COLUMBUS
ENQUIRER
April 10, 1860 – December 24, 1860
superseded by
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
ENQUIRER
January 7, 1862 – December 22, 1863
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
Mode of Cultivating Cotton.—Mr. Peter Cox, of Cabarrus, N. C., who took
the second premium offered by the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society for the
second largest crop on one acre, has furnished the following statement as to his
mode of cultivation:
Millgrove, Cabarrus co., Feb. 4.
I raised 2,210 lbs. of cotton in seed on one acre of land.
My mode of culture is simply as follows:
Planted Petit-Gulf seed on old land the 23d of April—the land had been
made rich in former years by accidental circumstances, but did not have any
recent application of manure. Rolled
the seed in leached ashes—plowed out the cotton stalks of a former year with a
two-horse bull-tongue, then with a turn plow ridged on the old bed; used a side
harrow in the first working and chopped through the row with a hoe; the last
week in May used a side shovel with the land side to the row; the first week in
June thinned to stand, leaving two stalks as near as may be every foot.—Second
week in June threw out the middles with a cotton sweep; next working used the
side-harrow, then used the sweep again, one furrow in the middle, and closed the
working with the side harrow, about the middle of July.
Planted the rows 3 feet 8 inches to 4 feet apart.
Peter Cox.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
Denominational oxen in Texas.--Texas is a great State.
It has not only a large, growing, mixed population--every variety of
climate and soil, game and stock--but its very oxen have become denominational,
if not sectarian in name,
character, and spirit. In proof of
this we give the following incident:
A
minister travelling along the road, met a stranger driving his wagon, which was
pulled by four oxen; as the minister approached, he heard the driver say,
"Get up Presbyterian!" "Gee Campbellite!" "Haw
Baptist!" "What are you doing, Methodist?"
The minister, struck with the singularity of such names being given to
oxen, remarked--
"Stranger, you have strange names for your oxen, and I wish to know why
they had such names given to them."
The
driver replied, "I call that lead one in front, Presbyterian, because he is
true blue, and never fails--he believes in pulling through every difficult
place, persevering to the end, and then he knows more than all the rest.
The one by his side I call Campbellite; he does very well when you let
him go on his own way, until he sees water, and then all the world could not
keep him out of it, and there he stands as if his journey was ended.
This off ox, behind, is a real Baptist, for he is all the time after
water, and will not eat with the others, but is constantly looking first, on one
side, and then on the other, and at everything that comes near him.
The other which I call Methodist, makes a great noise and a great to-do,
and you would think that he was pulling all creation, but he don't pull a
pound."
The
minister having his curiosity gratified with the explanation, rode on wondering
what he should next see and hear in Texas. This is no dream, but a fact as we have heard it; nor are we
influenced by dyspeptic feelings, telling our readers the ecclesiastical
relation of Texas oxen.--True Witness.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 8
Notice!
I desire to call the attention of
Southern Cotton and Woolen
Manufacturers!
To my establishment in Baltimore, Maryland, for the Manufacturing of
Cotton and Wool Cards,
being the only establishment South of Mason & Dixon's Line.
I also manufacture "Leather Bands" with Patent Machinery of my own
invention.
Also, Leather Hose, of superior quality, all made of the best oak tanned
leather, and warranted equal to any made north.
On hand a general assortment of articles used by Manufacturers, Machine Shops,
Railroad Locomotive Builders, &c, &c.
John H. Haskell,
33 South Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md.
April 3, 1860
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 7
Latest
Styles of
Dress Goods
For Spring and Summer.
Tafeta [sic]
Eugenia Silks; Broche Tafeta [sic] Silks'
Seven Flounced Grissaille Robes;
Foulard Silks;
Striped, Figured, and Bayadere Silks;
Nine-Flounced Barege Robes;
Barege Anglaise Robes;
English Bareges; White Brocade Silks;
Plain Barege Anglaise;
Bayadere Barege Anglaise;
Nine-Flounced French Organdy Robes;
Silk Poplins; New Style Barege Mohair;
Linen Chene Dress Goods;
New style Traveling Dress Goods;
Figured Linen Lustres; Lavella Lustres;
Jaconet Flounced Robes; Chintz Organdy Robes;
Linen Poplins;
Checked and Striped Colored Organdy Muslins;
Muslin Ginghams; French Ginghams;
French, English and American Calicoes;
DeBeize, &c., &c.
All new, and for sale cheap for cash at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Entirely
New!
Plain, White and
Solid-colored Organdy Muslins, for Evening and Party Dresses, entirely new, at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Mantillas
and Shawls!
French Lace
Mantillas, in French Lace Points;
Square French Lace Shawls, very large;
Misses' French Lace Mantillas;
Black and White Grenadine Shawls;
Plain, White and Black Barege Shawls;
Plain, White and Black Barege Mantillas;
Barege and Anglaise Dusters, new shapes and figures.
For sale cheap for cash, at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Embroideries!
Jaconet and Swiss
Edging and Inserting;
English Thread and Real Mechlin Laces;
Mechlin and Applique Lace Berthas and Capes;
Jaconet and Swiss Revers;
Dimity and Frilled Brands, elegant assortment;
Real French Cambric Bands;
Book and Jaconet Flouncing;
Infant's Embroidered Robes;
Embroidered Cuffs; Applique Sprigs;
Embroidered Skirts; Embroidered Handkerchiefs
Valenciennes Lace Sets, Sleeves and Collars;
Marseilles, Dimity and Linen Sets do.;
Black English Crape Collars, silk embroidered;
Plalin Linen Lawn and Cambric;
Ladies' Embroidered Jaconet Caps;
French Dimity for ruffling;
Black French Lace Coiffures,
Black French Barbs;
Just received and offered at low prices, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Veils!
Veils!!
Black Silk Guipure
Veils;
Fancy Colored Lace Veils;
Black French Lace Falls; Grenadine Falls;
Small Dotted Lace Falls;
Plain Barege and Tissues (all colors) for Veils.
Received this day at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Sleeves
and Collars!
Just received, the largest and handsomest stock of Collars and Sleeves, we
have ever had. They are entirely
new. At
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Handkerchiefs!
Ladies' Pine Apple
Handkerchiefs;
Embroidered, Clear Lawn and Hemmed do.;
Misses and Children's Handkerchiefs;
Gents' Plain White Hemmed Handkerchiefs;
Gents' Plain White Corded and Printed do.
Just
received and for sale at
Geo W. Atkinson & Co's.
Pant
Stuffs, Coatings, &c.
Brown Barnaley
Linen Drills, White Linen Drills, Linen Ducks, Checked Linens, Marseilles,
Vestings, French Drap de Etes, and a full stock of Linen Goods for boys and
youth's wear.
Just received and for sale cheap, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Gloves
and Mits!
Ladies' Kid, Lisle
and Chamois Gauntlets;
Ladies and Misses Black Silk Mits;
This day received at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Calicoes!
Calicoes!!
One thousand pieces
English, French and American Calicoes, at prices from 5c. to 25c. pr. yard, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Ladies'
Ready Made Suits!
Grass Cloth,
Anglaise and Chaillete ready made suits for ladies, consisting of Dress and new
style Dusters, all complete with exception of the Waist and Sleeves, for which
goods are furnished to make. They
are beautiful goods for street or traveling.
At
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Counterpanes!
Blue, Red, Canary
French Marseilles Counterpanes; Turkish and Allendale Counterpanes,
Toilet Quilts, Canada Counterpanes,
&c. A beautiful stock in store
and for sale at low prices for cash, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
White
Goods!
Jaconets; Swiss,
Book, Mull and Nainsook Muslins; Checked and Striped Nainsook, Swiss and Tape
Checked Muslins, &c. Our stock
is very complete and prices low. At
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Linen
and Cotton Sheetings!
A full line of
Linen and Cotton Sheetings, Pillow Case Linens, Heavy Linen for gents' wear,
&c., &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Towels
and Table Cloths!
Brown Huck
Towelings; Bleached Huck and Damask Towels, all prices;
Turkish Towels, for bathing;
Table Napkins, Doylies, Table Linens, &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Parasols
and Fans!
Foulard, Plaid
Silk, Chene Silk and Plain Colored Parasols; Ladies' Sun Umbrellas;
Extension handle Parasols;
New style Willow Fans;
Boquet Fans;
Palm Leaf Fans in great variety.
Just received and for sale cheap, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Hats!
Hats!!
A Full stock of
Gents and Boys Summer Hats, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Straw
Goods!
Ladies' newest
style White and Colored Crape Bonnets;
Neapolitan, English, Straw and Linen Braid do.
Misses and Children's Flats and Bonnets;
Misses' Neapolitan Flats;
Children's Leghorn Flats and Hats.
We have a beautiful stock of the above goods, and will sell them cheap for cash.
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Ladies
and Misses Shoes!
We have a large and
complete stock of Ladies' and Misses Morocco Boots, Gaiter Boots, Kid Slippers,
Kid Ties, &c.
Also, a beautiful stock of Children's Fancy Shoes, Pump Boots, &c., at very
low prices, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Sundries!
Combs—Long Combs,
Pocket Combs;
Dress Buttons of all descriptions;
Silver Thimbles;
Port Monies, Ladies Moreo [morso?] Bags, Baskets;
Pomades, Colognes, Lubin's Extracts;
Sewing machine Silk, Silk Dress Braids;
Elastics, Elastic Cord;
Silk Lacets, Corsets, Cord and Tassels;
Hair Brushes, Coat and Cloth
Brushes;
Fancy Note Paper and Envelopes;
Soap for cleaning silver; Fancy Soaps;
Head Dress, Head Dress Combs, &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Hosiery!
Ladies' White,
Slate and Blue Mixed Cotton Hose; Ladies' Lisle Thread and Lisle Thread Open
Work Hose; Children and Misses' Open Work and Striped Hose; Boys and Youths'
Hosiery Gents' All Linen Half Hose; Gents' White Lisle Thread, best, &c.,
&c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 4, c. 5
Look
Out for the
Sign of the Anvil!
at Nos. 95 & 97,
Broad Street, Columbus, Ga., where
J. Ennis & Co.
Keep constantly on hand, and at the lowest market prices, a full and
complete assortment of all articles kept in a Hardware Store, consisting in part
of Swedes and American Iron—all sizes. English
Iron, common and refined, imported by ourselves.
Horse Shoe Iron, all sizes. Russia
and American Sheet Iron. Rod, Oval,
Half Oval, Scroll, Band and Hoop Iron. Horse
Nail Rods of the best brands.
Blacksmith's
Tools.
Anvils, Vises, Sledge and Hand Hammers, Bellows and all other articles
wanted by blacksmiths.
Steel.
Plow Steel of the best make from 2 ½ to 16 inches wide.
English and American blister, German and Spring Steel; Cast Steel, Square
and Octagon.
Files.
A good assortment of Files and Rasps, of the best brands, our own
importation.
Grain
Cradles, Five and Six Fingers.
--Also,--
A good stock of Axes—Broad Axes, Hand Axes, Shingling and Lathing
Hatchets.
--Also,--
Steelyards, Patent Balances, Platform Scales, Plows, Corn Shellers, Straw
Cutters, Hoes, Trace Chains, Wagon Chains, Spades, Shovels, Hay and Manure
Forks, with all other articles usually wanted by the farmer and gardener.
Rubber
Belting.
From 5 to 8 inches wide, 8 and 4 ply.
A good assortment of Carriage and Buggy Materials.
Paints
and Oils.
White Lead of the best brand; Linseed, Lard and
Sperm Oil. Japan, Copal and
Coach Varnish.
A good assortment of Nails and Spikes—the best brand of Cut Nails sold
at $4.50 per keg, Cash.
Castings
and Hollow-Ware.
Gin Gear from 8 to 12 Foot Wheel, Mill Irons, on short notice, at the
lowest Foundry prices.
--Also.—
Keep a full assortment of Carpenters Tools and building materials,
Planes, Saws, Cross Cut, Mill and Circular Saws, Locks and Latches, Wood Screws,
Hinges, Butts, Paint and Whitewash Brushes,
together with all other articles usually kept in a Hard Ware Store, to all of
which we would invite our friends and customers, and the public generally to
call and see our stock before purchasing.
Don't
Forget the Anvil No. 95 & 97.
J. Ennis & Co.
Columbus, Ga., August 22, 1859.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 4, c. 6
$50,000
Stock of
Ready Made Clothing!
Gent's
Furnishing Goods,
Is now offered at
Reduced Prices
at the
Cash Clothing Emporium
Rosette, Melick & Co
No. 125 Broad St.,
Columbus, Ga.,
The following embraces a few of the Goods in Store:
Overcoats,
Overcoats.
100 Moscow Beaver
from
$22
to
$30 00
50 Black
" from
18
to
28 00
30 Blk and Col'd Cloth from
10
to
25 00
100 Pilot and Cass.
from
7
to
10 00
200 Lion and Seal Skin from
8
to
20 00
250 Satinette and Mohair from
6
to
10 00
100 Blanket and Flushing
3
to 5 00
Business
Coats.
100 Black Beaver,
plain, from
$14
to
$25 00
100 " "
ribbed,
16
to
20 00
500 Fancy Cas. Sacks & Fr's
7
to
20 00
300 Satinett and Union Cass.
3
to
6 00
100 Flushing Sacks
2 50
100 Peter Sham Satt
3 00
250 Satt. and Kersey Jacket
2
to
3 50
Black
Cloth Fr. Coats.
100 Black Cloth
Frock Coats at
$25 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at
20 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at
15 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at
12 00
50 Black Cloth Frock Coats at
10 00
Pants,
Pants, Pants
450 Pair Black Doe
Skin Cas.
$4
to
$10 00
600 Pair Fancy Cass.
3
to
$10 00
500 Pair Black and Fancy Satt.
2
to
4 00
150 Pair Blue Satinett
2
to
2 50
100 Pair Kersey
1 50
Vests,
Vests, Vests.
250 Black and Fancy
Silk Velvet and Plush
Vests from
$5 00 to $12
500 Blk. and Fan. Silk do.
2 50
to 8
100 Black Satin
2 50
to 6
300 Fancy Cass.
2 00
to 5
100 Black Cass.
3 00
to
Boys
and Youth's
Clothing!
We have now in Store a Complete assortment to FIT ALL SIZES, from 4 to 16
years of age, viz.:
100 Boys' Satt.
Round Jackets,
$2 00 to $3
150 Boys' Gray, Black Cloth do
3 50
to 6
100 Brown and Blue Cloth do
4 50
to
6
200 Boys' Fancy Cass. Sack and Fr. Coats
5 00
to
9
100 Boys' Black Cloth Coats
7 00
to 14
75
Black Satt. Coats
3 00
to
4
125 Boys' & Youths' Overcoats
3 00
to 14
175 Pr. Boys' Fancy Cass Pants
2 50
to
6
125 Pr. Black Cass. Pants
3 50
to 6
150 Boys' Cass., Silk Vests
1 75
to
4
Cash
Clothing Emporium,
No. 125 Broad Street,
Columbus, Georgia.
3,000 Hats! 3,000 Caps!
Of Every Shape, Color and Quality!
And are offered at
LOWER PRICES than was ever known in the City, for the same style.
Rosette,
Melick & Co.,
125 Broad street,
Columbus, Georgia.
Trunk
Depot,
No. 125
Broad St. Columbus Ga.
All who are in want of Trunks, Carpet Bags, Valises, Ladies' Bonnet
Boxes, can find a complete assortment at the
Trunk
Depot,
No. 125 Broad St.
The following are a few of the styles we have in store:
Ladies' Sole Leather Trunks;
Ladies' Saratoga
do.
3 sizes;
Gents' Sole Leather do., 3 qualities;
Gents' English Leather do.;
100 Packing Trunks, 4 sizes;
Sole Leather Valises;
Wood Frame Valises;
Leather, Enamel, Cloth and Carpet Bags.
We would invite an examination of our Stock, feeling assured that the
Style, Quality and Assortment that we are enabled to exhibit, together with
Unusual Low Prices! cannot fail to please, and give perfect satisfaction.
We feel warranted in saying that none will go away dissatisfied, or have
cause of regret.
Rosette,
Melick & Co.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
The
Mountain Meadow Massacre—
Horrible Confession
The Salt Lake Valley Tan, of February 29th, contains a
statement from Wm. H. Rogers, in regard to the massacre at Mountain Meadows in
September, 1857, when 120 men, women and children, emigrants from Arkansas, were
murdered by Mormons. In company
with Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Utah Territory, Mr.
Rogers, about a year since, traversed the district of country where the massacre
occurred. The scene of the tragedy is thus described:
"When we arrived here in April, 1859, more than a year and a half
after the massacre occurred, the ground for a distance more than a hundred yards
around a central point, was covered with the skeletons and bones of human
beings, interspersed in places with rolls or bunches of tangled or matted hair,
which, from its length, evidently belonged to females.
In places the bones of small children were lying side by side with those
of grown persons, as if parent and child had met death at the same instant and
with the same stroke. Small bonnets
and dresses, and scraps of female apparel were also to be seen in places on the
ground there, like the bones of those who wore them, bleached from long
exposure, but their shape was, in many instances, entire.
In a gulch or hole in the ravine by the side of the road, a large number
of leg and arm bones, and also of skulls, could be seen sticking above the
surface, as if they had been buried there, but the action of the water and
digging of the wolves had again exposed them to sight.
The entire scene was one too horrible and sickening for language
adequately to describe."
On the authority of information communicated in his presence to Judge
Cradlebaugh, by a participant in the massacre, Mr. Rogers describes the attack
on the emigrants, the protracted siege which they endured, and finally the
treacherous artifice by which they were induce to surrender—when all were
brutally murdered. He says:
As soon as it became known that Judge C. intended holding a court, and
investigating the circumstances of the massacre, and that he would have troops
to ensure protection, and enforce his writs if necessary, several persons
visited him at his rooms at late hours of the night, and informed him of
different facts connected with the massacre.
All these that called thus, stated that it would be at the risk of their
lives if it became known that they had communicated anything to him; and they
requested Judge Cradlebaugh, if he met them in public in the day time, not to
recognize them as persons that he had before seen.
One of the men who called thus on Judge Cradlebaugh, confessed that he
participated in the measure, and gave the following account of it—Previous to
the massacre there was a council held at Cedar City, which President Haight, and
Bishops Higby and Leed attended. At
this council they designed or appointed a large number of men residing in Cedar
City, and in other settlements around, to perform the work of dispatching these
emigrants. The men appointed for
this purpose were instructed to resort, well armed, at a given time, to a spring
or small stream, lying a short distance to the left of the road leading into the
Meadows, and not very far from Hamblin's ranch, but concealed from it by
intervening hills. This was the
place of rendezvous; and here the men, when they arrived, painted and otherwise
disguised themselves so as to resemble Indians. From thence they proceeded, early on Monday morning, by a
path or trail which leads from his spring directly into the Meadows, and enters
the road some distance beyond Hamblin's ranch.
By taking this route they could not be seen by any one at the ranch.
On arriving at the corral of the emigrants, a number of the men were
standing on the outside by the camp fires, which, from appearances, they had
just been building. These were first fired upon, and at the first discharge
several of them fell dead or wounded; the remainder immediately ran to the
inside of the corral, and began fortifying themselves, and preparing for defence
as well as they could, by shoving their wagons closer together, and digging
holes into which to lower them, so as to keep the shots from going under and
striking them. The attack continued
in a desultory and irregular manner for four or five days. The corral was closely watched, and if any of the emigrants
showed themselves they were instantly fired at from without.
If they attempted to go to the spring, which was only a few yards
distance, they were sure to fall by the rifles of their assailants.
In consequence of the almost certain death that resulted from any attempt
to procure water, the emigrants, before the siege discontinued, suffered
intensely from thirst. The
assailants, believing at length that the emigrants could not be subdued, by the
means adopted, resorted to treachery and strategem to accomplish what they had
been unable to do by force. They
returned to the spring where they had painted and disguised themselves pervious
to commencing the attack, and there removed those disguises, and again assumed
their ordinary dress.
After this, Bishop Lee, with a party of men, returned to the camp of the
emigrants, bearing a white flag as a signal of truce.
From the position of the corral, the emigrants were able to see them some
time before they reached it. As
soon as they discerned it, they dressed a little girl in white, and placed her
at the entrance of the corral, to indicate their friendly feelings to the
persons bearing the flag. Lee and
his party, on arriving, were invited into the corral, where they staid about an
hour, talking with them about the attack that had been made upon them.
Lee told the emigrants that the Indians had gone off over the hills, and
that if they would lay down their arms and give up their property, he and his
party would conduct them back to Cedar City; but if they went out with their
arms, the Indians would look upon it as an unfriendly act, and would again
attack them. The emigrants,
trusting to Lee's honor and to the sincerity of his statements, consented to the
terms which he proposed, and left their property and all their arms at the
corral, and, under the escort of Lee and his party, started towards the North in
the direction of Cedar City. After
they had proceeded about a mile on their way, on a signal given by Bishop Higby,
who was one of the party that went to the corral with Lee, the slaughter began.
The men were mostly killed or shot down at the first fire, and the women
and children, who immediately fled in different directions, were quickly pursued
and dispatched.
Such was the substance, if not the exact words, of a statement made by a
man to Judge Cradlebaugh, in my presence, who at the same time confessed that he
participated in the horrible events which he related.
He also gave Judge C. the names of 25 or 30 other men living in the
region, who assisted in the massacre. He
offered also to make the same statement in court and under oath, if protection
was guaranteed to him. He gave as a
reason for divulging these facts, that they had tormented his mind and
conscience since they occurred, and he expressed a willingness to stand a trial
for his crime.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 17, 1860, p. 3, c. 1
Manufacturing in the South.—The important question whether the South, being a
rich planting region, can sustain manufacturers coming in competition with the
cheap labor of the North, has happily been solved by successful experiment.
Foremost in this work was our own city, with her unrivalled water-power;
and in the van of her enterprises was the Eagle Factory, which commenced
operations in December, 1851, and has been successful from the start.
This institution has gone on enlarging and improving, and all the time
paying handsome dividends out of its profits, until we may now pronounce it a model
factory of the South. It is
announced in our advertising columns that it has annexed the Howard Factory,
another large and successful establishment.
We understand that these united Factories run 10,000 cotton and 1300
woolen spindles; that they have looms weaving cotton and woolen goods 282; that
they consume 9 bales of cotton and 1,000 lbs. of wool per day; and employ 500 h
ands, at a daily expense of $240 per day for their labor.
The capital employed is $395,000.
These
figures show the vast importance of this factory alone to our city and to the
neighboring country whose produce is consumed by the factory and its
operatives.—The superior work of this establishment is known and appreciated
wherever it has found its way, and to this it owes chiefly its growth and
success. We hail this extensive
Columbus institution as one of the most important agencies engaged in the
struggle for Southern commercial independence, and trust that it may be long
recognized and cherished as such.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 8, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
The
Yellow Rose of Texas.
By Samuel.
There's a yellow
rose of Texas that I am going to see,
No other darkey knows her, no darkey only me;
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her, we never more will part.
Chorus—
She's the sweetest rose of color this darkey ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew,
You may talk about hour dearest Mae, and sing of Rosa Lee,
But the yellow rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee.
Where the Rio
Grande is flowing, and starry skies are bright,
She walks along the river in the quiet summer night;
She thinks if I remember, when we parted long ago,
I promis'd to come back again, and not to leave her so.
Oh! new I'm bound
to find her, for my heart is full of woe!
And we'll sing the song together, that we sung so long ago;
We'll play upon the banjo gaily, and we'll sing the songs of yore,
And the yellow rose of Texas shall be mine for ever more.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
Who is a Gentleman.—A gentleman is not merely a person acquainted with
certain forms or conventionalities of life, easy and self-possessed in society,
able to speak, and act, and move in the world without awkwardness, free from
habits which are vulgar and in bad taste. A
gentleman is something beyond this. At
the base of all his ease and refinement, and tact and power of pleasing, is the
same spirit which lies at the root of every christian virtue.—It is the
thoughtful desire of doing in every instance to others as he would that others
should do unto him. He is
constantly thinking, not indeed how he may give pleasure to others for the mere
sense of pleasing, but how he can show them respect, how he may avoid hurting
their feelings. When he is in
society he scrupulously ascertains the position of every one with whom he is
brought into contact, that he may give to each his due honor.
He studies how he may avoid touching upon any subject which may call up a
disagreeable or offensive association. A
gentleman never alludes to, ever appears conscious of any personal defect,
bodily deformity, inferiority of talent, of rank or reputation, in the persons
in whose society he is placed. He
never assumes any superiority—never ridicules, never boasts, never makes a
display of his own powers, or rank, or advantages; never indulges in habits
which may be offensive to others.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Osage Orange.—We have seen nothing used for hedges which surpasses the
osage orange for quickness of growth, beauty and security.
In the fall of 1858, the Board of Commissioners, of this place, caused to
be planted around the Grave Yard year old plants of the osage orange, in double
rows, about eight inches apart, with about the same distances between the
plants.
Last year they grew an average of at least four feet high.
During the winter the sprouts were cut off to within four inches of the
ground. This spring, although it
has been very dry, each plant has sent out five or six shoots, and they will
average now 3 feet in height, and by fall it will be a fair hedge almost
impenetrable by any kind of stock.
It will be cut again next winter, however, when the sprouts will come out
five or six to each of those this year, making from thirty to forty very thorny
branches, in the space of every eight inches, with the rows and plants
alternating, so that those of the inner row are between those of the outer row.
Those wishing to grow hedges, for protection or ornament, would do well
to try the osage orange.
We have seen nothing equal to it, in all the requisites of a good hedging
shrub.
It is far preferable to any briar fence, because it remains within the
limits where first planted, and is not subject to die down in some spots, and
spread out in others, as is the case with the Cherokee Rose, tried some years
back by many planters in Middle Georgia.
Those who are scarce of timber would do well to try this thorn.
It is easily propagated from the seed, which may be obtained from city
seed stores.--Madison Visitor.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
A teaspoonful of salt and teaspoonful of mustard stirred quickly in warm
water and swallowed after any poison taken into the stomach by accident, will
instantly act as an emetic. As soon
after a sthe stomach is quiet, drink a cup of coffee, clear and strong, or
swallow the white of an egg.
A simple but very effectual remedy for biliousness, arising from any
cause whatever, will be found in drinking half a tumbler of lemon juice.
It can be repeated, if necessary, and will put many a headache to flight.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
A Versified Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer. –The following paraphrase
of the Lord's Prayer has been set to music in England, and is having a great
run. It is the best we have ever
seen in any language—there is nothing wanting and nothing redundant.
Our Heavenly Father, hear our prayer;
Thy name be hallowed everywhere;
Thy kingdom come; Thy perfect will;
In earth, as heaven, let all fulfill;
Give this day's bread that we may live;
Forgive our sins as we forgive;
Help us temptation to withstand,
From evil shield us by Thy hand;
Now and forever unto Thee,
Thy kingdom, power and glory by.
Amen.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 29, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
Whiskers.
The editress of the Lancaster Literary Gazette says she would as soon
nestle her nose in a rat's nest of swingle tow, as to allow a man with whiskers
to kiss her.
We don't believe a word of it. The
objections which some ladies pretend to have to whiskers, all arise from envy. They don't have any. They
would if they could, but the fact is, the continual motion of their lower jaw is
fatal to their growth. The
ladies—God bless them!—adopt our fashions as far as they can. Look at the depredations they have committed on our wardrobes
in the last few years. They have
encircled their soft, bewitching necks in our standing collars and
cravats—driving us men to flatties and turndowns.
Their innocent little hearts have been palpitating in the inside of our
waistcoats, instead of thumping against the outside, naturally intended.
They have thrust their pretty feet and ankles through our unmentionables,
unwhisperables, unthinkaboutables—in short, as Micawber would say, breeches.
And they are skipping along the streets in our high-heeled boots.
Do you hear, gentlemen? we
say boots!
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 29, 1860, p. 3. c. 3
Union
Song!
by Toby.
Air—"Old Dan Tucker."
The Union Bell,
with a merry peal,
Is ringing for the nation's weal.
The factions all with fear are quaking,
For the slumb'ring masses are awaking!
Hurrah! Hurrah! for BELL and EVERETT,
And the Union! who shall sever it?
The North and
South have heard the sound,
The East and West are "bobbing around,"
The Charleston "faction" split asunder
And knocked Democracy all to thunder.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
By the Constitution
and the Laws
We stand, without a "nigger" clause,
The "Union" shall our watchword be,
With our JOHN BELL, of Tennessee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
Ye sons of
patriotic sires!
Light up again your beacon fires;
From every mountain top and valley,
From town and country, rally! rally!
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
When the battle's
fought, and victory won,
We'll all adjourn to Washington,
And pledge our friends with three times three,
For JOHNNY BELL, of Tennessee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, June 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
How the Southern Belles Dress.—A correspondent of the Petersburg
Express writing from Memphis, Tenn., says:
To give the readers of the Express an idea as to how the Tennessee,
Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi belles dress, large numbers of whom purchase
their dry goods in Memphis, I would state, that I saw silk dresses, a single
pattern of which sells for $130, and mantles and other summer wrappings, all
lace and worked by the human hand, which sell at prices ranging from $75 to
$150, $200 and $225. One charming
young widow, residing in Mississippi, spent at a single dry goods house in
Memphis last year, and for the adornment and comfort of her own person, the
moderate figure of $3,825. What do
the North Carolina and Virginia belles think of that?
Enormous amounts are also expended at the jewelry stores at Memphis, and
the ladies here appear at concerts, balls and parties, literally covered with
diamonds.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, June 26, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
The census act imposes a fine of thirty dollars for the refusal by any
person, over twenty years of age, member of a family, or agent for an absent
family, to give full answers when required by the Marshal or his assistants to
the questions which they are authorized to put.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, June 26, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
A machine for making button holes is said to be the latest thing in the
way of invention. It will work, it
is reported, ten button-holes in a minute.
The next thing will be a machine to sew on the buttons, then "Hurrah
for the bachelors."
[Entire year of
1861 missing]
Weekly Columbus
Enquirer
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Cotton Seed for Soap.—It is said that cotton seed oil is equal, of not
superior to the ordinary refuse-greese [sic] for soap.
The process is so simple that any housewife may, with little trouble,
make the experiment. Put as much
cotton seed into a large strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed
with a pestle, crush or mash them well; then boil in strong lye, and proceed as
in the usual way. As greese [sic]
may be scarce next year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the
greese [sic] is exhausted.
[Home Journal.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
Cotton
Batting
For Quilts and Comforts.
Our people are called upon to send their Blankets to the Soldiers.
Quilts and Comforts are good substitutes.
The Eagle Company are now manufacturing the Cotton Batting required in
making them.
They are also making Knitting Cotton, Sewing Thread, &c, &c, of
which can be found at the stores of the merchants in the city.
J. Rhodes Brone, Agts.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Fall
and Winter
Stock of
Ready-Made Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings,
&c. &c.
&c.
J. H. Daniel & co.
Take this method of
announcing that they have just opened their
Large
and Well Selected
Stock of
Ready-Made Clothing,
Of Their Own Manufacture
and are now
prepared to serve all who may favor them with their custom
At
as Low Price as Ever!
Despite the great advance in goods.
Every article sold from this stock is warranted to be as represented,
and will be
Sold
at old prices for Cash!
Their stock of Men's Furnishing Goods will be found to contain a good
assortment of
Linen Bosom Shirts;
Merino, Shaker, and Home-made Flannel Undershirts and Drawers;
Cotton, Flannel and Jeans Drawers;
Gloves, Half-Hose, Suspenders, Cravats, Ties, Collars, &c., &c.
Cloths,
Cassimeres and Vestings.
A perfect assortment of Black Cloths and Doeskins;
Fancy, French and English Cassimeres;
Milton Cloths;
Velvet, Matalassie, Cashmere and Silk Vestings, &c., all of which
they are prepared to manufacture to order, in their usual style.
In
the
Military Line
They are prepared to exhibit a general assortment of
Blue and Gray Cloths'
Gray Cassimeres;
Dark and Light Blue Satinets;
Gray Satinets;
Brown Jeans, and yard wide Cottons for lining;
Pant and Coat Canvas and Drill;
Selee[illigible], Holland's, Parmer's Satins;
Flax Thread;
300 dozen Coats' Spool Cotton;
Suspender and Fly Buttons;
40 gross superior Gilt Staff Buttons;
Gold Laces, &c., &c.
Military
Caps
Furnished to order, made in the best manner, from every quality of goods.
Confederate
Uniforms!
For officers of every grade, made in the very best manner, and warranted
to fit.
The
Celebrated
Water-Proof Goods!
Impervious to rain, and universally admitted to be the
"Soldier's
Best Friend!"
always on hand,
made up into Capes, Coats, Blankets, Knapsacks, Haversacks, &c., &c.
Military
Men and Civilians
Will find this stock of goods to be one of the best in the South, and are
invited to examine it when in want of any of the above goods.
J. H. Daniel & Co.
123 Broad st. Columbus, Ga.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Copperas, almost pure, has been discovered by O. D. Sledge, Esq., on his
plantation near New Market, in this county.
A specimen of it has been left at the Advocate office.
We trust he will go to work and prepare it for market.
[Huntsville (Ala.) Southern Adv., 8th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Wooden-Soled Shoes.—We learn that the Georgia made shoes with double
maple sole are in very good demand. Mr.
Markstein has already filled a considerable order from Virginia, for army
demand, we suppose. Several
planters have been testing their merits, and the result has in all cases proved
favorable. In our own immediate
vicinity, or in what might properly be called "The Army of Mobile,"
they have been tried, and the report is so favorable that only yesterday an
additional lot was ordered. We have
no hesitation in saying that they will prove an excellent marching shoe.
Some other article might better suit the double-quick movement, but for
an all-day lick they will prove less fatiguing than a more elastic shoe.
Besides, the foot is less liable to heat in them, no matter what kind of
a sock is worn, or even should the soldier find himself without any. One thing we must say—though that will not diminish their
value among our boys—they'll never do to run away in; indeed, they are a
Southern shoe, and not designed for that kind of service.—Mobile Register.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
From
the Fayetteville Observer.
Smoke House Salt—Home-Made Salt.
Messrs. Editors:--As salt is exceedingly scarce and high you will please
permit me through the medium of your paper to give a few directions respecting
home-manufacture of salt. Dig up
the dirt in your smoke houses as low down as is very salt.
Throw a few bushels of this dust into a hhd., bbl., vat or
something of the kind. Apply
water and stir it up well and allow it to settle. Then have you a stand prepared with clean sand as though you
were going to drip them as you do ashes. Then
dip the water gently out of your hhd., bbl., or whatever it is, and pour it up
in this sand to drip. When you dip
all out add more water and stir up again as before.
Do this until you get all the strength out of the dirt, then add more and
proceed as before. Dripping it through the sand will, I think, cause it to get
clear. It is an idea of my own, but
I think it will answer the purpose well.—You can at the same time carry on
your boiling and as you drip down through the sand keep adding the water to your
boiler, and once a day boil down. I
think there can be plenty of salt thus made to answer the demands of the people
at present or until there can be a supply obtained elsewhere.
It does not do well to drip the dirt at the start as you would ashes,
because the water will not run through readily.
And to make it without dripping the water through; the salt is muddy;
therefore, dripping it through the sand is suggested.
MOORE.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
How to Make Candles.—Mr. N. A. Isom has discovered a new and valuable
process for making good candles from tallow, equal to the star.
It is this: To a quart of
tallow add two or three leaves of the prickly pear, and boil out all the water
that may gather. When of the right
consistency, mould in the usual way. We
are of the opinion that a little alum would improve the candles.
Try it, everybody. The
prickly pear grows abundantly in the neighborhood.—Oxford Intell.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
A Female Spy on Horseback.—The Washington correspondent of the New York
Post relates the following incident:
A horseman, clad in a sort of cavalry costume, with a heavy overcoat and
slouched hat, had been noticed for some time dashing about the city in rather a
suspicious manner. At last the
authorities felt themselves warranted in arresting him, and accordingly one
morning, when trotting down Pennsylvania Avenue, he found himself suddenly
surrounded by a file of soldiers, and was carried off to prison.
But the funniest part was yet to come.
