smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

AID AND CONFRONT TO IHEI ENEMY EsX


WHOLE SALE"


Under the above singular caption we find the olllw-
ing in the n NeW York " Herald


OIe OF our abolition organs of this city published a
letter yesterday, purporting to from the Head
quarters OF the Army of the Potomac which is
tibuton BY Wholesale of aid and comfort to the
my All the declared reasonable or dsloyal publica-
ons of all the newspapers heretofore suppressed BY the
Government amount to nothing compared with tue mis-
cheyous disclosures if true Of this sensation letter of
aforesaid abolition contemporary 1t tells the world
and the rebel army in front of at Fredericksburg
that the Administration locks with dsrust the army
of the POTOMAC" and that the army "Ooks with dstrHs
on the Administration; that Gen. HalIeck has denoun
ced this army disafected and dangerous and that in
fact the Army of the POI has ceased to exist >;
that the animosity in Washington towards the army
amply repaid by the bitterness of the army towards
the Cabinet - that Gen. Burnside had been ordered to
move against the enemy last Thursday week" and
that the order c0untermanded with the discovery
that some OF his Generals had DO confidence in him.
that the army itself has confidence in him that the
army is demoralized and 10 dangerous position, and
that the Cabinet debating whether to break it up to
appoint commander, to try another advance
under lis present Organization and leader and to
the end of the chapter.
Year: 1863

NOTICE.


PPLICATION viii be made to the Legislature of North
Carolina at its present session. for the passage of
amend the charter the town of Monroe, in
county n. c. and in of adjournment before
the passage act application will be made at the next
of the Legislature thereafter for that purpose.
Jan. lst. lS63.-l6-6wS
Year: 1863

THE iron steamship Giraffe has succeeded IN success
fully running the blockade irom Confederate port.
She went out night before last The barkentine sa-
lie also went to sea on Tuesday night
Year: 1863

q
5 Let this committee fix a pric
: which is deemed by them a just con-
! pensation for the. article furnished
and iniorm the citizens what thi
price is, SO that each may know, be
fore delivery, wha. price is to be pait
for the articles furnished.


| Let this committee make arrange
ments Tor the transportation of The
supplies TO some convenient depot
alter consultation with the officer who
is to receive them. re,


Let the committee make delivery
of the supplies and receive payment
of the price, aud assume the duty Of
paying it over to the citizens who
have furnished the supplies.


III. Where the duty of tho COM
nlittee is performed in any town or
city at which there may be Quar-.
termaster or Commissary,. no further
duty may be required Of them than
to deliver to the officer a list Of the
names of the citizens and of the sup
plies which each is ready to furnish,
and the price fixed; whereupon the
officer Will himself gather the sup.
plies anc make pay ment.


". Where the supplies are fur
nished in the country the cost of
transportation 10 the depot will be
paid by the Government, in addi ion
to the price fixed by the committee.


V, AS this appeal is made to the
people for the benefit of our brave
defenders now in the army. the De-
partmeot relies With confidence on
the patriotism Of the people that no
more than just compensation would |
be fixed by the committees, nor &C
oepted by those whose chief motive |
will be to aid their country, and not |
% make undue gains out OF the needs
)t our noble soldiers.


JAMES A. Seldom,


Secretary of War.
Year: 1863

Still ASorHER FLEA IN NAroLEoS's EAR
In the French Legislative body there Is forming,
beside the regular opposition, party semi
independent, whose votes the government will
no. be able TO count upon. The importance Of
this fact will not escape the notice Of those who
are aware that during this session Napoleon
the Third Is to meet such opposition as he has
never had TO encounter since bis advent TO the
throne Of France
Year: 1863

was chiefly indebted for the brilliant idea OF
making war upon the United States Bank the
controlling question upon which he was elected
for a second term We now suspect that this
veteran politician Of Silver Spring has become
the special confidential adviser of President
Lincoln, and that the President. satisfied that
the counsels Of the veteran Blair are wise. sound
and infallible, has concluded to try the expert
ment Of reelection, and upon a platform
which will command the conservative masses
of the country Of all parties against all the dis
organizing factions Of the day.


