[HOUSTON]
TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
1863
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, January 30, 1863, p. 1, c.
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Rutersville Female College.—A Tableaux and Concert was given by the
young ladies of this Institution at the close of the Fall session, 23d inst.
It was held in the Baconion Hall of the Texas Military Institute.
One hundred and seventy-five dollars was received at the door. The money is to be sent by Lieut. Col. Ferrill, to the Rev.
Mr. Bunting, to be expended for the benefit of the Texas Rangers.
As the weather was unpropitious, at the request of the audience, the
scenes will be reproduced on the 28th inst.
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Houston, Jan. 29th, 1863.
Mr. Cushing:--The whole amount received at the Supper and Party on last
Friday evening, including money donations, was about $1,460, of which amount
nearly $240 was absorbed in expenses. The
music, rent of room, and expenses of lighting and arranging the Hall amounted to
$200. We enclose the receipt of Mr.
Longcope, to whom we have handed over the money to disburse for the objects
contemplated. We are under a great
many obligations to the gentlemen and ladies who so kindly assisted us, both
before and on the night of the party.
Very respectfully,
Mollie Wright,
Fannie Cruger.
Houston, January 27, 1863.
Received of Mrs. Molly Wright and Miss Fannie Cruger, committee, the sum
of twelve hundred and twenty-five dollars, which is to be applied to the benefit
of the wounded and sick soldiers in the Hospitals at Galveston and Houston.
Chas. S. Longcope, Receiver.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, January 30, 1863, p. 1, c.
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For Sale.
15
bales
4 ¼ broad sheeting,
8
"
4-4 bleached sheeting,
2
"
5-4 bleached sheeting,
10
"
cotton checks,
8
"
hickory stripes,
8
"
cottonade, (extra heavy)
6
"
gray blankets,
1
"
linen drill,
3
"
linen dress goods,
250 dozen cotton handkerchiefs,
5 cases prints,
5 bales mosquito netting,
100 packs pins,
100 sacks coffee,
70 Mexican saddles, &c., &c.
T. H. McMahan & Gilbert.
January 23, 1863.
Next issue:
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, February 13, 1863, p. 2, c.
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San Antonio, Jan. 29, 1863.
Editor Telegraph: . . . In the Telegraph of the 23d, we were surprised to
see it stated the Sibley Brigade "has not been paid by the Government, nor
has it received any comforts from the people."
Our society made the brigade 2000 pairs of drawers, 21 shirts, 51 pairs
of pants, 23 blankets, 93 bed sacks, 143 pillow sacks and four flags, before
their departure to New Mexico. After
the return of the brigade, $2000 worth of Material was purchased and made up in
this place for their benefit. Respectfully,
A. J. Maclin, Pres. S. A. S.
E. Sweet, Vice President.
M. A. Maverick, Treasurer.
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We are requested to say that the Ladies of Montgomery and its vicinity
will give an entertainment, consisting of Music, Tableaux and a Supper, the
nights of the 19th and 20th of February, for the benefit
of our brave defenders in Gen. Hood's Brigade.
Price of admission, $2, children half price.
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The Washington Festival.—Our amateurs are setting to work with
enthusiasm for the entertainment to take place at Perkins' Hall on the 23d
inst., for the benefit of Hood's Brigade, and every effort will be made to
render it the most complete and attractive affair of the season.
A new feature of the programme will be the introduction of acted charades
or petite dramas, so framed as to suggest a word or words, to be guessed
by the audience. They are
exceedingly funny in themselves and with the mirth created by the good or bad,
and the good or bad guessing of the hearer, and the good or bad acting of our
amateur will produce a scene of merry excitement fit to satisfy the most ardent
lover of Momus. Of the other
attractions we shall speak as the arrangements progress.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, February 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
A Battle Flag for Col. Reily's Regiment.
We are gratified to learn that a Battle Flag has been presented to this
brave and veteran regiment. They
have fairly won this honor from the lovely and appreciative women of Texas.
These tried troops will never desert or disgrace their colors.
Col. James Reily, 1st Regiment,
Sibley's Brigade, 4th Reg't, T. M. V.
Colonel—Hearing that your gallant Brigade has been ordered by the
Commanding General to have your Galveston honors embroidered upon your
standards, we could not resist the pleasure of preparing a flag, for the special
occasion and presentment to your regiment.
Your weather-beaten banner that has so often floated upon Arizona breezes
and beneath New Mexico skies, might with just propriety claim the inscription. But Houston feels that it is her privilege to present to you,
(you, who have so constantly and patriotically upheld her honor) and to your
brave officers and men, this flag, commencing as you did the new year with two
victories, whose deathless names shall soon entwine proudly and gracefully with
those of the glorious days of the Republic of Texas.
Our prayer is, that this banner may go before you as the pillar of fire
and the cloud did before the Israelites—leading you to fresh triumph over the
foe, and leading you all safely at last to the Promised Land of a peaceful,
united, independent, liberated Confederacy.
God bless and preserve you all.
Mrs. Jane M. Young,
Mrs. C. M. Allen,
Mrs. A. J. Burke.
Houston, February 7th, 1863.
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Headquarters, Sibley's Brigade,
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Houston, Feb. 7th, 1863.
