smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

Newspaper subscriptions are infalibe
tests of mems honesty. They will, sooner
or later, discover the man. If he is dis
honest, he will cheat the printer some way
says he has paid what he has not, de
clsres he has the receipt somewhere--or
sent money. and it was LOST in the mail
or will take the paper and not pay for il
on the ground that he did not subscribe for
it--or he will move OFF. leaving il coming
to the office he left Hundreds of pro
Tossing Christians are dishonest in this
way. and the printers book will tell fear
ful tales in the final judgment
Year: 1861

For some weeks past the brightness of
this planet, in the western sky. has been
a subject Of remark among those who have
been in the street in c!oudless evenings.
Its brilliant aspect at this time ha, lei
some to suppose that the planet has chan
ged from its appearance formerly. VIII N
it held the same position to the sun. But
this apparent increase in lustre is due TO
the absence Of large stars from its path
way. The other brilliant planets are now
morning stars. Venus attain its creates
brilliancy about three weeks after New
Year, after which it will rapidly decrease
in splendor until it again becomes a morn
ing star. and the other planets will take
lis place in the evening sky.
Year: 1861

Woman has mission to perform OH earth,
mission, pure, elevated and refining in its
character and design. She should hold in
her delicate hand the sceptre of purity and
piety, to which man in his impurity of heart,
bows and owns her superior goodness and
piety. She is so constituted, possessing such
varied excelencies, that man instinctively
ack nowledges her superiority and bows reve-
rcnty to her sway. She holds the key to
mildness, meekness and love, and generously
bestows needed blessings when the heart is
sad, or lies pathway is strewn with worm
wood and briars. When the heart is Ian
gushing, she dihuses the sweet, comforting
balm of her smiles, and tho gentle words
that flow generously from her lips, arc like
dew on the flowers of Heaven.


Womans mission is a holy one-her po-
stion an exalted one. How sad it is, that
the nobest traits of her character are often
perverted! How sad, that her brightest vir-
tues should be tarnished If every woman
was what she was designed to be, it her mo-
tives wero all as pure as goodness and piety
could make them, if her beauty and charms
reflected the sweet, trusting nature OF her
inner self, how soon would the whole world
undergo change and hearts and lives read
and see many blessings of morality and vir-
tue, of which they are now in ignorance
The mission Of woman on EARTH in whatever
capacity, is d desirable and responsible one.
One which she only is fitted to adorn, and
over which she has an unbounded influence.
Sad it is, that that influence is not always
what it should be, that it is often such as to
arouse and harden evil natures, and onkindle
selfish passions and unhallowed dcsires.-
Never was there u situation that required
more pety, more love- more tenderness, than
that Of woman, whose mission on earth is to
bless, whose duty it is to love, whose labors
are those of moulding characters. Happy
is the woman who feels that it is high and
exalted station to bless mankind with her
smiles and her love, and by her untiring de-
votion to justice and right receive the ap-
probation of her own heart. Happy is she
if she receives the grateful smile of some
poor, distressed, sorrowing one, whose hard
repinings have grown less bitter by her kind
ness, whose thorny pathway has been be-
Year: 1861

There are great many things besides men
and guns essential to an army, and COM
mander, about to lead an army into hostile
country first sees that the commissariat is
we'll provided with provisions, that there are
ample means of transportation, and that there
is a reserve Of ammunition and clothing, and
a good supply of hospital stores and medl-
cines.


All the preliminary arrangements for the
march having been barefully made, the order
of march is communicated to the several
commanding officers of divisions, brigades
and regiments, but not published in orders.
The troops are distributed according to the
character of the country. In very open
country, large proportion Of cavalry would
be at the head of the column but generally
it is distributed throughout the line. The
artillery should be in the rear Of the first
foot regiment.


