smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

boos shoes, cotton yarn wool wooens cotton or


Z. All Treasury notes Of the denomina-


on Of five dollars not for new issue prior to the
st day Of January 1866 sndwhch may remain oustand
ing that day, to be taxed hundred cent


This section regulates the collection of the advalo
tax income derived from property and prescrbeG
the deduction be made in the assessment of
derived from manufacturing mining.


This section provides all citizens of any Of
the Confederate States temporarily residing in another
State shall be liable to be assessed and taxed in the State
district in which he may temporarily reside and shall
be the duty of all such who have not heretofore made
urn of their taxable property to the District Assessor
where they may temporarily reside, within thirty days
Of the passage of this ac to make such return, and
liable to be assessed and taxed aforesaid who shall
fail within the said period of thirty make
such shall be liable to all the pains and penalties
imposed the laws OF the Confederate States such


THE clauses between brackets indicate the amendments
to these sections ia which they occur.l
Year: 1864

The great object of all the Yankee raids at this par
tcular crisis, is three fold First they hope to sarve
eight millions OF pesple into submission, as lntim sted
by Seward in bis letter of instruction to his Minister at
Copenhagen. Secondly they hope to starve the popu-
atlon of Richmond into the humor for hailing them
delivers Lastly and principally, they hope to starve
Lees army, and thereby force him to abandon bis po-
sition These hopeful projects it must be confess
ed and well worthy of the brain that caived them
The only fault with them is that they altogether in
operative These raids may cause vast deal OF prl-
vate DISTRESS in Instances they have already ruin
ed individuals. But instead OF making any man more
desirous of peace, they on excite the spirit of


geance, and stimulate to continued exertion. They
make the Yankee name more hated than it was even
before the war; and that is the very spirit which we
glad to excited They teach the people that war;
everlasting preferable to submission or even to
compromise. AS to their effect upon Gen. Lees oper
ations they will have whatever. They Will not
gain Grant inch of ground single advantage
Lee has him by the throat and be will not rea2se him


let him plunge ard kick as he may.


In the meantime the truth begins to leak out at the
North The Times, for whatsoever purpose 1t Is not
material far concerned, has told the truth,
in modified form at least. 1t has revealed the act
SO carefully concealed by Stanton that ant was
badly beaten the morning of the Sd OF une, aud al
though the Herald came Instantly to the rescu was
too late Grant not nominated at Baltimore, and
Lincoln was. Gold went up to 194 and Grant stock
came down to zero with For our own part we
glad 10 hear that Lincoln has received the nomna
tion When enterprising partisan officer OF the
Revolution proposed to carry of Sir William Howe
from the midst of bis army, Washington put his veto
upon it at He had no doubt that it feasible;
but Howe had conducted the as stupdy as 1t was
possible for any to conduct it, and any change
whatever could not but e for the British interest
Let him stay tor fear of who might not De
quite such an imbecile. So W. cay of Old Abe. 1t
would be impossible to find another such ass il the
United States, and therefore say let him stay
We at least of the Oonederacy, ought to be satls


fed with him, for he has conducted the war exactly
as we ought to wish it to be conducted. He has
confirmed those that were wavering, heated
red hot those who were luke warm made those zsal-
GUS who careless converted cold indifference into
furious passion and neutrality into buniog
patriotism As for the military operations conceived
and executed under his auspices, surely we have nc
right to complain. No service ever had SO many blum
derfng officers, and no campaigns ever conducted
stupidity For these reasons " are a1
Year: 1864

million Of votes in Ya kee1om be should have them
all. He has made the South the most united people
that ever went forth to battle with an invader and
for that he deserves the lively gratitude of every South
ern man. If anything could add to the obligations
der which we lie to the Baltimore Convention, it would
be found in the nomination of Andrew johnson the
man of all others most deesed in the South and the
most likely to keep together e parties already united
in solid for the prosecution of the war Con-
vi1ced that nobody not in favor of connu-
ing tie could be elected, and that no other would
conduct it SO foolishly, we go for this ticket


Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1864

he greeted with the greatest snthusasm by the
troops The negroes in their usual demoastratve way
vented their feelings the wildcat cheers AT the front.
with glass hand he surveyed the varying phases Of


ths Hght and by his presence contributed in no little way
vaor Of the troops all Of whom felt that the eye
Of their commander was upon them In every movement
After the fort carried he entered and sat down 10
despatch The gunbcats and Fort Darling had not
ce'sed rng and Auudred FOUNDER shell burst IN the
air the Generals head butM dseomposed him none


