smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

Last week, DR.. of New York.
sent us cake of his Onguent, with the
modest request to puff it and send the
BILL" Venerable and iar-sighted capilla-
ry pro lucer! we do so, and more too


Your Onguent is big thing. Although
in small cakes, it is nevertheless a col
lossal item. We tried it. Following
the printed directions. we made lather
and applied the brush. The lather was
mixed in glass dish, and in four min
ntes beautiful hair. all shades of color:
had started from the dish. We applied
some to our face, and it took four swift
working BARRIERS to cut down and NOV
away as fast as the beard grew. We put
little on the toe of each boot and each
boot in an hour looked like Zouave
moustache. We put some on a crowbar,
and it is covered with long curly hair
like buffalo, and in the coolest weather
it can be used without mittens. A little
on the pole to the carriage started the
hair on it. ike moss. We dropped some
on the stove, and as the fire was kindled
the hair started, and the hotter the stoye
became, the faster grew the hair, till the
smell of burnt hair became so powerful
as to drive us from the room. The stove
was set in the barn, and can't be seen
now for the hair. Only one application
A little applied on wagon tire has in
five days started vigorous crop, and
now the wagon can be driven over a
plank road without making bit of noise,
so well are the wheels covered with soft
hair. Dollar cake. We skinned a
goose, put on some Of the Onguent, and
in two hours the feather grower was en-.
veloped in hair like squirrel, and was
seen this morning trying to climb shag
bark hickory in the backyard -


A little applied to the inkstand has
given it coat of blistles, making a
splendid pon-wiper at little cost. We
applied the lather to two-penny nail.
the nail is now the handsomest lather
brush yon ever saw, with beautiful soft
hair growing from the end of it, some
five or six feet in length Only dollar
cake! Applied to door stones, it does
away with the use of mat. Applied
to floor, it will to grow therefrom hair
sufficient for Brussels carpet. Only
dollar directions thrown in. A
little weak lather spriIkled over q barn,
makes it impervious to wind, rain or
cold. 1t is good to put inside Of chill
dren's cradles--sprinke ON sidewalks
anything where luxuriant grass is want
ed for use or ornament. We put little
on the head of navigation, and q beauti-
full hair covered it. A little on the
mouth of La Crosse River started hair
there resembling the finest red top grass.
in which cows, sheep, pigs, hogs, snipes.
woodcock and young ducks graize with
keen relish, Only dollar cake. Sent
by mail to any address. One application
will grow luxuriant moustache for a
boy; two applications will be sure to har-
rass the entire rebel army. Dollar a
cake. Sent by mail or any other man.
Sampson used it. Only one dollar cake,
Year: 1863

In the monthly report of the condition
of the crops for August, from the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington.
some prominence is given to the grape.
and to the mildew which in some sections
has been so fatal to it the present season.
The opinion is rather indicated that the
rot in the berry and the mildew on tho
foliage are due to the same cause. though
not inseparable, the rot never being pres.
ent without the mildew, but the latter
being sometimes present without the rot.
AS to liability to rot, the report says:


ut is generally allowed that of all cul-
tivated varieties, the Delaware is, per-
haps, the most exempt from the rot.''


This is certainly important to grape
growers.
Year: 1863

The Virginia City. Nevada Bulletin
says it is absolutely no figure of speech
to say that the streets OF that place arc
paved with silver for it is literal fact
that they are. Thousands of tons of
rock, which in other countries would pay
well to extract the silver from are used to
level and maca6amize the streets. Rock
that will not pass through the screens at
the quartz mills is carried on to the roads.
though some of it in any other locality
would be considered rich,
Year: 1863

l. Thou shalt love tho printer for ho
is the standard of tho country,


2. Thou shalt subscribe for his pa.
per; for he laboreth much to obtain the
news of which you may remain igno-
rant.


3. Thou shalt pay for his paper for
he laboreth hard to give you the news in
due season.


4. Thou shalt advertise; that he may
be able to give you the paper.


., Thou shalt not visit him regard
less of his Office rules, deranging his pa
per-


q. Thou shalt not touch ANYTHING
that will give the printer any trouble /;
that he may not hold thee guilty.


g. Thou shalt not read the manu-.
script in the hands of the Compositor
for he will hold thee blameful.


s. Thou shalt not seek the news be.
fore it is printed for he will give it to
You in its due time.