An advance or rear guard Of mounted
troops--one or two mpanles-should be de-
tailed each day and the regiment that has
the right of the line one day should be next
day in the rear, In a woody or mountain
Gus country, detachmcnts or aankers and sklr-
mishers are thrown out to the right and left
of the columu, at the distance Of one or two
hundred PAGES, to keep sharp lookout, and
prevent any such disastrous and gratuitous
experiences as those painfully and recently
familiar to US in connection with the ambus-
cade on the road to Vienna. The column
having been formed at half or quarter dis
tance, and the baggage train assembled in the
rear, protected by a guard selected from each
regiment for its own baggage, the column is
put i, motion and the march commences with
the same regularity as would be observed by
a regiment moving in Or out OF garrison
town, the bands placing, the light infantry
with arms sloped, and those of the rifcmen
slung over the sholder, the officers with swords
drawn, exact wheeling distances preserved,
and perfect silence observed.


After having proceeded a short distance in
this manner, the word Of command, route
stop" is given by the general at the head OF
the leading battalion, and passed quickly on
to the rear. The captains, instead Of contin-
uing at the head OF their companies, draw
back to the rear of them, that they may sec
any men Of their respective companies who
may attempt to quit the ranks without leave.
The soldiers then march and carry their arms
in any manner convenient to them, conversa-
tion and smoking being ordinarily allowed.
Year: 1861

Btsuops.-Bishop Mead of Virginia has
seeded Bishop Polk is rebel Major Gen
era; Bishop Clark of Rohde Island, at re-
cent popular meeting, said


"The notion that traitors are to be treated
tenderly is exploded. 1t is time the dispen-
sation of hemp commenced. Hang the lead
ers in mercy to the people, who are given over
to delusion to believe a lie then pray that
they may be brought to their right minds, and
dwell with us in the bonds of friendship"
Year: 1861

Church, and the Church as whole, should
so arise the banner of the cross, that sin and
rebellion against Gods holy government
should be subdued and overthrown, and all
Christians, Of every name, gathered around
that common central bond of union, should
march onward to victory. The thought is
finely expressed by Pollock, in his description
of the Christian missionary, who went forth
to preach the word of life, and


&C High on the Pagan hills, where Satan sat


ELcamped, and o'er the subject kindoms threw


Perpetual night, to plant Immanuel'i cross,


he ensign of the gospel blazing round


immortal truth, and in the wilderness


or human waste, to sow eternal life''
hptelhgencer.
Year: 1861



 THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND THE SUPPLY OF CoTToN.-We have been in the habit of regarding the United States with great respect as the principal providers of the cotton whereby four millions of per- sons in this country subsist. Let us not forget that we must now transfer this feel ing 10 the Southern section of the late Union. Our merchants and manufactur- CTS would do we'll to cultivate their private means of communication with the South ern States, which are solely the cotton producers; for upon the action that may be taken by the Confederate Government de- bends the question of the future cotton supply. in default of the ability of the North 10 maintain an efficient blockade, which alone could claim 10 be recognized. according to the law of nations. 1t is a great drawback at the present moment that nearly all the American intelligence that reaches Europe through the North ern States. .9atdi aiteram partem is a motto which can never be safely disre- garded where there Is a desire 10 arrive at correct conclusions upon any point in which there are two parties - London Money Market Review.
Year: 1861



 TAXING SUGAR, TEA AND COFFEE The New York Tribune, Irrepressible or gan, thus glibly talks of taxing the people, q direct, outrageous tax upon the bone and sinew of the land to raise reverence to carry on the war, for freedom to the ne. gro, to make the African the equal of the white man, to reduce white labor to the level of slave labor. Sugar is dear enough now 10 poor people. who have to work hard for money enough to buy it at it's present price, yet these abolitionists wan, to levy an additional tax of two cents per pound to carry on the war. to begin with. and there's no telling how high 1t will be in the end:

 A duty of two cents per pound on sugar will add five millions per annum to the revenue, and will hardly be felt by consul mers. if it should be, we shall be encour- aged to produce more and more sugar at home. We must have additional revenue, and sugar, tea and coffee will yield i, more readily than aught beside. Let us secure ten to twenty millions by imposts on these articles. and then look around for other sources equally productive.
Year: 1861

HIDoN'T SEE IT. Lord Nelson was IN
doubtedly the author Of this popular slang
phrase At the celebrated naval battle of
Copenhagen, Nelson, who was determined to
continue the fight, but whose attention had
been called to a signal Of the commanding Off
Ger to cease hostilities, placed his hand over
his good eye, and pretended to look with his
blind enc, said al don't see j" and at once
ordered q brisk renewal Of the engagement.
Year: 1861

has been long enough before the Teople to
satisfy them that these offers are made in good
faith, and that our engagements will be faith
fully'met. Our paper is not one of mush-
room growth, but it has proved its claim to
vitality and solidity by a long and prosperous
career, and it now stands at the very head of
the tof papers of its class.


Our friends must be careful whom they
entrust their money for subscriptions, as we, Of
Year: 1861

The Senate Committee on the subject OF
the Financial Agent appointed by Governor
Fairbanks to receive and forward for the
troops, their surplus pay, have reported by
Senator Elmunds, that the appointment was
made without strictly legal authority; but
that they have no reason to doubt that the
Governor was actuated by the highest mo-
tivcs in taking the steps he did, and that
Mr.. Poland felt Justly entitled and obliged
to perform the duties referred to, as public
trust. The Committee are Of the opinion,
however, that tie method adopted by the
late Goycrnor is not, Under all the circum-
stances, the best adapted to the end in view,
but that a more safe aud eGactual provision
may be made on the subject by bill now
under consideration in the Senate they
therefore are of opinion that there is no ne
cessity for 4 continuance Of the Office. y
Year: 1861

DEAR PHOENIX We have given you a
hearty welcome in your weekly visits, and are
inspecting you closely for good ne'cs from our
native State We can hardly content ourselves
till your next arrival. Is Vermont marching
promptly to the relief of our Union? DO her
boys rally around that dear and glorious old
Aag-to redeem the insult it has suffered from
the Raiilesndke of Secession9 Are they prov
ing themselves worthy descendants of the No
BILE Green Mountain Boys, ;he pride of every
patriotic VermonterP


Ohio is true as Steel. There is not village
or hamlet within her borders, but is sending
forth her sous to battle for the cause of free
dom and justice. Every nerve is on fire. and
every strong right arm would strike the death
blow to treason.


Sidney-a village of about the size of Brat
tleboro, has formed one company, which has
Year: 1861

Mr.. .EDlToR.-WesternV Vermontis thorough
lv awake: every patriotic citizen is ready to
avert this great crisis in our country's affairs
with firm hand and brave heart. Middle
bury is all enthusiasm. The Union Guards
have been called out into active service, and
the greatest interest is manifested by all in fur
nishing the brave men who have volunteered to
themselves to their country scause with alldevote
their equipments necessary for long and te-
dious campaign Last Sabbath had little of
its usual stiffness and quiet. Tho order for the
Union Guards to be ready to march at mo-
ments warning arrived the day before, and few
preparations had been made for their departure,
many of the stores were thrown open and were
filed with patriotic ladies' who worked the
whole day on the equipments of the volunteers
with an energy that showed that their hearts
were in the enterprise; one of the churches
suspended services in the p. NJ. and turned
their vestry into Tailoring Establishment, and
from morning till late at night the streets were
filed with an anxious and busy crowd, some
waiting upon the ladies at work in the different
shops, others seeking the latest news by the
telegraph from the seat of war. Middlebury
has seldom if ever presented such an exciting
scene as at present. All are engaged and in
terested-Those who cannot take up arms
themselves have pledged funds sufficient to
support the families of those who do go-Two
meetings have already been held at which reso-
lutors were passed and speeches were made
which eyinced that the patriotism of the Green
Mountain Freemen has not degencratcd since
the days of Allen.