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Mrs. Jane M. Young, Mrs. C. M. Allen and Mrs. A. J. Burke
and Associates:
The battle-flag made by you for my regiment (1st Reg. Sibley's
Brigade) has been received, and will be presented to my fellow soldiers, whom it
is intended to honor. I hail it as
the token of the confidence which some of the loveliest women of Texas
repose in the courage and patriotism of some of the bravest men of Texas.
Sustained by strong arms and fearless hearts, it marches to float in
triumph, over a new theatre of danger and of glory.
Upon its crimson field, your fair hands have embroidered the battles on
which these gallant troops have met and vanquished the abolition foe, and
with the blessing of God, when peace is restored, and our national independence
secured, we hope to return it to you, to inscribe on it the names of other
victories equally as gallant as those already achieved by their heroism.
The officers and men you thus compliment are proud of your confidence,
and on their behalf I promise you that the flag entrusted to their valor, will
never be lowered in defeat, until the last one of its guard shall have fallen
"With his feet to the foe
And his face to the sky."
With sentiments of highest respect.
James Reily
Col. 4th R. T. M. V. and Commanding Sibley's
brigade.
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There will be a Concert and a tableaux at Washington, Washington county,
on the 2d and 3d of March, for the benefit of Hood's Brigade.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, February 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Among the features of the times, is the impulse given to domestic
industry and invention by the blockade. We
had the pleasure of examining a new invention last week, by Mr. Hogan—a peg
making machine. It is an ingenious
affair and is well worthy inspection by the curious.
It is in daily operation at the end of the bridge near the Central
Railroad depot.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, February 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
New Ulm.
[illegible] an otherwise unimportant village may [illegible] throw light
on subjects of conversation [illegible] me to talk of New Ulm—"Notorious
New Ulm"—a place of very little notice, situated in Austin county, near
the line of Colorado and Fayette counties; formerly a peaceable village,
[illegible] of late acquired an ill-renowned name, on account of the so-called
insurrectionary movement of the town and its vicinity.
We know that a rumor has spread throughout the [illegible] and probably
throughout the Confederacy that the citizens of foreign birth (and this class
forms at least one-half of the white population in Washington, Fayette, Colorado
and Austin counties) were not true to the Southern cause.
To annihilate this accusation, we will only point to the muster-rolls of
Waul's Legion, of Sibley's Brigade, of Elmore's, Allen's and other regiments on
this and the other side of the Mississippi, where the sons of our so-called
German neighbors, as volunteers, represent their fathers' names three and four
fold. When the conscription took
place, there was scarcely a single man to be found; and we suppose that men of
families who have no slaves to provide for a subsistence, had enough excuse to
tend their little farms until their country called for them.
Go through these counties, and you will find none but old men, women and
children at home, and the little fields, formerly so neatly cultivated, growing
up in weeds.
New Ulm, or at least that part of the population which is gifted with a
human heart, has reason to complain very much.
Some five or six citizens, all quiet, peaceable and industrious men, were
arrested by a military force—it was said by order of a higher officer.
The soldiers were conducted by personal enemies of those men, and when
they were made prisoners, torn away from their families at the midnight hour,
they were beaten and dragged out of their houses.
Their women and children were most horribly abused, so as to leave the
ladies, beaten black and blue and senseless, in a gorge of blood on the ground! A. D., 1863!
These people were not mistreated by the soldiers, no. The military men saw the outrages with disgust.
It was the personal enemies of these people, their immediate neighbors,
who are, we are sorry to say, natives, not of Texas, (Tex. don't produce such
stuff,) but of this continent. The
prisoners were conducted, or driven at the point of the bayonet, from one camp
to another, from one dungeon to another, and finally, after a week's
imprisonment, delivered up to the Provost Marshal of their respective counties,
then given up to the sheriff, who told them:
"Gentlemen, there are no charges against you; you may go home."
Aint it pretty?
We ask, in the name of humanity, why can't those men have a trial?
If these men are guilty of treason, we say hang them all in a row!
But if they show that they have been willfully and maliciously slandered,
which we believe is the case, then let the transgressors of the law and order
have their just punishment.
It is no small matter to be denounced as a traitor, without even the
chance of obtaining an inquest. Men
who have to leave to their children but little more than a name, it is a poor
inheritance to be called a traitor's son.
We see among those implicated none but honest men, who have resided in
Texas from 15 to 25 years, some men too who have taken up arms in defence of the
country, long before the day of annexation, [illegible] of these men, thus
maltreated, have their sons and relatives engaged in the cause of our country.
We say, for God's sake give them a trial, give them justice.
Bro. Dutch.
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Fresh Garden Seeds just received from
Matamoros.
James Burke.
February 28, 1863.
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Notice.—The thanks of the soldiers' wives and families of Brazoria
county are hereby tendered to J. Betts, of Brazos county, for his liberal
donation of fifteen hundred bushels of corn for their use, and we hope it may be
to him "As bread cast upon the waters to return to him after many
days," for to many, while their husbands are battling for their country,
this act of generosity will be a blessing."
Thos. Johnston,
Chief Justice, on behalf of the wives, &c.
Next issue:
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
To Our Customers.
Before the war we bought paper at $3 per ream.
The same paper is now held at $50 per ream.
We then paid 40 cents per thousand composition.
We now pay $1. We then had rapid mails to bring intelligence, at little or
no cost. We have had to establish
expresses of our own now, at a heavy cost.
Our expenses last week for expressing and telegraphing alone were $250.