In the least, and he finished his despatch without any
apparent sign OF uneaspess at his exposed position or
Of the dangerous missiles flying in such close proximity
Year: 1864

The contractors and office holders have not
word TO say in their Baltimore platform
against the suppression OF free speech and
free presses. They, therefore, endorse the
outrages upou the dearest rights of free
people, and are willing to bind the man or
set OF men who sustain free press, and
uphold the rights of free discussion.
Will any man who has the least respect Tor
his own m anhood and the Liberties OF his
pesteriiy aid in keeping in power those
who seek the subversion OF our dearest
preroga,ives
Year: 1864

A PAIR of rebel shoes taken by one OF
CRooK's command are thus described
''The soles and heels OF the shoes are of
wood, and appear to have been sawed out
by machinery The uppers, are OF very
heavy, stiff and badly tanned leather, are
nailed upon The wooden soIes with Largo
tacks and wells.
Year: 1864

There is curious picture in a recent
number of Harper's Weekly that ought
to afford the motley lovers of peaee-aas-
sorted size'-s little consolation. 1t re-
presents a horse and man; the former
Of the kind that saith among the trum-
pets, 'hs, ha and smelleth the battle
afar of, the thunder of the captains aud
the shouting" The latter is the Hgentle-
man from oransayn CAnA-al- -1InGIlArA-,
He is so arrayed in the trappings of war
that you are betrayed in your haste into
saying, he wears brass coat with blue
buttons But he is harmless, for the
artist has given him no sword. There
is his scabbard, but as empty as the tomb
of 1h3 Capulets He has reversed the
fashion of the old warrior who drew his
sword and flung away the scabbard, Ior
he grasps the scabbard and has thrown
aside the sword. The picture would make
an admirable device for the great seal
of the order of Democracy, var horse
and an empty sheath.
Year: 1864

The failure of the mails by the delays on


the New York s. Erie Railroad as to be in
vestigated. Post Master General Blair
has authorized an agent to traverse the
whole route between New York and Gin
cinnati, and investigate,
Year: 1864

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL WHOM
IN it may concern, that will not be responsible
Tor any contracts except those made by myself per
sonally or by my order in writing. .


Gold Hill, August TO- 1884. auglO 2w
Year: 1864

The people in many parts ofNlaine have suf-.
fcred terribly, both i'll apprehension and actual
loss, from the fires which have been raging in
that State. A correspondent OF the Spring
field Republican writes from Winthrop, Me-,
during the prevalence Of the fire


The State seems shrouded in a heavy pail. :.
Of smoke. Weare cut off from the light Of
the sun. We hear that m our towns and cit
les the people arc really preparing to fee. be-
fore this worse than rebel foe. Many homes
have already been destroyed, many fruitful
fields swept over by the fumes. In one in
stance, where a member of the family had Just
died, the fire came so swiftly that there was
not time to remove the dead to a place of safe
ty: and the wrctchcd family were forced to leave
it to he burned. 'Iis bad enough daytimcs to
endure with fortitude such state of things;
even at uoon wo cannot, on some days, see a.
quarter of mile in distance, and the birds
seem ominousy thick and tame about the
house but nights are fearful. We are wrap
ped ip darkness that can be felt and smet, and
that stiles and sickcns us "We cannot sec
the fire until it is just upon u.s." said a little
maiden, sadly, one night this week when we
bad started up from our beds alarmed at an
appearance ofsparks flying about not far from
ns, "and when it comes we shall not know
which way to go''
Year: 1864

Our reporter states that lady who died of
cholera, and was laid out by her friends, was
found the following night standing at the cup
board eating cucumber pickles, or in other
They LETT her"a laying in" white,


Prepared for the graves quiet slumbers
But they found her the very next night


"A laying in" picked cucumbers
Year: 1864

Scatter the germs Of che beautiful!
By the wayside let them fall,
That the rose may spring by the cottage gate,
And the vine oh the garden wall;
Cover the rough and the rude of earth
With veil of leaves and flowers,
And mark with the opening bud and cup
The march of summer hours.
Scatter the germs of the beautiful
In the holy shrine Of home;
Let the pure and the fair, and the graceful there
In the loveliest lustre come;
Leave not trace of deformity
In the temple of the heart,
But gather about its hearthtths gerns a'a
OF nature and of art.