And why mott The abolition radicals, from
New York to lllnos, were sternly rebuked in
our Northern State elections last year: the
copperheads have been and will be az sternly
rebuked In the elections Of this year. The
people insist that all secondary issues and dis
organizing factions shall give way to the imms-
diate work in hand, the suppression of the
armed forces of the rebellion. This work can
and should be completely done within the next
six months. Assuming that Il will be done
within this limit. the question Of reconstruction
will then become the immediate and allah,
sorbing problem before the country In antici-
patton Of this thing, we doubt not that Presi-
dent Lincoln has virtually settled upon the
policy he will pursue; and we are sanguine
that II will be satisfactory conservative
policy. We are entirely convinced that Mr..
Seward and the Postmaster General are on the
right track; and II the President would con-
tiuue to be, ~ hc Is now, the master Of the
situation aud Of the succession, he has only u
Year: 1863

Gas Lighting Some persons were dis
posed to growl little about the absence of
gas-light in the city during the dark evenings
of Monday and Tuesday, and blame the Gas
Company for neglect in the matter. We are
informed that the lighting of the gas i1the
city is governed by timetable. which is
agreed on between the Gas Company and the
City. Council and that, though the darkness
which reigned supreme in the early evening
of the nights in question was unfortunate, it
was not the fault of the Company, who were
cup to time" in their arrangement for light
ing.
Year: 1863




The following is an instructive and in
teresting extract from lecture of Rev.
W. Leitch, d. d., of Queens College,
Canada


Almost all the mechanical power on the
face of the earth is traced to the sum-
The force may change its form, but its
amount is always the same. This princi-
pie is known by the name of correlation of
physical force. When the river leaps over
the Niagara Falls and reaches the level
beneath, its mechanical force is lost as to
form, but it is transmitted into heat. The
water at the bottom Of the fall is increased
in temperature, and were this heat col
lected it would be converted into mechani-
cal power, exactly adequate to raise the
water to its former level. The heat of
explosion is converted into mechanical
power, when the ball is impeled from a
gun.


The mechanical power is reconverted
into heat when the ball is suddenly ar
rested in its fight. The ball will be found
to be hot exactly in proportion to its ve-
lOcity when arrested. Now this is the
case with the suns heat. All the me-
chanical power employed by man can be
traced to the sun. The water wheel is
turned by the sun. The heat raises the
water from the ocean and deposits it in
the form of rain on the mountains side.
The river collects the rain, fills the buck
cts Of the water wheel, and by this process
the sun indirectly works the machinery
of the mill.


The steam engine is not an exception.
Its power is derived from the heat of the
furnace, but the furnace depends for its
power on fuel. But how should fuel pos.
sess this power? 1t has derived it from
the sun.


The fuel as growing wood stored up the
power dispensed by the sun. The tree is
the concentrated power of many sum.
mers' heat, and, though it may lie fol
thousands of years as coal in the bowels
Of the earth, it retains the power till it il
evolved by burning. But you will say
that animal power is surely different
Such is not the case. Every exercise O
animal power costs some waste. of tissue
that tissue is ultimately derived from veg
etable matter, and the vegetable matte
owes its power to the rays of the sum-
Volition cannot create mechanical power
it can only direct and apply it. The only
Year: 1863

power not derived from the sun is that o.
T 1be rise and fall Of the tide, as far as thil
is due to the moon. The trade winds may
also be regarded as an exception. This
power is derived from the rotation of the
earth, though the heat of the sun is ne
cessary to develop the power.


But the suns fuel is limited, and the
combustion must at last cease. The re-
searches of the German chemist lead tC
the conclusion that the photosphere is
fluid not gaseous. 1t cannot be conceived
a continuous solid.


l! is also probable that the region oi
the incandescent metals in the state oi
vapor is the rose-colored stratum seen in
total eclipses. Science has distinctly
traced the doom written on the solar syS.
tenn. 1t is destined to pass away. The
machine is running down. The central
fire will at last be exhausted The plan
cts and satellites in their spiral courses
will come to a standstill. But are we to
arrive at the conclusion that Gods glory
shall no longer be manifested in the heav-
ems ? or that this system is 10 rush into
annihilation ? No, there is no ground in
science for the belief that single particle
of matter will ever be annihilated, but
there is every ground for the belief that
the passing away Of the solar system is
only one. phase of some grander revolu.
ton, and that from the ashes Of the pres
ent system more glorious worlds and sys-
tens may arise. All this is in perfect,
almost literal, accordance with the Scrip
lures, which represent the heavens pass
ing away as scroll. "They shall wax
old as a garment; as vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be changed y
1t represents the phenomenal world as
ever changing-in a state Of unceasing
iuctuation-while the great absolute l
AM remains ever the same.
Year: 1863