The college has caught the spirit of Enthu-
siasm. Yesterday the Stars and Stripes were
unfurled from the Chapel amid the cheers OF
the citizens and students. Patriotic speeches
we're made by gentlemen of the Faculty and
students and the sons of "Old Midd" were de-
clared loyal to the Union. The first thing that
meets the eye of one entering the town on the
cars from the South, is the glorious banner Of
our country waving from the cupola Of the Col
lege Chapel. The students are making an ear
nest effort to form company of Riilemen OF
their own number The names of fifty fellows
have already been enrolled and are now wait
for the Legislature to furnish them with arms
which many influential men in the State have
assured us they will do Immediately. We arr
daily drilled by one of the lest Drill-masters il
, the State and in a little while Middlebury Col
lege will furnish to their country compan!
p of as brave and true men as ever marched t.
+ battle. If our services are ever called for, W


will show that we are animated with the sam


spri. that melted the Green Mountain Boys il


the days of the Revolution, to deeds of braver.


and noble daring that forever immortalize,


their names-Is there no other college who vii
! follow our example c. c. IL.


Middlebury, VT, April %. 1861.
Year: 1861

During the past year we have had occasion
to question the depth and sincerity of the anti
slavery feeling imputed to the English nation as
whole. There has been nothing really to test
that feeling tor some thirty years, and with the
body of the English people it had become rather
tradition from past generation than living
power in the present. A feeling that vented
itself in bitter and indiscriminate denuncia-
ton of Americans, or in fashy defamation
about raising paltry Peters pence for one of
the thousand churches in this land that are op-
posing slavery, while at the same time the Cot
ton lords of Manchester, the financial support
ers of slavery, went unreproved, and the slave
traders of Spain, the open violators of treaty,
went unpunished, we feared would be equal
to the contest when the commercial and inan-
cial struggle with slavery should be transferred
to the soil of England. That this fear was
well-grounded, is evident from the fact that the
increase of our tariff upon certain British goods
has checked the sympathy Of almost the entire
British press for the North in its struggle
against slavery. Had not war broken out in
this country, in all probability the mercantile
and manufacturing interest Of England would
have demanded recognition of the slavehold-
ing Confederacy, and special commercial trea-
ties for the product of slave labor. The satire
of Punch is bitterly true:


"Though with the North we sympathze,


1t must not be forgotten.


That With the South we've stronger ties,


Which are composed of cotton,


WhereJf our imports mount unto


sum OF many figures;


And where would be our calico


Without the toll of niggers?


"The South enslaves those fellow men,


Whom we love all so dearly;


The North keeps commerce bound again,


Which touches us more nearly.


Thus divided duty


Perceive in this hard matter,


Free trade, or sable brothers free p?


Oh! won't we choose the latter!


The English nation needed to be aroused and
tested anew upon the subject of slavery. We
cannot doubt that the news of war will stir them
to the very depths. The anti-slayery spirit will
rally: the clamors of trade will be silenced ;
the heart of the English people will be aroused
to protest against any connivance by the Gov
ernment or the commercial marine of England
with the arms of the Secessionists


We do not ask material aid of the English
nation. But we hsve right to look for their
moral aid. We have a right to insist that they
shall respect without murmuring our blockade
of the Southern ports; that they shall not fur
nish arms to rebels against Government with
which they are in treaty; that they shall even
Join their fleet with ours in keeping the Gulf OF
Mexico and the ad AGENT waters free of the
pirates threatening to infest it under the Con-
federate flag. We have strong faith that the
public sentiment of England will be aroused TO
the magnitude and grandeur of this war for
Constitutional liberty.-N. Y. Independent.
Year: 1861

About 3 O'Clock on Saturday morning
last, large number Of Government
horses something over three hundred
having been for some days confined in
rather crowded quarters, broke loose by
pressing down light front fence and the
whole body was seized with an unsccount.
able panic. Breaking together into the
street, disordered, terrified and strug-
Cling mass, the horses were separated in
10 two rearly equal divisions. the one
pouring down the street, the other rush
ing with furious speed up, each horse
taking the direction he was pressed into
by the mass. Such was the blind fury
with which each division kept up the
fight, that many were Knocked down and
trampled to death in the terrible stampede.


