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superseded by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