uE rp AHTfH
Scatter the germs of the beautiful


III the temples -four Cod
The God who starred the uplifted sky,
And fowered the trampled sod;
When he built temple for himself
And home for the priestly race,
He reared each charm in symmetry
And covered each line i'll grace.
Scatter the germs of the beautiful


In the depths Of the human soul (; ~
They shall bud and blossom aud bear the fruit
While the endless ages roll;
Plant with the flowers Of charity


The portals of the tomb
And the fair and the pure about thy path
b In Paradise shall bloum.
Year: 1864

The following is description Of the
new national currency notes, $500, 0,0o0,-
900 of which are about to be issued.


THE FIVE DOLLAR NOTE.


The vignette at the lower corner rep
resents Columbus discovering the land.
Columbus is in the foreground, on the
deck of his vessel, while near him lean
ing over the side of the vessel, is fig
ure turned towards him as if in con-
sultation. Another figure isrepresented
grasping a crucihx: the face is turned
heayenward. In the background is a
group of which the principal figure is a
priest. On the other end of the note is
an allegorical piece lepresenting Colum-
bus introducing America to the world.
The design of this piece is happily con-
ceived and rendered. The figure of
America is that Of young girl Europe,
Asia and Africa are represented by cor
responding figures. Europe is in the
immediate foreground Asia is next,
and the sable figure of Africa standing
further back There is also distant
view of shipping and the ocean.


The back Of the note is ornamented
with finely executed engraving of the
Landing of Columbus, from the painting
By Vanderlyn in the rotunda of the cap
itol at Washington. The appearance Of
the representation Of the note is greatly
superior to that of the original, the
drawing having been improved by Cast
lear, and other artists. The ends, OF
elaborate scroll and lathe work, includ
ing at the right, in an oval an inch by an
inch and half, the national eagle and
shield, with ~. S. in cipher on sky in
the background. The corresponding
oval at the other end Of the note will
contain the coat Of arms Of the state, as
already described. The name of the
state will appear on the sky in the back
ground.
Year: 1864

My heart Is chilled and my pulse is slow,
But often and often will memory 20,
Like blind child Lost in waste OF snow,
Back to the days when loved you so


The beautiful long ago.
ait here dreaming them through and through,
The blissful moments shared with you
The sweet, sweet days when our love was new
When was trustful and you were true,


Beautiful days, hut few.
Blcst or wretched, fettered or free,
Why should care how your illc may be,
Or whether you wander by land or sea-
only know you are dead TO me,


Ever and hopelessly.
Oh. how often, at days decline,
pushed from the window the cur,ainins vino,
To see from your window the lamplght shine
Type OF n message that, half divine,


Flashed fron your heart to mine.
Once more the starlish Is silvering ALT
The roses sleep by the garden wall
The night.blrd warbles his madrigali
And I hear again through the sweet air fall


The evening bugle-call
but summers will vanish and years will wanc,
And bring no light TO your window pane
Nor gracious sunshine, nor patient rain,
Can bring dead love back to life again,


I call up the past in vain.
My heart Is heavy, my heart Is old,
And that proves drOss which counted as gold
watch no longer your curtains fold,
The window Is dark and the night is cold,


And the story forever told
Year: 1864

FIRE.-Last night there was an alarm
of fire and the engines started for the
scene. On arriving at the top OF the hill
near the pork house of MeSsrs. Cleghorn
d Alexander, they discovered that the
flames and smoke proceeded from prai-
RE on fire in the direction of Alexander.
They did not go to put it out.
Year: 1864

AMusEaENT.-On Saturday afternoon,
some of the boys of our peaceful city"
becoming tired and disgusted with the
monotony of every day life, concluded to
get up an excitement of some kind to
while the time away and wishing to re-.
vive old psstimes, determined on an old
fashioned amusement, which was in vogue
in days gone By. SO they tied an oyster
can to dogs tail and started the yelping
cur at "a $40 gait up the street, to the
great amusement Of all urchins.
Year: 1864

A GLORIOUS RAIN has fallen during the week,
effecsnaIly soaking the earth to a considerable
depth, and ere long every valley, and nook
and hillside will be clothed in rich vernsl green
Year: 1864