The investigation resulted not only in the discovery of certain papers,
but also of the fact that the cavalier was a woman. How long she had been at the game it is impossible to guess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Cotton and Coffee.—We learn from those who have tested the matter, that
the seeds of Sea Island Cotton, parched and prepared as coffee, are fully equal
to the best Mocha coffee imported; and that the seeds of the Upland prepared in
the same way make an excellent coffee.—Columbia Guardian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
A gentleman in Dawson, Terrell county, has succeeded in making cotton
cards, and is now engaged in manufacturing them.
Good for the blockade!—Macon Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 18, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
A Substitute for Milk and Cream.—Beat up the whole of a fresh egg, in a
basin, and then pour boiling tea over it gradually, to prevent its curdling.
It is difficult from the taste to distinguish the composition from the
richest cream.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 18, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Newspapers in Texas.—The San Antonio Herald says:
"We cannot count more than ten papers now published in this state,
out of some sixty a year ago. War
and blockade are death to newspapers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 25, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
From
the Second Georgia Regiment.
Camp Georgia, near Manassas,
}
February 9, 1862.
}
Editor Enquirer: . . .
In this connection, Mr. Editor, allow me to say to the women of the
South, that a great deal now depends upon them.
It is hard, I grant, to be separated from husbands, sons and brothers,
but it would be harder still to have a ruthless and merciless enemy march
triumphantly through our fair and blessed land—an enemy who would be blind to
all but the gratification of their hellish instincts and passions, and would
leave no stone unturned to wreak their fanatical vengeance in every conceivable
manner. Instead, then, of writing
to your husbands, sons and brothers, begging them not to re-enlist, write
letters of encouragement to them, bidding them to go on, and assure them that
your prayers will day and night arise to the God of Battles for the success and
ultimate triumph of our arms. With
this encouragement and smiles of approval of the fair daughters of the South, to
cheer up the soldiers who are fighting our battles, there can be no such thing
as our subjugation. I fear, very
much fear, that our fair daughters are growing cold in this matter—but if they
would but reason with themselves, there would be no necessity for this or any
other appeal to their patriotism. Rise
up, Ladies, in your might, and not only give encouragement to your friends
already in the field, but drive from among you the cowardly wretches who are
still hovering around your cities, towns and neighborhoods, and let them know
that their presence cannot longer be tolerated by you, wile their country calls
for and needs their services to drive back the black-hearted and unprincipled
foe, who are threatening to level you to their own standard. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The
New Flag of the Confederacy.
We learn that the Committee of Congress, charged with determining and
reporting a design for the flag of the Southern Confederacy, have adopted one,
which we reproduce in the sketch below:
[sketch]
It will be seen from this sketch that the flag is to be blue
"Union" on a red field; the stars being white, the national colors of
red, white and blue being thus reproduced.
There are four stars disposed in the form of a square within the Union.
The committee have chosen the design from a great number and variety
submitted to them. The collection
of the designs offered to the committee is quite curious—beehives, snakes,
temples of liberty, and all sorts of devices figuring among them.
The design adopted, it is understood, is almost unanimously approved by
Congress, with the exception of the stars and their arrangement, for which some
of the members propose to substitute the constellation of the Southern Cross. It is understood that the other parts of the design will
certainly be adopted by Congress.—Richmond Examiner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 4, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Malone's Mixture for a Cough or Cold.—Take one tea cup of flax seed,
soak it all night; in the morning
put in a kettle two quarts of water; a handful, split up, of liquorice root; one
quarter of a pound of raisins, broke in half.
Let them broil till the strength is thoroughly extracted, then add that
flax seed which has been previously soaked.
Let all boil half an hour more, watching and stirring, that the mixture
may not burn. Then strain, and add
lemon juice and sugar to the taste. Take
any quantity of it cold through the day, and half a tumblerful of the above
mixture warm at night. The recipe
is excellent.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Write
to the Soldiers.
Could I through your paper pen a sentence that would reach effectually
every Southern reader who may have a relative, a friend or acquaintance in the
army, that sentence would be, write to the Soldiers.
There are many of them far from home, among strangers, and enduring every
toil and privation for their country. A
line or a word will nerve their hearts and cheer them on.
Go to our crowded post-office, as I go.
See the war-worn soldier's anxiety as he asks for a letter; see him get
it, eagerly break the seal and read the pen tracings of loved ones at home.
Often I've seen the lip tremble, the eye dilate, and even the tear
glisten, as line upon line was read. Some
father, mother, sister or wife or sweetheart, had sent him words of cheer.
You can see him grasp his weapon tighter, carefully fold his letter, and
with a firmer tread and more elastic spirits, return to duty.
On the other hand look at the bitter, cruel, stinging disappointment of
the soldier who, day after day, goes for an expected letter, and finding none,
turns away with saddened heart, feeling that no one cared for him.
Again, let me say, write to the soldiers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
From
the LaGrange Reporter.
Rye Coffee.—Many of our people are daily in the habit of using rye as a
substitute for coffee without being aware of the fact, that the grain when burnt
contains upwards of 50 per ct. of phosphoric acid, which acts injuriously
upon the whole bony structure. In
the young it effectually prevents the full development of the osseous tissues,
and in the old, it lays the foundation for dry gangrene.
It possesses the power of dissolving the phosphate of lime, which
constitutes upwards of fifty per cent. of the bone in man.
This same power it exerts over utero gestation, and thereby brings about
all the concomitant evils of abortion. Cases
of this kind have come under my professional observation during a few months
past, and I think the facts ought to be spread before the people.
L. J. Robert, M. D.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
To
the Patriotic Ladies!
Bring your Old
Brass to be Cast into Cannon!
The ladies, believing that there is in the country a large quantity of
old Brass Ware, now of little value to the owners, but which if collected and
cast into cannon, would materially aid in the public defence, make this call
upon all who have such old metal to contribute it for that purpose.
Old Brass Andirons, Knobs, Keys, and even Buckles, can be made available;
and even your bright and shining utensils, if thus appropriated, would burnish
with a greater lustre your own patriotism, and aid far more your struggling
country, than if kept for the decoration of your parlors.
This appeal is addressed to all who have such articles to bring or send
them to the store of J. Ennis & Co., in Columbus, at once.
We have reliable assurance that we can have the Cannon cast in Columbus
on the most reasonable terms, if not entirely free of charge, and all that we
need is the metal. It is believed
that there is an abundance of it in Columbus and its vicinity, and we earnestly
call upon all having even the smallest article of old Brass Ware to contribute
it to the great work of defending their own homes from the Northern invader.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
From
the Macon Telegraph.
Gunboat Fund.
Mr. Clisby: Sir:
We see by the Charleston papers, that a young lady, Miss Sue L. Gelzen,
of Summerville, has started a subscription to build a gunboat at Charleston, by
the ladies of the Palmetto State, which is being responded to by the ladies of
Carolina. We propose that her noble
example should be followed by our native Georgia. And as an earnest of our intentions, we herewith enclose you
our subscriptions of five dollars each, to build a gunboat, for our own gallant
war-worn veteran Commodore Tattnall, who oft has bared his breast to the
"battle and the breeze." We
know there is patriotism enough among the ladies of the Empire State of the
South, to raise the necessary fund to build one that will do credit to Georgia.
We would therefore, propose the following names to act as agents to
receive funds from the ladies of Georgia:
For Macon.—Editor Georgia Telegraph, Editor Georgia Messenger, Col. L.
N. Whittler, Jas. A. Nisbet, Esq., Mrs. Washington Poe.
Savannah.—Savannah Republican, Savannah Morning News.
Augusta.—Constitutionalist, Chronicle & Sentinel.
Columbus.—Times and Enquirer.
Atlanta.—Intelligencer and Confederacy.
Milledgeville.—Southern Federal Union and Southern Recorder.
Albany.—Richard Clark and Sims & Rusk [?]
Americus—John J. Scarboro and T. M. Furlow.
Cuthbert.—Edward McDonald and Otho P. Beall.
Sandersville.—James S. Hook, Esq.
Waynesboro.—Mrs. Shewmake.
Covington.—Wm. P. Anderson.
Not being sufficiently acquainted to name agents in the various counties
of Georgia, we would recommend the ladies to appoint agents in their various
towns and counties and remit their collections to a committee in Savannah, to be
composed of His Honor Edward J. Harden, R. R. Cuyler, President, Central
Railroad, G. B. Lamar, President Bank of Commerce.
Respectfully yours,
Mary Ann & Ella.
All newspapers in Georgia please copy.
We need hardly say that we would cheerfully accept a commission of this
kind. The proposition to raise the
fund may as well be regarded at once as successful, for whatever the Ladies
undertake is sure to be accomplished. All
who wish to have a hand in the patriotic work should therefore respond at once.
We will acknowledge through the Enquirer any subscription
forwarded to us. A large sum for
any one subscriber, we are satisfied will not be necessary.
Who will "start the ball" in this region?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Improved Spinning Wheel.—Mr. H. A. Cook, of this place, has presented
us with one of his "Improved, Dixie
Spinning Wheels." The
improvement is in the spindle and can be used upon the old fashioned wheels.
They spin three times as fast as the old spindles.
This is a timely and valuable invention.
Everybody should have one; as everybody who can should be spinning and
weaving during the next winter. The
wheels can be had at the Foundry in this place.
[Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
The
Boys Want a Chance.
Mr. Clisby: I see in
your valuable paper that the ladies are getting up a Gunboat Fund.
I propose that the boys of the Empire State come up and show their
patriotism in handing in their surplus dimes to aid in helping to build another
"Virginia" to drive the Lincoln fleet from the shores of Georgia.
I would propose the following names to act as agents to receive funds
from the juveniles of Georgia:
Macon—J. Clisby, Simri Rose.
Columbus—J. H. Martin, J. W. Pease.
Atlanta—Southern Confederacy.
Milledgeville—Recorder.
Americus—T. M. Furlow.
Covington—W. P. Anderson.
Albany—Sims & Rust.
Cuthbert—Ab. Watkins.
The above named gentlemen will remit the amounts to R. R. Cuyler,
President C. R. R.
Respectfully yours,
A Boy of 13.
All the papers in the State will please copy.—Macon Telegraph, 18th.
It will give us pleasure to act as the medium for transmitting any money
that the boys may devote to this patriotic enterprise.
We know that the tightness of the times reduces their usual amount of
money, but we hope that they can still spare something, however small, and that
they will contribute whatever they can spare.
It will be a matter of pride, in their manhood, for the boys of to-day to
reflect that they aided in building the "Virginia" that drove the
Federal gunboats from the shores and rivers of Georgia.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 25, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
To the patriotic Ladies of Muscogee and adjacent Counties.—The ladies
of this City and vicinity propose, with your aid, to have one or more small
brass cannon cast, for the defence—if needed—of our homes.
If not needed here, it will be wanted elsewhere.
We ask you to send in for this purpose, all the articles of brass and
copper which you can spare, to help to make a sufficient amount. Every family has some article of brass and copperware which
can be spared, such as Andirons, Knobs, Candlesticks, Weights, Mortars and
Bells. Send them in, however small
in amount, and deposit them at the store of J.
Ennis & Co., where they will be taken care of.
The ladies have appointed the undersigned a committee to carry into
execution this patriotic work, and they feel sure it can be accomplished, if
each person will aid what she can. We
are confident that two, and perhaps four, small brass field pieces can be had
from this source, each one of which will be worth fifty men to our cause.
What you do, do quickly, that the work may go on, for now is the day of
our country's need.
J. F. Bozeman,
H. V. Meigs,
W. E. Jones,
D. F. Willcox,
Jas. Ennis,
Committee.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
The
Surrender of St. Augustine to the Federals.
We conversed with a gentleman yesterday who passed the Federal pickets at
St. Augustine, going in and coming out, unobserved.
He gives the following information:
. . . No country resident is allowed to leave the city to return to his
place without a pass, which was granted upon his taking an oath that should he
leave his place, he will take up St. Augustine as his home; and no citizen is
allowed to leave without swearing that he will return.
On Monday last the Catholic Priest and the Episcopal Minister, were
notified that unless they desisted from praying for Jeff Davis and the Southern
Confederacy, they should be sent to Fort LaFayette.
Some of the ladies who appeared on the streets wore miniature Confederate
flags in their bosoms. One of them
confronted a Federal officer, telling him that though there were no men left in
the town who had the spirit or manliness to defy them, there were women who
would. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Economy.—We were shown a few days since a sample of thread spun from
cotton carded on a woollen factory at Mr. J. Summerour's, Amicolala.
It proves beyond question that cotton can be manufactured into rolls on
wool cards so as to answer all the purposes of domestic use. The rolls are sold at the mill at 20 cents per lb; and if
cotton be bought below at 7 and 8 cents they would cost much less.
During the blockade we can get neither cards nor goods from abroad, nor
thread from home only at a ruinous price, therefore every prudent house keeper
will at once arrange to make their own cloth.
This is true independence, the results of which will shortly make us a
great self-sustaining nation, and a wise, good and happy people.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
The Gun Metal Contribution.—An inspection of the brass ware contributed
by the ladies for the manufacture of cannon gives a pretty good idea of the
temper of the Southern people. Many
fine and costly household implements have been contributed, including andirons,
fenders, lamp stands, and a variety of ware for parlor ornament as well as for
household and kitchen use. It is
apparent that those who thus freely devote such articles to the public defence
have no idea of submitting to "subjugation."
We are glad to see that the contribution is progressing so rapidly.
A large quantity of brass and copper ware has already been collected, and
it accumulates daily. The
collection is at the store of J. Ennis and Co.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
From
the Atlanta (Ga.) Commonwealth, 27th.
Extracts—Letter from Nashville.
Nashville, March 19, 1862.
My Dear Friend: Since
you left here things have changed to a very great extent.
The Nashville of to-day, is not the Nashville of a few months since. Fully two-thirds of our best population have gone, and are
now scattered over the cotton States. Their
places are filled by the very dregs of society from Northern cities.
There are thousands of merchants and drummers here from New York,
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and new business houses are being opened here
every day by Northern men. There
are numbers of steamboats arriving each day from Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
Louisville, and St. Louis. The cars
are now running regularly from Louisville to Edgefield.
Gen. Buell is still in command here.
His headquarters is at the Hermitage, twelve miles from the city on the
Lebanon turnpike. His force is at
least 60,000 men. Gens. Thomas and
Shoepf are at Lebanon, thirty miles northeast of here, with 25,000 men. Thus you will see there are 85,000 Federals in the vicinity
of Nashville, and the cry is still they come.
All the horses and mules and many of the able bodied negroes in the
counties adjoining Davidson have been pressed into the Federal service, and are
working like beavers on the fortifications around the city, which are of the
most formidable character. The
heaviest fortifications are east and south of the city.
The enemy have possession of the towns of Lebanon, Murfreesboro', Levergn,
Franklin, Shelbyville, Columbia, Centreville and Charlotte, which towns are
east, south, and southeast from the city, and embracing a radius of forty miles.
They are constructing the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and the
Tennessee and Alabama Railroad, as they proceed South. . . .
The Federals are sorely disappointed at the reception they meet from our
people. We keep aloof from them and
have no communication with them whatever. The
country people refuse to bring in any thing at all, and our market is almost
bare. Aside from the miserable and
money-making population with which every Southern State is unhappily afflicted,
our people are sound to the core. We
are hopeful and buoyant, and will wait patiently and pray fervently for the good
time coming.
Our women, God bless them! are
all in favor of the South. An
incident occurred here the other day, which is worthy of mention.
Several Federal regiments were passing through the city for some point
east. In passing by the elegant
residence of Dr. Bolling, a Federal officer asked a lady who stood in a porch,
"Whose residence is this, madam?"
"Dr. Bolling's."
"Where is Dr. Bolling?"
"He is in the Confederate Army."
"Ha, so you are the wife of a rebel."
"Yes, sir, I am, and I glory in it.
And (calling her little daughter to the door, who held a Confederate flag
in her hand) here is the child of a rebel, and here is the proud emblem of
rebellion, which can be seen in every room in this house."
The crest fallen vandal, putting spurs to his horse, replied, "I
will see you again madam." This
is the spirit which animates our women. . .
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[GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Georgia Made Looms.—A few days since we saw in operation in the Athens
Factory some looms that were put up in this place.
We were informed by the Agent that they would operate equally as well as
the Northern loom. There are twelve
of them already running, and thirteen others will soon be put in operation. They were put up by the Athens Steam Company.
This is another step towards Southern independence.—Athens Banner.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Cannon
Metal.
Adjutant General Wayne, in a letter to Mrs. Dr. Blackburn, Barnesville,
says:
"I fear that some of our patriotic citizens, with more zeal than
knowledge, are about to inconvenience our good housewives of Georgia without any
corresponding advantage to our cause. Brass
is a composition of copper and zinc, and of no use in making guns, which, like
bells, are made of copper and tin.
"If Gen. Beauregard, in his appeal to the planters of Mississippi,
meant anything more than to arouse their slumbering patriotism to active
exertion, he wanted the tin of which their bells were partly composed.
We have the copper, but for the fabrication of bronze, (commonly, but
erroneously called brass guns,) we want tin.
"That you may understand this, I will tell you that science has
determined for guns, as best, the proportions of nine parts of copper to one
part of tin; and for bells seven or eight parts of copper to three parts of tin.
By having a large number of bells, therefore, we can add two or three
times the weight of copper, as analysis may determine their composition, and
bring them to the standard of gun metal.
"The lightest field piece in our batteries, a six pounder, weighs on
an average, eight hundred and eighty-four pounds.
For the casting of a six pounder, therefore, at least one thousand pounds
of metal would be necessary. Bronze
guns are used in field batteries, only for their lighter weight, by which the
battery is more readily moved. They
are not so durable as iron guns. Science,
within the past five years, has opened the way for casting iron guns of
sufficient lightness for field uses, and there is not a foundry in the
Confederacy that is not now working to its utmost ability.
If there is, I should like to know it, and it should not be idle long.
"The tin referred to is block tin, not sheet thin, which is
only sheet iron, washed with a solution of tin.
I mention this that we may not have our wives stripped to no
purpose."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Prices at Richmond.—The Richmond Dispatch draws the following picture
of trade in the necessaries of life at the capital:
We have never heard of anything in the history of man like the high
prices which prevail for every article of use and necessity.
Everybody who has anything to sell or dispose of seems to have no other
thought than to wring from the wants of the purchaser the last dime that can be
squeezed out from him, and to turn the screws upon the poor victim to the last
point of human endurance.
Seventy-five cents a pound for butter, thirty cents for sugar, four
dollars and a half per pound for tea, fifty cents per quart for salt, fifty
cents for a string of three miserable fish, a shilling to twenty-five cents a
pound for beef, seventy-five cents a peck for sweet potatoes, forty dollars for
an ordinary jeans coat, twenty-five for an indifferent pair of trowsers, twelve
and fifteen dollars for shoes, are only a few specimens of the gigantic
oppressions which the rapacity and avarice of man are exercising on this
community.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Cotton
Seed as a Substitute for Coffee.
To the Editor of
the Charleston Mercury:
Seeing a notice, some time ago, that cotton seed was a good substitute
for coffee, I was induced to try a mixture of two-thirds cotton seed and
one-third coffee, and found it answered extremely well.
The seed merely require to be washed and parched before grinding, the
same as coffee. We have been using
it for six or seven weeks constantly in our family, and many of our friends who
drank it without knowing what the mixture was, pronounced it equal to the best
coffee. A friend suggest that
parched cotton seed in future may be known as "Carolina Mocha." As these are times in which all are called upon to practice
economy, I send you the result of my experiment, requesting an insertion as
early as convenient, in your paper.
An Old Housekeeper.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
The
Cotton Factories.
The Augusta Chronicle says:--The Augusta Factory has followed the
commendable example of the Athens and the Macon factories, and fixed the prices
of their cotton goods at rates below what could have been extorted from the
necessities of the people. It has
also provided that it will only sell to such merchants as will pledge themselves
not to charge at retail more than two cents per yard over the wholesale prices
they pay the Factory.
This is very well, but we must confess it would have come with a better
grace from the Cotton Factories had they done it before a storm of public
opinion was about to gather around them for their exorbitant profits.—Sav.
Rep.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c, 8
Demise of Newspaper.—The Red Land Express thus sums up the demise of
our old Texas exchanges:
The days of the "Chronicles" are past; the shrill notes of the
"Clarion" no more heard; the stalwart strokes of the
"Pioneer" have ceased to greet our ears; the "Banners"
(Carthage and Beaumont) no longer unfurl their bright folds to the sun; the
"Times" gave place to revolution; the "Enquirer" long since
ceased his questionings; the "Printer" has yielded up the ghost, and
there is not even an "Echo" to tell us where they are gone. We can but "Express" our deep grief at the early
loss of our boon companions, and pray that our fate be not too soon like theirs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
We are gratified that Mr. J. M. Keep, of this city, has in process of
construction a machine for the manufacture of woolen and cotton cards.
He has shown a specimen of his handiwork, and we have no hesitancy in
pronouncing him fully capable of his undertaking. The specimen shown us was made by the model of his machine,
which is to be moulded out of iron.—Selma Reporter.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The
Druggist and the Speculator.
Speculator.—"Have you any copperas for sale, sir?"
Druggist.—"Yes, sir, a small quantity."
Speculator—"How many barrels?"
Druggist—"Six or seven."
Speculator—"What do you ask for it?"
Druggist—"Sixty cents a pound."
Speculator—"Well, I'll take it all!"
Druggist—("Smelling a rat.")—"But I can't sell
it all to you, sir. I must keep up
a supply for my regular customers. I
will, however, think of your offer. Call
again."
Before the "call again" was made our clever and thoughtful
Druggist ascertained that the greedy Speculators had combined to monopolize all
the copperas in the city and raise its price from 60 to 75 cents.
They were, however, in part, balked in that speculation.
This is one only of the many schemes resorted to, almost daily, by the
cormorants who are after the almighty dollar, all over the country.
Yesterday, bacon was sold from a wagon in this city, at 35 cents.
Just as soon as it was weighed, the purchaser refused to take less than
40 cents for it from those who witnessed the sale and purchase.
[Atlanta Intell.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Rice Cakes.—As rice is the cheapest kind of food we have, as well as
the most nutricious [sic], the following from a correspondent of the Field
Notes, will be read by every good house-keeper with interest.
While visiting the West India Islands, I became very fond of rice, cooked
after this fashion: they boil the
rice in the usual manner and let it cool, then add a little water or milk to it,
making it about the consistency of common buckwheat cakes.
Add to this a little salt and a handful of flour, and bake on a griddle
as you would batter cakes and buckwheat. An
egg will help some by making them bake quicker.
Try it, housekeepers; I thin you will find it an excellent dish.
Any dyspeptic can eat these rice cakes.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Keeping
Husbands at Home.
Some worthy wives are much troubled with erratic husbands, and are much
perplexed to keep them at home. If
the domestic experience of many of the fair sex were unveiled, it would afford a
curious chapter of life history. A
little incident in the life of Mr. Josiah Quinhart, hereinafter related, will
illustrate our meaning. Mr.
Quinhart is a middle-aged gentleman, of sober habits; but having read Dr.
Armstrong's poem on the Preservation of Health, he accepts one piece of advice
given by the Medical Board, viz:
to get typsy [sic] once in a while, believing that an occasional fit of
intoxication purifies the corporeal system as a thunder storm does the
atmosphere. Since the stoppage of
the sale of liquor, he has indulged the practice by some process only known to
the initiated, and facetiously by them termed, "running the blockade."
Mrs. Quinhart, however, has no faith in the anti-temperance prescription
of Dr. Armstrong, and when Mr. Quinhart becomes headstrong on the subject, in
order to keep him from "running the blockade," she purloins his
suspenders, without which, as she supposes, he would scarcely venture out of
doors. Yesterday afternoon, Mr.
Quinhart gave notice that he felt a bilious attack, which announcement Mrs.
Quinhart understood to signify that he was about to take the Armstrong physic,
and waiting her opportunity while Mr. Q. sat dozing in the parlor, she contrived
to ungear his suspenders, and slip them out without any incumbrance [sic] to his
nap. Mr. Q. waked up, and feeling
the want of some stimulating medicine, arose to leave the house, but immediately
discovered that his mainstay has been unslipped. Being an ingenious man, he bethought himself of a substitute
for suspenders, and while his wife was out of the way, he untied a paper parcel
containing four pounds of sugar, cut off two pieces of the wrapping twine of a
suitable length, and making loops in the ends to serve for button holes, he
rigged himself up to his entire satisfaction.
Slipping on his vest and coat, he laughed in his sleeve, thinking how he
had tricked Mrs. Q., and proceeded, without a moment's delay, in search of
"contraband." Having
physicked himself with six or eight glasses of brandy and sugar, he began to
feel quite vigorous, and left the repository of the hidden treasure for the
purpose of walking off some of his surplus animal spirits.
Exercise only made him more sprightly; he became as frolicsome as a young
colt, prancing and skipping along the pavement to the astonishment of the older
citizens, and the infinite entertainment of the juveniles.
At last, while he attempted a squirrel-like leap over a wide gutter his
frail substitute for suspenders gave way, and his progress was arrested in a
manner which delicacy will not permit us to describe.
Mr. Quinhart was relieved from his embarrassed position by an officer of
police, who thought he deserved a night's lodging in the cage at least, for the
shock he had given to the spectators. On
Mr. Quinhart's promise to renounce the Armstrong theory and join the Sons of
Temperance, the kind hearted officers let him go. Mrs. Quinhart is under the impression that her husband's late
experience has effectually cured him of any desire to practice the Armstrong
theory, especially as long as the "blockade" shall show the effect of
"contraband" when swallowed in large doses.
[Richmond Examiner, 3d.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Cut
off the Back Legs of Your Chairs.
I will tell you a secret worth knowing.
A thousand things not worth half so much have been patented, and elevated
into a business. It is this:
If you cut off the back legs of your chairs, so that the back part of the
seat shall be two inches lower than the front part, it will greatly relieve the
fatigue of sitting, and keep your spine in much better shape.
The principal fatigue in sitting comes from your sliding forward and thus
straining the ligaments and muscles in the small of the back. The expedient I have advised will obviate this tendency, and,
as I have suggested, add greatly to the comfort and healthfulness of the sitting
position. The front edge of a chair
should not be more than fifteen inches high, for the average man, nor more than
fourteen for the average woman. The
average chair is now seventeen inches high for all, which no amount of slanting
in the seat can make comfortable—Lewis' Gymnasium.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Cotton Cards.—We have inadvertently neglected to call attention,
editorially, to the important fact that Messrs. J. Ennis & Co., of this
city, have in store a large lot of Cotton Cards. It is an important fact, for such cards have for
months been in much demand, and it was almost impossible to procure them at any
price. It has been stated that they
cannot be manufactured in the South, for the want of the right kind of wire.
The ingenuity and enterprise of our people will supply all such wants in
time; but it is essential that they should have cotton cards now, when
the raw material is uncommonly cheap and every process of its manufacture
extravagantly high. The cotton
card, the spinning wheel and the hand loom, though they look very much like a
return to primitive and "old fogy" customs, will act an essential part
in working out our people's independence and prosperity.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Affairs in Nashville.—The Nashville correspondent of the New York
Herald says:
Men do not make any demonstration publicly, but it is plain by whom
women, girls and boys are pushed in to offer the grossest insults to officers
and men. Any one of the
demonstrations made by the ladies would appear ridiculous if mentioned, but it
is certain that though harmless, their actions are very aggravating to the men,
particularly as the whole army has been careful to appear, if not in reality,
polite as my Lord Chesterfield. Let
me mention an instance of the means employed by the fair dames of Nashville to
insult our officers. Some of our
Generals were standing yesterday on the sidewalk in front of the St. Cloud
Hotel.—While they were conversing, a couple of ladies, in full dress of gaudy
colors, approached, they followed by a great fat, dirty and slovenly negro
wench. As the ladies neared the
Generals, they changed from lines of battle and marched to a single file,
although there was plenty of room. At
the same time they carefully drew their dresses aside, to prevent their coming
in contact with the Generals—ten feet distant—and placed their handkerchiefs
upon their diminutive nasal organs. The
negro wench had been well drilled, and it was with the most serious face and
admirable delicacy that she drew her hoopless skirt to one side, and put a great
red bandanna to her nose. One
General scratched his pate with a puzzled air; another swore in "approved
German style," while a third appeared to enjoy the joke of the ladies and
anger and chagrin of his friends.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Make
Your Own Salt.
Editor Enquirer: Having seen
in your paper, a month or two ago, a statement that Salt in considerable
quantities could be made from the dirt in old smokehouses, I have given it a
trial, with entire success. Being
satisfied that n o one having a smoke-house that has been used for several
years, need be personally uneasy about the price of salt for a year or two to
come, I give you my experience as a guide for others.
I dug up earth, which I found by taste to be strongly impregnated with
salt to the depth of two or three inches, and filled a flour barrel with it,
first putting in the bottom a layer of straw and about six inches of clean sand.
Through this salty earth water was dripped, just as ley is made, and the
brine was quite strong and of a
color much resembling pale ley. This
I boiled down until the salt solidified, and sunk to the bottom of the vessel,
leaving but little brine, and that of a dark color.
The salt thus obtained is coarse-grained, and but little darker than that
ordinarily used to cure meat; and I am satisfied that if the brine, before
boiling, were dripped through a barrel of clean sand, the salt would be as white
and clean-looking as the imported article.
My experience indicates that about a pint and a half of salt can be made
from a gallon of strong brine, and I believe that at least ten or twelve
gallons of such brine may be dripped through each barrel of earth from the
smoke-house.
M.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Muskets Against Rifles.—A young man, who was in the midst of the fight
at Donelson, tells us, that, in the beginning, the enemy shot as rapidly as we
did; but, after an hour or two, we fired twice to their once; and, before the
battle was ended, we shot three times to their once.
The reason of the difference was, that the enemy used rifles,
which became foul and very difficult to load; while our men had muskets. This is a very important difference in favor of the musket,
and may decide the fate of empire.
Muskets at short range, from 50 to 150 yards—the shorter the better,
are the best weapons yet invented. The
short range can generally be obtained by having an eye to the ground.—Richmond
Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Extortion.—The paper mills yesterday took another hitch upward in their
prices. Last Wednesday paper for our little daily stood at $6
00—Monday, $8 25. What will it be
Saturday? We shall always retain a
fond affection for those fellows. When
a man gets you into his power and shows that he can appreciate and approve the
advantage to the utmost, he entitles himself to everlasting remembrance.
[Macon Tel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Federal
Accounts from Nashville.
We copy from the Baltimore News Sheet, of the 3d inst., the following
late Nashville items:
. . . The women of Nashville still continue to behave very naughtily.
They have devised all manner of ingenious insults, greatly to the
annoyance of the Federal officers, who cannot walk the streets without being
subjected to the mortification of seeing these fair but cruel dames and damsels
turn their backs upon them and draw their skirts aside from contact with them.
In retaliation of those most uncomplimentary proceedings, Gen. Negley has
ordered a guard to be stationed at the door of the residence of two ladies who
were discourteous to Gen. Crittenden, and who are not to be permitted to leave
the house until they promise—not to do so again.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Castor Oil.—The New Orleans Crescent furnishes the following directions
for the preparation of this delicious beverage:
Strip the seeds of their husks or pods; then bruise them in mortars.
Afterwards they are to be tied in linen bags, and boiled in water until
the oil which they contain rises to the surface. This is carefully skimmed off, strained to free it from any
accidental impurities, and bottled for use.
Pressed castor oil is obtained like almond oil, by bruising the seeds
into paste with water and distilling the mixture, when the oil passes over.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
The course of the Athens, Macon and Augusta factories in fixing the price
of their cotton goods at moderate rates, has met with universal commendation.
Mr. McCullough, near Gladden's Grove, Fairfield District, S. C., is
manufacturing and selling cotton yarn at $1 a bunch. This is a fair, even a liberal price, for the consumer to
pay, considering the price which he has to take for his cotton.—Charleston
Courier.
Would it not be well for the Georgia factories to imitate the patriotic
course of Mr. McCullough. Our
soldiers need socks. Our wives and
daughters are willing to knit them. The
factories throughout the country should, in a corresponding spirit of
liberality, aid this good work.
There is much deep and smothered indignation all over the land against
the greedy extortioner. Let the
Courts and Grand Juries make diligent inquiry in regard to the matter, and bring
guilty parties under inflections of the penal code, or the people, it is
believed, will take the remedy into their own hands and commit acts of
vengeance, which every good citizen should discourage and deplore.
The extortioners may be sure of one thing, that our soldiers will not be
permitted to fight their battles with bare backs and empty stomachs
whilst there are goods and provisions in the country.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
From
the Southern Federal Union.
Raw Hide Shoes.
A few weeks since I casually heard one of the most intelligent planters
of Georgia, and who also plants largely in Texas, giving a description of this
article, and believing that the manner of preparing them would be useful to a
people who are fighting a powerful enemy without and a worse enemy within
our midst—the vile and detestable extortioner—I procured for publication the
following statement.
Baldwin.
Raw
Hide Texas Shoes.
Capt. Clark Owens, of Texana, Jackson county, Texas, has a company of
eighty men, now stationed at Houston, Texas, defending the coast and city of
Galveston; many of these gallant soldiers are well shod with the raw hide shoes,
which in symmetry and utility are not behind the best shoes used in our Southern
Confederacy. The beef hide is
placed in water and ashes, and remains there until the hair will come off, the
hide is then soaked in fresh water and rubbed until the lye is extracted; it is
then soaked from 40 to 60 hours in strong salt and water; this prevents the hide
from ever becoming hard and horny; it is then dried in the open air, not in the
sun, and then beat with a maul or mallet until it becomes pliable as leather; it
is then made into shoes as shoemakers make other shoes; upper part and sole are
all made of this prepared raw hide, and made by sewing or pegging on the sole.
The shoes are then well greased with oil, hog's lard or tallow, greased
all over the outside, both upper and bottom parts; this renders the shoes water
proof, and in every way as valuable as the best leather shoes.
These shoes are made with the grain or hair side outside, and in every
respect are a cheap and valuable shoe.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
Louisiana Cottonade.—We translate from L'Avant Courier the following:
The Creole women of Attakapas have been making for a long time, out of
the cotton grown upon the soil, certain goods much esteemed in the markets of
the South. A woman can make
twenty-five ells (an ell is a yard and a half), of cottonade a month, and this
is worth $3 an ell, which makes $75. The
expenses of fabrication are small. Two
years since a Tennessean brought into Attakapas a certain number of machines to
clean, card and spin the cotton. There
are now in this region about a hundred of these machines, capable of making 300
ells of cottonade a month. The
cottonade sells at a price reduced to $1.75 an ell.
The machine imported from Tennessee does not occupy more than four or
five square feet, and can be worked by two children.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Substitute for Soda.—A lady in Fluvanna county sends us the following,
which we publish for the information of housekeepers:
To the ashes of corn cobs, add a little boiling water.
After allowing it to stand for a few minutes, pour off the lye, which can
be used at once with an acid, (sour milk or vinegar.)
It makes the bread as light almost as soda.—Exchange.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Bran
Beer.
Editor Enquirer: Severe imitations
of coffee and tea have been proposed, and they make a beverage pleasant to the
taste and in this respect much resembling our common table drinks before the
war. But it is not pretended that
they have the invigorating properties of real tea and coffee.
It is my purpose to suggest not an imitation, but a substitute for
tea and coffee, which, if once fairly tried, I think will be adhered to by those
giving it a trial. It has the
stimulating effect of coffee, and is exceedingly palatable and wholesome in its
effect. The article to which I allude is bran beer, which can
be made quite strong and very cheaply, thus:
Take three quarts of wheat bran (costing three cents), pour on cold or
hot water enough to soak it thoroughly, let it stand until the bran sours and
rises (which will be about twenty-four hours), then pour on one gallon of
boiling water and let it steep in a covered vessel until cold enough to strain
through a cloth; strain it through a thin cloth, and let it stand in a pan or
pail until the fine flour in the bran settles to the bottom; pour off gently,
and to a gallon of water thus expressed add half a pint of molasses, bottle, and
set it away until it ferments. It
will have all the life and pungency of ginger pop, and is the most palatable
beer I have ever drunk.
