smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

1t was famous victory the rebels got
at Manassas, but it must be rather diff
cult question with them what to do with
it Should they remain behind their en-
trenchments, the case only remains in sta
tu quo. The power of the North is not
broken at all, for it has not yet begun to
use it. 1t has not even lost as many men
as it captured in Western Virginia. 1t
has been trying to carry on the war with
out any disturbing draft on its resources.
All that is requisite is to knos the means
that are required, and they will be fur
nished. We have been too economical here
tofore; but for that reason we have all our
means yet on hand, and they will be fur
nished on demand.


But the Confederates have been burn
ing the candle at both ends from the first
-impressing men, seizing crops, and fore
ing loans By thus making everything in
the country subject to the dcspotism that
rules it with reign of terror, they have
displayed great energy. DespOtism al
ways does display greater energy than a
constitutional Government in the begin
ming of war. and especially despOtism
might that has practically held the whole
Of the Secession States under martial law
from the first. But energy which impress
es laborers, crops. teams and money into
the army, cannot hold out long. 1t is the
killing of the goose for the sake of pre-
mature golden egg.


If the Confederates stay behind their
intrenchments, the two hundred thousand
men which they probably have in the field
will eat them up. If driven by the ne
cessities of their situation, and embolden-
ed by their success at Manassas, they at
tempt an offensive movement, battle In
the open field will show very different re-
suit from one in which they were protect
ed by strong Notifications. Nor can they
reduce their force by disbanding their men
in the face of our constantly increasing
numbers and preparation. They have got
their prize elephant. If they keep it on
hand it will soon eat up their means. If
they send it North, we shall capture it
If they turn it out to grass at home we
shall harch on them In the mean time
the Vessels now in preparation will seal
their fsrts hcrmetically, the sea is already
becoming too warm for their privateers,
aud they have the standing consolation
that our march on them with an over
whelming force is only question of time
for our preparation; and in season for the
shipment of the present crop of cotton We
shall dispose of all questions as to the
blockade of the cotton supply by opening
the principal cotton port in the legitimate
way. Then the cotton which the Confed-
crates say the British and French Govern
ments are buying at New Orleans, will
find an outlet which the Confederates can
not dispute, and which will relieve all
their solicitude on this questiOn.-Cin.
GG-ette. .-
Year: 1861

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILRoAD--The IL
linois Central Railroad, as is well known,
has sold vast quantities Of land along the
line of the road upon long time. The
hard times consequent upon the explosion
of the wild cat bank bubble. have render
ed it almost impossible for many Of the
farmers to raise the money for the payment
due this Spring upon the land. The CON-
psny are very unwilling to have them for
felt their lands. upon which many of them
have already made number of payments.
But to raise the money just now seems i'm
possible. The company have therefore an
nOunced that they will take their pay in
corn, instead of money, delivered at any
Of the stations on the road.
Year: 1861

WHAr Is AN AMBULAxCE?-Au ambu-
lance is light carriage. the body being
upon two wheels and supported
by very elastic light springs, 1t is a lit
tie over six feet in length. There are cots
for two inside, with beds, head pillows.
sc, The top is covered with black oil
cloth, but the body and running gear are
painted red. The ambulance is intended
for one horse. with seat for the driver
in front, and being very light, though
strongly built. can be driven along very
rapidly without injury to the wounded.
Year: 1861

Before 1 trust my fate to thee,


Or place my hand in thine,
Before 1 let thy future give.


Color ind form to mine
Before I peril all for thee,
Question thy soul tonight for me.
break all slighter bonds, nor feel


One shadow ofregret;
Is there one link within the past


That holds thy spirit yet ?
Or is thy faith as fair and free
AS that which can pledge to thee.
LeOk deeper still. If thou cans't feel
Within thy inmost soul,
That thou-hast kept portion back,


While l have asked the whole,
Let no false pity spare the blow,
But in true mercy tell me so.
Is there within thy heart need


That mine cannot fuffls
One cord that any other hand


Could better wake or still ?
Speak now, lest at some future day
Ny whole life wither and decay.
Year: 1861