A cry of joy, or perhaps horror, came
almost simultaneously from the audience,
as they saw the animal rising on his hind
legs, place his claws on the naked and
white shoulders of his adversary, and
opening his smoking mouth, prepared to
devour him but Eleazer threw his head
backwards, grasped the neck of the tiger
with his hands, and compressed it with so
much violence that the tigers tongue pro-
jected from his mouth, and he slightly
slackened his grasp and struggled violent
" to breathe little air, which he was
Year: 1863

Affairs.


The friends Of the Davis government have
long tried to persuade themselves and the
public that both France and England were on
the point Of recognizing the confederacy. Fail
ing in this, an effort is now made to induce the
belief that Spain, urged on by France, will
assume the initiative, and recognize the South
as an Independent nation. We are told by
these friends of Davis that the Spanish Cabinet
have the affair under consideration, and that, as
France assuredly is in favor Of such move,
Spain will act upon 1t at once We have good
reason to doubt the authenticity of these re-
ports, as they originate with those who have
from the commencement. OF TIE rebellion given
proof of a settled hostility TO our government.


1t must be manifest to the most careless OBJ
server that Spain can have no interest whatever
in building up the power and influence of the
South. Her possession Of Cuba has never been
threatened save by the Southern flibusters,
and IL must be apparent to the Spanish govern
ment that the spirit which led to the expedi-
tions of Lopez and Walker will be all the more
strong and energetic should the South become
nation. Her fre-eaters will look around
them for field Of operations, and will no.
where find one so near or accessible az Cuba
and those adjacent islands over which Spain
now reigns.


Filibusters pay but little heed 10 treaties. and
Spanish statesmen are as well aware of
this fact as the rest of the world. We feel
assured that upon the receipt OF the
news Of our splendid victories OF vicks.
burg and Port Hudson, the retreat Of Lee and
the success Of our troops at Charleston-which
city is evidently doomed to fall into our posses
sion-the Powers Of Europe will feel no incli-
nation whatever 70 intervene in our affairs
They will understand that with the commsad OF
the Mississippi and Of eli the seacoast we are
masters Of the situation, and that the end of the
rebellion Is now merely matter Of months.
The rebels cannot replace the one hundred
thousand men they have lost In the battles
above enumerated, and will now succumb.


II mus, be borne In mind that Spain, instead
OF giving proof Of III will to the North, Is be-
traying anxiety TO render commercial transac-
tions between the two countries more pros
porous, by making changes Of tariffs,
which will increase their trade. We refer
especially to the reduction Of the duties
on -four That Spain should assume an
initiative which france IL evidently AFRAID 10
undertake Is. to say the least, r1ost improbable
Year: 1863

BY the Prestdcnt OF the United States.
/ FR6cLAMiTfoN.


II has pleased Almighty God TO hearken TO the suppl
safe to the army and the navy OF the United sses
land and the sea- victories signal and ocve
reasonable grounds augmented confidence that
the union Of these States will be maintained their con
suton preserved and their peace and prosperity per
manently preserved.


But these victories have been accorded not without
crnce Of re limb and liberty incurred by brave patro.
tic and loyal citizens Domestic action In every part
OF the country follows In the tram Of these fearful be
rcavements. II s meet and right TO recognize and
the presence OF the Almighty Father and the power
Of His hand equally In these triumphs and these sorrows


Now therefore, be known that do set apart Thurs.
day. the sixth day Of August next TO be observed
day for national Thanksgiving praise and prayer and
invite the people OF the United States TO assemble that
in their customary places Of worship, and in the
approved by their conscience render the ho
mage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful
things He has done In the nations behalf,
and invoke the influence Of His Holy Spirit
subdue the anger which has produced and long
tanned needless and cruel rebeon to change the hearts
Of the Insurgents, TO guide the counses Of the govern
ment with wisdom adequate 70 10 great national emer
gency, and to visit with tender and consolation
throughout the length and breadth OF land all those
who through the vicstudes Of marches voyages battles
and sieges have been brought to sufer in mind body
estate and family, 10 lead the whole nation through
paths Of repentance and submission to the Divine viii
back the perfect enjoyment Of Union and raternal
peace.


In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal OF the United States 70 be afxed.


lone at the city Of Washington, this 18th day OF
July, In the year Of our Ford thousand eight hun
dred and sixty three and OF the Independence Of the
United States Of America the eighty eighth.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President-wnIAx SEWARD Secretary Of State
Year: 1863

ever, that the love Of order, which never JAILED
to allay popular tumult in this city, VIII pre-
vail over the sporadic excitement which, for
the time disturbs the usual peaceiulness Of our
metropolis.


Now that the draft has been positively
suspended, there does not seem to be
any reason why those who felt them
selves aggrieved by its enforcement should
lend further aid to the disturbers of
the peace, and thus give color to movement
which must necessarily resolve itself into
dupon private'property and individual rights,
the natura! tendency of such an ebullition of
popular excitement in all great cities, as we
now witness. Wisdom, moderation and the
voice of reason may allay spirit nursed by a
presumed sense of wrong. and fostered by
success and the flood of passion, which always
carry the masses to excesses which are to be-,
and will, no doubt, bo hereafter, deplored
equally by those who inflict the suffering and by
those who suffer.
Year: 1863

A young lady from the country being in
Sited 20 a PARTY. vas told By her cousin to
dress uP and put her best foot foremost. in
order 70 catch a bean. a. " she looked 50
green in her country attire The country
lass looked comioally into the face Of her
rather faded relative and replied Better
De green than withered.-
Year: 1863

nobleman asked Garrick to be candi-
date for the representation Of borough in
Parliament. No. my lord said the ao-
tor. d" I would rather play the part Of
great man on the stage than the part Of a
fool in parliament
Year: 1863

Flour md Grim In Store In Chirngo.


The following table shows the amount OF Flour aud
Grain in store in this city the 2ith inst compared
with The amount in sto.e the corresponding date IN
Year: 1863

The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press telegraphs


at learn that abo1t seven thousand
wounded have been reported; only three
thousand seriously injured, however. Ac-
commOdations for most of these have been
provided at Acquia, and only about nine
hundred are TO be brought to this city
This statement may be depended upon as
being very nearly correct. Itmay prove
too large, but not too small"
Year: 1863

GENERAL ORDERS, NO. SO.


HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF
NORTHERN VIRGINIA, May Z.


With heartfelt qualification, the General
Commanding expresses to the Army his
sense of the heroic conduct displayed by
officers and men during the arduous oper-
ations in which they have just been en-
gagged, under trying vicissitudes. You at
tackled the enemy strongly intrenched in
the depths of a tangled wilderness, and
again on the hills of Fredericksburg, Is
miles distant, and by the valor that has
triumphed on so many fields, forced him
once more to seek safety beyond the Rap
pahannock. While this glorious victory
entities you to the praise and gratitude of
the nation, we are especially called upon to
return our grateful thanks to the only
Giver of Victory for the signal deliver
ance he has wrought. It is therefore ear
nestly recommended that the troops unite
on Sunday next in ascribing to the Lord
of Hosts the glory due unto his name. Let
US not forget in our rejoicing the brave
soldiers who have fallen in defense Of their
country, and while we mourn their loss
let US resolve 10 emulate their noble exam
pie. The army and country alike lament
the absence for a time Of one to whose
bravery, energy and skill they are so much
indebted for success.


The following letter from the President
of the Confederate States is communicated
to the Army as an expression of his appre-
citation of its success;


''I have received your dispatch, and
reverently unite with you in giving praise
to God for the success with which he
crowned our arms. In the name Of the
people offer my cordial thanks to your
self and the troops under your command
for this addition to the unprecedented
series of great victories which your army
has achieved. The universal rejoicing
produced by this happy result will be
mingled with general regret for the good
and brave who are numbered among the
killed and the wounded.


(Signed) r. LEE, General.
Year: 1863

We are able to state that the railroads
osntering in Cleveland will carry passen-
gers to and from the Grand Union Mass
Meeting, on the Doth inst, at kabf .fare, on
that day only. The Pittsburgh Road viii
run an extra train from Welis7iile. The
Union people Of Toledo are to charter a
train to bring them. Everything betok-
ems tremendous gathering of the Free
men Of the North West.





The Situation in Utah---GovernOr Harding


Indicted as n Dangerous Man,


The Great saltLake City correspondence
of the Chicago Tribune brings Utah news
up to the 18th ult. The latest sensation in
Mormondom is the action of the Grand
Jury in and for the Third Judicial District
Of Utah Territory, in making presentment
Of his ExceIlency Governor Harding, "as
MT only a dangerous man, but also as one
unworthy the confidence and respect Of
free and enlightened people" On Mon
day, the 18th ult, the Grand Jury pre-
sented two papers, one of the above pur-
port and the other presenting the Fed
eral command at Camp Douglas, under
General Conner, as nuisance. The pre-
sentiment of Governor Harding was mass
Of misrepresentation and falsehOOds,
which are shown up by the correspondent.
The MOrmons are unscrupulOus and vim
diotive, but they have a cool and deter
mined officer to meet in the Governor, who
can neither be intimidated nor seduced
from the path of duty. Among other
traps set for him was one by which young
and attractive ladies endeavored to make
him, in effect as good Mormon in their
peculiar crimes as any of them, that his
private character might afterwards be as
sailed, but he was too wary for them, and
sternly resisted their fasoinations. With
this fact in view, it is no wonder that the
following charge Of the Grand Jury should
be thus Indignantly denounced by the cor
respondent:


"But perhaps the meanest sad most
malicious Of all the charges made against
him in that most deleclable document, is
contained in the following passage: With
his private character we have nothing to
do. We would not raise the veil, nor have
we the disposition to expose human de-
pravity or infrmity. We would rather
screen from the public gaze the conse-
quence Of unbridled passions, especially
when exhibited by man VINO ought to be
the model of human excellence and vir-
tue


81 venture to say that nowhere in the
history Of malicious slander and unmiti-
gated meanness can anything more infer
nally malicious be found than in the ex-
tract above quoted. Because they cannot
find one tangible fact upon which they
dare make an issue with the Governor,
they assail his private character under the
pretense that they have nothing to do with
it. The public may rest assured that if it
was possible, even through falsehood and
perjury, to have trumped up charges
against the Governor, it would have been
done much more readily than in the case
OF his much abused, though perhaps i'm
prudent, immediate predecessor.
Year: 1863

EDITOR LEADER: Have you noticed in
that vile disloyal sheet the Plain Dealer,
a few evenings since, an article under the
above title bitterly assailing General
Hooker, and also the President and his
Cabinet, and falsely charged to have been
published by the New York Times? Now
that foul nest of Vallanligham Plain
Dealer traitors, weak and ignorant as they
are, knev that the article never came from
the New York Tmes,-that its scurrilOus
sentiments were antagonistic to the daily
expressed opinions Of that truthful and
loyal paper for most Of the west can resd)
that 1t originated in the office of the
New York World or Cincinnati Enquirer,
or some kindred poisonous sheet hostile to
our Government from which they delight
to fill their columns)-and that for this
vile libel and forgery they deserve to be
exposed, branded and punished as mean
forgers and unmitigated traitors. l hope
they will be put on trial, when no plea
can avail them but incapacity and imbecil-
ity. That may prevail.


INDICTMENT.


The indignation of our correspondent is
natural and just. The article referred to
was most abusive of the Government and
all connected with the Executive Depart
ment, and it was falsely imputed to the
New York Times. The Plain Dealer de-
serves to be branded for the base forgery.
Year: 1863

A FIEED.-The Detroit Advertiser and
Tribune relates horrible circumstance which
occurred recently in a neighbOring county in
that State. man with his face blackened
entered house in which was a woman alone,
and demanded something to eat. She did
not get it rapidly enough to suit him, and he
seized can of burning fluid, threw it upon
her person, and then deliberately applied a
lighted match, setting her on fire. The fend
then fed. Her cries brought the neighbOrs,
but too late to be of any assistance. 1t
seems incredible that such fends can live
upon the earth.