It will take two or three days to prepare beer in this way; but by
starting the process daily a daily supply can be kept up.
It will not cost more than six cents a gallon when molasses costs fifty
cents.
The fine flour settling at the bottom of the vessel after the water is
strained from the bran can be mixed with flour in making bread; and the beer
made as above will make bread rise fully as well and as light as soda or yeast.
The sour bran will be greedily eaten by pigs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
A Cheap Dye.—A gentleman has handed us a specimen of cotton yarn
colored to represent copperas, which it does very closely.
The dye employed is very cheap. It
is made of red or black oak bark, the rough outside of which should be first
trimmed off. Make a strong
decoction of the bark by boiling, and to a pot of about ten gallons, add a
tablespoonful of blue vitriol. The
yarn to be colored should be put in and boiled for an hour or two, and then
washed as much as you please. The
color will stand, and the yarn will be found soft and free from the hardness
usual in copperas dye.—Exc.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Cotton Cards Made in Athens.—We have seen a pair of
Cotton Cards manufactured by Mr. R. S. Schevenell, of this place, and a
specimen of the rolls made by them. So
far as we are a judge, they do as good work as any of Northern make. Mr. S. has invented a machine for drawing the wire and
pricing the leather. The wires are
placed by hand, which renders the operation more expensive than if done by
machinery. Mr. Schevenell will soon
be able to turn them out very fast.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Letter
from "Berrien."
Friday, May 9th, 1862.
Dear Enquirer: In Wakulla
county, Fla., midway between Tallahassee and Hell's Half Acre, in Rattlesnake
Hammock, is a lake called the Devil's Punch Bowl . . .
On the water edge of this bluff are pitched the tents of one of the
finest cavalry companies in the service of the Confederate States.
Commanded by an accomplished soldier and christian gentleman—Capt. P.
R. Brokaw, of Tallahassee—all its officers and privates are representatives of
the finest society in the State. Each
man is armed with a brace of pistols, a Maynard rifle, and a sabre; and woe be
to any 400 Federal soldiers who shall encounter them in an open fight!
As a picket guard and scouts along the coast of Middle Florida, they are
rendering a service for which the whole State, and Tallahassee particularly,
will ever be heartily thankful. Their
encampment, mirrored in the clear lake below, makes a picture which no painter
can copy, and no pen describe. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Home-Made Soap and Starch.—A lady sends us the following simple and
useful recipe for making soap and starch. Put
up the bones of everything for a fortnight, and then boil them in strong lye,
skimming as long as the grease rises. The
next day boil the grease with strong lye until it becomes soap.
Put some lime in the lye barrel, and it makes much better soap.
All of my starch is soft hominy or gruel, strained.
If you have not come to it yet, try it.
How much this war will teach us!—Charleston Mercury.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
True Patriotism.—J. Starks Simms, Esq., of Grindal's Shoal, Pacolet
River, S.C. has refused to allow anything made in his factory to be sold for
more than it brought before the war. While
others have sold yarns at $2@2.25 per bunch, he has held it steadily at $1.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Army
Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
Books and Letters found in the Federal Camps.
Memphis, April 25.
The books and letters picked up in the Federal camps at Shiloh are not
without their significance. They
may serve to "point a moral," though they may never "adorn a
tale."
With one single exception—Youatt on the Horse—all the books I saw
were of a religious or moral character. At
this time I can only recall the following:--Claude's Essays, Doctrinal Points,
Butler's Analogy, Oral Discussion on Justification, Elements of Moral Science,
by Wayland, Minutes of the Ohio Annual Conference, Thanksgiving Sermon, in which
the South is duly libeled and stigmatized.
The Soldier's Library, etc. Under
the title of the last named work, a large number of volumes are grouped
together, nearly all of which were prepared by northern authors, and partake of
the prevailing sentiment among our enemies.
Indeed, it is apparent that the committee whose business it was to
arrange and prepare the Soldier's Library for publication, were careful to
select nothing that was not intended to intensify the prejudice already existing
against our institutions. They
strive to produce the conviction upon the mind of the soldier that it is not
simply a political duty to restore the Union and exterminate every institution
that may endanger its existence but that it is his religious duty also.
In other words, an adroit appeal is made to the fanaticism of the North.
Ingenious arguments are used to inspire the soldier with a feeling akin
to that which fired the souls of Cromwell's Puritan followers.
Religion, political power, sectional domination, personal greed,
individual animosity—every feeling and sentiment of the human soul—is
appealed to by turns. Sometimes the author adopts a form of pleasant narrative or
interesting biographical sketch of some popular hero, such as Washington or
Havelock. Now and then an
ingeniously worded sermon is introduced, under the head of "Sunday
Reading," in which an effort is made to arouse, mislead and mystify the
conscience.
I saw but one Bible in the entire Federal encampment!
There may have been many, yet I saw but one.
Nor did I see a single plain envelope or sheet of paper.
All the letters and envelopes, as well those used by the soldiers as
those received from home, were embellished with some motto or device, the object
of which is to inculcate devotion to the Union and hatred of the South.
I brought away a number of letters, envelopes, and sheets of paper, not
one of which is without the ever-present Federal flag.
One envelope now before me is ornamented with the tree of liberty, all
the leaves of which are tiny flags, with these words underneath:
"Traitor, spare that tree,
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now."
Another is surmounted by a cannon, with the stars and stripes waving over
it, and these words, in red ink: "The
only compromise for treason."
There is method to all this madness.
The object of the Federal government, its pulpit, its press, and its
pestilent demagogues, is to warp the judgments and fire the hearts of their
brutal soldiery with a fanatical hatred of the Southern people and their
institutions. What their armies
lack in principle and courage, they hope to supply by hatred and fanaticism.
If one may judge from the ignorance and poverty of ideas manifested in
most of the letters found on the field, they have abundant material upon which
to operate.
There is a singular uniformity in the beginning and ending of many of the
letters. Out of a half dozen now on my table, four of them open after
this style:
"dear friend i now sete my self to inform you that I am well and
truly hope those few lines may find you engoing the same good health."
The conclusion is frequently after this form:
"Your friend til deth rite soon.
Ethalinda Coln
to
James R. Wakley."
Miss Ethalinda writes two letters upon the same sheet to two of her
acquaintances in the army, and she uses the same form in the beginning and
conclusion of both letters. Miss
Amanda Smith is more sentimental. She
concludes a very pathetic letter after this fashion:
"I wish you all could be here but as you said there is no use of
wishing anything about it well you must keep in good courage and just think you
are doing your duty Write soon So fare Well From Miss Amanda Smith to J, M, Wise
your best friend.
Dont let any one see this letter Write
rite off and dont put it off.
You are the one that I love best
so let your thoughts upon me rest."
Many of the letters from home speak of the prostration of all branches of
business and the scarcity of money; while many of those from camp, which had not
been sent off, express much uneasiness on account of the climate, the water, and
the increasing sickness. The
writers all desire to see the war terminated. I
learn from one of the letters, that a volunteer from Ohio had entered into a
copartnership before he left home. He
says in a letter to his brother:
"Gim promises to giv me half that he makes on the mill if i will
give him one haf that I make in the army—thats the agreement."
The following letter from the surgeon of the 53d Ohio regiment to the
Colonel Commanding, I give entire:
"Col. I. J. Appler,
"Sir—It again Becomes my Duty to address you in Reference to Rev.
Mr. McIntire he Has not Recovered his health, but was worse Last Knight than
Ever he whole Difficulty is in his Mind. By
Spells he is perfectly Deranged which was the case Last Knight he amedgined he
had bin in a battle and was sounded But was still Ready to Stand his Ground, I
Suppose the Difficulty is Caused by a Determination of blood To the Brain, and I
Doe not think He will be able to Regoin his Regt for months, ad to this the warm
Weather Coming on the armey Going South which I think will All make against him,
Therefore I have advised him to Resyne which I think he would Doe by
youre Consent, for he Esteemes you very highley and is afraid you or the
Regiment will think The Less of him for such a corse, And he Would Rather Suffer
Death than his character should Suffer, I hope you will answer this, and give
some Expression that will set his Mind at Ease, for his
Relation to the Reg a greate deale to Doe with the case, I have Attended
him closely & am satisfied that he will not be able to stand a Campaign, for
he cannot stand the Excitement of the Battle Field, All of which I respectfully
submit, Please take Dew notice and govern yourself accordingly
S. Littler, M.D.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
Paper.—The scarcity of writing paper drives to all sorts of shifts.
We learn that a letter has been received here from Hillsborough, written
on a leaf cut from an account book of a mercantile house in this town just one
hundred years ago—1762.—Fay. Obs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Navy
Beans for the Army.
We would earnestly recommend the cultivation of this important article of
food to the attention of farmers. Now
is the time to plant. It has always
been found to be one of the most convenient, healthy, and nutritious articles
for the army and navy. When roasted
(which with a simple apparatus for the purpose can easily be done and in large
quantities) and round into meal, it can be made into soup in five minutes. Being already cooked, it is only necessary to cut the pork
into thin slices put in water, into which, when brought to a boil, the meal is
to be stirred until it attains the proper consistency, when the soup is made and
ready for use. The whole process,
with a good fire, will not require more than five minutes—and will be found to
be not only nutritious in the highest degree, but exceedingly pleasant to the
palate, far better than eating the fat meat without any other accompaniment than
bread, which now constitutes almost the sole staple of a soldier's food.
The earth yields nothing more abundantly and with less labor and pains to
the husbandman than this bean. Its
cultivation, therefore, in large quantities, is most earnestly invoked.
As this is a matter of the greatest importance, we suggest that the
papers generally call the attention of farmers to the hint we have thrown
out.—Richmond Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
We notice that two new Paper Mills have gone into operation within the
last few days—one at Athens, Ga., and the other at Mobile, Ala.
Two or three more in Georgia would supply the demand and correct the
prevailing extravagant prices.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
A Most Pleasant Summer Drink.—To the many thirsty souls in this city,
and elsewhere, who suffer inconvenience from martial law, we recommend the
following drink, which has not been inaptly called "Cream Nectar," as
a thirst assuager, and at the same time a most refreshing and delightful
beverage. It is better than the
best "snow-drop julip" that was ever manufactured, and Sherry Coblers
[sic] cannot begin to compare with it in quality.
Take 3 pounds white sugar, 3 ounces tartaric acid, and one quart cold
water, put them into a brass or copper kettle, and when warm, add the white of 3
eggs beat up with three spoonfuls of flour; stir till it boils 3 minutes; when
cold, add one gill of essence, and bottle up.
Directions for use.—Two dessert spoonfuls of the Nectar to each glass;
then fill them two thirds full of ice water, if it can be had, and add a little
carbonate of soda.
[Tallahassee Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
The Quakers of North Carolina have memorialized the State Convention to
release them from the duty of bearing arms, on the ground of their religious
faith they cannot conscientiously do it. They
say the whole number of Friends in the Confederate States does not exceed ten
thousand.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 27, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
A
Sunday Among the Cherokee Warriors.
We mentioned a few days ago the arrival at Knoxville of a band of
Cherokee Warriors from the mountain region of North Carolina.
The Knoxville Register says that on the Sunday following their arrival,
religious service was held in their camp by Unaguskie, the chaplain of the
Cherokee braves, and gives the following account of the ceremony.
At the appointed time the battalion formed in double file and marched
under an elegant Confederate flag, under command of Major G. W. Morgan.
Entering the city the troops, attired in their new dress, continued the
march and entered the church in an orderly and quiet manner.
It was at once seen that public expectation was so high as to have drawn
out a larger crowd than the building could accommodate.
An offer was made by the First Presbyterian church, and the meeting was
adjourned to that large and commodious building.
The pews on the South side of the aisle on the right side were assigned
to and at once occupied by the Cherokee braves.
The Rev. W. A. Harrison, pastor of the church, introduced to the audience
"our brother Unaguskie, chaplain of the Cherokee battalion, and the
services commenced by reading and singing (in the standing posture) a hymn in
their own dialect. The types
resemble a little the Hebrew, but are read from the left side, as our common
language. Prayer followed, the chaplain and his braves all kneeling.
Another hymn was sung and the text announced as found in Luke sixth
chapter forty-third verse.
The sermon was like the entire service, delivered in the original
Cherokee language, but was addressed alike to all his auditors wherever seated
or of whatever complexion. A very
short address to his own people and the usual benediction closed the services.
They were probably two hours long and in every part of them secured the
fixed attention of a very large auditory. Every
part of the church was filled and yet not a word was understood by anyone in
front or to the right of the preacher.
Unaguskie is the grand-son of a Cherokee chieftain long known as a
distinguished warrior of his tribe, as the most eloquent orator of his day.
In person, he is almost six feet high—tall, slender and erect, has an
excellent voice, graceful and rather emphatic gesticulation, with little of the
mannerism of the modern pulpit. His
sermon seemed to be persuasive rather than denunciatory, advisory and parental
rather than condemnatory and authoritative.
His prayer had the appearance of deep devotion and humble earnestness and
sincerity.
The music of the occasion was characterized by melody more than what we
often hear in religious service. Of
his theology, of course, nothing can be known certainly.
Adoration, veneration, supplication, could easily be imagined from his
manner to be a prominent characteristic of his worship and his imagery, if he
had any, seemed to be drawn from the material rather than the ideal and
sentimental.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 3, 1862, p. 4, c. 1-2
Every
Soldier his own Physician.
Editor Enquirer: Horrified
at the rapidity with which our soldiers die in camp, we are tempted to give them
the following recipes, the result of some experience, in hopes that some may be
saved by using remedies simple, safe, and generally sure cures:
To Prevent Sickness.—Have a jug of salted vinegar, seasoned with
pepper, and take a mouthful just before going to bed.
The salt and vinegar make a near approach to the digestive gastric juice
of the stomach, and are besides antidotes to many of the vegetable and miasmatic
poisons.
For Pneumonia, Colds and Coughs.—Take half a cup or less of the
salted pepper vinegar, fill the cup nearly full of warm water, and then stir in
a raw well-beaten egg slowly. Take
a mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes; in the intervals slowly suck on a piece of
alum. If the attack is violent, dip
a cloth in hot salted pepper vinegar and apply it round the throat, covering
with dry cloths to get up a steam, and do the same to the chest.
For Chills.—Put a tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar in a
cup of warm water, go to bed and drink; in two hours drink a cup of strong
water-willow bark tea; in two hours more another tablespoonful of the vinegar
and warm water, and so on, alternating, until the fever is broken up.
After sweating, and before going into the out-door air, the body ought
always to be wiped off with a cloth dipped in cold water.
Dogwood will do if water-willow cannot be obtained.
For Measles.—Put a small piece of yeast in a tumbler of warm
sweetened water, let it draw, and drink a mouthful every 15 or 30 minutes, and
drink plentifully of cold or hot catnip, balsam, hoarhound, or alder tea; and
use in place of oil or salts, one tablespoonful molasses, one teaspoonful lard,
and one teaspoonful salted pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm.
Take once a day, if necessary—keep out of the wet and out-door air.
For Diarrhoea.—A teaspoonful of the salted pepper vinegar every
one or two hours. Take a
teaspoonful of the yellow puffs that grow round oak twigs, powdered fine; take
twice a day in one tablespoonful of brandy, wine or cordial.
If these yellow puffs cannot be found, suck frequently on a piece of
alum. The quantity of alum depends
upon the severity of the attack; take slowly and little at a time.
For Camp Fevers.—One tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar,
slightly seasoned, and put into a cup of warm water—drink freely and often,
from 4 to 8 cupfuls a day, with fever or without fever.
Pour a cupful more or less of the salted pepper vinegar into cold water,
and keep the body, particularly the stomach and head, well bathed with a cloth
dipped in it. Give enemas of cold
water, and for oil use a tablespoonful molasses, a teaspoonful lard, and a
teaspoonful pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm.
If the pepper is too exciting for delicate patients, leave it out in the
drinks and bathings, and use simply the salt and vinegar in water, and very
little salt.
Antidote for Drunkenness: for
the benefit of Officers: One
cup of strong black Coffee, without milk or sugar, and twenty drops of Laudanum.
Repeat the dose if necessary. Or
take one teaspoonful of Tincture Lobelia in a tumbler of milk; if taken every
ten or fifteen minutes it will act as a emetic; taken in longer intervals, say
thirty minutes, it will act as an antidote.
The Yankees declared that poisoned liquor was put on the counters in
Newbern to poison their soldiers. Nobody
doubts the liquor being poisoned, but it was made of poisons to sell to our
own Southern boys; and it is horrifying to think of the liquors now being
made down in cellars, of "sulphuric acid, strychnine, buckeye, tobacco
leaves, coloring matter and rain water."
For the poisoned liquor, the best antidote is an emetic, say lobelia and
warm salt and water, and then drink freely of sugared vinegar water.
For Snake Bites.—The best thing is one teaspoonful of Lobelia
and ten drops of Ammonia, taken every few minutes, and a bottle filled with
Lobelia and Ammonia, stopped with the palm of the hand and warmed in a panful of
hot water, then apply the bottle to the bite, and it will draw out and antidote
the poison. Either of these, Lobelia or Ammonia, will answer without the
other. Tobacco, or Nightshade, or
Kurtle Burr, or Deer-tongue, (a rough-leaved herb, in flower and appearance like
to hog artichoke_ stewed in milk; drink the milk, using the rest as a poultice.
The last is an Indian remedy and will cure in the agonies of death.
For the Chicken Cholera, now devastating Fowldom.—Put one or two
Jimptson [sic] or Jamestown weed leaves, properly called Stramonium, into the
water-trough every day—fresh leaves and fresh water.
This is one of the triumphs of Homeopathy for we were just from a perusal
of one of their works, and finding that the chickens died and made no sign of
sickness, except holding the head down, we concluded the head must be the seat
of the plague, and reading that Stramonium affected the brain with mania and
stupor we tried it, and have not lost a chicken since the using.
If other papers will copy these recipes, they will save many lives, now
sacrificed to the negligence of salaried physicians.
The Eastern monarch's plan
ought to be adopted, to strike off a certain per cent. of a Doctor's salary
every time he loses a patient—that would soon stop the feast of Death!
X.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Fine Regiment.—The 3d Georgia Regiment, commanded by Colonel A. R.
Wright, made its appearance in Richmond yesterday.
As Yankee overcoats were considerably sprinkled about, we judged that
they had a brush with the wooden nutmeg makers somewhere, and such an injury
proved to be the case, as they met and drove back not long since at South Mills,
N. C., a large body of Hessians, and possessed themselves of some of their
toggery. The 3d Regiment numbered about 1200 men and were accompanied
by a full brass band. They brought
along as a trophy, a flag which they had taken from a Vermont regiment.
The men were all healthy looking, young fellows, and will make their
mark, we have no doubt.—Richmond Dispatch, 30th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 17, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Epsom Salts.—Messrs. Sensabaugh, Mingus and Long sent us a specimen of
Epsom Salts manufactured by them from a cave in Smokey Mountain, between N.
Carolina and Tennessee. They are
now making 300 lbs of Epsom Salts, and 400 lbs. of Alum daily.
The salts are said to be superior to any heretofore sold in the South,
and the Alum is equal. The
manufacturers say they will be able to supply the whole Southern Confederacy
with these necessary articles. Any
one interested can take the Salts sent us, and try their effects.—Augusta
Chronicle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 24, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Jonathan Afraid of "Pies-an'-Things."—The following incident
is vouched for as having lately occurred at Nashville:
A little boy, a vendor of pies, started out with his basket, when he was
accosted by a Federal on a horse; a tempting pie was purchased, when the Fed,
suspicious from a depraved nature, requested the boy to taste a piece; the boy
complied, then returned it, and the Fed commenced eating.
The boy, understanding the fears of Uncle Sam's hireling, immediately
sang out "Don't you think I know which side has the pisen?"
The pie was thrown down hastily, but the boy kept the dime and the joke.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 24, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
In Luck.—The boys and the gingercake makers have struck a streak of
luck, which if taken at the flood will lead on to fortune.
The Yankee prisoners at the Fair Grounds have a pockefull of rocks in the
shape of gold dollars, quarter and half eagles, which they exchange with avidity
for bakers' bread and gingercakes, and yesterday there was a continuous stream
of boys pouring out to their place of confinement, bearing these much-coveted
edibles. We heard of one boy who
cleared fifteen dollars by dinner time, all in "yellow jackets," and
when we saw him, he was striking a bee line for the cake man's shop, to secure
another stock in trade. We would
advise all to pitch in at once. From
the looks of the varmints, we should think the supply will soon be
exhausted.—Lynchburg Rep.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 4-5
From the 20th Georgia Regiment.
Camp of 20th Georgia
Regiment,
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Toombs' Brigade, near Seven Pines,
June 18, 1862.
}
Dear Enquirer:
. . . Our army is being put in thorough trim for active movements. Old Stonewall's success has caused them to copy after him in
some things of minor importance: officers'
baggage 40 pounds each; the staff 80; flys are to be issued for every eighty
enlisted men, and one for two officers; two ambulance wagons, two for cooking
utensils, one for commissary, one for ammunition, one for forage, one for staff.
That is all well enough. Now,
for Heaven's sake, let us have the orders to commence the aggressive and forever
give up our wonderful and hastily-retreating policy.. . . Men and officers had
pressed the lean, the lame, and the blind of the horse and mulekind, to
transport their rain-besoaked overcoats and blankets over the miry, muddy and
slippery roads. These caravans were
frequent, but the most unique and I may say the most sensible one I observed was
the quadruped on which a Louisianian had his wife, baby and baggage fastened
with strap and cord.
It was a magnificent large Durham cow, with a milk pouch large as a half
bushel measure. The clover and
wheat and oat fields were unending on the road; the cow received full rations,
and yielded three times a day all the milk the trio could desire and enough to
supply several more. It was a
ludicrous sight, like many other things in life, but full of worth and
importance, riders and leader furnishing transportation and
subsistence—decidedly on Sahara desert plan, with camels.
It may not be out of place to say that Georgia has as fine and as healthy
a part of the array here as any other State.
Though like the hues of the rainbow are the diversity of the colors of
their suits and the cut and style of every kind, from
Queen Anne's time down to the present, yet there is unanimity of purpose,
feeling and courage prevailing among them, which are one and inseparable.
June 25, 1862.
Dear Enquirer: . . .
To-day several huge boxes arrived in camp, on which I saw Charley
Harrison's name, and Capt. Dillard's brand.
It contained clothing from the Quartermaster's Department at Richmond.
I presume it was Georgia web, woof, make and thought, throughout, and
gotten up in Columbus under the supervision of the gentlemen whose names are
above mentioned. It is indeed a
proud thought to us so far away, to know that there is life enough left in the
old land of Georgia, to clothe and feed her warrior sons. .
.
Listen how extravagantly we live here:
puny cabbage $1 per head; hams 60c; sugar 50c; syrup $6; coffee $2 ½ per
lb.; eggs $1; butter $1.50; ginger bread 3c to $1; and the "ardent,"
meanest sort $20. Virginia will bag
a host of Confederate bonds at these prices which the soldiers have to pay. J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Spirits of Turpentine.—B. Tyson, a correspondent of the Raleigh
Standard, recommends to the army the use of Spirits of Turpentine for colds,
hoarseness, coughs, &c. He
advises that the turpentine be placed in a coffee pot, (or other vessel) and
heated until it begins to send off a steam.
The patient should then take the spout in his mouth and inhale the steam
until it causes his head to feel light and giddy.
His own experience has satisfied Mr. Tyson the remedy is a good one.
He also recommends that spirits turpentine be sprinkled in the tents as a
means of preventing disease, and says he believes he kept off the yellow fever
while in Norfolk, in 1855, by swallowing a few drops each day.
Blacking.—A correspondent sends us the following:
Fill a snuff bottle nearly full of soot from a common chimney, put in a
good drink of whiskey, and the same quantity of vinegar, shake it well, and you
have a first rate bottle of glossy blacking.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Extortion
in Poultry, Vegetables, etc.
The prices demanded in this market for country produce of all kinds are
so extravagant that we fear our readers at a distance will receive our report
with incredulity. It has been a
month or more since spring chickens rose to 49@50c. a piece.
How much higher they are, now that they are fully fledged, we have not
ventured to ask. It would seem as
if the poulterers charged a dime for every chirp.
And when the chickens get large enough to cackle or crow, it is likely
that a pocketful of shinplasters or a $5 Treasury Note will be the price of
every pie that a city family has for a Sunday dinner.
We have heard it said, and probably with some truth, that the demand and
competition caused by chicken dealers of the city, who buy to sell again, and
who take a wagon load at a time at high prices, knowing that city consumers must
have the poultry even at higher rates, was the starting point of these
exorbitant prices, and that the country dealers, finding from this trade what
they could obtain, "put on the tariff" accordingly.
Proper regulations would have stopped this kind of traffic long since.
Corn—of which probably three acres have been planted this year to one
ever planted before—is selling at 40c per dozen for small roasting ears.
For Tomatoes, 50c per quart is demanded; for Irish Potatoes, 25c per
quart—equal to $8 per bushel. Watermelons—with
which the country is now filled—sell from wagons at 50c@$1 apiece.
Peaches—scarce article—we learn, sell at 75c per dozen, etc.
Where a man obtaining these prices has to buy as well as to sell perhaps
some others get even with him; but the unfortunate individual who has everything
to buy and nothing to sell finds "Jordan is a hard road to travel" in
these latter days.
The spirit of speculation and extortion, when it prevails to the extent
now witnessed in this country, is a vortex that progresses in a circle and draws
everything within its greedy whirl. Many
a man, we know, has yielded to it in self-defence.
His chickens, butter, vegetables, etc., will buy no more domestic cloth
or yarn, sugar or molasses, coffee, shoes, or other necessaries, at the very
high prices which he is now charged for them, than they formerly would at the
old prices. He is but making an offset
with those who manufacture or sell what he has to buy.
But it is, nevertheless true that in this checkmating game between him
and his merchant or manufacturer, a very large class, who have nothing to sell
and who are generally the best customers of the country producers, are the chief
if not the only sufferers by the game.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Home-Made Starch.—Messrs. Editors:
In the present state of the corn as good starch can be made of it as any
housewife needs. Grate it from the
ear; mix the pulp thoroughly with cold water, and strain it through a sieve.
Let the liquor settle, and, pouring off the water, which will be
discolored, the starch will be found at the bottom of the vessel in a rather
soft cake. Pour on more water, stir
it up, and repeat the process. At each repetition the cake will be found firmer, and when
the water comes off clear, and the starch is free from a pink or yellow tinge on
the top, the process is complete, except drying. IL never knew but one miscarriage, and that was in warm
weather, when the water was not cold enough, or was allowed to stand too long,
and the mass fermented. A grater
can be made from an old coffee pot or tin bucket by punching it (outwards) full
of holes—a hammer and nail will answer the purpose—and tacking it to a piece
of board.
Economy.
[Mobile Evening News, 14th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
On our army's retaking Satillo, some Yankee wrote on the door of a house,
"All loyal and Union men are admitted here, but nary a d-----d Secesh."
Whereupon some wag of a Secesh, with pencil in hand, wrote:
Whosoever wrote this
Wrote it well,
For the same is written
On the gates of H_ll.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Extortion
in Cotton Goods.
Since the adoption of the auction system for the sale of their fabrics by
the Augusta and other factories, the progress in the prices of such goods has
been steadily upward, until they have now attained figures astounding to
contemplate. The following are the
published prices obtained for Augusta Factory goods at the sale in that city on
Thursday last: 7/8 shirting 37 ½@38c.
per yard; 4-4 sheeting 42 ½@44 1/2c.; drilling and osnaburgs 30c. (the latter
to the Augusta Needle Women's Society.)
To a people deprived of other markets and compelled to have these goods,
and at the same time staggering beneath the load of other exactions and
monopolies, these prices are an incubus that threatens to suffocate them in
their hour of weakness. It is true
that the goods are sold at auction and in the face of open competition; but,
instead of being thus sold, as with goods in ordinary times, to persons who only
purchase because they can get them cheaper under the auctioneer's hammer, they
are put up in this way with a full knowledge that the necessities of the people,
excited by competition, will induce them to give more than the manufacturers can
venture to demand at private sale. The
goods are sold at auction, because a higher price can thus be exacted,
and not because a lower one than the current rates has to be accepted.
A crowd of greedy merchants attend the sales, all of whom have to
replenish their stocks at almost any price, well knowing that they cannot
purchase elsewhere, and that the necessities of the people generally will compel
them to buy the goods at whatever price. The
consequence is a spirited competition for the scant supply of goods offered, and
prices beyond figures that the manufacturers would feel safe in demanding at
private sale. These auctions,
viewed in this light, are more reprehensible than the "Peter Funk" or
mock auctions of the northern cities; because, while the latter decoy into their
meshes only the ignorant and unsuspecting few, stern necessity drives the great
mass of the people into the deadfalls baited with such necessaries of life and
comfort as cotton goods. And these
auctions regulate prices throughout the country.
If other manufacturers are not governed by them, the dealers whom they
supply are, and thus the consumer has to pay them, no matter where the goods
bought are manufactured.
These exactions by greedy monopolists are daily directing attention, with
increasing earnestness, to the question. What
remedy can be applied? The
Montgomery Advertiser suggests a remedy proposed by an old planter, who
asked the editor, "Why is it the Government seizes my mule at a lower price
than I was offered the day before for him, and, instead of seizing the goods of
provision speculators and manufacturing establishments, pays them exorbitant
prices for supplies?" The Advertiser
says that the manufacturers bought cotton at from 4 to 6 cents, and are now
selling osnaburgs at three or four times the prices when cotton cost them 10 or
15 cents. It blames the Government
for permitting extortion in provisions, manufactured goods, etc., to go on
unchecked so long, and suggests: "Let
the Government instruct its agents throughout the Confederacy that whenever more
than a fair and reasonable profit is demanded for the necessaries of life, the
articles shall be valued and bought for the public use."
We have reason to believe that the Government did contemplate such a
course of dealing with the manufacturers a short time since, and would have
taken charge of some of the factories had not the proprietors agreed to furnish
the Government with goods at about one half the prices now paid by the people.
We are reliably informed that a Government agent, with authority to take
possession of manufacturing establishments in case of intolerable extortion,
effected, about four weeks since, a contract with a cotton factory in this
State, for a very large amount of 4-4 sheeting at 20 cents per yard.
This is the description of goods that is now sold to the people, direct
from the factories and by the bale at 42c 44 1/2c.
If the factory can afford to sell these goods to the Government at 20
cents per yard, is it not guilty of extortion of the grossest kind in selling
them to the people at more than double that price?
We will not discuss the question whether the Government is discharging
its duty to the country in thus protecting only itself from extortion, and
leaving its people to the "tender mercies" of those whose model is a
compound of old Shylock and Benedict Arnold.
But we suggest to Gov. Brown whether the laws of Georgia are not violated
by so gross an extortion as this discrimination discloses, and whether, in view
of all the facts, he is not authorized to arrest such an imposition upon the
people as these auction sales of factory goods, and thenceforward see that the
act against monopoly and extortion is duly enforced.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The Lincoln (Illinois) Sun says: "A
car load of contrabands passed through Lincoln on Monday last, who were willing
to work for ten cents per day and board. What
chance have the poor of Illinois to make a living when placed in competition
with thieving, runaway negroes, at ten cents per day."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Letter
from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Aug. 1, 1862.
Editor Enquirer: A portion
of Colonel Hunt's regiment of Georgia cavalry, belonging to Col. Jack Morgan's
squadron of cavalry, arrived here a few days ago from Kentucky, and have gone
into camp at the Fair Grounds near this city.
They returned loaded with the spoils of their recent successes in
Kentucky—overcoats, jackets, swords, sabres, carbines, boots, shoes and
blankets, were hanging around everywhere. The
day after their arrival they had orders to march, and supposing from the
direction in which they were ordered to go that an action would occur, they
commenced selling off their stock; their camps were immediately converted into
one grand bazaar.
"Camp Convalescence" really resembled a live Yankee camp.
You can scarcely turn a corner in Knoxville but what you meet with a man
sporting a fine blue overcoat with its long cape. I don't blame the boys much for donning Yankee uniforms when
they can be obtained for eight and ten dollars, while the Knoxville merchants
are selling ordinary cottonade pants at five dollars per pair. . .
The soldiers composing the 2d Brigade, Department of East Tennessee, are
ragged, hatless, shoeless and penniless, having received no pay since December
last, with the exception of two months pay about six weeks ago.
Hundreds of these soldiers have large families at home who are altogether
dependent upon the cold charities of the public for something to eat and wear.
Numbers of such cases can be seen, I doubt not, in the streets of the
patriotic city of Columbus—that, too, in a city, according to population and
wealth, I venture the assertion, has done more for the cause of our Confederacy,
and the support of the families of those who are defending it, than any other
city in the Confederacy. . .
Col. Morgan arrived here yesterday from Kentucky, and looks as blooming
and modest as a girl just sweet sixteen. He
is a decided favorite with the ladies, judging from the extravagant language
they use when speaking of him, and I suspect many of their dear little hearts go
pit-ti-pat, when thinking how Mrs. Col. Morgan would sound.
I know the kid glove and silk stocking beaus about here wish he was
"the other side of Jordan."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Enigma.
I am composed of
twenty-three letters.
My 18, 20, 4, 21, 20, is the name of a young lady.
My 22, 16, 16, 10, 3, 3, is the name of a Confederate General.
My 17, 2, 6, 20, 1, 9, 2, is a staple commercial export.
My 5, 19, 28, 14, 9, is a source of exquisite pleasure.
My 12, 2, 7, 21, is a possessive pronoun.
My 8l, 4, 18, 20, 21, is a tropical production.
My 11, 19, 15, is a small boat.
My whole is the name of a well known volunteer company from Georgia.
Lucius.
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., }
July
30, 1862.
}
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
No
Use for Quinine.
Editor Mississippian: I beg
to make public, through the medium of your paper, the following certain and
thoroughly tried cure for ague and fever: 1
pint of cotton seed, 2 pints of water boiled down to one of tea—taken warm one
hour before the expected attack. Many
persons will doubtless laugh at this simple remedy, but I have tried it
effectually, and unhesitatingly say it is better than quinine, and could I
obtain the latter article at a dime a bottle, I would infinitely prefer the
cotton seed tea. It will not only
cure, invariably, but permanently, and is not at all unpleasant to the taste.
Yours, truly, &c.
H. G. D. Brown,
Copiah county, Miss.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Letter
from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Aug. 11, 1862.
Editor Enquirer:
. . . The Editor of the Sun clips a paragraph from one of my letters
relative to overcoats, and expresses a great curiosity to know if the boys wear
them this hot weather. He can have
his curiosity satisfied very easily, and be of some service to his country, too,
if he will only lay aside his quill, shoulder his musket, and report himself at
Camp Convalescence for duty, where he can have a practical demonstration of the
fact of the boys sporting fine blue overcoats with capes attached, and in
addition thereto, he can see that the boys wear woolen pants, coats, shirts and
socks, and that, too, with the thermometer at 95 degrees.
J. T. G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
A correspondent sends us the following recipe for making soap without
grease, which is of importance to housekeepers at this time:
To four gallons of strong ley add ten pounds of distilled rosin, or eight
pounds of pine gum not distilled and free of trash is better; boil steadily
until there is no rosin to be seen, and if the quantity of ley is not
sufficient, add more and continue to add until the rosin is out, and boil until
it makes a brown jelly soap. I have
used this soap for a year, and it is equal to the best soap made with grease.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Liberal and Patriotic.—We take pleasure in making public the
transaction referred to in the following receipt:
Richmond, July 25th, 1862.—Received of J. Rhodes Browne,
President of Eagle Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ga., through the hands of
Major J. B. Ferguson, Jr., Five Hundred Dollars, to be appropriated to the use
of the sick and wounded soldiers at Richmond.
Mrs. G. W. Randolph.
We are assured that this Company, which has been largely engaged in
manufacturing cloth for the use of the army, has dealt with the Government on
terms more liberal and accommodating than any other establishment of the kind in
the country. We hear other
companies, and especially the Crenshaw Company in this city, spoken of as
evincing a much stronger disposition to feather their own nests, than to aid the
Government in protecting them and their property from the approach of the
robber. President Browne is laying
up for his company treasure in the grateful remembrance of the people, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and thieves do not break through and
steal.—Richmond Whig, 13th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
A Female Volunteer:--In calling the roll of a regiment of conscripts who
had just entered the camp of instruction at Raleigh, N.C., last week, one more
"man" was present than called for by the list.