A Virginia correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury says that the officers Of one
# the Louisiana regiments have brought
their wives with them. These ladies would
seem to take things easy. A few nights
since an alarm occurred, upon which one
of the leutenants got up, but his wife de-
clined to follow him. upon the ground that
if she should she did not know what bet
ter place to go to, and an hour afterwards,
when the alarm proved to be false, and he
went back. she was sound asleep.
Year: 1861

1t is often said that knowledge is pow.
er, and this is true. Skill or faculty Of
any kind carries with it superiority, So,
to certain extent. wealth is power, and
rank is power, and intellect is power, and
genius has transcendent gift Of mastery
over men, But higher. purer, and better
than all. more constant in its influence.
more lasting in its sway, is the power of
character-that power which emanates
from pure and lofty mind. Take any
community. who is the man of most infu-
ence? To whom do all look up with rev
erenee? Not the ''smartest' man, nor the
cleverest politician, nor the most brilliant
talker, but he who. in a long course Of
years, tried by the extremes Of prosperity
and adversely. has approved himself to the
judgment of his neighbors and of all who
have seen his life, as worthy to be called
wise and good.
Year: 1861

HEELS AND HEADs.-lf a girl thinks
more of her heels than of her head, de-
pend upon it she will never amount to
much Brains which settle in the shoes
never get much above them. This will ap-
ply as well to the masculine as the femin-
inc gender
Year: 1861

An eloquent divine in the course Of bis
sermon, was comparing the state Of the un-
converted sinner to that Of man in a boat
away from land and with only one oar.
when he was suddenly brought up with
severe round turn BY an old sailor, who
jumped up and asked, couldn't the old
fool scull?!" 4 -.f
Year: 1861

1t was a maxim of the Duke of yelling.


ton that England can not afford little war.
Neither can this Government--least of all a
little domestic war If our Federal rule


does not throw its whole hearty strength into


a struggle now begun if it makes simple de-


fensive action its great object, trusting that
time will mollify the temper of its enemies,
and perhaps bring about peaceful accommo-
dation without much cffuson Of blood or if
it confines itself TO few isolated demonstra.


tons of an aggressive characteristics con-
fiict will surely be protracted Tor years, and
probably end in dishonor at last. If, on the
other hand, it instantaneously summons every
energy, and confrons rebellion with all the
overwhelming resources at its command if
it shapes all is plans on the broadest scale,
and goes rcsolutely and swiftly forward to
execute them-t the rebellion may be crushed
out within three months, and in manner
that will forever prevent all possibility of its
recurrence. The nineteen millions of the
North full we'll understand that they have got
to make this war the business Of the season !;
and they are prepared to give to it their
whole mind and energy. There is literally
no limit to their zeal and devotion. Every
thing they are capable Of doing, every thing
they are capable Of sacrificing for the saliva
tion Of the country. is at the command of
the Government. Nepoleon, in the day of
his utmost strength, never had greater means
at his disposal for resstess war than Presi-
dent Lincoln has this very twenty fourth day
of April. He was but to speak, and untold
legions OF the bravest men that ever breathed
are before him, aud at his feet money beyond
computation. II this holy cause suffers for
want of quickness and breadth Of action on
his part he had better never have been born.
N. Y World.
Year: 1861

The following account of on interview at
the White House, which we find quoted in
Parton's Lite of General Jackson will be
read with interest just now, as giving a
glimpse behind the scenes at period of our
history which bears close analogy to the
present. AT the height of the notification
excitement, General Sam Dale, of Mississippi,
an old friend Of Jack sons called on him at
the Presidential mansion, and the manner n
which the cngrossins topic repeatedly breaks
out in the course of conversation in other
matters, shows that it was uppcrmost in the
cid hero's mind. After the first shaking
of hands the narrative Of the visit proceeds
as follows:


We walked into his reception room, and |
was introduced to Col. Benton and five or six
other distinguished men. They were all
civil and invited me to visit them. They
were talking over nullifcation,' the engros
sing subject at that period, and the President
turning to me said, General Dale, if this
thing goes on, our country will be like bag
of meal with both ends open. Pick it up in
Year: 1861

tions, than to allow revolution and treason to
triumph over the land The Issue is now upon
us, and must be met in the spirit which inspired
our fathers and the contemplate notion that
any petty State can dissolve the Union at pleas
ure, must be driven from the Western Continent
forever. The glorious heritage of our fathers
is too costly, and too valuable to be made the
sport of every madman. Whatever arrays itself
against those great and blessed principles, which
have made us all we are as nation, must per-
ish from the earth.
Year: 1861

Many of the Southern revolutionsts have
labored under the delusiou that when they
should have openly rebeiled against the Gov
ernmcnt, and deied its authority, . powerful
party of Northern sympathizers would spring
up and join them, or would at least forbid and
prevent any army going from the North to
put down rebellion and treason. They were
deluded into this notion by the falsehoods
industriously circulated among them by many
Northern presses. These falsehoods were set
afoat merely for party purposes, and with
lheir kindred taIsehoods, that large part Of
the Northern people were seeking to destroy
the South, have contributed not little to
our present troubles. The result has shown
that lying is bad policy, even in politics.
Those who have originated the faIsehoods
would give any thing now to undo what they
have done.


But since the real danger to our Govern
ment has come, there is not man in all the
19,000,0O0 of Northern freemen 10 avow
sympathy with Southern treason. Never
since the world began were so maay people
so thoroughly, so terribly united, as are the
people Of the Northern States, that the
Union shall not be destroyed. Their voice
is like the sound of many waters, and the
sound of mighty thunderings.-W c. Advo.
cate.
Year: 1861

We still hold that an appeal to the great body
Of the People offering them Treasury Notes at
eight to ten per cent. interest, convertible after
two years at the pleasure Of the Government
with FIVE per cent Loan. would draw out
many millions of Specie that would otherwise lie
dormant and add immensely to the resources OF
tho Government and the volume Of the currency.
We believe that suoh Loan. wisely managed,
would yield all that is needed for months, espe-
cially if the loyal Press shall generally elucdate
and commend it. But lot us have the best pos.
sible plan devised and perfected prior to the as
sembling of Congress- that the work Of the Sea-
sion may be finished with the least possible
DELAY
Year: 1861

Prince Williams County, in Virginia Is now
suffering under a reign of terror universal
conscription seizes npou the men, young and
old, aud the person and property of no one sus'
pected of loyalty to the Union are in safety.
Year: 1861

A correspondent Of a New York
paper, writing from the Fair Grounds,
at Watertown, of the New York State
Agricultural Society, speaks of per-
formance with steers as follows


Every year since have been able
to learn something new-something
beneficial to me as a farmer, or some
thing that could communicate to
others to their advantage. shall try
to profit equally by what | see here.
| have seen one thing today which
wish every farmer, and every man
who ever drives oxen, or handles cat
tie in any way, could sec as | have
seen. 1t would teach him the great
benefits of the law of kindness. We
have all heard of Rarey among horses
and have almost loved the man in our
admiration of his process of training.
| have just seen Rarey among horn
ed cattle Here is boy perhaps 10
years old, training and handling six
steers, not yet two years old, with all
the case that an experienced Yankee
ox-driver handles single pair while
in the yoke and he has no yoke, nor
rope, nor does he speak word scarce
ly above loud whisper, and only
occasionally strikes blow that would
raise a blister upon the skin of a child.
All his actions are based upon the
laws of kindness. with firm determ-
ination that all his orders must be
obcyed. Now he brings up a single
pair as though yoked together then
two yoke, then three /; then he mis-
matches all Of them as though he were
about to yoke the off OK on the near
side. Then he changes places, aud
puts odd ones together then he un.
yokes, il | may use the term when he
does not use yoke. all Of them, and
brings them up in line like platoon
of soldiers. and with greater precision
than any awkward squad" Then
he trains them round by two and three,
or drops out single one and orders
him to new place by motion of his
small whip or, as it seemed to me,
often by mere effort of his will that
he desired change of position. For
an hour that stood watching, there
was another pair Of older steers stand
ing just outside Of the circle of his
operations, patiently waiting their
turn, until some one asked "Can
you handle eight as well as six 2"
II could" he modestly replied, "if
my whip was little longer. l can't
reach the outside one, when in line
with this short whip, but | will try"
And SO he did and Notwithstanding
the short whip, all were managed with
the utmost ease, and all who saw
were taught a lesson which none
seemed to tire of learning l hope
they will profit by it. Will those
who read also profit so far as to pur-
sue the same course in training all
domestic animals. Teach your boys,
too. TO yoke up the young steers, to
use them kindly, with patient perse-
verancc, to make them as bidable as
this boy has these now on exhibition,
and then they will make good, and
valuable oxen.
Year: 1861

