MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA]

June 1863 - June 1864

 MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
        The editor of the Nashville Press indulges in a few speculations about Nashville by gaslight:
        Nashville by gaslight, and Nashville by day light, are as widely different as secesh and Union; in the latter attire, our goodly city looks very much like a disappointed politician, for whom nobody has a kind word or look, and who is to himself a comfortable bore.  But when the garment of night is thrown about her, and the rays of gaslight fall brilliantly upon her features (!) the City of Rocks has a pleasant way, which is productive of anything else than growlery.  With evening comes activity and crowded streets--music and jollity; and sometimes as we contemplate the surging masses, from one point to another, we forget that we are in ancient Nashville, and unconsciously inquire, with our optics, for Fifth avenue, City hall park, Broadway, Thompson's, Niblo's, Laura Keene's etc.  The charm might be lasting, if it were not that the female figure is so unfrequently to be seen in the midst of the human ocean of which we speak. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1

To the Public.

    The events of the times have again forced us to seek a new location, for the publication of our journal, and in resuming our labors, we shall exercise the journalist's privilege of addressing a few words to the public. . . . 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
    The Appeal printing material was principally saved by removal.  Our regular issue was made, as usual, on the morning of the day the Federals entered the city, but through the energy of our attaches and the aid of a number of friends, everything essential to the publication of the paper was brought off.  We flatter ourselves our "evacuation" was a masterly one--as it was accomplished without loss, notwithstanding a number of shots were fired across Pearl river at our rear guard by the disappointed Yankees. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
    A spunky Girl.--A letter in a Northern paper says:  "One of the houses destroyed by the Queen of the West on her trip down the Mississippi belonged to an old gentleman, who, with his two sons and daughters, carried on the farm and worked the negroes.  One of the young ladies admitted that her brother had fired on the Queen of the West, and only wished that he had been a dozen.  She abused the colonel and berated the Federals.  When she discovered that her abuse failed to move Colonel Ellett, just as the flames began to circle around the house top, she sang, in a ringing, defiant tone of voice, the "Bonnie Blue Flag," until forest and river echoed and re-echoed. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 8

Matrimonial.

A gentleman belonging to the service, now absent from his command on account of wounds received in a late battle, twenty-five years of age, fair personal attractions and moderate income, wishes to make the acquaintance of a young lady with a view to matrimony.  The young lady must be of medium height, handsome, intelligent and educated.  Wealth, although not objectionable, will not be considered essential.  Address Frank R. Summerfield, Marietta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

The Arrest of Miss Hozier at Norfolk.

The arrest of Miss Hozier at Norfolk, with a plan of the fortifications there, and a full statement of the Federal forces and their position, has been published.  The young lady lives a few miles this side of Suffolk, and had been to Norfolk on a visit.  The Norfolk correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives some interesting particulars of the arrest:
    As she was embarking upon the noon train from here for her home, she was accosted by several members of the provost guard, who informed her that her presence was immediately needed at the headquarters.  She replied that she had been there, and was furnished with a pass to proceed home.  This was so; but it was merely a ruse by which to entrap other guilty parties.  She refused to accompany the guard or leave the car, maintaining that the right to go home had been guaranteed her.  The excitement was beginning to run high, when one of the guards reminded her that if she did not comply peaceably she would be taken at all hazards, even if force had to be used.  This seemingly cooled the high spirit of the lady, and she yielded, though with apparent reluctance.  She was disarmed of her parasol, a most important trophy, which was the silent and positive witness of traitorous persons' doings.  It, with its fair owner, was delivered to the proper authorities.
    She underwent a strict examination, and the parasol a strict dissection.  Ingeniously concealed in the handle was a long compressed roll of thin paper, upon which was an extremely minute description of our forces, with the exact number at each point, the best modes of entrance and exit, by which certain captures could be made.  Localities were marked down, fortifications traced and enumerated.  The number of Monitors and gunboats in the localities were spoken of and it was asserted that the Union forces at Suffolk would shortly abandon that place and fall back within a short distance of Norfolk.  The movement of troops in the vicinity of West Point was given in considerable detail.  A drawing of the country accompanied the letter.  The roads, streams, etc., were marked with great precision.  Everything was mentioned with great accuracy and very minutely.  The information would have been of untold value to the rebels, and it seems extremely strange how so much could be obtained so correctly by the abettors of our enemies. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Retribution; or, A Husband's Vengeance.  farce of The Iriosn [sic?] Lion]. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
    Borax!  Borax!  Just received and for sale by Lee & Norton, No. 3 Court Square, Montgomery, Ala. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
    Atlanta Envelope Manufactory.  Having increased our manufacturing facilities we are prepared to furnish the trade with Envelopes of all kinds and sizes, in large or small quantities, at short notice.  Our stock consists of
Legal,                                                   Cap,
Post Office and                                     Letter, Bath and
Note Envelopes,                                   Note Paper.
                                                                                           Hughes, Hagan, & Co., Over T. F. Lowe's,
                                                                                                                Peachtree Street. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--The Robbers; or, The Forests of Bohemia with the comedietta of The Swiss Cottage; or, Why Don't She Marry] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
Home Knit Socks.  We have on hand a large lot of Home Knit Wool Socks, which we offer for sale.  Also Striped Shirts and other articles in the Clothing and Furnishing line.
                                                                                                                             W. F. Herring & Co.,
                                                                                                                                Atlanta, Ga.
Wool Jeans.  A few bales home made and Factory Jeans, which we are prepared to make into Uniforms for privates or officers on reasonable terms.     W. F. Herring & Co.,
                                                                                                                                Atlanta, Ga.
Flax Thread.  Black, white, and drab, on spools for machine and hand sewing of superior quality.  For sale by                                                                                                W. F. Herring & Co.,
                                                                                                                                Atlanta, Ga.
Hickory Stripes.  A few bales to arrive and for sale by  W. F. Herring & Co.,
                                                                                                                                Atlanta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 7

Rock Island Mills.