.. Thou shalt ask but few questions
OF things in the office; from it thou shalt
tell nothing.


10. Thou shalt not send threatening
and abusive letters to the editor.
Year: 1863

loss as our lines were five miles long and the whole
of it engaged, the Yankees were buryIng two days
and nights our own men had buried a large num-
Der and taken off many wounded, and yet on Toes
day there were hundreds still unburied on the field,
and they lay all over Fredericksburg On Wednes.
day. Burnside sent over 500 men under flag of
truce, to finish the mournful deed of burying his
poor dead soldiers.


The Yankees received beyond doubt the heaviest
check at Fredericksburg, they have ever received
in any single fight / have seen their papers in
which they admit straight out defeat and they
told our men who were captured and paroled, that
we had whipped them badly, and that their loss
could not be less than 10 800 some of their officers
putting it much higher.


But their men fought like demons, and if our
forces had not had some protection, few would
have escaped unhurt but as before remarked ev-
cry man and officer did his duty, and especially
were the field officers of the 2Sth noted for their
coolness and bravery. Our brave Gen. Lane was
much exposed, as three gun-shot holes through his
clothes will show. 1t was bloody day for the
Confederacy for we lost some OF our best officers
and men, but day of great slaughter to the YAM
KEGS


Gen. A. P. Hills diyision did nearly all the fight
ing on our right wing and as usual IN all great
fights the Old North State boys shed their blood
freely. If there is any hard fighting to be done,
do assure you that the North Carolina troops come


in for their full share; and if anything goes wrong,
then the North Carolina regiments are easily to be
saddled with the mistake. As general thing, you
hardly ever hear any one praise the North Carolina
troops outside of the State. No papers say word
in their behalf When the history of this war is
written and read to future generations, it will then
be that the great secret Of this war; and who fought
and who stayed at home speculating on the country
devouring the poor wives and Children and widows
and orphans of the soldiers, will be told. God
grant that that history may place honor where it
belongs and disgrace those land pirates who were
all for the war. Nothing but blood did they want
to drink, till the war commenced, and then where
do you find them? At home, trying to starve
out the country and break down Confederate money,
by refusing to receive it for bread and meat There
is day coming when they will get their deserts
God hasten it on. SERGEANT.
Year: 1863

T is CONTEMPLATED TO RESUME THE PUBL.


cation Of the North Carolina CriStian Ado0cae at an
early day. under the patronage Of the North Con-
ference and under the direction and ownership of Joint
stock Company composed of ministers and laynen to Sc
cure Its permanency


IL will be as its name imports CHRISTIAN Aioocate II
VIII sustain and defend the doctrines and discipline of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South and labor advance
Chrss Kingdom earth and promote peace and good
will among all men.


Besides its earnest religious character shall be an ad
yocRte Of the moral educational and industrial progress of
NORTH Caroiina-a welcome vser to every iHsy and to
the camps Of brave soldiers and faithful chrOucler
of what be useful and interesting and of the current
news


All our travelling and local ministers and the stockhold
ers OF the Company, specially requested act as
Agents for the paper


The old subscribers Of the AdUocde will be supplied with
the neo SERIES to the full due them at The time of
Its suspension but the mail books the posses
sion OF the Editor he rely upon the old subscribers
names and post Offices and the amount due them


The Adrocdte will be well printed on good paper, and will
contain an amount of reading matter equal any paper
the State.


During the continuance of prices the subscription
price viii be - per annum, always in advance.


agents who send us ten more subscribers and
the Cash will be entitled copy the paper for one
year II is desirable that large list be sent at once


Address WIN. E. PELL, Editor


Raleigh, N. e., Jan. !, 1853 eff


20 All our former exchanges will confer a favor BY
giving the above two or three insertions.
Year: 1863

dad, can body think of fox's tail,
and never think of the fox
"Don't know my son why do you
ask such q question:


"Kase, Dick says he tried his very
best and every time he'd think Of the
fox first"
Year: 1863

had not dared the forward leap tried the back
ward one, hut wanting the impetus Of pursuit,
and shuddering at the fate of their comrades,
every one of them failed and fell short and
they, too, were swept away, horribly sprawlng
in the food.