Any person obtaining five subscribers and forwarding
The money, shall DC furnished with copy " the lncll
gencer for this service long the number shall be
kept good.


Business pertaining TO the paper can be transacted
with the Publisher any day at the Office of Publication.


Communications may be addressed to the Editor, who
will promptly and faithfully respond to thcn
Year: 1861

The ANNUAL CoNPLINENTs.-1he Amador
ledger reminds its readers of the fact that al
ready have the members of the Legislature re-
ceived their first annual compliment from the
Sacramento press, to wit: they are personally
the best looking and most intellectual appearing
body of men ever assembled in the State."-
Compliment No. will be pronounced about the
latter part of the session, when the world will
be informed that the aforesaid Legislature was
the weakest and most imbecile and corrupt
that ever disgraced the halls of the capital" So,
No. L, don't forget No. 2-don't forget that for
every sweet there is n bitter.
Year: 1861

WILL BUCHANAN RESIGN ?-Cass, Floyd and
Cobb, three members of the Cabinet, have re-
signed. Will the old public functionary be wise
enough to follow suit before the 4th of March
Surely Breckinridge would do something to save
the ship of State from going to pieces upon the
rock of secession, and not, like old Buck, play
the woman by falling upon the neck of Cass and
boohooing like whipped boy. Gods, can it
be that such miserable old dotard has the very
existence of this glorious government in his
bastard hands AT last accounts it was ru-
mored that the entire Cabinet was about 10
abandon the miserable old man to his merited
fate. He may now say with a man of other
days


"liad Ise-ved- my country with half the zeal
Iserved my masters, Cobb, etc., she would


not in mine age


Have left me to mine enersies"
Year: 1861

QUkRy?-Is South Cnrolna fit State to lead
any Democratic State out of the Union? We
think not. A State that, in the language of the
Southern Standard s' furnished the main BODY of
tories in the revolution" and voted for Aaron
Burr against Jefferson, the founder of the DEM
ocratic party, is not fit to lead any State any
where-not even to taking leap into the
deep dark gulf of separate State secessisu.n
Year: 1861

THE Observation-Disclosures declined to increase
the force at Fort Moultrie through fear of assas-
sination. So says his own favorite organ, the
New York Herald Who now viii say that our
present Chief Magistrate is not coward?
Year: 1861

RGF- Pennsylvania made the first turnpike
road in the United States, laid the first railroad,
established the first water works, ran the first
locomotive, established the first hospital the
first law school, the first public museum the
first hall of music, and the first library in the
world opened freely TO oil. Good for Pennsyl-
vania.


And furnished the first President who turned
traitor to his party and country. Bad for
Pennsylvania.
Year: 1861

pGr The Louisville Journal of the 18th, re-
ferring to the recent ss brush" in the Senate be-
tween Mason and Douglas, adds the following
comments


"Clay said to US at the house of relation of
his in this city, that in his opinion Mason pur-
posely made the Fugitive Slave Law offensive
to the North in one OF more of its features, his
object being to bring about the defeat of the
great compromise of 1850"
Year: 1861

NEW JERsEY.-The New Workers are most
merciess in their tales about New Jersey. The
following hard one is from the New York Mer-
curry. OF course we don't believe word of it,
or, you see, our pard, absent collecting
taxes, is himself frcm the land of New Spain:


One terrible stormy night in black December
United States vessel was wrecked off the coast
of Jersey, and every SOUL save one, went down
with the doomed craft This only surviver Ia
gentleman from the Vest seized a floating spar
and was washed toward the shore, while innu-
merable kind hearted tools of the Camden and
Amboy Railroad clustered on the beach with
ropes and boats. Slowly but surely the unhappy
mariner drifted to land, and as he exhaustedly
caught at the rope thrown to him, the kindly
natives uttered an encouraging cheer g You
are saved" they shouted you are saved and
must show the conductor your ticket" With the
sea still boiling about him, and floating straw
tickling his nose, the drowning stranger sud-
denly resisted the effort to haul him ashore
q Stop!r said he in faint tones. "Tell me where
am. What country is this?" And :hey an
swered New Jersey" Scarcely had the name
fbeen uttered, when the wretched stranger let
go the rope, calculating he did so, I" l guess
I'll float little further!" lie was never seen
again.
Year: 1861

am not prepared to say but do say that
that law, like every other law in Vermont,


whenever a question arises, will receive a
fair construction. When gentlemen say
that our laws have aided in the escape of
fugitive slaves, | deny it. l do not believe
there has been one there. know that one
fellow claimed to be runaway slaYe; but he
was an impostor, and was not runaway
slave and did not even from extremists get
public sympathy for that, only for short
time. Nor has our law aided in any way
to affect or impair the fugitive slave law Of
Congress. But Mr. President, whether it
has or has not, if our law is in any way in
consistent with the provisions of the United
States Constitution, or the constitutional
laws of Congress, tell you 1t will be set
aside, whenever question arises before
court Of Vermont, as quickly as it would
before a court of the United States. So, too,
if there is anything in it which is at all in
consistent with the Constitution, or the
constitutional laws of Congress, tell you
that our board Of revision will see that it is
not kept on the statute-book- doubt of 1t.
Year: 1861

We need add but word to the following
appeal from one of our leading citizens.
individuals and one or two societies in town
have done something this winter for the re-
lief of the starving in Kansas; but more
needs 10 be done and done at once. The gentle
man named as a receiver for contributions is
one in whom all have confidence and mono
need fear that their charities thus directed


will not reach their intended destination.


Editors of the FIRE. Press


Are there not many inGivi-
duals in this community who are willing to make
contributions for the relief of the people Of Kansas
That the settlers in that Territory suffer


ing severely, for want OF food and clothing is true
bey ond any question. Instances have occurred
where teams have travelled hundred and fifty
miles to the depots for the distribution Of provi-
sions, and have waited for weeks the arrival of
food and clothing for their wives and children who
are upon tn, verge of starvation at home.


How few Of appreciate what serious matter
it is for women and children to suffer for the want
of food to eat and clothes to wear To under
stand the force Of the appeal now made to us by
these starving people, let make the case our
own, and consider for moment what the Ian.
guage of our appeal would be, if our wives and
children were suffering those of our neighbors
in Kansas are now 10 my judgment a case is
rarely presented which commends itself to the
notice and favor of every humane person as
strongly as this.


The Western States have already responded as
we'll as they could to this call AMI have sent many
carloads of flour and provisions which the Rail
road Corporations, with commendable spirit,
have transported, either free Of charge or at the
lowest paying rates. The Express Companies will
send sums of money from the East without charge.
and arrangements have been made which will en-
sure judicious and certain distribution of every
thing that may be contributed, among the naked
and the hungry there.


Mr.. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON has been selected by
few gentlemen who have had this subject under
consideration to-day, to receive and forward any
contributions which may be made in this neigbbor-
hood, for the purpose of relieving those suffering
people, and any sums that may be given to him,
he will acknowledge from time to time through
the newspapers. 1 am sure that this notice only
requires to be brought to the attention of the peo
pie OF this community. to receive hearty and
generous response. Contributions from any of
the neighboring towns will also be thankfully re-
ceived trust that every one who believes IT to
be part of his duty out of his abundance to
"feed the hungry and clothc the naked" will not
permit this appeal to pass unheeded. Whatever is
done should be done AT ONCE. The suffering
which now exists there is probably more severe
than it has been at any time before.