Every other expense of publishing has gone up proportionately, and we
have the alternative before us of either failing in business, or raising our
prices of subscription. We have
chosen the latter. While, however,
a corresponding advance in the price of our paper, to cost of production, would
put it at $25 a year, we have determined to try to publish it at only double
former rates, at which all new subscriptions from this date will be entered.
As our subscribers have paid in advance, we shall continue their papers
at former rates until July 1st, at which time such as notify us to
discontinue their papers will have the balance due them refunded; otherwise
their names will be entered anew and credited with one half the time still due
them on the books. We know of no
other way to arrange the matter, which will be as fair and honest to all
concerned as this.
It is a matter of no little regret to us to be obliged to pursue this
course. We have felt a pride in
keeping at old prices, hoping to be able to continue thro' the war at those
rates. But it is evident to us that
this sort of pride goeth before destruction as well as any other. We yield to hard necessity.
We had hoped, also, before doing this, to resume our publication on white
paper, a considerable supply of which is on the way; but we must still ask
indulgence of our readers for a while longer.
We shall do our best to give them good measure for their money.
If any are not satisfied, we will cheerfully part with them; indeed, part
as friends, for we feel that we oblige our subscribers far more in publishing a
paper like the Telegraph than they do us in buying it.
Three compositors wanted at this office immediately.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Among the articles which have been donated to the Fair for the 2d Texas
Regiment, we notice the following, all of which will be drawn by lottery,
Tuesday evening, the 24th inst., at Perkins' Hall:
2 fine family sewing machines; 1 superior four octave melodeon; 1
Colton's atlas, in two volumes; 1 magnificent guitar; 1 large large box
telescope, with 50 plates; 1 elegant white crape shawl; 2 acres of land
adjoining the city of Houston; 1 splendid gold watch and chain; 1 worked table
cover, the model ship "Harriet Lane," a fine oil painting, also a
pincushion made and donated by a Federal sailor, the whole amounting in value to
$3,500. The plan upon which this
lottery will be conducted will be novel and equitable, and we recommend it to
the attention of our readers. Remember
Perkins' Hall, Tuesday evening, March 24th.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
San Antonio, March 9th.
Editor Telegraph:--Dear Sir—Mrs. Captain R. King, of the Santa
Gertrudes, has enclosed $200 to the "Ladies' Southern Aid Society,"
San Antonio, to be disposed of in the most beneficial manner. As far as I can learn the troops in this State are well cared
for by their friends at home. I
think Bryan's Hospital that ministers to the wants of our sick and wounded
Texians far from home and friends, has the best right to it.
I also enclose $110 from Mr. Maverick's servants Betsy and Rosetta, for
the same hospital.
Their patriotism needs special notice.
After contributing largely from their own earnings, they gave two
suppers, which would have done credit to white people, and send the proceeds to
aid our Southern soldiers, and to show their detestation of the Yankees.
Our servant boy Joe, sends $23 for the same purpose, and thinks if he had
the time to go among his darkee friends, and the "gift of the gab" he
thinks he has, he could raise perhaps enough to crush out the whole Yankee
nation.
Respectfully,
A. J.
Maclin,
President S. A. S.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
School Books—I have on hand a good supply of the following School
Books: READERS—Eclectic, (McGuffey's);
National—(Parker and Watson's) No's 1 to 5 inclusive. GRAMMARS—Bailey's and Clark's.
ARITHMETICS—Smith's, Davies' Intellectual. ALGEBRAS—Davies'. SURVEYING—Davies'.
BOOK KEEPING, Smith and Martin's. BOTANIES,
Darby's and Lincoln's. Speech
Books, Dictionaries, Definers, etc.
March 19
James Burke.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Editor Telegraph:--As I believe that there are many in the "Lone
Star State" who like to hear from the brigade, I will occupy a short space
in your columns with the account of what I saw in Richmond.
Among the first attractions in which Texas has an interest, stands most
prominently the Texas Hospital, a very large building capable of accommodating
300 patients very comfortably, and 350 if put to the push.
Dr. Lindly has the entire supervision, assisted by Dr. Dandridge, both
from Texas. Dr. Hughes is likewise
a sharer in the duties, though not as yet commissioned. Dr. Allen of Washington county, has been with the institution
since its establishment, but leaves for Texas in a few days.
All the offices of clerk, steward, matron, nurses, &c., are filled by
Texians; Mr. and Mrs. Fenell, of Houston, holding the positions of steward and
matron respectively, with great satisfaction to all concerned.
The sick are delighted with this successful hospital, and I am rejoiced
to see how completely all works for the general good—fulfilling to the letter
the description that I gave your readers, when to Richmond last, of what we
ought to have.
In this age of hero-glorifying, much encomium may be expected from the
author of this letter in relation to the surgeon in charge; but I know that such
would be distasteful to him, and I will say simply that he is as accomplished in
his profession as he is gentlemanly in his relations with the patients, and
before being assigned to our hospital was surgeon in charge of the Kent
Hospital, situated on Main street, which, under his administration, was
considered as among the best arranged establishments in the city—it has since
been closed.
I had occasion to notice that some letters lack the friendly interest
which was felt in the different regiments for those of the other regiments
comprising the brigade. There was
no jealousy; all had confidence in each other; and petty quarrels, frequently so
common among troops, do not occur. From
the Brigadier General commanding down to the private, we feel that we are all
friends, and that the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas
Regiments have one aim, one home, one destiny.