AS to the fends who had stopped at the first
crcvice, they ran in a body down the river to
look for the mangled remains Of their brethren,
and the undermined bank giving way undcr their
weight every fcnd of them was carried away
and drowned.


So perisbed The whole race of fends.


As TO the Devil he had learned still deeper
lesson. His tail, also, the ensign of deviltry,
was irredeemably disocateG by his last, HE
saving blow In fact, it had ceased to be any
longer a need(ul weapon It's antagonists were
all gone never tail remained to be branished
at it in deadly encounter.


So, after due repose, the Devil sprang lightly
over the chasms he bad so successfully engineer
ed. and went home to rear his family thought
fully. Every year he brought bis children down
to the Dalcs and told them the terrible history
of his escape, The fires Of the Cascades burned
awav the inland sea was drained, aud its bed
became fair prairie and still the waters gushed
along the narrow crevices he had opened. lie
had in fact, been the ! Istrument OF changing a
vast region from a barren sea into habitable
land.


One great trial, however, did remain with him
and made his life one of grave responsibility
All bis children born before the catastrophe were
cannibal, stiff tailed iends After that great
event every new born imp Of his was like him
self in character and person, and wore but a
haccid tail, the last insignium of ignobity.-
Quarrels between these two factions emblttered
bis days and impcded civilization. Still it did
advance, and long before his death he saw the
tail disappear forever.


Such is the Legend OF the Dalles-a legend
,VifhDut n moral
Year: 1863

"MusrERup IN."-A joke is told by the l
Of the ll7th, in regard to the mastering in Of
a darkey attached to the regment who was fear
ful he would be deprived Of his pay unless he
was joined to the service. A huge mustard plas-
ter was applied to his back about foot below
where the buttons on his coat are placed, and
under The belief that all soldiers were served III
the same manner, be wore it until the pain be.
came unendurable at which time he was declared
- mustered in" according to the law in such
cases made and provided. If that darkey does
not get his wages, it will not be because lie has
not suffered for his country.
Year: 1863

STRIKING BACK.-.A wonderful social revolution
took place in New Orleans. A slave girl was
recently before the provost court charge Of
beating her mistress! and though it was proved
that the slave struck back when her mistress beat
her with the broomslicl, the case was dismissed
with an admonition to the mistress to keep her
temner better.
Year: 1863

GAHIBALDI is in a transport of impatience and
enthusiasm on the Polish insurrection. He is so
eager to Join the brave Poles, that he recently
beseeohed his physician to amputate his foot, if
thereby his cure could be eXpediated He thinks
and talks of nothing but Poland, and calls on
his friends, and on Heaven, to aid the good cause,
and hasten the day when be may participate
in it
Year: 1863

THE following is considered rather good
specimen of an advertisement "If the gentle
man who keeps shop with a red head Will return
the umbrella which he borrowed Of young lady
with an ivory handle he will hear OF something
to his advantage.
Year: 1863

Go TO WoRK.-The idea of "rcspec-
table employment" is the rock upon
which thousands split, and shipwreck
themselves and all who depend on them.
All employments are respectable that
bring honest gains. The laborcr who is
willing TO turn his hands to anything is
as respectable as the clerk or dapper store
tender. Indeed the man who is ready to
work whenever work offers, whatever it
may be, rather than lie idle and beg, is
a far more respectable man than one who
turns up his nose at hard labor, wearies
his friends with his complaints because he
can get nothing respectable to do, peck
cts their benelactons without thankful
ness, and goes on from day TO day, a
useless, lazy grumbler.
Year: 1863

An ingenious mechanic, Mr.. S. H.
Roper, of Roxbury, Mass, has invented
and put in operation new steam wagon
or buggy for common roads. 1t is thus
described:


An ordinary four-whcel carriage has Il
boiler of about sixteen inches in dame
ter, in the rear, with the lever regulating
the steam and speed, extending over the
seat in front. Beneath this boiler is the
furnace, and in the rear OF the boiler is
a small water tank. The steam gage is
on level with the driver, and he can at
a glance ascertain the amount of steam
pressure. Two persons take their seats
in the carriage, and of it starts, the driv-
er guiding with one hand the front wheels,
by means of crank, aud with the other
hand he can regulate the speed of the en-
CINE or stop the carriage in less time than
a pair Of horses can be brought to halt.
Coal sufficient for one days running can
be carried beneath the scat of the carriage,
and although the speed attained is that
of the fastest horse, the expense Of run
ming the carriage is estimated at one cent
per mile, while in operation, with the ad-
dilional virtue of not costing anything in
the way Of feed and stablng when not in
use. Lately, when the carriage was ex-
hibiled, the engine carried but fifteen and
twenty pounds of steam, and yet il taxed
the powers of the horses present to keep
pace with its speed. The carriage and
engine do not weigh more than seven hun
dred pounds. No difficulty was expert
enced in turning sharp corners or in back
inc. Scientific american.
Year: 1863

STOVES made of soapstono have been
introduced at Quebec. They are said TO
throw out a mellower and more uniform
heat than iron; the material OF which
they are made is very abundant in the
mineral region south of the ST. Lawrence.
Year: 1863

IT is said that pumpkins fed TO mich
cows have a tendency to dry up or di-
minish the quantity of milk, but if the
seeds are removed before feeding, the flow
Of milk will be augmented.
Year: 1863

rant it. If slavery pershes from the exercise Of the
cessary means to put down the rebellion com
plain but those who, affected thereby took willing
part the rebellion aud they should not be precluded
muneraton any than those good citizens whose crops
and cattle taken for the support OF army to
prevent their conversion to the support aud maintenance
OF the enemy, whose houses demolished that of
your friend, to accommodate artillery. We required
of Great Britain compensation for the Of slaves
manumitted and the principle if good then good now
aud If such claim just against Great Britain in 5l4
the lapse of fifty years makes it less good claim now
for slaves taken


My doctrine resolves itself into ths: That whatever of
slavery may remain hs restoration of harmony must
continue within the control Of the States where exists
until they provide for its extinction and the United States
has right to prosecute for its abatement any
than they have right to naugurate war against
Utah for pOygamy Laws may be made TO punish polyga
niss by fae and Imprisonment, refuse to re-
cogniss the community encouraging it, because of its ten
dency to overthrow all the moral restraints Of civilized
nations and uproOt the law to the descent OF
property But with slavery the question different The
institution was recognised and promised protection until
the several States fit to it by their own acts
and in where there has been Legislature to act
behalf of the people has the General Government in
terfered And contend that the loyal pen Of the South
much entitled to the enoynento rights at one
time universal throughout the land they before
the commencement of the


have thus gwen you my thoughts on the simple point
of the power of tho Government leaving entirely out of
view the practical questions of tremendous import which
must be settled for the veal of the white and
colored races.


/ Ever cordially your friend.
Year: 1863

from The Republican ~ list cpening


We received from The agent of the Associated Press the
despatch which appears below in time for our rst edi
ton to-day, bat declined to publish it, knowing that the
statements it contains we're untrue:


NEw YORK, SEPTEMBER l.
The Herald says President Liacoln's letter written
Tor the mass meeting at Springfield embraces the sent
ments 0i he forthcoming proclamation, promisnp am
nesty TO all Southern people except the civil and military
authorities provided they lay down their arm, aud return
to IN r alleglsnco. The con cation act will not be an.
forced save against the leading military and civil uIers
aso, that on those slaves be considered free who have
eschped within the Union lines"