Only suppose there were n y otheI


power, such as machinery or railways


however much good they might do, from


which one thousandth part of the evil


that are wrought every d y by strong
drink should be produced, it would no


be tolerated in existence for a singl;


week-the whole power of our humanity
would rise up 10 b | and indignan


protest against it, and say it must no
and snail not be. The a C t is, as W,


have said, can grasp th'


thought of the evil of thousand kind


that is ever being thus poured in upo'
society,". er the


walked a few weeks si8d saw the


scene of the Sheffield at9s in the room,I


dead bodies Iying.d been borne, saw he


into which thy that were overwbslmed |
once i86lation and wretchedress, saw


W'wreck and ruin that on avery hand
appalled, and saddened heart, saw
survivors sitting amid the wreck of all
they once rejoiced in, bereft Ct all that
were dear to them, drunk and careless
in their awful agony. walked up the
bed of the course down which that torrent
had swept, till the heart was crushed un-
der the burden of woe, and sank within
me. Then, as / turned from the spot,
the thought arose upon the mind, if it
were possible to call up to the view the
ruin wrought by strong drink, the desc
lated homes, the blasted prospects, the
slaughtered bodies, the scenes of violence,
and cruelty, and woe that from this source
fill the land, that would be picture be-
fore which this would be as nothing
And that is flood which does not mere
ly flow itself out for an hour and then
subsde, but is ever flowing on and com
mitting its devastations as it has done in
villages, and is doing still. 1t it not so
merely in one place either, but cutting
for itself million channels and pouring
itself all through the land, and it is only
because men have become so accustomed
to its frightful curse that they can live in
the midst of its ravages at all Look at
the degradation that springs from this
source, and that abounds on every hand,
degradation alike of body and soul, and
then say whether the drink is not that
by which men are made to stumble, and
from which it is well that we should alb
stain.-Ws Nation.
Year: 1864

Just here in the shade of this cannon-torn tree,
Here, low on the trampled grass, where l may
see
The surge of the combat, and where may hear
The glad cry Of victory, cheer upon cheers


Let me lie down.
Year: 1864

| Ouk


Let the person whose A B D H P
name you wish to know G G e | @
tell you in which of the E f f j X
upright columns the first G G G X S
letter Of his name is con- ! J L l. T
tanned. If it be found in X X NJ M u
but one column, it is the M N N N V
top letter il it occurs in o 0 O o W
more than one column, @ r I X X
it is found by adding the S S V z Y
alphabetical numbers of u V V Y Z
the top letters of these w W w


columns, and the sum Y Z


will be the number of the letter sought
By taking one letter at a time in tnis
way, the whole name can be ascertained.
For example, take the word JANE. j
is found in the two columns commencing
with B and III, which are the % and 9Th
down the alphabet their sum is 10, and
the 10Th letter down the alphabet is j,
The letter sought. The next letter A ap-
pears III Uut one Column, vl,vie IL suauus
at the top. N is seen in the columns
headed B, d and Ii : these are the I'd,
4th aud 9Th letters of the alphabet,
which being added give the 18th, or N /;
&c. The use of this table will excite no
little curiosity among those unacquaint-
ed with the above explanation.
Year: 1864

THE TRIUMPH OF TAMMANY HALL--The suo-
cess Of the whole Tammany county ticket
with the exception of Comet, who ought never
to have been nominated-and especially the
reelection of Judge Russell, who received only
the Tammany nomination, shows what the Old
Wigwam can do, and smsshes all the other
organizations. Tammany Hall is the only
regular democratic organization of this CITY.
She has stood firmly by the Union and reps
dated the peace men. Had the democracy Of
the country followed her noble example Mo-
Clellan might have been elected. As 1t Is,
Tammany now triumphs amid the general
wreck We advise her to hold meeting at
once and renew her Union VOWS, and we advise
all the bogus democratic factions to disband.
There is no longer help or hope for them.
Year: 1864

ALL QUrEr AaaN.-Now that the election is
over and all the feverish iexcitsments, which
for the past month bave turned the people
mora or less from their regular avocations, we
hope they will fall quietly back into their old
paths. We have had great many speeches,
moss meetings and torclhght demonstrations,
and we have spent great deal of money. But
it is all over now, and we can resume our
peaceful habits Of making money and enjoying
it. Everybody, Of course, did his duty in this
great revolution, which turns out TO be no
revolution at ell as far a. the administration OF
the government is concerned; 80 wa suppose
everybody ought V bs sasisasd. Abraham
Year: 1864