The Winston Sentinel says:
This, of course, involved an investigation, when it was discovered that
the features of one claimed to be a conscript were quite too fair and fine for
one of the sterner sex. The soldier
was charged of being a female, when she confessed the truth and acknowledged
that she had determined to accompany her friends in the perils of war, and
avenge the death of a brother who fell in the fight near Richmond.
We have heard nothing in any degree to implicate the good character and
standing of this gallant heroine.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
A Great Remedy for Coughs.—Just aw we were convalescing from our recent
illness, we took a very severe cough, which used us quite seriously.
Quite a number of remedies having failed to arrest it, a friend sent us a
bottle of the syrup of "Life-Everlasting," which soon had the desired
effect, and we take pleasure in recommending it to persons troubled with coughs
or weak lungs. The
"Life-Everlasting" is a weed commonly known and easily obtained in
Florida and the southern part of Georgia. You
boil the leaves to a strong liquid, and put the liquid in syrup, then boil the
syrup to a proper thickness, and it is ready for use.
Honey will do as well as syrup.
Gainesville [Fla.] Cotton Planter, 9th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Ladies
of Stewart Preparing for a Long War.
We are reliably informed that three ladies in the neighborhood of Petaula
creek, Stewart county, have given birth to six boys—two each—within
the last few days. It is quite
evident that these ladies are aware of the demands of the occasion and are doing
their whole duty to their country. Let
Lincoln enlarge his requisitions and his drafts as much as he pleases—let him
and his supporters protract the war as long as they can—the South will be
fully able to meet his myrmidons, if these examples afford an index of the
patriotic spirit of the women of Georgia. Old
Stewart has not only acted nobly in sending large numbers of her sons capable of
bearing arms to the field, and in raising a most bountiful crop of provisions to
sustain them and their cause, but her patriotic women are making ample provision
to "fill up the ranks" in after years, should the war be long
protracted, or should future troubles again involve us in hostile conflicts.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Down with Extortion.—It is with much satisfaction that we refer to the
announcement by Messrs. J. Kyle & Co., that they will sell osnaburgs to
consumers at 40 cents per yard; no speculator need apply.
The price at other places is 50 cents.
We do not attribute this to the merchants, for we have no doubt that they
sell as cheap as the prices they have had to pay by the bale will allow.
But it is sufficient for us to know that Messrs. Kyle & Co. have
somehow obtained goods on such terms as will enable them to sell at 40 cents, or
have consented to abate all profit and retail at wholesale prices—we don't
know which. They will sell a large
stock at this price, and the public would do well to bear it in mind.
Such a reduction of the price of goods so generally needed is a great
public benefit at this time.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 4, c. 5
Captured
Goods.
We have been asked to direct attention to the manner in which goods
captured from the enemy are disposed of in some instances.
A correspondent cites one which came under his own observation, and
doubtless others of a similar character are transpiring among Government agents.
After a lot of captured goods had been advertised and the community at
this scarce time wrought to the highest pitch to obtain supplies, individuals
were allowed to go through the goods and select such as they desired, much below
what would have been obtained if the same goods had been offered at public
auction. The single article of
copperas, which in our stores, where it is to be had at all, is worth from $5 to
$8 per pound, was obtained by these individuals, in the manner alluded to, at
the low price of 25 cents per pound. Now,
this is not right, and is robbing the Government to put money in the hands of
private parties, who perhaps have no higher interest in the war than to make
money by its continuance.—Richmond Dispatch, 18th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 2, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Blockade Sales.—We are becoming more convinced day after day of the
injurious effects of the auction sales of cargoes which run the blockade.
The prices of the goods sold in Charleston are almost fabulous, and of
course are paid by speculators, who advance even these extravagant prices to the
consumer. Just think of it, candles
$3.35 cents per pound, soap $1.70 cents, tea $14 per pound, and other articles
in proportion!
Some of our merchants attended the sale, but bought nothing.
The principal buyers were merchants and dealers from Richmond and
Petersburg, who run up the goods to enormous prices.
The effect of all this is simply this:
our merchants return home, and finding that they had been retailing goods
cheaper than they were sold at a "cargo sale," and that there was no
probability of replenishing their stocks at fair buying prices.
These cargo sales benefit nobody but the petty jobbers and speculators at
a distance, and have become a serious injury to the legitimate merchant and
consumer.—Columbia Guardian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Jerked Beef for the Army.—There is a process of curing beef known to
Mexicans and old Texans, as "jerking."
The process is simple: cut
the meat into strips of eight to fourteen inches in length, salt it moderately,
then string it upon ropes in the sun, taking it in at night; in three of four
days it is ready to use. The
transportation would be much easier than of cattle, as it could be put in
barrels, or bales made of "raw hide," or "hickory bark." Beef cured in this manner is always juicy and palatable.
It is healthy. A haversack of jerked beef will last a man for days without
bread. Cooking is unnecessary as it
is as good raw.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
From
Crawford's Cavalry Regiment.
Camp Sewell, Aug. 27, 1862.
. . . We remained at Chattanooga but a few hours, when we received orders to
march to Shell Mound, a distance of twenty-five miles, over one of the roughest
roads ever known. Our wagons broke
down, and we were compelled to leave nearly all of our cooking utensils and
provisions behind; so we have lived on roasting ears for the past three days.
We remained long enough to visit the famous Nicojack cave, to give a full
description of which would fill a volume. This
cave is situated on the corner of two States, Georgia and Alabama, and on a line
with Tennessee, so your correspondent has dined in the three States at once
without moving from the table; ate, drank, and smoked in three States at the
same time. Myself and others
visited the cave with a guide, and penetrated its depths about a mile.
It has been explored about five miles, and no one knows here how far it
extends. There is a beautiful lake
near the mouth of the cave, as clear as crystal and as cool as ice water.
I went into many of the apartments, some of which are 100 feet high.
I have not time nor space to give particulars, but will in my next. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
From
Crawford's Cavalry Regiment.
Chattanooga, Aug. 30, 1862.
. . . To-morrow (Sunday) we leave. We
are allowed fifteen pounds of baggage to the man, and five tent flies to the
company. This looks like stripping
for the fight. So it is, and my
next may be written from Nashville. So
may it be. Depend upon it, if there
is fighting to be done, the 3d Georgia Cavalry will see it, as our position will
be nearest the flashing of the gun, and all are eager to do their part in the
coming bloody conflict; and come it will.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 16, 1862, p. 2, c.3
From
Knoxville—"J.T.G."
Knoxville, Sept. 9, 1862.
Editor Enquirer: . . . Quite a serious row occurred last night at a
brothel in this place. Capt.
Hartshell, Chief of Police, went down with his posse to quell the disturbance,
to accomplish which he ordered his men to fire upon the rowdies.
A volley was fired into them, wounding several.
This placed a quietus upon them instanter.
The inmates of the house were carried off to the guard-house this
morning; they were severely strapped upon the bare flesh for being participants
in the row. It strikes me that our
authorities could have found some other mode of punishment that would have
served their purpose as well, if not better, than corporal punishment.
It is bad enough to have to whip a white man, and infinitely more so a
woman, though she be degraded. Knoxville,
however, is a great place, famous for tories, free negroes, and free dogs—just
the place to hatch and rear such worthless curs as Brownlow and Maynard. . .
We have at the Gap about 300 Indians, dressed cap-a-pie in the usual
Indian costume, including the paint. They
have a merry time picking off the Yankee pickets with their unerring rifles; nor
have they forgotten how to handle their scalping knives, for a few days ago one
of them came strutting into camps with a Yankee's ear dangling by his side. The enemy's pickets have a mortal fear of these Indians, and
as soon as they are espied they "skedaddle" instanter to the Gap.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
From
Knoxville—Letter from J.T.G.
Near Knoxville, Sept. 13, 1862.
Editor Enquirer: . . . Before closing this letter, I must say a few words
in defence of that portion of the ladies of Knoxville who are with us heart and
soul in this contest. Both in
public and in private have they been charged with indifference and neglect
towards the thousands of sick now languishing in the hospitals in and out of
Knoxville. Time and again have they solicited the privilege of attending
at the hospitals in the capacity of nurses, but as often refused by the
authorities, who have even gone so far as to station sentinels at the gate to
prevent their visits. No wonder the
poor soldier enjoins upon his messmate to slip him away to some private house in
the event of his sickness. Give the
ladies a showing. One intelligent
lady in a sick room is worth a dozen doctors.
Prominent among the ladies of East Tennessee in good works is Miss Anna
Law, of Sweetwater. Possessing a
heart of the most noble and generous impulses, ever on the alert to lend a
helping hand, this young lady has never ceased, since the commencement of the
war, to aid and encourage the weary soldier to the extent of her ability; her
unbounded devotion to our cause, her untiring energies that have been used so
well in behalf of our soldiers, and her unremitting efforts to render them
comfortable, will ever be remembered with feelings of gratitude and love by
hundreds who have been the honored recipients of her handiwork. God bless the ladies!
J.T.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 23, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Native Copperas.—We saw in a wagon on our streets, yesterday, a
quantity of crude copperas, from Henry county, Ala.
It was represented to be nearly pure, and was selling for 50 cents per
lb. We did not learn what was the extent of the supply in Henry
county.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 30, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
The Roswell (Cobb co.) Factory proposes to distribute gratuitously one
thousand bunches of yarn to the poor of ten of the counties adjoining, during
the month of October.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 30, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
Tennessee
Female Tories.
The editor of the Henderson (N.C.) Times has recently made a visit
through East Tennessee to Cumberland Gap. Upon
his return, he fixed up the following story for the edification of his readers.
At Powell's river, I stopped and engaged more milk, at an old Lincolnite
jade, keen as a brier, and mother of three (and I don't know how many more,)
rather nice looking gals. She
complained to me of having been rudely treated by a North Carolina officer, the
morning previous. Arriving at camp,
I informed the officer of the old lady's story, and he told me that knowing
their political status, he had placed a guard around the house, to keep
any of the family from going to the Gap, while our army was crossing the river,
and in the meantime, the following conversation took place:
Officer.—(Entering the house,) Good morning ma'am.
No answer. "Where is
your husband, ma'am?"
Old Woman.—None of your business, you rebel you.
Officer.—I know. He is in
the Yankee army.
Old Woman.—Well he is. What
are you going to do about it? He is
in the 1st Tennessee Federal regiment at Cumberland Gap, and will
take off your rebel head, if you go up there.
Officer.—Yes. But we have
him and your General Morgan's whole command completely surrounded—hemmed
in—with an army on both sides of the Gap, and in a few days they will be
starved out, and have to surrender on our own terms.
Old Woman.—We know all that, and are easy.
But Lincoln will send an army through Kentucky, which will wipe out your
General Smith, just like a dog would lick out a plate, and then you and your
army of barefooted, roasting ear stealers, will have to leave here in the dark
again, and badly scared at that. Besides
this—
Officer.—That's your opinion, but you are deluded.
Where were you born?
Old Woman.—Born! Why I was
born and raised in Tennessee. I am
an Old Hickory Tennessean—dead out against Nullification, and its bastard
offspring, Secession. But where are
you from?
Officer.—I am from North Carolina, but a native of South Carolina.
Old Woman.—A South Carolinian—scion of nullification—double rebel,
double devil. Old Jackson made your
little turnip patch of a State walk the chalk once, and Old Abe Lincoln will
give you rebels hell before Spring.
Officer.—(Quitting the old lady, and turning to the eldest daughter,
whom he recognized as a mother) Madam,
where is your husband?
Young Woman.—That is none of your business.
Officer.—But it is my business. Where
is he?
Young Woman.—Where I hope I'll never see him again.
Where I hope you will soon be.
Officer.—Where is that?
Young Woman.—Why, a prisoner in the hands of the army at the Gap.
Officer.—What is that for?
Young Woman.—For being what you are, an infernal rebel.
Officer.—Oh, if that's all, I will send him back to you as soon as we
take the Gap.
Young Woman.—No you need'nt. Cust
if ever he sleeps in my bed again. I
intend to get some Union man to father this child.
Here, Bet, (calling a nurse,) take this little rebel and give him Union
milk. Let us try and get the "secesh"
out of him.
Officer.—(Turning to a Miss.) Did
you find a beau among the Yankee officers?
Miss.—Yes, I did; a nice, sweet, gallant fellow.
One who stepped like a prince. When
you become his prisoner, give him my love, and tell him for my sake to put a
trace chain around y our infernal neck.
Officer.—When do you expect to see him again?
Miss.—Just after your General takes the next "big scare,"
which will be in ten days from this time.
Daylight having broken, and the army having crossed the river, the
conversation I have given terminated.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
The
Second Battalion.
A letter from Major Ross, dated Martinsburg, Sept. 21st, says:
. . . A great many of the soldiers are barefooted, and we are getting pretty
ragged, having no clothes but those we have on, and but one blanket, and I don't
know how we are going to get more. We
make up our dough without grease, roll it in strings, twist it round a ramrod
and cook it in a blaze; our beef is cooked in the same way.—Macon Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
The condition of our market is getting truly deplorable.
There is not a pound of salt or a bushel of corn for sale at retail, and
very little meal or flour, and we are informed that all the bacon has suddenly
disappeared from the market. Everything
else is very scarce.—Rome Courier, 30th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Sock Manufactory.—An enterprising firm in Wilmington, N. C., has a
factory in operation in that city that turns out daily 1000 pairs of thick,
strong and soft socks, suitable for soldiers' wear, which are supplied to the
North Carolina troops. The same
firm, it is said, are endeavoring to establish a branch of their business at
Montgomery, Alabama, for furnishing the troops of that State in like manner.
It would be a great blessing to the army were a similar factory located
on a large scale in every Confederate State.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Letter
from "J. T. S."
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 16, 1862.
Dear Enquirer: . . .
At an appointed hour, in your city, on Monday last, the heretofore long
sealed doors of the Eagle Manufacturing Company were thrown open, and the
families of the soldiers permitted to supply themselves with cloths at prices
almost nothing in comparison to those charged by the sharks of Columbus.
The opportunity was a glad one to the poor, and they very numerously
availed themselves of it. Every one bought just what their wants required, but the
speculators were ruled out. I went
down with the rest, and laid in my humble supply for my wife and little ones and
servants. I found there that best
of men, J. Rhodes Browne, the Prince of Southern manufacturers, up to his eyes
in personal attention of the work and dealing out with uniform politeness the
great desideratums of the hour. Much
credit is due him for the perfection to which he has brought the cotton and wool
manufacturing in Columbus, and much credit is his share for having furnished so
great an amount of good cloth to clothe and tent our army in the field.
Me he prosper as he deserves! I
offer him my thanks for the cloth which he presented me, to have made into a
genuine Confederate suit, to shield me from a cold Virginia winter.
My memory from comfort will often revert to his appropriate give when
snow does most abound.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Tallow
Candles Equal to Star.
West Point, Miss., Oct. 5, 1862.
Editors Mobile Register & Advertiser:
It may be of interest to your numerous readers to know that, with not a
cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of
merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong ley from wood
ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim
this off for making soap, (it is very near soap already), as long as it
continues to rise. Then mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little
smaller—and you have a pure, hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make,
and one that burns as long and gives a light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.
Yours,
W.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2, c.
5
How to Make Chimnies [sic] for Kerosene or Palmetto Oil Lamps.—Take a
common sweet oil bottle, cut off the bottom, by burning a string wet with
turpentine, around the bottle. Then
make a bottom of tin to fit the lamp, and fasten it to the bottle with plaster
of Paris, and you have as good a chimney as you can buy.
This is something worth knowing at the present time.
When one chimney breaks, the same tin bottom will do for another.
Please let this be known for the public benefit.
D. B. Haselton.
We have received from our ingenious friend, Haselton, a bottle prepared
as above directed, and a mate to one he has used successfully.
It may be seen at the Courier office.—Charleston Courier, 14th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Egg Plants.—How to Cook Them.—To our friend H., who sent us those
five or six model egg-plants, we tender our thanks, and also offer his good
lady, and the ladies in general, the following recipe for cooking this
vegetable, which we have from an experienced housekeeper, and which has been
tried by our people with the most unctuous success.
One merit of it over frying is, that it avoids the use of lard, now very
costly, and takes but little butter in proportion to the size and excellence of
the dish:
Recipe.—Boil the egg-plant whole and with the peeling on in water
slightly salted; when it is supposed to be cooked through and through, take it
off, drain the water entirely from it, take away the black peeling; then mash it
well, mixing with it a piece of butter the size of an egg, two grated biscuits,
one beaten egg, salt and pepper to taste, and bake in a dish; it is ready for
the table.—Edgefield Advertiser.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Athens Factory.—The Agent of this Factory determined a week or so ago
to sell thread at $3 per bunch for a given time, and adopt the miller's rule,
"first come, first served." The
hour for selling was from 8 to 9 o'clock each morning.
Hundreds of people would assemble at the office each morning long before
the appointed time. So great was
the pressure that many females fainted, and we are told that the scene was
occasionally enlivened by rough and tumble fights. Persons frequently put their money on the end of a pole in
order to reach it to the Agent. To
some this scene was ludicrous; to others it was sad.
Saturday was the last day for selling in this manner.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
To Dye Solferino.—Take a quantity of poke-berries, squeeze out the
juice and to each cup of the juice add one cupful of vinegar; put in a brass or
tin kettle, put your yarn in warm water, squeeze it out, then put it in the dye
and let it boil slowly about thirty minutes, or until it received the proper
color. Wynnton.
The writer of the above has shown us a child's stocking dyed after the
above recipe. Though it has been
worn and washed, it retains a deep and handsome, and apparently permanent
scarlet color. Indeed it is as
pretty a color for children's wear as any we have ever seen.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 3. c. 4
Doctress
Riley,
A Southern born lady of long experience, and thorough education in the
medical profession, hereby offers her services to the suffering of her own sex,
in the eclectic treatment of all those peculiar diseases to which WOMAN
is alone subject. Ladies may now
rejoice in the assurance, that all such cases can be successfully treated
without pain, or the confining of the patient to bed.
Females with fistula in ano [sic? hard to read] can be cured without a
surgical operation in a very short time.
Residence at Cook's Hotel, where a private parlor is in readiness for the
reception of ladies wishing consultation.
References given if required.
Columbus, Ga. Oct. 17, 1862
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
From
Knoxville—"J. T. G."
Knoxville, Oct. 28, 1862.
Editor Enquirer: Our army is
now resting from its recent retreat from Kentucky, recuperating its energies,
which have been sadly impaired by the long and tedious circuit they have so
recently made, for another march to relieve Tennessee of the Abolitionists.
Which way and where they will go, is more than I can say.
Their health and spirits are remarkable, when we consider how devoid they
are of clothing, hats, and shoes. Thousands
of these heroic spirits are in rags, without a blanket, and numbers of them
without a coat. I saw one regiment
to-day of 450 men, and only 220 of them had shoes—the remainder had not a shoe
or covering to their feet. This
regiment is not an isolated one—nearly every regiment of Bragg's army is
destitute of clothing and shoes in the same ratio.
Yet these men, barefooted as they were, have marched from Kentucky over a
road, that for rocks has not its equal on the continent, with scarcely a murmur.
Why shoes were not put upon their feet, and clothes upon their backs,
while in Kentucky, I cannot say. An
intelligent officer tells me, however, that there were shoes and clothing enough
burnt up by order of the General commanding to have supplied our whole army. . .
This morning the snow lay five inches deep upon the ground, so the boys
to-day have indulged to their hearts' content in snow-balling each other; and
every darkey that had the temerity to show his head received a liberal share.
J. T. G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
The
Condition of Nashville.
A letter from Nashville, published in the Rebel, states that any citizen
is grateful at the close of each day that his house is not burned, and that he
is himself outside of the Penitentiary. Throughout
Sumner county a "silk dress war" is waged by the abolition thieves.
A silk dress will attract a Yankee five miles from his line of march.
Those of Gen. Mitchell's men now out of service have opened shops where
the dresses of Huntsville ladies are exposed for sale.
Negley's followers expect to do a flourishing business in the same line.
Pope's orders as to private property of non-combatants are enforced by
Negley. Cannot Gen. Forrest retaliate on Negley's officers as was
done on Pope's?
A Yankee Dutch officer robbed an old lady of her spectacles while she was
reading her Bible. A gallant Yankee
officer, by threatening to cut off her finger, forced a young lady to deliver to
him a diamond ring. Another officer
tore an ear-ring from the ear of a lady while she was unfastening the other to
deliver to him. The only cow which
furnished sustenance to an infant was killed in the presence of the widowed
mother of the child. Her house had
already been plundered, and she and the infant were left to starve.
Such are the deeds committed by the followers of Andrew Johnson, and in
his very official presence.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Cotton
Yarns—Roswell Factory.
We would call the attention of all such as are buying this article in
Macon to ten dollars a bunch, to the following letter from Geo. H. Camp, the
agent of the Roswell Factory, and then give their opinion of such Factories and
dealers as have extorted these prices.—Macon Mess.
We are retailing yarn here in large quantities each day at $3 per bunch,
when a moments reference to your Atlanta exchange, will demonstrate the fact
that we supply your county not only, but residents in nearly every county in
Upper Georgia, with yarn at but little over one-third the market price, which is
now eight dollars. This concession
in price from the market price is the result of no pressure, aside from the
wants of the country, and as our desire is solely to benefit the country no
unjust comments will cause us to waver from the plan we have adopted to place
yarn in the hands of the needy at a price they can afford to pay.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Cotton Cards.—A Cotton Card Factory is now in successful operation at
Rome, Georgia, with wire enough, as the manufacturers say, for twelve thousand
pairs. The cards at present are sold only for hard tanned
sheepskins.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
The game of fashionable life is to play hearts against diamonds.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Cloth—Home
Made.
The Milton, N. C., Chronicle says: "A
very estimable lady—one of the smartest and prettiest in the country—wishes
to know of us what she ought to charge per yard for a piece of cloth now in the
loom, the cotton in which cost $4 50 per bunch, and the wool rolls $2 per pound.
To this must be added the cost of weaving, &c.—We are rather
puzzled for a reply, but she ought to exact of shoemakers, tanners, flour and
corn speculators about $15 a yard; and if she can possibly find a cotton factory
"lord" obliged to buy it, charge the rascal $25 a yard—and then she
can't "get even" with him. To
people of conscience, we do not think she could sell her cloth for less than $4
a yard, and make anything. When we
say cloth, we mean cloth; because she makes the best and prettiest article that
we have ever seen manufactured in the Southern country.
This industrious lady seems desirous of selling her cloth at a price that
will barely pay for the material and labor of weaving; she does not desire a big
profit, for she loathes the name of an extortioner, and wishes to avoid it.
Would to heaven that all Southern ladies were like her!—There would be
no laziness, no extravagance, no hifalutin tomfoolery, no Miss McFlimseys who
think that God created them merely to thumb broken down pianos, screech like
right owls, cut fantastic capers in fancy dances, and "show off"
merchants' dry goods and prop themselves up in parlors as pretty toys for men to
look at and admire. The best music a female can make these war times is the music
of the spinning wheel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Lamp Wicks.—A correspondent gives the Columbia Guardian the following
useful bit of information:
It might interest some of your readers to know at this time when it is so
difficult to get lamp-wicks that the tops of old home-knit cotton socks cut into
strips of the proper width make as good ones as the best that ever came from
Yankeedom.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
To Dye Wool Yarn a Durable Black Without Copperas.—Place in your kettle
a layer of Walnut leaves, then a layer of yarn, then a layer of leaves, and
another of yarn, and so on till the kettle is full, pour on water till all is
covered, and boil all day. The next
morning pour off the liquor into another vessel, and put fresh leaves with the
yarn in layers as before and pour the same liquor over it and boil again all
day. Then hang the yarn in the air a few days, after which wash
it, and it will be a fine black.
The Walnut leaves should be gathered in the autumn just as they begin to
fall from the trees.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Helping
Themselves.
We were informed yesterday evening that a party of ladies went into a
store at Cartersville and appropriated a small stock of goods, such as they said
they were in pressing need of. They
represented that they were driven by necessity to that course.
The people who are able to help the poor, should bear
proportionate shares in the matter, and by concerted action, supply their real
necessities, without waiting for them, especially helpless women, to be driven
to such an extremity.
Atlanta Conf.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Carpet Blankets.—Major M. W. Perry yesterday exhibited to us a Carpet
Blanket made for the army. It is
undoubtedly a most excellent and warm covering, and will be a very comfortable
addition to a soldier's bed clothing. It
is made of scraps of cloth cut into strips and woven closely together, forming a
heavy and warm counterpane, one of them being worth two or three common bed
blankets for warmth and durability.
We understand that a reliable gentleman has contracted with Quartermaster
Dillard to make these blankets out of the scraps left in making soldiers'
clothing, and that he has several looms at work weaving and a number of children
cutting and sewing together the strips. He
will be enabled to turn out the blankets pretty fast for a new business, and the
work will give employment to a number of women and children needing something to
do.
These blankets would also be the most comfortable night covering for
negroes, and they will no doubt be extensively used hereafter by those planters
who examine them.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
We were glad to receive a call yesterday, from our valued Knoxville
correspondent, Adjt. James T. Gray, who is now in this city. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Editor Enquirer: The
following beautiful verses were written by a prisoner of the 3d Georgia Cavalry
to a young lady at Louisville, being the recipient of clothing and other
articles during his confinement in prison.
Acrostic.
May angels guard
thee, dearest miss, on thy kind mission here,
In bitter anguish here we lie, poor prisoners in despair.
Should fortune smile upon us now, once more our homes to see,
Sad though in parting from our friends, we'll oft remember thee.
Kind friend we've
found Miss Katy, in this our sore distress,
Away so far from our loved ones, their prayers for thee we bless.
Though dark and gloomy in the hour, our noble cause we'll gain,
Enduring hardships, care and toil, our freedom to obtain.
Grateful we are,
and many thanks to our kind donors here,
All that we ask is Southern rights, to these we hold most dear;
Millions against us may be sent, our country shall be free,
By all that's sacred we have sworn to die for Liberty.
Like patriots of old, we'll fight, our heritage to save,
Engendered by our Forefathers, perchance an early grave.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Patriotic Examples.—The Lexington (Va.) Gazette says:
Col. R. H. Brown, the proprietor of the Rockbridge Woolen Factory, has
set an example worthy of all imitation. He
manufactures an excellent article of jeans, which he sells at $1.60 and $1.75
per yard to consumers. He will not
sell to speculators at any price. The
goods sold at so low a figure could not be bought in Lynchburg at less than $4
or $5.
The man who can be satisfied with a moderate profit, when the necessities
of the community would enable him to treble that profit, deserves the lasting
gratitude of every true hearted citizen; and deserves to be remembered when the
war is ended.
We have also been informed that Wm. Withrow, Esq., of Brownsburg,
continues to sell leather at forty or fifty cents, while others are getting two
dollars. A noble heart throbs in
his bosom.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
From
the Mobile Tribune.
Extortion Gorged.
Mr. Editor: In the news
columns of the Advertiser & Register, of this morning, appeared the
following card of a Georgia Cotton Factory Agent, under the title of "A
Patriotic Card.":
To Manufacturers.—Sometime since, we had a meeting to advance the
prices of fabrics. Now the time has
arrived when it is equally important to hold another meeting to put prices down. The families of our brother soldiers require that we should
do our duty to them. A plan can be
adopted by which the consumers can have the goods at factory prices.
And unless we wish to continue the suffering of our women and children,
we should take prompt action. We
can keep the goods from falling into the hands of speculators.
I, therefore, propose a convention of representatives, from all the
cotton manufactories of Georgia, to assemble in the city of Atlanta, on Monday,
17th of November next, to take this matter into consideration.
E. Steadman.
Agent Gwinnett Manufactur'g Company.
Having grown heart-sick at the extortion practised [sic] upon the people
heretofore, this Agent now proposes to the manufacturers to take some action to
prevent the continuance of "the sufferings of our women and children." Content with the enormous profits already accumulated by the
manufacturers, "some time since," "to advance the prices of
fabrics"—and, perhaps, with the fear of their liability to conscription,
if henceforward they attempt to realize over 75 per cent. profit on their
goods—they now, very patriotically, propose to reduce their prices to a lawful
standard. On their part, this may
be a very judicious and charitable proposition—but let it not be
heralded to the country as the impulse of patriotism.
Like vampyres [sic], gorged with blood until they can contain no more,
they seem especially concerned lest somebody else should now take their places
in extorting from "consumers," and propose to set their victims free
under the specious plea of patriotism.
We have no desire to censure their conduct in the past, if they have the
approval of their own consciences, nor have we the least shadow of
sympathy for monopolizers and extortioners in the mercantile classes; but we are
decidedly opposed to calling that patriotic which is simply a necessity
on their part—all of whom doubtless would rather make "cotton
fabrics" at the very small profit of 75 per cent. than enlist in the
ranks of our ragged soldiery.
Truth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
A Loom for the Times.—Dr. P. R. Clements, from Eufaula, Ala., has in
our city a loom of his invention,
which we think is just the machine for the times.
This loom can weave with one ordinary hand about 40 yards of good
homespun a day. It is worked by a
small balance wheel and crank. Dr.
Clements proposes to sell the right for counties for the State.
Here is offered a splendid opening for an enterprising mechanic.
The looms can be purchased in Eufaula, Ala., for $75
each.—Milledgeville Union.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Confederate Candle.—This rivals the rush in simplicity, and far exceeds
it in serviceableness. To make it,
melt together a pound of beeswax and a quarter of a pound of rosin, or
turpentine fresh from the tree. Prepare
a wick thirty or forty yards long, made up of three threads of loosely spun
cotton. Saturate this well with the mixture, and draw it through your
fingers to press all closely together, and to keep the size even.
Repeat the process until the candle attains the size of a large straw or
quill; then wrap it around a bottle, or into a ball with a flat bottom.
Six inches of this candle elevated above the rest will burn for fifteen
minutes, and give a pretty light, and forty yards have sufficed a small family a
summer for all the usual purposes of the bed chamber.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Button Factory.—We saw some neat and strong wooden buttons, the other
day, which we understood were made by Mr. A. D. Brown, at the Carter Factory of
this city. They appeared as strong as bone buttons and equally well
finished.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Praiseworthy
Conduct of North Carolina Manufacturers.
We published, a short time since, the proceedings of a meeting of
Manufacturers, at Augusta, which resolved that cotton could not be manufactured
at less than 50 cents per pound, and that it was inexpedient to bargain with the
Government at any fixed prices for cotton fabrics for more than a month at a
time. This resolution is regarded as a rejection of the terms held
out by the Exemption act of Congress, offering exemption from conscription to
employees of factories at which a profit of not exceeding 75 per cent. upon the
cost of production is charged.
This convention adjourned to meet again at Columbia, S. C., at a time to
be announced by the President. It
was not fully attended, and we believe that no delegate from any factory of this
city was present.
We have not yet observed any movement, either towards the appointment or
instruction of delegates to the proposed meeting in Columbia, or any formal
acceptance by the other manufacturing establishments of the policy, indicated by
the meeting at Augusta. But we
note, with pleasure, that several of the Cotton Manufacturing Associations of
North Carolina have resolved to repudiate the policy announced by the convention
at Augusta, and to reduce their prices to the proffered profit of 75 per cent.
They have moreover called a meeting of the manufacturing establishments
of North Carolina, at Greensboro, on the 3d of December, to consult as to the
best means of giving the desired effect to the provisions of the Exemption act,
by securing to the consumers the goods at reasonable prices.
The Rockfish Manufacturing Company, of that State, took the lead in this
movement by the passage of the following resolution:
"Resolved, That the Rockfish Company accepts and will abide by the
terms prescribed by the Exemption Act of the Confederate Congress, and will so
regulate the prices of its manufactured goods as to bring the profits within the
per cent. upon the cost of manufacture prescribed by the said act."
The Fayetteville Observer of the 24th announces that another
of our Fayetteville companies (the Beaver Creek) has resolved to abide by the
terms of the Exemption law, and to reduce its prices accordingly.
These are movements in the right direction, and we hope that we shall
soon have occasion to report many more of the same sort.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Substitute for Copperas.—We have received from good authority the
following recipe, which answers every purpose, in dying, where copperas is used
in setting colors, or for dying copperas color:
Half pint vinegar.
Half pint syrup or molasses.
Three gallons of water.
Put the above into an iron pot with nails or other rusty iron and let it
stand twenty days. It is of no use
to buy copperas for dying at one dollar per pound while this will answer every
purpose.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Brandy from Persimmons.—We find in an old magazine an account of an
experiment in distilling brandy from persimmons which may be interesting, since
the powers that be seem determined that the people shall not get corned on corn.
The writer prepared the persimmons in the same way as peaches are usually
prepared for the still, and the result of the experiment was an average of one
gallon of proof spirits of an agreeable flavor for each bushel of persimmons.
Will somebody try it?—Aug. Chron.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
An Objection to Low Prices.—A gentleman gravely remarked a few days
ago, that he was not so sure that this reduction of the price of cotton goods
was so great a benefit after all; for that while his wife wouldn't buy a yard
when the price was 70 cents, she now insisted upon having a whole piece at 33
cents!—Fayetteville Obs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Clothing for the Army of the Mississippi.—We learn from a friend that
the Government clothing establishment at Augusta, recently removed to that city,
has already manufactured some five thousand suits out of the jeans brought by
Gen. Bragg's army from Kentucky. Major
L. O. Bridewell, of the Quartermaster's Department, superintends the
establishment, and has been untiring in his efforts and personal attention to
the work. Success has rewarded
these efforts, and it is now hoped, in a short time, that the establishment will
be enabled to relieve in a great measure the necessities of the army of the
Mississippi from the material captured from the enemy.—Chas. Courier, 27th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Soldiers'
Clothing.
The Richmond papers publish an important announcement from the
Quartermaster General's Office, dated Richmond, Nov. 28th.
It gives notice that that Department will pay for shoes, blankets, and
other articles of clothing which may be contributed by the people of the
counties in the several States to their soldiers in the field, provided that
such articles are supplied under the direction of the county authorities—and
offers the following prices therefor: Caps
$2, Jackets $12, Pants $9, Flannel Shirts $8, Cotton Shirts $1, Striped Cotton
Shirts $1.50, Drawers $1, Shoes $6, Woolen Socks $1, Overcoats with capes $25,
Blankets per pair $15.
The articles so furnished will be issued, as far as needed, to the
particular troops for whom they are intended—but if they are already supplied,
to others. Payments will be made on delivery at the nearest
Quartermaster's post.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
No
Clothing to be Sent out of the State.
The agent of the Southern Express Company, at Macon, gives notice through
the Telegraph that that Company will not receive for shipment out of the
State any shoes, cloth, clothing or leather, until further notice.
It pursues this course by order of Gov. Brown.
This may be regarded as a measure preliminary to the seizure of the
factories and tanneries by the Governor, according to authority vested in him by
the Legislature. The act of the
Legislature authorizes him to
pursue this course in the event of the refusal of these establishments to
furnish their fabrics for soldiers' clothing at prescribed prices, viz:
Osnaburgs and Shirtings 25 cents per yard, Woolen Jeans $2.50 per yard,
Cotton Yarns $2.50 per bunch, Leather $1 per pound, Shoes, best army
pattern $8 per pair.
We presume that the Railroad companies have also been, or will be,
forbidden by the Governor to take these articles out of the State until he
effects the desired arrangement with the manufacturers. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
From
the Atlanta Intelligencer, 30th.
The Eagle Mills, Columbus, Ga.
Are now manufacturing, for the Government, daily, two thousand yards of
heavy grey tweeds, besides large quantities of cotton duck and oil cloth.
The tweeds is sold at $2.00 a yard, and furnishes two regiments a week
with warm clothing. The duck goes
to the tent maker, and the oil cloth is used for knapsacks, &c.
In addition to the above, a quantity of stripes, osnaburgs, sheeting and
knitting yarn, worth over $1,500 per day, is manufactured, and retailed
from the office on the morning after the production, at about one half the price
which elsewhere such goods bring. The
stripes is selling at 50 cents, the osnaburgs at 40, and the sheeting at 35
cents. Before the war this Company
steadily refused to retail from its office, but has recently adopted this plan,
so that its goods, now so indispensable to the country, may pass at fair prices
directly to the consumer. The
Government, it will be observed, gets about three-fourths the entire production
of the mills, and at about one-half the price which similar goods bring
elsewhere at auction.
The example of this noble corporation stands out in bold relief in these
times of almost universal speculation and avarice; and were a similar course
adopted by all our factories, the war would not fall with such crushing weight
upon the poorer classes of society. No
sincere patriot could have believed, when we went into this life and death
struggle for our liberties, that the Southern people would prey upon each
other!
It is proper to say that this article is written by one who is in no way
interested in the Company alluded to, or has ever been benefited by the liberal
course which it has, with provident patriotism, seen fit to pursue, and that it
is quite without the knowledge of any of its managers.
Atlanta, November 1862.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Flour is held at $50 per bbl., molasses at $7 per gallon, and salt at $20
per bushel, in Tallahassee, Fla.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
We find in the Selma Reporter the following recipe, which is said to be a
sure cure for small pox:
Take one grain each of powdered Foxglove (Digitalis) and sulphate of
zinc. Rub them together thoroughly
in a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water; this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water,
and sweeten with sugar. Dose—a table-spoonful for an adult, and one or two
teaspoonfuls for a child every two or three hours until the symptoms of the
disease vanish.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Elegant Home-made Fabrics.—Mr. John Dawson, of Russell county, Ala.,
exhibited to us, the other day, some beautiful bolts of cloth from his spinning
wheels and loom. They consisted of
Stripes for ladies wear, which were not only nearly as smooth and fine as
calico, but the several colors were woven in with a taste and nicety that made
the goods appear very pretty and genteel; also a superior article of Jeans, and
two spools of colored Thread, of a fineness not equal to Coates, of course, but
much finer than that sold by the factories.
We learn that those handsome fabrics were not only made entire with the
spinning wheels and loom of Mr. Dawson, but that the cotton and wool were also
of his own raising, and the loom of his own make!
Such men as this old gentleman, are "illustrating" our capacity
for independence in a most conclusive manner.
Let his example be generally imitated, and
"We'll be a glorious people yet,
Erect, redeemed, and free."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Special
Correspondence of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Columbus Factories.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 4, 1862.
It is refreshing, in these days of extortion, to find individuals or
corporations who are content with reasonable profits, and who refuse to lend
themselves to the devices of monopoly and extortion which prevail in most of our
markets.
The factories of Columbus—I allude especially to the Eagle and Howard
mills and the Columbus Factory—afford noble examples of public spirited
enterprise, which will entitle their names to grateful remembrance when those
who are taking advantage of the necessities of the people are remembered, as
they deserve to be, among the tories of the second revolution.
The Eagle and Howard mills have from the beginning of the war had heavy
contracts with the Government, and all last year, with wool at 45 cents a pound,
kept their woolen jeans at $1 per yard, furnishing 700 to 800 yards per week at
that price. Before the war, with
wool at 25 cents, the price of their jeans was 55 cents.
Now, with wool at $2.75 per lb., they continue to furnish the Government
at $2. Thus, while wool has
advanced eleven prices, or 1100 per cent., their goods have advanced only five
prices, or 500 per cent.; and they have, I learn, advanced the wages of their
hands from 100 to 300 per cent. They
have exchanged large quantities of goods at old prices for provisions at the
same rate, which they have furnished to their operatives at cost.
For nearly a year they have furnished the Government with 1200 to 1300
yards of 10 oz. duck, per day, at 22 cents, while the market rate was 40 to 45
cents; and are now making the same goods at 45 cents, while the market value of
even 7 oz. goods is 50 per cent. above that price.
Four fifths of their goods are under contract for the Government, the
balance are retailed out among consumers in small quantities, favoring as far as
possible the families of soldiers. They
sell stripes at 50 cents, for which the market price is $1.20 cents; osnaburgs
and sheetings at 40 cents, for which the market rates are 65 to 75 cents. Cotton yarns they have never sold at over $2.50 per bunch.
They have never allowed their goods to be sold at auction, or to
merchants or speculators, save in exchange for wool not to be had in any other
way, and they are daily refusing from all quarters offers of 65 to 100 per cent.
over present rates.
The record of the Columbus Factory is equally clean.
They have been making tent cloths at 18 to 25 cents per yard, for over a
year. Their woolen looms made
Kerseys at 75 cts, to $1.25 last year, and this year, owing to the price of
wool, they have charged $1.60, until recently they have been obliged to stop for
want of wool, save on work for farmers, whose wool they work up at 25 cents per
yard. At their tannery, they have
furnished shoes at $3.50, as long as they had leather, and now they make them at
75 cts. to those furnishing the leather. They
have furnished soldiers' wives with thread at $2.50 per bunch.
I make this statement without the knowledge of the factory owners, on
authority perfectly reliable, and commend their example to manufacturers
throughout the Confederacy.
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Our Milledgeville correspondent, a few days since, in speaking of the
Eagle Mills Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga., stated that their mills
furnished from seven to nine hundred yards of woolen jeans to the Government per
week; this was an error; the mills furnish the Government with from seven to
nine thousand yards per week—or at the rate of from twelve to fifteen hundred
yards per day. Quite a difference
in the amount. The proprietors of
the Eagle Mills are deserving of
great praise for their patriotic liberality—Chronicle & Sentinel.
Dec. 13.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Cotton Cards.—The Milledgeville correspondent of the Macon Telegraph,
under date Dec. 3d, says:
One of the most important measures of the session passed the House on
yesterday relating to a supply of cotton and wool cards.
The bill proposes to authorize the Governor to pay Messrs. Lee & Co.
$60,000 for a half interest in the establishment, and to furnish half the means
necessary to duplicate 20 machines. It
is stated that they can be made in 3 months at the Penitentiary and put in
operation. Estimating the work of
each machine at 80 pairs daily, these machines would turn out 600 pairs daily,
or about 15,500 pairs per month. This
would very soon supply the wants of the State, and enable our heroic women to
clothe every soldier and citizen without resort to the arbitrary measure of
seizing factories. It would save
also a great portion of the appropriation of $1,500,000 for clothing the
soldiers. Therefore, this cotton
card measure is of the highest importance, and should be disposed of without
delay, and in a liberal spirit. Sixty
thousand dollars may look like a high price for half the establishment.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Recipe for Making Soap.—Pour 12 qts. of soft boiling water upon 5 lbs.
of unslacked lime. Then dissolve 5
lbs. of washing soda in 12 quarts of boiling water.
Mix the above together and let the mixture remain together from 12 to 24
hours, for the purpose of chemical action.
Now pour off all the clear liquid—being careful not to disturb the
sediment. Add to the above 3 ½
lbs. of clarified grease, and from three to four ounces of rosin. Boil this compound together one hour, and pour off to cool.
Cut it up in bars for use, and you are in possession of a superior
chemical soap costing about three and a half cents per square.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 30, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Cap'. V. W. Wynne.—This gallant officer, who leads a Tennessee company
in Gen. J. H. Morgan's command, is now in this city, for the purpose of
obtaining uniforms for his company. We hear him spoken of as an accomplished and dashing officer,
of much value to the very valuable and efficient command to which he is
attached.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Our
Advanced Rates.
It will be seen that all the newspaper proprietors of this city,
following the example of the press everywhere else, have advanced their rates of
subscription. We have held out as
long as possible against this disagreeable expedient, but must resort to it at
last. Its necessity is so
forcibly presented in the following plain statement of facts and figures, made
by the Macon Telegraph on publishing a letter from a paper mill notifying
it of another advance in the price of paper, and on announcing an advance of its
Daily subscription rates to $10, that we need not add a word to it:
"The paper used on our Daily and Tri-weekly editions weights 25
pounds to the ream. The price
therefore per ream (at 25 cents per pound) will be $8.75 at the mill, and
transportation will make it cost at the office $8.90 or thereabout.
There are, or ought to be, in each ream of paper, counting imperfect
sheets, 480 sheets in all—worth, at this price, a little over 18 ½ mills per
sheet. We issue to each subscriber
of the Daily in the course of the year 312 sheets, and counting wastage,
imperfect sheets, duplicates, &c., it would be only safe to average 400
sheets to the subscriber. 400
sheets at 18 ½ mills per sheet, amount to seven dollars and forty cents for
precisely the cost of the blank paper alone to each subscriber, leaving all
other expenses—typesetting, printing, ink, fuel, wear and tear, rent of
office, editors, telegrams, mailing and all other multitudinous incidentals, all
of which have been in our experience equal to three-fifths of the whole
expense—to be met out of the odd sixty cents and advertising in these times.
It is needless to say the case is hopeless—it can't be done.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Yankee accounts report that the steamer destroyed on the Yazoo by a
torpedo was the gunboat Cairo. They
say that she had fished up out of the river a torpedo sunk by the Confederates,
and that it exploded in her bow-port, with an effect so terrific as to part her
casemate and hull and cause her to sink in deep water in about eight minutes.
The officers and men, they say, escaped to the shore, but lost
everything. They call it "one
of the most terrible disasters of the war."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
It is facetiously suggested that the reason so many Yankees are shot in
the head, is the desire on the part of our boys to get clothes without any holes
in them.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
A
Card.
The undersigned, physicians and surgeons, practicing in Columbus and
vicinity, find themselves compelled, in consequence of the advanced expenses of
living, to increase their fees for professional services, in proportion to the
increased prices of all the necessaries of life.
They have therefore agreed upon the accompanying scale of prices, and
will be governed by it, in the items of service provided for therein.
Abstract
of Physicians' Fee Bill,
City.
Each visit during
the day
$2.00
"
at night before 10 o'clock
4.00
"
"
after 10 "
10.00
"
Consultation
10.00
Remaining with patient during night
20.00
Vaccination or Venesection
2.00
Obstetrical case—simple
30.00
Cauterizing throat
2.00
Lancing abscess
2.00 to 5.00
Vaginal examination—simple
5.00
Cauterizing uterus
10.00
Leeching uterus
15.00
Office prescription—simple
2.00
Country.
Each visit during
the day
2.00
"
at night before 10 o'clock
4.00
"
"
after 10
10.00
Mileage in the day
2.00
"
at night
4.00
Signed by
J. J. Boswell,
S. A. Billing,
W. K. Schley,
Thos. W. Grimes,
Jno. E. Bacon,
John B. Baird,
M. Woodruff,
Jno. L. Cheney,
T. S. Tuggle,
Jas. F. Bozeman,
F.f A. Stanford,
A. C. Wingfield,
W. W. Flewellen,
Geo. S. Davis,
H. H. Cleckley,
E. F. Colzey,
Jas. E. Ropes,
Saml. J. Higgins.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
No
More Use for Yankees.
Having procured the services of some of the most experienced workmen in
the Confederacy, I will be prepared for the manufacture of HATS by the 15th
of January inst., any style, warranted to last five years, will do well
to give me a call. Hats will be
exchanged for wool or fur hides, such as Coon, Beaver skins, &c.
My shop is located near Union, Stewart county, Ga., ten miles north-west
of Lumpkin, and eight miles east of Florence.
Persons desiring Hats for themselves, or for those who are engaged in the
service, should bring or send in the material immediately with the number of the
Hat. And as I do not expect to be
more than able to supply the demand, I will act upon the Miller's principle,
"first come, first served." Prices
moderate.
J. B. Gilbert.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Cotton Cards.—Cotton cards are now being made at the Georgia
Penitentiary at the rate of thirty pairs per day.
Skins of sheep, goats or dogs will be taken in exchange at present, as it
is the desire of the factory to get skins on hand to work up.
The cards are worth $6 a pair. Let
those who can furnish skins to that amount and forward to the Penitentiary and
receive cards in exchange.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
How to Make Good Soap.—Take good strong lye from oak ashes and chop
fine a good parcel of corn shucks, put them in the lye, boil until the lye eats
up the shucks, add more shucks, taking the strings out, then you will have good
soap.—Char. Courier.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Yarborough House, Raleigh, N.C.
}
January 9, 1863.
Dear Enquirer: A rapid
railroad speed landed your correspondent in this gallant old State.
No sooner had we crossed into its healthful domains, than we were most
delightfully edified at the first station with the lusty cry of "persimmon
beer!" Believing as we always
did that nothing bad, from her brave soldiers to her peanuts, had origin here,
we went in on the beer with our usual "vim," and had only one regret:
that you were not along to participate in this time-honored refreshment.
The Georgians and North Carolinians are great cronies, and mutually swear
they are the best fighters in our army. Anecdote
and repartee were quite profuse on the trip, and North Carolina corn juice and
apple brandy added a stimulus to the passing hour.
We were much amused, though the story may be old, how the age of the
North Carolinians can be told with accuracy.
By usual practice each year the people visit the whortleberry
(huckleberry) ponds, and daily, bare-legged, pick their fill of these delicious
berries, and the character of the troubled water is such as to leave a ring
around the leg. Adding three years
to the number of the rings and you have the exact age.
You can tell better than a Georgia clay-eater whether it is true or not!
But, pleasantry aside, Raleigh is a time honored old city.
It has a most magnificent State House, built of light gray granite, a
bronze monument of Washington, Magnificent churches, both granite and brick,
fine and indifferent residences and places of business, good water, excellent
railroad communications, etc., and what is more than all, some of the prettiest
women in the Confederacy. Speaking
to some of the latter to whom I had the honor of an introduction, your name came
up, and we enquired how it was that you, (you, Mr. Editor!) did not marry
in your own State. "Oh,"
says one whose cheeks were like rose leaves, and whose eyes sparkled like
diamonds—"John and Tom were too ugly for any of our tastes; and do when
you write to them say never claim North Carolina as their place of
nativity." You see I have
complied with their request, and you are at liberty to obey or disobey. . .
I leave to-day for Richmond, and will remember you when there.
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 2-3
American Hotel, }
Richmond, Va., Jan. 10, 1863.
}
Dear Enquirer: To-day about
lunch time we arrived at the Capitol of the Confederacy, wearied with the
tedious seventeen hours railroad time from Raleigh.
The train was crowded with soldiers returning to duty, conscripts, and a
heavy reinforcement of speculators of a very nation, the latter ostensibly
coming to "these Headquarters" to obtain war prices.
The past two days of heavy snow wound up this afternoon and night with a
heavy fall of quite cold and disagreeable rain, and it is continuing whilst I
write. The streets and side walks
are muddy beyond conception, and ladies with voluminously lengthy skirts have a
tough time of it in towing the muddy embargo which attaches itself to their
dragging petticoats and dresses. . .
The hotels and boarding houses are filled up with soldiers returning to
duty and persons in search of their sick and wounded kindred and friends. . .
Hotel rates are enormous here. Board
and room at the present commands and goes like hot cakes at five dollars per
day. Every article of prime
necessity is held and sold at mastodon rates.
Gold lace and brass buttons, high top boots, and ginsaw rowell spurs are
in abundance—those sporting those au fait military appendages holding
such positions as precludes them from the possibility of ever smelling gun
powder. Scions of the powers that be must have safe and lucrative places, if
offices have to be created! . .
.
Direct to me as heretofore, only substituting Hood's for Jones' Division.
. .
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Port Hudson, La., Jan. 4th, 1863.
Editor Enquirer: . . . The troops continue in the highest spirits.
Health very good. We have
built winter quarters of willow poles, with the cracks daubed with mud, with
dirt chimneys and floors. They are more comfortable than tents.
The officers continue to live in tents with chimneys built to them.
Since we have been stationed here our mails have been very regular.
There is a rush every mail day. It
seems everybody here expects a letter every day.
I hear considerable complaint among the boys about their sweet-hearts
getting married since they left home. They
cannot account for it. They thought
that by voluntary enlistments or conscription all the men were in the army.
It would be a strange state of affairs if all the old bachelors and
widowers marry all of the young ladies while the war is going on, and when the
young men return they will have to take the old maids.
But I suppose turn about is fair play.
I heard a young man say a few days ago, when he started off for this war,
he went by to tell his sweetheart good bye.
They parted with tears in their eyes, each promising the other they would
write long and often. He said he was captured shortly after he went into service,
and remained in prison five or six months.
Immediately after his exchange he dispatched a letter to her, and in due
time he received an answer which informed him that she married in three months
after he left!—He says now he is willing to wait until after the war and take
his chance with the old maids. I
think there is no cause for a panic on the matrimonial subject; there will be
men enough left. The prospects of
peace are very good. . .
J.J.C.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1. c. 7
A Cheap and Excellent Soap.—The following recipe, handed to us by a
South Carolina planter, will be most acceptable in these times of scarcity.
He assures us no better soap can be made.
[Sav. Rep.
To eight quarts of strong ley, add three pints of pine gum or three
pounds of rosin; boil for five or six hours, stirring well to keep the fluid
from burning at the bottom. A
little wheat flour added will make it hard, if desired.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
"Ma," said a little boy, "the blockade stops
everything—why don't it stop babies from coming?"
The reply was not given. It
might have been like that of the old lady of North Carolina, when she couldn't
get any more tea. "Well, bless
the Lord, they can't blockade sassafras!"
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cotton cards were being manufactured in Williamson county, Texas, and
were pronounced by judges to be good.
The Natchitoches Union announces that a cotton factory was about
to be established in Natchitoches parish. The
company had been fully organized.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 3-4
Camp Near Guinea's Station,
}
January 10, 1863,
}
Editor Enquirer: To-day
being a cold, rainy day, I do not know as I can employ a part of it better than
by writing you a short letter, though I have nothing of a "war like"
nature to communicate. The whole
Regiment is now pretty well prepared for the bad weather that has set in, though
it is rather hard to kill time sitting around fires in log cabins.
I witnessed an exhibition of articles the other day, made by Georgia
girls, and sent to the soldiers. One
article was a shirt, with the buttons on the wrong side, another a pair of
drawers, with the buttons ditto, another a shirt, ditto, another a pair of
drawers with a slit in the leg on the outside, while another pair of drawers
consisted of a pair of balloon shaped legs, merely hung together by a narrow
waistband. Fie, fie!
Mr. Editor, can't you old married men at home instruct the young ladies
better than this? Why, sir, it took
nearly a hank of black flax thread to make a decent fit of the last named
article, for they fell to the lot of a young Confed. who, though his head
reached considerably above the tops of his boots, does not boast of the size of
his underpinning. However, we ought
to be satisfied with anything, now, and therefore I think the Confederate
soldier, when asked by a Union lady, in Maryland, "why the Confederate
soldiers all dressed so shabbily," made a most excellent reply when he
informed her that "we always wore our worst clothes when we went to a hog
killing!" Though we may need,
and are willing to wear most anything our fair and generous daughters may make
and send us, still we find it rather difficult to become left handed.
So, if they will just put the buttons and strings on at the right places,
we won't grumble if they are a little odd in shape. . . .
J.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
Cotton
Cards.
Such being the demand, we promised to advise our readers weekly as to the
progress of the manufacture of Cotton Cards in the State Prison, and the terms
on which they can be obtained. We
have no change to announce. The
machine now in operation turns out twenty four pairs a day, which are sold at
six dollars each. Two other
machines are nearly completed, and we learn that the increase will continue as
rapidly as the machines can be made by the workmen, until about 300 pair shall
be furnished daily. In the
meantime, persons who furnish sheep and goat skins will have the preference, and
next to them soldiers' families. The
latter absorb the whole supply at present.
Southern Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Letter
from J.T.S.
Headquarters, 20th Reg. Ga. Vols.,
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near Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 20, '63.
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Dear Enquirer: Since the
date of my last, everything has been quiet along the Rappahannock. . . .
J.T.S.
P.S.—Captain Mims, Co. I, requests me to tender to Misses Lucy and Emma
Peabody, of your city, thanks for the donation of two splendid carpet blankets
for his company. The gifts were
appropriately distributed to two of our most needy and brave boys, who will ever
bear the names of the beautiful and charitable donors in lasting remembrance.
We trust their lucent example will be so far imitated until every soldier
in our army will be provided with warm covering to shield him from the excessive
cold of this latitude. Fair damsels, whom shall we thank next?
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Woolen Factory Burnt.—On Monday, the 12th instant, the large
Wool Carding Factory, located near Lincolnton, N. C., accidentally took fire and
was entirely consumed, together with all the machinery, much of which was
entirely new. The property was
owned by Col. L. D. Childs, one of the proprietors of the Saluda Factory, near
Columbia, S. C., who lost by a similar cause, some weeks since, an extensive
cotton factory situated at the same place.
There was no insurance, and it is, consequently, a total loss.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Dog skins make the best leather for the manufacture of cotton cards.
Those who supply dog skins can get cards in Milledgeville, manufactured
at the Penitentiary, at six dollars per pair.
Money will not buy them—nothing but dog or other skins.
The great question is now presented to the people of Georgia whether they
will do without dogs or clothes.
[Aug. Chron.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
Cotton
Cards.
A small lot of best A No. 10 Cotton Cards (Whittemore Cards) on
consignment, to be closed out immediately.
Rosette, Lawhon, & Co.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Athens (Ga.) Factory, we learn, has been selling yarn at three
dollars per bundle at the factory all the time, limiting the quantity to a
family in such a way as not to allow one family to get more than another.
In the same way the Macon Factory has been selling its shirting, allowing
one piece to a family, the head of which was to register his or her name, so
that no advantage may be gained. The
cloth is furnished to one or more agents in the city who pay twenty-five cents
per yard for it and sell it to the families at an advance of ten per cent.
By this generous and enlightened policy, much good has been done; by its
adoption on a larger and more extended scale by all the Manufacturers in the
State, a much greater amount of good may be done.—Sou. Cultivator.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Letters
from J. T. S.
Camp 20th Georgia Regiment,
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Toombs' Brigade, Pickett's Division,
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Near Fredericksburg, Va., Feb. 1, '63.
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Dear Enquirer: . . .
The amusements of the camp since the late heavy fall of snow have changed
from "base" to "snow-balling"—both of which are very
healthful exercises and serve to drive away the ennui of camp.
On yesterday the boys of the 15th Georgia, with a ragged
blanket for a flag, made a furious onset with snowballs on the "hard 'uns"
of the 20th. The
challenge was instantly accepted and a most magnificent and terrific battle of
snowy missiles raged until the 15th was driven furiously homeward and
forced to yield their colors and surrender. Soon thereafter the 20th and 15th
Georgia shook hands, and forming in a vast line of battle, advanced and made a
gallant and dashing charge on Corse's Virginia Brigade, and after a most
exciting combat with them, drove the Virginians, helter skelter, to their huts
for protection. The sport was
exhilarating and exciting and continued for more than one hour. To-day the Virginians came over with their water buckets
filled with balls, but were disappointed in learning our regiment had gone out
on picket. We shall satisfy them
soon.
I had almost forgotten to state to you that some of the donors feel much
offended that the contributions of this regiment to the Charleston and
Fredericksburg sufferers have never been published, though we all feel confident
they have been faithfully applied to the object for which they were specially
contributed. The donations were very handsome, and the fact of their not
being published may cause our friends at a distance to think there is no
liberality in the 20th Ga.
Professor James Ryan has been employed as the teacher and leader of a new
brass band for the 20th Ga. Regiment,
and with the funds contributed by the officers thereof, has sent to Richmond to
purchase the instruments. We have
great confidence in the capacity of our friend Ryan to teach the art, and look
forward with pleasure to the time when we shall be marching in the enemy's
country to the music artfully elicited by his clarion key bugle.
J. T. S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 2. c. 4-5
Camp 20th Georgia Regiment,
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Near Fredericksburg, Va., Feb. 4, 1863.
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Dear Enquirer: . . .
On several occasions of late, some soldiers of this regiment have
exhibited to your humble correspondent the letters they have received from their
wives, in which the most piteous and lamentable complaints are made of their
wants, and the cold, uncharitable treatment they receive from those who promised
them faithfully before leaving for the war that their wives and little ones
should not suffer—for a home, food or raiment, so long as their sole support
was thousands of miles away in the active services of the Confederacy.
One writes that she only gets forty cents per pair, for making
pantaloons, and ten pairs are all she can make if she could only succeed in
getting that many per week to make. She
then says the extraordinary cold weather causes the whole income from her labor
to be expended for fuel, or herself and little babes must freeze.
Oh! there must yet be some
sympathetic hearts and purses in chivalrous Columbus, and they at once should
take this matter in hand and alleviate the wants of the suffering families of
absent and disabled or deceased soldiers.
In connection with this, would it not be an easy matter for the
benevolent ladies of Columbus to co-operate together and establish a free market
in the city, on the plan of one now in the most successful operation in the city
of Montgomery, Alabama? At the
latter place we saw some of the prettiest girls, of the highest positions of
wealth and society, daily dispensing contributions made by themselves and
solicited from those who were able to give, to the wanting families of the poor,
absent soldiers. They seemed like
beautiful angels on errands of mercy, exhibiting the highest virtues of their
hearts. Young ladies of Columbus,
get you up a free market—make the stay at home, money idolaters, foot the
bill. Press the importance of the
charity upon their hard hearts and make them loosen their purse strings.
Who will immortalize their names?
There is a general complaint of a dearth of medicines among the surgeons
in this portion of the army. What
cause there can be for such scarcity is beyond comprehension, when so many
steamers with other governmental supplies are continually running the blockade.
We can only apprehend that there is a screw loose somewhere, and that
speculation on the curatives is so rampant and the profits so great that the
Government, which we ever believe means well, is euchred by some of the
numerous sharps in its employ. . .
By the way, we learn that Maj. Dillard is having manufactured large
quantities of clothing and shoes. Cannot
this estimable gentleman fix it somehow that our Georgia boys could get clad and
shod from his bountiful supply? We
are nearly "Georgia Majors" in apparel, and then it is very cold to
have nothing on but a shirt collar and spurs.
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
From Texas.—A late private letter, from a friend in Galveston, says:
This city is being fortified with the utmost rapidity and dispatch which
a zealous and efficient general and a willing people can command.
Night and day the works of defence are being constructed, and in a few
days more it will be impregnable to a very large fleet.
Hurrah for Magruder, he has imbued new life and vigor among us.
"Freedom or death" is the Texan motto.
The Yankee prisoners in our city are treated with great kindness; most of
the officers are at large—too much kindness, in my humble opinion, for
villains who came here avowedly to turn our slaves into demons and murderers,
our country into waste and ashes, and our ladies into—what?—Memphis Appeal.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, February 24, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
. . . We are not defending the importers because of any great advantage
to our people that enures [sic] from their running the blockade.
Our readers are aware that we long since arrived at the conclusion that
goods running the blockade were really of but little benefit to the people
generally. Only a few among us can
pay the prices demanded for them, and those few are generally those who are
making fortunes by speculation or monopoly, and who can afford to pay any prices
asked. The trade only serves to
define classes among us, and to enable those who make large amounts by
questionable practices to live better or to disport more fashionably than the
great mass who cannot afford blockade prices.
The man whose income is no more than it was before the war derives no
benefit whatever from cargoes running the blockade, though the telegraph should
report "another arrival at a Confederate port" every day or night of
the year.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The Indian Legion.—Major Thomas, commanding the Legion of
Cherokee Indians, who have rendered much service to the Confederate cause
in East Tennessee, was in our city yesterday.
The Major is now with his aboriginal allies in the mountains on the
border between this State and North Carolina, where he is in reality
conciliating the tories. Let us
mention a fact or two communicated to us by Major Thomas, to the credit of these
dusky warriors. They excel any
troops in either the Northern or Southern armies for subordination—an Indian
always executes an order with religious fidelity.
They scrupulously respect private property—there are no reports of
depredations where they are encamped. They
are the best scouts in the world, and hence the good that they have accomplished
among the mountain tories and bush-whackers.
A notice that Maj. Thomas' Indians are in a section of country brings in
the dodgers at once, for they know that hiding out will not avail against the
Cherokees. By their aid the Major
has enlisted without bloodshed, a great many men in his corps of sappers and
miners, who have thus been converted from mischievous tories and bush-whackers
into useful employees of the Confederate Government.
The Major, if the war lasts, will yet be of infinite service to the
Government.—Knoxville Register, 21st.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Cure for Chills.—A lady subscriber to the Winchester, Tenn., Bulletin
thinks it would be well for us to inform our readers and the public generally,
that the marrubium vulgaris plant, commonly called hoarhound [sic], is a
certain cure. Boil it in water and
drink freely of the tea, which though very bitter is a sure remedy. It cured her.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
A Good Wool Dye.—A gentleman in Terrell Co., Ga., says a good dye for
wool, or woolen cloth, may be made of white oak and spanish oak bark.
Make a strong decoction of these barks, and let the goods remain in it a
day or two, and then set the dye by dipping them in a weak lime water.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Letters
from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Feb. 21st, 1863.
Editor Enquirer: Since the
departure of the important personages that have enlivened "all"
Knoxville for the past ten days, the denizens have lapsed into their usual ways. However, the attractive, "dashing" Belle Boyd, once
an inmate of Fortress Monroe upon the charge of being a Confederate spy,
perambulates Gay Street in all her glory. . . .
J.T.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
Novel Idea.—During a recent debate in the Confederate Senate, Mr.
Phelan, of Mississippi, adverted to the fact that he had seen white women, in
"hoopless skirts and broad sun-bonnets" guiding the plow in Southern
fields. He invoked God's blessing
upon such women, and hoped that they would be "mantel ornaments in the
parlors of Paradise."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
Epsom salts are now manufactured at South Newport, McIntosh county, Ga.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, March 31, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Novel Impressment.—Fifteen or twenty women, the leader of whom carried
a revolver, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, went around to a number of grocery stores,
seizing bacon, meal and vegetables, paying such prices as they thought proper.
They were dispersed by the police. The
Confederacy says the women were only imitating the examples set them by
Government officials.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
The Cheapest Food.—The cheapest and most nutritious vegetable used for
food is beans. Prof. Liebig says that pork and beans form a compound of
substances peculiarly adapted to furnish all that is necessary to support life.
A quart of beans and a half a pound of pork will feed a small family for
a day with good strengthening food. Four
quarts of beans and two pounds of corned beef, boiled to rags, in fifty quarts
of water, will furnish a good meal for forty men.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The
Cotton Card Manufacture.
On Tuesday last Gov. Brown sent a special measure to the Legislature in
reference to the cotton card manufacturing enterprise in which the State has
engaged as a partner. The message
was referred to a special committee. We
copy a report of its substance from the Macon Telegraph:
The Governor states that 100 pair cards could be turned out per day if
there was on hand a supply of wire. Engagements
have been made with a firm in Dalton—Messrs. Russell, Brother & Co., to
make wire, and parties are also engaged to import a supply through the blockade.
The exact cost of making a pair of cards is about $4.
Two new machines are completed, and three more well under way, with five
more half done, and three large machines begun for making 44 inch card cloth for
factories. About 1,200 cards have
been made since the purchase by the State, which have been sold for sheep and
dog skins. The Governor says that
Messrs. Lee & Co. did not turn over more than wire enough to make 1,130 pair
of cards, when they contracted to furnish enough to make 12,000, and recommends
that the value of the wire be deducted from the sum to be paid for the Works.
He does not deem it best to purchase the remaining half interest, as,
according to the contract, the State controls the Works as fully as though it
owned them all, and the interest cannot be bought except at an exorbitant price.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The Women Rising.—A crowd of women, some of them armed with revolvers
and bowie-knives, entered the store of Rosenwald & Bro., on Triangular
block, this morning, and took forcible possession of several pieces of
calico.—The proprietor demurred to this seizure, and rushed upon the
woman who had the bowie-knife, and took it from her—also re-captured two bolts
of calico in possession of the invaders. He
has lost but one piece of goods, he thinks.
The scene in Second street was, we learn, quite exciting for the time it
was in progress—but the women shortly dispersed and the usual quiet of the
neighborhood was resumed.
We know nothing of the cause of the outbreak, but sincerely deplore the
circumstances. It is all wrong,
decidedly wrong—and it behooves our authorities to take such action as will
supply the destitute women of the vicinity, and thus prevent, for the future,
any such raids upon private property.
These women probably need clothing as well as food, and
their wants should be supplied from public contributions, in the absence of
employment that will yield sufficient remuneration for their toil!
Men of wealth, open your coffers and let the poor be clothed and fed,
before they become desperate and help themselves to what their hands can
find.—Macon Confed, 1st.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
A Female Aid-de-Camp.—The Baltimore Clipper says Antonia J. Ford was
the principal spy and guide for Captain Mosby in his recent raid on Fairfax C.
H., and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. Slaughter, Wyndham and others.
She was arrested and brought to the Old Capitol Prison, on Sunday last,
with $1,000 Confederate money on her person.
The following is a copy of her commission:
To all whom it may concern: Know
ye that, reposing special confidence in patriotism, fidelity and ability of
Antonio J. Ford, I, J. E. B. Stuart, by virtue of power vested in me as
Brigadier General, Provisional Army Confederate States, hereby appoint and
commission her my Honorable Aid-de-Camp, to rank as such from this date.
She will be obeyed, respected, and admired by all lovers of a noble
nature.
Given under my hand and seal, Headquarters, Cavalry Brigade, at Camp
Beverly, 7th October, 1861, and first year of our Independence.
J. E. B. Stuart.
By the General,
L. T. Bryan, A. A. G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
Bath Paper Mill Destroyed.—We regret to learn that the
Bath Paper Mill, situated on the South Carolina Railroad, six miles from
the city, was destroyed by fire about 2 o'clock, p.m., yesterday.
The roof of the building was discovered to be on fire, when every
possible exertion was made to extinguish the flames; but owing to the prevalence
of a high wind, all efforts to overcome the fire was of no avail—the entire
building being consumed.
This is a severe loss, and in the present scarcity of paper will most
seriously interfere with the publication of the journals that are dependent on
the Mill for a supply of paper.—Augusta Const., 3d inst.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
We learn that fourteen bacon hams were sold in this city on yesterday,
and brought the small sum of nine hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five
cents. These hams, we learn, were raised by one of the oldest and
best farmers, and were none of your little boney [sic] pieces of meat like that
which you find scattered around some places in town, and better worth one dollar
and twenty-five cents per pound than common meat is worth fifty cents.
But that is a big pile of money these hard times for fourteen hams of
bacon. Why it is almost the price
of a number one negro.
[Selma Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
An exchange gives the following recipe to make cheap blacking.
To a tea-cup of molasses, stir in lampblack until it is black, then add
the white of two eggs, well beaten, and to this add a pint of vinegar or
whiskey, and put it into a bottle for use—shake it before using.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Corn and Bacon for Soldiers' Families.—I have 400 bushels of corn that
I will sell to poor soldiers' families of Spalding county for one dollar per
bushel; also, 2,000 lbs. of meat, at 40c per pound.
R. H. Tooley.
Griffin, Ga., March 28, 1863.
The above notice was posted by Mr. Tooley, a man of moderate means, who
keeps a candy store in Griffin. He
purchased these articles before the seizures, and now, with a generous
liberality, while corn is selling in Griffin at $2.50 per bushel, and bacon at
80 to 90c per lb., he is giving relief to soldiers' families at the prices named
in his notice. There are many whose means would better enable them to assist
the poor, but who are slow to follow his example.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Whiskey sells in Little Rock at two dollars and fifty cents a drink, and
the purchaser is not allowed to pour it out, or gauge his own, so says the True
Democrat.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
From
the Augusta Constitionalist of 11th.
Amazonian Display.
It is an old saying that "one might as well be dead as to be out of
the fashion," and so a small portion of Richmond county women must have
thought yesterday, as they followed the fashion of female mobocracy, which was
set them by some of our sister cities recently.—Some time during the morning,
a number of Amazonian warriors—well, not a very large number—assembled in
the upper part of the city, and proceeded to the store of Mr.
Reinhardt, where one of them queried:
"Got any shoes at a dollar a pair?"
"No," responded the store keeper.
"Any calicer, at 50 cents a yard?"
"No," said Mr. R.
"Well, that's all we're goin' to pay for 'em," responded one of
the female women.
By this time, Reinhardt began in the language of the Irish lawyer, to
"smell a mice, to see it brewing in the storm," and, therefore,
determined to "crush it in the bud."
Consequently he informed his warlike patrons that he had some important
out-door business to attend to, and could not wait upon them; with which
explanation, he locked up his store, and left.
The Amazonians then visited the grocery store of Mr. E. Gallaher, near
the Upper Market, but were received there with some show of resistance.
In the meantime, information having been conveyed to Mayor May, he
started for the field of operations, with two of the Police Officers, at the
sight of whom the crowd "skedaddled" in every direction.
A gentleman asked one of them if they wanted bread, to which she replied
in the negative, and said that she had bread enough, but wanted meat.
Upon being asked why they made this demonstration, she replied:
"We heard that they had raised the red flag all over the country,
and people only had to go and take what they wanted."
What the red flag is we do not know.
Perhaps it is something of the balmoral kind.
The whole affair was a very insipid thing, and perhaps hardly worth a
local item, but as exaggerated reports may get abroad, and possibly "cross
the line" to "the aid and comfort" of our enemies, we have though
proper to give a correct statement of it, to show that it did not amount to much
after all, and was soon quieted. Several
of the parties implicated were not citizens of Augusta, and were of the real
Amazonian style of female architecture.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Marriages in the Army—A Caution.—A letter from Raleigh, N. C.,
contains the following paragraph. It
needs no explanation:
Some of our soldiers who have wives and children at home, have married
again among the Virginia girls. The
sweet, lovely damsels of the Valley and Fredericksburg little think, as they
take these gay young gentlemen for "better or for worse," that they
have left other devoted wives and prattling chaps behind.
An instance of this sort "leaked out" a short time ago. A "nice young Lieutenant" of a Louisiana regiment
wrote a very long endearing letter to his wife and children in Louisiana, and
about the same time wrote a most affectionate, loving letter to his newly
married bride, who was staying a few miles away from the camp, and accidentally,
but unfortunately for him, he sent the wrong letter to each, so that his lovely
bride got the letter intended for the wife of his "buzum," and she the
other. I guess that made a
"fuss in the family," if not in both families.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
A very painful and disgraceful scene has occurred on the streets of
Milledgeville. An immense crowd of women collected and helped themselves to
dry goods in the stores of some Jewish merchants here—Gans & Co.—and
were about to help themselves to cotton yarns at Waltzfelder's—who are
connected with the factory. Judge
Harris appealed to them to desist from such lawless conduct, and their wants
should be supplied; whereupon a large purse was made up for their relief. It was not suffering, so much as a spirit of revenge toward
the exactions of these houses, that urged these deluded women to this
course.—They did not seek provisions, though provisions stores were at hand,
but helped themselves to fancy dry goods, such as they never wore in their
lives. It was a painful spectacle,
because it will be distorted into an outbreak of the hungry and suffering.
They were all comfortably clad, and looked more like Amazons than
starving people.—Correspondence of Macon Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
The Lynchburg, Va., Republican, says:
A fine fat sheep raised by Wm. Hix, Esq., on his farm in Amherst, was
sold to one of the butchers in the city, on Saturday, to be killed for mutton,
at the handsome price of $130. A
year ago and the same animal would have brought from five to six dollars.
A yoke of ordinary work oxen, in low order, sold here Saturday for $800.
When our country friends talk of the high prices of articles purchased
from stores in town, don't it sound much like the pot calling the kettle black.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
James C. Gibbes, of Columbia, S. C., has arrived from abroad, bringing
with him machinery for making cotton cards and other purposes.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
"To be done with two mice, a rat, a cat, and a cataract," is
said to have been the order given by a young lady in New York for the dressing
of her hair, to a fashionable artist in that city.
Ridiculous! Not at all.
Her great grandmother, no doubt, had her hair turned up over a cushion,
two feet high, and powdered into the bargain.
Times are not as they were; but the latter days, in matter of dress, are
no more absurd than the former. Let
the "menagerie and waterfall style" have its little day, as did the
pyramidal "mode" of old.—Chattanooga Rebel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 28, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
A New Idea—Cotton Cards.—We are informed that there is a farmer in
Washington county, who spins his cotton filling without the aid of cards.
The process is simple. He
goes to the gin house or lint room, puts the light flakes of cotton ginned into
a basket, not packed, carries it to the spinning wheel, and the thread is made
with rapidity. With a little
practice, more thread can be made in a day, than with the aid of cotton cards.
If kerseys are desired to be made, put cow hair into the gin with
the cotton, and it will be thrown into the lint room nicely mixed.
The same process as above, will give him the filling he desires.
Will our farmers practice upon the important idea thrown
out?—Milledgeville Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, April 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Columbus
Relief Association.
This Association will commence business today in the house formerly
occupied by Mr. E. A. Smith, on the east side of Broad street, below the Bank of
Columbus.
Its object, as the public has already been advised, is to buy provisions
and sell them at cost to the families of absent soldiers and others whose means
are not sufficient to enable them to pay war prices.
The want of transportation, with the inadequate supply has advanced the
price of provisions beyond the ability to buy of many honest, but poor people in
our community. The large number of
laborers, too, which the stagnation of the regular channel of industry has
thrown upon the cities, has not permitted the wages of labor to advance in a
ratio corresponding with the advance in the price of provisions, and, in
consequence, much suffering has been entailed upon a most deserving class of our
population. Under the beneficent
operations of the plan inaugurated to-day, it is expected that at least the
profits of the merchant will be saved to the consumer. This to the needy
laboring man is no inconsiderable item. It
may enable him to put shoes on his feet and clothing on his body, or to provide
these little comforts to his wife and little ones.
The object and end of this Association are thus briefly stated:
the rest is in the hands of the farmers of the country.
After all that we have done, if we cannot secure the generous
encouragement and co-operation of this class of our fellow-citizens, failure is
inevitable.—We, therefore, earnestly appeal to them to assist us—not indeed
with their money, but with their trade. We
ask in the name of those whose natural protectors, even now, are standing on the
brink of battle, ready with their lives to defend everything we possess or hope
for in this life; in behalf of those to whom succor and relief is the direct
command of the Almighty—the suffering poor—that our association receive from
provision raisers and others thro'out the country that encouragement to which
its noble purpose entitles it. While
affording them an opportunity of contributing to the needy, we shall at the same
time make it to their interest to trade with us.
Through the liberality and patriotism of the Eagle and Columbus Factories
in furnishing as large quantities of bacon at 50 cents per pound, and Messrs.
Habersham & Sons, of Savannah, who have furnished with twenty-five casks of
rice at 17 cents per pound, and Mr. E. T. Shepperd and J. E. Hurt who furnished
us sweet potatoes at $2 per bushel, we are enabled to commence operations under
very favorable circumstances.
L. G. Bowers, President.
B. F. Coleman,
Jno. D. Gray,
H. M. Jeter,
D. B. Thompson,
Jno. Quinn,
Directors.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
The
Raid on McMinnville.
We have conversed with a gentleman just from McMinnville.
He represents the outrages of the enemy in that quarter as surpassing any
yet perpetrated in Middle Tennessee. His
account is substantially as follows:
The enemy appeared on the Northwest side of the town at noon on
Monday.—Tidings of his approach had been brought in an hour or two before,
allowing the stray cavalrymen, convalescent soldiers and others a chance of
escape. There was a company of
Provost guardsmen present, who made a stand against the first advance for the
purpose of giving our wagons, et cetera, a fair start.
After a brisk skirmish of half an hour, overpowering numbers forced this
handful of men to disperse. Some
escaped and others were captured. There
being no further obstacle the Federals proceeded at once to the public square.
They were mostly mounted infantry, estimated at between six and ten
thousand in number.
Their first business was the destruction of the large Cotton Factory,
near the railroad bridge. It is one
of the most extensive, and has been also one of the most useful in the South.
It was completely destroyed. They
then burnt the depot buildings, and adjoining houses, and the bridges across the
Barren Fork. . . –Chatta. Rebel, 26th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
Tallow Candles.—It may be of some interest to our numerous readers to
know that, with not a cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made
fully equal in point of merit to the common star candle:
To two pounds of tallow add one teacup full of good ley from good ashes,
and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim this off
for soap, (it is almost soap already) as long as it continues to rise.
Then mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller, and
you have a pure hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that
burns as long, and gives a light equal to sperm. The chemistry demonstrates itself. An ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder,
and steeping the wicks in spirits of turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me—Mobile News.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Blackberry Wine.—The following is said to be an excellent recipe for
the manufacture of superior wine from blackberries:
Measure your berries and bruise them, to every gallon adding one quart of
boiling water; let the mixture stand 24 hours, stirring occasionally; then
strain off the liquor into a cask, to every gallon adding two pounds of sugar;
cork tight and let stand till following October, and you will have wine ready
for use without any further straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as
they never smacked under similar influence before.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cotton
Yarns for Soldiers' Families.
Mr. E. Steadman calls upon all the cotton yarn spinners of the State to
meet in convention at Atlanta on the 15th inst., to arrange a united
effort on the part of the factories to supply the destitute families of soldiers
with yarns.
Col. Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster of the State, whose duty it has been made by the Legislature to
procure supplies of yarn for soldiers' families, approves this call, and urges
that the work be commenced as generally and as soon as possible.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
From
Benning's Brigade.
Camp Wood.
}
Near Gatesville, N. C.,
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April 26th, 1863.
}
Ed. Enquirer:--Since my last to you, we have been continuing our
march—seeking out provisions and forage for Lt. Gen. Longstreet's corps
d'armee. From alpha to omega,
we have been entirely successful in obtaining an abundant supply of bacon, lard,
corn and fodder, for our peregrinating brigade, and the corps proper stationed
in front of Suffolk. We have had an interesting time of it generally.
Plenty of good food to eat, lots of pretty girls to greet us by the
wayside and cast their angelic smiles upon us and bid us welcome to their boards
and parlors; and then we have music from our brass band at every big mansion.
Our field and staff officers have had quite a gay time on the march and
in the bivouac. For genuine
gallantry, we will wager that Benning's Brigade is without a compeer, and the
field, staff and line officers of the 20th Georgia pride themselves
on being a head and shoulder taller in the art of fascination than the other
regiments of the Brigade. But it is
best to keep shady on this subject, lest some of our loving, lonely wives at
home might surmise we were playing off as single Apollos in this section where
Virgin beauty is as plentiful as the whortleberries in this old State of
primitive customs and genuine hospitality.
A thousand blessings say we on the old Hog and Hominy region! . . .
But I fear, friend Martin, several of the boys of our Brigade have
unconsciously allowed the beauteous damsels of this plain, domestic and
chivalrous State to bear their hearts away, when they spiritedly drove away in
their unique and common one-horse chaise—it being the only vehicle left by the
vandals, who have stolen all the buggies and carriages.
True must be the patriotism of those who can forego the elegant carriage
for the rude, one-horse chaise. Well
the contrast in our eyes makes the beauty of the girls more resplendent, and has
a dash of genuine independence about it. What
say you?
Such a thing as charging a soldier an iota for board or bed is an
exception to the prevailing custom in this part of rural North Carolina, i. e.,
in the counties of Pasquotank, Perquimons, Chowan and Gates.
Even the wives of the renegades and disloyal citizens have treated us
kindly and hospitably.
I observed a custom here well worthy of imitation in other States of the
Confederacy. Children are required
to work at something at an early age. Such
sized boys as our recherche citizens at home would place under the
immediate charge of a buxom sable nurse, here drop corn by a V fork, and do
various other farm duties. This
accounts for the reputation the North Carolinians bear wherever they go for
industry and thrift.
But I fear I have tired your patience with this pencil scrawl on such a
variety of scraps of paper, and must close to face a smoking meal of fresh shad,
ham and eggs, fowl, sweet potatoes, corn bread and biscuit, which our servant
Frank , with an exulting air, has spread on the mundane table, before our shed
of rails and blankets, for immediate demolition.
Three cheers three for North Carolina!
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
From
the Dismal Swamp Region.
Camp Near Minnsville,
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Chowan county, N.C.
}
April 25, 1863.
}
Editor Enquirer:--For the last three months this Brigade has been on duty
in the counties of Gates, Perquimons, Pasquotank and Chowan.
The reason of our being here is to break up a next of Buffaloes (a set of
lawless renegade and traitorous citizens) who have banded themselves together,
and have given great annoyance to the loyal citizens. . . To the praise of your
old State, Mr. Editor, I must say that we have met with the most hospitable
people we have ever been among. Nothing
seems to be too good for the "Dixie Boys," and every one seems to see
how much they can do toward contributing to our comfort and enjoyment.
Even when they take pay at all it is just the old prices before the
war—eggs 10 to 15 cents per dozen, and the finest potatoes you ever saw at $1
per bushel; corn $1 per bushel; grown hens 25 cents each, and other things at
like prices. Even the very poorest
give away all they can spare. Our
boys are loth to leave here, and if the exigencies of the service will permit,
would be willing to remain during the balance of the war, and your correspondent
thinks from indications some of them would make a lifetime home of it.
Every evening our camps are thronged with citizens, and among them a host
of the prettiest girls I ever saw (can't for the life of me see why you lived to
be an old bachelor, and then had to go all the way to Georgia to find a wife),
and all seem overjoyed by the presence of the "Dixie Boys."
Professor Ryan generally favors them with some music by his fine band. .
. . Yours, J.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Cotton
Spinners' Convention.
In conformity with a request published some time since, a meeting of the
Cotton Spinners of the State was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 15th of
May.
There were present, John White, of Georgia Factory; Isaac Powell, High
Shoals Factory; Hugh McLean, Agaudon Mill; Thomas Leslie, Troup Factory, and E.
Steadman, Gwinnett Manufacturing Company. On
motion, John White was elected Chairman, and E. Steadman, Secretary.
After consultation the meeting agreed upon the following:
(Circular.)
To the Cotton Spinners of Georgia.
In pursuance of a call made upon the Cotton Spinners of Georgia to
assemble in Convention in the city of Atlanta, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the best means of supplying the great destitution in Cotton Yarns,
now being felt all over our State, the undersigned duly assembled.
After a deliberate examination of all the facts laid before us, towit:
the great scarcity of Cotton Yarns; the limited means of soldiers' wives
and families; the probable continuance of this unholy war; and the apparent
suffering that must continue to accrue to the families of our noble defenders on
account of the scarcity of Yarns; and the almost impossibility of procuring
Cotton Cards, we have determined to act upon the following plan, and earnestly
request Cotton Spinners all over the State heartily to co-operate with us.
We hereby pledge ourselves to furnish to General Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General of the State, one-eight of our production of Cotton
Yarns weekly, at one-half the current prices at the time they are furnished.
These Yarns to be issued to the Inferior Courts of each county, and by
them to be distributed to the destitute of their counties, as provided for by a
resolution of the late Legislature. These
Yarns to be delivered by us at the nearest depot of transportation.
This plan cannot fail to commend itself to every patriot of the Empire
State.—Thousands of our fellow citizens, clad in the armor of war, are on
distant fields battling for our rights and cheerfully risking their lives in
defence of us, our homes and altars.
Their families are consigned to our care. They are in great need of Yarns with which to weave them
necessary clothing. Cotton Cards
cannot be procured. Their only hope
is in the factories of their State. To
them they appeal, and to them they surely will not appeal in vain.
John White,
Georgia Factory.
Isaac Powell,
High Shoals Factory.
Hugh MacLean,
Aguadon Mill.
Thos. Leslie,
Troup Factory.
E. Steadman,
Gwinnett Manufacturing Company.
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Quartermaster General's
Office, }
Atlanta, May 15, 1863.
}
The above circular is sent forth with the earnest hope, that every cotton
spinner in Georgia will cheerfully and promptly respond to its appeal and act
upon its plan.
I know of no act by which proprietors of factories can more surely nerve
the arms of our brave soldiers, than by furnishing thread, by which the loved
ones at home can be comfortably clad and protected from the rigors of a coming
winter. A failure to respond will
result in much suffering among the families of those who have sacrificed their
all for our defense and our comfort. Let
it be remembered that without the aid of factories, thread cannot be obtained,
and the destitute poor cannot be clad. Let
the families of our soldiers be fed and clothed, and they will more cheerfully
and patiently bear the toils and suffering of the camp, and more gallantly meet
the assault of the enemy. Let them
be neglected, and dissatisfaction on the part of many, and desertion in some,
will inevitably follow. How much
then depends upon the action of our cotton
spinners in this matter.
In behalf of the destitute families of our gallant soldiers who appeal to
the cotton spinners of Georgia, we appeal with confidence that they will not
disappoint us, but will nobly and patriotically come to our aid in this our time
of need.
The yarns so obtained will be furnished gratuitously to the
destitute of our State.
Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General State of Georgia.
P.S.—Each daily of the State will copy the above three times—each
weekly twice. As the matter is one of charity, it is hoped that the charges
for insertion will be as small as possible—if made. Bills presented at the office will be paid.
I.R.F.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Substitute for Copperas.—To the Ladies:
Copperas is composed of sulphuric acid, or oil of vitriol
and iron, and is called by chemists sulphate of iron. A better material for dyeing, and the one invariably used by
dyers, is called acetate of iron, and is thus prepared:
Take common vinegar, the stronger the better, put into it rusty nails, or
any pieces of rusty iron, and let it stand for several days; the vinegar will
eat off or dissolve the rust, and when it ceases to act on the iron, pour off
the clear liquor and use it as you would copperas, and you will find it a much
better article, and cost you nothing.
E. N. Elliott, Chemist.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Not long since we heard a young lady say that hereafter she intended to
buy none but homespun dresses. It
was a wise conclusion, and we hope every woman in the Confederacy will follow
her example, and buy no more of those goods which blockade runners are palming
off on the people as from England, when, in reality, they are from Yankeedom,
and thus save gold in the country which, by this means, goes into the pockets of
the enemy. This revolution has proved that the women of the South are
not mere butterflies of fashion; they have labored cheerfully and made
sacrifices unmurmuringly, and have proved themselves worthy of their patriotic
husbands who are in the field. The
young ladies have learned lessons of usefulness and economy and will make model
wives for our brave young soldiers when they return from the bloody field to
peaceful pursuits.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Spinning Without Cards.—Perhaps it is not known to all to whom it might
be of service, that very good and even yarn may be spun from cotton just as
it comes from the gin, as can be made from rolls.
This has been, and is now done very successfully, by people of more
ingenuity and industry than those who are continually grumbling about the prices
of cards.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
From
the Augusta Chronicle, 28th.
Cheering from Arkansas.
We have had the pleasure of an interview with a gentleman recently from
Camden, Arkansas, who has kindly furnished us with some facts in regard to the
situation of affairs in that State, which cannot fail to be of great interest to
our readers. Our informant is a
gentleman of rare cultivation, strong good sense, and pleasing conversational
powers, and his knowledge of affairs in that quarter is ample and reliable.
The social condition of the people of Arkansas is most encouraging.
The war has proved to them a blessing, in the sense that it has brought
out the resources of the country, taught the inhabitants self-reliance, and
developed their slumbering energies. In
the enterprise and activity, born of the emergency, the State has become a
perfect hive of industry.—Factories, machine shops, forges, foundries, etc.,
abound, where articles for home use, and for the army, are abundantly supplied.
Salt wells have been found and the manufacture of salt is carried on
extensively and successfully. The
tanning of hides, for the past eight months, has been beyond all parallel in the
history of the State. By precaution
and a wise foresight, cotton and woolen cards are plenty, and many families are
engaged in carding, spinning, and weaving cloth, both for domestic purposes and
for clothing the soldiers. Our
informant mentioned some households where eight hundred yards had been wove the
past year, who intended this year to increase the amount to one thousand yards.
Under the quickening influence of the times, the whole State is alive
with industrial enterprise.
The crops this year, we are happy to learn, are very bountiful, and the
breadth of wheat sown, and now nearly ready for harvest, is at least four fold
that of any previous year. All
kinds of provision crops will yield generously.
There is no suffering among the poor in Arkansas.
The Legislature appropriated a million and a half for the benefit of the
poor and the families of soldiers. And
in addition, labor is everywhere wanted and commands liberal compensation. Under the circumstances, it is impossible to resist the
conviction that the people are even better off than before the war commenced. .
. .
On the whole, the statement which we have listened to, and which we have
here perhaps but imperfectly set down, is of the most hopeful character, and if
any fears are felt for Arkansas, we think they may be dismissed.
Her career, glorious as it has been in the past, we predict will be yet
more glorious, and we feel a glow of pride that she is an honored and prominent
member of the fair sisterhood of Southern States.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
From
the Knoxville Register.
Stonewall Jackson's Message to the Women of the Confederacy.
After a visit to the Rappahannock army, the writer of this made a parting
call on General Jackson, in his tent. As
we stood exchanging the last words, some reference was made to what our ladies
were doing. "Yes," said
he, "but they must not entice the men away from the army.
You must tell them so for me. We
are fighting for principle, for honor, for everything we hold dear.
If we fail we must lose everything.
We shall then be slaves—we shall be worse than slaves—we shall have
nothing worth living for."
I am sure the women of the Confederacy will give these words of the now
lamented hero a place in their hearts. Let
them not be impatient even about their friends in the army coming on visits
home. Let them encourage and cheer
them in staying at their posts whenever and so long as may be necessary.
But, whether there may have been much occasion for such a suggestion to
them or not, the words which Jackson spoke in connection with it, are words
alike noble and solemn, to which every man, as well as every woman, in the
Confederate States ought to listen. Let
our soldiers inscribe them on their banners.
Let our citizens at home keep them before their eyes.
Let those who are mad in the pursuit of gain, amid the sufferings of
their country, aid their fellow-citizens, and give ear to the tones of warning
which these words convey.
L.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Alcohol from China Berries.—Messrs. Beusse & Hines, of this place,
are now manufacturing alcohol from china berries.
They have succeeded in making it ninety per cent. proof.
It has been tested, and pronounced an excellent article for mechanical
purposes. The enterprise deserves
encouragement.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Mrs. Wm. N. Wyatt has sent us a sample of soft soap made without the use
of a particle of grease, which is equal to the best article of the kind we ever
saw; and as the process of making it is simple and the ingredients within the
reach of all, we take pleasure in making it known that the public may be
benefitted thereby.
Take corn shucks, remove the hard, or shank end, strip those up find, and
place them in a pot or kettle of strong boiling ley, stir until all the
particles of shuck are consumed; add a tea-cup full of pine gum or rosin, to an
ordinary pot full, and you will have as good soap as you could wish.
We presume that the soap could be hardened in the usual way, if
desirable.—Marion Commonwealth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Pine apples are selling in Mobile at ten dollars apiece.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 3-4
A Most Horrid and Fiendish
Murder Committed by a Member of the Third Georgia Cavalry.
Ed.
Enquirer: The particulars of this
horrible murder we hasten to lay before your readers.
The awful deed was committed at midnight, on Ashley's Farm, near Mount
Hebron Church. Hear the confession
of the dastardly wretch: It was midnight, when all nature seemed hushed in quiet
repose, and the weary soldiers were slumbering in fancied security upon their
pallets, save the martial tread of the watchful sentinel as he paced his post,
vigilantly guarding his comrades from skulking intruders, when suddenly from the
west, dark clouds ominously gathered upon the horizon; when, as time grew apace,
the muttering thunders and vivid sheets of lightning darting like forked tongued
serpents across the heavens indicated a terrific storm.
The heavens were pervaded with darkness--darker and blacker it grew--peal
after peal rent the air; the lightnings flashed, the thunder roared, the earth
quaked and vibrated at sounds of heaven's artillery; large drops of rain fell
thick and fast. I awoke!
Would to heaven that I could have remained as unconscious as my sleeping
comrades. Slowly and cautiously an
object, apparently invisible, came creeping towards me; the monster had taken
hold of my foot. I tried to speak
but could not; my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth; a dizziness came over my
bewildered brain; large drops of perspiration stood upon my forehead.
I endeavored to awaken my companion, but my strength failed me.
I grew faint.--Another flash more vivid, accompanied by terrific peals of
thunder, revealed--Oh, God! how can
I describe it! It was already on my
body. I used every effort to shake
the monster off, but could not move a hand.
I almost ceased to breathe. I
could not endure such awful agony much longer.
With one tremendous bound I grasped my bowie knife and pistol with one
hand, and with the other grasped the monster by the head.
My teeth were clenched, my eyes protruded from their sockets.
I raised the murderous weapon in the air, and, with giant strength,
plunged my knife into the largest, fattest, bloodiest looking body bedbug I ever
saw. Steve Wells told me to lie
still, or he would kick me out of bed.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
New
Paper Mill.
We learn that some enterprising gentlemen from Georgia went to Tennessee,
a short time ago, and purchased a paper mill that was exposed to the enemy, and
succeeded in removing its machinery just before a raid of the enemy swept
through the region where it was located. It
is to be put up somewhere in Georgia.
There is no enterprise more important, or more promising of speedy
returns, than paper mills. A half
dozen new ones, of the largest capacity, would scarcely supply the demand for
paper.—Some of our enterprising blockade runners might import the machinery,
and mills could be in running order in three or four months.
Will not capitalists consider the great good they might do, in risks like
this?
Books, papers and tracts can only be published at an enormous price,
owing to the scarcity of paper. The religious, educational, and literary
advancement of our people is sadly affected by the paper famine, which is in the
power of our capitalists to remove.—Aug. Const.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
A Receipt to Dye Black.—We publish for the benefit of our lady readers,
the following recipe which has been furnished us, to dye cotton a beautiful jet
black colour:
1 pot of red oak ooze; 1 do. of maple dye; 1 do. of strong ley; 1 do. of
strong copperas water.
Dip the hank in the red oak, and next in the ley, and then in the
copperas water five times. Then dip
in the maple, ley, and copperas water five times.
It is no humbug. Try
it.—Atlanta Intell.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Deacon Johnson is a great temperance man, and sets a good example of
total abstinence as far as he is seen.
Not long ago he employed a carpenter to make some alterations in his
parlor, and in the corner near the fireplace, it was found necessary to remove
the wainscoting, when lo! a discovery was made that astonished everybody.
A brace of decanters, a tumbler, and a pitcher were cozily reposing there
as if they had stood there from the beginning.
The Deacon was summoned, and as he held the blushing bottles, he
exclaimed:
"Well, I declare, this is curious, sure enough!
It must be that old Burns left them when he went out of this 'ere house
thirty years ago."
"Perhaps he did," returned the carpenter, "but, Deacon,
the ice in the pitcher must have friz mighty hard to stay all this time."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Palmetto Hats.—A correspondent of the Mobile Gulf City Journal, gives
the following mode of preparing the Palmetto Leaf for making hats:
"The leaf must be taken while very young and tender, (before it
comes to maturity, as at that age a nice hat could not be made of it.)
"The proper mode of getting and preparing is thus:
When the bud is about eighteen or twenty inches high, dig below the
surface of the earth and cut off the bud where it joins the root; boil in clean
water four or six hours, take it out, place it in the sun for six days, when it
will be bleached a beautiful white, and ready for being manufactured into hats;
dampen before using.
"The long leave of Cabbage Palmetto is much better than the short,
or swamp leaf. Now (April or May)
is the proper time to prepare it.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Alum.—We have in our office a specimen of
crude native alum, which was found in York District, S.
C., on the lands of Mr. O. Spratt, about one-fourth a mile from his
ferry. Two of his sons being in a
hail storm sought shelter under a shelving rock.
Exuding from the crevices of the rock they found the crystals.
The extent of the mine is not known.
We presume it will be immediately explored.—Mountain (N.C.) Eagle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
Blue Stone.—We have on hand at this office a sample of Blue Stone,
manufactured at the Polk county Copper mines.
This is an article indispensable to telegraph operators, and for some
other purposes, and in general demand among farmers at seeding time.
The supply had become nearly exhausted, but it is now being largely
manufactured at Ducktown, and no further difficulty will be experienced in
procuring it.—Athens Post.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 4, c. 2
Many of our soldiers being constantly subject to change of waters and
trying exposure, suffer from the flux. An
almost immediate remedy for this painful affection of the bowels is found, says
an old head, in the use of sage tea, with some red pepper stirred in it.
Let it be drank at intervals, and in a short time the patient will be
entirely relieved.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The
Raid into Florence.
The Federal cavalry, under Col. Cornyn, entered Florence on last
Thursday. The force was about 1,000
strong. The stores, &c., were
broken open and robbed. Martin,
Weakly & Co's three large cotton factories were burnt.
They worked up about 4,000 bales of cotton per annum, and the loss is a
heavy one to the owners and the country. There
was a skirmish in or near the town, one man was killed and a few wounded on our
side. An old man named Bob White
was killed at the factories. The
enemy soon retired. Five prisoners, left drunk in the town, were brought up here
on Monday.
We learn, that the Federals, in large force, advanced up to Bear Creek,
on the Tuscumbia side—Roddy's forces opposed them there.
In the meanwhile they sent a portion of their cavalry over to the
Florence side to burn the Factories, while nearly all our forces were
confronting them at Bear Creek. In
this way, they seem to have deceived our officers and accomplished their design
to a partial extent—that of burning and destroying our factories, machinery,
&c.
A deserter from the Yankees at Florence states their force to have been
2,000, with 8 mounted howitzers. That
they crossed the river near Pittsburg Landing on gunboats, &c.
There were five regiments, the 7th Kansas, 10th
Missouri, 9th Illinois, &c.—Huntsville Adv., 3d.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
A Texas paper has the following:
We learn by a gentleman from Hempstead, that the ladies of that county
gave a fair on last Tuesday night in Hempstead, for the benefit of Waller's
Battalion, the proceeds of which amounted to upwards of ten thousand dollars.
This is the largest contribution we have yet heard of at any one fair,
and speaks stronger than any language for the patriotism of Austin county.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Beech Tree Leaves.—The leaves of the beech tree, collected at autumn,
in dry weather, form an admirable filling for beds.
The smell is grateful and wholesome, they do not harbor vermin, are very
elastic, and may be replenished annually without cost.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 4.
Correspondence
of the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Food and Raiment.
Dear Sir: You have kindly
allowed me the use of your columns heretofore, to treat on divers subjects
bearing, as I thought, materially upon the public weal; I now desire to say
something which may be of advantage on the subjects of food and raiment. . .
As to raiment—my own wardrobe (always very scant) is to the patch,
pretty threadbare and very little on hand, but never did I feel more defiant
than now.—We shall find out after a little, that it is not in the Yankees we
have to "live, move and have our being;" we shall be forced to live
without them, and no tear on that account shall ever bedew my cheek.
I want to live without them, and my children after me to the latest
generation.—They have drenched in tears and blood, and filled with woe and
wailing, the fairest land and the most prosperous and happy people on the globe.
I have no fellowship—I want none, for such a people.
But this is a digression. My
subject is raiment. This we can
make—we can grow wool, raise flax, and raise cotton, and all these we can spin
into thread without carding. Let
no one be startled at this. It has
been done, and having been done, can be accomplished again.—Cards were
invented long after clothes were made. Our
good women will fine this out after a little, and this they will do.
Through great privations and labor, they have already been the active
agents, the main instruments, in clothing our armies, and, cards or no cards,
they will clothe their children. A
good thread can be made from cotton on the common spinning wheel without
carding. It takes, however, two to
do it, one to turn the wheel, and the other to draw and properly adjust the
lint. But this is too slow a
process—the "flax wheel" of olden times is the machine to make
thread with without carding. My
mother spun on one when I was a boy. The
operator sits on a chair and works a treddle with her feet, which puts the whole
machine in motion. She uses both
hands in adjusting the lint, and drawing and twisting the thread ready for use.
The whole machine used to cost about three dollars.
Some of them are kept as a sort of family "heir loom," and can
be easily duplicated—will some one do it?
If good warp cannot be made n this way, good filling can, and that
constitutes one half of cloth after it is made.
If our blockade runners would bring cotton spinning machinery from
England instead of fancy articles, it would be of much more advantage to the
country. I trust this will be done.
Respectfully,
John W. Lewis.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3 c. 5
Latest
from Florence.
A friend who left Florence on Tuesday evening, brings the latest news
from Roddy's command. It had
returned from the pursuit of the Yankees, under the brutal Cornyn, having
followed them to Hamburg, where, under the protection of gunboats, they got
aboard transports and crossed the Tennessee.
Hannon's regiment was in advance and had a skirmish near Hamburg, without
loss. It was impossible to charge
the enemy at the river, when embarking, on account of the nature of the ground,
the thick woods and bushes preventing it, except by a road which, for a
considerable distance, exposed them to a direct fire from the gunboats. Cornyn's force is variously estimated at 800 to 2000.
Roddy's command, consisting of his own, Hannon's and Biffle's regiments,
were much too scattered in squads, foraging, on detail service, &c., to be
concentrated in time, for successful fighting pursuit.
The Vandals burnt the Masonic Hall, and every machine, blacksmith and
carpenter shop in Florence, and set fire to a drug store, which, if consumed,
would have communicated fire to and destroyed nearly all the business part of
the town. A Federal soldier demanded of the incendiary, who applied the
torch, what he meant by it, which caused a quarrel between them, that was
terminated by a Federal Lieutenant stepping up and shooting dead the soldier who
interfered to prevent the Vandal act. Martin,
Weakley & Co.'s three factories were burnt likewise.
Almost every private vehicle was carried off or destroyed, under the
pretext that they were sometimes used for ambulances.
Horses and mules were taken, and negroes who flocked to the Yankees were
mounted on them and taken off. Individuals
were robbed of money, jewelry, &c., &c., and all the usual savage
depredations were committed. Cornyn
promised to return again when the wheat fields were ripe for
harvest.—Huntsville Confederate, 5th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Dedicated
to Miss Mollie E. Moore.
By W. P. H.
The
Southern Cross.
AIR—The Power of Prayer.
'Midst the battle's
wild carnage and cannon's loud roar,
When the brave soldiers struggle for liberty true,
To the breeze unfurled, there the broad pinions soar
Of the broad Southern cross, with the red, white and blue.
On the fields of
the Potomac there rallied the brave,
And hurled back the tyrant's unprincipled crew,
And the foe saw the banner triumphantly wave
With the proud Southern cross of the red, white and blue.
On the walls of
Fort Sumter 'twas thrown to the breeze,
When the great Northern Navy came boldly in view,
But the sons of the South drove them back to the seas,
And then honored the cross—with the red, white and blue.
Where the Father of
Waters rolls down its dark tide,
The oft-baffled foemen the vile contest renew,
But vainly they struggle in their insolent pride
To banish the bright cross, with the red, white and blue.
Though by Hessians
outnumbered, we never shall yield,
Nor for peace from a tyrant disgracefully sue,
Whilst a soldier is left to uphold on the field
The proud, glorious cross with the red, white and blue.
To the God of High
Heaven we meekly would bow
And claim his protection and assistance anew.
And ask that in mercy He may freedom bestow
On the land of the cross, with the red, white and blue.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
What They Did.—During the recent Yankee raid into Florence they burnt
the three Cotton Factories of Martin, Weakley & Co., which worked up 4,000
bales per year; the Woolen Factories of Darby, Benham & Co., and of James
Martin & Son—5 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,
&c. They broke open every store in the place, took what they
could carry off, robbed citizens of money, watches, jewelry, horses, &c.,
took off some negroes, desolated and burnt Mrs. James Jackson's place, &c.
They were only in Florence about three hours, and got off with but a
trifling loss. Their success in
this raid will stimulate to other raids into our region.
P.S.—We also learn that the Yankees burnt several Mills and Tan Yards
in the county. Their force was only
about 700 in Florence.—Huntsville Adv., 10th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
The Milwaukee correspondent of the Chicago Tribune (Republican) says:
Another disgraceful scene occurred in our city this afternoon, similar to
that of a few days since. An
enrolling officer, while engaged in his duties in one of the wards, was attacked
by a large number of women armed with clubs, stones and other missiles, who very
seriously injured him. He succeeded
in escaping from the infuriated vixens by taking refuge in a grocery near by,
and the mob dispersed without committing further outrages.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
An
Honorable Flag.
We have seen a private letter stating that recently new Battle Flags had
been distributed to the regiments in General Lee's army.
The Flag of the 35th Georgia Regiment, commanded by Col.
BOLLING H. HOLT, of this city, has inscribed thereon—"Seven Pines,"
"Mechanicsville," "Cold Harbor," "Frazer's Farm,"
"Cedar Run," "Manassas," "Ox Hill," "Harper's
Ferry," "Shephardstown," "Fredericksburg," and "Chancellorsville."
A regiment that has participated in so large a number of battles, and
never beat a retreat nor suffered a defeat, may well feel proud of such a
flag—and proud, too, that it has contributed its full share towards sustaining
the honor and gallantry of its native State.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
An exchanged Massachusetts officer, who was taken prisoner on the
Rappahannock, says of our soldiers:
Doubtless a great many reasons are given for our most disgraceful and
disastrous defeat at Chancellorsville. There
is only one real reason, and that the simplest possible.
Our army didn't fight as well as that of our enemies.
We had every possible advantage. Our
numbers more than doubled theirs till Longstreet's reinforcements came up, which
didn't then bring their forces up to 100,000 to oppose our 130,000.
Indeed, it would now seem that Longstreet didn't come up at all.
We had the advantage of position and no inconsiderable amount of
entrenchment. Gen. Hooker's plan
was admirably arranged and excellently carried out, until the fighting took
place.—He exposed himself in the hottest place of danger and set an
electrifying example of heroism to the whole army.
The terrible loss of life among our Generals shows that on the whole they
were not found wanting at their posts of duty.
We had men enough, well enough equipped and well enough posted, to have
devoured the ragged, imperfectly armed and equipped host of our enemies from the
face of the earth.
Their artillery horses are poor, starved frames of beasts, tied on to
their carriages and caissons with odds and ends of rope and strips of raw hide.
Their supply and ammunition trains look like a congregation of all the
crippled California emigrant trains that ever escaped off the desert out of the
clutches of the rampaging Commanche [sic] Indians. The men are ill-dressed, ill-equipped, and ill-provided, a
set of ragamuffins that a man is ashamed to be seen among, even when he is a
prisoner and can't help it. And yet
they have beaten us fairly, beaten us all to pieces, beaten us so easily that we
are objects of contempt even to their commonest private soldiers, with no shirts
to hang out of the holes of their pantaloons, and cartridge boxes tied round
their waists with strands of ropes. I
say they beat us easily, for there hasn't been much of a fight up here on the
Rappahannock after all, the newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding.
There was an awful noise, for I heard it.
There was a tremendous amount of powder exploded, for I saw the smoke of
it ascend up to heaven. There was a
vast amount of running done "faced by the rear rank," but I cannot
learn that there was in any part of the field very much real fighting.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
Forrest's forces on Friday last went in pursuit of a woman to whom
suspicion had been attached. She
had reached the Yankee pickets in front of Franklin when they came in sight, but
on they dashed, driving in the Yankees and capturing their "booty."
She proved to be a Miss Cushman, a theatre actress, claiming relationship
with the celebrated Charlotte, and had upon her person plans and drawings of our
fortifications, and the disposition made of the latter.
It is said that she was a crinoline scout for McClellan in Virginia, and
performed valuable services. Her
fine talents are doubtless occupied at the present time in planning an escape
from Columbia, where she is under guard.—Chatta. Rebel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
To Destroy Vermin in Houses.—As the warm season approaches, when these
ephemerides swarm and multiply, the following simple remedy is suggested to
prevent a late querist from being flea'd alive:
Up with your carpets, down with your curtains.
In a pailful of cold water mix well 1 lb. of chloride of lime (having
first diluted it into a thin paste in a bowl of water for facility of mixture,)
with a mop wet and saturate well the floor, skirtings, and any other woodwork
that will not suffer injury; then shut the doors and windows close.
If there should be a suspicion of other tenants in the bedstead, take
that down too. In three or four
hours all will have disappeared or perished; but to insure perfect immunity from
the plague, it might be well to repeat the lustration a second time, a day or
two after. A house infested with
bugs was completely expurgated on the second process as above at the cost of
only 8 cents, together with the loss of a mop burnt by the fluid.—Builder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
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 waits 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 Tel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
Dedicated
to Miss Phil Edmondson.
By W. P. H.
A
Fine Secession Gentleman.
AIR—The Fine Old English Gentleman.
I'll sing you a new
ballad, that was written very late,
Of a fine secession gentleman that keeps a large estate;
He owns a thousand acres broad, of cotton-bearing lands,
And makes his twenty thousand clear, and works a hundred hands,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He does not own a
chick or child, and has no pauper
kin,
But for a race to catch a dime, you'll always find him in.
At every stage of politics, he talks exceeding loud,
And gives his voice for bitter war in every public crowd,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
But when a small
subscription list, for money takes the round,
No matter what the object is, he cannot then be found,
But if a scheme for profit starts, where nothing will be spent,
You'll find him late and early then, with nose upon the scent—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He thinks our
armies in the field deserves a laurel crown,
But if it costs a cent to make, let others pay it down;
He has a crib of corn in store, and bacon very nice,
Which any soldier's wife can get—by paying market price,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He bought his sugar
and his tea, when things were not so dear,
And thinks he'll stand the "blockade" out, for yet another year—
He wonders how the soldier's wife her little children feeds,
And while he sips his good old wine, his neighbor's paper reads—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
To carry on this
bloody strife, he has not paid a red,
But praises to the very skies, the brave and gallant dead.
If words could feed their hungry wives, the army would rejoice,
For ever to this holy cause, he gives his constant voice—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
And now, when
life's last stage is o'er, and all accounts made up,
And from the icy hand of death, he drinks the bitter cup,
The world will give him o'er to one I need not name to you,
But should he reach the other place, what will the angels do
With this fine secession gentleman, all of the present time?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
From
the Richmond Christian Advocate.
A Cheap Light.
As times are very hard, or rather as it is quite difficult to get some
articles of domestic use in these days of home-spun and Southern Rights, I send
you two receipes [sic] that may be of some value to some of your subscribers.
For Making Copperas.—Take a stone jar, fill it with pieces of rusty
scraps of iron, fill the jar with very strong vinegar, cover it, and let it
stand for two weeks. One quart is
equal to a pound of copperas.
To Make a Good Light at a Light Expense.—Take a cup of grease of any
kind (lard or tallow) and into it put a sycamore ball, saturate it in the same,
and then light it—you will have a light superior to two candles.
One ball will last three or four nights.
The expense will be about three cents a night, till usual bedtime—not
more, even at the present prices of tallow.
You can publish these or not, just as you choose; they have been fully
tested.
Your brother,
Geo. C. Vanderslice.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Preserving Buttermilk.—Take a vessel that contains nearly twice as much
as you wish to save. While milk is
plenty, fill it two-thirds full of buttermilk, and then fill up with water. Drain off the water and refill with fresh once a week,
stirring it well each time after filling, and you will have a good article
always ready.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Preserving Peaches.—Mr. Edward Bancroft, of Athens, Ga., has brought
the art of preserving peaches in their own juice to a great perfection.
Having superior ripe peaches, a little hot syrup made from double refined
loaf sugar and their own juice, heated with the pealed peaches, prepares them
for the most perfect sealing in the cans or glass bottles.
His rule is one pound of sugar to two of fruit.
We did not know, before we drank of his make, that the juice of delicious
peaches is capable of yielding a valuable wine.—Preserved without
fermentation, rich peach juice may be used at the table in various ways, and
give satisfaction every day in the year. It
should be bottled in the way for putting up new cider, to keep it sweet
indefinitely.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p.3, c. 8
New
Cards
At One Dollar!!
Old Cards Repaired
At One Dollar
By Thos. J. Whitly,
Huntsville, Alabama.
No Teeth put in.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Detection
and Arrest of an Alleged
Female Spy of Northern Birth—She
writes "Letters of Instruction" to
the Yankee Government—Interest-
ing Developments.
An arrest, which is whispered to be of great political importance, was
consummated in this city, on Friday last, by the military authorities, in the
person of a woman of wealth, but of Northern birth and sentiments, on the charge
of communicating to the public enemy treasonable information of the military
status and movements in the South. The
authorities, though for some time aware that such communication existed, were
unable to discover the source until a few days since, when certain facts reached
Gen. Winder, the Commandant of the Department of Henrico, which led to the
arrest of Mrs. Allen, of Ohio, married abroad to Patrick Allen, son, we believe,
of a respectable Scotch merchant who made a fortune in Richmond.
It was not until after evidence the most incontrovertible and conclusive
had been obtained, in the shape of letters, that the arrest was determined upon.
On Friday afternoon, detective George Clackner with a guard was
dispatched to the residence of Rev. E. M. Hoge, corner of Fifth and Main
streets, where Mrs. Allen was a guest. The
detective was instructed to arrest and bring her at once before General Winder.
The officials found the corpse of a child lying in the house awaiting
interment, and, as the funeral was soon to take place, the forebore to disturb
the privacy and grief of the family; and in compliance with orders from General
Winder, postponed the arrest; kept watch and ward over the house, and the
movements of the object of their visit, who was made acquainted with the nature
of their business, and instructed to consider herself within the meshes of
military law. The lady preserved
unusual sang froid under the circumstances, and after the departure of
the funeral cortege she was placed in a carriage and driven to the headquarters
of General Winder, on Main street. At
the examination, which was only partially entered into, several intercepted
letters were produced. She at first
denied their authorship, but afterwards admitted that she had written one of
them, but as they were all in the same writing, her confession or denial was of
little consequence.
Enough having been elicited to warrant her commitment on the charge of
being a spy, it was so ordered, but instead of being sent to Castle Thunder, the
prepared receptacle of such persons, the commandant saw proper to commit Mrs.
Allan to the maternal and religious care of the Sisters of Charity, at the
Asylum St. Francis de Sales, Brooks Avenue, where she is kept under
surveillance.—The letters intercepted and examined are evidently not the first
productions of this woman's pen sent the same direction, and for the same
purpose.
The manner in which she operated to conceal the real character of her
correspondence was to inclose [sic] the letter addressed to the person for whom
it was intended in an outside envelope, directed to some female in the North, on
intimate terms and of like sentiments with the writer, to be mailed to its
proper address. One of the envelopes "and a few lines" addressed to
a young female in Baltimore, contained a long letter, directed "Rev. Morgan
Dix, New York," the brother of Major General Dix, the ninth and last
"On to Richmond" General. In
this letter she imparts the names of prominent clergymen of New York city, and
the names and connexions [sic] of a lady, high in Southern circles in Baltimore,
all of whom she accuses of sympathizing with the rebellion.
Availing herself of the family secrets, in whose bosom she was then
reposing, the writer betrays this confidence reposed in her, and makes a
malicious attack upon Rev. Dr. Hoge, now in England upon a philanthropic
mission.
The writer affirms the Doctor's mission to Europe was undertaken with the
sanction, and by the authority of the Confederate Government, and that his
ostentatious object, given out to be the purchase of bibles and religious works,
is all "gammon" and a "blind."
She designates about the time, and by what steamer he expects to return,
and considers his arrest and imprisonment in a Northern bastile, during the
continuance of the war as an object worth being attained, at some hazard [sic],
by the capture of the steamer in which he sails for home.
The names of owners, and the location of a number of plantations on the
James river are given with minuteness. She
suggests that they ought to be destroyed, names prominent points commanding for
artillery, &c., &c. She
expresses a strong hope that the "rebels' may soon all be "crushed
out," and concludes the letter thus: "If
the United States does not suppress the rebellion, they do not merit the respect
of the world."
A second letter, addressed to her sister, "Miss Jennie V.
Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio," gossiped over the Stoneman raid around
Richmond, the practicability of which was first doubtless communicated to the
Lincoln Government in some of her previous letters. In the letter to her sister, the writer expresses great
petulance over what she terms the "failures of General Stoneman to
devastate and destroy as he went." She
styles him "a white gloved General," and thinks he was "too easy
and timid with the rebels." She
is downright mad with him, and blames him for not burning the residence of the
Hon. James A. Seddon, "the rebel Secretary of War" whose plantation is
in Goochland, near one owned by her husband.
The above are, in substance the main points of the letter named.
It will not be denied that, if proven, they are sufficient to consign the
writer, whether man or woman, whether degraded in society or exalted in the
social scale, to the fate of the spy. The
power of wealth ought to be, and will be, we trust, powerless to destroy the
equipose [sic] of justice. But
there are circumstances, which, instead of mitigating the crime of this woman,
stamps it with almost incredible baseness and malignity. Through the sacred amenities of friendship expressed for a
worthy Minister of the Gospel and his household, Mrs. Allan was received into
the family—the deadly Northern asp into the garden of Southern hospitality.
Her intervals of visits were frequent, and her stay protracted, the more
perfectly to probe into secrets of political significance of which she knew Dr.
Hoge, as the associate of public men, and his family and visitors, through him,
were more or less cognizant. Here
the lamented Jackson visited, and its roof often sheltered his head when in the
city; here his wife and afterwards his widow, made her temporary home.
Though it is not to be presumed that Jackson ever imparted military
movements to his nearest and dearest companions, the fact of the presence of
such a woman in such a place, sacred to Southern honor and integrity, makes it
too plain to be denied that the treacherous spy sought it out as a most
convenient and peculiarly adapted point from whence to operate.
Again, while the Stoneman raid was in progress, Mrs. Allan was not an
inmate of Dr. Hoge's family, but happened to be absent at her husband's
plantation in the line of Stoneman's route.
It is said Stoneman himself alighted with his staff as he passed down,
and did the honor of a visit. However
this may be, certain members of his cavalry corps are known to have stopped
there and refreshed themselves, and departed without injuring a blade of grass
except those their horses trod upon and eat.
So much for the circumstances, and they are decidedly against the subject
of this sketch.
We have no desire to probe further than in necessary into the hideous
business, but the subjoined we deem essential to a clear conception of the case.
The maiden name of the accused is Mary Wilson, and she was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a steam doctor, but died abroad poor, with his
family about him. A few years ago,
while travelling in Europe, with his mother, Mr. Allan met the Wilson family in
Rome, Italy, and becoming enamored of Miss Mary, married her.
His wealth immediately placed the family in a competency, and the two
families returned to this country, Mr. Allan bringing his wife to Richmond, his
place of residence. Since that
time, Mrs. Allan, though a Northern lady, has held a decent position in society.
She has chosen to prostitute that position to the basest of crimes,
ignoring all the honorable conditions of life, in the hope of advancing in the
South the triumph of an accursed purpose held at the North, her birthplace.
The letters written by Mrs. Allan reached the North—if any ever did
reach there—by the circumlocution officers and the "underground
railroad." For instance, she would send a letter by a servant's hand,
addressed to a well known gentleman of undoubted loyalty, whom we shall not
name, with an enclosed note running in this wise:
"Please send this letter (or letters) North by some reliable man.
They affect me and a very dear friend only."
The letters would be given into the hands of another party, also of
undoubted loyalty, who knew a professional "blockade runner," and here
our tracing cease. One of the
letters overhauled and produced in evidence against her was dispatched by
express messenger, a negro boy, to a point on James river, to the care of a
party who would communicate with the Federal gunboats.
The messenger was captured by the Confederate pickets, and the letter
with him, and both the negro and the letter were consigned to the custody of
Gen. Winder.—Richmond Examiner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Making
Soap.
One of our lady subscribers sent us a specimen of soap manufactured under
her own directions. Some of our
female friends to whom we shoed 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 personal attention to the cleaning of
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 receipt 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 three gallons of lye to a bit
of lime the size of a walnut; boil fast, and stir frequently.
When it is boiled an hour, stir in two gallons of the lye; continue to
stir it often and always one way. After
it has boiled several hours, take out a spoonful and cool it on the plat; if it
does not jelly add a little water; if this causes it to jelly, add 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 jelly soap, called soft soap by some.
To make it hard stir in one quart of salt into the kettle, and let it
boil ten minutes longer, then 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 residuum that may adhere to the cake of the
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 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 smoothe [sic] jelly; while in this state, if you
wish to color it mix Chinese vermillion [sic] 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 other essential oil, the scent of which you like; and
while it is somewhat liquid pour it into moulds.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 8—letter written by Northern born man
in Columbus, seized as possibly treasonous.
The
Chapman Letters.
[copy.]
At Home, Saturday Evening,
}
June 13th, 1863.
. . . New wheat has
been selling at $10 per bushel. Monco
has bought some, 30 miles from town, which he has to haul, for $5.
This morning I bought 1½ lb. butter for $1.85, and 1¼ is the price it
sells for; 3 beets for 50c; one qt. string beans, 40c; 4 cucumbers, 50c, &c.
Chickens sell for $.25; new Irish potatoes $1 a qt.
How under Heavens people live I don't know. . . We do a great deal of
manufacturing here, such as harness, saddles, shoes, caps, cotton cloths, yarns,
swords, guns, cannons, clothes, &c., besides it is a great depot for corn
brought from further South, where they had good crops last year. . . . Mutton is
75c per lb., beef 60c. The enclosed
stamps want more sticking matter on them. . . S.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 4, 1863, p. 4, c. 6
Wool
Wanted.
The Eagle Manufacturing Co.,
Columbus, Ga.,
Having large
contracts with the Confederate Government for the manufacture of Woolen Goods,
are prepared to pay a fair price for Wool.
Mr. Eugene A. Smith is our travelling agent.
He has appointed agents in all the principal localities in the State. They are prepared when called upon to show the authority upon
which they act.
As the goods we manufacture are for the Government and Soldiers
exclusively, it is hoped that persons having WOOL, WILL SELL directly to our
agents, rather than to other parties for speculation.
May 29, 1863.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Embalming.—Since the bloody battles of this war embalming the dead has
become a profession in the Confederacy, and a profession which will be
gratefully remembered by those who have been enabled by it to inter the bodies
of loved ones in the family graveyard in sight of the old homesteads, from which
those brave spirits went forth to give up their lives for their country. The art which was for so long lost has been lately revived in
Europe, and still more recently introduced on this continent.
Richmond, we believe is the only city in the Confederacy where the
profession is practiced, and from here assistants are sent by Dr. W. Maclure to
the different points occupied by our armies.
The chief office is on 12th street at Belvin's
Block.—Richmond Dispatch.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
The drafting proceeded quietly in Philadelphia on the 21st,
and 2,000 men were drafted. It was
decided that a negro substitute may go in for a drafted negro, but not for a
white man.
[Yankee paper.
The Yankee government insist that their negro soldiers shall be put on
the same footing with whites by us; why, then, do they themselves make a
distinction between the two?—Mobile Adv.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Wooden-Sole
Shoes.
We mentioned some weeks ago a very valuable improvement in shoemaking,
the invention of Mr. Robert Kreuzbaur, of Texas, for which a patent had been
taken out. The improvement consists in a wooden sole, rendered flexible
and easy to the foot by means of a leather hinge, and a method of attaching it
to the upper leather that makes the shoe strictly water-proof.
Since taking out the patent Mr. K. has been engaged in perfecting his
improvement, and has now brought it to a point which leaves nothing to be
desired. The present enormous cost
of shoes is due in great measure to the price of sole leather--$4 a pound.
Mr. K's improvement dispenses altogether with this costly material, and
substitutes an article that affords better protection to the foot, thereby
promoting both comfort and health, while at the same time greater durability is
secured. It is thought that shoes
with these soles can be furnished at but little, if any, more than one-half the
cost of the common style, or, if made of canvass, still less.
We regard the improvement as one of much value, and expect to see it come
into general use. We were shown
yesterday a pair of shoes made on this plan by Mr. Debel, a very skillful
workman, on Broad street, above Madison, which would not have misbecome the foot
of the President. It does not,
however, require unusual skill to apply the improvement, and any plantation
workman will learn in half an hour how to manage it.—Richmond Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
War
Mementoes.
A Fashionable Last Winter's Hat.
Editor Enquirer: I called on
a friend a few days ago, and was admiring both her economy and ingenuity as
displayed in renovating some old style apparel. "But," said she, "this is nothing compared to
my last winter's hat." Of
course, I wanted to see the hat. "This
bonnet," said she, holding it up, "was bought three winters
ago--straw, trimmed with blue velvet. I
took the straw cape and made a sky scraper of it by putting it in front.
I made the blue velvet cape out of the bow that was on the side trimmings
at first. I then took a blue velvet
hat my mother bought fifteen years ago for her babie [sic], and afterwards gave
to my first babie [sic], and worn by several others, but which had been laid
away ten years as a family relic--and ripping it up, bound the front of my
bonnet with the brim; (the crown of the hat I gave to my sister to make a collar
to a babie [sic] cloak--the trimmings I put on my daughter Fannie's hat.)
I next took the former blue trimmings and finished the outside. The lining inside was abstracted from an old silk cape, and
the black silk lace twisted round these artificials came from another cape.
Part of these flowers were here before, and this large heartsease came
from an old remnant of flowers left when Mr. _____ closed his store twelve years
ago; these blue and black silk flowers were made from two sets of sleeve
linings, and this white blonde lace going round the front came from the neck of
a pink Tarlton dress worn by my niece to a concert several years ago.
The beads forming the centre of the silk flowers came from a necklace
sent North before the war for my daughter to wear to a wedding, and the black
velvet and lace twisted in this outside blue bow came from an old black lace
mantilla, and that little chenille drop came from an ancient head-dress of mine.
These inside invisible strings for tying under the chin came from the
aforesaid sleeve linings, and these handsome blue and black plaid strings came
from a fall hat my sister gave me four years ago, and which were saved because
they were too beautiful to throw away."
I
assure you, Mr. Editor, such was the taste displayed in putting together these
heterogeneous materials that you would have supposed the bonnet came direct from
Paris if you had seen it, and like me, have thought it worthy of handing down to
posterity.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
The Chicago Tribune publishes the following bill of fare found in one of
the camps at Vicksburg. It is
surmounted by an engraving of a mule's head, behind which is a hand brandishing
what may be a carving or a bowie knife. The
Tribune thinks it is a melancholy burlesque.
The most melancholy thing about it is the reflection which it must
suggest to a thoughtful Yankee—if there be such an animal—on the prospect of
conquering the men who can live and jest on such fare:
Hotel
de Vicksburg.
Bill of Fare for July, 1863.
Soup.
Mule tail.
Boiled.
Mule bacon with poke greens.
Mule ham canvased.
Roast.
Mule sirloin.
Mule rump stuffed with rice.
Vegetables.
Peas and rice.
Entrees.
Mule head stuffed a la mode.
Mule beef jerked a la Mexicana.
Mule ears fricasseed a la gotch.
Mule side stewed, new style, hair on.
Mule spare ribs plain.
Mule liver hashed.
Side
Dishes.
Mule salad.
Mule hoof soused.
Mule brains a la omelette.
Mule kidney stuffed with peas.
Mule tripe fried in pea meal batter.
Mule tongue, cold, a la Bray.
Jellies.
Mule foot.
Pastry.
Pea meal pudding, blackberry sauce.
Cottonwood berry pies.
Chinaberry tart.
Dessert.
White oak acorns.
Beech nuts.
Blackberry leaf tea.
Genuine Confederate coffee.
Liquors.
Mississippi water, vintage of 1492, superior, $3.00.
Limestone water, late importation, very fine, $2.75.
Spring water, Vicksburg brand, $1.50.
Meals at all hours. Gentlemen
to wait upon themselves. Any
inattention on the part of servants will be promptly reported at the office.
Jeff. Davis & Co.,
Proprietors.
Card.—The proprietors of the justly celebrated Hotel de Vicksburg,
having enlarged and refitted the same, are now prepared to accommodate all who
may favor them with a call. Parties
arriving by the river, or Grant's Island route, will find Grape, Canister &
Co.'s carriages at the landing, or any depot, on the line of entrenchments.
Buck, Ball & Co. take charge of all baggage.
No effort will be spared to make the visits of all as interesting as
possible.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 25, 1863, p. 4, c. 3
No persons are fonder of a joke than the soldiers.
The Atlanta Confederacy humorously tells how some of them amused
themselves at the expense of one of its editors:
In His Shroud.—On Sunday morning one of our city editors, who resides a
little way out of town, (the morning being very sultry), drew out of his
wardrobe an old suit of pure white duck, in which he arrayed himself.
He mounted his horse, and rode leisurely along, coming into the city to
get the latest news, and passed by the soldiers' camp—about 100 men lying
around loose. As he rode along by
them one of the soldiers cried out, "Come on, boys, let's attend the
funeral;" whereat upon the whole crowd fell into line, and started on, with
the solemn, measured tread of the dead march after the "solitary
horseman."
At the further end of the column one of them halloed out, "How do
you know he's dead?" "Oh,
I know he is," replied the first; "they've got him in his
shroud."
At this point the editor took the hint, and an application of his spurs
to his horse sent him forward at a speed rather unusual in funeral processions.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Squirrel Skin Shoes.—Squirrel skins tacked down to a board, the hair
next to the board, with hickory ashes sprinkled over them, for a few days, to
facilitate the removal of the hair, and then placed in a strong decoction of
red-oak bark, will, at the end of four days,
make excellent leather, far stronger and tougher than calf skin.
Four skins will make a pair of ladies shoes. We hear that the ladies of some of the interior counties are
wearing these shoes, and find them equal in softness and superior in durability
to any others. The longer the skins
are left in the decoction of bark the better the leather. By this plan anybody may have a tan-yard, and make their own
leather, as the skins are easily and cheaply procured and any vessel holding a
gallon will serve as a vat. Our
readers will do well to try it. [Richm.
Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Florida
Card Factory.
We have recently examined a pair of wool cards turned out by the card
factory established at this place by the Governor, assisted by other patriotic
citizens. We were pleased, proud and surprised at the perfection of
workmanship exhibited in the specimen before us. They are equal, if not superior, to the same article formerly
obtained from our Yankee "friends."
We are informed that the factory will be prepared to turn out a large
supply of this indispensable article as soon as suitable skins can be obtained.
Surely our citizens will not let so patriotic an enterprise suffer for
want of skins. We are informed that
this factory can furnish cards cheaper than any other establishment in the
Confederacy.—Floridian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Ohio Spelling.—Among the letters captured at Winchester, Va., was one
from a Yankee girl at Somerville, Ohio, to her sweetheart in the army.
The following is an extract.
Yu ort to See So me Rebs Letter tha Tom brot hum With him Whur they bin
Rtin to thar galls and if i cud get holt of har fur Em i am a gud union gal as
ever you seen you ort to see how them Rebel husseys Spel you Kin hardly Reed it
they Spel the Durndest Wurds you did ever Seen I mus Klose no mor but Remain
your Expected Wif til Deth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
The
Female Lieutenant.
The public will remember the numerous paragraphs published concerning one
"Lieut. Harry Buford," nee Mrs. Williams, with a history
romantic in war as that of Joan of Arc. Last
summer the Lieutenant got into Castle Thunder, her sex not corresponding with
the dashing uniform she wore. She
was released, and went from Richmond to Chattanooga, where she joined Gen.
Bragg's army, got upon the staff of Gen.
A. P. Stewart, and for a time was employed in the secret service, effecting
important arrests of spies, and dong some very daring things.
The other day she visited Richmond again, not as the gay Lieutenant, but
in the garments more becoming her sex, and bearing the name of Jeruth DeCaulp,
she having, in the interval, married an officer of the Confederate States
Provisional army of that name, first obtaining a divorce from her first husband,
Williams, who is in the army of General Grant.
In consideration of her services the Confederate Government has
commissioned Mrs. DeCaulp with the rank of Captain, and since her arrival in
Richmond, she has drawn $1,800 back pay.—She is now at the Ballard House, en
route for Georgia, and the home of her new husband.
The heroine of this sketch is a native of Mississippi, and a devoted
Southern woman.—Richm. Ex.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
The Eagle Company.—It has been our privilege on several occasions to
record and receive liberal tokens and proofs of the considerate generosity of
the Eagle Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga.
We are, therefore, not at all surprised at the following additional
instance:
Office Eagle Manuf'g Company,
}
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 29, 1863.
}
Editors Courier:--We send by express to-day, 100 pair of drawers and 100
shirts for the use of the sick and wounded soldiers of your city and vicinity.
We had a large number prepared and also provisions, &c., but such
pressing need exists among the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee, that we feel
lit best to divert all we have ready to that point, except the articles sent you
as above. We shall, however, be
ready at all times to assist the needy, the sick and the wounded, according as
the case demands, and at any point from Virginia to Texas.
J. Rhodes Browne, Agent.
We shall take pleasure in applying this acceptable and liberal donation
when it reaches us.—Chas. Courier.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 8
10,000
Pounds
Of Rags
Wanted at This Office,
For Which the
Highest Market Price
Will be Paid!!
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
To
the Women of Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9, 1863.
You responded nobly to my first appeal to you for socks.
But few anticipated the measure of our successes.
From my heart I thank you for what you have so cheerfully and
promptly done. You have enabled me
to make many a war worn soldier bless the women at home, as he placed your love
tokens on his weary feet.
Women of Georgia, and such others as contributed to my stock fund, in the
name of over 10,000 soldiers, do I most cordially thank you.
But you must enlarge the circle of your benefactions.
God loves the cheerful giver and also the liberal soul.
Let us devise and execute liberal things.
It will take besides what I have on hand, nearly 50,000 pair of socks to
carry our Georgia heroes comfortably through the coming Winter.—Send in
those already knit under my late call. Ship
to me at this lace as before directed. Organize
at once, throughout Georgia, into Societies, and let your Secretaries,
with the approvals of your Presidents make requisitions on me for the number of
bunches of yarn which each Society will undertake to work into socks.
I hope to make arrangements for an ample supply of yarns for the purpose
contemplated. Notify me at your
nearest railroad point, and I will forward the yarn required.
Continue to place the name upon each pair of socks knit and sent.
I am keeping a faithful record of the names of my fair colleagues
in this good work done by each one. May
I not hope to put upon every Georgian in the army needing them a good pair of
socks before spring. Methinks I
hear a hundred thousand women, answering. Yes,
send on your yarns; we will soon fill the bill. By the gloom which has lately been over us, let me exhort you
to redouble energies for those who are your only preserve, under God,
from a far deeper gloom and an intolerable destiny.
By the groans of our wounded and the deaths of our noble sons on our
battlefields all over the South, whose deeds of imperishable glory have
illustrated names that mankind will not willingly let die, let me exhort you to
strain every nerve to hold up the courage and strengthen the arms of t hose
still surviving the shock of battle!
By the brightness of the future, opened up by the glorious and God-given
victory upon the banks of the stream of death, the now historic Chickamauga, let
us thank God, take courage and press forward, till we conquer a peace.
Let the loss of some dear father, husband, son, or brother, or loved one,
nerve you to redoubled determination never to cease struggling till we are
thoroughly and totally divorced from those whose hands are red with the best
blood of the Confederate States. Cheer
our soldiers, discourage desertions, hurry off able-bodied furloughed men to the
front, and stimulate them to prefer an honorable death in the face of the enemy,
to dishonorable lives prolonged by shrinking from duty.
Women of Georgia! you have
done much in our great and bloody struggle.
You can and will do much more, and y our heroism will be admired wherever
and as long as true patriotism shall find a lodgment in the human heart.
Let the example of the tree patriots of Switzerland, headed by the heroic
William Tell, who took a solemn vow to cease not in their efforts until
Switzerland was free from the horrid tyranny of the infamous Gesler, fire our
hearts to choose annihilation rather than subjugation.
The one will give an honorable record, the other a sickly existence under
the most abhorrent of despotisms. The
one is a result of a noble self respect, the other the fruit of a degraded self
abasement. Rather than yield when
our men fail us, let us have multiplied examples of the Maid of Orleans, who,
when wounded by an arrow, drew out the arrow, exclaiming, "It is glory not
blood which flows from the wound." But
I need not write about yielding. With
an humble reliance upon the God of battles, if we, men and women, will but do
our duty, before another year shall roll over us, the bloody sword will likely
be sheathed and the bright banner of peace will gloriously wave over our
ransomed homes.
Ira R. Foster,
Q.M. General of Georgia.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Voting
by Classes.
Editor Daily Sun:--I notice in the Enquirer, of Friday evening, an
article complaining bitterly of the people voting by classes, in which both
classes are accused of clannishness, but the burden of his complaint seems to
rest on mechanics and working men. He
says, "there is certainly no ground for any antagonism in the city."
In this the Enquirer is mistaken; for any man, woman or child can see
that the people are dividing into two classes, just as fast as the pressure of
the times can force them on. As for
example: class No. 1, in their
thirst for gain, in their worship of Mammon, and in their mighty efforts to
appropriate every dollar on earth to their own account, have lost sight of every
principle of humanity, patriotism, and virtue itself, and seem to have forgotten
that the very treasures they are now heaping up are the price of blood, and
unless this mania ceases, will be the price of liberty itself; for we know
something of the feeling which now exists in the army, as well as in our
work-shops at home. The men know
well enough that their helpless families are not cared for, as they were
promised at the beginning of the war.—They know that the depreciation of our
currency is only a trick of our enemies at home, else why should they strive so
hard to secure it all? They know,
too, that every day they remain from home, reduces them more and more in
circumstances, and that by the close of the war a large majority of the soldiery
will be unable to live; in fact, many of them are ruined now, as many of their
homes and other effects are passing into the hands of speculators and
extortioners for subsistence to their families. Thus you see that all the capital, both in money and
property, in the South, is passing into the hands of class No. 1, while class
No. 2 are traveling down, seem to take their station among the descendants of
Ham.—You can easily see who are class No. 2.
The soldiery, the mechanics, and the workingmen, not only of Columbus,
but of all the Confederate States. In
view of these things, is it not time that our class should awake to a sense of
their danger, and in the mildest possible manner begin the work of self defense,
and endeavor to escape bondage more servile than that imposed by the aristocracy
of England on their poor peasantry? Then
we claim the right, as the first alternative, to try and avert the great
calamity, by electing such men to the councils of the nation as we think will
best represent our interests. If
this should fail, we must then try more potent remedies.
As the Enquirer is ignorant of the evils we complain of, and the cause of
our alienation, I will briefly enumerate some of them, though we thought they
were plain enough to all who wish to see.
In the first place, there has been an effort made to fix a price on labor
without the consent of the mechanics or working men, whilst the producers of the
necessaries of life and the speculators are left to extortion without stint or
limit, until nothing less than fifteen hundred per cent. profit will satisfy the
most of them.
Let us compare a few figures before we close, and you can see that we
have justifiable cause of complaint. I
once could get 75 pounds of flour for a day's work.
What do I get now? I once
got 25 pounds of bacon for a day's work. What
do I get now? Only two. I once could get 50 pounds of beef for a day's work. What do
I get now? Only six.
I once could get eight bushels of sweet potatoes for a day's work.
What can I get now? Not
one. And at the same rate
through the whole catalogue of family supplies.
Thus you see the Enquirer is again mistaken, when he says that
"labor is independent of capital and always commands remunerative
prices. Wonder if he would work for
three dollars per day, and board himself, at the present prices of provisions?
But, notwithstanding the mechanics and working men can barely sustain
animal life, their condition is much better than the poor soldiers, who are
fighting the rich men's fight, for they suffer all of the privations and
hardships incident to the life of a soldier, with a perfect knowledge of the
sufferings of their families at home, who are (many of them) without a
comfortable shelter; many of them refugees in a strange land, despised,
persecuted and insulted, because a merciless foe has driven them into exile, and
because their husbands, brothers and natural protectors are engaged in the noble
cause of liberty. True, they are sometimes offered assistance at the sacrifice
of their honor, and that by men who occupy high places both in church and State.
Then is there not an "organization of hostility" against the
interests of our class, which justice and honor demand that we should guard with
unceasing vigilance? The Enquirer
speaks of equality which is denied us by class No. 1, in the doctrine of
property qualifications or disfranchisement, which is gradually working its way
(secretly) into the circles of the rich, which I , for one, have heard strongly
advocated.
Mechanic.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
To Make Butter in Five Minutes Without a Churn.—A correspondent highly
recommends the following recipe:
After straining the milk, set it away for about twelve hours, for the
cream to "rise." [milk
dishes ought to have strong handles to lift them by.]
After standing as above, set the milk, without disturbing it, on the
stove; let it remain there until you observe the coating of cream on the surface
assume a wrinkled appearance, but be careful it does not boil, as should this be
the case the cream will mix with the milk and cannot be again collected.
Now set it away till quite cold, and then skim off the cream, mixed with
as little milk as possible. When
sufficient cream is collected, proceed to make it into butter as follows:
Take a wooden bowl, or any suitable vessel, and having first scalded and
then rinsed it with cold spring water, place the cream in it.