Five large government wagons en-
countered one division not far from the
spot where the stampede began. The
wagons were short distance apart, and
all the drivers except the first escaped
The horses attached 10 the first wagoI
were knocked down and crushed ant
trampled to death by those behind them
Some springing with their full weigh
upon the wagon, brought it to the ground
crushing the driver in manner such a
to occasion his death few hours after
ward. The second wagon was lIkewis
literally smashed to pieces, a dead hors
being here also found beside the wreck
Eight or ten horses were found dead a
various short distances from the var


where they started, and two inside tn
yard. The fact that the stampede wa
kept up for great distance is proved b,
the fact Of dead horses being picked vi
at distance Of Two, three and four mile
away from the yard. Nearly all of th'
horses have been recovered and takel
back 10 the yard. some from ten mile
above The city and some from below the
arsenal.-St. Louis Democrat, 16.h.
Year: 1861

ferrous nquiy for great nation like this solenniy to
prohibit itself from ever interfering to secure the root
ing out of giant wrong that is eating out its life


Second. 1t would render the nation justly the scoff
and scorn of all civilized nations.


Third, Itwould naturally tend TO bring the Consti'
tuition itself into dscred for it would make the Con-
stitution still more clearly than it is now the buwark
of oppression.


Fourth. 1t would be great wrong to posterity.
This provision, adopted, would tend ,tili more 10
santion and sanctify" in the views of many the op-
preston of the poor and needy. And when the time
comes-ss it will-when Slavery must be abolished
when even those who now support it may seek Its over
throw, this provision would intepose an obstacle


trust that You will not cease to oppose this and all
other compromises sud that American will ever Tor
get that eternal vigilance is the price Of liberty"
Year: 1861

achieved in front of tho City Of Mexico, he
received another gold medal. The GROWING
honor won by him from his country was the
brevet rank of Lieutcnaut-Genera which was
to date from the day on which Vera Cruz was
captured.


In 1852 General Scott received the Domina-
ton for President at the Baltimore Wing Con-
vention. In his letter accepting this nomina-
tion he said 81 should neither cOuntenaDce
'' nor tolerate any seditioD, disorder, faction,
{" or resistance to the laws or the Union. on
" auy pretext, in any part of the land; and
" should carry into the civil administration this
" one principle OF military conduct-obedienee
to the legislative and judicial departments OF
(" Government, each in its constitutional
q" sphere" He has, through his life, acted in
accordance with this sentiment, and especially
in bis views touching the present rebellion he
has been ever consistent.


Concerning Gen. SCOTS skill as com
mauder, nothing need be said. There has
never been any difference of opinion on that
point His campaigns have received high and
enthusiastic praise from those whose appr0ba.
ton is praise indeed and his reputation VIII
rest securely upon his labors in the held
The state of his health long since made HIN
desire to be relieved from the arduous service
of his command; but his patriotism held him
at bis post till lie saw the National Capital in
a position of security. and could deliver to his
successor q National army well ordered and
efficient, confident that with tranquility he
could leave the destinies Of his country in the
keeping Of its brave defenders.


The well-merited houors done TO the retiring
General.in Chief by the President and Cabinet
will call forth sincere response from all who
peruse the record, while the modesty and deep
feeling eyinced by tho brief reply of the vet
eran will add to the sentiment Of admiration
which his character inspires in every heart.
The highest wish which true desire for Gen.
Scotts happiness can frame is that he may live
10 see the day when this Union, once more
free from internal strife, shall resume the pur,
suits of peace, and rejoice in undivided
strength.