TURNING THE TABLEs.-The Canadians are
beginning to enjoy taste Of that sire in the
rear" which they are preparing for us In the
shape Of rebel raids and steamboat burnings.
The Fenian Brotherhood are likely to give
them sufficient employment in looking after
their own security, without their occupying
themselves in furthering the plans Of our enc.
mics. Honesty, they will find, is the best
policy. Those that work underhand are sure
to be caught in trap Of their own making.
Year: 1864

bloodshsd In any nero county election In tho
Old Country.


Out OF the four million votes cast there will
not probably be majority for Mr.. Lincoln Of
over two hundred Misunderstanding how in
tense the interest was and how rssolutely each
party sustained its favorits candidate. The
people were too earnest in their intention to
vote to give any time to quarrelling, and so
this most important election we ever held was
model of great moral battle.
Year: 1864

TREATMENT OF RouP,-We copy tho
following suggestion from HaNs JoWno!
Of He0lth, in relation TO the treatment of
this di ease. Prompt application Of the
remedies prescribed may save many an in


infant that might otherwise die from ne
glect 10 the incipient stages. "Croup is an
inflammation ofthe inner surface Of the wind
pipe. Inflammation implies heat, and that
heat must be subdued, or the patient will
inevitably die II prompt efforts are made
to cool the parts in the case of an attack
of Group, relief will be as prompt as it is
surprising and delightful. All know that
cold water applied to a hot skin cools it,
but all do no! as well know that hot wa
ter applied to an iuaamed skin will as GER
tainly cool it off, Hence the application
of ice-cold water with linen cloths. or
almost boiling water with wooden flannel,
is very efficient in the cure Of Group
Take Two or three pieces Of wooden flannel
or Two fold, large enough to cover tia
whole throat and upper part of the chest,
put these into pan of water as hot as the
hand can bear, and keep it thus hot, by
adding writer from bo ling tea kettle at
hand let two or three of the fanuels be
in hot water all the time, and one Oh the
throat all the time, with dry one cover
ing the wet one, so as to keep the heat in
to some extent, the flannel should not be
so wet as to drible the water, for it is i'm
portant 10 keep the clothing as dry as pos
sible, and keep up the process until the
phlegm is loose, the child easier, and
hegins to fall asleep, then gently wrap
dry frnne over the one which is on, 10 as
to cover 1t up entirely, and the child is
saved. When it wakes up both fannels
wall be dry.
Year: 1864




s6 The following we find in the
Richmond Enquirer The Standard
was the reconstruction paper whose
bold articles made much noise in North
Carolina: y


CONSERVATISM CoLLAPsED


The Raleigh On. C) Standard gives
the following notice:


"THE STANDARD SUSPENDED. - The
publication of the Standard is for the
present suspended Due notice will be
given of the resumption of publication.
Our exchanges will confer q favor by
continuing their visits while the publica-
ton of the Standard is temporarily sus-
pended; and meanwhile we shall be
glad to see our friends who may be pass
ing through Raleigh, and to hear from
them generally, verbally or by letter"
Year: 1864

Major General Smith has publicly thanl :
ed the colored troops for their conduct ia
storming part OF the works before Peters
burg. He told them that he was proud of
their courage and dash, and that he should not
In future hesitate to place them In any sit
uation. Most Of these colored troops never
were In battle before the present campaign !;
they are not veteran troops. The judiciors
praises OF General Smith will give them heart
Tor any work they may be needed for, and add
still more to their efficiency.


But says the NY. Post, what shalt be thought
OF those members of the House oil Represent
atives whom fanatical hatred of these brave
soldiers OF the Union carried TO sueh length
tnat tney cUuiu mot oven rejoice with their fel-
lows over asuccess gained by the help OF these
colored troops? Perhaps. however, 1t was not
this feeling which keptthem silent and gloon y
when Secretary Stanton's despatch was read
In the House. but shame at the narrow mind
ed bigotry which had led them TO oppose the
enlistment Of these brave men, and TO refuse
them fair and equal pay. Ifthat covered their
faces with gloom and kept their tongues still,
the fact Is creditable to them.