    The editor of the Columbus Sun has recently visited the Rock Island paper mills, and thus describes the process of paper making and alludes to some of the difficulties which beset paper makers:
    Through the courtesy of Mr. J.  F. Winter we were treated to a delightful drive to and from the above mills, located two and a quarter miles north of the city, in Alabama, on the Chattahoochee river, and at an island bearing the above name.
    The modus operandi of making paper from rags and cotton was politely shown and explained by Mr. W.  It is a rare curiosity to the novice, and must be seen and explained to the one initiated to be understood or appreciated.
    In the beginning we see the rough, dirty rags which are thrown into revolving boilers, capable of holding fifty thousand pounds, and hot steam let in upon them, which, with the revolving motion of the boilers, aided by some chemicals placed in with the rags, perfectly cleanses them of all filth and dirt.
    We are then carried to the engine, which cuts or grinds the washed rags or cotton into what is called pulp.  This pulp, when finished, is thoroughly washed with clear spring water to remove all remaining dirt, and then carried to the machine for converting it into paper.
    In another room of the building is a machine used entirely for letter and envelope paper, specimens of which we have now before us both of a superior quality to what they have heretofore manufactured, and which he assures us he shall still improve on, so long as the necessary chemicals and fixtures for his machinery can be obtained.
    The energy displayed by Mr. Winter in keeping his mill running, is worthy of all commendation.  He showed us fine tapestry carpet which he took from his floors as substitutes for felt, without which his mills are entirely useless.
    When three or more reels of wide paper, say four feet wide, is obtained, they are placed on a machine for cutting to the sizes desired.  As the fabric is drawn through this machine little rollers cut it smoothly in the center and trim the edges, while a revolving knife cuts it the desired length.  Two girls receive the sheets as cut and lay them even and smooth.  So soon as the cutting is done one of the girls proceeds to count it into quires, while another folds it.  A stout negro fellow packs the quires into bundles, binds and marks them ready for shipment to the office in the city.
    The want of wire cloth has forced Mr. Winter to convert his machine, which is a Feuudrineer [sic?], into a cylinder, which he informs us very seriously curtails his operations in the amount of paper turned off.  The present capacity of the mill in the news department is about forty thousand pounds per month.
    We cannot pretend to describe how the pulp floats in the water so thin one can scarcely observe it, but is gathered in a smooth thin flake in a revolving cylinder covered with fine wire cloth, which it delivers on to an endless blanket, passing over this, it is taken by either machinery as delicately as dainty fingers could do it, and separated from the endless blanket; a frail wisp looking sheet of white, passing now over and then under cylinders heated with steam, drying as it goes; then through the callendering rollers which irons it smooth, and on to a reel where it is wound up, which soon as full is taken off and another put in its place.
    We candidly acknowledge we did not appreciate the half of the labor and vexations to which the mill had been subjected since the commencement of the war and the blockade.  Many have said hard things of its management, while, if they had been in charge they would have shrunk from the job before them.  The domestic arrangements of the mill and care for the operatives is high toned, noble, and manly and it affords us pleasure to thus pay him the public compliment. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Huntsville Advocate says that during the recent Federal raid into Florence, Ala., they burnt the three cotton factories of Martin, Weakley & Co., which worked up 4000 bales per year; the woolen factories of Darby, Benham & Co., and of James Martin & Son--five factories.  In Florence, they burnt the Masonic hall, one unoccupied tavern, two blacksmith, one coach and one carpenter's shops, three unoccupied houses, one small residence, etc.  They broke open every store in the place, took what they could carry off, robbed citizens of money, watches, jewelry, horses, etc., took off some negroes, desolated and burned Mrs. James Jackson's place, etc.  They also burned several mills and tan yards in the county.  This is a fearful inventory the memory of which should be cherished, for a proper application of the principle of lex talionis. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.]
                                                                                                Tallahassee, Fla., June 8, 1863.
    We have late accounts from St. Augustine to the effect that all the citizens who had been allowed to remain in St. Augustine, mostly old men, women and children, have been compelled by the Yankees to leave that city.  Private telegraphs have to-day confirmed the report.  Some of the banished families have arrived at Lake City, on yesterday's train.  Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Arnan, Mrs. Andrew and children, together with many others, have been sent out, while others have been sent to Hilton Head. . . .
    A new machine for the manufacture of cotton cards recently invented by a gentleman of this city, will be put in operation next week.  He anticipates great results, as the performance of the machine, at its last trial, was very satisfactory.                              F.S.

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Madelaine, the Child of the People!  the farce of Miles' Boy] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 8

To the Ladies,

A young man, a native of South Carolina, twenty-five years of age, dark hair and blue yes who has been in the service in Virginia for two years, but is now exempt from all military duty, wishes to procure a partner for life.  All communications strictly confidential.  This is a bona fide offer.  Address L. A., Care Post Office Box 22, Atlanta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 3

Arrival of Refugees.

From the Savannah News.]
    We have announced before that Gen. Hunter, the Federal commander at Hilton Head, had ordered that all the citizens of St. Augustine who sympathized with the South, or who had relatives in the Confederate army, should be banished from that city.  In pursuance of this barbarous order, on Tuesday, the 28th of May, the Federal steamer Boston was at the wharf at St. Augustine, prepared to receive the exiles.  Some thirty or forty citizens, men, women, and children, were embarked on board the steamer, which proceeded on her voyage, the exiles being uniformed of their destination.  Many supposed that they would be landed at Fernandina, but, upon their arrival there, they were informed that the order from General Hunter was peremptory for the steamer to proceed to Hilton Head.  The steamers accordingly arrived at that port.  The prisoners were not taken on shore, but were kept on board one week.  They were then taken to Beaufort, and placed in a dwelling there, guarded by Federal troops.  This, we learn, was done to protect them from the insults of the Federal troops, frequent complaints having been made by political prisoners of the ill treatment received by them at the hands of the Yankee officers and soldiers.  From Beaufort they were conveyed in accommodation wagons to the Confederate lines, and by railroad a portion of them arrived in this city on Wednesday night by the Charleston train.
    On their arrival within our lines, they separated in different directions, in search of relatives and friends, many of them being comparatively destitute, having been robbed of their property and driven from their homes with scant means.
    We learn that the following are among those who have arrived in this city:  The three Misses Buffington and brother, Mrs. Putnam, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Panotty, wife and daughter.  Also, the mother of Gen. Kirby Smith, who is seventy-six years of age.  Mr. Quincy, an old gentleman of eighty years of age, with his wife, two daughters and two sons, took the train for Charleston.  Mr. Buffington was detained as a prisoner at Hilton Head. . . . 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 2

To the Ladies of Tennessee.

    You can very materially assist the Government of your choice in its struggle against the Northern despotism.
    Every house, cowshed or other building, that has stood for ten or more years, has under it large quantities of saltpeter, which is contained in the earth that has been kept dry.
    The Government urgently calls upon you for a further exercise of your patriotism.  You have done much already, but all must keep their energies strained to the utmost, until the enemy ceases his endeavors to subjugate us, and we are blessed with peace, under our own victorious flag.
    You have it in your power to hasten the much desired result, by reducing the saltpeter that is under your houses and bringing it into market.  The fixtures required amount to but very little, the process is easy and the labor light.  Your boys under eighteen can thus be made as useful as their older brothers who are baring their breasts to the storm of war.
    All necessary information will be furnished upon application to the offices of the Nitre and Mining Bureau, at Athens, McMinnville, Shellmound, or in this city.
        The bureau officers in charge at the above points, will also purchase from you all the saltpeter you can bring, at seventy-five cents per pound.
                                                                                                                             F. H. Smith, Capt.
                                                                                                Assistant Superintendent N. & M. Bureau.

 MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--La Tour de Nesle; or, The Chamber of Death!  Also a sterling comedy of Paul Pry; Or, I Hope I  Don't Intrude!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 16, 1863, p. 2, c, 8  [Summary:  Theater--great comic drama Ireland As It Was! and laughable farce of The Specter Bridegroom; or, A Ghost in Spite of Himself!" 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Macbeth] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Ingomar, the Barbarian! the laughable farce of The Dead Shot] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
Harness Blacking.--Take of common yellow beeswax, one ounce and a half; mutton suet, four ounces and a half; turpentine, half an ounce; ivory black, three ounces.  Melt the wax in a vessel over a fire, then add the suet, and when both are melted add the turpentine.  Remove the mixture from the fire, gradually stir in the ivory black, and continue to stir and knead the mass till it is cold.  It is to be used with a brush, in the ordinary way.  This blacking is not only suitable for harness, but is said to be a most excellent water-proof blacking for boots and shoes.  It contains nothing that will injure the leather, but preserves and gives a brilliant appearance.--[Com. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
    Lee's Miserables.--"I want a copy of that book about Gen. Lee's poor miserable soldiers faintin," said an old lady in West & Johnston's bookstore, the other day.  The clerk was dumbfounded.  One of the proprietors was sent for, made the old lady repeat her request, turned pale, rolled his eyes wildly, scratched his head and at last exclaimed, "Oh! yes!  I know what it is now you mean Les Miserables.  Fantine, by Victor Hugo."
    "No, I don't" replied the old lady.  "I know nothing and care nothing about "Lays Meeserabuls.  I want Lee's Miserables faintin'."
    As nothing else would satisfy her, she was allowed to depart without the book she so eagerly sought.--Whig. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

Banishment of Citizens from Western Virginia.

    A letter from a correspondent to the Richmond Examiner, dated Richmond, June 7, gives the following narrative of the inhumanity of the Yankees toward the exiles from Western Virginia:
    I received a letter this morning from a refugee, giving an account of the banishment of the secessionists of the town of Weston from their homes by the Yankees, and I will give you a couple of short extracts which furnish fair specimens of the treatment which our unfortunate citizens of Northwestern Virginia are receiving at their hands.  The writer says:
    "All secessionists have been banished from Weston--those who had protectors this side, were sent across the lines, the others were sent to Camp Chase."  She then mentions six ladies, who, with others, were sent within our lines.  They were taken to Clarksburg in ambulances, thence sent to Winchester by rail and brought to Kingstown and set down on the roadside in the night, and told to do the best they could.  They were allowed to bring sixty pounds of baggage and one hundred dollars in Yankee money.  The writer names a good many who were given their choice (how very kind to give them their choice) either to go to prison or Ohio, and names ten or twelve more who were sent to Camp Chase, and says:  "The hardest of all is they were compelled to leave their children.  Mrs. D. started without hers, but went and took up her youngest, and told them they might kill her, but she would take her baby." 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 8

Matrimonial.

A young gentleman of amiable disposition, wealthy and accomplished, desires to make the acquaintance of a beautiful and interesting young lady, with an ultimate view to matrimony.  Appoint an interview.  Address Maj. Clarence P. Percy.  Marietta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--The Romance of a Young Man.] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
Mrs. Mattie Patterson, whose arrest on a charge of carrying on treasonable correspondence with the enemy has been mentioned, was found guilty by the military commission at Murfreesboro', and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, at Jeffersonville, Ind., for life.  The general commutes her sentence to three years' confinement.--Nashville Press, 12th. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Ingomar, the Barbarian and the laughable farce of The Dead Shot!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 3

Heroism of the Vicksburg Women.

    A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Grant's camp, states that a Federal captain who was taken prisoner during the siege, and who was kept in Vicksburg several days, reports the scenes in the city as fearful.  He says:
    The women and children all remain in town, although ordered at various times to leave.  On the day our men left, a morning report showed the sad fact that, up to that time, 119 of these unfortunates had been killed by our shells, among whom is the wife of General Pemberton.  The women of Vicksburg are either brave beyond ordinary mortals, or desperate in the extreme.  Shells search every part of the town, and yet the children play as usual upon the streets, and the women seek no protection, but boldly promenade the public thoroughfares and attend to their household duties without fear.  In a house close to the jail our men saw several ladies, who sat in groups on the piazza, moved leisurely about the house, and at times made the air melodious with voice and piano.
    What quality is this shown by these women?  Is it heroism, desperation, or what?  Death is all about them--it hisses through the air; crashes through their edifices, smites down their innocent children and themselves, and yet they unconcernedly sit, sing, chat, and laugh through it all--through a combination of horrors that would almost make a coward of the bravest men that ever drew a sword.
    These things seem incredible but they are true, for our prisoners unite in vouching for the fact, all phases of which they themselves heard and witnessed. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Camille; Or, The Fate of a Coquette!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 23, 1863, p. 2, c, 8 [Summary:  Theater--Fazio; or, The Italian Wife's Revenge! and the laughable farce of Slasher and Crasher] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
    Within the limits of a single civil district in Franklin county, there are twenty-five families whose hands are "off in the wars."  These good wives and children found themselves at the beginning of the present harvest without the means of gathering the coming crop.  Some were poor, some were sick and all were unused to field labor.  The spring days were on and the warm suns shone, "the showers of rain did fall," and the ripening grain made the air breezy with its plaints for the sickle and the reaper.  Now what did the Good Lord send to aid the families of the brave soldiers thus left alone?  He sent the women and the children of all the surrounding country.  Ladies who never before exposed themselves to the rays of the mid-day heat, went boldly out among the sheaves and cut, and bound and stacked; and girls and boys, accustomed rather to school books and play than toil in the fields, lent the vigor of little hands but stout hearts, to this labor of love; and in no great while these twenty-five families rejoiced in a gathered harvest, full and secure, with its plentiful hope for the future year.  Men, women and children all over the land "go ye and do likewise."--Chattanooga Rebel. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
Just Published!  by Jas. McPherson & co., Atlanta, Georgia, A Manual of Partisan Warfare and Military Reconnoisances! 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Theater--Catherine and Petruchio; or, The Taming of the Shrew!; to conclude with the sparkling Comedietta, entitled Perfection; or, The Maid of Munster.] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Staff Buttons, large and small size of superior quality, for sale by W. F. Herring & Co., Atlanta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Correspondence Houston News.]
    Monterey, May 3d.-- . . . There are nearly five hundred  Southern families in Mazatlan who have fled from California to escape their being constantly insulted and persecuted by the cowardly Yankee caravan which have overrun that State.
    Many of these families intended to settle on certain lands in lower California, but as no water can be obtained in that dry region, where it sometimes does not rain for three and even four years, and there are no houses built to protect them from the burning sun, they have decided to make their present abode in Sinaloa.  The Mexicans in that State are kind-hearted and hospitable.  The climate is healthy.  The wealth of the country consists in agriculture, grazing and minerals.  I am assured that cotton is an indigenous plant of Sinoloa of which there are three classes, viz, a fine long staple (small seed), an unknown colored and the common cotton.  The plant requires to be sown only every four years.  Tobacco and indigo are raised in all parts, and sugar cane yields a fair return.  Corn, coffee, beans, rice, plantains, oranges, pineapples, etc., are quite abundant.  The mineral wealth is really great.  Silver mines are almost all in a virgin state.  In Callaean (the capital) there is a mint which from 1846 to 1855 coined in silver and gold the sum of ten millions.  Mazatlan is the only port, and although it is not very good, its location commands the trade of an extensive back country.. . .                                  Pickwick. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 8

Making Soap.

