smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

From letter received by DR.. Fry, and
written by participant in the brilliant
affair at Snow Hill, Tenn, we are per-
mitted to make the following extracts:


The brigade, or rather two regiments
of it, namely. 3rd and 4th Ohio cavalry,
have just returned from one of the most
successful scouts they were ever on. We
were accompanied by the lst cavalry
brigade, one battery of artillery, and two
brigades of Infantry. We went out for
the purpose of accommodating in tie
vicinity of Shows Hill, about thirty-fve
miles east from here, and very strong
hold, naturally, and one that the rebels
had repeatedly fled to when pursued,
and always, as yet, defended with sue
cess. We met their pickets the first day
ont, about ten miles this side of Shows
Hill, and had quite skirmish with
them, and drove them back some three
miles by the time it was dark whan ~e
bivouacked for the night. In the mean
time our infantry and artillery came up,
and the next morning we pushed for
ward again, meeting the rebels in force,
when spirited action ensued, resulting
in the rebels falling back to the works
on Shows Hill They effectually check
ed our advance in front, and as the ma
ture of the ground is such that it did
not seem possible to flank them, every
one supposed that our expedition was at
an end, and would prove fruitless. Our
force menacing them in front numbered
about $500 men, and the rebels had
about the same number, composed of
seven regiments of Morgan's command.
Our brigade was ordered to the right,
and attempted flank movement, and
we not only attempted it, but made it,
with $50 men, by working our way up
the hill or mountain side, leading our
horses single file.


After gaining the summit we found
ourselves in thick chapparal and al
most surrounded by the rebels, who bad
learned of our attempt to gain their left
and rear. They had lain in ambush for
us, expecting to make an easy victory
and kill or capture all of US, and they
should have done it, for they outnum-
bered us a. least eight to one Our men
were ordered to dismount and Ego in.
Then commenced one of the most ter
rife battles of small arms that | ever
heard. But we had an advantage in arms;
our boys could load and fire their breech
loading Sharp's rifles at least five times
to where the rebels could shoot once.
The fight was fearful for about an hour
and quarter, the rebels invariably fir
ing too high, and only hurting three of
our men. Our boys done better, and
killed some twenty odd of them, wound
ed between thirty and forty, and took 25
prisoners. During the fight we drove
them about two or three miles, when
they broke in confusion and fed towards
McMinnvile, and such fleeing never
saw before and never expect to again.
If we could have had support (but we
were FIVE miles from the rest of our
force) we could have captured the most
of them, but our little band was too tired
to follow them. Shows Hill was ours,
and that was glory enough for one day.


Yours, &c, NJ. c. c.
Year: 1863

NoBLK SEsrIMEETs.--Condemn no
man for not thinking as you Think
Let every one enjoy the full and free
liberty Of thinking for himself. Let
every man use his own judgment, since
every man must give anO account Of
himself to God. Abhor every approach.
in any kind Of degrees to the spirit of
persecution. II you cannot reason or
persuade q man into the truth, never
attempt to force him into ii. II love
will not'compel him to come, leave him
to God, the judge Of all.-Josn Yes
Year: 1863

HThe story about the shooting oil
the rebel General Forest, is this: He
and Lieutenant in his army were both
affected toward lady Of considerable
wit and beauty in the vicinity of their
encampment. The LieutenantEasking
for leave Of absence was refused BY
Forest In the evening. Forest called
on the lady and found the Lieutenant
there. He motioned as il he would
draw pistol, but the Lieutenant was
too quick for him, and shot him in the
neck. 1sgcq @ s'a1 ns'ioff o6-sS-
Year: 1863

c H"I don't miss church so much as
you suppose" said lady. to her minister
Who called on her during her illness;
for make Betsey sit at the window
as soon as the bells begin TO chime and
she tells me who is going to church,
and whether they. have got anything
new" .r
Year: 1863

NORTHWESTERN RA1LRoAD.-Thc Express
trains On The Chicago and Northwestern Ball
road win stop ut Desplaines Station both
.wuys, until the close Of the Camp meeting.
Tickets can be had at the Depot from this
date.
Year: 1863