Now let the operator hold his hand in water as hot as can be borne for a
few seconds, then plunge it in cold water for about a minute, and at once
commence to agitate the cream by a gentle circular motion.
In five minutes, or less time, the butter will have come, when, of
course, it must be washed and salted according to taste, and our correspondent
guarantees that no better butter can be made by the best churn ever invented.
To those who keep only one cow, this method of making butter will be
found really valuable; while quite as large a quantity of butter is obtained as
by the common mode, the skim milk is much sweeter and more palatable.
In the summer season it will usually be found necessary to bring the
cream out of the cellar (say a quarter of an hour before churning) to take the
excessive chill off. In winter
place the vessel containing the cream over another containing water to warm
it—then continue to agitate the cream until the chill has departed.
Before washing the butter, separate all the milk you possibly can, as the
latter will be found excellent for tea cakes.
Butter made in this manner will be much firmer and less oily in hot
weather than when made in the ordinary way.
Field and Fireside.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 27, 1863, p. 1,
c. 8
Eugenie and Striped Stockings.—The Paris correspondent of the Liverpool
Courier says:
The Empress, you are aware, possesses the immortal glory of having
invented, or at least revived crinoline petticoats.
Such a brilliant act would have fully satisfied the ambition of an
ordinary woman. But Her Majesty has
a lofty soul, and aspires to the glory of making another revolution in female
costume. Fir thirty or forty years
past, and for ought I know, more, French ladies have been faithful to the white
stocking, and they have firmly set their faces against the attempt of English
ladies to introduce the red one. The
Empress, thinking that the eternal white had become rather monotonous—the red
was too glaring, and blue too literary—asked herself if some other color could
not be adopted. She though long and
anxiously; and at last, inspiration came—the stocking might be striped!
The day after this mental illumination the Imperial ankles, and some
little space above them, came forth adorned with stockings of blue and white
stripes; and all the courtiers proclaimed it the union of the two colors,
ravishing to behold. By this time
next year, no doubt the new fashion will be as prevalent as that of crinoline.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
An officer, who was inspecting his company one morning, spied one private
whose shirt was sadly begrimed. "Patrick
O'Flynn!" called out the Captain. "Here,
yer honor!" promptly responded Patrick, with his hand to his cap. "How long do you wear a shirt?" thundered the
officer. "Twenty-eight
inches," was the rejoinder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
The
Fight at Kelly's Ford.
Mission Ridge, Tenn.,
}
October 28, 1863. }
Editor Enquirer: Yesterday a
sharp engagement occurred at Kelly's Ford, nine miles below this place, between
a division of the enemy and Law's Alabama Brigade. . .
Our Division has received its distributive share of the fruits of Cols.
Dibbrell's and Morrison's victory at Philadelphia, East Tenn.
Many a poor soldier, that was minus shoes and blankets, are now rejoicing
over the fact of being well shod and clad.
En passant, while speaking of this, I would take occasion to say
that our company is sadly in need of socks.
Will not the relatives and friends of the members of the company supply
their sons, their brothers and their acquaintances, with this indispensable
article to meet the rigors of winter amid the mountains of Tennessee? Cannot some of the public spirited, patriotic ladies of
Columbus take this matter in hand and have at least two pair of socks to each
soldier knit and forwarded immediately? Remember
that this is an article that the Government never furnishes us.
Your Georgia Relief and Hospital Association have heretofore completely
overlooked the Georgia regiments in Bragg's army.
Your State Quartermaster, Gen. Ira R. Roster, can and does write pathetic
appeals concerning the soldier's condition and merits, but it is lamentably true
that this regiment (37th Ga.) has yet to receive its first pair of
socks through his agency. Why are
we ignored?
J.T.G.
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A
Rough Question.
October 22, 1863.
Sometimes one may sit down, light a "fragrant Havana," admire
the rings upon his fingers, arrange with careless negligence the glossy locks
over his intellectual frontal sinus, smooth his broad brow, and in elegant
posture consider a "grave" question with great dignity.—But our
question "knocks all this into last week."
There is no gravity about
it, for hunger is beginning to swear and rags are beginning to stare, and like
the "sear and yellow leaves of autumn" shiver before the coming blasts
of winter. "Dirty faced"
boys throw bricks at church going people on the Sabbath, and the old folks at
home, lean-jawed and sitting in squalor, feel that moral duty dwarfs
insignificantly before the imperious claims of want and nakedness.
Physical want is a sheriff with an execution and cannot be stayed.
Morals is a preacher without judicial penalties. The
desire for bread and clothing and fuel has a keener edge than the sweet
persuasives of truth and virtue, and where the rude ploughshare of the farmer
passes heartlessness is the soil left to the seeds of virtue.
But before we introduce our question let us take another stand point.
I saw a hungry man a few weeks ago meet his neighbor and remark, "I
attended a sale to-day to buy meat and shoes, but bought none."
Ah, replied his friend, I was there, and know the reason.
Auction has a forked tongue, one to cry and another to buy
the goods; attend next sale day at another place and the same articles will be
sold again, and should the profit be high Auction's left fork will not buy, but
kindly allow consumers to purchase, although the articles are very
scarce.—Nevertheless, Auction is an active man and somehow or from somewhere
he always has more to sell when it suits him.
Hungry mouth understood, and with a cunning wink of the eye he laughed
and exclaimed, Auction is a shrewd, smart fellow, but neighbor you have a great
deal more meat than your home demands will consume—sell me a small quantity.
No, said neighbor, the army needs a great deal of provisions, and my
merchant is very high upon me, and I do not think it safe to spare any at all;
and they both laughed and each said these are terrible times; I do not know what
the poor people are to do. But the
hungry man walked away and wanted to curse something, and he cursed as he
walked, cursed the Government officers and extortioners and Jeff Davis, and
wished the d—d war would close; but he stepped into Mr. Grocer's and bought a
small piece of meat; Grocer was sorry to charge so much price, but couldn't help
it; and the hungry man again swore, but pleasantly this time, "these were
tight times." But now three or
four weeks have passed, and the man is now mad and says that Auction, farmer,
merchant, manufacturer, grocer and horseboy are all a pack of scoundrels
together, and vows by heaven, by earth and by hell, that food and raiment he
will have by fair means or foul. And,
Mr. Editor, if you will listen, this man's mouth seems to have a thousand,
thousand echoes until from brogan to prunella, from dray cart to the coach and
four and from the counter to the pulpit, above, beneath, around, from far, the
voice proclaims that public sympathy and public integrity is lost, "played
out." The smile in the parlor
is a cheat in the streets, and friendship at the table is war in the
"mart." Now sir, I
hazzard [sic] nothing in the venture that this echo from the gouber [sic] patch
to the planter's barn, the shingle block to the palace steeple, from the hen
roost to the wholesale Millionaire, plants distrust in every heart; and alarm
steals in lighter or deeper shades through all practical business operations.
I am not the alarmist, but universal famine price has lost its blush;
rather has made a reputation for business tact and shrewdness, and men smile and
smile and talk of the "laws of trade," of "supply and
demand," and close their eyes and fold their hands as if inexorable fate
had pronounced humanity helpless, and decreed desolation and robbery in a land
of plenty in a day of pity and prayer.—Base falsehood, where is thy
shame.—Awake, fellow-citizens, strike off the bands of despair.
No man was ever lost unless first self-forsaken.
Hear me—there are spies among us who set traps around our corn cribs
and meat houses, under the counter and in the market—indeed they are so sly
that the whole land, even to cow pens and fowl roosts are surrounded and
entangled in the meshes of an infernal spider webb [sic].
Gray old gentlemen who in times of peace and prosperity seem to slumber
and make a sortie only now and then, but in times of war or famine go forth
everywhere and spread their web over creation.
They are angels, glorious once, but now fallen and seeking whom they may
devour. Look upon them, for they
now stand bravely in the market place. They
are the "laws of trade," of "supply and demand."
I said they were angels and once glorious.
It was when "supply" said to the hungry and naked, come I have
plenty and to spare, and trade bought and shipped to the needy for the maximum
profit which sufficed to enjoin economy to the consumer; when small but quick
and frequent gains rewarded "trade" for his labor and defended the
goods of "supply" from the prodigality and rapacity of spendthrift and
proud "demand." "Supply"
and "trade" are brothers. The
one is a producer and the other is a sailor, and in youth, when they were honest
and loved their neighbors as themselves, peace and prosperity resulted to the
million by their operations; and the people blessed them, the one for his rich
granaries, the other for the rich convenience of his beautiful and heaven laden
ship. Brothers of the Confederacy
hear me. The wail of hunger and
nakedness has never been heard in our streets until now.
Supply and trade had once a heart like God and the child of want could
never sylable [sic] his woe in this land where only the voice of truth is heard.
A few years ago and the child of Erin cried for bread; the wail was sharp
and the moan was heard across the far waters of the wide Atlantic.
"Supply" exclaimed, I have bread, and "Trade"
exclaimed, here are my ships; and there went bread to the destitute,
"without money and without price."
Such they once were—showering blessings along the path of life.
But we said they are angels fallen.
Trade was, in his youth, comparatively a fishing smack; now his sails
whiten every sea; then he was gracious and his fraternal feelings were strong,
and his motto was to "live and let live;" but success made him
avaricious, and he threw off his old system of laws, and became a monopolist.
Like the maw of Hell, insatiate, he seized the administration of the
American Republic, corrupted its Congress, prostituted the cabinet, disrupted
the Union, and now wages relentless war that he may seize the ports of the
producing States. I say it is the cupidity of the Northern (a commercial)
people which forbade the peaceable secession of the South, and insatiate avarice
it is now, which inspires both her Council of State and Military Camp.—But
even this is not the most horrible of his crimes.
His emissaries are scattered throughout the Confederate States, and if
what "everybody says" be true, no man now considers his neighbor, but
every man "looketh only upon his own things," and who considereth the
things that are Christ's—alas, who? Hear
me, fellow citizens. I say the
legitimate and just limitations of the "Laws of Trade" are thrown
aside and substituted by the spirit of a rapacious and relentless system of
monopoly, and every ear has heard the insidious whisper that there is a fortune
for him in these flush money days, and a little "diplomacy" may set
him among the Princes and nobles of the land.
And hence the producer as well as the salesman has closed his heart to
hunger and rags; shut up his commodities in the cellar or the barn, and with a
clean shirt and a fashionable collar to it, walks out into the market places
with a "demme, good fellows, but these are hard times—the Government with
its officials, its seizures and impressments have nearly ruined the
country."
Mr. Editor, I could narrate some piquant and amusing conversations
between Trade and Supply, but they are now in fraternal league as extortioners,
the time of tears has come, instead of merriment; and "her who won't sell
corn," and he who puts a lock upon his clothes, each placing famine price
to guard the doors, have been cursed, and the people are now cursing them; and
pillage and blood are scenting the winter winds.
How shall we prevent it? This
is our question.
More anon.
Confederate.
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A Wife's Prayer.—Lord! bless
and preserve that dear person whom Thou hast chosen to be my husband; let his
life be long and blessed, comfortable and holy; and let me also become a great
blessing and comfort unto him, a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet helper in all
the accidents and changes in the world; make me amiable forever in his eyes.
Unite his heart to me in the dearest love and holiness, and mine to him
all sweetness, charity and compliance. Keep
me from all ungentleness, discontentedness and unreasonableness of passion and
humor; and make me humble and obedient, useful and observant—that we may
delight in each other according to Thy blessed Word, and both of us may rejoice
in Thee, having our portion in the love and service of God forever.
Amen.
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Where does it come from?—There is not a factory within a day's travel
of this or any other city, where a person can get more than an occasional bunch
of thread, while nearly every retail dealer in the city has his shelves piled up
with it. Hence the query, where does it come from?
The only way in which we can solve it is, that these dealers pay the
factory prices, with the promise to say nothing bout it—and this enables the
manufacturer to evade the law, which allows him hands to carry on his
establishment, on condition that he does not charge over 75 per cent. profit.
We do not know that this is the case, but suspicion strongly points to
the culpability of these parties in this matter.
The Upson Factory allows every head of a family, in that and the
adjoining counties, two bunches every two months—which greatly aids the people
in that vicinity to get along in these hard times tolerably well.
If other manufacturing companies would do the same thing, there would be
much suffering, to say nothing of complaints, obviated.
If retail dealers can get thread to sell, why cannot others get it to
weave into cloth for their own use? The
per cent., we apprehend, is not enough—and the fear that some one will peach,
prevents a more liberal policy on the part of manufacturers.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
"Mary
and the Children."
We heard a soldier remark, but a day or two since, "I have fought
through eleven pitched battles, and been wounded twice; I have marched hundreds
of miles in the ranks barefooted, and subsisted for days at a time on parched
corn, and I am ready to fast and fight as long as any other man will in the
Confederate cause; but while shoes are seventy-five dollars per pair, and salt
is twenty-five dollars per bushel, and my pay is only eleven dollars per month,
what is to become of Mary and the children?
If this state of things continues, I shall have to throw down my gun or
they must starve, and before they shall starve that gun I will certainly throw
down; and if they want to shoot me for that, they can just shoot and be d____d. I ask only that it shall be recorded n my tomb-stone that
here lies a soldier who was shot as a deserter, who gave the government notice
that he was only going home to save his family from starvation."
In the Confederate States there are not less than 100,000 Marys and
400,000 children, precisely in the same situation, and this husband and father
uttered the sentiments of every husband and father in the Confederate service
similarly situated.—What is it that constitutes country?
"Country, that dear name, comprises kind kindred, fostering friends
and protecting laws;" and if the soldier's family is to starve, well might
he finish the quotation and add, "and none of these are Bertram's."
The very sentiments of devotion to his family which makes an affectionate
husband and tender father, are the very sentiments which makes the sentinel at
his post true and the soldier in battle brave.
He feels that he is fighting for "Mary and the children," and
"Mary and the children" are ever present in the dreams which enchant
his pillow at the dead of the night, where he lays upon his pallet of straw by
the wolf-scaring faggot that is guarding the slain; and if our government is to
leave him to hear breaking upon the ear of his fancy in the stillness of the
gloom that reigns around his midnight camp-fire the sobs of a starving wife and
the cry of his little ones for bread, and expect him to have nature in him and
submit to it, they are making a mistake that may cost us more than we have yet
lost. The next Congress are to be
charged with a responsibility far greater than has yet been brought to the door
of any man or body of men in this revolution, to-wit:
the enactment of a law which shall effectually provide for "Mary and
the children." Upon the speedy
passage of such a statute more now is staked than ever has been upon the issue
of any battle that we have fought. The
private soldier of this Confederacy is the salt of our earth, the day-star of
our country.—His "Mary and the children" are dear to him, and in
proportion as he is invaluable to the country, "Mary and the children"
must become dear to the country.
The existence of this fact is not to be blinked nor its discussion
adjourned, and we can see but one way to drive famine from her door, and that is
for the Government to make speculation in anything a high misdemeanor, and in
the necessities of life a felony. To
be just, then, the Government ought to impress every imported article for sale
now in the Confederacy, and pay for it whatever it may have cost.
It then ought to put these same goods immediately upon the market at
retail only, and at the prices they sold at before the war.
They then ought to require the farmer, artisan and mechanic to put his
produce, services and wares on the market at the old prices, (which should be
fixed by the bill.) In less than 12
months from the day such a law would go into operation, we would find that God
had made of the Confederate States a land capable of living entirely upon its
own resources and of prospering even though at war with all the world. The price of gold has well nigh closed up the blockade
running business, and this bill ought to finish it.
The Government ought to be the sole importer, and nothing ought to be
imported save such articles as are necessary for the support of the army.
We can live on that which our land produces, and those who do not think
so ought to have the starch taken out of their fastidious taste and pompous
vanity. "Mary and the
children" have it to do, and the best are no better than "Mary and the
children."
The first answer that we will be met with will be that if the government
attempts to do anything of the kind it will open the door to immense frauds, and
that is indubitably true. It will
for the first six months doubtless open a wide door to fraud, but it were a far
higher and nobler mission to save "Mary and the children" than to
close doors in the face of a few frauds. The
simple, plain truth is, that the fate of "Mary and the children" is to
be the fate of this Confederacy. If
we save one we will the other, and if "Mary and the children" are left
to starve, we will not only deserve to be subjugated but to be annihilated. By the law we have suggested, the Confederate currency will
be at once restored to the value of gold in the Confederate States, and it will
then cost the government the one tenth of the sum it now costs it to support the
Confederate army. All they will
lose on the price of the foreign goods they buy at high prices and sell at old
prices will be saved in less than one year's expenditures of the army.
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That
Rough Question.
We said it was rough, because it presents us only with the alternatives
of a contest with a heartless monopoly, or pillage and blood.
For myself and for my friends I cannot hesitate in the purpose to grapple
with the former. I know well enough
that the whole country is trembling and cowering under his iron grasp, while the
puerile and stupid are blowing the trumpet which he sets to their mouth; to-wit:
"you can't dictate prices; you can't regulate trade—that always
was and always will be controlled by 'demand.'"
Stop, stop, my fine fellows, not so fast, nor so confident, otherwise
"demand," by your flatteries, will grow exorbitant and take your crib,
and your smoke house, and your factory, and your furniture, aye, and if you
chirp, your blood with them. Pause,
for I warn you, he contemplates just than now.
Will you hear? It is false
that demand always did regulate trade. It
is a false prophecy that it always will.
It is the quintessence of childishness and treason against manhood, as
well as Jehovah, to say it will. Solon
repudiated gold, established an iron currency instead.
This was too cumbersome for avarice, it smashed prices, buried monopoly,
bridled speculation, and dignified his Republic by simplicity, temperance and
moderation. That which mortals have done, mortals can do again.
Think a moment; is it not the "Law of Trade," clothed in
vestments of monopoly, which now creates demand, is spurting it to desperation,
with vampire wing fanning the sleepers to a deadly torpor, while his vandal
appetite saps the life-blood from their vitals?
I say, sirs, that Trade has married Monopoly, and the foul progeny is a
"demand" which can be satisfied only with pillage and blood, unless we
can annul the hellish league and reconstruct the beautiful and healthful
relation between the producer and the merchant.
And now to this point we address ourselves.
Let us assemble in council and constitute a Society pledged to receive
Confederate currency as the equivalent for gold; to buy and sell only at specie
rates to such as unite with us, together with the families of soldiers and the
needy in general, denouncing such as refuse, as fit subjects for moral scorn and
Government impressments. Our
enterprise is but an honest effort of humanity and religion for the relief of
wretchedness and the protection of our homes from imminent and perilous discord
among ourselves.
We are not the pioneers of this experiment; it has been made and found
practical. The Secretary of such a Society from Enterprise, Mississippi,
h as been among us here for a few days, and reports eminent triumph, on a grand
scale; has received the congratulation and thanks of the President of the
Confederate States, and now, with his confreres, rejoices with that peculiar
satisfaction which only good men feel who relieve distress at the high cost of
self-denial.
But permit, before I close, a few remarks in reference to some of the
noble efforts of private beneficence; such as contributions of small quantities
of meal and wood for the alleviation of present distress.
Every man knows that the expedients of individual sympathy must of
necessity be merely temporary and inevitably fall far short of the wasting,
lasting penury which pines along the tracks of protracted war.
Indeed, I almost regret these ill-regulated impulses to the humane and
christian purpose of staying a despolation [sic] threatening the entire
Confederacy. These ebullitions can
but exhaust the energy which might be competent to mature a plan of success;
aye, and worse a ill, the vultures among us are but too ready to imitate these
precious deeds of virtuous humanity, and with a mere tithe of their ill-gotten
gains, seduce the popular esteem of the army, allay the vigilance of the
watchmen, that with unsuspected rapacity they may glut their cormorant maws with
the blood of their wives and children, widows and orphans—"stealing the
livery of Heaven to serve the Devil."
Merciful God! are we given
over to an infatuated inertia or a childish imbecility, to await in troubled
dreams or fitful spasms the descent of a burning lava which must leave only
sterility and solitude behind, broken alone by the wail of straggling
starvelings?—Oh, shades of ancient Greece!
teach us to transmute the golden guinea into the cent of iron and the
ashes of vice into the seeds of virtue. Oh,
friends of the children, defenders of gentle women and ye that fear God, arouse
to life rescue! Life, Liberty and
Religion tremble in the balance. Meet
for counsel, and pledge for conquest.
Confederate.
In the former communication, instead of "farmers' ploughshare,"
read "famine," instead of "voice of Truth is heard," read
"voice of the Turtle."
City papers please copy.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Ingenuity of our Ladies.--We have been somewhat surprised, as well as gratified,
at seeing the many handsome and elegant dresses still worn by our ladies,
notwithstanding the blockade, and have been not a little puzzled to know where
they came from. We were fully aware
that there were but few if any really fine dress goods exposed to sale by our
enterprising merchants, and even had there been, the noted frugality of our
ladies, we felt, would prevent their wearing them.
When our perplexity had reached its highest, a lady friend relieved it,
by informing us that many of these dresses were old ones, turned and altered,
and we confess we should never have known it, and doubt whether even the ladies
themselves, who are noted for their discernment, would have recognized them.
Many of those bought nowadays are of sombre and grave colors, but are so
trimmed and bedecked with cord and other trimmings as to greatly relieve the
grave appearance which they would otherwise present.
We
admire and commend the taste and ingenuity of the ladies thus displayed, but
above all, we admire the spirit which actuates and enables them to bear the
privations they have to encounter in these perilous times, while their husbands
and brothers are battling and striving for the independence of our bright, sunny
South. In this, as in their many
deeds of charity, and watchful attention to the sick and wounded soldier, do we
see their noble, self-sacrificing patriotism.
Even the little girls seem to be imbued with the same high and lofty
spirit their mothers evince and cheerfully glide along in their childish sports,
reckoning of the time when the war will end, and they can again go forth, canary
like, proud of the beauty of their plumage.
We
sincerely sympathize with these little creatures in the privations imposed upon
them by the mean Yankees--for nothing gives us more pleasure than to see
handsomely dressed misses promenading and admiring, yet vieing [sic] with one
another as to who has the most beautiful and neatest fitting dress.
The grave colors they are now compelled to wear give them a decidedly
matronly appearance, and even seem to cast a cloud over their once bright and
smiling countenances. We bid them
only look upon the bright side of the horrible panorama now passing before them,
and to be of good cheer, as bright, happy days will yet come, and we hope at no
distant period, when they will not only be able again to deck themselves in many
charming colors, but to know and feel that, while they were undergoing a few
petty privations, their fathers and brothers were engaged in winning the blessed
peace they will then enjoy.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
The Lawyers are the only profession, as a class, that we know of, who
have not and are not making money during our political struggle.
They may, and doubtless do, when they get a case, charge more than they
ever did before, but they get so few cases that, after all, they make
comparatively nothing. People will
get sick, and must necessarily take medicine, and a doctor is indispensable to
administer it, and the doctors are charging three or four times the old prices
for visits. The mechanics are
getting a large advance on former prices, and pay their laborers much higher
wages. The merchants have all
turned speculators, and nearly all of them have made their fortunes. Whiskey sellers are asking and find ready sale for their foul
decoctions at ten times the old prices. But
the poor lawyers get nothing to do, however industrious and constant they are at
their post.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Delivery Clerk.—Our worthy city postmaster has secured the services of
an accommodating young lady to attend to the delivery of letters at the
postoffice. This is a decided
improvement, as ladies are noted for their disposition to please and give
satisfaction, and therefore when we ask at the office if there is a letter, and
are told by them there is none, we will be better satisfied than when gruffly
told "No!" by some beardless chap, who neither has politeness
nor knows the use of it.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 4, c. 3
Cotton Cards.—The Richmond Sentinel says:
We have seen a specimen of Cotton Cards (No. 10) manufactured by
Hargrove, Penick & Co., at Pittsylvania Court House, Va.
These cards are equal in appearance, and we have no doubt in material,
workmanship, and value, to any of the imported or Northern manufacture; and, we
are pleased to learn, are meeting with a ready sale, as rapidly as they can be
made.
The machinery—a very complicated invention for manufacturing these
cards—was constructed by a gentleman of experience in the business, at the
works in Pittsylvania; and the same gentleman is erecting machinery for making
filleting [sic], sheeting, &c. He
also contemplates the manufacture of Cotton and Wool Cards for mill machines.
Such a manufactory in our midst, at this time, will prove of great
benefit to the Southern people.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 4, c. 4
Substitute
for Blue Stone.
Mr. E. L. Newton, of this place, informs us of an experiment of Mr.
Williamson, of Floyd county, last year, which will prove valuable to wheat
growers, in the present scarcity of blue stone.
Mr. Williamson took common stable manure and dripped it just as ley is
dripped. He soaked a part of his wheat in this liquid, and a fine crop
of clean wheat was the result.—Other wheat, which he did not soak, was so full
of smut that he did not cut it.—Mr. Newton has some of the wheat, which can be
seen at any time.—Athens Banner.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
At the marriage of a couple at Mt. Crawford, Va., the bride appeared for
the ceremony in a full dress of real Confederate—that is, old time linsey
woolsey made with her own hands. The
bridegroom wore a woolen suit of gray, the product of the country.
After the ceremony, the couple started for Richmond, she hiding her
blushes beneath a cute little straw hat (the straw of which it was made having
grown on her father's farm) made by herself, and protected from the insinuating
familiarities of Rude Boreas by the ample folds of a Confederate cloak, of the
same material as her bridal dress, and made by the same fair fingers.
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[GA] ENQUIRER, November 17, 1863, p. 3, c. 8
Clothe
the Needy Soldier!
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 14, 1863.
Mr. Editor Enquirer: Many of
the soldiers of the regiment to which I am attached are destitute of socks, in
fact there are but few who can boats of a whole pair.
Many more have not a single blanket, quilt or coverlet of any kind to
protect them from the chilling blast of winter which has already hovered her icy
mantle around us. And this sad
condition is but the representative of the brigade (Buford's) to which I am
attached, or at least it is the case with all who are cut off from communication
with their homes. The government no
doubt has been doing all it could to meet this exigency, but as yet, but little
has been done to alleviate their sufferings.
Cannot something be done for them? I
am here in the vicinity of this place, having received a detail for the purpose
of calling on my native State to lend a helping hand to the suffering soldiers
who are in the field cut off from their homes, and who, noble patriots, are
ready to die for their country without a murmur.
Will not the ladies of Columbus and vicinity do something for them?
Wilt not the citizens generally give them something?
I think they will answer nobly to the call.
While thousands are being given for the distribution of tracts and other
religious literature, which without contradiction is a noble work, I think
something can be done to alleviate the sufferings of our noble soldiers.
If any aid society or any private individual who may chance to see this,
wishes to contribute anything, I would be glad to hear from them either through
your columns or by letter addressed to me at Box Springs, Ga.
Come forward and clothe your soldiers, and they will defend your country.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
James H. Tigner.
Private Co. E, 12th La. Regiment.
Contributions may be left at the drug store of Messrs. Urquhart &
Chapman, in Columbus. Persons
desiring to contribute any articles, will please send them in before the 1st
of December, as my time is limited.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Extortion Among the Tailors.—A very worthy and intelligent soldier,
having drawn his jacket and pants from the Government, and paid $21 for the
same, stepped into a tailor's shop to have the garments altered to fit him.
The price asked for doing the job was $100—five times more than the
cost of the suit. The soldier being
shocked at the charge went off to another, and was told that he could not do the
altering for less than $40—double the cost of the articles.
The result was he left one of the articles to be altered at $20.
The poor women do the work after all, and these extortioners reap the
enormous profits. It will be well
for the Government to hunt up these extortioner examples and learn them the use
of the musket.—Richmond Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
A Girl Worth Having.—One of our fair country women, the daughter of a
rich and independent farmer of Rockingham, was married the other day to a
gentleman who may congratulate himself upon having secured a prize worth having. She was what we would call "an independent girl,"
sure enough. Her bridal outfit was
all made with her own hands, from her beautiful straw hat down to the handsome
gaiters upon her feet. Her own
delicate hands spun and wove the material of which her wedding dress and
traveling cloak were made, so that she had nothing upon her person when she was
married which was not made by herself! Nor
was she compelled by necessity or poverty to make this exhibition of her
independence. She did it for the
purpose of showing to the world how independent Southern girls are.
If this noble girl were not wedded we should be tempted to publish her
name in this connection, so that our bachelor readers might see who of our girls
are most to be desired. If she were yet single, and we were to publish her name, her
pa's house would be at once thronged with gallant gentlemen seeking the hand of
a woman of such priceless value.—Rockingham (Va.) Register.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Cotton
Yarns Without Cards.
Gov. Shorter has received the following communication on the subject from
Hon. Wm. E. Clarke, the Senator from Greene and Marengo, which we publish for
the valuable information it contains. A
specimen of the yarn can be seen at the Executive office:--Montg. Adv.
Capitol, Nov. 12, 1863.
His Excellency, John Gill Shorter:
Dear Sir—A constituent of mine, Col. R. R. Pickering, of Marengo
county, is making excellent cotton yarns, for the manufacture of bagging and
heavy clothing for negroes, without the use of cards.
he gins the cotton slowly, so as to throw large flakes through the flue,
which are caught in a hamper basket placed under the flue, and taken to the
spinning wheel, without pressing the cotton.
Col. Pickering informs me that his best spinners average eight cuts per
day. Since he made this discovery
he has abandoned the use of cards in making coarse yarns.
I herewith send you a specimen of the yarn for examination.
Believing this a matter of much importance to our country, I have taken
the liberty of making this communication.
Very respectfully,
Yours, &c.,
W. E. Clarke.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 4, c. 2
Spun Cotton.—The act of 15th April, 1863, authorized the
Governor to expend $100,000 in the purchase of Cotton Yarns, to be distributed
among soldiers' families who were reported by 1st of June.
The Inferior Court having reported 250 families in Muscogee county, of
this description, and no Yarns having been supplied, Mr. Russell offered a
resolution on Wednesday, requesting the Governor to have the due proportion
furnished out of the $2,500,000 fund set apart for the support of indigent
soldiers' families.—Sou. Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 4, c. 4
Substitute
for Quinine."
Eds. Chas. Courier—A paragraph with the above heading, in a late number
of the Courier, suggests to me the propriety of making known the result of a
late experiment of my own. I had in
my black family a case of fully developed and confirmed chills and
fever of about fifteen days standing—one of those cases which in our country
frequently last several weeks or months. I
cured it in three days by giving a strong decoction of the berries
and root bark of the Dogwood, with one third the quantity of brandy
added.—Dose: a small wine glass
full three times daily. I have
tried it since, in the incipient stages of the disease, and found it entirely
effective.
Anson County, N. C., Nov. 7th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Receipt for Dyeing Brown.—Take red oak bark, sufficient to make four
gallons of very strong dye, boil very strong, then strain it; add two table-spoonsful
of blue stone, then dip your thread in the dye, then in strong lye; repeat it
four times, then hang out and let it get half dry and rinse in clear water.
Blue Dye.—Take one quarter of a pound of extract of logwood, put it in
four gallons of water, boil one half an hour, add two table-spoonsful of blue
stone, put in your thread or cloth, boil one-half hour more, take it out and let
it air fifteen minutes; put back and wash out in warm soap suds, then rinse in
clear water.
Black Dye.—Put a quarter of a pound of extract of logwood in three
gallons of water, boil it thirty minutes, add two table spoonsful of copperas,
put in your thread, boil fifteen minutes, take out, wash in strong soap, then
air and rinse in clear water.
Yellow Dye.—Take of each a lot of sassafras, swamp bay and butterfly
root, put in four gallons of water, boil until strong, then strain and put in
your thread or cloth and boil it thirty minutes, take out and air fifteen
minutes, put in a table spoonful of burnt copperas and two of alum and boil
fifteen minutes, then rinse in clear water and let it dry.
Five pounds of thread can be dyed in any of these.
To Dye a Blue Color Without Indigo.—Make a strong dye of red oak bark,
another of maple bark, and have in a third vessel of weak copperas water, and in
a fourth vessel a weak lye. Wet
your cotton thoroughly in each vessel of dye, and rinse it out in the order in
which they are mentioned, having each fluid as hot as the hand can bear,
repeating the process until the color is sufficiently deep.
By making the thread a deep copperas color first, and then going through
the process, you can have a good black color.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
"Agar said, 'Give me neither poverty nor riches,' and this will ever
be the prayer of the wise. Our
income should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but
if too large they will cause us to stumble and to trip.—Wealth, after all, is
a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he
that has much, but wants more. True
contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes,
but a world was too little for Alexander."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
The
Savannah Republican mentions a novel way that has recently been discovered to
smuggle whisky. There is a woman
who sports gutta percha breasts, filled not with lacteal juices, but old Bourbon
of best quality and greatest age. What
a jolly old wet-nurse she would make for the boys up at "the
front."--Atlanta Confederacy.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
To Dye Cotton or Wool.—A lady sends the following recipe for dying
cotton or wool brown:
Take the bark of the root of a common wild plum—boil in iron or brass,
as most convenient, until the dye looks black.
Strain, and add a small quantity of copperas dissolved in a small
quantity of the dye. Add the article to be dyed.
Boil an hour or so. Wring
out, and dip in strong cold ley. When
dry rinse in cold water. This gives
a genuine, bright brown which is the prettiest contrast for blue; and when
checked in together, it makes the dress becoming enough for the proudest
Southern dame or belle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
The
Conscription in North Carolina.
North Carolina has furnished during this war nearly 100,000 men for the
Confederate army. For the year
ending in July last she sent 11,874 conscripts, and between 3 and 4,000
volunteers. In her quota there have
been only 2,040 substitutes—a smaller number in comparison than any other
State of the same population. The
following is a list of the exempts in the State: ... Express company employees
14, ... factory employees 155, ... hatters 3, harness makers, 1, ...papermakers
14, ...shoemakers 651, salt makers 627, ...tanners 174, ...
Total 21,558.
Richmond Dispatch.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
A New Cotton Mill.—The public will be gratified to learn, says the
Lynchburg Republican, that a cotton factory is completed and is now turning out
yarns near this city. The
enterprise is due to Messrs. Nowlin & Murrelli, and that it will be a
complete success no one can doubt. They
have gone quietly to work, and the first intimation the public have of it is in
the shape of yarns spun almost at their doors.
They deserve great credit for their enterprise and energy in getting it
up.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Mule Hair for Hats.—Mr. Edward Barnes of Barnes' Cross Roads, says the
Clayton Banner has exhibited to us an elegant, substantial hat, manufactured
from the hair shorn from a young mule, with the addition of a small portion of
wool. While our patriotic people continue to economize and develop all our
abundant resources as we are now doing, the combined powers of the earth can not
subjugate us. This hat is far
superior to those made of wool. What
next?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 8
Dried
Pumpkins.
For the Mobile
Tribune.
Mr. Editor: Although it is a
duty of every friend to the Confederacy to offer his mite of contribution to the
army, however small, yet my modesty barely permits me to make a suggestion which
my judgment tells me will be useful to the army, if adopted.
In the winter season, when vegetables are scarce, dried pumpkins would be
found an excellent vegetable for the army generally, as well as the hospitals;
and where dried fruit could not be obtained this article would prove "a
good substitute," if planters would dry their pumpkins, an abundant supply
of which could be obtained every where in the Confederacy.
The process of drying is as follows:
The finest pumpkins thoroughly ripe should be selected.
Lay one on its side on a table, cut off the end to the hollow, take out
the seeds, and continue to cut slice after slice about an inch in width until
the whole hollow of the pumpkin is cut out in rings.
Then peel the rind off each ring and hang them on sticks to dry in an
airy room, passage or loft. When dried, the luscious rings are reduced to
ribands [sic]. But I think there is
nothing lost but the water, which is re-supplied by cooking.
They may be packed in a small compass for transportation.
If thoroughly dried they will keep a long time.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
There are 22,855 persons in Georgia dependent upon soldiers for support,
who are unable to take care of themselves.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The Yankees have decided that "abdomens grossly protuberant, or excessive
obesity," are sufficient causes for exemptions, and the decision is
creating considerable discussion.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The Georgia penitentiary has wire enough for two years, and will turn out
about two hundred pairs of cotton cards daily.