechanical training. and Of habits Of
regularity and method. cannot be ever estima-
ted in their various bearings upon the relations
os lie, and we would say 10 those young men
who are al this moment struggling through
details which appear to be hard, useless and
iull Of weariness. to hold on their utility may
not be apparent a: present. bat the day is sure
to come when they vii. reap the beuea. ~ so
much routine Hold on don't give Up in
our country no social prejudiccs prevail which
prevent the humble dyer from becoming the
learned and Skillla chemist; no barriers exist
which deprive those whom the chances Of life
have made rude and unetlered, from becoming
shining light in the world OF science. Most
brave inventors have sprung from the ranks Of
brave daily workers, and the field is sill
wide one. expanding every day; therefore we
say hold on to the training Of the shop.
improve your spare hours in mental CULTURE,
and reward is certain.
Year: 1863

DISPISE NOT SMALL THlSGs.-At time Of
general scarcity, the great Emperor Acbar
went to visit the tomb Of saint at CARAT,
near Delhi. On his return be alighted at a
house on the road, 10 rest himself. While
conveTsing there with his viyier. he perceived
at his foot a grain Of corn. The Monarch
whose mind was constantly occupied with the
suferiogs of his people, took it up, gave it to
bis vivier, desired him to SOW it, and render
him an account every year Of lis produce At
the end Of ten years, it had SO multiplied that,
after making large distributions among the
poor, the surplus sold by order of the Empe-
ror. was sufficient to defray the expenses Of
building a mosque. Acbar erected it on the
spot where he had found the grain of corn.
wishing thus TO render thanks to the goo ness
of the Omnipotent, d to leave to posterity n
monument of the fruits Of Industry and perSe-
verauce.
Year: 1863

A PRAcTIcAL JoKE.-Our acquaintance,
W, had a few years since, a female ancestor
on the maternal side, who although residing in
the vicinity of Mobile for a lifetime, yet had
never been there. After repeated solicitations,
however. she was induced to pay the family
visit. Her grandson, young W. then boy
Of fifteen, but who already exhibited that pe-
culiar faculty for perpetrating practical jokes
which characterizes him yet, persuaded the
cook to place dish of boiled crabs before the
old lady, well knowing that she had never
before set her eyes on one. Unon seating
herself at the table, the strange dish attracted
her attention. Carefully drawing her specta-
cles from their case, she adjusted them firmly
on her nose. and took long stare at the sin
gular-lookiDg edibles. At last seizing fork
she made desperate thrust at one of them,
exclaiming in long breath


Heavens and yeartb, who ever seen sich
spiders before p
Year: 1863

How Coal IS BorGHr AND SOLD IN Lon
DoN.-In the city of London coal is sent to the
consumer in sacks containing one hundred
pounds each These are loaded on large carts
drawn by enormous horses, with scales and
weights to each cart, and, if desired by the
purchaser, the sack is weighed by the driver.
When the honesty of the coal merchant and
integrity of the driver are well established, the
weighing of the sacks is seldom required. In
the purchase of cart-load of sacks, some
three or four of them, taken promiscuously, are
tested by the scales, aud if found correct, the
weighing of the remainder of the load is dis
pensed with. This mode of buying and selling
coal is the result of many years experience in
the vast city of London.
Year: 1863

A YOUNG man once picked up sovereign
living in the road Ever afterwards as be
walked along he kept his eyes fixed steadily
upon the ground in hopes to find another
And in the course of long life he did pick up,
at different times a goodly number OF coins,
gold and silver. But all these years, while be
was looking for them be saw not that the
heavens were bright above him, and nature
beautiful around. He never once allowed his
eyes 10 look up from the mud and filth in
which he sought his treasure; and when be
died-a rich old mamie only knew this fair
earth as dirty road TO pick up money as you
walk along.
Year: 1863

The Love OF BEAUTY.-The love of beauty
and refinement belongs to ever true woman .-
She ought to desire, il moderation, pretty
dresses, and delight III beautiful colors aut
graceful fabrics; she ought to take certain, not
too excessive pride in herself, and be solicit.
Gus to have all belonging to her well chosen
and good taste; to care for the perfect order


ing of her house, harmony and fitness of her
furniture. the cleanliness Of her surroundings,
the good style of her arrangements she ought
no, to like singullrity, either of habit or ap-
pearance, or be able to stand out against a
fashion when fashion has become custom she
ought to make herself conspicuous only by
her taste, by the grace and harmony of her
dress, the unobtrusve good breeding of her
manners; she ought to set the seal Of gentle
woman on every square inch of her life, and
she'd the radiance Of her own beauty and refine
ment on every material object about her.
Year: 1863

TIE following sentiment Is as beautiful as ii
is truthful He who forgets the fountain from
which be drank, and the tree under whose shade
he ramboled in the days of his youth. is q
stranger to The sweetest impressions OF the hu.
man heart"
Year: 1863

ABOUT LYIYG-The Rev DR.. Mcleod was
proceeding from the manse of D. to church,
to open new place Of worship. As be passed
slowly and gravely through The crowd gather
ed about the doors. an elderly man, with the
peculiar kind Of wig known in that district,
bright, smoth, and Of a reddish brown, accost-
ed him. Doctor, if you please, wish to
speak to you" Well, Duncan" says the
venerable Doctor, can ye not wait till after
worship" No, Doctor, l must speak to you
bow, for it is matter upon my conscience. -
Oh, since it is a matter of conscience tell NE
what it is; bat be brief, Duncan, for time
presses" The matter is this. Doctor. Ye
see the clock. yoader, on the face of the church.
Well, there is nothing but the face of clock.
There is no truth in it bat only once in twelve
hours Now, it is in my mind very wrong,
and quite against my conscience, that there
should be lie on the face Of the house Of the
Lord" Duncan, will consider the point.
But an glad 10 see you looking SO well you
are not young now; l remember YOU for many
years and what fine head of hair you have
still." Eh, Doctor, you are joking now; it
is long since l have had auy hair" Oh,
Duncan, Duncan, are you going into the house
Of the Lord with lie upon your head -
This settled the question, and the Doctor
heard no more of the lie on the face of the
clock.