Desiring to see how this idea was carried out in the hospital, where all
three regiments were thrown together, I was most gratified to learn from the
inmates that every favor was dealt out with an impartial hand; that all
shared alike in its privileges and its comforts; and I here, in a public way,
beg the friends of this brigade to be thankful for the many immunities we do
receive, and not let their gratitude be soured by any suspicion that one
regiment has precedence before another. . . .
Among the latest intelligence we have that the Federal (abolition)
officers, captured at Galveston, have the freedom of the city upon their
parole—this is doubtless correct, for Gen. Magruder is competent to decide in
such a case—but "that private hospitalities should be tendered to
them," seems so atrocious that one fairly doubts his senses.
These men in blue coats had enlisted to bring back our country to
abolition rule—had the first Manassas proved a success to them, our noble
President and his Cabinet would have swung for their alleged treason.
These blue coats came to Texas to overrun the country, to free the
negroes, to give them arms if they would use them, to confiscate all the
property of those who would not take the oath of allegiance to Mr. Lincoln's
despotism, talk of making the State of Texas a Territory—these men have
received "the hospitalities of private citizens."
Where are the noble Rogers, Upton, Terry, Lubbock, Ben McColloch [sic],
Albert S. Johnson [sic]? It may be
said they are not responsible, it is false, they are—they could resign their
commissions, "and have no lot nor part in this matter."
We are told by Divine authority to forgive our enemies, an injunction I
devoutly pray to acknowledge; but if we treat these murderers (for what else are
they, if you bear in mind the history of the war) as courteously as the law
directs, feed them and permit them the freedom of the town, are we not doing as
much, nay more than they deserve? Oh!
Houston, whose sons have spilt their blood so freely for your honor, let
not your sisters, Fredericksburg and Nashville, have cause to blush for your
want of sympathy in their distress. I
trust that my correspondent may be mistaken, and I am earnest in my hope that he
is. If he is correct, it must have been because but little
thought had been paid to the terrible struggle in which we are engaged, the
effects of which are everywhere visible in the mourning of the ladies, and the
sorrow stricken homes.
Yours, very respectfully,
Arthur H. Edey.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Free Trade and Constitutional Rights
Free Trade has been a favorite theme of ours in past years. It might have been a prominent theme in the last two years,
in view of existing circumstances, but that we have been over-persuaded to be
quiet "for the good of the country"; although feeling all the time it
was very hard for the citizens to run the blockade of both Old Abe and of our
own defenders for such necessaries as they were obliged to have from foreign
countries. . . .
It may seem a little singular after what the government agents have said
about speculators trading with the enemy, but we have reason to believe that
contracts have been made in Richmond with agents of New York and Philadelphia
houses for the exchange in Matamoros of cotton for government supplies!
This may be something that ought not to be said, and if the legislature
was in session we should expect resolutions about it voted for by men who would
the next moment vote to buy 50,000 pairs of cotton cards with State cotton,
every one of which is made in Massachusetts, and the Southern demand for which
is making the cotton card business a little the most thriving now done in that
'cute State. The only difference between those made there now and
formerly, is that the latest made have no manufacturer's mark. . . .
Reader, the paper before you was bought of a citizen of Texas who
purchased it in Matamoros of a citizen of Mexico.
Where he got it we don't know, but we are morally certain that it came
first from New York, from the fact that it is a style of paper made nowhere
else. What do you say? Would read the brown paper during the war rather than use it?
But that was made in New York, too.
You wouldn't read any then? Pardon
us, but noses are too valuable to be cut off to spite not your own face but
somebody's else.
It is so with a vast variety of supplies.
It is a curious fact, to say the least of it, that some of the gunpowder
used in the battle of Galveston, to capture the 42d Massachusetts Regiment, was
manufactured in Boston last year, about the time that regiment enlisted, and
reached us in the course (we don't say due course) of trade!
It is likewise a curious possibility, that some of the shoes worn by our
men were made by these Massachusetts men long after the war began.
It is a curious fact, that some of the gold brought back into the State
by patriotic citizens in exchange for cotton, and which is too good to pay debts
with, bears the Philadelphia mint mark. Whether
it is dated since secession, we don't know; it is not unlikely. . . .
The sovereignty of these States lies not in cotton nor corn, nor the
President, nor the Legislature, nor in the creatures of these, the military, but
in the people; and the charter they have given to the Government is the
Constitution. Whoever walks over or
rides over, or in any way gets over, that commits an act, to say the least, of
disregard to the sovereignty; if he injured the interests of the people he
commits an act of hostility to the sovereignty; and if he does this maliciously
it is treason.
We accord to our civil authorities all the patriotism any man can
possess. We believe they have been
actuated only by the purest motives. To
the commanders of the army in Texas we attribute the same.
They are all noble and devoted lovers of their country.
But we suggest, in all respect and good feeling for them, whether it
would not be better to try the experiment of allowing the Constitution and laws
to measure the allegiance of citizenship, and especially whether it would not be
better to let trade with neutrals be at least as open as our enemy is willing.