We insert the despatch for The purpose Of saving an
thoratiSey that It s nearly untrue in every part of IL
that ctn so be pronounced untrue as whole About
all there "a IN this sensation Telegram that Is true the
statement that the President has sent letter to the Re-
pnblcan Convention which s to assemble ia Illinois on
Thursday next and may add here that copy Of the
same has also been sent TO the Republican State Commit
tee OF New York, TO be read al the State Convention
which olso assemblies Thursday next The statement
10 the Herald i tightly reflected by the despatch,
gross misrepresentation,
Year: 1863

Hon +, DARWIN SMITH, one OF the Jusices of tie
Supreme Court Of the Seventh District in the State Of
New York has decided in the Of soldier for whose
discharge writ of habeas corpus had been sued out be-
fore him. that he has Jurisdiction to inquire into the e
gaty Of the imprisonment after appears that the person
ia detained under claim of authority from the United
States He founds his decision entirely upon the authority
Of the in the United States Court of Ableman vs
Booth.


lthas been announced that Justices MuIln and Bacon
of the Filth District have each made decisions precisely
the reverse Of The above and held that the State courts
have jurisdiction to inquire into the legality OF mprson


en such cases. and that the authority Of the case of
Ableman Booth only extends to cases in which the
person held under Judicial process Of the United States
courts We are not that the opinions of Justices
Mulln and Bacon have been published.


The question involved these conflicting decisions is
ons of great moment extending beyond the interests Of
the present hour aud affecting the Of judicial pro-
ceedngs and the personal protection of the citizens of the
States through all future time We not prepared to
surrender the right OF the State courts inquire into the
legality OF Imprisonment except where the person ia held
custody by the direct process of the courts of the Uni
ted States 10 the latter there is gie propety in
the application OF the of Ableman Booth as il ia
not claimed that the State courts ought to review or re-
the action of the United States iudici tribunals in
es where the latter have Jurisdiction.


The Of Abeman Booth one where The party
imprisoned was held by Judicial process Of tho Federal
courts and sound prime pls Of legal
the ruling that be extended one where the
party not held but is detained mercy by the arbtra
ry will OF soma corporal in the United States service or
perhaps some Insignificant agent of the Government In
the former the party held in the custody the law
by judicial process in the other hs is held by the will of


subordinate officer, and may be against all law In the
latter case the State courts inquire into the legality
at the imprisonment without ny in conflict with the
Federal courts in any impugnng the authority
of. the United States Judiciary.


1t ia the duty Of the State courts thus act i'm
of the liberty Of the citizen and the States ysr have
surrendered aud will abure the right TO protect the
personal liberty OF their citizens The latter cannot be
Kidnapped at will by claiming act under JJnea
States authority without the right invoke an amna
ton by the State courts, to the extent Of ascernnq
whether they are really held ia custody by legal authority
or only sheer violence The subject is one which ia not
likely to rest without further discussion and adjudication


Abany Argus, august 26.
Year: 1863

According to a correspondent Of The New York Evening
Post at Cape May, the shore Of New Jerey has been
and now s subsdng at the rate Of two feet in hundred
jea The tide waters advancing the land at the
mouth of Dennis Creek and for many miles along the Della
Bay shore the march washed away according TO
the reports OF local surveyors average Of about one
rod in two years and from early maps this would appear
t. have bsen goag at this rate since the first set
temept OF the country Thus island which is laid down
u map OF 1894 containing three hundred acres now
shows at low water only half acre and at high water
is entirely covered"
Year: 1863

We must caution friends not to bs agtated by the
many rumors in circulation Let them he cool calm, and
resoute during the impending crisis We shall probably
have a hot days work in East Tennessee before long
Many seem to look for general engagement daily but
this canuot occur There may be heavy skmshng during
this week, but hardly think battle will come off be
fore xt week the week after We have gallant army
in the field under able and sklfu commanders aud hen
they meet the enemy they will give good account Of
themselves We have lot heard that any OF the enemy
have vet crossed either the Tennessee Clnch rivers
though the said to be at raj different points
the ether side Of both these streams Our reports repre-
sent them being scattered from Chattanooga to Big
Creek Gap distance of hundred miles OF course it
will take them some time to concentrate for general
tion.--Kno1piHe Register Of the 25th.