On! Hottie Steubenville Union, in
noticing the overwhelming defeat in that
town at the Spring election, thus confesses
the truth in regard to certain Democratic
leaders:


"The causes which led to our defeat,
can be found in the fact, that men who
assume to lead the Democratic party sue
cessfully, must express themselves as
loyal to the Government, or may expect
to be defeated at every election. We
know the masses Of the Democratic party
are loyal meu, and it is extremity uufortu-
nate that certain men insist on leading the
party to the devil. At another time, We
shall speak more fully and freely"


That certainly spproximates to sound
sense. Let the loyal men Of the Demo-
cratic party scourgs out their disloysl
leaders, or desert them, and let them "go
to the devip' in . party BY themselves
as they will be sure to do.
Year: 1863

No. We direct the attention Of all who
may wish to purchase Iron Railing Of any
description, or Iron Work of decorative
character, to the advertisement Of Wood &
Perot, Philad., in another column.
Year: 1863

The men who print such vile efforts to
excite seaitiou in the camps, every true
soldier despises as contemplate wretches,
who only lack the courage to be Rebels 10
arms. Still, the generous soldier accepts
every proffsred hand, hoping the disloyal
may SO improve in head and heart as to
stop in q course which only prolougs the
war and does no good.
Year: 1863

Editor Gate City-SIR: / ask the use
OF your columns to correct the errors d
your local Of this morning in regard tc
the efforts Of the Ferry Company in get.
ting their boats extricated from the ice,
and getting them in use again.
The complaints of the merchants a
stated in your local of this morning, that
We should hare cut channel SO as to run
the boat to and from her landing where
she now lies, on the opposite side of the
river, are about ~ reasonable and con.
sistent as the opinions and complaints Of
many etAers who make up their opinions
and form their prejudices without any
other knowledge of the facts than the
assertions of ignorant or designing per.
sons, who stand on the street corners and
croak about what the Ferry Company
ought to do for them and the town.


1t is true that the sudden freeze Of
Saturday evening and night last, with .
fall of water within twelve hours during
Saturday night of three feet, left the boats
aground and fast in the gorged ice. from
which the Ferry Company aAd all their
employees have made every possible ex-
ertion to extricate them, and have had
one boat running to-day


We do not propose to notice the croak-
ings and fallacy Of all Of our frieads-but
will simply remind them that the cutting
out Of the channel as suggested, is impos-
siJle at this stage Of water, although no
more so than to perform many other de-
mands made by them upon the Ferry
Company.


While our Company acknowledge it to
De their interest and duty to make every
effert practicable to keep and run . 6st-
class ferry herein view of which We
have already incurred expenses and in.
vested more than double the capital than
that of any other ferry in the river above
st. Louis-ve do not propose or expect
to accomplish impossibili,ies, aud would
be pleased to have any one or more intel
ligent merchants or citizens to make a
personal investigation of the facts and
figures, and then form their opinions as
to the correctness of the facts.


Yours, &c,
Year: 1863

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FTF-
teeenth Judicial District of the State OF Caifor
mia in and for the County Of Butte


Mary Ann Mitchell v. Henry Mitchell.


Action brought in the District Count of the Fif
teenth Judicial District, and the complaint filed in
the County of Butte, in the Office OF the Clerk of
said District Court.


The People of the State Of California send greeting
to Henry Mitchell You are hereby required to
appear in an action brought against you by the
above named Plaintiff in the District Court Of the
Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of California
IN and for the County of Butte and to answer the
complaint filed therein, "a copy of which aooomra-
MES this SummonS) within ten days (eNcusive of
the day of service) after the service on YOU of this
Summons-if served within this County: or. if
served ont of this County, hnt in this Judicial Dis.
trct, within twenty days; if served out Of said
District, then within forty days-or Judgment by
default will be taken against You.


The said action is brought to obtain a decree
of Divorce from you Of the bonds of Matrimony fer
reasons fully set forth in the complaint on file.
copy of which accompanies this Summons 10 which
you are referred, and if you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint as above required, the
Plaintiff will take the relief prayed for in her COM
plant on file herein. =
t- Given under my hand and Seal of the
SEAL. District Court OF the Fifteenth Judicial
'-~-l District, this 18th day of january in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
siXtythree.


J. ". .GILKYSON, Clerk.


BY r. HOBART, Deputy.
HARRIS X BERRY, AttYs for Pltif.
Year: 1863

Looking up into the heavens at the midday
splendor Of the sun, or when night has unveiled
the planetary glories of the universe, and man
can but exeam " Behold! these are the works
of the Master Bulder-the Infinite fabric of
almighty skill-the worthy habitation Of ON
nipoent wisdom and power. No less, when
man looks out upon the magnifcence of nature
the populous air. and earth aud sea, clothed
about with light and verdary, incense and
music-will he exclaim, " Behold these are
the Innings Of the Master Artist" What
endless variety of form, what matchless combi.
nations of color, what successions Of gay and
sober beauty, feed the eye with wonder and
the soul with delight what sounds fill the ear
with melody and the heart with joy 4; what
odors steal upon the senses, bewldering and
ravshing the spirit Of man.


When the spring came, like resurrection
morn, bursting the cerement of winter, bring
ing bud and leaf, and birdsoDg and seed-time,
and balmy air and skies full of tranquil glory
or the summer, like bride, garlauded with
sunshine and blossoms, and treading the earth
with pomp of beauty-or the autumn, like
fruitful mother, sober aud queenly, bearing in
her lap the earth-born children of the year
gathered from field to forest, and tree and vine
and on her brow the gorgeous, many colored
crown of natures ripeness, how poor to the
conscious soul seemed all the power and art of
man. What can he create so marvellous and
enduring as the least of these manifold works of
the Master Artist? Can he hew a column TO
match the kingly oak? Can he build palace
or temple grand as the oerarching woods
Can he make melody like the ocean, or the
brooks, or the birds or the voice of the wind
in the pines? Can he tint his canvass to rival
the blushes Of May, the smiles of June, and the
regal SplendorS Of October? With what pig
.ments can he match the gold and crimson of
the autumnal naples the bloodred sumach and
the scarlet ivy?


SGrcy God is the Master Artist. He alone
can mold the perfect form, and lay the match
less color. He alone can " hew the beam and
lay the architecture of temples peerless and
indestructibe. In all nature be has set up
standard, toward which the proud art of man
may strive, but never reach. Vain man, with
his idols ard Babels. and atheisms-as though
he had wisdom and strength to fashion his own
gods or create the smallest perfect, durable
thing Vain is man, wherever he stands aloof
from Cod ana the worsbipful study of the
Master Artists works. Aud yet, most noble
and God like, when recognizing in nature the
presence of his Maker and Master, he reve-
reoty aspires, with all his powers, to initiate
the periectonS of the masters haudiwork
Year: 1863

NEvER SULK.-Better draw the cork of your
indignation, and let it foam and fume, than to
wire it down 10 turn sour aud acrid within
you. SulkS affect the liver, and are still worse
for the heart and soul Wrath driven in is as
dangerous to the moral health as suppressed
smallpox to the animal system. Dissipate it
by rejecting on the mildness humility, aud
serenity of better men than yourself, suffering
under greater wrongs than you have ever been
called upon To bear.
Year: 1863

LARGE issue Of yellow boys has been
made at Beaufort 5. c. consequent upon the
occupation of that place by the Union troops,
which are seen in the hands of the female con
trabands. The people are considerably alarmed
At the appearance of 50 large number of
Southern infantry in arms"
Year: 1863

and if we don't go into the army


now, we shall be as black as jeff.


I'avis' heart Now can we see the
salvation OF the Lord? Tennessee
has always been noted for being a
fighting country, and now If we
will take hold, we shall form one
of the brightest armies she ever
produced. Under the leadership Of
Washington and Jackson, our peo-
pie were led on to victory in davs
of old; and now let us, the descend
ants Of Ham, raise again the banner
that has been trampled in the dust.
The ladies are now busy making us
a flag, and let us prove -rselves
men worthy to bear it."
Year: 1863

that there is little to dread. The
mercury falls lower IN the thermom-
eter there than here, but tie wind
is hushed and still, and the atmos-
phere is drv; and hence we do not
ieel the same degree of cold that
We would in n damp atmosphere.
Teamsiers and iaborers tell me
they never lay up for cold, but LOOK
upon winter as one of the pleasant
seasons Of the year And now in
conclusion | would just say tha.
all the harm | wish the farming
part of our community. is that they
could just see the advantages of
that State over this as an agricul-
tural district.


A. III. JENKINS.
Year: 1863

Tie iOIks OF West FONT. Miss.
met two weeks ago and deliberately
did the following:


Rcsolrcd, That n bot,omless gulf
of unfathomed blood and hate now
separate us from the people of the
United States, and that we Will
maintain that separation either ts
the recognition of our independent
nationality or our determination as
free people.
Year: 1863

"Why not make every drafted person
serve in person p it is asked We an
swer-becau Sc that is not best. If the
rule, it render military service far more
onerous and less effective than at present.


He who stipulates to serve for bounty
Of $500, is presumptively better SOL
than he who will pay the $500 to escape
serving. Thus the semi rebel of Lower
Maryland, would lie worth very little to
the Union service but the $500 each
that they will pay to escape serving will
induce far better men to take their places.


Moreover. there are thousands of patri-


otic men, who would make good SOL
diers, who can be Of moro service to the
National cause elsewhere than in the
field. To send them to the war is to
take them from positions where they are
now rendering important service to the
cause of the Union. The Nation wants


soldiers for its defence but it needs men
at work in various capacities, to render
the soldiers in the field effective. The
law as it stands is we'll meant. and we'll
considered. Let US stand by it as it is.
Year: 1863

ANEcDoTE OF A Fool wealthy JUS
tice kept fool for his amusement, and
to him he once said


'Sirrah suppose all the world were
dead but you and |. and that one should
be turned to horse and the other to a
donkey, say which of the two you would
you choose to be ?


The fool answered. Sir. you are my
master do you. therefore, select first,
and I will be contented to take that
which you leave


why. then, said the justice, I would
be horse.


NO said the fool, let me entreat your
worship to be a donkey. for would
choosd to be one above all things.


'Why?' quoth the justice.


Harry, said the fool. because that
I have known many doukeys come to be
justices, but never knew the other an
imal to come to a like preferment.
Year: 1863

A short distance from the line which
divides Massachusetts, and New Ham.
shire, lives pious old deacon. who fears
the Lord and d. tests levity The deacon
owns a ram, o savage fellow. always
ready for a fight, and this belligerent
spirit the old gentleman's two sons took
advantage OF.


The deacon's farm has stream of
water running through it on the bank Of
which there is q rock extending close to
the water for some distance. and about
ten feet above it. and which cannot be
seen from the house. The boys were in
the habit of driving their fathers sheep
to this spot. and then vexing the old
ram. until be would pitch at them. with
all bis might. when they would drop fiat
down and let the old ram 60 headlong
over them. from the top of the rock into
the deep water below,


This was rare sport for the boys. but
one day the deacon caught them in the
very act of giving old 'Thumper' bath
and dealt with them as he felt in duty
bound to do for such ked-mindedness.
Some time afterwards. the deacon
chanced to 60 to the aforesaid rock. and
seeing the sheep feeding near it. he felt
q strong inclination to see bis ram make
another plunge into the water.


After looking about to make sure that
not another was in sight 10 witness his
folly he crouched down on the edge Of
the rock, and made q show of fight
against 'Thumper' who accepted the
challenge, and charged with all his force
SO rapidly that, the Deacon being rather
slew, and failing to drop in time. went
over thee rock headlong into the water
along with him,


Here was fix for deacon to be
caught in sure enough; and; to add to
his modification, by the time he and his
ram got out of the water, the boys were
standing on the rock above him. laugh
ing most boisterously. The deacon went
off home-the boys told of his mishap-
and the old man is called Deacon Slow
to this day.
Year: 1863

How GRANT BECAME A GENERAL.-Gen-


eral Grant entered the service for this war


as Colonel of the 2lst Illinois infantry He


had raised his regiment near Springfield,


and was about to have it mustered into the
service when many Of his men gave evidence
of dissatisfaction and expressed an unwilling
ness to be sworn 10. They had tried the
camp life short time and didn't like 1t we'll
enough to bind themselves to 1t for the long
period of three years. Grant was getting
dsheartened, and was mourning the prospec-
tive loss of his eagles when he accidentally
met Gen. Logan, who happened to be in
Springfield about that time. he made his
troubles known to him. They counseled
together on the subject for a while, finally
Grant told Logan that he thought, that if he
(Logan) would make speech to the men it
might do some good. Logan made a speech
in which he urged them to enlist, one and
all he painted the soldiers life in rainbow
bues and soon dispslled the prosaic idea
which the new recruits had Of what was in
store for them. His address had the decided
effect. Every man was sworn in and Grant
was commissioned Colonel. He has often
said since that if 1t had not been for Logan,
he would probably never have been in the
army. ..r..
Year: 1863

NWING to the immense increase in the price
I Of paper, and of every o'her article used
in our business now nearly double what it
was three months since, We are obliged to make
n trieing advance in the price ofour clubs.
Year: 1863

VESSEL CARRIED NIAGARA FAILs.-An ob.igng
correspondent at Chppawa sends account OF a
melancholy occurrence which took place the Niagara
river Monday last which resulted 10 the death OF
man by being carried the fall and caused imminent
peril FIVE others well as the loss OF small vessel
About eleven O'Clock in the morning the seamtug A. ID.
Griffin Gf Buffalo, reached that port, having in tow
scows the Abby and the A. Murray, OF Port Robinson
The captain OF the steamer, not knowing the depth or
water kept too far into the river with not sufficient
steam 70 keep headway the one OF the latter
the A. Murray striking arainst the spes the
OF the harbor swung around with the aim
the Jaws OF the mighty cataract The captain and four
men who were board seeing the helpless position
into which the vessel had got aud the great
peril with which they were threatepei-beins
within less than Eve minutes distance o. the
great ,all-eaped the vessel and boldly struck FOR
shore -Four OF tnem the captain included succeeded by
great exertons In maintaining themselves above the
face; but sad TO relate, the h sank amid the eapirg
ana boiling waters, and carried the cataract
In the meantime boat manned by two brave sho,
the helpless beings in the The oarsmen Messrs F.
Lauzau Ir, and george Morse, pulled boldly and swiftly
out rescued the from their perious position and
succeeded In reaching the shore lust above the first rapid
one minute more aud they would have been carried
the Falls TO great gulf below Too much praise
not be given the by whose presence OF mind aud
courage four human beings were thus rescued from GER
tain destruction The gdei along the stream t II
reached rock almost the brink ot the cataract where
lis course WAS stopped, aud where II will probably
main Till broken up by the ice Ia the spring Toronto
Leader, Dec 10.
Year: 1863

Be GENTLEMEN AT HOME. There are
few families, we imagine, anywhere in
which love is not abused as furnishing a
license for impoliteness. A husband g,
or father, or brother, will speak harsh
words to those he loves best, simply be-
cause the security of love and family
pride keeps him from getting his head
broken. 1t ie a shame that a man will
speak more impolitely at times to his
wife or sister than he would dare to any
other female except a low and vicious
one. Things ought not to be so. Kind
words are the circulating medium be-
tween true gentlemen and true ladies at
home and no polish exhibited in socie-
ty can atone for harsh language and dis
respectful treatment too often INDUCED
in between those bound together by
Gods own ties of blood, and the still
more sacred ties of conjugal love.
Year: 1863

Eg" A steamboat coming up from
Vicksburg the other day, soldier
stepped aboard on the way and asked
for e free passage to this city.


The captain asked, What is your rank
in the army sir p


I'm private in the third Kentucky.


Give me your hand, for d-dif you
amt the first private I have seen for o
month