We believe it would. We have
always believed so. We have not
obeyed our own judgment in looking quietly upon interference, and having tried,
to our own satisfaction, the ideas of those to whom we deferred, we beg
respectfully to bring our own forward now, and leave them to the good sense of
our readers, both sovereign and servant.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
We had the pleasure of a call, a day or two since, from Mrs. Lancaster,
editress of the Washington Ranger. Her
husband, Mr. Lancaster, and her sons having gone into the service for the war.
She is left at home with one son, a mere boy, by whose help she is
determined to keep her husband's paper afloat during the war.
Her energy is exceedingly commendable and should be sustained.
Besides she is foremost in getting up benefit concerts, fairs, etc., for
the hospital funds for Texas soldiers, and in this way accomplishes a vast deal
of good.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Well done old Brazoria. In
answer to the call made upon the people of the State to raise a Hospital Fund
for Hood's Brigade, Brazoria has proved herself the banner county, having by
subscription and otherwise, sent to us for that purpose over SEVEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS. The sick and wounded of
that glorious body of men will not forget the liberality which Brazoria county
has exhibited, and the generous character of her people will be duly appreciated
by those who may be the beneficiaries of the fund now being raised.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
We call the attention to the following short address to the ladies of
Texas. How much our brave boys have
suffered in Arkansas, how many have died, and what numbers are now languishing
upon beds of sickness, need not be enumerated.
There are thousands who require the assistance which the ladies signing
the address propose to give, and we know that this call will be responded to in
the same liberal and generous spirit that has been shown hitherto by the women
of Texas. Let us see who will do
most:
To the Patriotic Ladies of Texas.
The undersigned having been creditably informed that our Texas troops in
Arkansas have suffered, and are now suffering from sickness and disease,
incident to an unhealthy country, and that hundreds (we may say thousands) have
died, mostly for want of necessaries and proper attention, respectfully
recommend to the ladies of this State the great necessity of giving
entertainments and taking up subscriptions for our suffering troops in Arkansas. For the purpose of assisting in this object of mercy, a grand
entertainment will be given at this place, on Friday and Saturday, the 24th
and 25th of April;--also, subscriptions will be received by either of
the undersigned.
It is to be hoped that our patriotic citizens who have been so liberal in
donating to the hospitals of our Texas soldiers in Virginia and Tennessee, will
be equally as liberal towards those in Arkansas, who have suffered more from
sickness than any of our troops in the Confederacy.
At Arkansas Post, one of the most sickly places West of the Mississippi
river, the deaths average from four to six per day, and the condition of the
hospital was such, that many of our brave volunteers preferred to linger and die
in their tents than be taken there. We
have more Texas soldiers in Arkansas than in any other State, and we regret to
say less has been done for them, notwithstanding death has thinned their ranks
by sickness and disease, more than among any of our troops in any other States.
Such being the facts, shall we turn a deaf ear to the cries of our
suffering fathers, husbands, sons and brothers?
For ourselves, and in the name of our young, noble and chivalric State,
we say—No Never!
Mrs. Eva Lancaster,
Mrs. Mary Lockett,
" Jas.
Heard,
" B. F.
Rucker,
" Burkhead,
" Cartmell,
Miss Myra Johnson,
Miss Bessie Spann,
Committee.
Washington, Texas, March 18, 1863.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Bastrop, Texas, March 14th, 1863.
Editor Telegraph—Permit me, through your paper, in behalf of the Texian
soldiers in Arkansas, to most heartily thank the ladies of Bastrop for the sum
of $1,863.50, handed me by Mrs. H. Crochern, Mrs. E. J. Orgain and Mrs. C. K.
Hall, proceeds of concert and tableaux given by the ladies of Bastrop on the 23d
February for the benefit of the sick Texian soldiers in Arkansas; and to assure
them that they will ever be remembered and blessed by hundreds of the sick and
suffering Texians who will be made to shed tears of joy at the though of being
thus kindly remembered by the loved ones at home; and their names will be the
watchword of thousands of others who know that their comrades are thus kindly
cared for. This is but one of the
many timely favors we have received at their hands.
Twice since my company entered the service, has it been furnished with
uniform clothing, complete, by the patriotic ladies of old Bastrop, and there
are many others that have been kindly cared for by them.
Most nobly are the women of Texas bearing their portion of the burthen of
the war, and if we will only do our duty as well, we will yet be free.
Truly
yours,
H. S. Morgan,
Capt. Co. B, 18th Texas Cavalry.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Just received and for sale by the undersigned the following goods:
1000 pair Cotton Cards; 5000 yards genuine French Calico; 1000 yards
genuine French bleached Domestic; 1000 Canton flannel; 2 bales Camblet Jeans;
Black sewing silk and a great many other goods too numerous to mention.
S. Sterne.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Lost—On Saturday, March 21st, in Houston, a Morocco
Memorandum Book, containing about $78, Confederate notes, with a furlough,
signed Thos. Green, Colonel, commanding 5th Regiment, T. M. V., and
other papers. The book contained
notes taken throughout the New Mexico campaign, and of value to me.
The finder, if an honest man, will be suitably rewarded; if not, return
the book to my address, or to E. H. Cushing, Houston, and no questions will be
asked.