    One of our lady subscribers sent us a specimen of soap manufactured under her own direction.  Some of our female friends to whom we showed it were so much pleased with it, that they asked us to write to her for full directions as to its manufacture.  The receipt we publish below.  Our friend says in a private letter to us "You may tell your lady friends that much of the beauty of the soap depends on the personal attention to the cleaning the utensils; as the least impurity will discolor soap.  I always have the iron pot in which I make soap well rubbed with dry corn meal after it is washed and apparently clean; if the meal in rubbing becomes dark, I throw it out and get more.  If your friends have no moulds, while the soap is hot it can be poured into a shallow dish, previously made wet.  This will make it come out of the dish without sticking."  As our correspondent has taken five premiums for her soap in different parts of Virginia, our readers may be assured that the recipe is a good one.  All of us may learn to do something; and everything that tends to make us independent is good for the country--Southern Churchman.
    Have ready hickory lye strong enough to bear an egg, showing the size of a dime above the surface of the lye.  To three pounds of clean fat, after being melted, add two gallons of lye and a bit of lime the size of a walnut; boil fast, and stir frequently.  When it has boiled an hour, stir in two gallons of the lye; continue to stir it often and always one way.  After it has boiled for several hours, take out a spoonful and cool it on a plate; if it does not jelly add a little water; if this causes it to jelly, add water to that in the kettle--stir it very quickly while the water is poured in, till you perceive that it ropes on the stick, or becomes heavy.  When this is the case, you have what is called jelly soap, or soft soap by some.  To make it hard, stir in one quart of salt into the kettle, and let it boil ten minutes longer; set it by to cool.  Next day cut the soap out of the kettle, and clarify it by melting it over, adding water enough barely to cover it; let it just come to a boil and set it away.  When perfectly cool and firm, turn it out of the oven, scrape off any of the residue that may adhere to the cake of soap, cut it in pieces, and place it on boards to harden.
    To make this soap fit for toilet purposes it is only necessary to cut it into thin shavings, place it in a very nice tin pan, add a little water, scarcely enough to cover the shavings; set it on some embers and stir and beat it with a nice spoon until it becomes a smooth jelly; while in this state, if you wish to color it mix Chinese vermilion in a little water and stir it in till you get the desired hue; take it off the fire and add oil of lavender, bergamot, sassafras, or any other essential oil, the scent of which you like; and while it is somewhat liquid pour it into moulds. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Honeymoon and Rough Diamond] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 5 [Summary:  letter on the battle at Milliken's Bend, reprinted from the Natchez Courier] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

The Ladies of Vicksburg.

Among the heroic defenders of Vicksburg, none merit more honorable mention than those of the gentler sex who dwell in that fire girdled city.  We are told that most of them have excavated caves in the hill sides where they repose with their children safe from the bursting shells of the enemy, and all day long they toil for the soldiers, taking care of the sick and wounded, cooking for the well, and providing as far as possible for their comfort in the way of clothing.  A wreath of glory awaits every one of these heroines, when Vicksburg shall emerge triumphant from the tempest of fire.  To say that they were in Vicksburg during the siege and to tell what they saw and experienced, will itself be worth the sufferings they have endured.  Macon Telegraph. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Pocahontas; or, Ye Gentle Savage, and the screaming farce of Love in All Corners.] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Theater--Pocahontas; or, Ye Gentle Savage, and the favorite farce of Rough Diamond!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 8

Knitting Machines Wanted.

We are engaged in manufacturing Army Socks for the Confederate Government and want to obtain more Machines.
Parties owning any of Aiken's machines, no matter what gage, and who are willing to see for $200, will please forward to us per Express C. O. D.
                                                                                                John Judge & Co., Columbia, S. C. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 3

Letter from Jackson.

Special Correspondence of Memphis Appeal.]
                                                                                                                Jackson, June 24th, 1863.
    . . . But war, though it may change all things else, cannot change the romance loving propensities of its gentler sex, and it is as true of her now, as it was before the blue uniform of our enemy became an abomination, that
                                When a woman will, she will, and you may depend on 't.
    There is this morning on the streets a rara avis, a well made, but not pretty, Confederate lieutenant, of the genus famina, with a very perceptible strut, and a trifle of a swagger.  Madame rummer [sic] gives him (?) two names, i. e. Mrs. Buford and Miss Williams, and says she (the lieutenant) is an officer in a Texas company.  Her husband is in the Yankee service, for which baseness, on his part, she (the said lieutenant) donned the apparel of a "bold soldier boy."  We admire angels in calico, but we never could see the charm of dressing up "the last and best gift of heaven" in pantaloons, though the trowsers [sic] were of nice Confederate gray, with brass buttons thrown in.  It may be a splendid opportunity for showing a well turned ankle, but
                                                "While it makes the unthinking laugh,
                                                It cannot but make the judicious grieve."
    And we being of the latter class, have been in tears ever since. . . . 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
    Cut this out.--At the present season of the year, when dysentery and diarrhea are prevalent, it is well to have a preventative at hand.  Clip the one below and have it convenient.  Many years' trial has proved it a sure remedy:
    Take equal parts tincture of opium, cayenne pepper, rhubarb, essence of peppermint, and spirits of camphor.  Mix well in a bottle and shake before using.  Dose, from four to thirty drops, to be repeated every ten or fifteen minutes, until relief is obtained. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
    Recipe for Making Worcester Sauce.  Mrs. Dr. Gage, of Union district, sent to the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina, in 1858, the following recipe for making Worcester sauce, which is said to be excellent:
                   Take one gallon of ripe tomatoes, wash and simmer them in three quarts of water, boil it half down and strain this through a sieve.  When all is drained, add two tablespoonsful of ginger, two of mace, two of whole black pepper, two of salt, one of cloves, and one of cayenne; let them simmer in the juice until reduced to one quart, pour in half pint of best vinegar, then pour the whole through a hair sieve, bottle in half pint bottles, cork down, tightly seal, and keep in a cool place. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 7  [Summary:  repeat of Drying Vegetables and Fruits from the Southern Cultivator--see Athens, GA papers] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 7

Soldiers' Wives.

                What an immense amount of heroism among this class passes unnoticed, or is taken as a matter of course, not only in this most righteous war we are waging, but in those of all past time.  For the soldier, he has his comrades about him, shoulder to shoulder.  He has praise if he does well; he has mention and pitying tears if he fall nobly striving.  But alas!  for the soldier's wife.  Even an officer's wife, who has sympathizing friends, who has the comforts and many luxuries of life, whose children's future is provided for if their father fall, what hours of dreadful suspense and anxiety she must pass, even in these favorable circumstances.  How hard for her.  But for the wife of the poor soldier, who in giving her husband to her country, has given everything, who knows not whether the meal she and her little ones are eating may not be the last for many a hungry, desperate day, who has no friends to say "Well done" as the lagging weeks of suspense creep on, and she stands bravely at her post, keeping want and starvation at bay; imagination busy among the heaps of dead and wounded, or traversing the wretched prison dens, and shuddering at the though of their demoniac keepers; keeping down her sobs as her little daughter trustfully offers up her nightly prayers "for papa dear to come home;" or when her little son, just old enough to read, traces slowly with his fingers the long list of the killed and wounded, "to see if father is there;" shrouding her eyes from the possible future of her children, should her strength give out under the pressure of want and anxiety; no friend to turn to, when her hand is palsied with labor; nor waving banners, nor martial music, nor one procession to chronicle her valorous deeds; none but God and her own brave heart to witness her noble, unaided struggle; when I think of those solitary women scattered throughout the length and bredth [sic] of the land, my heart warms toward them; and I would fain hold them up in their silent struggle, for all the world to admire.  When the history of this war shall be written (and that cannot be now,) let the historian chronicle the sublime valor of the hearthstone, all over our struggling land.--Fanny Fern. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
    Sallie Taylor, "Le Fille du Regiment."  This notorious (beautiful, though, she was,) woman arrested, as our readers will remember, some months ago, and discharged upon her parole, has kept herself quiet recently, when, as we are informed, she so far captivated, if not captured, a private in Cobb's battery stationed at Clinton, as to induce him to steal the horse of one of the lieutenants of his company and to escape with her into Kentucky, where she may resume in propria personnae, her nom de plume of "Daughter of the 1st (Bird's) Tennessee regiment."--Knoxville Register.

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

Correspondence of the Mobile Tribune.

                                                                                                                Jackson, July 14.
. . . . The citizens of Jackson are all encamped near Horseshoe Lake, in a cypress swamp, undergoing all the privations of camp life; yet they seem very cheerful and hopeful.  A general prayer meeting is held daily and amidst the sharp cracking of rifles and the sullen roar of the artillery, their prayers and supplications go up to Him who hears the young ravens when they cry, that our gallant army may succeed in driving back the fiends who seek to desolate their homes and imbue their hands in the blood of their fathers and brothers. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
                   New Method of Cooking for Soldiers.  When they camp for the night the nearest corn field supplies them with thousands of small bake ovens, in the shape of corn husks.  Each man procures an ear of corn with the husk still on it; the husk is slightly parted at the top to allow the fingers to be inserted, the ear is twisted around until it breaks loose at the bottom, and is then drawn out, leaving the husk a clean and complete cup.  In this the flour is mixed and seasoned, and after closing the top of the husk again, it is buried in the hot ashes of the camp fire for half an hour, after which it is drawn out and the charred husk pulled off, disclosing a fresh hot roll. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
    A Silk Dress Spoiled.--Among the United States flags captured from the enemy and exhibited at the Libby prison, is one taken at Murfreesboro, which has a history.  The material of the flag is the silk wedding dress of Mrs. Frank P. Blair, donated by her, in a fit of extravagance, in honor of Frank's election to the colonelcy of a Dutch regiment last summer.  The flag bears the motto, "From St. Louis Friends," in German letters.  The silk is stained by the blood and brains of the standard-bearer, who fell, knocked in pieces by a shell, with the flag in his grasp.--Richmond Examiner. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], July 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 3 [Summary:  From the Army of Tennessee--report on the hospitals] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], August 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2

Heroic Color-Bearer.

                We learn from the Examiner that among the paroled prisoners who have reached Richmond, from the last flag of truce, is C. S. Clancey, color-bearer of the 1st Louisiana regiment, who was taken prisoner in the battle of the 2nd of July, at Gettysburg, while bearing his colors up to the very front of the enemy's breastworks, amid a perfect tornado of shell and bullets.  Finding himself cut off from escape, and certain to be either killed or captured, Clancey tore his already bullet-torn flag from its staff, and secured it underneath his shirt.  He was taken prisoner, and carried to Fort McHenry, Baltimore, and from thence sent to Fort Delaware, carrying his flag with him, not floating to the breeze, of course, but furled beneath his shirt.  Clancey kept his own secret while in the fort, and when the sick and wounded prisoners were selected to be sent Southward, he feigned extreme illness, and was put on board the steamer, with a number of others, still holding fast to his regimental colors, which he brought safely away, and exhibited in this city yesterday.  The flag bears the perforations of upwards of two hundred bullets and one shell, and the piece of another, passed through it in the fight at Gettysburg.  Clancy is the sixth color bearer of the regiment, five having fallen in battle, with the identical flag in their grasp.  The sixth, Clancy, has carried the flag for nearly a year, and he certainly can claim to have carried it farther into the North than the Confederate flag has ever yet been advanced, and, what is better, back again in triumph. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], August 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
    Dried Tomatoes.--Take ripe tomatoes and scald them in the usual way, and strip off the skins, or mash and squeeze them through a sieve, then stew the pulp slowly, so as to evaporate as much as possible, without burning, then spread it on plates, and dry it in a slow oven or in the hot sun.  When wanted to use, you have only to soak and cook a few minutes, and serve it up just as you would tomatoes stewed fresh from the garden. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
    To Wounded Soldiers.--The Rockingham Register says that the pain caused by gunshot wounds, and wounds of any kind, will be relieved almost instantaneously by holding that part affected over smoking lard.  Put the lard on burning coals in a shovel or pan convenient to handle, and let the wounded part be brought as close as possible to the lard, the smoke and fumes arising from which will act like a charm upon the part affected.  The gentleman who informed the Register states that he has seen it tried repeatedly, and never know it to fail.  All who are suffering from wounds should try this simple and easily applied remedy. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], August 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Manchester Paper Mill.--The new establishment, so much needed by the entire South, will begin operations next month.  The proprietors, with a zeal most commendable, have spared neither labor nor means to erect their new building, and now that it is nearly completed, and the machinery ready for work, they are securing stock and preparing to supply the public demands.--Richmond Dispatch. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 8

To the Ladies!

Two young gentlemen--soldiers since the war began--adopt this method of requesting a similar number of young ladies to correspond with them for amusement or otherwise.  They being "strangers in a strange land" are debarred the pleasure of receiving those dainty little epistles over which their comrades exult, and beg that some "little angel of dry goods" will oblige them.  Address "Exile" or "Kentuckian." Chattanooga, Tenn. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Mrs. Judd, of Nashville, Tennessee, who has been confined in the Alton military prison for some time on the charge of being a spy, has been paroled to the limits of the State of Minnesota, there to remain during the war. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--Ingomar, the Barbarian, and the farce of Poor Pillocody] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 7, 1863, 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--London Assurance, to conclude with the farce of The Swiss Cottage; or, Why Don't She Marry] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--Metamora; The Last of the Wampanoags, to conclude with the farce of The Bridegroom; or, Love in All Corners] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--Metamora; The Last of the Wampanoags, to conclude with the farce of Rough Diamond; or, The Country Cousin] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--Sweethearts and Wives; or, Blue Jackets in Holborn, to conclude with the Extravaganza of Jenny Lind!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 5

Sorghum Molasses.

                We copy from the Southern Cultivator the following concise and clear statement of the apparatus necessary, and of the leading steps involved, in the process of manufacturing the syrup:
                The writer—W. Toney, of Eufaula, Ala.—recommends cypress barrels or casks for the syrup, but as cypress is not to be found in this region, such casks are out of the question.  Yellow pine, however, answers the purpose just as well as cypress for making molasses barrels.
                The Manufacture of Sorgho or Confederate Syrup.—My directions are for farmers and planters who have not, cannot and would not get the elaborate apparatus of a sugar house; but there are essential fixtures, etc., which must be had, to-wit:  A mill, boilers, a bailing dipper of wood of five gallon capacity, with a long handle, a common dipper, and perforated ladles or skimmers.
                The Mill.—Get one mill for fifty acres, and two for a hundred acres or more; the size, eighteen inches in diameter, and twenty-four long, for the cylinders.  They should be of cast iron; the foundries will make them to order.
                The Boilers.—They should be proportional in size and number to the size of the crop; say one for twenty acres, two or three for fifty acres, and five or six for one hundred acres, more or less.  As many as five or six can be put in one "battery," and be opened by one furnace running under all.  The capacity of the boilers can be greatly increased by fastening a wooden rim eight or ten inches high around their tops.  The brick work of the furnace should not reach higher on the inside than midway of the boiler, otherwise the syrup will be burnt by the fire.
                The cane should not be cut until ripe, which may be known by the seeds becoming of a purplish black, and the stalks streaked with red on a yellowish ground.  It is well to know and recollect that the cane, if left standing on the land where they grow, with all their leaves or fodder on them, will keep good until the crop is manufactured, if you will barely cut off all the ripe seed.  If you pull the fodder the canes will dry up, it being the mouth and lungs of the plants.
                The Gathering of the Canes.—Pull the fodder as you do corn fodder, each day as long as you grind your canes.  Cut the stalks close to the ground with the sharp hoes and haul them to the mill with the seed on, with a small crop, but cut seed off in the field if a large one, dry the panicles in the sun one day and house.  The seed will equal or exceed corn on the same land, and, containing by chemical analysis sixty-six per cent. of starch, is about two-thirds the value of corn or rye for feeding stock, or, "horrens referens," for making whisky, and will command one dollar per bushel in the market.
                The juice, as pressed out by the mill, should run through cloth fastened over the receiving tubs, to clear it of all trash.
                To Clarify the Juice.—Put the juice in the largest boiler, near filling it, and start a gentle fire under it, and put the juice to simmering, not boiling, and keep it so about thirty minutes, until clarified.  This is to be effected by administering some alkali in solution.
                The best Alkali for this purpose is the super-carbonate of soda.  Put one heaping teaspoonful in a pint of water, dissolve it, and pour it into the boiler of simmering juice, stir it up, and a violent effervescence takes place, rising four inches high, and finally settling in a thick greenish scum all over the surface of the juice.  Skim this off, and repeat the process every few minutes for about thirty minutes, more or less, but stop it as soon as—but not before—all effervescence ceases.
                This process will neutralize the sulphuric and phosphoric acids which abound in the Chinese sugar cane juice; and the super carb. of soda is the purest and best alkali for this purpose, as sodium, the base of the paroxyde, is lighter than water.  The pressure of the mill forces out with the juice a great deal of green fecuious matter, which the light alkali takes hold of by the attraction of its acids, and brings to the surface as scum.  These constant skimmings will soon give you a clear juice, capable of making a clear, thick, acidic [?] syrup.  The use of soda I discovered in 1857, by experimenting, and experience has fully confirmed its superiority over all alkalies.
                The Louisiana and West Indian sugar planters use lime to purify the juice.  It will neutralize the acids but I doubt its purifying agency.  The lime will readily unite with and neutralize the phosphoric and sulphuric acids but are not the compounds, the sulphate of lime, or "plaster of Paris," being one, too heavy in elevate the green, woody matter to the surface?  I think so, and for this reason, unless you wish to eat "plaster of Paris," in mechanical solution in your syrup, do not use lime in your cane juice.
                I am fortified in these views against the use of lime to clarify and purify syrup by Dr. Robert Batey, one of the ablest practical, agricultural chemists in Georgia.  He says deliberately:  "Lime answers no useful purpose so far as syrup is concerned, save to neutralize the free acid which exists naturally in the cane.  Lime darkens the color, and, to my taste, detracts from the grateful flavor of the syrup."  I regret that Dr. Batey did not go farther, and give the reasons why lime does not clarify.  I have already suggested its specific gravity as a basis, as being too heavy, as the reason.
                If soda cannot be had, have ready strong lye from green hickory ashes.  This alkaline solution is the next best to that of soda, and apply it in the same way.
                After the juice is both neutralized of its free acids and purified of its fecula, which may be seen and known by the cessation of effervescence and the transparency of the juice, then boil down to the syrup point.
                In the absence of instruments, which cannot now be had, be sure you boil enough.  It is safer to err by boiling too much than not enough.  As a general guide, you have to go by eye-sight, and as but few in the South ever paid any attention to it heretofore, I will give certain general rules which should be observed:
                1.  Boil down until the syrup is about one-fifth of the original quantity of juice, for it is true that five gallons of juice will average one gallon of syrup.
                2.  Boil down until the syrup being reduced to about one fifth of its original quantity, will hang in flakes on the rim of the dippers, as you pour it out and suspend it in the air.
                3.  Boil down until all water is expelled.  This may be seen and known, when the syrup being reduced to about one-fifth of its original quantity of juice, throws up jets some six inches high; this latter is the water escaping as steam; continue to boil until these jets cease, then strike off your syrup into tubs, and when cold barrel it.
                The Barrels.—Put up your syrup in cypress barrels; white oak-barrels will not hold syrup.  Several large planters put up their syrup in poplar troughs.  These will hold the syrup, but the oxygen of the atmosphere will certainly, as it has done, acidify it, as it thus has so much surface to act on.
                In conclusion, the Chinese sugar millet is an industrial plant of great utility to the South, in these our times of trial, blockade and war.  Its fodder is equal to that of corn, its seed is equal to two-thirds of corn and its syrup nearly equal to that of sugar house molasses, yielding as many gallons of syrup per acre, as the land can pecks of corn.
                Let us cultivate this crop as largely as possible.  It will enable us to feed our people at home, and to send meat, bacon, and beef, to our gallant armies, who are now standing sentinels upon the confines of our territory, and who, in hunger, bivouac upon the fields of their glory, and of our independence, or Egyptian bondage. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Soldier's Daughter, to conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza of Beauty and the Beast] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Soldier's Daughter, to conclude with the laughable operetta of Jenny Lind] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Sealing Wax for Fruit Cans.--Take rosin eight ounces; gum shellac, two ounces, beeswax, one half ounce; and if you desire to have it colored, English vermilion, one and a half ounces.  Melt the rosin and stir in the vermilion if used.--Then add the shellac slowly, afterward the beeswax.  This will make quite a quantity, and needs only to be melted to be ready for use at any time. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--the fashionable comedy of Simpson & Co., a Lesson for Wives, to conclude with the domestic drama The Cross of Gold; or, the Conscript] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
A lady writes to the Rural New Yorker that the annoyance of musquitoes [sic] may be effectually avoided by closing one's chamber and burning some brown sugar on some live coals or shavings.  The insects become paralyzed at once. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
    A young lady, writing to the Floridian, thus relieves the sex of a silly charge:
    We women, says she, are sometimes jeered for partiality to "the buttons;" but they who try thus to make us ridiculous only expose their own stupidity.  Was it "the button" or "the plumed hat" that captivated the gentle Desdemonia?  No, she loved the Moorish captain "for the dangers he had passed," for his heroic services to her country.  It was not the *metal* but the *mettle* that attracted her.  And, so it is with all women of elevated sentiments and good sense.  They all admire courage, and can generally discriminate between the true metal and the counterfeit.  They know that there are
                                "Many cowards who wear upon their chins
                                The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
                                Yet inward searched have livers white as milk;"
and for such pretenders we feel sovereign contempt, whether they cultivate their beards in the camp or at home in the chimney corner.
    For one, I had rather take to my heart the private soldier who had returned from the war maimed and penniless than the cold-blooded speculator who had grown rich, or the perfumed fop of hereditary wealth, who had nursed his moustache at home, while their betters were bleeding in my defense, and in defense of all that is worth living for--my country and her independence. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Maid of Munster, to conclude with the laughable farce of Crossing the Line; or, Two Houses Under One Roof] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 4

Refugees and Citizens in Arms.

                Most of the able-bodied refugees from East Tennessee, comprising civil officers of the State, exempts, and those over forty-five, have joined the army, for the purpose of taking part in the battle which is supposed by many will take place in a few days.  Many of the citizens of Northern Georgia are said to have put on the garb of the private soldier, and the ranks of our army continue to be swelled daily by reinforcements from other sections.  We have been assured by parties familiar with the strength and condition of the army, that "the want of men" can no longer enter into the plea in extenuation of blunders.  Still we doubt seriously whether Chattanooga will be attacked, or whether any measures for the immediate recovery of East Tennessee will be adopted.—Columbus Sun. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Soldiers Daughter, to conclude with the laughable farce of Wanted--1000 Young Milliners] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Robber's Wife; or, The Coiner's Cave, to conclude with the laughable farce of Wanted--1000 Young Milliners] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 5 [Summary:  Atheneum--Pocahontas; or, The Gentle Savage, to conclude with The Maid of Croissey; or, The Cross of Gold] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2   
The hospital for the sick and wounded officers, Dr. George F. Jones, surgeon, has been re-established at Griffin, in this State.  This hospital, under the medical skill of the doctor and the matronly care of Mrs. Jones, has become quite popular with the invalid officials, and we make this notice for their benefit. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 22, 1863, 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum, for the benefit of wounded and sick soldiers, Paddy Miles, to conclude with Pocahontas.  W. H. Crisp] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum, benefit for the wounded and sick soldiers [after Chickamauga], The Robber's Wife and The Maid of Munster] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
One day last week a pretty little Georgia girl, dressed up in neatly fitting male habiliments, applied to a lieutenant of Gen. Gist's command, at Rome, Ga., to be enrolled and mustered into the Confederate service.  Her request was complied with, and she was about to be sent out to camp, when some one, suspicious of her sex, suggested that little ruffled petticoats and a more feminine occupation than that of the manual of the piece, would be more appropriate.  She was accordingly, as we learn from the Rome Courier, sent before Gen. Gist, to whom she confessed her sex, saying she was from Gainesville, Ga., and that she had the consent of her parents to disguise herself in male attire, and enter the army to revenge the death of her brother, who, poor fellow, was killed in Virginia.  She was sent to Atlanta under escort, but has since made her escape.--Rebel. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Rebel announces that the services of a number of physicians are needed for a short time in the various hospitals attached to this military department.  Physicians in private practice can have an opportunity of serving their country and the cause of humanity by communicating with Dr. Stout, medical director of hospitals, Marietta, Georgia.

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
                                                                                                                Atlanta, September 24, 1863.
    Editors Appeal:  I hand you a letter from Mrs. W. H. Crisp, which surely entitles her to the heartfelt gratitude of every Tennessean.  She has made a richer, costlier donation than this to the cause of the South.  Her husband was for a long time in the service, as captain of an artillery company; one of her sons was disabled and discharged, and another who entered the army at the age of sixteen, is still in the ranks.  When the Federals attacked Knoxville, some months ago, Mrs. Crisp generously and hospitably entertained at her suburban residence large numbers of women and children who sought to escape the dangers resulting from the unheard of barbarism of our enemy, who shelled a city without notifying the inhabitants of their purpose.
    Mrs. Crisp deserves every kindness and consideration at the hands of the people of the South, and especially will Tennesseans never forget this practical evidence of her generosity, patriotism, and philanthropy.
    The letter which I hand you for publication contained three hundred dollars--which I have given to the treasurer, in charge of the Tennessee fund for the relief of the wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.   Respectfully,                 W. G. Swan.
                                                                                ---------
Hon. Wm. G. Swan:
    Dear Sir:  Allow me to present you three hundred dollars to add to the fund so nobly collected by the Tennesseans now here for the sick and wounded soldiers now in the field.  Please accept it as the offering of one who is a refugee from home and all its pleasures.
    I regret deeply the sum is not as large as the occasion merits, but "the times are out of joint."  I shall feel proud, as the season progresses, to contribute from time to time to so noble a cause.
    I remain, with much respect, truly yours.                                         Eliza Crisp. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--Lucretia Borgia; or, The Poisoner, to conclude with the farce of Poor Pillicoddy] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Lady and the D---l; or, The Widow of Palermo, to conclude with the farce of The Specter Bridegroom.  Every member of the Star Company will appear] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Lady of Lyons; or, Love and Pride.  To conclude with the farce of Rough Diamond, or Country Cousin] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 29, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
    Story of a Refugee.--A subscriber, writing from Iredell county, North Carolina, makes the following narration, which is like that of thousands of others who have been driven from their homes in this unholy war:
    "I was compelled to leave my farm and sixty-three negroes in East Tennessee in consequence of a Federal force camping on my place, after their occupation of Knoxville.  I hope it may only be temporary, but all depends on Bragg's army.  If successful, our Southern citizens who are numerous, can return to their homes; otherwise, all is gone, as in Northern Virginia.  We have fine crops in East Tennessee, both of corn and wheat, and a large number of hogs and cattle.  God grant that we may yet be victorious in our cause.  The importance of East Tennessee is well known to you, and should be held for supplies.."
    Our correspondent's hopes bid fair to be realized.  Bragg has begun his work well, and if he carries it on successfully, East Tennessee will be free from the presence of the enemy.--Richmond Examiner. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--My Neighbor's Wife, to conclude with the farce of The Toodles] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], September 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Lady and the D---l! and the petite comedy of The Irish Tutor!] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 8 [Summary:  Atheneum--Lucille; or, The Story of a Heart, to conclude with The Happy Man] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Serious Family!, to conclude with the laughable farce of  The Irish Tutor] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
    The Bonnet for This Season.--The prevailing bonnet in Paris this fall, and of course in Yankee land, too, is the "Marie Stuart."   The sides of this favorite bonnet sit closely to the face and the front is heart-shaped, drooping slightly at the extreme edge toward the forehead.  The crowns are usually made round and firm, though a few are soft and sloping.  Velvet bonnets of gray and purple, and straw ones, cafe au lait and silver in color, predominate. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--Lucille, to be followed by the laughable farce of The Kiss in the Dark] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Honey Moon, to conclude with the laughable farce of Slasher and Crasher] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

New Music!

Lorena, 75 cts; Paul Vane, 75 cts; Ben Bolt, 75 cts; Mother, is the Battle Over, 75 cts; I See Her Still in my Dreams, 75 cts; Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother, 75 cts; Prisoner's Lament, 75 cts; Boys Keep Your Powder Dry, 75 cts; I Will Not Quite Forget, 75 cts; Kiss Me Before I Die, Mother, 75 cts; Keep Me Awake, Mother, 75 cts; How Can I Leave Thee, 75 cts; We May be Happy Yet, 75 cts; Drummer Boy of Shiloh, 75 cts; O, Give me a Home by the Sea, 75 cts.
Instrumental Music--Soldier's Adieu, 75 cts; Our First President's Quickstep, 75 cts; Persifer Smith's March, 75 cts; La Favorita Polka, by  Wm. L. Hewster, 75 cts; Soldier's Greeting March, Militaire, 75 cts; Blank Music Paper, 75 cts.
                                                                                                                Blackmar & Bro.
                                                                                                                                Augusta, Ga. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--Still Waters Run Deep, to conclude with the laughable farce of The Weathercock] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--Madelaine; or, The Belle of the Fauborg, to conclude with the laughable farce of The Swiss Cottage] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
    An Effectual Cure for the Earache.  Take a small piece of cotton batting or wool, make a depression in the center with the end of the finger, and fill it with as much pulverized black pepper as will rest on a half-dime.  Gather it into a ball and tie it up; dip the ball into sweet oil, and insert it into the ear, covering the latter with cotton wool and use a bandage or cap to retain it in its place.  A most instant relief will be experienced, and the application is so gentle that an infant will not be injured by it, but experience relief as well as adults.

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 6 [Summary:  Atheneum--The Golden Farmer; or, Jemmy Twitcher in England; to conclude with the laughable farce of The Dumb Belle; or, The Irish Valet] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--Lucretia Borgia; or, The Poisoner, to conclude with the laughable farce of The Loan of a Lover] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 2

The Young Ladies Patriotic Society.

This society was organized last Saturday, the 10th inst., by the young ladies of Atlanta, for the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers passing through this city.  Our number is not large enough to please us yet.  We beg all the young ladies to take an interest in our work and join our band.  Remember actions speak louder than words.  We meet at the City Hall every Saturday evening at three o'clock.  The officers of the society are as follows:  President, L. Rosa Wright; Vice President, Ida Goldberg; Secretary, Lizzie Judson; Treasurer, Bettie Morris.                                                                                          W. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 5 [Summary:  Atheneum--Don Caeser de Bazan, to conclude with the laughable farce of Family Jars] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 5

New Comic Journal.

Will be issued monthly, commencing about this 20th of October, "The Confederate Spirit and Knapsack of Fun!"  A humorous journal profusely illustrated with the best comic designs!  Devoted to wit, humor, fun, the stage, and the sports and pastimes of the age.  Large quarto size--sixteen pages.  Price fifty cents per copy.  Sent by mail free of postage.
H. C. Clarke, Publisher, Mobile, Alabama. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 3

The Good Samaritans.

    Editors Appeal:  That there are some bright sparks left in the hearts of our people has been exhibited during the past few weeks.  When our wounded began to come down the Western and Atlantic railroad, the ladies of Cartersville quickly responded to the call of humanity which appealed to them.  Arrangements were made by which some of the trains were stopped from ten to twenty minutes at that place, during which time the soldiers had an opportunity to partake of the many good and wholesome things offered them.  Nowhere in our experience during the war, have we seen more kindness exhibited than these noble and large-hearted ladies have shown.  We cannot individualize, but to one and all our heartfelt thanks are given.  We are conscious that if the occasion again occurs, they will as zealously and promptly render assistance.  The people at large will remember that all these donations were the free offerings of people many of whom are refugees, and who were compelled to buy them at great cost, but this did not abate their liberality.
    In Atlanta, that great vortex of sin, that pool where the people generally suppose the devil and extortioners reign, some extraordinary excellence has been developed, under the stimulation of the great spirit of charity and humanity.  The ladies have met the half-starved and wounded at all hours of the day and night, and given them food out of their abundance.  We noticed, for once, as a curiosity, that no questions of regiments were asked.  The soldiers of all States fared alike.  This is right.  Cursed by the spirit and contemptible ungraciousness which provides for the men from special States.  Blessings rest on the good hearts who distribute from the bounteous hand, irrespective of State lines.  To the ladies of Atlanta the soldier is much indebted.  They can rest assured their goodness has been appreciated and thankfully received.
    It was doubted whether the men of Atlanta would leave their money bags and marts of trade and lend a helping hand to the soldier.  The past two weeks have taught us that not all is wickedness and want of heart here.  Atlanta has found her quota of good and true-hearted men, and we think destruction does not await the city.  To the citizens who have labored faithfully and laboriously for the wounded from the historical and decisive field of Chickamauga, the soldiers must ever return the incense of thanks from the altars of grateful hearts. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--Evadne; or, The Statue, to conclude with the laughable farce of Jenny Lind] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 5 [Summary:  Atheneum--Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsy's [sic] Daughter, to conclude with the laughable farce of The Kiss in the Dark] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
    Wood and coal were scarce in Huntsville--bringing $10 to $18 per load (little, if any, over half a cord) in Confederate notes and $6 in Tennessee money; and coal, $45 per ton in Confederate notes, $15 in bank notes, and $8 in Federal greenbacks.  The planters around are so nearly stripped of horses, mules, oxen and wagons, that few of them can haul wood.  Some offer to give it to citizens, if they will haul it.  Others seem disposed to grasp all they can get of their fellow-sufferers.  The coal mines, in the vicinity of Huntsville, were worked by a Northerner and a Irishman, when we left there, which may account for the greenbacks entering the market in competition with Confederate money to its disparagement. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 7 [Summary:  Atheneum--Sheridan Knowles' great play of The Hunchback, to conclude with the laughable farce of Bamboozling] 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 6

New Music!

Published by George Dunn & Co., Richmond, Va., and Julian A. Selby, Columbia, S. C.
Annie of the Vale--Music by J. R. Thomas, author of "In my Cottage by the Sea"
When this Cruel War is Over--Music by Henry Tucker.
We Have Parted--Poetry and Music by Miss Ella Wren.
Kathleen Mavoureen--F. N. Crouch.
Harp of the South!  Awake--C. L. Peticolas.
My Wife and Child--Poetry by General Jackson, of Ga., and Music by F. W. Rouer [?]
See at Your Feet a Suppliant One--Balfe.
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother--Music by J. H. Hewitt.
Mother is the Battle Over?
Virginia:  Marsellaise--Original French Music.
Keep Me Awake, Mother--Denck.
The South--J. H. Hewitt.
All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night--J. H. Hewitt.
All printed on good paper, with ornamental titles!
Retail price................................$1 each.
The trade supplied at "half off," with an additional five per cent. when one hundred of any one piece is ordered.
Blank Music Lines on the best cap paper, $1 per sheet of four pages--forty per cen. off to the trade.                                                                 Geo. Dunn & Co., Richmond, Va. 

MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], October 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 4

General Directions for Collecting and Drying Medicinal Substances
of the Vegetable Kingdom.
From Dr. F. P. Porcher's "Botanical Resources."
Direction