C. D. Bigler, Navasota.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 23, 1863, p. 4
Note: Map of
Vickburg area
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 30, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Just received and for sale, by the undersigned, a splendid assortment of
English and French Dry Goods, viz:
30 bales English and French prints; 30 bales Imperials; 10 do cottonade;
8 do English cloth; 4 do handkerchiefs; 60 doz hoop skirts; 3 cases spools ball
thread; 50 bales Indian bagging; a large quantity of rope; 100 doz cotton
cards—No. 9 and 10. Also,
500 reams printing paper; 80 sacks Mexican flour, superior quality; 20
sacks coffee; 7000 lbs. gun power [sic].
Louis Pless.
Houston, March 25th, 1863.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
It is thought by some that goods are lower in this city than they have
been. We cannot see it in making
purchases. Some lots of inferior
unseasonable and damaged goods have been sold at a low figure, but damaged goods
are not the market by any means. There
is a good supply of merchandize in Houston now, some of it being old Galveston
stocks that have been boxed up ever since the war began till now, and other
having been brought from Mexico. Goods
may be lower than they have been, but we will guarantee that whoever buys them
will not do it because they are cheap, for the present at least.
And we can assure owners of goods at Matamoros that they can find no
better market in Texas to consign them to than Houston.
There is plenty of demand for all that will come and at tremendous
profits. When flax thread is $18
per lb., imperials $1.75@$2.00 per yard, printing paper $50 per ream, linseed
oil $20 per gallon, and alcohol $30, and everything else in proportion, there is
nothing to be lost in bringing them to this market.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The two acres of land given by Mrs. Runnells to the Fair of the 2d Texas,
was drawn by master Theodore Dumble. It
brought $500 to the fund.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, March 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Cooks, Washerwomen and Nurses wanted, for which a liberal price will be
paid at the General Hospital, Galveston.
W. E. Oakes, M. D., A. A. Surgeon.
march 30.
Next issue:
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Found.—A gold Texas Star, which the owner can have by proving property,
paying charges. Apply to S. Blum.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
A large auction sale of negroes took place at Col. Sydnor's auction store
yesterday, consisting of sixty, mostly field negroes, men, women and children.
They were sold in lots or families, and brought $105,000, or about $1750
each. From a casual glance at the
catalogue, we should judge this would give an average of about $2250 for good
field hands, which may be regarded as about their price.
The negroes were a good lot, though there were many children among them.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Editor Telegraph—Enclosed find $2700, net proceeds of dinner, fair,
concert and tableaux given by the ladies of LaGrange and Fayette county, for the
benefit of the Arizona Hospital, for Col. Hardeman's command:
[list]
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
How to Make Lard Candles.—To every eight pounds of lard add one ounce
of nitric acid; and the way of making is as follows:
Having carefully weighed your lard, place it over a slow fire, or at
least merely melt it; then add the acid, and mould the same as tallow, and you
have a clear beautiful candle. In
order to make them resemble sperm candles you have only to add a small portion
of white beeswax.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
We have received from T. W. Chappell, Esq., the sum of two thousand four
hundred and two dollars for the Terry Rangers, being the proceeds of a Fair
given by the young ladies of Chappell Hill and vicinity, on the night of the 4th
inst., and a donation of $25 from Mrs. Ann M. Affleck.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Sale of Negroes.—Yesterday the sale of the negroes belonging to Gen. H.
P. Bee, took place at the auction rooms of Col. J. S. Sydnor, and the prices
ranged beyond those paid a week or two since.
The number sold yesterday was 31, and the amount of the sale was between
eighty-five and eighty-six thousand dollars.
Women from 18 to 20 years of age, sold
for $4000 and $4500. One
woman with two small children sold for $5,700.
Ordinary negro men brought over $4000.
The lot was not an extraordinarily good one, though very fair, but the
prices were unusually high.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The ladies of Austin county—God bless them—raised, at a fair given at
Hempstead, for the benefit of Waller's Battalion, upwards of ten thousand
dollars. Get up another, Ladies
of Houston and Galveston, and see whether you can do any better. There are plenty who need all you will send them.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Brooks', Coat's, Taylor's and Chadwicks' Thread by the case or dozen.
W. Clark.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Concrete, DeWitt County,
}
March 30th, 1863.
}
Editor Telegraph:--It is indeed encouraging to see with what zeal the
ladies of our fair State do their part towards conquering a peace and
establishing Southern independence. It
has been my good fortune to have attended several entertainments gotten up by
ladies for the purpose of raising funds for our army hospitals. The necessity for such funds, no patriot denies.
But to the point. I had the pleasure, on the night of the 20th
inst., of attending a Concert, tableaux vivante, supper, &c., gotten
up by the ladies of Concrete and vicinity, which I am compelled to pronounce,
(with all due deference to the ladies of other places,) a little ahead of
anything of the kind I have yet witnessed.
The tableaux were quite original and arranged with a great deal of taste;
the music was splendid, and calculated to please all.
The supper would have pleased the most fastidious epicure.
Before adjourning to the supper room, two young ladies, at the suggestion
of a friend to the cause, passed through the audience and received
contributions, which amounted to $300. The
proceeds of the entertainment were $711. On
the night following, the entertainment was repeated, free of charge, for
the benefit of the darkies, who not only enjoyed themselves in such a manner as
to put all Yankeedom to the blush, but contributed $27.95, making in all the sum
of $1,038.95. A few days
afterwards, a patriotic citizen handed the committee the handsome sum of $1000.
I opine that the only objection that could have been raised, was the
admittance fee ($2) was too small, as either the Concert or Supper were each
independently worth more than the money.
Home Guard.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We confess when we heard of the officers of the 42d Massachusetts being
taken to the penitentiary the other day, we thought it wrong, and a violation of
civilized warfare. But on reading
the above, and many like accounts we have received; on recurring to the fact
that more than three hundred of the Confederates taken at Arkansas Post have
since died through brutal treatment of their captors; that hundreds upon
hundreds, nay thousands upon thousands of our citizens are now languishing in
Northern prisons, the companions of felons; on remembering the fate of poor
Zarvona, now hopelessly insane through the torture to which Federal cruelty has
subjected him; on reflecting upon the fact that these officers came to our
shores, the companions of runaway slaves, and to put into execution the most
bloody and wicked decree that has cursed the name of humanity for ages; we say
on recalling these things to mind, our sympathy rapidly [illegible] out.
We have nothing whatever to say about it.
The writer of the above and his companions would exchange quarters with
them and profit by the exchange.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Almanac Extra says the Military Board have received a large lot of
cotton cards which are to be furnished to county courts at $10 per pair on
application, pro rata. Chief
Justices should lose no time in making the application.
The energy of the Military Board is the theme of much praise.
If they have committed errors and we know of none, it has not been for
the want of trying to do all that men could do for the good of the State.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The following notice of "The Officer's Race" is from the
Shelbyville Banner of the 6th of April:
The great match race for $500—distance 800 yards—was run on Saturday
last at 11 o'clock A.M., as per programme, near Unionville, between Major Botts'
sorrel horse (entered by Gen. Wharton of the Texas Rangers,) and Col. Harrison's
mare. A beautiful stretch of
elastic dirt road in good order along the margin of the pike was the ground
selected. The weather was charming.
The horses were in good condition and seemed instinctively aware that
something was up and they had to come down to lively work.
The attendance was large and the vast gathering full of the keenest
excitement. Bets were freely
offered and as freely taken. The horse was decidedly the favorite, but the mare did not
lack for bold backers. Both animals
started at the signal, and the dash was done in spirited and gallant style, the
horse winning easily, however, and leading the mare to the judges' stand nearly,
if not quite, thirty yards in advance. Rather
a big beat. The shouts and yells of
the multitude, the smiling and elongated faces of the backers of the respective
entries, were curious to hear and behold. Fully
$25,000 changed hands on the race.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Some ungallant scamp, in the Atlanta Intelligencer, gives his views as
follows in regard to women, or rather the style of women he does and don't
prefer:
Thin, spare made women, who look as though they lived on steel chips and
saw filings, whose salient points and bony angles, exhibit unapproachable
turrets and bastions, are seldom generous.
Selfishness and imperiousness characterize them.
They represent the nondescript animal termed malicious gossip, and rare
birds of raven wings and cypress shadows, they are.
Births and funerals are luxuries to them.
But commend me to a fat woman. Their
broad-faced, dimple cheeked, double chinned, waddling, ponderosity style, their
genial smiles and inimitable good humor gives constant promise of good cheer and
the welcome disposition to laugh, and especially to feed you well.
The lean, thin woman, of moral surface, makes a good, cool, summer wife.
My choice is the golden mean, embonpoint, dimpled cheeks, auburn hair,
luscious eyes, not a beauty; easy going, intelligent and one hundred and sixty
pounds weight.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Galveston, May 4th, 1863.
. . . Col. Freemantle [sic] of the "Cold Stream
Guards," is here on a visit. The
military authorities have shown him much politeness and attention.
He speaks very encouragingly of the prospects of the South.
Amicus.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Be in Time to Get Good and Reliable Seeds, just saved.
Purple Top and Flat Dutch Turnip, mixed; Carolina Collards; Brown
Mustard, etc. Turnips in packages
of about ½ gill each for $1, by mail free of postage; also, packages containing
6 times above amount for $5. Other
seeds are put up in proportion. Said
seeds are from fine productions and no mistake.
Address:
A. L. D. Moore, La Grange,
Texas.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
In distributing the cotton cards lately bought by the State, the Military
Board have fixed their prices at $10 per pair.
As they have enough to go very far towards supplying the demand, it is to
be presumed that the price of cotton cards will speedily come down to that
figure. This operation alone will
save the people hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We paid over $2000 a day or two since for a lot of printing ink that
before the war would have cost $125.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Hon. Erastus Reed, of Boerne, advertises in our paper pure Merino bucks
for sale. He has sent us some
samples of the wool of these sheep, and they are certainly as fine in quality as
any that goes to market. Three of
the samples before us measure respectively 24, 24 and 26 waves to the inch.
Wool growers may judge of the quality from this.
He informs us that his sheep shear this year from 6 to 11 lbs to the
fleece. He also informs us that his entire flock is pure merino, and
that his loss the past year has been but 2 per cent. There can be no doubt that wool growing is by far the most
profitable business ever pursued in this State.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
We are informed that Col. Pyron's regiment, which is now on the march to
the field to meet the enemy, are in need of haversacks.
This article is very necessary to a soldier in the field, and it being
such a cheap article, we think we have only to call the attention of our readers
to their want of them. Our citizens
have been very liberal to all our soldiers, and this noble regiment has been
always entirely overlooked, save by the ladies of Washington county.
Capt. Wm. Edwards, of the regiment, is detained on business in this city
for a short time, and will forward the articles direct to the men of the
regiment. Who will be first to
respond to the appeal? Here is a chance for our patriotic ladies to do good, and
gain honor by the outlay of a small capital.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Waxahachie, Texas, April 30.—The Waxahachie powder mill blew up
yesterday. Mr. Rown, the
proprietor, and Mr. Phillips one of the hands, were both killed, and Mr. Nance
was badly bruised. There were about
2000 lbs. of powder in the mill at the time.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The following is the form of affidavit requisite for procuring goods from
the Penitentiary under the law of the last Legislature:
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
} Before me the under-
COUNTY OF__________
} signed authority.
This day personally came Mrs. ______________, of the same county, who
made oath that the goods sought to be bought of the Texas Penitentiary are for
immediate use in her own family. Consisting
of _____ whites and _____ blacks, excluding male members in the army, and are
not for barter, sale, exchange or speculation, and that she is the wife of a
soldier in the Confederate States Army, and that this is her (first) or
(second) application.
_______________
I, __________ Chief Justice of ____________ certify that the above
application was subscribed and sworn to before me, and that the facts set forth
in the same are true. (Being
verified by the oath of one credible witness.)
In testimony of which, witness my hand and seal of the County
[Seal]
Court this _____ day _____ of _____,
1863.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 11, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Galveston, May 8, 1863.
On Wednesday evening a military ball came off in Miss Cobbs' school room.
The attendance was large, considering the very short notice given.
As the entertainment was not exclusive in its character, officers and
privates mixed promiscuously together in the most harmonious manner, and spent a
pleasant evening. There was a
perfect galaxy of the fair sex present, enlivening the scene by their presence
and beauty. The price of admission
was ten dollars, the proceeds to be appropriated to the Fund of the Galveston
Hospital. . . .
Amicus.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
La Grange, Texas, May 4th, 1863.
Editor Telegraph:--Please inform me through the columns of your paper
whether a person can travel from here to Richmond, Va., without very much risk
of person or baggage, and if so, the best route to be taken.
Very respectfully yours,
Subscriber.
It depends on the person. If
a lady we should say no; if a good woodsman yes.
At present you go to Shreveport, and thence down Red River to some point
which you will learn at Shreveport, when you will wait for something to turn up;
when that happens, it may be in a day or two or a week, you will get across the
Mississippi some way, and then ladies can travel well enough to Richmond and
back again, though there is some risk of losing baggage any where, especially
when you change cars. The best way
is to take no baggage, then if you will have to walk forty miles, you will have
nothing but yourself to carry.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We have received from three little girls—Misses Eva Hutchins, Belle
Smith, an Cora Gentry—the sum of four dollars and fifteen cents, the net
proceeds of a juvenile fair gotten up by them for the benefit of the soldiers.
We shall apply it where we think the donation will be most appreciated.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
The New Texas Primer.
The importance of supplying our schools with books suited to the genius
and institutions of our people has been long felt by the teachers of this State.
At this time, when from the change of our political relations, a change
is required in almost all our sources of supply, it is deemed peculiarly the
time to endeavor to replace the books of the North by those of home production,
and adapted to home society. It is
with this view that the undersigned has undertaken to publish a series of school
readers, &c., styled the New Texas Series, of which the New Texas Primer is
the first. This will be followed
soon by the Primary Reader, and that by the successive books of the Series as
rapidly as they can be passed through the press.
It will be the endeavor of the publisher, notwithstanding the heavy cost
of materials for printing, to place the price of these books so low as to put
them within the reach of all. Should
this effort meet with favor it may be extended through all the Departments of
Primary Instruction usually embraced in the common schools of Texas.
The publication of the successive books will be duly announced.
The preparation of these books is in the hands of experienced practical
teachers.
The first edition of 8000 copies of this Primer is for sale by James
Burke and Francis D. Allen, booksellers, Houston, at wholesale and retail.
E. H. Cushing, Publisher.
Houston, May 13th, 1863.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
20 Dozen Cotton Cards., No. 10, for sale by
Wm. Clark.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
The New Texas Primer—Price Thirty dollars per hundred.
Four dollars per dozen. Forty
cents single copy. Sent by mail
free of postage.
Jas. Burke.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Piedmont Springs, six miles from Milligan, where daily coaches connect
with the Central railroad, are open for the season.
L. Cannon, Prof.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Rev. Mr. Moeling has, since the battle of Galveston, devoted himself to
getting up a painting of the principal scene in the battle—the capture of the
Harriet Lane. The artist has taken
the moment when the Bayou City ran into the Lane, and our boarders rushed on
board and captured the vessel. The
painting gives one a good idea of the position of affairs at this juncture of
the battle. Mr. Moeling has his
picture on exhibition in the office lately occupied by Messrs. McKeen, upstairs
in Wilson's building. Admission, 50
cents.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
We acknowledge from Edmundson &
Culmell 185 yards mosquito netting, a donation for the hospital of
Sibley's Brigade. It was a timely
gift, as the hospital of these troops is now in a region perhaps worse infested
with mosquitos than any other in America.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, May 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Fair at Anderson.—The ladies of Anderson and vicinity will give a
splendid supper in connection with a fair at the Female Academy in the town of
Anderson, on Friday 25th of June next, at 8 o'clock, P.M., for the
benefit of the indigent families of soldiers in the army.
A liberal patronage is earnestly desired and expected.
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEG