MEMPHIS DAILY
APPEAL
March, 1861 – July, 1861
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1861, p. 3, c.
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A
Musical Wonder.—Jenny Lind, Parodi, and a host of others, among which may be
mentioned the "Black Swan," have electrified musical circles in
America by their cultivated powers, but in
each of these cases, the rare degree of perfection was only attained after the
most mature study under the best masters. We
have in our city at the present time a musical prodigy, whose nerves are set to
tune, and whose very pulse beats to time, and that without ever having learned
the gamut, or even its first rudiments. We
speak of the blind negro boy Tom, who last night gave a concert at Odd Fellows'
hall to one of the largest and most fashionable audiences we ever remember to
have seen assembled in that hall. With
the facility of execution which distinguishes the performance of the first
masters of the piano, he has a delicacy of touch and intuitive perception
of the very essence of music, which fill us no less with wonder than with
admiration. He last night performed
a lengthy and difficult piece of music after hearing it but once played, and
performed the second in a piece which he had never before heard—immediately
after playing the [illegible] to the second of the first performer of the piece,
in both instances exhibiting the most astonishing powers.
No one can hear him without being delighted.
Concerts will be given this and tomorrow evening at the same place.
It is worth mentioning here by way of parenthesis, and as a matter for
the consideration of Mr. Fowler, of phrenological notoriety, that the boy's
organs of time and tune, according to the rules of phrenology, are wonderfully
deficient.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Served
Right.—John O'Neil, the masculine article who was taken on Wednesday for
selling vile books and filthy pictures at the wharf, as we stated yesterday, has
been sent by the recorder to the chain gang for twenty-three days.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Vile
House Fined.—At the recorder's court, yesterday, the notorious Madame Miller
was fined twenty-five dollars for keeping a house for the worst of purposes in
the city. People who pursue an
honest business have to pay a much higher tax than that. That house will probably be as bad to-day as it was
yesterday; will its manager be fined to-morrow?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Market.—The
market ordinance, page 256 of the city ordinance book, requires that from the
first of April to the first of October in each year the market shall be open
from 3 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the morning.
We do not know whether the ordinance is looked upon as a "first of
April" joke, but we find the following in the paper that publishes the city
matters officially: "From and
after March 4, market will be held from 4 to 11 o'clock, A.M., instead of in the
evening, as at present."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Home
Association.—The following, signed L. F. Johnson, secretary, has been handed
us for publication: "There
will be a meeting of the board of managers of the Home for the Homeless, at the
residence of Mrs. W. B. Greenlaw, on Union street, between DeSoto and Third, at
10 o'clock, this (Friday) morning.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1861, p. 1, c.
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Fast
Anchored by Her Crinoline.—A lady in a dry goods store in Buffalo had seated
herself on one of the revolving stools now in use in front of the counters in
such establishments, and on rising got her hoops so completely and firmly
entangled about and under the revolving top as to anchor her for the time being
to the spot. The only method of
releasing the lady was by unscrewing the top of the revolving seat; this being
accomplished by the gallant storekeeper, the fastened fair one was set at
liberty.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1861, p. 2, c.
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The
Flag of Mississippi.—A flag of white ground, magnolia tree in the center, a
blue field in the under left hand corner, with a white star in the center—the
flag to be finished with a red border, and a red fringe at the extremity of the
flag.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Fish.—It
being Lent, fresh fish is a commodity now greatly in demand.
Yesterday the White river packet, the Admiral, brought in a large lot,
and we learn from Capt. Thomasson that it was not caught in the river, as might
be expected, but in the woods. The
pools left by the high water are full of them, and they are caught in abundance.
A fine chance for the piscatorials.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Blind
Tom—Second Concert.—
"Music
resembles poetry; in each
Are
harmless graces which no methods teach,
And
which a master hand alone can reach."
We
have never so fully realized the truth of these beautiful lines from Pope's
Essay on Criticism, as while listening to the "harmony of sweet
sounds" which this child of nature produces from the piano forte. His performances are controlled by no ordinary rules
prescribing musical excellence, but "according to the text" they are
"nameless graces which no methods teach, and which a master hand alone can
reach." Odd fellows' hall was
again filled to overflowing last night with beauty, fashion and refinement, to
enjoy the pleasure of this unique entertainment. The third concert takes place to-night.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 3, 1861, p. 1, c.
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Ladies' Dresses in
Muddy Weather.
It is an unpleasant sight to see the ladies on the streets, on rainy
days, allow their dresses to rail in the mud.
This is unpardonable. There
is no impropriety in raising the skirts high enough to keep them out of the
dirt. There is a very unladylike
prudery in refusing to raise them slightly when cleanliness requires it.
It is not necessary, however, for any lady to hold her dress with her
hands to keep it out of the mud. The
English woman, says an European writer, understanding these things better than
we, go out walking in rain and mud, wearing long dresses, and without taking
their hands from their muffs, come home with the clothing as clean as when they
started. How do they do it? They
wear skirts that do not reach lower than the ankle; short enough, in fact, to
keep clear of the mud without any lifting.
The dress is worn long, but is looped up when the lady is in the street.
The loops are a late invention, and are now the fashion in Great Britain.
A woman who should go out in muddy weather without them would be
considered a prude. They are made
thus:
There
is a belt of black ribbon, three quarters of an inch wide, and long enough to go
around the lady's waist, with a hook at one end and an eye at the other, as a
fastening; a piece of the same kind of ribbon, three yards long, is attached to
the end and the middle of the belt. The
belt is now put on with the hook and eye in front; and hanging down on each side
is a loop of black ribbon, three quarters of a yard long.
When a lady is about to go out, she puts on her belt, and puts a part of
the lower portion of her dress through each loop, which is thus raised into four
festoons, and all of it is above the lower edge of the petticoat.
She
then walks out with her hands free, her dress clear, and her conscience at ease;
and if she wishes to enter a house, she can take her dress out of the loops in
an instant. The looped dress is not
only clean but graceful, and it shows a white petticoat, one of the most
beautiful articles of ladies' apparel, to much advantage. In England, however, a white petticoat is not considered
indispensable; on the contrary, scarlet woolen petticoats are much worn by most
fashionable people, as are also red woolen stockings. Indeed the white cotton stockings are the exception, and not
the rule for London wear in winter. Wool
is ordinarily worn, sometimes scarlet, or scarlet with black stripes, or plaid
with a variety of colors. And then,
the shoes are not of thin cloth with paper soles, but Balmoral boots, with heavy
uppers and thick soles, lacing up in front, as if they were made for beings of
flesh and blood, bred on roast beef, and good for real service, hard work,
sturdy health and long life. Our
American women are too much in the habit of following bad fashions, and
neglecting good ones. If they will
just adopt the healthful practices, as well as the expensive luxuries, of
European aristocracy, it will be far better, as well as more creditable to them.
We are glad to see, however, that a correct taste is being exercised by
our ladies. They study health and
comfort more than the fashions, and we may expect to see them as rosy-cheeked
and robust as any of our English cousins.—Home Journal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 3, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis Theater,
"Faust and Marguerite", "Fitzsmith of Fitzsmith Hall"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 3, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Odd-Fellows' Hall,
Commencing Monday Evening, March
11th.
Six Nights Only.
George Christi's Minstrels and Brass
Band.
Comprising 16 splendid performers, under the immediate
direction and personal supervision
of the original and world renowned George Christy, whose performance for the
last 18 years in the United States, have been patronized by the elite and
fashion of every city the George Christy Minstrels have had the honor of
appearing in.
For
particulars see small bills.
Admission
50 cents, children and servants, half price.
Doors
open at ¼ to 7, performance commences ¼ to 8.
John P. Smith, Business Agent.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 3, 1861, p. 3, c.
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To
Retailers.—6,000 Cuba and 6,000 New Orleans Oranges just received and for sale
by Angelovich, No. 6 Union street, next door to Cayce & Son's auction rooms.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Mississippi Items.
Cadets.—The boys at Okolona have organized a cadet company.
On the
17th ult., the "Van Dorn Reserves," of Aberdeen, were
mustered into service. Their guns
are Colt's five shooting rifles, and their uniform is red jeans. Their captain, Wm. H. Moore, is 6 feet 2 inches high, and
weighs 200 pounds. A star
company—sure.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Corsican Brothers"; grand national dance; "Fitzsmith
of Fitzsmith Hall."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 6, 1861, p. 2, c.
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We
notice the following poster in circulation in this city:
10,000 Volunteers Wanted!
Able-bodied Tennesseans can get employment at
$8 a month, with jerked beef and crackers, in the ARMY of COERCION, to FORCE
their Southern brethren into submission. None but Loyal Citizens to my
Government and the UNION need apply. All good friends of the Union, will
not wait to be drafted for Service in the government.
For further information, apply to my beloved friends and AIDS, andy johnson
[sic-capitalization] and emerson elberidge [sic-capitalization].
Abraham Lincoln,
Com. in Chief, U.S. Army.
Washington D. C. March 4th 1861.
POSTMASTERS and other Officials are directed to Post up these bills in some
conspicuous place where they can be read.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 6, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Prince of the House of David"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 6, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Attention,
Sons of the South.—There will be a meeting of the Sons of the South this
evening, at 7 o'clock, at the hall over the Tunnel, on Adams street.
All members are called upon to come up, as there will be a proposition
made for immediate service.
R. M. Giles, President.
C. H.
Craige, Secretary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 7, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
An Address to the Women of the South.
. . . Let us emulate the virtues of our grandmothers of the
revolution. . . Once more let the sound of the spindle and loom be heard in our
midst; once more let the heart of the maiden throb beneath the bodice of
home-spun. Again let the bride be
led to the altar, robed in the snowy staple of our own manufacture, and, if she
need further adorning than the blush of modesty and innocence, wreathe her in
the native orange blossom of the South, and deck festal hall and bower with the
gorgeous magnolia. Women of the
South, your sons husbands and brothers are now laying the foundation of what we
fondly hope to be a great and glorious empire.
The youths now growing up round you, must complete what their fathers
have begun. On you rests the
responsibility of training them aright. To
you they must look for proper counsel and advice.
Revealed religion, inspired genius and true philosophy all proclaim that
upon the early training of the child depends the future course of the man.
This duty, I again repeat, devolves on you.
Thank God that it is so. Thank
him that your sphere of action lies at home, that your hands can never be imbued
in human blood; that your voice will never be heard in the public strife or
quarrel; that you desire no right but what your Bible sanctions.
Study night and day, mothers of the South, how you can best influence
your children. Turn off your
"women's rights" spiritualists from Yankeedom, but leave something of
their self-reliance; in this only do they excel you—in grace, beauty,
intelligence and virtue you have greatly the advantage.
Become yourselves the instructors of your children.
Inform yourselves well of the great events, the noble deeds, that have
taken place in the world. Learn a
fluency of expression, ready power of narration, be willing at all times to
[illegible] to illustrate, stimulate their ardor by your own lofty patriotism.
You can do all this, and still govern your households.
You have servants that are faithful and true—all menial service will
devolve on them; providence has not thus favored you that you may remain repine
and idle. Let posterity say of us
as a nation, "bravely the man acted and nobly the women aided," and
when this fierce civil strife is o'er, and smiling peace and plenty once more
appear, with modest thankfulness let each say to the other
"I
have done what you have done—that's what I can—
Indeed
as you have been—that's for my country."
M. A. G.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 7, 1861, p. 1, c.
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Who
Won the Battles and Purchased the Territories.—The abolitionists are
endeavoring to deprive the South of all the territory acquired by the Mexican
war, yet the records show that this very territory was won by southern blood and
treasure. While fourteen slave
States furnished 45,630 volunteers, the free States and Territories furnished
but 23,654. The disparity is
marked, considered from any point of view, but especially so in regard to the
relative population of the two sections. The
figures, we may add, are derived from executive document No. 63, of the first
session of the thirtieth Congress.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 7, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Prince of the House of David"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 8, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Willow Copse"; Grand Dixie Polka; "Forty and
Fifty"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 9, 1861, p. 1, c. 3
Mrs. M. A. Easley,
Accoucheuse and Female Physician.
Respectfully tenders her professional services to the
citizens of Memphis.
Residence and Office, Commercial Hotel, Jefferson Street, Room No. 3.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 9, 1861, p. 1, c. 10
Louisville Paper
Mill
A V. DuPont & Co.,
Manufacturers of
News and Book Printing Paper
and Dealers in
Papers of All Kinds,
Printers' Inks, &c.,
477 Main St., Louisville, Ky.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 9, 1861, p. 2, c.
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Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Robbers; or, the Forest of Bohemia"; Grand Pas Soul;
"The Specter Bridegroom"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 1, c. 1-2
Scenes on the Mississippi.
From the New York Ledger.]
I am
starting from Memphis, and going for four or five days down that mighty flood,
the Mississippi, first to Baton Rouge, and then on to New Orleans.
I have
just come on board the Peytona, a first-class racing steamer, and having
dismissed the black man who brought down my black portmanteau with the red
diamonds, am now "a free nigger" myself, ready for anything, from an
explosion downwards. The Peytona
derives its harmoniously liquid name from a celebrated racehorse on which many a
cotton plantation has been staked, and in whose honor many a revolver has been
revolved, to the increase of lawyers' fees and the lessening of what political
economics call "available population."
I am,
to tell the whole truth, rather glad to get away from Memphis; which is a dirty,
dangerous unfinished sort of place, swarming with rats and rowdies, not to
mention the vulgar "drummers," as the touting bagsmen of the northern
houses of commerce are generally called in America. The hotel is large and scrambling, and the dinners are
confused by jostling crowds of lazy, slovenly waiters, who run about and butt
each other, and knock down piles of plates and pyramids of glasses feux de
joie and periodical grand crashes.
Now,
as I look back at the town from the steamboat deck, the steep earth cliffs are
lurid with bonfires, for there is an election meeting to-night, and they are
burning tar-barrels on the Mississippi shore, in honor of Judge Douglas.
Lower down there are blacks—for night turns us all to negroes—running
about with long poles, at the end of which are real medieval cressets—iron
baskets full of blazing pine knots. There
are men, too, dragging down cotton bales—part of the Peytona's lading, and
every now and then they seem to blow my head off with splitting salutes, for, at
election meetings all through America, they use cannon.
Boom-bang—bang-boom!
they go, as if a giant were knocking in a nail in some room of his sky
parlor that was out of repair, or as if, after clamping it on the other side, he
had slammed his outer door and shut himself in for the night.
America, however, is not the only country where, in politics
particularly, noise is supposed to be a proof of earnestness, talent and
patriotism; so I let the guns go on, and bless them, though they do give me a
headache.
The
remarkable feature of a steamboat about to start, whether on river or sea, is,
that it is impossible to get anywhere where one is not in the way.
I believe, positively, that if I were to go and stand on my head on the
main truck, in five minutes some Caesar or Pompey would ask me to move and let
him put down the "generalman's box."
Wheeled trucks full of brown horsehide chests banded with black, such as
Americans affect, pour in, and block up every passage in the boat, down from the
burning fiery furnace up to the place where the cotton bales wall us in.
As I
am going to spend a considerable segment of my life on board this boat, the
Peytona, I proceed to overhaul it and examine its points of danger and safety;
for, although my business in this chapter is more especially "the cotton
country," I must briefly describe my floating castle, which is no more like
an English steamboat than a London penny steamer is like Noah's ark, the
Warrior, or the Great Eastern.
Our
racing boat is a huge floating three-tier card-house, or rather, one of those
little pagodas of diaphanous barley-sugar that crown the centre table at a
public dinner. The top story, the
pinnacle of this tower of Babel, is the little square glass-house in which our
pilot struggles with the wheel. In
anxious moments, when the good boat is entangled in a net of sand-bars, he looks
to my mind like a madman struggling with a wheel of fortune.
Below him, on the second floor, is a sort of flat-roofed crystal palace,
where the captain and all the officers have their berths, and where, when off
watch, they read dime novels, smoke, and do et cetera.
On this level—which is sheeted with thin lead for fear of sparks—are
rows of arm-chairs, where one can sit and shoot pelicans and alligators, muse,
read or sleep. The deck here is
made very thin for lightness, and it vibrates as you walk round the two tall
funnels that rise through it. Below
this springy and alarming deck comes the floor on which the glass doors of the
grand saloon open. Here, under a
pent-house formed by the upper deck, are also chairs, intermingled with luggage,
where men also smoke, etc., read, and sleep; looking out upon the mighty
monotonous river.
Below
this stage is the ground floor, where the negro sailors and steerage passengers
are, and where the furnaces blaze and glow.
All over this deck, unprotected by any tarpaulin from the furnaces or
fire-sprinkling pine knots, are huge piles of square fluffy cotton bales, bound
round with iron bands. Below this
barathrum, I suppose, is more stowage room; but lower I did not, in this vessel,
venture.
As for
the saloon—to return to the focus of the vessel—it is a splendid affair,
with a drawing room at one end for the ladies, innumerable chandeliers
multiplying themselves in mirrors, and resplendent panneling, white and gold.
There sofas and ottomans and a piano, with room for cards, conversation,
business, flirting and dancing. On
either side of this long hall open the doors of our neat and spacious berths.
By the entrance of the saloon, on either side, are the barroom and
purser's office; outside is the barber's, where the negroes congregate to
practice the banjo—for we have nightly very creditable concerts on board, and
nearly all negroes are musical. Here,
sometimes, when I stroll in, I find the gray-bearded negro barber asleep in his
chair, with his professional comb stuck in his own crisp locks.
Somewhere here, too, is kept, I believe, the sacred gong which announces
our frequent and luxurious meals.
I am
singularly comfortable, for my cabin is airy, and has windows opening on the
outer balcony, not far from where the black waiters laugh, joke, and clean the
dishes; and I have an agreeable berth companion, Mr. Elias Madison, a slim young
schoolmaster, who has left Buffalo, and is going to try his fortune in Baton
Rouge.
Elias
is a pleasant looking fellow, but a little of the pedant. He is very emaciated just now with a recent attack of the
"bone fever," that has been scourging the South.
He takes white powders—I believe quinine—as antidotes against more of
it, every morning, when he has reason to fear a return of either his hot or cold
attack. But he is an intelligent,
kind, harmless fellow, and is never tired of explaining the rarer American
dishes to me at dinner. He points me out, too, the card-sharpers, and teaches me how
to distinguish the people of the different States—the wild Arkansas man from
the polished Virginian; the hot-brained Carolina man from the calculating notion
monger of Connecticut; the sallow half-French native of Louisiana from the tall,
bony Kentuckian.
But to
the Cotton Country. I am going down
that river, so awfully grand from its very dullness and monotony, which rises
three thousand miles from the spot where it empties itself into the Gulf of
Mexico—that river which, before it reaches the arms of its long-expectant
lover, the sea, has had given it by nature for its dowry the four great streams,
the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Red River, and the Missouri—a mighty stream as it
is, that carries blessings to half a continent—a stream that has as great a
destiny before it, as the vast new country it irrigates.
Chapter II.
It is only twenty-four hours since I came on board, and already I see, by
my map, that we have passed many towns, villages and cotton landings. Norfolk is behind us, Commerce is out of sight, the Horseshoe
Bend is at our rear, Yazoo is miles below the horizon.
We have been taking in cotton all night; I know it, for I occasionally
awoke and heard the bales lumber and jolt down the double planks; all the time I
heard the blacks sing Bob Ridley, and the sharp, yelping voice of the first mate
hurrying on any passengers who wanted to land; for as he justly said, the boat
could not stop half the night if all Congress wanted to go on board.
Last
night we were in Mississippi, now we are near Montgomery's Point in Arkansas.
It is a lovely autumn morning, the balm and incense of nature's early
sacrifice to the deity is in the air, slightly flavored, but not unpleasantly,
with the smoke of about three dozen cigars.
Our
groups is about of that number; one rowdy smokes two cheroots at once, in
bravado. We are up warming
ourselves on the second floor over the saloon, and we form a circle around the
fiery funnel; for the air is cool, and we are all afraid of the bone fever.
Every man but myself and a man with an iron stirrup, had his legs raised
several degrees higher than his head, resting on the top rail of a vacant chair.
I have tried, this, but I can't do it, and not being able to do it, I
deny the pleasure, as well as the convenience of it.
Several
are cutting plugs, and my friend Col. Isaiah Butts is telling a quaint story of
the roughness of Arkansas life a few years ago.
As it bears upon the question of the civilization of the cotton country,
I will tell it as it was told to me. . . .
Just
as the laughter following the Colonel's story was dying out in distant
cackles—for all the negro waiters were laughing, and so were two
newly-purchased slaves, going home to their new plantation, and who used to sit
all day, like chickens with the pip, on two adjoining cotton bales—we sighted
Bolivar landing.
Now as
this landing will stand for Bayou la Fourche, or any other landing above or
below it, I will describe it at full length.
Innumerable bends and "cuts off" we have passed this morning
already, and we are now going to stop for half an hour at Bolivar landing, and
take in Mr. Chicard's cotton bales and some hundred truckfuls of resinous pine
knots for our furnace fires. Patience
I must have, tiresome as the delay is, for the boat will stop at four or five
other landings to-day, and so it will tomorrow, and indeed every day, till we
reach the great emporium of cotton—New Orleans.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
A Nice
Widow.—The following is from Dr. Holme's new novel:
The
Widow Rowans was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
A very shallow crape bonnet, frilled and froth-like, allowed the parted
raven hair to show its glossy smoothness. A
jet pin heaved upon her bosom with every sigh of memory, or emotion of unknown
origin. Jet bracelets shone with
every movement of her slender hands, cased in close fitting black gloves.
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a
small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning.
Everything about her was dark, except the whites of her eyes and the
enamel of her teeth. The effect was complete. Gray's Elegy was not a more perfect
composition.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 2,
c. 10
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"Married Life"; Grand Character Dance; "Uncle
Foozle"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
1861
1861
R. D. Ward..........................W. R. McClelland.
Ward & McClelland,
Wholesale and Retail
Druggists,
and
Seedsmen,
No.'s 175 and 177 Main Street, Op-
posite Worsham House.
1000 bxs. Window Class, as'd sizes,
25 brls. Spts. Turpentine,
50 "
Resin,
25 "
Alcohol,
200 bush. Red Clover Seed,
200 "
Herds Grass,
200 "
Blue Grass,
50 "
Orchard Grass,
200 "
Spring Wheat,
Osage Orange,
Lucerne,
White Clover,
Spring Barley,
Timothy,
Buckwheat,
1000 bush. Millet, to arrive,
500 "
Hungarian Grass Seed.
Clarke & White's Congress Water,
Louisville Artesian Well Water;
Fine Perfumeries,
Fancy Goods,
Brushes, Soaps, etc.,
For Sale at Reduced Rates.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 2, c. 10
Grand Military and
Civic Ball!
The Third Anniversary Ball
of the
Steuben Artillery,
At the Gayoso Hall, Main Street, between Gayoso and Beal streets,
On the First of April.
Ball Committee—Captain Miller, First Lieut. Maier, Second Lieut. T.
Geugel, Third Lieut. Krone, Orderly Sergt. Schubert.
Committee
of Arrangement.—Private Hatter, Corporal Schneider, Corporal Schmitt, Private
Steinmeler.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
The
circulation of the Sunday edition of the Appeal now amounts to three thousand
five hundred and fifty-two copies.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Amalgamatical.—J.
W. Sayers was yesterday fined $25 by the recorder, for spending the night in
lodgings occupied by a negress.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Severe
Usage.—We heard it stated last night that a teacher in the public schools
residing in the center of the city, so seriously ill used a female slave
yesterday, that he will have to answer a charge of cruelty before the recorder
to-morrow.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 10, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
An
Alderman in Trouble.—On Friday, Mr. P. Triplet was engaged in depositing in
the kitchen of Madame Miller, some jars of honey she had ordered, when he was
seen by one of the city aldermen, who gave information that he was engaged in
peddling without a license. Mr.
Triplet was examined on the charge yesterday morning before the recorder, but
proving that the honey had been ordered, he was of course acquitted.
he then entered a charge against the alderman to the effect that as he
entered the kitchen of Madame Miller to deliver the honey, he found within it
the alderman in question, who was in the act of hugging a negro girl.
An examination of the circumstances was set for to-morrow.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 8
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Serious Family;" Grand Pas Seul; "Robert Macaire"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1861, p. 2,
c. 6
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Woman in White"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Entertaining
Slaves.—For this offense Martha Preston was yesterday fined ten dollars.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Madame
Clifton.—Madame Clifton, who has been in jail for some time on a charge of
causing abortion, was yesterday discharged from custody by order of the court.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Army
of Mississippi.—The trimmings of the uniform (grey) has been changed by the
military board. The trimmings for
infantry, light infantry and rifles are now green, for artillery red, and
cavalry yellow or orange. This
change is noticeable, as the former regulation prescribed red for infantry,
etc., yellow for artillery and orange for cavalry.
The
military board have contracted for the delivery, at a very early day, of 4000
Enfield muskets and bayonets, 3000 short rifled muskets with sword bayonets, and
40 horses and equipments for a full battery of light artillery, the latter for
instruction, etc.—Whig.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Woman in White"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Woman in White"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Education.—In
Cincinnati the school board have in their employ three hundred and one teachers.
In Memphis we have not a single public school house.
Cannot we "wake up?"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Libel
Suit.—Among the cases set for trial at the common law court to-day, in one in
which the Rev. Jacob J. Peres, lately rabbi of the Hebrew synagogue in this
city, sues the members of the congregation of Israel, worshiping there, for
libel. Damages are laid at twenty
thousand dollars.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
To the Ladies of Memphis.
Mrs. E. J. Davis, at the corner of Third and Poplar streets near the
First Presbyterian Church, will Bleach, Trim and Renovate Bonnets, Hats, etc.,
in the most skillful manner. For
many years well known in this city. She
would be grateful for the patronage of her friends.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Woman in White"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Our
Italian Population.—We learn from an intelligent Italian correspondent that
not less than five hundred of his countrymen reside in this city.
They are of all classes of society, but everywhere industrious and
law-abiding. They have no societies
or clubs for Italians only, or any especial place of congregating, but mix
themselves with society in general and become good American citizens.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Christy's
Minstrels.—This troupe of minstrels really deserve a degree of praise beyond
what we have space to give them. Night
by night they have held crowded, indeed over-crowded audiences spell bound with
their rich and enchanting music. As
instrumentalists, we doubt whether any former company have equaled them.
They touch deep the fountains of human sympathy.
"I will kiss him for his mother," founded on a well known
incident that occurred in New Orleans during the last awful attack of yellow
fever, brings tears into every eye. The
stump oratory and other comicalities are above mere vulgar wit, and soar to the
dignity of satire. We would say
much more of the Christys, but must be content simply to announce that beside
the performance this evening, a matinee for the ladies and the young
people will be given at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Patti's
Farewell Concert.—Carlo Patti, the brother of the famous Adelina, has for some
time been a resident among us. By
his gentlemanly demeanor, and his generosity and urbanity, he has won for
himself a host of attached friends, while his fine musical talent is the topic
of universal admiration. We state
with profound regret that his engagement at the theater has been suddenly
terminated, and that in two weeks he will leave Memphis on a musical tour,
previous to engaging in his profession in a distant city. Before leaving here he will give a farewell concert, in which
his two compositions, "'Twas but a Dream," and "I Love
Thee," will be introduced. He
will be assisted by Professors Katzenbach, Seyfurt, Ch. Yong, H. L. Farmer, and
several lady and gentleman amateurs. The
programme will soon be announced.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 17, 1861, p. 2,
c. 8
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"King Henry the Fourth, or, The Battle of Shrewsbury"; Grand
Pas Seul; "The Captain's Not A-Miss"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 17, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Alderman
O'Mahoney.—Council met on Friday night to investigate charges of immorality
preferred against alderman O'Mahoney, of the first ward.
The nature of the charges have been stated in our report of the
recorder's court, as consisting of improper intimacy with a negro woman.
Alderman O'Mahoney appeared in military uniform and pronounced the
charges false. The Board appointed
alderman Fraser, Kirby and Crews a committee to examine witnesses, aided by the
city attorney, and to report to the Board as early as possible.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Maid With the Milking Pail;" Grand Fancy Dance; "Katty
O'Sheal"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Wife
Whipping.—For this vile offense Michael Herrigan was yesterday fined by the
recorder ten dollars.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Bohlen,
Wilson & Co.'s tow boat Capitol arrived last evening with fully five
thousand tuns [sic] of ice in tow, the largest ever received in this city.
The Capitol leaves today again for the Illinois river for a
similar tow.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Swiss
Bell Ringers.—This interesting and talented troupe of musicians have finished
their Cuban tour, and at the close of their engagements below, will visit this
city. They are expected to open
here on Monday next. Due notices
will be given of their entertainments.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Paraded.—St.
Patrick's day being on Sunday, the festivities of the occasion were held
yesterday. The Jackson Guards
paraded in full uniform, and made an appearance that was universally admired.
With them to the Hibernian Mutual Relief society appeared in procession.
Their fine appearance excited considerable attention.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Ice,
Ice.—The steamer Winchester, Captain Algeo in command, arrived Sunday
evening with four large barges, containing five thousand tuns [sic] ice, for
Correy & Co. The Winchester
left last night for another tow for the same parties. Messrs. Corry & Co. are enterprising gentlemen, and
deserve the favor and patronage of the public.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
The City Taxpayers and Their Wealth.
The tax ledger in the controller's office shows that assessments for the
present corporate year, have been made as follows:
717
taxpayers of from $1000 to $3000; 341 of from $3000 to $5000; 334 of from $5000
to $10,000; 141 of from $10,000 to $15,000; 93 of from $15,000 to $20,000; 56 of
from $25,000 to $30,000; 19 of from $30,000 to $35,000; 27 of from $35,000 to
$40,000; 16 of from $40,000 to $45,000; 12 of from $45,000 to $50,000.
Taxpayers
of $50,000 and upward, each are as follows:
[list of 60 names with amounts]
From
the same source we learn that $1,389,000 of the above is assessed upon property
held and owned by married and single ladies (the names of the latter class, we
understand, cannot be ascertained by batchelors [sic] without a fee) and that
the sum of $54,000 is assessed upon property held and owned by free persons of
color, eighteen in number.
For
the above very entertaining statement we are indebted to the city controller, W.
O. Lefland, Esq. It affords a proof
of the accuracy and clearness of the city accounts as kept in his office.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Aldermanic
Expulsion.—At the special meeting of the city council, on Friday night,
according to the official report, "a quorum being announced, the chairman
took his seat and called the board to order, when the mayor explained the object
of the meeting to be for the investigation of charges of immoral conduct
preferred against Alderman P. T. O'Mahoney, of the First ward.
The opinion of the city attorney was asked in relation to the matter, who
decided that the board could not, in its legislative capacity, take cognizance
of any such acts as was understood to have been charged against the alderman
from the First ward." Against
the opinion of the city attorney we cite the authority of the city
charter, Art. III, Sec. 3: "The
Board may determine the rules of its proceedings, fine its members for absence
or disorderly behavior; and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
elect, may expel a member." We
presume the latter words must be construed to mean "may expel a member for
cause," and the whole sentence evidently leaves the board the judge of what
constitutes a cause sufficient for expulsion.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
Odd-Fellows' Hall.
Positively for One Week Only!
Commencing Monday Night, March 25,
Blaisdell & Pritz's
Celebrated and Original Troupe of
Swiss Bell Ringers
and
Brass Band.
Assisted by Madame Julia Blaisdell, the popular American Harpist; Miss
Fannie A. Peak, with her staff of forty-two Silver Bells, with a full corps of
Solo Artists of acknowledged ability.
Concert
on Wednesday and Saturday Afternoons, for the special accommodation of Families
and Schools.
The
Brass Band will introduce several popular airs from the balcony of the hall
previous to each entertainment.
For
particulars see programme.
Tickets
50 cents. Reserved seats 75 cents;
can be secured at the box office each day, between the hours of 10 and 12 A. M.
and 3 and 5 P. M.
Doors
open at seven o'clock; Concert to commence at a quarter to eight.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 21, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The French Spy; or, The Fall of Algiers;" Grand Fancy
Dance; "A Husband at Sight"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
New
Dyeing Establishment.
Messrs. Matthews & Hunt,
Late of the school of the great and celebrated Chemical
Dyers and Scourers, Cook & Mathews, of St. Louis, have been induced to open
an establishment for carrying on the above business in all its branches.
Every description of gentlemen's Coats, Vests and Pants are dyed,
cleansed and restored to their original perfection.
They certainly do remove every spot of grease, paint, wax and tar,
together with all other blemishes and impurities to which such garments are
liable, and warrant the spots not to reappear.
Call and examine their samples of Coat dressing.
If they fail to please you, no charge will be made.
Their office is on Jefferson street, between Main and Front Row.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Farewell Concert
of
Carlo Patti,
At Odd-Fellows' Hall,
Thursday Evening, 21st inst.
Card.
In bidding farewell to the public of Memphis, I have to acknowledge the
universal kindness with which I have ever been treated, and I sincerely trust
that upon this, my last appearance before my kind friends, their presence and
patronage will justify me in the belief that I have lost nothing in their
estimation during my brief but happy sojourn in the Bluff City.
Carlo Patti.
Programme.
Part I.
1. Overture
By C. M. Von Weber,
Messrs.
Katzenbach and Seypert.
2. Serenade (Quartette)
By Abt.
German
Harmonic Society.
3. Fantasie (Pour Violin)
By De Berlot.
Sig.
Carlo Patti.
4. "Home, Sweet Home,"
with variations
(Flute
Solo)
By B. Lee.
5. Song—"I Love Thee"
By Carlo Patti.
Mrs.
Katzenbach.
6. Grand Hungarian March and
American Medley, on the Piano Russe.
F. H.
Pfaffenschlarger.
7. Lucia di Lammermoor (Fantasie)
By Prudent.
8. Evening Chorus—By the United
Grutly and Harmonic Societies.
Part II.
1. Overture to
Caliph of Bagdad
By Bollieu.
Miss
S. Hopson and Mr. Seyfert.
2. "Farewell to the Alps"
(Quartette).
By the
Grutly Society.
3. Sounds from Home, (Violin Solo)
By Gungi.
Sig.
Carlo Patti.
4. Moses, (Fantasie)
By S. Thalberg.
Mr. H.
Seyfert.
5. Flute Solo
By
Donisetto.
Mr. H.
Farmer.
6. Song—"'Twas but a
Dream"
By Carlo Patti.
Mrs.
Ketchum.
7. Carnival de Venice
By
Paganini.
Sig.
Carlo Patti.
Admission
$1. Doors open at 7 o'clock;
Concert to commence at 7½ o'clock.
Seats
can be secured at McClure's Music Store.
The
Piano used on this occasion is from the celebrated manufactory of Hazleton
Bros., New York, and has been kindly furnished by Messrs. Katzenbach & Camp,
263 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Common
Law Court.—The case of the Rev. J. J. Peres against the congregation of the
children of Israel was before the court yesterday. Mr. Peres claims that he was discharged from his position as
Hazan, or reader in the synagogue, before his engagement had expired, and he
claims his salary for the balance of the unexpired time.
The congregation allege on their part, that Mr. Peres became incompetent
to perform the duties he had undertaken in consequence of his engaging in
secular labors on a Saturday, contrary to the Mosaic law and the authority of
the Talmud.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 22, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 22, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Burial
of Babies.—The community is now and then shocked by accounts of the discovery
of babies buried in out-of-the-way places, in candle boxes and herring tubs.
Some of these, there is no doubt, are the offspring of guilt hidden away
and perhaps sometimes murdered. But
we learn that buried babies found under mysterious circumstances, are not all,
or a majority of them, of this description.
We are informed that in this city it costs eighteen dollars to bury a
black baby and twenty to perform the same duty for a white one, even in cases
where disease is premature, and the advent of life is the moment of death.
There are many in this city who are unable to pay the amount charged, and
such are driven to the necessity of burying as they can and where they can.
There ought to be a "potter's field" here, as there is in other
cities where those who are in moderate circumstances might bury their dead at a
moderate expense, but our city council have left us destitute of such a
necessary provision. When will the necessities of the poor and the tears of the
sorrowing have an influence on our city legislation? If there were votes the question would soon be answered.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 22, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Common
Law Court.—At this court yesterday the case of the Rev. J. T. Peres, who sues
the congregation of Israel for the balance of his salary, for the remainder of
the year on which his services were dispensed with, on the alleged ground of a
desecration of the Sabbath—was continued.
The present Rabbi of the Memphis Synagogue, the learned and Rev. Simeon
Tuska, who had been examined the day before, was recalled.
The testimony of this gentleman was most interesting, throwing much light
on the religious position of the Isralites [sic] in this country and in Europe.
In accordance with the requirements of the prosecution, Mr. Tuska
produced in court that venerable record of Rabbinical wisdom, the Talmud; the
authoritative exposition of Moses and the prophets.
The book was in twenty volumes, the text in the ordinary Hebrew
character, but without points, but the commentary is in the Rabbinical
character. We hope the members of
the bar who would not accept the statements of the reverend gentleman as
authoritative, as those of a professionalist, or an expert, are satisfied now
they have dived into the profundities of the Talmud.
They should next investigate the mysteries of the Massorah, and try their
hands at reconciling the Samaritan with the Hebrew Pentateuch.
Some of the Israelites in court declared their belief that the lawyers
were Goyim.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 23, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 23, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Dan Rice's
Great Show!
Solo Lessee and Manager Dan
Rice.
Now on its return up—southern tour, from the Academy of Music, New Orleans, will exhibit at Memphis, for Five Days Only, on Jefferson street, opposite the new Post Office,
On Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday,
April 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th.
Performances Afternoon and Night. Admission
50 cents; Children and Servants 25 cents.
Dan
Rice, Manager and Humorist, respectfully informs his numerous personal friends
that he has greatly modified, additionalized, and improved the
Great Show,
And is prepared to give an entire new series of Spectacles
and Features, by New Artists and New Horses, together with a retention of the
old favorites, on a similar plan so successfully observed by him for twelve
consecutive weeks in the Crescent City.
First
time in this city of the Oriental, Historical and Actual representation of
Ward's Mission to
China;
Or, Our American Minister in Pekin,
Introducing the Games and Festivities of the Celestial people, the Mandarin's Court and Royal Reception, together with the far-famed
Procession and March of Lanterns.
Mon's Alexander Zanfrette, the Creole Blondin, on the Corde Tendue.
The
Performing Bear Garabaldi, in the Zoological and Homological comedy of Bear and
Sentinel!
Frank
H. Rosston, the Champion Horseman and Lion of the South in Equestrian splendors.
Re-engagement
of
Ella Zoyara,
The Queen of the Ring, who will appear in her superb Act Du Menage, introducing the Dancing Steed Francois, and leading the Gorgeous Cavalcade,
Sylia, the
Animated Wreath;
Or, The Living Panorama of Flowers and Beauty.
The Female Rarey, Mrs. Jacob Showles, will perform the American Cruiser,
Dun Eagle.
All the animals, including the Rhinoceros, Kangaroo, Goat, Monkeys and Ponies, Excelsior, Jr., and the Comic Mules will be brought forward.
The Ancient and Modern Gymnasia,
By Forty-Seven Performers, introducing the famous Leap for Life.
Dan Rice
Will personally superintend each and every performance.
R. S. Dingess, Agent.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Common
Law Court.—The trial of Peres against the congregation of the children of
Israel is still progressing.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 24, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
From North Alabama.
The following special dispatch was received by us on last night by
telegraph:
Tuscumbia, Ala., March 23, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: The flag of the Confederate
States was hoisted here to-day, when we had a large and enthusiastic meeting of
our most prominent citizens, amid the firing of cannon.
The
"Franklin Blues" (our military company,) leave for Fort Morgan on
Monday, the 25th inst. A
flag was presented upon the occasion by the ladies of Tuscumbia, and patriotic
speeches were made by several distinguished gentlemen.
Twenty-five hundred dollars were contributed by the crowd in ten minutes
for the benefit of the company. North
Alabama will sustain forever the "seven starred" flag of civil
liberty.
R. T. Abernathy.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 24, 1861, p. 2,
c. 8
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 24, 1861, p. 3.
c. 2
Wife
Whipping.—For a certificate of his accomplishments as a wife-whipper William
Henry yesterday paid the recorder five dollars.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 24, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Military.—The
military company of the Charleston railroad have received a consignment of
six-shooters—Savage's patent, an improvement on Colt's—as a part of their
equipment.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 24, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
The
Hebrew Trial.—In the case of the Rev. J. J. Peres, who sued in the common law
court for salary claimed by him from the congregation of the synagogue in this
place, a verdict was given yesterday in favor of Mr. Peres. A trial for libel in which Mr. Peres is plaintiff is expected
to take place next week. It will be
very interesting, many points respecting the present religious standing of the
Jews in this country and their observances, will come up. The clergy and religious portion of the city will find much
to interest them.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 26, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 26, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Homeless.—We
learn that the fourteen men and fifteen women at the Home for the Homeless are
all troubled with sore eyes.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 26, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Bravely
Whipped His Wife.—You who read this, dare you whip your wife?
God bless the dear creatures—would you whip them?
We think you say no; but James Magiveny, on Sunday, had more
courage than you, for he paid the recorder yesterday ten dollars for a
certificate that he had whipped his wife.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 26, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
The
Synagogue.—The passover services begin at 8 o'clock this morning, in the
synagogue, at the corner of Main and Exchange streets.
A sermon at 9½ o'clock in English, one on Saturday, at the same time, in
German, and one in English, on Monday next, at the same hour, all from the
rabbi, Rev. S. Tuska. Strangers of all denominations are invited to be
present—seats are free. Gentlemen
can keep on or remove their hats, as they please; and ladies may sit up or down
stairs, as they choose. There is
the largest liberty and a hearty welcome.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 27, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 27, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Left.—Carlo
Patti, the excellent Italian musician, who has been so popular during his stay
in this city, left last evening for Holly Springs, to commence a musical tour in
the South. He will, we doubt not,
be welcomed wherever he goes as a gifted son of song and music.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 28, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 28, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Millinery.—Among
the many fine establishments in our city dealing in the line of millinery, there
are none which give better satisfaction to its numerous patrons, or keep on hand
a finer display of goods, than that of Miss M. Perdue, at 326 Main street.
This lady has just received a large and admirably selected stock from the
first importing houses of New York and Baltimore, which will be open for the
inspection of the ladies to-day. If
you love to keep up with the fashions—and what lady does not—you will be
gratified in an examination of this stock.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 29, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
The Mississippi
Troops at
Holly Springs.
Editors Appeal: After
witnessing the glorious reception of the Mississippi troops in Memphis yesterday
afternoon, I went to Holly Springs to bid adieu to old friends and relations
about to leave that place for Pensacola. I
got to Holly Springs at midnight, and, much to my surprise, found the town as
quiet as though nothing unusual were about to occur.
Before daylight this morning, however, sounds of martial music filled the
air, and the first ray of the rising sun fell upon the columns of the "Home
Guards" and the "Jeff Davis Rifles," attended by a vast concourse
of citizens, moving toward the depot. At the depot a splendid banner, the national red, white and
blue, was presented by Miss Edmonson to the Rifles.
Her fine figure and beautiful face were set off to the greatest advantage
by a close-fitting dress of gray cloth, trimmed with black—the uniform of the
Rifles—and a cap of the same material. In presenting the banner, she made an eloquent and effective
speech, most admirably delivered, which was responded to by Capt. Sam Benton, of
the Rifles, in a manner equally felicitous.
It seemed that the whole population of the town had gathered for the
parting, as well as many of the surrounding country. My estimate is that three thousand persons were present. . .
. H.
March
28, 1861.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 29, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Cricket"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 29, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Maynard
Rifles.—About thirty rifles have been received in this city by young gentlemen
who are practicing with a view to form a new military company.
It is suggested that there are probably a hundred of these rifles in the
city, and that it would be well for their owners to meet and practice in
concert. If any disposition is
shown to accept of this proposition the time and place of meeting will be named.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 29, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Military
Services Rendered.—The Sons of the South, who now number eighty men, and will
soon amount to a hundred, have an agent in Montgomery, Ala., tendering their
services to the Confederated States. A
dispatch was yesterday received, stating that the tender was accepted, and the
company must hold itself in readiness to march at an early day.
Judge Winslow, who is a relation of Jeff Davis, and who has recently
returned from Mexico, is their commander.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 2,
c. 6
It is
computed that 608 copies of "Dixie's Land" are sold every day by music
publishers throughout the United States.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"Poison and Love"; Grand Pas Seul; "Prussian Soldier's
Love"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
Astrology.
Madam Arrabella Clifton, the great Astrologer and Planet Reader, who has
mastered all the sciences in the gift of prophesy, can be consulted at her
office, at Mrs. Hightower's, corner of Commerce and Second streets, where she
will be happy to see all who may favor her with their patronage. She is well known as a lady of truth and respectability.
Medicine supplied for all curable diseases.
Remember the place, corner of Commerce and Second streets.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
A
Visit Worth Being Chronicled.—The Appeal, with its "appurtenances,"
(among which the editorial corps have perhaps unauthorizedly included
themselves) was on yesterday morning again honored by a visit from a delegation
of eight young ladies, representing respectively Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee—and all for secession! It
was a pleasant intrusion upon the dull monotony of journalistic duties, as the
alacrity with which the "knights of the quill" responded in welcome
amply attested. We took great
delight in showing the fair visitants the wonders of the printing art, and were
well repaid by the interest which they manifested in its full understanding.
Such visits are always appreciated by the devotees of the tripod,
inasmuch as they come like a sunbeam through the cloud of daily annoyances which
overhang our otherwise cheerless and gloomy pathway—
"A star o'er the waste of a weary heart,
A bow in the cloud of years."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
The
Fire Steamers—H. Vollintine, Esq., chairman of the council fire committee, has
received a letter from A. B. & E. Latta, of Cincinnati, dated March 21,
which says: "We are now
progressing rapidly with the last engine of yours, and shall not be long now
before both are completed. Our
chief engineer says these two engines of yours are the finest machines we have
ever built yet. All that have seen
them are pleased with them. We are
of opinion that they will suit your city well.
Do not fail to get reels soon, they will be wanted."
These engines will be here soon, and then the necessary changes the fire
steamers require, must be made. The
No. 1 engine home, on Poplar near Main, and the No. 4 engine house, opposite the
Commercial hotel on Jefferson street, will be sold to obtain the nine thousand
dollars the two engines cost. The
insurance companies will advance a handsome loan, by which reels, hose, horses
and harness will be provided. To
place the whole city under protection of the fire steamers, one of them will be
placed north at the No. 6 engine house on Main street; another at the No. 5's
engine house, near the Gayoso, and the third in the centre, at No. 3's engine
house at the corner of Second and Adam's street.
The present volunteer force, or that part of them in the centre of the
city, will be rendered useless, and all their members must be allowed the
privilege of contesting for admittance into the paid fire department.
With a well managed and properly paid fire department, composed of old
and experienced firemen, we shall have fewer fire alarms and more efficiency.
The skillful, steady and ardent firemen will greatly relish the change.
The idea of a paid fire department is a popular one with our citizens,
and any who may wish to oppose the program will find small capital to carry on
the business with.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Home
for the Homeless.—We have lying before us a list of the inmates of this
excellent institution, from which we learn that eleven women, fourteen children
and three men are at the "home."
The former as recipients of its bounties; the men are engaged, one as
driver, etc., the other two as gardeners, and they are now laying out the
grounds in very handsome style, under the superintendence of the matron.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
A
Potters Field.—To a heart touched with one feeling of that charity, without
which all else is but as "the sounding brass and tinkling symbal,"
[sic] there is something inexpressibly sad in the thought that in a city blessed
with prosperity as ours has been, we offer to the friendless, the poor, and the
homeless, no shelter where they may lay their head, whether in life or death.
Those who find themselves among us without a roof to sleep under, find no
place provided for them, as is done in other cities.
For the poor who die, there is no potters field where we may bury
strangers, as is also usually provided in other cities.
We stated a short time ago, and we did it upon official information, that
on account of the great expense of funerals in this city, the practice of
burying infants in out-of-the-way spots in the suburbs, is quite prevalent.
The ordinary charge for burying a negro child is eighteen dollars; of a
white one twenty dollars. Such
charges are more than many in our midst can afford top pay.
We learn from an undertaker that the high charge arises from the great
expense that attends obtaining ground for burial.
At Elmwood cemetery, to bury white people costs ten dollars for a child,
and fifteen dollars for a grown person; the cost for negroes ten dollars, and
twelve dollars and a half are demanded. At
Winchester cemetery the rates are for white persons nine dollars; for negroes,
ten dollars for blacks of all sizes. The
Catholics, with a piety that does them infinite credit, are the only persons in
the city who have provided the poor with a spot where the dust that once
shrouded God's image can be placed, under circumstances that shall not trench
upon the purse of penury or violate the honest pride of the poor.
They have a burial ground where all of their people can find sepulture
for the moderate sum of five dollars. The
city used to own a place of burial; when that became filled, the funerals of
paupers, that were formerly an expense to the city of five dollars each, rose to
fourteen dollars each; so that our city council are guilty of bad economy as
well as of an improper regard for the wants of the poor in what they are doing,
or rather neglecting to do, in this matter.
It will easily be imagined that when to the rates charged for ground in
the only spots open to the general public—which charges we should state
include the digging and filling of the grave—are as high as stated above, the
addition of coffin, carriage hire and services will easily run up the
undertaker's charge to eighteen and twenty dollars.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 31, 1861, p. 2,
c. 10
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"David Copperfield"; Miss Fanny Peak, of the Swiss Bell
Ringers; "Black Eyed Susan"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 31, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Procter &
Gamble,
24 West Second Street,
Cincinnati,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
Star and Tallow Candles;
Oleine, German and Palm Soap,
Lard Oil, Pearl Starch;
Fancy Soaps.
Candles Sold by Actual Weight.
It is well known that many Star Candles that are really seven to the
pound, are branded and sold as "sixes."
There is a disadvantage and a loss in this practice to both retailers and
consumers, even if the Candles are bought at a reduction of two cents per pound
from the price of the regular article, Thus:
A box
of "Sixes," SHORT WEIGHT, contains 240 Candles, and is sold for 40
lbs., at say 18 cts
$7.20
A box of Sevens,
containing the same number of Candles, same size, is sold for 34 lbs., ACTUAL
WEIGHT, at 20 cts.
6.80
Difference in
favor of buying by weight
40
And this difference become greater as the price advances.
It is obvious that the retailer can get no more for his 240 Candles in
one case than in the other, consequently on every hundred boxes of "short
weight" he sells, he loses FORTY DOLLARS.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], March 31, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Sand's
Pale Cream Ale.—We have to thank the agents for this beverage in this city,
Messrs. Felmming & Lockhart of the St. Charles, on Adams street, between
Front and Main, for a specimen of their ale.
We think it a healthy and pure, as it is certainly a delicious drink.
It is not of the "liquid fire and distilled damnation" order,
but a tonic, that cannot fail to be useful in cases of debility, as well as
palatable as a table drink. It can
be had in quarter and half barrels.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 2, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Obituary.
Died, on the 4th of March, 1861, UNCLE SAM, in the 85th
year of his age.
In
chronicling the demise of Uncle Sam, we do so with a mixed emotion of sorrow and
joy. His death was anticipated for
some years, having fallen a victim to an "irrepressible conflict"
disease, which combated successfully and rendered ineffectual the expert skill
of the most learned Sewardite and prominent physicians of the day, and after a
long, protracted suffering, lingering in its progress with a slow, certain and
unavoidable end, he departed this life on the day and year named above, leaving
behind many to mourn this sad bereavement and others experiencing gratification
who desired the agonizing and excruciating pains he endured to cease and be no
more.
As he
lived, he died, beloved and respected by all nations. We shall, perhaps, never look upon his like again.
As a model for example, no copy is now extant and none ordered.
His life was frought with many eventful scenes, and the multitudinous
vicissitudes through which he struggled and rendered glorious, characterized his
indomitable will, honesty and bravery.
Born
on the 4th of July, 1776, the last century was signalized by his
unprecedented advent, and as the legitimate offspring of the independence of
America, his birth was hailed by freedom as a wonderful epoch in the history of
the world. His terrestrial career
advancing, it became evidently important that a generalisimo was required, and
should be employed to superintend and guard his household affairs.
George, of revolutionary fame, having established a good character, and
being strongly recommended by letters of an innumerable number of brave hearts,
was the chosen one. Tradition says
he made an excellent and very trustworthy functionary, gained the admiration and
confidence of his employer and the respect of all of his obedient servants.
Then
when George's term expired, John, Tom, James, Quincy, James the second, Andrew,
Martin, William, Henry, John the Second, James the third, Zachariah, Millard and
Frank, were employed successively in rotation, and are said to have given
partial satisfaction in ruling moderately well over the servants, and conducting
the affairs of the White House with a discretion remarkable and peculiar in the
times and circumstances. During the
latter part of these Administrations however, Uncle Sam, laboring under the
debilitating influences of the "irrepressible" contagion prevalent,
was confined to his department, private, and being unable, therefore, to give an
undivided attention to the things of his Government, advantages were taken,
powers usurped, and all matters appertaining to nationality administered by
reckless employees, with a keen, discriminating eye toward personal
aggrandizement.
At
this juncture James, surnamed Buchanan, was called in to preside.
Powers extraordinary and plenipotentiary were extended to him, and being
an old horse in the harness, he very soon wrought the same privileges enjoyed by
his immediate predecessors, into advantages which led him and subordinates to
adopt the grab game, and before his term transpired, managed to oust from the
treasury all of its contents, and created a debt inconsistent with legal
expenditure, precedent and expectation, consisting of nearly one hundred
millions to be liquidated by Uncle Sam's dilapidated, disintegrated and
moneyless federalism.
It is
conjectured, and believed by some who have not thought much upon the subject,
and have had less opportunities whereby to form a proper opinion, that this
dissolute, corrupt and jealous disposition made manifest in the administration
of governmental affairs was the immediate cause of Uncle Sam's demise; but, as
investigating committee of thirty-three, representing all parts of the public
domain concerned, having been appointed, and detailed to examine into and ferret
out the true circumstances surrounding this predicted event, and report the
causes which tended to produce such an unhappy result, met in judgment and
pronounced as follows: Whereas
Uncle Sam had discovered that, during his physical derangement and lamentable
sickness, many of his powers were misused, and immunities, never granted
constitutionally, were employed by his employees to abuse and subvert the ends
of his Government; and, whereas, his union of States was now in a manner
disrupted, it became important and absolutely necessary to elect another
presiding officer, more trustworthy and faithful in the discharge of incumbent
duties, enforcement and execution of his laws.
Hence numerous applications were made, and through the counseling of
leading and influential contemporaries, conventionally, Stephen, John, John C.,
and "honest old Abe," received the nominations, and went forth upon
the campaign, canvassing for an election to this high, distinguished and
responsible position.
Strong
recommendations were voted each, but as a greater number appeared, testifying to
the sobriety, capacity, and integrity of "Honest Old Abe," his claims
were favorably and duly considered. Uncle
Sam, however, had never seen him but once, and then casually, while the other
candidates were familiar acquaintances, and knowing them well, was cognizant of
their many faults. In view of these
facts, especially after learning that very impressive, popular, and inviting
handle to his name, through the tantalizing importunities of supposed friends,
Uncle Sam concluded to select Honest Old Abe.
Therefore, a dispatch was forwarded to Springfield, his place of abode,
requiring him to repair immediately to the White House at Washington.
According to order, "Honest Old Abe," after having delivered
himself of the ignorant and insignificant phrase, indicative of his unsound
calibre, "No one is hurt," at the time and place designated, arrived
to assume the new duties assigned. The
moment Uncle Sam beheld him, he was startled, aggravated, and horrified at his
emanciated, imbecile, and aboliltionized countenance, and was heard to exclaim:
"He is not the right man, in the right place, the handle to his name
is a ruse, I am deceived, mortified, and ruined forever."
Thus as Uncle Sam's mental and physical ability was already nearly
destroyed by the "irrepressible conflict disease," he could not
withstand this sudden deception, and mortal shock, so falling prostrate, died.
Let
his memory be revered as a monument to self-government, and the star-spangled
banner remodeled to comport with the exigencies of the times, as a shibboleth of
his glory to enshrine in the hearts of all.
It may
be interesting to state that there was found among the archives of Uncle Sam's
office, his last will and testament, bequeathing all of his earthly effects,
both personal and real or mixed, to be equally divided between his two surviving
heirs—the Northern and Southern Confederation.
The
will is now being probated and the executors will administer in due time.
No apprehensions, therefore, need be had in regard to continued
difficulties arising between the legatees, as the property involved must be
distributed according to the law of the will.
So be it.
Louis Gaznog.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 2, 1861, p. 2, c.
6
Tents
for the Army.—The governor of the State is using energetic means to place
those who have enlisted for her defense, in a proper condition while they are in
service. Contracts have been made
for the manufacture of that indispensable article, tents, for the army of the
State. We observe that Mr. D. Keith
of this city, is completing his preparations to fill an order for five hundred,
which he has received from the State. We
are assured that, like everything else manufactured in Columbus, they will be
found, when completed, to answer their purpose in every respect.—Columbus
(Ga.) Sun, March 28.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 2, 1861, p. 2, c.
7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Honey Moon; or, How to Rule a Wife;" Grand Pas Seul;
"King Charles the Second; or, The Merry Monarch"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 2, 1861, p. 3, c.
3
A
Wife Whipper.—For distinguished bravery in whipping his wife, Hugh
Gilmore was yesterday admitted by the recorder into the employment of the city,
an honor for which many respectable gentlemen are earnest candidates.
He will be boarded and lodged at the city's expense for over three weeks.
Brave Hugh!
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 3, 1861, p. 2, c.
7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Wife; A Tale of Mantua;" Grand Pas Seul; "The Eton
Boy"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
The Mississippi Troops in Mobile.
A friend connected with one of the Mississippi regiments of volunteers,
writes to us from Mobile under date of the 31st ult., as follows:
"Two
regiments of Mississippi troops are now assembled in Mobile under the command of
Maj. Gen. Clark, and quartered, some in cotton sheds, others in cotton tents.
Our destination is Pensacola, to which place we will proceed by the land
route, starting on Wednesday next. Inasmuch
as there are five United States vessels of war lying off Fort Pickens, it is
deemed imprudent to attempt to reach Pensacola by water.
The
election of field officers for the two regiments is postponed until our arrival
at Pensacola. The candidates are
numerous, and the contest perhaps will be very exciting.
It
fills one with singular and pleasant reflections upon the effects of patriotism,
to walk around our camps and see the old and young men, wealthy planters,
lawyers, doctors, men of all professions, in the red or blue flannel shirts of
privates, gathered around the camp fires, and cooking their own meals with an
alacrity and earnestness equal only to the use of their muskets.
Dangerous fellows these, for abolition hordes to meet!
Brigadier-Generals
Motte and Barksdale, army of Mississippi, are in the city.
Brigadier-General Griffiths, with his aid, Capt. Brown, passed through
this city Monday, bound for Montgomery."
F. E. W.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 2, c.
6
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"Naval Engagements;" Grand Pas Seul; "A Loan of a
Lover"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Wife
Whipping.—For indulging in this brave amusement, an individual who considers
himself eminent was charged an amount we do not mention, in the record's court
yesterday.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
A
Flannel Case.—Tom Williams, for stealing two flannel shirts, the property of
engine company No. 1, was committed for trial by Esq. Horne yesterday, in
default of $500 bail.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Hebraic.—L.
Helman, charged with assaulting with intent to kill J. J. Peres, was before the
criminal court yesterday. The
testimony was gone through and the argument will be made to-day.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 4, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Wife
Whipper.—Mister Pat Donnelly, who lives in South Memphis, near the No. 7's
engine house, which is on DeSoto street between Beal and Linden streets, had the
bravery to whip his wife the other night. The
recorder had not the lofty spirit that looks upon woman-whipping as an act of
bravery, and he charged Pat twenty-five dollars for his chivalric act.
What a shame that was!
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 2, c.
7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"David Copperfield;" Grand Pas de Deux; "Mischief
Making"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
New York
Kerosene Oil Co.
At Prices to Command the Market!
Kerosene Illuminating Oil,
Paraffine
Illuminating Oil,
Petroleum Illuminating Oil,
Machinery Oils.
Depot,
Cozzens & Co., 89 Water st., New York.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 2, c.
5
Dr.
Burt's Crop of 1860.—To show the world at large what may be done in Edgefield,
S. C., toward the cotton supply, we have taken the trouble to procure, from the
doctor's own lips, an exact statement of his crop for last year.
He
worked ten full hands. Planted one
hundred and thirty-five acres of sandy upland in cotton.
Sold in Hamburg one hundred and thirty bales of cotton, averaging four
hundred pounds to the bale, and made plenty of corn, sweet potatoes, etc., to
last him until another crop. This
was done without working beyond ten hours a day at any season of the year.
His allowance of provisions was three pounds clear middling meat, one
peck of corn meal, and an abundance of green vegetable food, potatoes, salt,
milk, etc., to each hand per week. This
statement may be booked as an undoubted truth.—Edgefield Advertiser.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 3, c.
3
Rabbinical.—Rabbi
Peres, late pastor of the synagogue in this city, has been giving some of his
flock—not gehenna exactly, but law, and that is about as bad.
For assaulting the Rev. J. J. Peres, with intent to kill him, L. Helman
was yesterday condemned, by the common law court, to pay a fine of two hundred
dollars, and to suffer three months imprisonment.
This was in the criminal court. Mr.
Peres, a few days ago, recovered damages from his former congregation for the
balance of his salary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Rifle
Club.—A meeting will be held this evening at 7½ o'clock, Exchange building,
for the purpose of forming a rifle Club. All
gentlemen having a Maynard gun, are respectfully requested to attend.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 5, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Another
Murder.—Susan Striker, who was shot in the bosom on Saturday night by Charles
Burton, died yesterday. Her real
name was Julianna Johnson. It is a
fact, perhaps not generally known, that the unfortunates who tramp the streets,
and attract so much attention from men for a few months, have almost always the
true womanly feeling left about them to avoid being known by the names of their
pure mothers and chaste sisters. They
let the vile herd that seek their society, know them by an appelation that never
graced their days of innocence. So
it was with poor Julianna. The gem
that makes a woman loftier than a throne, she had lost, but she had not parted
with all that makes a woman noble. This
man, Burton, was abusing and ill-treating his wife.
Poor Julianna—poor Magdalen, who not only with the frowns of those who
were of her sex—stood up for the ill-used wife, and the --------- man
shot her, killed her because she said a word for an oppressed, injured
sister. "Inasmuch as ye did it
unto one of the least of these, ye did unto me." What strange revelations that next world will show!
"The first shall be last, and the last shall be first."
Poor Julianna, she was among the outcasts, the Pariahs, but she died
nobly, vindicating her outraged sex against cowardly outrage.
God bless her memory.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 6, 1861, p. 2, c.
7
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"The Pet of the Petticoats;" Character Dance; "Mr. and
Mrs. Peter White"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 7, 1861, p. 1, c. 4
W. B. Miller
Geo. Dashiell.
John N. Taylor
W. F. Taylor.
W. B. Miller & Co.
197 Main Street.
Clay Building,
Offer Silk Suitable for
Confederate State Flags,
Red, White and Blue.
Their Assortment of Spring
Dry Goods
Will Now Be Found Quite Complete,
And Pleasing in Style and Price.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 7, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Grand Ball
of
Relief Fire Co. No. 7
Relief Fire Company No. 7, will give a Grand Ball at Gayoso Hall, Main
street, on Thursday, April 11th, 1861.
Directors:
Chief Whitsitt, Capt. Edmondson, Capt. Miller, Capt. Henkle, Capt. Kahoe,
Capt. Buttler, Capt. Stokes, Capt. Hartley, W. W. Ferguson, Hon. R. D. Baugh,
Jno. B. Robinson, John Park, Jno. H. Bowen, W. R. Hunt, W. M. Folwell, W. H.
Carroll, B. G. Garrett, Wm. Hutchinson.
Floor
Managers: W. A. Hampson, J. Kirk,
L. B. Bender, H. W. Smith, Wm. O'Heron, Benton King.
Tickets
admitting a lady and gentleman $1.00 to be had of any of the directors.
City
papers copy, and send bill to J. H. Hartley.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 7, 1861, p. 2, c.
9
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"Sweethearts and Wives"; "The Specter Bridegroom"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 7, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Chilly
News.—Bohlen Wilson & Co's steamboat Capitol, arrived at our wharf
yesterday afternoon, with another large fleet of ice in tow.
She will return to the Illinois river for another tow.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 7, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Capt.
Brennan, who has been a teacher of military tactics in some of the most
prominent military schools of the West, and who is a most accomplished drill
officer, has come to Memphis, to offer his services to our newly formed military
companies. He comes with the
highest testimonials of merit as a drill officer and gentleman.
At this juncture, when so many are ambitious of learning the
accomplishments of a soldier, the services of Capt. Brennan would, we should
think, be put in immediate requisition by the new, and as yet raw recruits.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 9, 1861, p. 2, c.
3
Jackson, Tenn., April 6, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: The "Independent
Southern Guards" raised a new flag of the Confederate States here to-day,
in lace of the one which was first raised, as it was only a temporary one.
The flag is truly a splendid one, and of large proportions.
It floated out to the breeze in magnificent style, and is an honor to the
brave young "Guards," who are determined that its glory shall never be
sullied, and that it shall float over their beautiful little city as the mark of
their zeal for their beloved South, and as a signal that no hireling band that
"bend the suppliant knee" to the throne of Black Republicanism, can
hold dominion over the true patriot, who stands first for the South, and forever
for his rights.
The
"Independent Southern Guards" were out on parade.
They are truly a fine company—all determined, active looking young
men—and look as though they could send the hot shaft into the enemy's ranks
with hearty good will and zeal. They marched under a beautiful flag—the gift of the fair.
It is the flag of the Confederate States.
Salutes were fired, and a stirring, patriotic speech was delivered by
Col. Scruggs, of Memphis, after which the company paraded the streets to the
sound of martial music. All is
right here; and would that all of Tennessee were like Jackson and Madison
county. We could soon throw off the bonds that bind us to the
northern despots. And now I say to
the people of Jackson, be firm, press on, and victory will be yours.
"Strike, till the last armed foe expires,
Strike for your altars and your fires,
God, and your native land."
South.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 9, 1861, p. 2, c.
8
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"All that Glitters is Not Gold;" Medley of Moore's Melodies;
"The Widow's Victim"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 9, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
The
Flag of the Free.—We had, yesterday, an opportunity of examining a flag, which
Messrs. Speed, Donoho & Strange have had made for presentation to the
Mississippi volunteers, who recently passed through this city. We think it the handsomest and most valuable flag we ever
saw. The material is drop-shot
brocade silk, and is of unsurpassed richness.
It is of the tri-color of the southern Federal States, and bears
conspicuously the seven stars, white, on a blue ground.
Upon it is beautifully worked the inscription:
"Mississippi Volunteers, 1861."
The staff is worthy of its gorgeous burthen; it is twelve feet long, and
is of rosewood, most beautifully polished.
It is surmounted by a large javelin-head of burnished silver; below which
are suspended two large golden tassels by ornamental cords.
A silver plate on the staff has the inscription:
"Presented to the Mississippi Volunteers, by Speed, Donoho &
Strange." The lower end of the
flagstaff terminates in a silver butt. The
flag will be sent to Pensacola, to Col. J. R. Chalmers of Herando, Miss., by the
hands of Major Jas. H. Anderson of Tunica, Miss., who, in company with several
influential merchants and affluent planters, will leave this city to-day for
Pensacola, there to offer themselves as volunteers to the ranks of the defenders
of the South. The magnificent gift
of Messrs. Speed, Donoho & Strange, will, probably, and before long, float
proudly in the field of "glorious victory."
The maker of this triumph of excellent workmanship is Mr. J. A. Cameron,
of this city.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 9, 1861, p. 3, c.
3
Shameful
Outrages.—On two or three occasions lately, outrages of a scandalous character
have been committed on premises occupied by branches of the public schools.
On one occasion during the night, a considerable number of books were
taken from a school room and thrown down the privy vault, and the ink was poured
over the floor. On another
occasion, filth was daubed on doors and forced into locks.
These things have not been made public, as it was hoped, the proprietors
would be discovered. Yesterday
morning, before the arrival of the teacher, Mr. Fray, fifteen or twenty youths
from Pinch appeared before the school house at the corner of Second and Monroe
streets, and swearing they would clear the South Memphis boys out, they
commenced an attack upon the boys who were about the school house, striking
several and choking one. Sticks and
stones were thrown at the windows, which were broken.
The arrival of Mr. Fray put the young rogues to flight, when they
proceeded to the Linden street school house.
The boys there being in the grounds of the school house, they did not
succeed in injuring them, but they swore they would come another day and clean
out every South Memphis boy that could be found. The names of several of the assailants are known, and the
police are searching into the affair. We
learn from Superintendent Pope that he will certainly bring the guilty ones
before the recorder, that the proper and highly necessary punishment may be
inflicted.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 10, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
The Mississippi by Night.
By night the scene is one of startling interest and magical splendor.
Hundreds of lights are glancing in different directions, from the
villages, towns, farms and plantations on shore, and from the magnificent
"floating palaces" of steamers, that frequently look like moving
mountains of light and flame, so brilliantly are these enormous river leviathans
illuminated outside and inside. Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a dream of
enchantment. Imagine steamer after
steamer coming, sweeping, sounding, thundering on, blazing with these thousands
of lights, casting long, brilliant reflections on the fast rolling waters
beneath. There is often a number of
them, one after another, like so many comets in Indian file.
Some of these are so marvelously and dazzlingly lighted, they really look
like Aladdin's palace on fire, (which it, in all likelihood, would be in
America) sent skurrying and dashing down the stream, while, perhaps, just then,
all else is darkness around it. I
delighted, too, in seeing, as you very frequently do, the twinkling lights in
the numerous cottages and homesteads dotted here and there; and you may often
observe large wood fires lit on the banks, looking like merry-making bonfires.
These, I believe, are usually signals for the different steamers to stop
to take up passengers, goods and animals.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 9, 1861, p. 2, c.
6
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—"Money"; "Slasher and Crasher"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
Something New.
Cap Manufactory!
I. D. Blumenthal, at 194 Main Street, at the store of M. Simon, is ready
to receive orders for the manufacture of Military and all other kinds of Caps,
of every quality and style. Military
companies furnished with any style of Caps desired.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Potters Field.
Persons having Lots for sale a proper distance from the city, say two,
three or four miles, would do well to make it known to the undersigned
commissioners, who are authorized to purchase five, ten or fifteen acres, in
which to bury paupers. Propositions
left with the County Court Clerk will be considered.
J. E. Goodlett.
John S. Dickason.
S. D. Aydlett.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Cat
Fish.—The New Moon brought in yesterday, from White river, one thousand cat
fish.
Pic
Nic.—We learn that that praiseworthy institution the St. Peter's Benevolent
orphan asylum is making arrangements for a grand pic nic to take place early in
May.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
The
Tennessee Cadets.—This is a new company of lads from eleven to seventeen years
of age, formed for the purpose of drill and future service under a southern
flag which they will bear. The
uniform is a beautiful dark green coat, with red pants and blue stripe, and cap
with long brim. The officers
elected are W. A. Flournoy, captain; F. A. Tyler, jr., first lieutenant; W. O.
Lofland, jr., second lieutenant. We
have no doubt they will some day give a good account of themselves.
We could suggest to some of the patriotic young ladies of Memphis the
matter of making and presenting for their encouragement a beautiful Confederate
flag, for they sway the flag of the old Union has become too much soiled for
their use, since the election of Hamlin.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
A
Sight Worth Seeing.—Oranges, bananas, plantains, cocoanuts, and English
walnuts, all fresh from the gardens in Cuba, just received by Angelovich, at No.
6 Union street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 13, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Hail
Stones.—The LaGrange True Issue of the 4th inst. says:
It
hailed here last Friday night fifteen minutes.
We gathered several platesful of hailstones, some of which were as large
as partridge eggs, and for once had as much hail as we could eat.
We learn from Mrs. Colonel Dancy, that some of the hailstones which fell
in her neighborhood were as large as a hen's egg.
But little damage was done, so far as we have been able to hear, either
to the field crops or gardens.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
The Chinese Hats.
Just received per steamer "Flying Scud," from Canton, China,
1,500 of the Chinese Polar Pith Hats, some new styles, among which are the
Double Round, Helmet, Toad Stool, Mandarin, etc. at
Francisco & Co.'s,
289 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 14, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Arrangement of the Hair.
In the arrangement of the hair, the greatest regard ought to be paid to
the style of the features, as well as to the general appearance of the wearer.
It is thus only that we can hope to avoid such errors of taste as we
frequently see committed by those who, regardless of the fitness of a particular
mode of arrangement, to which they may have taken a fancy, to their own style of
countenance, adopt it at once without due consideration.
The mode which they admire may have been adopted by the dictates of the
nicest taste to the features of the wearer, while to their own it is completely
unsuited; but pleased with its effect in those in whom they admire it, and yet
ignorant of the source of the charm, they blindly adopt it, and instead of
rendering themselves more attractive, they become merely ridiculous.
When
the features are large or strongly marked, the hair should be arranged in
masses, in large curls or well-defined bows, so as to harmonize with the general
cast of the countenance. If, on the
contrary, the features are small and delicate, the greatest care should be taken
not to render too striking the contrast between them and the magnitude of the
headdress. Small and delicately
formed curls or ringlets, braids or light and airy bows are the most pleasing
varieties for this style.
The
features of the greater number of young ladies, however, cannot be classed under
either of these extremes. When such
is the case, the fancy of the individual is, of course, allowed greater
latitude, but ought to be no less subject to the dictates of taste.
There
are what may be called four distinct styles of arrangement, under one or other
of which the various modes of dressing the hair may be classed:
In bows, in braids, in twists, or in curls.
To the latter class may be also referred ringlets, since they are only a
modification to suit the features of particular individuals.
Bows
will be found particularly suitable where the face is round, as they tend to
lengthen the countenance, and make its peculiarities less apparent.
The longer they can be made without extravagance, the more pleasing will
be the effect. If, on the contrary, the countenance is narrow and
lengthened, low, swelling bows should be adopted.
In
arranging bows care should be taken to avoid an exact uniformity on each
side. Such an arrangement gives an
air of stiffness, from which it is at all times well to be free.
To
braids, the above observations are, in general, equally applicable.
Curls,
no less than bows, require to be carefully adapted in size to the features.
If the face is long and deficient in breadth, the great mass should be
made to cluster near the temples, and fall gracefully over the cheeks, taking
care, however, not to conceal the latter and thus render the length still more
apparent. From the ease with which
curls are adapted to every style or feature—and there are few indeed to which
they are not becoming and from the fancy which they afford to display a beauty
or conceal a defect, this has always been a favorite style of arrangement.
Ringlets,
as has already been remarked, are merely a modification of curls.
They require, however, to be more cautiously adopted, as, though
extremely fascinating when suited to the style of the wearer, they give an air
of ridicule to one to whom they are unsuited.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 14, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Toby Tries His Gun.
Toby is a high private in the first regiment of the Mississippi army.
His company is armed with the breech-loading Maynard rifle,
"warranted to shoot twelve times a minute, and to carry a ball effectively
1,600 yards." Men, who fought
at Monterrey and Buena Vista, call the new fangled thing a "pop gun."
To test its efficacy, Toby's captain told the men "they must try
their guns." In obedience to
command, Toby procured the necessary munitions of war, and started with his
"pop gun" for the woods. Saw
a squirrel up a very high tree—took aim—fired.
Effects of shot immediate and wonderful. Tree effectually topped, and nothing of the squirrel to be
found, except three broken hairs. "Pop
gun" rose in value—equal to a four pounder. But Toby would'nt [sic] shoot towards any more trees—afraid
of being arrested for cutting down other people's timber.
Walked a mile and a quarter to get sight of a hill.
By aid of a small telescope, saw hill in distance; saw large rock on
hill; put in big load; shut both eyes—fired.
As soon as breath returned, opened eyes; could see, just could, but
couldn't hear; at least couldn't distinguish any sounds; thought Niagara had
broke loose, or all out doors gone to drum-beating.
Determined to see if shot hit. Borrowed
horse, and started towards hill. After
traveling two days and nights reached place; saw setting sun shining through the
hill. Knew, right away, that was
where the shot hit. Went
closer—stumbled over rocky fragments scattered for half a mile in line of
bullet. Came to hole—knew the
bullet hit here, because saw lead on the edges—walked in, walked through; saw
teamster on other side, "indulging in profane language;" in fact,
"cussin considerable" because lightning had killed his team.
Looked as finger directed—saw six dead oxen in line with hole through
the mountain; knew that was the bullet's work, but didn't say so to angry
teamster. Thought best to be
leaving; in consequence, didn't explore path of bullet any further; therefore,
don't know where it stopped; don't know whether it stopped at all; in fact,
rather think it didn't—mounted horse; rode back through this hole made by the
bullet; but never told captain a word about it; to tell the truth, was little
afraid he'd think it a hoax. It is
a right big story, boys," said Toby, in conclusion, "but it's true
sure as shooting. Nothing to do
with Maynard rifle but load her up, turn her north, and pull trigger; if twenty
of them don't clear out all Yankeedom, then I'm a liar, that's all.—Oxford
(Miss.) Intelligencer.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 14, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
The
edition of the Sunday Appeal has reached what would a few years ago have been
considered a fabulous number for a daily paper in this region—five thousand
copies.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 14, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Rejoicings.—The
joyful Secessionists showed their pleasure, by the pealing of cannon and the
firing of guns. The Steuben
Artillery on the bluff made the windows rattle from their fine cannon.
The Crockett Rangers fired a feu de joie.
Rockets in great numbers rivaled the brilliancy of the glowing stars.
Speed, Donoho & Strange, C. K. Holst & Son, and other citizens
illuminated. At Main and Court, and
on Main above Adams, large bonfires were lighted.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 16, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Florida Correspondence.
Camp of Mississippi Volunteers,}
Near Fort McRae, Fla., April 9, 1861.}
Editors
Appeal: We have received no
intelligence of any sort from Memphis since leaving there; and though we have
much food for reflection here, and plenty of work, still we have plenty of time
to devote to our friends at home, if we could only hear from them. . . .
There
is present, a company of Zouaves from New Orleans, whose brilliant costumes are
quite picturesque. They are
attended by Vivandieres dressed a la "Fille du Regiment."
. . .
F. E. W.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 16, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Cooper's Well,
Hinds County, Miss.
War or No War.
Having resumed charge of this noted watering place, the
hotel will be conducted as in former times; prices reduced from last year;
visitors received throughout the year. Charges
$12 per week, $40 per month; children and servants half price, as usual.
Inman Williams.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 16, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
To
Arms! To Arms, Ye Brave!—Owners
of Maynard rifles are requested to meet at the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
Ticket Office, next door to Bank of Memphis, Main street, this day, 16th
inst., at half-past three o'clock, for the purpose of forming a military
company.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 16, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Right
to a Hair.—We heard on the street yesterday, of a project to raise a home
military company of elderly men, none of whom should have "a hair on the
top of his head, in the place where the wool ought to grow."
The brave spirits who had entered their names, had already adopted the
name of "The Memphis Bald Eagles."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
The Ladies of Memphis.
In all the great revolutions which history records, woman has initiated
the movement and led the van of public opinion.
Her intuitions are more correct, her sympathies more active, and her
innate sense of justice more keen than that of hardier man.
To a
more delicate organization and sensitive faculties, it is perhaps due, that she
responds more readily to the emotional virtues. The call of patriotism is never unheeded by woman.
The same lively sentiment which caused her to be the last at the cross,
and the earliest at the grave, impels her with equal zeal to participat6e most
eagerly in every good work.
The
enthusiasm of man never attains to such exalted height as when stimulated by the
approval of women's smiles.
True
to the brilliant history of their sex, the ladies of Memphis display a noble
example to their relatives and friends of the other sex.
They
are prepared to render any service in the cause of Southern independence.
We heard to-day of one self-sacrificing maiden who donated the rich
bracelet, which girdled her fair arm, to the purpose of aiding in the purpose of
arms for those whose duty and pride it will be to bear them.
The
handsome matrons and beautiful maidens, who constitute the ornament of our city,
are animated by the same spirit which characterized the act of this fair donor.
The following note, which we have just received at the hands of a bevy of
the most charming young ladies of the city, expresses the patriotic sentiment
which fills the hearts of all:
Memphis, April 16, 1861.
Editors
of Appeal: We, the young ladies of
Memphis, cannot bear arms in our country's cause, but our hearts are with you
and our hands at your service, for making clothes, flags, or anything that a
patriotic woman can do, for the southern men and southern independence.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Crittenden Rangers.
The flag presentation to this company at Hopefield on Saturday was a most
gratifying affair. The editors of
the Appeal regret that the press of business, owing to the existence of exciting
events, prevented their attendance on that occasion.
For the following account of the proceedings we are indebted to a
correspondent:
Editors
Appeal: Knowing that you take a
great interest in Arkansas affairs, I take the liberty to address you on the
subject of a flag presentation, that took place at Hopefield, on Saturday last,
and truly it was a gala day to Crittenden county.
In the first place the weather was all that could be desired, the gentle
spring sunshine adding its beauty to the occasion; and then, too, your early
morning papers gave us the gratifying intelligence that the tocsin of war had
been sounded, that a breach had been made in the fortress of Fort Sumter, and
that southerners had become disgusted with the (to be broken) promises of an
abolition government, and had dared to begin to defend their rights.
At an early hour many o the fair matrons and daughters of Arkansas, whose
number was increased by the presence of some of the beauteous daughters of your
own State, who were more than gladly welcomed, met at Hopefield about the hour
of noon. The gallant company of
Crittenden Rangers, commanded by Capt. R. T. Redman assembled, when the order
was given to march to the stand. The
guests, in charge of Second Lieutenant John D. Rives, repaired to the stand
prepared for the occasion, by the gentlemanly superintendent of the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad, the patriotic citizens of Hopefield adding to it a
beautiful flag of the Southern Confederacy.
When at the stand, and order had been gained, Miss Mollie Merriweather,
one of Arkansas fairest daughters, came forward with the most beautiful standard
of the Southern Confederacy I have ever seen, and in an appropriate address
presented it to the gallant company of Rangers; which standard was received on
the part of the company by the first lieutenant, J.
B. Rogers, in a neat speech, suitable to the occasion. Both the donor and recipient did great credit to themselves
and to their State. After the
presentation the company returned to the hotel, kept by Dr. Horne, where
everything was furnished them that they could desire.
The day passed away with pleasure to all, save the unfortunate accident
to Mr. A. Greenlaw who, with his usual liberality volunteered his services to
fire a salute from the cannon placed on the river bank.
His afflicted family have the sympathy of every member of the company of
rangers, as well as of the citizens of the county.
The
following are the addresses delivered on the occasion.
Miss Merriwether said:
Lieutenant
Rogers: With pride and pleasure I
present this banner to your gallant company—the Crittenden rangers—those
brave spirits who have so promptly volunteered to aid the south in defending her
honor and rights. Our countrymen
need no Maid of Orleans to arouse or lead them to battle. Thousands of brave and true hearts are ready to face the
foe—ready for victory or death.
May
the zeal and patriotism of Capt. Redman and his brave Rangers be emulated by
many others in our State.
This
banner is the assurance that you have our smiles and best wishes, and should the
conflict come, our prayers. On its
blue field are seven stars, representing the seven glorious States of the
Southern Confederation. Our own
State, Arkansas, may not yet claim a place among them; but with bright hope that
she will ere long unite her destiny with theirs, I have left a space and intrust
[sic] this star to your keeping. Will
not each one pledge himself by every endeavor to place her among her sister
States?
It has
been said of us that Crittenden is the
only Union county on the river. Soldiers,
shall this be said after the 3rd of August?
Will brave men quietly submit to Black Republican rule?
Shall our glorious South be made a second St. Domingo?
Forbid it, soldiers! Forbid
it, heaven!
"Take thy banner—may it wave
Proudly o'er the free and brave;
Guard it—till our homes are free;
Guard it—God will prosper thee."
Lieutenant
Rogers acknowledged the reception in the following terms:
Fair
Lady: Permit me, in behalf of the
Crittenden rangers, to offer you our heartfelt thanks for this beautiful
banner—beautiful indeed to us because wrought by the hands of one of
Crittenden's fairest daughters; beautiful and sacred, too, because it is the
banner of a people who know no superiors and acknowledge no government save that
which gives to each and all of its citizens justice and equality, that justice
and that equality which our fathers in days that are passed fought so long and
so gallantly to maintain; and as they did maintain them through scenes the most
trying that were ever heaped upon an oppressed people, so will we, their
descendents, defend this flag against all of its enemies, whether from
across the deep, and urged on by the daring ambition of crowned heads, or hurled
upon us by the fanatical spirit of our brethren of the North—brethren, indeed,
they are in name and blood, but strangers in feeling and enemies at heart.
This banner, which your devotion to the principles of right has induced
you to tender us, and the unfurling of whose bright folds and glittering stars
cause so many hearts to leap with emotion of happiness and pride, is doubtlessly
destined to be borne amid scenes of a far different character; it is not meet,
then, for us to express in unmeaning words or high flown compliments the
chivalrous and daring manner in which we will defend it, or with what degree of
adoration we will ever remember her at whose hands we have received it—but
'tis on the battle field that our deep and unyielding devotion to our principles
and our flag must be shown. Yes,
'tis there that you must learn how dearly we prize your gift and how true we
have been to the trust confided to us.
Comrades,
behold the gift of a lovely and patriotic maiden—the star circled banner.
But seven stars compose the circle, and yet there is space for the
eighth. What one is this that still
wanders in the outer darkness of Black Republican iniquity?
Is it the representation of Arkansas that thus hesitates to join its
glorious sisters? Unfortunately it
is; but, happy for us and our people, the dark cloud, which has for awhile
dimmed our luster is fast passing away, and soon we will see her occupy the
vacant space in the bright circle, shining with a brilliancy second to none. Then let us, conscious of the rectitude of our position,
unfurl to the breeze our glorious banner, and swear to defend it, come weal,
come woe! Allow me to say, in
conclusion, to her who gave it, long will you live in the hearts of us all; your
gift we will defend till life's pulses be still, and if in death we must behold
it, the last whispered prayer of the dying soldier will be for its preservation,
and for the happiness of her whose fair fingers made it.
To
Ensign: Take it, sir, and defend
it; never allow it to be polluted by an enemy's touch so long as you have
strength to raise an arm to strike in its defense.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
Texas News.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent].
Austin, Texas, April 7, 1861.
Mr.
Editor: somewhat but not greatly to
the surprise of the people here, Gen. Houston quietly, meekly and lamb-like,
permitted Gov. Clark to take charge of State affairs, as the executive of the
State, under and by virtue of the ordinance of the convention.
From
the "blow" that was made by his excellency, the deposed governor, and
his minions, it was apprehended that some show of resistance would be made,
because it had been loudly proclaimed that, if the convention had the temerity
to interfere with the existing State government, blood would flow, and flow both
abundantly and rapidly. But
discretion, the better part of valor, came to the aid of the
"dirt-eaters," and we yet have peace in our midst.
Had resistance been made, short work would have been measured out to the
seditious, because necessity demanded that such action should be nipped in the
bud, and not suffered to serve as a nucleus around which the Black Republicans
might rally and hold up the arms of Gen. Houston in his attempt to provincialize
and prostrate the South.
But
notwithstanding the mildness with which Gen. Houston yielded up the cares and
duties of the executive office to his late lieutenant governor, he raved on the
streets and in private converse like a madman, blackguarding (an art in which he
is educated) and abusing the convention as a body, and many members as
individuals. His fierceness was
permitted to pass, because wholly harmless and the natural expression of
political spasms. His spasms
gradually yielded to the calmness in the public mind, and he peacefully took up
his line of march to Cedar Point, where he has a fine flock of sheep, to which
he will now give his undivided attention.
The
flight of the general leaves his rank and file in the utmost confusion and
dismay; like an eel, whipped on the tail, they cease their wrigling and prepare
to give up the ghost. It is best
for them thus to do.
A few
days after the deposition of Gen. Houston, he and our late misrepresentative,
Gen. Andrew Jackson Hamilton, surrounded by their dirt-eating friends, made
public speeches, in which open appeals were made to their said friends, to
resist the action of the convention, in whole and in part, and thus struggle for
liberty and be freemen, or cravenly submit and be slaves. While such appeals were severely condemned by the great mass
of their own followers, still there were a few who clapped their hands and
rejoiced to hear such sentiments expressed; those few are fit subject to yield a
hearty support to any measure which is antagonistic to the best interest of the
South.
I am
glad to say, however, that the opposition manifested at one time is dying away,
and a willing support tendered to the Confederate States. This is as it should be.
While issues are pending for the decision of the people, every freeman
has the right to express himself, and to act accordingly; provided the
sentiments advocated and the acts done, do not endanger the public peace, but
when the question is settled, then a duty devolves upon the citizens to maintain
and uphold the political action of his State, or remove from the territorial
limits of that State. The citizen
who refuses thus to comply with the public necessity, is either a traitor or a
coward. There is no middle ground
on which to stand. He is either for
his State or against it. If for it,
do the part of a good citizen, a patriot and an honest man.
If against it, then leave, and consort with those who agree with him.
Our
rangers are already in the field with full equipments to chastise, and if need
be, to exterminate the Indians, who so ruinously infest our frontier.
Much damage has been done of late, but the hope is entertained that ere
long complete protection will be afforded to our pioneers, who are fast subduing
the wilderness, and very greatly adding to the wealth of the State.
They deserve protection, and should receive it, if there be sufficient
military power in the arm of the Confederate States.
The
news published in your issue of the 3d of April, relative to the Mexicans
marching on our troops at Brownsville lacks confirmation here. Our understanding has been that the two sides of the river
Rio Grande are on the best of terms, and that there was no apprehension of any
difficulty, much less a collision. It
is to be hoped that peace will continue on our western frontier; but if Mexico
desires to commence a war, that will end in our possessing that country.
Let the blow be stricken. We
are ready. They will never find Texas in a better humor for a little
sport of that kind than they are now. The public feeling of Texas is on a war
footing. Her men are on guard,
ready, willing and waiting to put their shoulders to the wheel, and make a pull,
a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether.
The
legislature has authorized the issuance of State bonds to the amount of
$1,000,000. The bonds are expected
to be sold in the city of New Orleans. Your
banks must come to our aid in this our time of need.
The
bonds are payable in sixteen years, eighty per cent. interest, payable
semi-annually.
The
legislature adjourns to-day.
Walton.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 17, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Fire
and Blood.—We learn that the No. 3 company intend to add to their duties as
firemen those of soldiers. They are
about to equip themselves as a military company for home service.
They will thus be in a condition to guard their fellow-citizens from
sword as well as flame.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 1,
c. 2
Editors
Appeal: While the military pride
and spirit of the whole South seems to speak in one common voice for the onward
march of men against the uprising and subtle spirit of treachery and anarchy,
shall not woman, too, lay their best offerings upon the shrine of her country's
honor?
I, for
one, tender to my country that which shall not be called by the foolish name of
sacrifice, but the sacramental offerings of my best services to either, as a
Joan, Catherine, Helena, Nightingale, or an humble Sister of Charity, in any
division of the southern army that the commander-in-chief or other officers
shall appoint to me. Nay, more:
if the fates of war shall choose to crush my brethren beneath the iron
heel of their oppressors, in adverse proportions to their might, I will proudly
stand in the footsteps of some fallen soldier, and prove to this age that the
female virtue which was flanked about with chivalry, has not become extinct with
the women of Boetia.
Let
the ladies of Memphis and every town in the South organize themselves in
associations for nurses and attendants of those regiments formed in their
respective communities, and hold themselves in readiness to join those regiments
which shall suffer most in the impending engagements.
For
this end, they should provide the associations with such hospital stores and
refreshments for the sick and wounded as may be raised by subscription or
contributions, thereby giving strength and life to a large proportion of men
that must be disabled by the fevers of our climate or the casualties of war.
"This
custom, which was invented by the Hungarian and Polish women in their great
struggle against superior forces," says a Berlin paper, "was one of
the greatest incentives in their success." And be it remembered, that it was not the serf and slave who
composed these associations, but the very best classes of ladies in the kingdom.
They all accompanied the army in their tedious marches, and bivouacked
with the soldiers in their tented cities. In
each soldier they recognized a brother, and required no other protection than
the emblazoned shield of which nature and religion had made of womanly virtue,
for this clashing hour.
The
women of Greece took part in their wars, as also the early Saxons and Britons.
Such actions have come down to us in the myth of romance from a barbarous
age, and are accompanied with the immortality of chivalric female pride.
But it is to the women of Poland and Hungary that we are indebted for the
best means of displaying such chivalric sentiments in the more advanced and
refined ages, and successfully imitated by Florence Nightengale in the Crimean
war. Let the women of the South
remember that we, who have never seen a revolution, must learn to act from the
best models that other countries have set up to us in this age, and the fame of
Florence Nightengale has been made known to us only through the medium of our
common language. The same is due to
the legions of women who served in the Hungarian and Polish wars, and shall be
to every southern woman, who shall choose to write her name in good deeds upon
the shining scroll of this great epoch of American chivalric history. Respectfully,
V. E. W.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Flags, Flags.
C. Woolmer, 203 Main street, corner of Jefferson street, is manufacturing
flags of the Southern Confederacy of all sizes, styles, and materials.
Orders from the country entrusted to him will meet with immediate
attention.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Panopticon—We
learn than an exhibition is on its way to this city, and will be opened next
week, that will attract much attention. The
incidents and places called into notice by late events, is the subject.
The taking of Sumter; the firing on the Star of the West, etc.; a
representation of the works at Pensacola; Montgomery and Washington; the passing
of the Mississippi troops through Memphis, and other striking events and
important places will be represented with artistic skill and the aid of
thousands of figures, cannon, flags, etc., will afford a most gratifying
exhibition.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Juvenile
Misconduct.—There was a repetition to some extent, we learn, yesterday
morning, of the misconduct lately perpetrated at the school on Second street,
near Monroe, some disorderly boys again giving trouble there.
The police were called, but the young rowdies made good their escape.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Southern
Flags.—Messrs. Whitmore & Bro., of the Appeal job office, have issued a
beautiful flag of the Confederate States, about three feet long and in graceful
proportions, printed on muslin, which they will furnish in any quantity at $1.50
singly, or at a reduction if taken in large numbers.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
A
Methodist Military Company.—The Argus says that they are informed by
the Rev. Mr. Harris, that a military company is being formed among the members
of his church; it is to be called "Gideon's Band."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Maynard
Rifle Company.—Forty-five men joined this company on Tuesday night.
Their weapon is a tremendous one, and if an opportunity ever offers, they
will be found murderously efficient.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Rifled
Cannon.—Major Wright received yesterday a splendid brass rifled cannon—a
nine pounder. It was placed in the
armory of the Steuben artillery.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 18, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
Envelopes!
Envelopes!
Confederate States
Flag Envelopes!
Hutton & Freligh,
Late
W. M. Hutton & Co.
Southern Publishing House.
All Kinds of Job Printing.
Corner Second and Adams,
Memphis.
Something New,
Good,
Neat and
Really Handsome!
No mere straight lines, like a straight jacket on an
Envelope, but
A Beautiful Flag,
Gracefully Flowing to the Breeze,
With room on the upper right hand corner, not only for
a stamp, but
A Nice Card
For Merchants and Others!
Every Merchant should order one or two thousand;
Hotel Keepers twice as many; Steamboatmen a
bushel of them; Banks and Railroads
as many as they please, and, as
Everybody will Want Them,
We shall fill orders on the principle of
"First Come, First Served."
Prices.
Confederate Flag Envelope, without card, per 1000
$10
"
" "
, with card,
"
12
Also,
"
" Letter Heads, per quire
75
cents.
"
" Note Heads,
"
80 "
In quantities less than 1000, 25 per cent. additional.
Regular discount to the trade.
Orders accompanied by the cash promptly attended to.
These Envelopes
are Printed Only at the
Great Southern Publishing
and
Job Printing Establishment
of
Hutton & Freligh,
Second Street, near corner of Adams, adjoining Calvary
Church, Memphis, Tennessee, where better work is done in the Job Printing Line
than elsewhere in the South.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 19, 1861, p. 2,
c. 3
Editors
Appeal: The South is in the
greatest need of all and every help she can possibly get. The writer would respectfully suggest if it would not be well
to urge it upon the ladies of Memphis and the South to do all in their power by
economy and industry, and resolving not to use any but southern made clothes of
every kind that they may need. For
let them know of a certainty that it is only to the courage and efficiency of
the men of the South, under the blessing of Providence that their lives, and
what is infinitely more, their honor is safe, for the northern hordes would
gloat in their ruin and murder, and would not, and could not be restrained by
their own people wherever they got possession in any part of the country.
The abolition government at Washington have designs on Memphis to seize
and make it the base of operations in the South-west, and for them once to
obtain it would result in the greatest ruin to the whole South, or the greater
part. There should be every
precaution taken to guard and defend it at every hazzard [sic].
Let the people here be vigilant.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 19, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Military.—The
members of the German Turner Society have organized a military corps for the
protection of the city of Memphis. The
company may be used in some cases better than others, as they are all active
gymnasts. George Steinmeyer was
elected as captain.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Schools.—The
school we mentioned yesterday as having been attacked, was a private
establishment, not one of the public schools.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
A Call
on the Patriotic Ladies.—The undersigned wish to form an association for the
purpose of serving the several companies in the city by making flags, uniforms,
etc. Those disposed to aid, are
requested to call on Mrs. M. Cochran and Mrs. A. Street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 19, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
Memphis, April 18, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: We ask a place in your
columns to suggest to the merchants and business men generally, the propriety of
closing our places of business at an early hour—say, seven and a half o'clock,
P.M.,--so as to afford opportunity to the employes, as well as employers, to
attend meetings etc., of the military and other organizations to which they
severally belong, or may wish to join.
Respectfully,
B. Dumaine & Co.
We
have a large room in the upper part of our building, No. 337 Main street, which
we tender gratis to any military or civil organization wishing to occupy
it.
B. D. & Co.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 20, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
To The Ladies of the Sixth Ward.
Our husbands, brothers and friends have organized themselves into a
military company for our protection—the Home Guards.
Can we, their wives and sisters, do nothing? Should we not form an immediate organization among ourselves,
for the purpose of furnishing these, our defenders, such aid and countenance, as
only woman can furnish—such as making uniforms, flags, etc., and nursing the
sick and wounded if necessary, in case of actual hostilities in our midst?
We,
the undersigned, suggest to the ladies of the Sixth Ward, that if they
sympathize with us in these feelings, to leave their names with us as soon as
practicable, that a meeting may be called, and an early organization of our
society effected.
Mrs. C. M. Farmer.
Mrs. Jno. B. Weld.
Huling
Street, between Main and Shelby.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 20, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
A Card.
Memphis, April 19, 1861.
We,
the undersigned clothing merchants of Memphis, do hereby agree to close our
houses of business at 6 ½ P.M. every day, until the 1st of June
next—excepting Saturday night—so as to afford opportunity to the employes,
as well as the employers, to attend meetings, etc., the military and other
organizations to which they severally belong, or may wish to join.
Stovall
& Mitchell, Johnson & Just, Norris, Maull & Co., Ward &
Treadwell, J. Spivey, J. Walker & Bro., Sprouls & McCown, J. S. Drake
& Co., J. C. Logan, Vendig & Bro., M. Simon, Buhler & Beer, Hesse,
Levy & Co., J. Pragin, Strauss, Lehman & Co., J. Walker & Co.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 2,
c. 6
Company
of Negroes.—We are informed that Mr. G. C. Hale, of Autauga county, yesterday
tendered to Gov. Moore the services of a company of negroes, to assist in
driving back the horde of abolition sycophants who are now talking so flippantly
of reducing to a conquered province the Confederate States of the South.
He agrees to command them himself, and guarantees that they will do
effective service. What will our
Black Republican enemies think of such a movement as this?
We have frequently heard the slaves who accompanied their masters to the
"scene of battle," assert that when fighting was to be done, they
wanted to shoulder their muskets and do their share of it, and we have not a
shadow of doubt but what they would be found perfectly reliable.
An idea seems to have prevailed at the North, that in the event of a war
between the two sections, the slaves would become rebellious.
Let them no longer lay this flattering unction to their souls.
It will avail them nothing.—Montgomery Advertiser, 18th.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Odd-Fellows' Hall.
For Four Days Only,
Commencing on Wednesday Night, April 24th.
Grand Matinee on Saturday Af-
ternoon, at 3 o'clock.
Fitzy's Mammoth
Panopticon of the South.
A Mechanical exhibition of five thousand moving figures, representing the
fortifications of the South, with the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, introducing
gorgeous Military and Naval spectacles; magnificent Street Scenes, the Movement
of Troops of Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery; showing a life like representation
of the exciting scenes of the day. Grand balcony concert by the Memphis Brass Band, previous to
each exhibition. For particulars
see programmes.
Tickets,
50 cents; children and servants, 25 cents.
Door
open at 7; commence at ¼ to 8.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 2,
c. 8
Summary: New Memphis
Theatre—"The Honey Moon;" Dance; Recitation; Song; Recitation;
"Perfection"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Patriotic
Ladies.—A party of South Memphis ladies were out on the Overton track engaged
in pistol practice. The Memphis
women will not be behindhand when the time for action comes.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Brass
Wanted.—Contributions of old brass are solicited, to be left at No. 4's engine
house, opposite the Commercial hotel. The
No. 4 boys intend having a brass cannon cast, as they are now all in the
military line.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Garibaldi
Guards.—A company of our Italian fellow-citizens organized some time ago under
this name, and have reached a high degree of perfection in their drill, but have
thus far been unable to procure arms. As
soon as the necessary accoutrements can be procured, they hold themselves in
readiness to do active and valiant service for their adopted country.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Sharpe's
Rifles.—The Home Guard of the sixth ward yesterday dispatched Mr. Galbreath,
of the firm of Meacham & Galbreath, to New Orleans, as their agent, to
purchase a hundred and fifty Sharpe's rifles for the use of the company.
There are at present a hundred and six men in the company.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Cock
and cannon flag cuts, with the flag of the Confederate States, for printers, can
be obtained at the Memphis stereotype foundry.
Price $1. Address G. Covert,
care of Hutton & Freligh.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
The
Post Office will hereafter be opened on Sunday from half-past two to half-past
three o'clock, P. M., instead of from three to five, as heretofore.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
To the Women of the South.
While the men in every part of the country are arming themselves, and
mustering in squadrons to resist the invasion and oppression threatening our
beloved land, let us emulate the enthusiasm of our husbands, sons and friends in
the cause. Many of our daughters
are already active in the service with their needles. Let the matrons of every city, village and hamlet form
themselves into societies, called by some appropriate name, pledged to take care
of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Confederate army, whenever the changing
drama of the war shall bring them in their neighborhood; to take them, if
necessary and practicable, in their own homes.
Let the organizations be commence at once, with officers appointed and
known, to whom the officers of the military companies may communicate the wants
of the soldiers, and call upon for aid when the time for action shall come; and
Baltimore has taught us how soon it may come.
I offer myself for the work. Will
not some matron with more time take the lead, and allow me to serve in a
subordinate capacity? Let the women
of the entire South join and spread the organization till not a spot within the
southern borders shall be without the band of sisters, pledged to the work and
ready for it; and thus shall every mother feel assured, in sending her sons to
the field, that in time of need
they shall have the tender care of some other mother, whose loved ones are in
the patriot ranks at other points; and our soldiers feel sure that true hearts
are near them, wherever they may be.
Mary E. Pope.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
To the
Ladies of the Eighth Ward. The
undersigned would call the attention of ladies of the eighth ward to the
necessity of the early formation of a society to make uniforms, flags, etc., for
the military company recently formed in said ward.
We can do something in this emergency, and suggest the propriety of a
meeting of the ladies at the house of B. D. Nabers, on Alabama street, on
Monday, 22d inst., at 4 o'clock P.M., for the purpose of organizing.
[Signed]
Mrs. B. D. Nabers, Mrs. G. W. Acree, Mrs. J. M. Lee, Mrs. Dr. Hewett, Miss C. E.
Nelson, Miss Sallie Nelson.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3.
c. 5
The
Memphis Confederate Flag of the Mississippi Volunteers.—Messrs. Speed, Donoho
& Strange received the following letter yesterday from Col. Chalmers of the
9th regiment Mississippi volunteers:
Camp Davis, Near Pensacola Fla.,}
April 16, 1861.}
Messrs. Speed, Donoho & Strange:
Gents—Your
magnificent present of a "Southern Confederacy flag" was received this
evening, through the hands of Captain R. W. Sanders, while our regiment was on
dress parade.
The
colors were escorted to their position by the Jeff. Davis Rifles, under command
of Capt. Benton, and after the usual military honors were paid there went up
three hearty cheers of applause from the whole line.
In the name of my regiment, I return you our warmest thanks, accompanied
by the hope that your present may soon wave in triumph over the shattered walls
of Fort Pickens.
Your
friend truly,
Jas. R. Chalmers,
Col. 9th Reg. Miss. Vol.,
Commanding 3d Div. troops, Confed. States.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3, c. 5
A Lady's Suggestion.
Chelsea, April 20, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: If railroad iron could be
procured could not our fortresses be erected on the plan of the famous
"Stevens' floating battery?" Our
forests provide the timber—our bluffs the beds of sand.
Will you not make the suggestion through the Appeal to the proper
committees.
A Southern Matron.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3,
c. 5
Bombardment
of Fort Sumter.—The great panopticon of the South, which is to open at Odd
Fellows' Hall on Wednesday night, will be a great novelty, as well as an
excitable exhibition. Among the
many representations given, will be introduced the bombardment of Fort Sumter,
the vessels sailing, the troops in motion, with the bombshels [sic] flying
through the air, or [sic?] their way of distruction [sic].
The firing on the Star of the West, the inauguration of Jeff.
Davis, the resignation of General Twiggs, are among the various tableaus to be
given. An entertainment of this
order cannot fail of drawing large audiences at this time.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 21, 1861, p. 3, c. 1-2
Home Scene.
A member of one of our gallant companies on leave of absence in the city
received a summons to appear at his post on Sullivan's island, on one of the
nights of last week, when the air was rife with the most startling rumors of the
coming of an overwhelming fleet. With
cheerful promptitude the brave soldier prepared to obey the imperative call.
He is a husband, and the father of a blue eyed little girl, who has just
begun to put words together. After
the preparation for the camp had been made, the soldier nerved himself for the
good-bye. Those present thought that the wife felt the parting less
than the husband. Lively words
flowed fast, and her fair face was as bright and as calm as a morning in May.
Her heart seemed to be full of gladness.
She
cheered him with pleasant earnestness to show himself a man, and running on in a
gleeful strain admonished him not to come back if he were shot in the back.
With incredible fortitude she bade her child tell papa good-bye, and to
say to him that she would not own him her father if he proved to be a coward.
The echo of the soldier's footfall through the corridor had hardly died
away, when a ghastly pallor was seen spreading over the lady's face.
In a voice weak and husky she begged a friend to take her child, and
before she could be supported, she fell from her chair prostrate on the floor.
By a
tremendous effort of a powerful will, the noble woman had controlled and
concealed the feelings that were convulsing her delicate frame, but nature could
bear the tension no longer, and she fainted. The swoon was deep, and it was some time before consciousness
returned. At length she opened her
eyes languidly, and looked around upon the sympathizing group, in a tremulous
tone, inquired, "if she had fainted before her husband left the room."
We
know of no instance of self-command, of unselfish affection, that partakes more
largely than does this one of the moral sublime.—Charleston Courier.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 1, c. 2
An Appeal to the Germans.
The "Southern Advertiser," the leading organ of the
German population in the South, published by Louis Wunderman, Esq., in this
city, gives in its last number the following call on the Germans.
Our readers will see by this, that our German population will stand in
this great struggle as one man to the South.
It says:
Germans,
friends and brethren! You know that
our once happy and great country, by the process of a sectional and fanatical
party, has been brought on the brink of ruin.
The civil war has begun—a collision with the northern abolitionists
cannot be prevented. The whole
South is raising for the new Confederation.
Under such circumstances, neither a community nor a single man can remain
neutral. The policy of neutrality
in such times, is not only a cowardly, but a foolish one.
Germans!
The Southern Republic has given us a home.
It has secured us the same rights and privileges with the native born
citizens. It has given a great many
of us wealth, but to all it has given an opportunity to make and save money with
but a little energy and diligence. Our
interests are grown together with those of our southern home.
Shall we now desert and abandon our southern brethren, who are striking
for their good and sacred rights? No
and never! That would not be German
manner.
We
have in our city two German companies, the Washington Rifles and the Steuben
Artillery. Nearly all of their
members are European soldiers. A
great many of them have fought upon the bloody fields of Schleswig, Holstein and
Baden; have stood in the fire and done their duty like men, when the halls of a
despotic soldiery were flying thick as hail.
Germans!
Show now our American fellow-citizens that you are well minded and
determined men. Show them that the
warlike spirit of your forefathers, which characterizes the Teutonic nation for
thousands of years, still lives in you. Go
and join those companies! Show also
to the curse-blasted northern fanatics, that you are true citizens of your
adopted country.
It
gives us great pleasure to hear that our brave German ladies have offered to
furnish uniforms, etc. All respect
to them. They act as it was
expected of German ladies. Now act
you as true and determined Germans ought to do.
To arms! to arms!
ye German brethren! Remember
the call of your immortal poet:
"Who can look death in the open face,
He alone is the true and free man."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
It is
stated in the Petersburg Express, that some young ladies from Memphis,
who were in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at school, had been grossly insulted, and
were now about to return home.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Attention,
Frenchmen!—The Frenchmen residing in Memphis are requested to assemble in the
second store room from the office of the Gayoso house, this evening at 8
o'clock, for the purpose of forming a military company for the defense of
Memphis.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Gayoso
Flag.—We observe that our friend Col. Cockrell has the flag of the Confederate
States floating over his hotel. A
South Carolinian by birth, education and sympathy, there is no truer man in all
the South to his section, than Col. D. Cockrell.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
South
Memphis Ladies' Patriotic Association.—A number of the ladies of South Memphis
met at Grace church, on Monday evening, to arrange for the making up of military
uniforms. Mrs. D. F. Townsend was
appointed president, Miss Mary Orne, secretary, and Mrs. Ragan, treasurer.
Thirty ladies enroled [sic] themselves as members, and it was resolved to take
the name of "The Ladies' Patriotic Association of South Memphis."
They will make uniforms for the Young Guards, the Shelby Greys, and the
companies of the home guard of South Memphis.
Mrs. Capt. McManus, Mrs. Dr. Sale and the Misses Creighton, were
appointed a committee to solicit funds or sewing materials.
The association will meet, for work, to-morrow evening at 2 o'clock, at
the residence of Mrs. Taylor, on Mulberry street, between Beal and Linden, where
uniforms, cut and ready for making up, maybe sent immediately.
All ladies willing to assist, or to become members of the association,
are cordially invited to attend at Mrs. Taylor's on Wednesday evening next.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Ladies
of the Eighth Ward.—The ladies of the Eighth ward responded liberally to a
call on them to meet, last evening, to assist the military company of this ward
in completing its equipments. Mrs.
D. McComb was called to the chair, Mrs. Dr. Dickinson was appointed secretary,
and Mrs. L. Perry treasurer. It was
resolved that the ladies of the Eighth ward should form a society to be called
the "Southern Home Society of Eighth Ward," and that the society
tender its services to the military company of the Eighth ward to prepare flags
and make up uniforms; also that the society meet every Thursday at 4 o'clock,
P.M., at the house of Mrs. B. D. Nabors, on Alabama street.
The following ladies were appointed to receive contributions:
Mrs. L. Perry and Mrs. Neal. All
the ladies of the ward are cordially invited to co-operate with us.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Editors
Appeal: Will you be so kind as to
offer through your columns to the various military companies now forming in the
city, our services for the making of uniforms, or other necessary articles.
Our meeting will be held at Union chapel, at 10 o'clock A.M. of each day
for the present week, where all work designed for us must be sent.
The ladies, generally, not interested in other associations, are invited
to meet with us, and thus encourage our husbands, sons and brothers in their
noble effort to defend our homes.
[Signed]
Mrs. J. M. Patrick, Mrs. J. Flaherty, Mrs. S. W. Vernon, Mrs. A. Webb, Mrs.
Coleman, and others.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
To the
Ladies of the Sixth Ward.—You are requested to meet in accordance with a
notice in the Appeal of Friday, to organize yourselves into a society, to act as
may be needed in concert with our Sixth ward Home Guard. Officers will be elected, and suggestions for business made.
The place of meeting is at the school house on Pontotoc street, between
Main and Shelby; the time, 4 o'clock P.M. to-day.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 23, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
The
Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Second Presbyterian Church, offer their
services to the military companies now organized or to be formed hereafter, for
the purpose of making uniforms, or any other service that may be required.
All ladies feeling an interest in the object, and who are willing to aid,
are requested to meet with the society at their room in the basement of the
Second Presbyterian church, on Thursday morning at eight o'clock.
All persons wishing work will report to the ladies on Thursday morning.
Mrs. W. H. Hunt, President.
Annie
C. Randolph, Sec'y.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 24, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Notice to Military Companies!
The members of the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society will meet at the
residence of the President, Mrs. D. Levy, Main street, for the purpose of making
Uniforms, Ten Cloths, manufacturing lint, and any other requirements necessary.
Any company whatever needing their services for the above purposes, will
make their wants known at the store of
Strauss, Lehman & Co.
202 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 24, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Tennessee
Rifles.—The Tennessee Rifles will continue their drill at the hours before
mentioned, commencing at 10 A.M., and 8 P.M., daily. the company is equipping and getting ready for immediate
service, and is rapidly progressing; recruits are earnestly desired, as Maynard
rifles have been obtained. Armory
and drill room, Adams' block, on Second street, between Adams and Jefferson.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 24, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Military
Sewing Society.—A few days since a call was made on the patriotic ladies of
Memphis, through the columns of the leading journals of this city, to organize a
society, the object of which was to make uniforms for the various companies
enlisted as soldiers to protect the South.
In accordance with the above call thirty-eight ladies met promptly in the
basement of Wesley Charge, Second Methodist church, and organized themselves
into a "Military Sewing Society," and they will give their services
when wanted in making up uniforms.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 24, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Panopticon
of the South.—This splendid exhibition has arrived and will exhibit at
Odd-fellows' hall to-night. It is
no mere picture, but figures, common forts, houses, shipping, rolling waters,
blazing shells, darting lightning, rolling thunder and rattling artillery,
making up a life-like series of scenes. The
passing of the Mississippi troops past the Worsham house in Memphis will prove
very attractive here. Fort
Moultrie, Pickens, Sumter and other celebrated places, are exhibited with actual
detail. As the scenes of the
present war pass before the eyes of the spectator we are sure the liveliest
enthusiasm will be awakened "among fair ladies and brave men."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 25, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Banner Presentation to the Appeal.
On yesterday evening about five o'clock, a large crowd of ladies and
gentlemen assembled in the counting room of the Appeal office, to witness the
presentation of a beautiful flag of the Confederate States to the editors, at
the hands of several ladies of the city.
Miss
Florence Otey having been selected upon the part of its donors to present it,
spoke as follows:
Editors
of the Appeal: I would not
willingly cloud the pleasures of such a day, by even a transient shade.
I would not that a single care should flit across our brain, if
considerations of the highest moment did not demand our thoughts, and give us
counsel of our duties! Who, indeed,
of us, can look around upon the attractions of this scene, upon the faces of the
happy and free, the smiles of youthful beauty, the graces of matron virtue, the
strong intellect of manhood, and the dignity of age here assembled and not hail
this as a scene of no common interest.
We
have here assembled to present to you, gentlemen, (editors of the Appeal) a
Secession flag, and in behalf of these, my associates, I have to assure you,
that it is demonstrative of our appreciation of the principles you advocate.
Happy the one who, in the discharge of such duties, leads none into
dangerous error—lulls none into careless or contemptuous negligence of right,
not even sullies the whiteness of an innocent mind.
Far happier, far nobler than kings can make them, who dedicate life and
interest to instruct the masses. Nay,
many such geniuses have fired from heaven's own light, continue to burn and
spread, kindling congenial flames far and wide, until they lift up their broad,
united blaze on high, enlightening, cheering and edifying our whole country.
Your
paper has always been a welcome visitor to our firesides, its pages perused with
pleasure by our fathers, our brothers, our friends and ourselves.
We bid you God's speed, and hail you as champions of the cause of
freedom. We are aware that you have
had much to contend with, and for. Legion
has been the name of the concomitant ills with which you have had to battle; but
you have an all-powerful incentive in the protection of our liberties, and our
country's honor.
The
garden flowers, with naught but sunshine, would wither, sicken, gangrene and
die; they must have alike the passing cloud, the gentle dew and the falling
rain. By these, too, you have had
your own flagging spirits revived, your prostrate energies renewed, and caused
your almost blasted hopes to again bud and blossom.
Gentlemen—permit
me to present this Secession flag for your acceptance; raise it to the loftiest
hight [sic] where it can flutter to every passing breeze, and be gazed upon in
the vermillion tint of aurora's dawn, the gray beams of the Orient's brow in the
dazzling radience of the font of light, and the last lingering shadows of the
departing day—where it may be seen from yon dark river, which rolls in such
majesty, yon fringe of woods that marks the western horizon, and from the
streets of our city, that it may call up every emotion of patriotism that is
slumbering in the breasts of our young men, and be to their faithful spirits
what the sunshine is to the flower—burning the fragrance from their
bosoms—or as the hand of beauty to the silent lute, passing over the
slumbering chords "till it doth discourse eloquent music."
After
Miss Otey's remarks were finished, H. M. Somerville, Esq., of the Appeal,
responded in behalf of the editors, as follows:
Ladies
and Gentlemen—Respected Miss: It
is with no ordinary emotions of pleasure and of gratitude that I accept, in
behalf of my editorial comrades, this most liberal manifestation of your esteem.
We shall regard it not so much as an evidence of your generous
appreciation of our labor for southern rights, as a tribute of your exalted
patriotism to southern freedom. It
is the beautiful emblem of a newborn independence—the glorious ensign of a
virgin nationality—whose speaking symbols illustrate southern valor and add
ardor to southern enthusiasm.
Allow
me to say that the most happy incident of its presentation is found in the
pleasing fact that it comes from the hand of woman—a circumstance which,
though all other incentives to the maintenance of its honor should be paralized,
would of itself nerve us on to deeds of danger and of daring, to preserve its
folds unsullied from the dust of disgrace and defeat. Nor is it the voice of fulsome flattery that prompts me to
proclaim this trivial truth, for to the honor of your sex, be it said, that
history fails to record a single instance of woman's failure to respond to the
call of her country in the dark hour that tried the souls of men.
Patriotism has never made a draft upon her devotion, nor self-sacrifice
upon her benevolence, that has been dishonored by protest.
In the performance of her duty no reconciliation is too great, no
concession too dear. In the dread
hour of trial, nothing is impossible with her but to shrink from what honor,
innocence, virtue and patriotism require. The
voice of pleasure or of power may pass by unheeded by her, but the voice of her
country never! Though timid
as a frightened fawn, and fragile as a flower, and at times so delicate that the
winds of heaven may not too roughly visit her, on occasions like the present,
when the lightning defiantly plays on the war-cloud, and the red thunderbolts of
civil conflict almost shock the valor and paralyze the energies of man, she
stands, unawed by danger and undaunted by fear, and rising superior to herself,
seems to gather preternatural courage from the very consternation of the sterner
sex.
"Not she with trait'rous kiss her Savior stung;
Not she denied him with unholy tongue;
She, when Apostles shrank could dangers brave,--
Last at the cross and earliest at the grave."
We
shall accept this beautiful banner with feelings of profoundest emotional
gratitude; and inspired with that spirit of resistance to tyranny which animated
our revolutionary feathers, we shall cheerfully continue to prosecute the humble
labors of our vocation until the last minion of federal power shall be driven
from the soil of the sunny South, or else where, amid death, devastation and
defeat, the freedom of the southern press shall be crushed by the iron heel of
northern despotism. Rendered doubly
dear by being crowned with the eagles of victory that perched upon its standard
in the first great battle fought for the achievement of southern independence,
we shall fling its ample folds upon the air, and henceforth acknowledge
allegiance only to that Government from the dome of whose capitol it proudly
kisses the passing breeze. We
rejoice in the belief that under its seven stars there lives not a southron,
"to the manor born," who is so false to the instincts of his nature,
or so recreant to his convictions of duty as not to be willing to rally to its
defense, and if necessary, face the rude thunders of artillery, the fierce
charge of cavalry, the onslaught of bristling bayonets or the death dealing
messengers from the deep-mouthed cannon.
Cheered
on by the smiles of your approbation, and nerved for the conflict by the
consciousness of being RIGHT, we shall, in common with the valiant yeomanry of
Tennessee, joyfully pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors to
vindicate its integrity when called into the field of battle, and in the
performance of that duty to enter the contest with the full and fearless
determination to "die all freemen rather than live all slaves!"
The
flag presented is a large and beautiful one—made of the handsomest silk, and
inscribed with the following phrase, in guilded [sic] letters:
"PRESENTED TO
THE EDITORS OF THE APPEAL
BY THE LADIES OF MEMPHIS."
So soon as the ceremony was concluded, it was thrown to the breeze from
the upper story of the Appeal office, where it attracted the attentive gaze of
an admiring public.
"Long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 25, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
No. 1
Fire Company.—This company will have a grand cotillion party at their engine
house on Poplar street, this evening. All
who would encourage and aid a fire company are requested to patronise the effort
to raise the means of meeting necessary expenses.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 25, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Liberal.—A
considerable number of new recruits to the Washington Rifles being without
uniforms for the inspection yesterday, Capt. Frech and Lieut. Strauss made known
their wants to a number of our clothing store keepers, who immediately
contributed as many grey shirts as supplied the need.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 25, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
Presentation.—Yesterday
as the Washington Rifles were on their way to the inspection at headquarters,
they were desired to halt opposite the confectionary of Mr. Joseph Specht, on
Madison street above Union, whose lady appeared on the balcony bearing a
handsome flag of the Confederate States, which, in brief but striking terms, she
presented to the company. The
beautiful and acceptable gift was received by Capt. Frech, who responded in an
appropriate speech.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 25, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
Compagnie
Francaise.—The French military company held their second meeting last night,
when the names on the roll were increased unto fifty-eight.
Bien pour la Francaise. Mons.
M. Rajoux was elected captain; Chas. Yell, 1st lieutenant; Ph. Domini,
2d lieutenant, and Louis Daquet, 3rd lieutenant.
This will be an important company, and if opportunity offers, the members
of it will show that revolutions at home, and conquered fields in Algiers and
Italy have given them an experience that they will turn to good account. We thank the company heartily for the compliment paid us, in
hearty French cheers with which they last night saluted our office.
They also favored us, in full chorus, with the stirring words of the
Marseillaise. With thrilling effect
came the words:
"La jour de gloire est arrives,
Contra nous la tyranie,
L entendard sanglent a levee.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 26, 1861, p. 2, c. 3
The Ladies of Germantown.
Editors Appeal: We, the
ladies of Germantown and vicinity, in consideration of the troubles that are
brooding over our native land, have resolved to aid to the best of our ability
our relatives and friends who shall engage in the approaching conflict. We, therefore, offer to the soldiers of Germantown all the
assistance in our power with our needles, and promise also to aid in the care
and sustenance of their families during their absence.
And should the war approach our own homes, we will watch over the sick
and wounded (though strangers) as our own brothers or fathers.
[Signed]
Mrs. Maria L. Pettit, Mrs. E. B. Cornelius, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Moliter, Mrs.
Morgan, Mrs. Rhodes, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Boardman, Mrs. Burnley, Mrs.
Goode, and many others.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 26, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Pensacola Correspondence.
Camp Davis, near Pensacola, Florida,}
April 19, 1861.}
Editors
Appeal: Nothing of great importance
has transpired since my last letter, and the reception of this epistle will
assure you that I am still alive and kicking. . . .
For
several days past we have had some mess beef that was not very appetizing, and
to-day a large funeral procession was seen to move off from the camp of the
tenth regiment, and we all went over to see who was dead, of course.
We found a large lot of pickled beef and a grave newly dug.
When we came up we found many mourners.
The Episcopal service was read, and pine tops strewn over the grave.
All the black cravats and black coats that could be procured were used on
the occasion, and with drums muffled, and arms reversed, the ill-fated beef was
consigned to mother earth. A large
ship cracker marks the spot, while a board monument is all that remains, with
the inscription, "Strong in life, and in death still stronger."
We
received the beautiful banner sent us by Messrs. Speed, Donoho & Strange,
and appreciate it very highly indeed, and a guard has been selected to defend
it, in whose hands they may rest assured that it will be borne bravely forward,
"A signal of conquest, or a shroud for the brave."
Our mothers, our sisters, our sweet-hearts, and all, shall hail it
triumphant or weep o'er our fall.
Martial
law has been proclaimed here for the present.
More anon,
Wm. L. Lundy.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 26, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
The
"Southern Mothers" of Chelsea. In
response to the call of the "Southern Mothers" of Memphis—the
mothers of Chelsea met in large numbers yesterday, and formed a similar
association. The enthusiasm shown
on the occasion should comfort every southern patriot, now arming in defense of
his country. The following are the
names of the officers: Mrs. W. G.
Ford, President; Mrs. J. Y. Gibson, Vice-President; Rachael D. Rawlings,
Secretary and Treasurer; managers, Mistress James Woods, Danbury, Walter
Morehead, J. Brochus, John Temple, Ammond, Marley, B. R. Thomas, Sarah Means.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 26, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Liberal.—Four
hundred dollars were yesterday contributed, principally by our German citizens,
for the support of families of volunteers now absent on important duties under
command of Major Miller.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 27, 1861, p. 1,
c. 2
A
Noble Matron.—The Mobile Advertiser publishes the following letter,
which the editor has received from a widowed lady.
Verily, "this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have
cast into the treasury."
["]Mr.
Editor: Hearing that a public loan
is to be subscribed for, for the protection of our southern homes, and the
maintenance of southern rights, and being a widow, poor and alas!
unable to contribute even the small sum of fifty dollars from my limited
means, I take the liberty of sending you with this note a package containing six
silver spoons—relics of once prosperous days—as a free contribution to the
Government, hoping that, although of little value, they will be received from
one, who, did her means permit, would cheerfully give thousands for the support
of a cause so patriotic and holy. I
beg you, Mr. Editor, devise the means necessary for forwarding my humble gift to
proper destination.
With
respect, I subscribe myself,
A Southern Matron.
Mobile,
April 15, 1861. ["]
We
have carefully laid aside, says the editor, the package referred to, and shall
take an early opportunity to give it the proper direction.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 27, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Water Valley, Miss., April 22.
Editors
Appeal: I noticed a little piece in
our paper under the head of "Soldiers of 1812." I served as an officer in the 42d [sic] regiment, U. S.
infantry in the war of 1812 in the North. At
the conclusion of the war, when the army was reduced, and the infantry brought
down from forty six regiments to eight, I was retained on the peace
establishment, and attached to the 7th regiment, and ordered South.
I was with Gen. Jackson in the Florida expedition.
I was at Fort St. Marks, when Arbuthnot was hanged and Armbrister was
shot. I will leave here to-morrow or next day for Pensacola, and if
my services are needed I will be in for fighting the Black Republican.
If I live till the 21st of next August I will be 71 years of
age, and now as sound as a dollar.
Respectfully
yours,
Louis Lawshe.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 27, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Flags!
Flags! Flags!
Flags! Flags!
C. Woolmer,
203 Main Street,
Corner of Jefferson,
Is manufacturing Flags of the Southern Confederacy, of all sizes, styles and materials. Orders from the country entrusted to him will be met with immediate attention.
Flags!
Flags! Flags!
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 27, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Editors
Appeal: The ladies of Asbury chapel
will make up clothes for any company. Send
the work to them at the church Monday morning, 8 o'clock, or sooner.
R. Martin.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 27, 1861, p. 3,
c. 4
Editors
Appeal: At a meeting of the
"Benevolent Fund Society," of the First Presbyterian church, the
following resolution was passed:
Resolved,
that the ladies of this society tender their services to the different military
companies of the city for the purpose of making up articles of clothing,
uniforms etc.
Mrs. E. H. Porter, Pres't.
Mrs.
J. C. Johnson, Sec'y.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Meeting at Lagrange.
We have received for publication the proceedings of a large and spirited
public meeting held at Lagrange on Wednesday night last, the substance of which
can be as well stated in briefer space. Resolutions
were adopted, recommending the withdrawal of Tennessee from the northern Union;
and speeches suitable to the occasion were made by Gen. J. L. T. Sneed and Rev.
J. N. Waddel. Thirty-nine ladies
offered their services to make wearing apparel for the soldiers, two military
companies organized, and five thousand dollars raised for purposes of defense.
The utmost enthusiasm is represented as having prevailed throughout, and
the people are apparently fully aroused to the importance of the issues which
they are to meet.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 2,
c. 6
For the Memphis Appeal.]
The Volunteer to
His Love,
on Exchanging Miniatures.
By S. P. Bassett.
Dear girl, the art which gives to me
Thine image, and mine own to thee
In
colors true and fast,
Still lacks the power to catch thy grace
Of mind and manners, form and face,
And is
a fraud at last.
Yet while I feel the semblance near
Of one though distant doubly dear,
Mine
eyes will often dwell
On the dear image, and my mind
Will give it life, and in it find
Her
whom I love so well.
And if, amid the noble strife
Where liberty is bought with life,
It be
my lot to stand,
Amid the carnage of the fray,
The cannons' roar, the horses' neigh,
The
combat hand to hand,
Throughout the conflict it shall be
Encouragement and hope to me,
And
nerve my arm to deal
Death and destruction to the foe
Of freedom, and to strike the blow
That
seals my country's weal.
The bow that spans the murky sky
While thunders clash, and lightnings fly
In
elemental strife,
Is one of promises, and its form
Is brightest in the darkest storm,
A
thing of light, not life.
This form of light and hope shall be
A constant talisman to me
To
point me to the end;
And through the rifts in stormy skies
I'll catch the light of those dear eyes,
My
more, far more than friend.
When the fierce storm of war has past,
And cannons' roar, and trumpets' blast
Are
heard to sound no more
Swift as the wind which bears away
The clouds that intercept the day
I'll
seek whom I adore.
And when from the invaders arms,
The tyrant's tread, despot's alarms,
From
thraldom we are free,
We'll reap the harvest valor yields,
And gather from our battlefields
The
fruits of liberty.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 2,
c. 7
North
Carolina.—We are informed that the free colored population of our town are
ready and willing to do anything that they may be called upon to do in the
present emergency. This is the
proper spirit. Let them act up to
it and they will be fully protected and provided for.
A
number went down to the forts this morning.
More will go to-morrow.
We
learn that in Newburn the free colored population have also volunteered their
services.
We
learn that Fayeteville [sic] is as much a unit in the cause as Wilmington.
We are but one people now. We understand that the same feeling prevails
in Raleigh.—Wilmington Journal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
A Visit to Jail.
Many of our readers will remember that some two years ago the Appeal took
the initiative in calling attention to the horrible state of our city jail.
The portion appropriated to the chain gang was especially a dark, noisome
division of dungeons, filthy in the extreme, almost deprived of air, and
altogether unfit for anything but the receptacle of lost souls in the dominions
of man's direst enemy. The upper portion of the edifice was little better, the
disadvantages of the place necessarily arising from its ill construction—the
result of a plan the grossest ignorance could alone ever atone for having been
adopted—were increased by the gloom arising from walls covered with cobwebs
and almost innocent of contact with a whitewash brush. A day or two ago, for the first time since Mr. Jackson has
filled the office of jailor, we went over the place, and never was our
gratification more complete than when we saw the change that had taken place.
The chain gang were no longer barred within the confines of dismal and
loathsome dungeons, but were in roomy, clean, light and airy quarters, from
windows of which there is a splendid view up and down the river.
These rooms were formerly the residence of the jailor; Mr. Jackson gave
them up to the use of prisoners, so that they might be rescued from the living
tomb in which "man's inhumanity to man" had beforetime enclosed them. The whole jail is now clean—every board of the floors is
well scrubbed, the cobwebs are banished, the walls are well white-washed, the
dreadful stench that used at times to make even the turnkeys vomit, as they
themselves have assured us, was nearly imperceptible. The narrow corridors, confined gratings and scanty supply of
air, together with the bad sewerage and miserable provisions for some important
points of cleanliness, make it impossible that the present building can ever be
all that it ought to be in this respect. We
were not only impressed with the difference in point of cleanliness and the
arrangement of the different articles in the various cells, but also, and to
even a greater degree, with the respectful and orderly behavior of the
prisoners, which afforded a great contrast from what we have, in former times,
seen in the same place. We saw
evidences that a firm but kind hand held the rule. We regretted to learn that no systematic effort is made by
the religious portion of the public of Memphis to supply the spiritual wants of
the prisoners. The weary days pass
on, the tedious nights roll slowly by, and the Sunday passes like the rest,
except that "the sound of the church-going bell" tells the
incarcerated that the followers of him who loves those who visit the distressed
that are sick and in prison, are going where they will pray for "all
prisoners and captives" whom they rarely help.
The performance of divine service is rare in jail.
A Sundays since, the Rev. E. E. Porter, of Chelsea, held a service, and
there is every reason to believe that it was acceptable to the prisoners.
Good order was preserved, and most of the men manifested an attention and
reverent demeanor. Mr. Thomas, a
colporteur, has visited the prison and promised to supply it with books.
We hope the promise will be kept. We
respectfully suggest to the religious public, that men who lie in jail for
months, and even one or two years, should not be left without religious
ministrations. Cannot some effort
be made in their behalf? shall negroes, Indians, and orientals learn from our
missionaries the glorious news of salvation, and the poor prisoner in our midst
be left to perish in the midst of Christians and churches? Mr. Jackson's assistants in h is important duties are Messrs.
J. F. Meyers, A. J. Ward and D. L. Porter, who are kind in their behavior to
those beneath their care. We hope
the time will come when Memphis will tear down the place in which her prisoners
are confined, and rear a building that shall possess the requisites of air,
light, comfort and safety, not one of which is secured in the present edifice.
In the meantime, we are gratified to find that the present jailor is
doing the best for the comfort of his prisoners that the existing miserable
abortion of a building will admit.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Families
of Volunteers.—In most cities a generous patriotism has liberally provided for
the families of those whose devotion to the southern cause leads them away from
wife and children. This subject
must not be lost sight of in Memphis. Men
who pour out their blood in our defense must not have the ardor of the battle
damped with a fear that their loved ones are a prey to want.
What says our city council on this subject, and what say our citizens
generally. Let us have
appropriations, and subscriptions.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
The German May Festival Postponed.
Whereas, since our last meeting the circumstances of our community have
so changed, that we have reason more to think of the protection of our adopted
home against northern invaders than on festivities, we therefore have thought
proper to postpone the intended "Mayfest" sine die, or to then,
when we may at the same time celebrate the victory over our foes.
The committee will remain in permanence until the time has come when it
can discharge its duty. The
committee,
John Duttlinger, Pres't.
John
Ed. Moller, Sect'y.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 4,
c. 1
For the Memphis Appeal.]
The Women of the
South.
Dedicated to the Military Sewing Circles
of Memphis.
Sons and husbands, brothers, all—
They have heard the southern call—
"To arms! ye men of Tennessee,
To arms! to arms!
the brave and free!"
Wives, and sisters too will come
When they hear the fife and drum,
They will make the proud costume,
Coat, and banner, flag, and plume.
Sewing
away, by night and day,
For our glorious volunteers,
Hither
we come, to work and pray
For the Memphis volunteers.
Bands of foemen muster now
To fulfill their bloody vow—
They swarm along the northern line,
With threats of war, and dark design—
Talk of murder, lust, and fire,
Cities sacked, and carnage dire,
Valleys red with human gore—
Sisters, we will say no more!
Sewing
away, by night and day,
For our glorious volunteers!
Hither
we come, to work and pray,
For the Memphis volunteers.
Hark! it is
the southern drum,
Husbands, brothers, sweethearts, come—
They rush from every open door,
To save the country they adore;
We will clothe, and bless them too,
Give them guns, and sabres true,
We will help them in the fight—
Crown their flag with laurels bright.
Sewing
away, by night and day,
For our glorious volunteers!
Higher
we come, to work and pray,
For the Memphis volunteers.
Hear ye not the cannon's roar?
In the streets of Baltimore!
Brothers fall, and blood is streaming—
On our plains, the sword is gleaming,
Hither, if invaders come,
We will beat the martial drum—
Here, no hostile flag shall wave,
It is the country of the brave.
Sewing
away, by night and day,
For our glorious volunteers!
Hither
we come, to work and pray,
For the Memphis volunteers.
Memphis, April 24, 1861.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 28, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
The Day After Marriage.
The departure of a son from beneath the paternal roof does not present
any spectacle of desolation. Masculine
life has from infancy an individuality and independence, an exotism, so to say,
which is essentially wanting in female existence. When a son abandons his parents to create for himself a
separate interest, this separation causes but little interruption in their
mutual relations. A man marries and
still retains his friendships, his habits, and his life; it is only an
additional tie. His departure is
consequently a mere separation; while the departure of a young girl, to become a
wife in a few hours, is a real desertion—a desertion with all its duties and
feelings still fresh about it. In
one word, the son is a sapling which has always grown apart from the trunk,
while the daughter has, on the contrary, formed an essential portion of it, and
to detach her from her place is to mutilate the tree itself.
You have surrounded her youth with unspeakable tenderness—the
exhaustless tenderness of your paternal and maternal hearts; and she, in return,
has appeared to pour forth upon you both an equally inexhaustible gratitude.
You loved her beyond all the world, and she seemed to cling to you with a
proportionable affection. But one
day—one ill-omened day—a man arrives, invited and welcomed by yourselves,
and this man of your own choice carries off to his domestic eyrie your gentle
dove, far from the soft nest which your love had made for her, and to which hers
had clung. On the morrow you look
around you—you wait—you seek for something which you cannot find.
The cage is empty; the tuneful linnet has flown; silence has succeeded to
its melodious warblings; it does not come as it did only on the previous
morning, fluttering its perfumed wings about your pillow, and wakening you by
its soft caresses. Nothing remains
but a painful calm, a painful silence, a painful void.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
A
Swiss Company.—The Swiss in the city are raising a military company; they
belong to a nation of unconquerable bravery.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], April 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 3
Flag
Presentation.—A most beautiful silk flag, given by Mrs. A. B. Shaw and other
ladies, was yesterday evening presented to Captain Genette's fine company, the
Memphis light guards.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Military Caps.
We are manufacturing the Zouave Military Cap, and are prepared to furnish
companies at short notice.
Wanted—Ten
or twelve Cap Makers, to sew on the same.
Francisco & Co.,
Brinkley Block, 289 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Attention Soldiers!
Flag staffs, tent poles, and lumber of all kinds, furnished
in any quantity at cost.
Moore, Halstead & Co.,
Planing Mill, Second st., south of Union.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
Notice to Free Negroes.
All Male Free persons of color, resident within the city limits, will
report themselves at the office of Wm. B. Greenlaw & Co., within ten days
from this date, otherwise they will be summarily dealt with.
Such
as may be inclined to partake in the common defense, or discharge any such
duties connected therewith as may be assigned to them, will be kindly received
and protected.
F. Titus,
President Committee of Safety.
F. W.
Royster, Secretary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Garde Francaise.
Attention, French Guard!—You are hereby commanded to appear at your
drill room on Sunday Next, at 1 P.M., fully armed and equipped, for the
reception of a Flag, which is to be presented by Mrs. Simon.
By order of
Charles Yell, Captain.
P.
S.—All those speaking the French language, be they Swiss, Italians or
Belgians, may join this company by applying to the president of the recruiting
committee, Mr. Rodner, corner Madison and Main streets.
Charles Yell, Captain.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
More
Arms.—It is stated that Gov. Harris is having percussion locks placed upon
fifteen thousand muskets for the use of the volunteers of this city.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 1, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
Joseph S. Williams
Memphis.
E. M. Ross
New Orleans.
Williams, Ross & Co.,
Grocers,
and
Commission Merchants,
171 Main
Street 171
Memphis, Tennessee.
Beg leave to call the attention of the Trade, and the public generally, to their large and varied stock of Groceries, Family Supplies of All Kinds, Choice Brandies, Wines, Spirits, etc.
Catalogue:
Flour, Etc.
Extra and Superfine Flours, of the best brands, bbls., and in sacks containing ½, ¼, 1/8 bbls.
(The Harrison Flour always on hand.)
Corn Meal,
Pure Corn Starch,
Split Peas,
Lady Peas,
Farina,
Hominy,
Buckwheat,
Vermicelli,
Sago,
Navy Beans,
Rice,
Maccaroni,
Pearl Barley.
Meals.
Duffield (Premium American Westphalia) Davis', Diamond and Oh. Jacobs'
Hams, plain and canvassed,
Sugar-cured Breakfast Bacon
Dried Beef,
Clear Sides, Shoulders,
Bulk Pork,
Smoked Tongues,
Bologna Sausages,
Mess and Spiced Beef,
Spiced Pigs' Feet.
Cheese.
Parmesan,
Genuine English,
Dutch,
English
Dairy,
W. R. Cheese.
Butter, etc.
Choicest Western Reserve, in rolls, and about 5,000 lbs. good sound Butter, in kegs and bbls.
Sugar.
Crushed, Leaf, Pulverized, Granulated, Brown.
Molasses.
Choice Plantation,
Re-boiled,
Refined Syrup,
Golden Syrup.
Candles.
Star Solar Sperm, Parafine, Tallow
Soap.
Fancy,
Almond,
Honey,
Shaving,
Castillle,
German,
No. 1 Family, and Rosin.
Tea.
Orange Pekoe.
Imperial—Finest.
Extra.
Gunpowder—Finest.
Extra.
Young Hyson—Extra Fine.
Oolong—Finest Breakfast Tea.
Fine
Ordinary.
These
fine Teas are put up in metalic packages of ¼, ½, and 1 lb. each, and in
caddies of 6 lbs each. They are
guaranteed to be genuine, and to lovers of the beverage we can recommend them,
possessing all the necessary qualifications of purity, flavor and strength.
Coffee.
Mocah, Old Government Java, Lagnayra, Rio.
Spices.
White and Black Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Cloves, Whole and Ground. Cayenne Pepper, (warranted pure,) in bottles. Mustard, (French and English, jars.) Superfine Kentucky.
Sauces.
Worcestershire, John Bull, King of Oude Sauce, Continental, Pepper Sauce, Walnut and Tomato Catsups, Escence [sic] of Mushrooms.
Fish.
No. 1 Mackerel, in brls., ½ brls, and kits; No. 2 Mackerel, do. do. do.; Salmon, Cod, White Fish.
Various Articles in Cans.
French Green Peas; American do.; Green Corn; Anchovies in Oils; Sardines, in ½ and ¼ boxes; Mackerel in Oil; Assorted French Fish in Oil; Anchovy and Shrimp Paste; French Mushrooms and Truffles, (French); Baltimore Oysters, in 1 lb. and 2 lb. cans; Lobsters; Salmon; Fresh Peaches; Strawberries; Tomatoes.
Preserves, etc.
Canton Ginger; Guava Jelly; Baltimore Preserves of all kinds; Brandy Cherries; Brandy Peaches; Pie Fruits of all kinds.
Fruits.
Layer and M. R. Raisins, in whole, 12, ¼ boxes and cartons; Figs; Currants; Dried Apples; Dried Peaches, pealed [sic] and unpealed [sic].
Nuts.
English Walnuts; Almonds; Pecans; Filberts; Cream Nuts.
Chocolate.
French Sante Chocolate. American.
Extracts.
Dose; Lemon; Almond; Banana; Nutmeg; Pineapple; Ginger; Vanilla; Cochineal, etc.
Wines, Brandies, etc.
Piper & Co.'s Weidsick Champagne, quarts and pints, Claret.—St. Julien, Medoc, and other brands. Madeire.—S. J. T. Bilaco, F. Creusat, cooking Madeira. Sherry—Pale, Golden color, choice. Fine Old Port, on draught and in bottles. Catawba. Brandies—Sazerac, vintage of 1708. This Brandy is the finest in the market, and as such is offered to connoisseures). Martel, & Co., pale and dark. Otard, Dupuy & Co., pale and dark. Seignet. Jules Robin. And a large and select stock of Bourbon, Rye, Tennessee, White and Robinson county, and Deane & Hale Whiskies. Find Old Holland Gin, Schiedam Schnapps, Stoughton Bitters, Hostetter's Bitters, Leslie's Stomach Bitters, Assorted French Liquors, Scotch Ale, Dublin and London Porter, Burton Bitter Ale, etc.
Pickles.
English and American Pickles, Capers, French Olives.
Crackers.
Wine, Cracknell, Butter, Ginger, Soda, Water, Pilot Bread, etc.
Hollow Ware, Etc.
Tubs, in nest of 3 and 8 each. Washboards, Water Buckets, Rolling Pins, Clothes' Pins, Market Baskets, common, fancy and steamboat Brooms, Sieves.
Stone Ware.
Jars and Jugs of all sizes.
Sundries.
Bi carb, Soda Cream Tartar, Preston & Merrill's Yeast Powders,
Indigo, Olive Oil, Matches, (Richardson & Dunham's), Krout, Blacking, Fire
Crackers, Cigars, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, etc.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 2, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
The
Montgomery papers announce the fact that two negroes there had subscribed
liberally to the Confederate loan--$200 each.
The Gainesville niggers are not behind.
Mr. T. D. Bell's Henry (Henry says he was raised by Mr. Davenport, of
Northumberland County, Va.) and Mr. R. G. McMahon's "Jim Cotton" have
gone into the support of the government, each taking a $50 bond, and paying the
money down. They were greeted with
hearty cheers by the assembled crowd.
At
Warsaw, two negroes, one belonging to Mr. Little and the other to Mr. Gill, gave
each $2 50 to the volunteer fund. Mr.
Little's man was "in luck." Three
or four gentlemen standing by were so pleased with his act that they made up for
him $10 to take the place of his $2 50.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 2, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
To the
Quartermasters of the Regiments.—See to it, gentlemen, that the tents for your
troops will turn rain. The
storm of Saturday proved that those already made are mere apologies for army
tents. Get none but the best India
duck, and have it well foiled before it is made up, otherwise, it will be money
thrown away, and your men will blame you for this want of comfort.
Citizen.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 1, c. 2
Why an Irishman Will not Volunteer.
To the Editor of the New York Daily News:
I am
an Irishman. I have been asked why
I did not volunteer and march to put down the rebellion in the South.
May I give three of my reasons through your columns?
they are
I.
I was a volunteer in our army in Mexico, and while I was there, men
who now control and urge this civil war, were at home, and opposing the
war against a foreign foe. Seward,
Greeley, Corwin, Lincoln and Beecher, etc., denounced the war and the men who
were carrying it on.
II.
A few years ago, the Know-Nothing party seemed to be sweeping the whole
country before them, and State after State, Massachusetts and New York even
joined their ranks.
The
Irishman and the German, the Catholic, was threatened with a withdrawal
of the rights and equality which the Constitution and the laws secured to them.
Where,
then, was the first bold, manly and successful uprising in the States for the
foreign born citizens, and the rights of conscience for the Catholic?
It was
in Old Virginia!
III.
If I deny the right of the Southern people to state their grievances, and
to judge when they may set up a Government themselves, how can I hereafter
sustain Ireland and Hungary when they shall decide to establish separate
governments for themselves, and to stand to their arms in the cause?
I will
stand on the defensive, against the South, if they attempt to invade us with a
view to compel the Northern States to break up their Union, but I ask my Irish
and American brethren to excuse me in their civil war, as it appears now.
Will
you, in your columns, Mr. Editor, answer and refute my reasons?
If I am wrong, show it to me, and I will retract.
This is a land of free press and free discussion.
"County Cork."
New
York, April 24, 1861.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
A Terrible
Crinoline Revolution—
Call for a National Convention.
The polite world was quite astonished on Thursday when Queen Fashion gave
out a vermilion edict to the effect that, by and with the advice and consent of
her court, an entire change in the form and trimming lf ladies' dresses had been
resolved upon. For more than a
year, we are told, this crinoline revolution has been in progress.
The conservatives resisted stoutly, but were compelled to give way at
last. The secessionists have
carried the day. The gored skirt
party has triumphed. And what, we may be asked, is the gored skirt?
It is the form of robe worn by our grandmothers in the time of the
revolution. The difference between
the dress of to-day and that of eighty years ago is very slight.
The waist is longer and the skirt is fuller in the new dress.
The material, we opine, is somewhat more costly now than then—an
important matter in these hard times. It
is very odd that this crinoline revolution should have been consummated at
precisely the same moment that our political institutions are undergoing a
radical change, and that while we have been invoking the spirits of our
revolutionary fathers to save the Union, the ladies have gone back to the times
of our revolutionary mothers for the shape of their dress—a matter of the very
first importance to the most of them.
The
question arises, too, whether or not the ladies who are brief of stature and
somewhat inclined to embonpoint will peacefully submit to an innovation
which is clearly for the exclusive benefit of tall and slender divinities.
Will not the rebels call a convention, secede and set up a fashion of
their own? And, in such case, will
the party in power resort to coercion? As
the government of the fashionable world is an absolute despotism, any attempt at
rebellion will speedily be put down by force of arms, we presume.
The southern ladies, however, may take courage from the firmness
displayed by the lords of creation in their section, and refuse to agree to the
sweeping change which has been resolved upon.
At any rate the excitement is tremendous, and there will be an amount of
talk altogether beyond computation by any known rule of mathematics.
The debates in the peace Congress will be nothing to the discussions
among the friends and opponents of the gored skirts. Why not have a national crinoline convention to settle the
whole question upon a basis satisfactory to all parties, long and short, fat and
lean?—N. Y. Herald.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Tactics!
Cooper's Tactics!
Gilham's Tactics!
Scott's Tactics!
Volunteer's
Hand Book, containing an excellent abridgement of "Hardee's Infantry
Tactics," Skirmishers Drill and Bayonet Exercise, as now used in the French
army.
Just received from Charleston and for sale by
Cleaves & Vaden.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
W. B. Miller
Geo. Dashiell.
John H. Taylor
W. F. Taylor.
W. B. Miller & Co.
107 Main Street,
Will Open on Tuesday
Next,
First-Rate
Military Cloth,
From a New and
Much Approved Source.
Samples now on exhibition.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
The
Hickory Rifles.—This noble corps, principally consisting of connections of
some of the most respected and influential families in this city and
neighborhood, is ordered on active service and leaves us to-night. The members are all hereby summoned by their respected
captain, Dr. Martin, to meet at their armory at ten o'clock this morning. The
same authority also summons the company to meet at four o'clock in the
afternoon, with their baggage, preparatory to marching to their camp.
From their armory they will proceed to Dr. Grundy's church, corner of
Main and Beal streets, to receive a flag which will be presented to them by the
ladies of Memphis at five o'clock.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 4, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Bluff
City Grays.—This fine company, under command of Captain Edmondson, depart for
Randolph this afternoon. A flag
will be presented to them at eleven o'clock this morning, in court square, by
Miss E. E. Chidsey. So popular are
the Grays that several other flags, we understand, will be presented them in the
course of the day.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 1, c. 3
A Few Worlds About Fat Girls.
Now of fat girls there are several varieties.
There is your baby girl, a delightful little dumpling of a child, every
one of whose dimples is a mine of delight, and every one of the creases in whose
rosy lips inspires you with an irresistible propensity to tickle it.
These are the little baby children that Rubens painted so gloriously.
He made their little puffed-out cheeks celestially roseate; he curled
their flaxen locks like unto the young tendrils of the vine; he tipped their
little heels and elbows with rich carnations; he took away their sex and made
them epicene; and when he had added little wings of green and golden plumage to
their shoulders, they were no longer baby children, but angels, ministering in
the apotheoses of kings and emperors, who, I sincerely trust, have reached the
destination which the courtly pencil of Peter Paul ascribed to their dead
majesties. then there is your fat
school girl, with long fair ringlets, profuse as a Louis Quatorse perroque, with
fixed blue eyes that remind you unpleasantly of the Pantheon Bazaar and Madame
Montanari's wax work shops, and with a dull, listless fixity of demeanor that
makes one always wish to find out whereabouts the string is, in order to pull
it, and cause the eyes to move and great doll to squeak "papa," and
"mama."
Yet
another variety of the fat school girl is there in the romp, or "tom
boy," who has cheeks as ruddy and as hard as a Ribstone pippin; who is
continually grazing the skin of her arms, and tearing the trimming off the ends
of her trousers; who, if she lives in the country, is in the habit of catching
young colts and riding them without saddle or bridle round paddocks; who is
always getting into domestic trouble through her transactions with a big black
dog fond of the water and of chivying cats; who is always laughing, has a
tremendous appetite, and once fought with a boy and came off victorious.
The decline of the old fashioned system of education, and the rise of
seminaries and collegiate institutions, where young ladies attend lectures on
the Odic force and the Therapeutic Cosmogony of Ancient Art has made the tom boy
fat girl an exceedingly rare specimen of femininity; but she is still
occasionally to be met with—notably in Westmoreland boarding schools, and in
farm houses of the West.
I
lament the progressive extinction of the merry fat girl. She usually grew up to be a jolly, comfortable matron with a
tribe of sunny children, all as great romps as she had been.
Her pickled walnuts were perfection.
She was one of those women who always give you something to eat when you
call on them, and if you are neither hungered nor athirst, insist on your
carrying away a pot of preserves or a slice of bridecake with you.
It was in the golden age, and England was merry England indeed, when
those fat matrons who had been fat girls, flourished.
They used to entertain you at "meat teas"—bounteous repasts,
where there were sausages and pressed beef, soused mackerel and potato-cakes.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Camp Equipments.
We have received a communication on this subject of which we give a
portion below, and call the attention of the military board to the subject.
The comments are made by one who has a practical knowledge of the
subject.
["]
The tents are made of a material that is too thin; it does not turn rain, nor
does it protect from the cold nor from the heat of the sun.
Double the material of which the tents are made and the defect will in
some measure be remedied. "Oh, no, this costs too much!"
Poor economy, gentlemen, when the efficiency of your army is considered;
poor economy, gentlemen, when the lives of your soldiers are put in the scale.
Ask the mothers and sisters whose sons and brothers are there, what they
think of the few paltry dollars it would take to make the soldier barely
comfortable, for that is all he asks, for our common protection; but O, ye
rulers! it is as little as you can
do to provide for his comfort, without which his health is sacrificed. If you cannot do that, call on us and we will contribute our
jewelry to the last ring, guard, token of affection though it be.
The
tents are badly made. When the rope
goes through the cloth there are no ilet [sic] holes, and, consequently the
tents tear the first time they are pitched, and a few removals will render them
useless. There is no such thing as
closing the door way. There should
be a fly, supported by two sticks, for shade in the day time, and to be let down
for protection from cold air at night.
I do
not blame those who have furnished these tents, for they did all they knew how
to do, but I hope that they will remedy the defect now that it is pointed out to
them.
The
officers have no better tents than the men.
There is not a table to write on in the whole encampment, and the luxury
of a chair, even a camp stool, is unheard of.
Let this thing be remedied, gentlemen who control, and you will be
thanked by the soldiers; neglect them, and you will hear a voice that no ruler
has ever heard with impunity. I
return to my company, the Southern Guards, on Monday, and will keep the mothers
and sisters of our young men informed of how they are treated.
T. J. F.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Presentation of
Flag to the
Coahoma Invincibles.
On Tuesday last, the "Coahoma Invincibles" passed through this
place en route to their encampment at Corinth.
On their passage through Memphis, Miss Maggie Chambers, of Friar's Point,
on behalf of the ladies of that place, presented the company with a beautiful
seven-starred flag, at the Gayoso house, in this city, accompanied by the
following handsome and appropriate address:
Coahoma
Invincibles: Deep and thrilling are
the feelings that cling and cluster around my heart as I gaze with soul-felt
pride on the noble spirits who so gallantly resolve to
"Strike for our altars and our sires,
God save our native South."
My brothers—for may I not call you all so?—with bright
hopes and mournful regrets strangely blended, I, in behalf of the ladies of
Coahoma, present to you, the gallant "Coahoma Invincibles," this
proudly waving flag of the sunny South. will
it not return to our own Mississippi with a halo of honor gleaming from every
sacred fold? The proud hopes that
come trembling from the depths of my soul, murmer [sic] "it will."
The glory that has ever shed its luster over Mississippi volunteers, will
not now be dimmed; the laurel that crowned their noble brows in other days, will
not now be blighted; for I feel that this banner is entrusted to soldiers loyal
and brave; that it waves over not one timid heart; that e'er it goes down on the
field of battle or graces the triumphal car of a conquering foe, the last of the
"Invincibles" will rest from the fierce struggle on the bosom of his
own native South.
You
are brothers in the same glorious cause, united by the sacred memories of old,
familiar associations, which will cast a hallowed light over the changing scenes
of future days. Now you are adrift
upon the tide of life's wildest ocean wave, not chartless nor hopeless, and yet
it is hard to nerve the soul for the sad farewell; hard to listen to the stern
mandate of duty. Fain would we
linger forever, but it cannot be. I
know that the "Invincibles" will ever be true to their proud name;
that you "go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with brave
hearts." The cause of justice,
of liberty and truth are yours. Remember,
amid the tumult of strange, wild scenes, there are loving friends at home,
offering up earnest prayers for your safety and success.
"Let all the ends you aim at
Be your country's, your God's, and truth's;
Then if you fall, oh! brothers,
You fall blessed martyrs."
May
the protecting care of the 'god of battles be over you, and, when the stern
conflict closes around, nerve your gallant hearts, and crown your noble efforts
with liberty and peace; while a glad welcome, and the deep gratitude of happy
hearts, will greet your joyous return.["]
To
this address Capt. Delaney made a very appropriate reply, but, being under the
necessity of being hurried off by the railroad train, we were unable to procure
a copy of this response.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
Presentation
on Court Square.—WE thank our friend W. K. Poston, Esq., for copies of the
address made by Mrs. Geo. Dixon yesterday on presenting a beautiful flag to the
gallant company of Bluff City Guards, on the part of the mothers, wives, and
sisters of members of the corps, and of the reply of Capt. Edmondson, but to our
regret the crowded state of our columns render their insertion impossible.
The address is an eloquent incentive to noble deeds; the reply is a manly
and chivalric expression of the determination of the corps so to act as to honor
the flag so flatteringly presented.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
Flag
to the Hickory Rifles.—Captain Martin's fine company, the Hickory Rifles, all
entered Dr. Grundy's church last evening to receive a flag offered them by the
ladies of Memphis. The gallant
fellows, all in full marching trim, made a fine, manly appearance. The beautiful flag, a perfect bijou in make and
material, was presented by Miss White in an address admirably conceived and
touchingly delivered admirably conceived and touchingly delivered; both matter
and manner were greatly admired. The
address was responded to in a neat and graceful reply by Chas. Pacie, Esq.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 5, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
Rude
Boys at Church.—Our crowded columns compel us to state in a paragraph the
contents of a communication concerning Grace church on Hernando street; each
Sunday mischievous boys annoy the congregation there by running up and down the
stairs and galleries. Unless such
misconduct is stopped, means will be taken to expose the culprits.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 7, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Knights of the Golden Circle.
Headquarters, Army of K. G. C.,}
Louisville, Ky., May 1, 1861.}
1.
Commandants of K. G. C. castles throughout the various States of the
South, excepting Texas, are hereby ordered to forward, without delay, to general
headquarters, at Louisville, Ky., complete muster rolls of military companies.
If the military organization of a castle is not completed, the commandant
will take immediate steps to have it done.
Each company, when organized, shall consist of one captain, one first
lieutenant, two second lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, two
musicians and ninety privates.
2.
Castles belonging to the Texas division will report to Gen. Geo. W.
Chilton, marshal of di[illegible]on, at Tyler, Smith county, Texas, or to Col.
Charles A. Russell, acting adjutant general, at Helena, Karnes county, Texas.
The president begs the order to respond fully and promptly to the call of
Generals Chilton, Ford, Wilcox and Green, and stand on the defensive until our
national troubles are ended.
3.
All general, field and staff officers of the American legion will report
immediately by letter or otherwise, to the president at Louisville, Ky.
4.
The president begs to state for the information of the order that since
the first of February last he has been laboring in Kentucky—principally in the
city of Louisville—and has added to the order 1,483 members, 534 of whom have
been sent to the army of the Confederate States.
Two regiments are now being formed in the State to be held subject to the
orders of the Governor. The order
has now 17,643 men in the field, and the president has no hesitation in saying
that the number can be duplicated if necessity requires.
George Bickley, K. G. C.,
President of American Legion.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 7, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Tent Poles, Tent Pins.
Tent Poles and Pins, in any quantity, can be furnished at the Memphis
Manufacturing Company.
Inquire
at
McKinney & Co's.
Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 7, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Meeting
of Ladies.—A large quantity of clothing for the military companies is on hand,
and the number of ladies having it in charge is inadequate to the work.
All ladies who can assist, are requested to call at the residence of Mrs.
Owen, corner of Madison and Second streets, and procure work to take to their
homes, or to assist there.
Mrs. S. A. Law.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 7, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
Street
Begging.—A system that has long been a curse to northern cities has lately
been inaugurated here—we mean the practice of sending little girls out into
the streets to beg. As soon as one
of these young swindlers—for that is what they are in reality—sees two or
three gentlemen conversing together in the streets, she thrusts herself in among
them and by pertinacious importunity she interrupts them until she is paid to go
away. Rarely, if ever, we have good
reason to believe, are these girls—or rather those who compel them to pursue
their vicious occupation—really objects of charity. The poor child who is sent out on this soul-destroying
business is indeed an object of compassion; but to give her the money she
solicits, is to pay those who ill use her to persist in their cruelty.
Instead of giving money to these children, the children should be given
into custody to the nearest policeman that inquiry may reveal the actual
position of those to whom they belong. Yesterday
a girl twelve years old, named Mary Anne Moray, was thus placed in custody.
It proved that she had a father, who is a shoemaker.
Her sister took her from the station house, putting down twenty-five
dollars as security for her appearance for examination this morning.
In taking the money from her purse she showed not less than fifty to
sixty dollars. Do the credulous now
see what need there was for the five and ten cent pieces they have kept from the
really poor, to give to imposters?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 7, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
To Southern Mothers.
Unite with me at the hour of sunset in humble prayer and supplication to
the "Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven
and earth is named," praying that he may pour out his Holy Spirit on our
sons to enable them to put on the whole panoply of God, and as soldiers of the
cross to resist their enemies and His, so that if they live, they will live unto
God, and if they die, they may fall asleep in Jesus, and awake in the presence
of the captain of our salvation, to be forever with Him in glory.
If
God's banner of love waive [sic] over our sons, they must come off more than
conquerors in this earthly warfare, and if they fail in the strife, through
their limbs be stiffened in death—and now their blood stained, dusty armor
laid aside—angels will waft their spirits to their God to join His army in
heaven, where, robed in Christ's spotless righteousness, they too will cast
their palms of victory before Jehovah's throne, and sing the song of the
redeemed, while, blessed with the like faith, we southern mothers shall echo
back salvation's joyful sound, and give the honor and glory to Him who hath
redeemed them with his precious blood.
A Southern Mother.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
Begging.—Another
begger was arrested in the streets yesterday.
She was a stout, hearty woman, and was seen by the police to enter many
places, and accost many persons asking for charity to a distressed woman.
In the evening she became so much intoxicated that it became necessary to
arrest her; a search revealed a nice whisky bottle stowed away in her pocket.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Acknowledgement
of Thanks.—At a meeting of the Southern Guards, held at Fort Wright, on the 3rd
inst., the following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved,
That the thanks of this company are hereby tendered to Miss Mary S. Crawford, of
Memphis, for a Confederate States flag.
Resolved,
That the colors so patriotically presented shall wave triumphantly over the
Memphis Southern Guards, so long as there is one man left to bear it.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 9, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Secession.—A
salute was fired on he bluff
yesterday evening in honor of the secession of the State of Tennessee, with an
extra gun for North Carolina. Ladies
are busy adding two new stars to the Confederate flag, making ten—they take
care to leave room for more.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Confederate
Flag Envelopes.—We have received from our friend R. C. Hite, a pack of the
"latest style" envelopes. They
contain a beautiful colored engraving of the Confederate flag, with nine
stars in a circle, and one in the center, crossed with the letter T, to
represent Tennessee.
Mr.
Hite has also on hand ribbon badges with a similar device on them—inscribed
with the following mottoes—"FOR OUR RIGHTS WE FIGHT!" and
"DEATH TO THE INVADER!"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
Natives
of Switzerland and Germany are respectfully invited to join our company, the
Swiss Rifles. All those who wish to
become members will please call at Jos. Truthmann's store, No. 147 Main street.
J. J. Suter, Secretary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 10, 1861, p. 2, c.
7
From the New Orleans Crescent.]
Pensacola,
May 4.--. . . To-day has been a day for reviewing all companies stationed at
Pensacola by General Bragg; we were formed and ready for inspection at 11
o'clock, A.M., and as our music began the flag of the Crescent Rifles was
fluttering in the breeze (as it is the flag of the regiment.) Every eye was
riveted upon its inscription, semper peraum (always ready.)
As soon as the music was through, General Bragg was presented to the
different companies; he is a fine looking General. . . .
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Campaigning Axioms.
1. One well fed, well
equipped, well appointed brigade is worth two that are ill provided.
2.
In active service, three men die of undue exposure, bad food, and their
own imprudences, where one is killed by shot or stab.
3.
An easy, rational, nicely fitting uniform, with warm, substantial
blanket, broad soled boots or shoes and good woolen socks, will more conduce to
efficiency in service than superiority in weapons.
4.
The lightest possible head covering, with a good look out for
ventilation, will add a tenth to the distance a regiment can march in a day,
while insuring increased comfort.
5.
A small cotton handkerchief, or half a yard of the commonest sheeting,
moistened with water in the morning and again at noon, and worn between the hat
and the head, will protect the soldier from sun-stroke, and greatly diminish the
discomfort and fatigue of a hot day's march.
6.
A flat bottle, covered with woolen cloth, the cloth being moistened and
the bottle filled with water, in the morning, will keep reasonably cool
throughout a long, hot day.
7.
Of all villainous concoctions, the liquors sold by camp-followers are the
most detestable and dangerous. They
are more deadly than rifled cannon, and are sure to be taken just when they
should not be. Every soldier who means to do his duty to his country should
insist that all venders of these poisons be drummed out of camp.
8.
A good cook to each company, who knows how to make salt meat juicy and
tender, and to make it ready whenever and wherever it may be wanted, is equal to
two doctors and four extra combatants.
9. Officers
who love and care for their men while in repose, never have to complain of their
conduct when in action.
10.
A soldier whose heart is in the cause he fights for, is worth two who
fight for their pay.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Military,
Take Notice.—Sixty dozen seamless caps, suitable for military or citizens'
wear, just received and for sale by Angelovich, at No. 6 Union street, next door
to Cayce & Son's auction store.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
"The
Duty of the Israelite in the Present Crisis."—A lecture on this subject
will be delivered to-morrow (Saturday) forenoon, at 9½ o'clock in the
synagogue, corner of Main and Exchange streets, by the pastor of the
congregation.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
New
Envelope.—Messrs. Hutton & Freligh have sent us some very handsome
envelopes of their own getting up. They
bear a likeness of "Jeff. Davis, our First President," surrounded by
the Confederate stars and flanked by Confederate flags. The design of the whole
is excellent.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 8, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
The
Fireman's Fight.—During the fight among the firemen on Main and Court streets
on Wednesday night, a member of the number 7's, named Day, was shot in the
middle finger of the right hand; he was knocked down and stamped upon, his head
was much cut, and he received a stab in the back. He was getting along favorably, and it is expected will soon
recover. The engine of the No. 7's
received several injuries in the affray. An
ornamental piece of the gallery has been chopped off.
The gallery has also dents and bruises caused by pistol-shots and
brick-bats. Deep dents in the wood
and brass work show where an attempt was made to seriously injure the main
portion of the engine; one of the iron bearings that receives the brakes was
broken, and other miner [sic] injuries inflicted.
The fight over the engine was ferocious, but officer John Creighton and
others, contrived to rescue it before important injury was done.
The only known cause of the disgraceful proceedings was excess of whisky.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 11, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
For the Army.
Tents manufactured at short notice.
Camp Mattresses at low prices. Orders left at
Speed, Donoho & Strange,
314 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Soldiers' Health
Interesting Suggestions and Recommendations.
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The following article, on "Soldiers' Health," is from Hall's
New York Journal of Health. It
contains much valuable information for both soldiers and civilians:
1.
In an ordinary campaign sickness disables or destroys three times as many
as the sword.
2.
On a march, from April to November, the entire clothing should be a
colored flannel shirt, with a loosely-buttoned collar, cotton drawers, woolen
pantaloons, shoes and stockings, and a light colored felt hat, with broad brim
to protect the eyes and face from the glare of the sun and from the rain, and a
substantial but not heavy coat when off duty.
3.
Sun-stroke is most effectually prevented by wearing a silk handkerchief
in the crown of the hat.
4.
Colored blankets are best, and if lined with brown drilling the warmth
and durability are doubled, while the protection against dampness from lying on
the ground is almost complete.
5.
Never lie or sit down on the grass or bare earth for a moment, rather use
your hat--a handkerchief, even, is a great protection.
The warmer you are the greater need for this protection, as a damp vapor
is immediately generated, to be absorbed by the clothing, and to cool you off
too rapidly.
6.
While marching, or on other duty, the more thirsty you are the more
essential is it to safety of life itself, to rinse out the mouth two or three
times, and then take a swallow of water at a time, with short intervals.
A brave French general, on a forced march, fell dead on the instant, by
drinking largely of cold water, when snow was on the ground.
7.
Abundant sleep is essential to bodily efficiency, and to that alertness
of mind, which is all important to an engagement; and few things more certainly
and more effectually prevent sound sleep than eating heartily after sun-down,
especially after a heavy march or desperate battle.
8.
Nothing is more certain to secure endurance and capability of
long-continued effort, than the avoidance of everything as a drink except cold
water, NOT excluding coffee at breakfast. Drink
as little as possible of even cold water.
9.
After any sort of exhausting effort, a cup of coffee, hot or cold, is an
admirable sustainer of the strength, until nature begins to recover herself.
10.
Never eat heartily just before a great undertaking; because the nervous
power is irresistibly drawn to the stomach to manage the food eaten, thus
drawing off that supply which the brain and muscles so much need.
11.
If persons will drink brandy, it is incomparably safer to do so after
an effort than before; for it can give only a transient strength, lasting but a
few minutes; but as it can never be known how long any given effort is to be
kept in continuance, and if longer than the few minutes, the body becomes more
feeble than it would have been without the stimulus, it is clear that its use before
an effort is always hazardous, and is always unwise.
12.
Never go to sleep, especially after a great effort, even in hot weather,
without some covering over you.
13.
Under all circumstances, rather than lie down on the ground, lie in the
hollow of two logs placed together, or across several smaller pieces of wood,
laid side by side; or sit on your hat, leaning against a tree.
A nap of ten or fifteen minutes in that position will refresh you more
than an hour on the bare earth; with the additional advantage of perfect safety.
14.
A cut is less dangerous than a bullet wound, and heals more
rapidly.
15.
If from any wound the blood spurts out in jets, instead of a steady
stream, you will die in a few minutes, unless it is remedied; because an artery
has been divided, and that takes the blood direct from the fountain of life.
To stop this instantly, tie a handkerchief or other cloth very loosely
BETWEEN the wound and the heart; put a stick, bayonet, or ramrod between
the skin and the handkerchief, and twist it around until the bleeding ceases,
and keep it thus till the surgeon arrives.
16.
If the blood flows in a slow, regular stream, a vein has been pierced,
and the handkerchief must be on the other side of the wound from the heart; that
is, below the wound.
17.
A bullet through the abdomen (belly or stomach) is more certainly fatal
than if aimed at the head or heart; for in the latter cases the ball is often
glanced off by the bone, or follows around it under the skin; but when it enters
the stomach or bowels, from any direction, death is inevitable under all
conceivable circumstances, but is scarcely ever instantaneous.
Generally the person lives a day or two with perfect clearness of
intellect, often not suffering greatly. The
practical bearing of this statement in reference to the great future is clear.
18.
Let the whole beard grow, but no longer than some three inches.
This strengthens and thickens its growth, and thus makes a more perfect
protection for the lungs against dust, and of the throat against winds and cold
in winter, while in summer a great perspiration of the skin is induced, with the
increase of evaporation; hence, greater coolness of the parts on the outside,
while the throat is less feverish, thirsty and dry.
19.
Avoid fats and fat meat in summer and in all warm days.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Caps!
Caps! Caps!
Southern Military
Cap Manufactory,
No. 194 Main Street,
Over M. Simon's Store.
I am now ready to furnish, at the shortest notice, any amount of Caps, and of
any style desired.
J. D. Blumenthal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Southern Military
Drum Manufactory.
Having now established a large manufactory, I can furnish
Drums of all kinds, made expressly for military use, with mettal [sic] shells.
Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to.
E. A. Benson's Music Store.
No. 2[?]8 Main street,
Memphis, Tenn.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Bailey's Springs,
Near Florence, Alabama.
This most celebrated Watering Place is now open for the reception of
visitors, and has already a good many persons from different parts of the
country. We have engaged the
services of the celebrated Holding Band for the season, who are hard to excel on
brass or string instruments. The
advantages of fishing are admitted by all who have visited this place to excel
those of any other watering place. Shoal
creek being only a quarter of a mile, and Tennessee river only four miles
distant, and we are supplied with fishing boats or skiffs for the purpose.
Our Ten-pin Alleys and Billiard Tables are in good order.
The
waters of these Springs are recommended by more than two hundred of the most
eminent physicians in the surrounding country, for the cure of scrofula, dropsy,
dyspepsia, liver complaint, diseases peculiar to females, sore eyes, chronic
diarrhea, syphilis, and all diseases of the kidneys, urinary organs, and all
cutaneous diseases. Numbers of the
most remarkable cures have been testified to by most respectable living
witnesses.
Col.
James Murdoch, late of Iuka Springs, assists in the management of the house, and
no pains will be spared to make our guests in every way comfortable.
Our table shall be supplied with the best the country affords, and our
accommodations in every respect shall be as good as those of any other watering
place in the country.
Our
stage coaches will be at the depot at Florence on the arrival of the cars, at
all times, and convey all passengers to and from the Springs without delay.
Our
livery stable is well stocked with carriages, buggies and horses, for pleasure
riding.
Ellis & Co., Proprietors.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 9
Memphis
Tent and Cartridge
Manufactory,
Office 374, Main Street.
I am now prepared to manufacture Tents and Gun and Cannon Cartridges, to
any extent and on short notice.
Any
orders left at the office will be promptly attended to.
R. D. Crandall.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Attention
Ladies.—The ladies who are members of the military sewing society that meets
under the Second Presbyterian church, are requested to attend punctually
to-morrow morning—a large quantity of work has been received.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 12, 1861, p. 3, c.
3
Begging.—We
particularly commend the following item to the attention of those who encourage
impostors by giving money to beggars in the streets. Yesterday officer Van Campen having some suspicions that all
was not right in the case of Angelo Batti, a cripple who has been engaged in
soliciting "charity" from a credulous public, last evening took him
into custody. At the stationhouse
the keeper, Mr. Olin, on searching him found on him a hundred and fourteen
dollars and fifteen cents in gold and silver, certificates of deposit on a bank
in New Orleans of three hundred dollars, and an individual note for ten dollars.
He was fined twenty-five of his ill-gotten dollars, which he paid and
left to seek in a more genial clime more dupes to administer to his avarice.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 14, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Temporary Change
in the
Size of Our Paper.
We make a slight reduction in the size of the Appeal this morning, owing
to the temporary decrease of our advertising patronage.
This arrangement, however, will not lessen our usual amount of reading
matter in the least—only enabling us to save a considerable waste of paper.
It may be proper to remark that, notwithstanding this change, the Appeal
is still the largest journal in Tennessee.
So soon as business revives, we will of course resume our former size.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 14, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
To the Ladies.
Headquarters of Prov. Army of Tenn.,}
Memphis, May 12, 1861.}
Major-General
Gid. J. Pillow, commanding the Provisional Army of Tennessee, tenders his
compliments to the ladies of the city of Memphis engaged in the patriotic duty
of providing the gallant sons of Tennessee with necessary clothing for the
field, and requests that they cause him to be furnished with information of the
number and character of uniforms and other articles of clothing on hand for
distribution; and for what different corps they are designed.
This information is necessary, to enable the Major-General commanding to
understand the extent of preparation by the Quartermaster's Department, for the
brave men who have and are about taking the field to protect the rights, honor
and persons of the fair daughters of Tennessee.
By order of Major General Gid. J. Pillow,
Jas. D. Porter, Jr.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 14, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Our
Free Colored Men—What Shall Be Done With Them?—Editors Appeal:
The proposition of the committee of safety, to enlist companies of our
free colored men, is not relished by our citizens generally; and the question
comes up, "what must be done with them?"
Let me suggest to that committee that they confer with major-General
Pillow as to the policy of placing four or five of our free negroes in each
company from Memphis, for cooking, washing, etc.
That is their post, one of inferiority, not of citizen soldiers.
They understand that sort of work better than any boys who are called to
do battle. Let them be made useful
in that way.
Common Sense.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 14, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
C. K. Holst &
Son,
Undertakers,
No. 300 Main Street,
Memphis, Tenn.,
Agents for
[illustration]
Marshall's Southern Metallo-
Percha
Burial Caskets.
Also, for
[illustration]
Barstow's Metallic Burial Caskets.
[illustration]
Keep constantly on hand all sizes of Fisk & Crank's
Cases. Also, Wood Coffins, of every
description.
Country
Undertakers furnished with Caskets and Cases at a reasonable discount.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 15, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
Fitting out of Volunteers.
Col. George W. Lay, late aid to Gen. Scott, but now aid to the Governor
of Virginia, has published a card, in which he makes the following seasonable
suggestions in regard to the fitting out of volunteers:
The
State can furnish only the equipments of primary necessity, in which are not
included by regulation many small articles that are almost indispensable, such
as tin cups, sheath knives, materials for sewing—with which every Russian
soldier is furnished by his government—brushes, spare buttons, shoe-strings,
tape, etc. Each man will have to
keep his own clothes in order.
One of
the best securities for health, in case the soldier will be content to adopt a
precaution everywhere counseled by the highest surgical authority, is the
wearing a flannel belt next the skin, from the waist to the hips, so tied as to
lap well in front. A soldier's
greatest liability to disease is from exposure to wet, and to changes of
temperature, producing rheumatic or intestinal suffering.
The flannel belt, closely wrapped, keeps the loins and abdomen at a
nearly uniform temperature, which the loose shirt will not effect.
This belt has been required to be worn by British troops in the West
Indies, since many years, and was prescribed in the French and English armies in
the Crimea, and considered equally important in hot and cold weather against
dysentery and against rheumatism. The
material costs but little and one lady could make up a number of belts in a day.
Gaiters
of linen duck or light cloth—a material that will wash is best—to fasten
over shoes or ankle boots, will, by keeping out of dust, prevent the feet from
chafing, and not only increase the comfort, but the rapidity and endurance of
marching. The color should be
white, or very light, to keep out heat. The
experience of the French, the best marching army in the world, has caused these
gaiters to be adopted as a part of the regulation equipment.
They are, however, of less importance than the belts.
To
every company leaving for the field a suitable quantity of such small comforts
might be furnished at a trivial expense. A
small package of tea, and one of citric acid, for light cases of sickness, when
separated from hospital stores, might be added; but nothing should be allowed
that is of weight, and would burthen the small means of transportation furnished
for camp equipage, etc.
Col.
Lay also accompanies these suggestions with another excellent one, that
societies be formed in each town of the State for the purpose of providing the
means and personally attending to this important service to our brave
volunteers.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 15, 1861, p. 3, c.
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Guard
of Ancients.—Esq. Mallory informs us that a book is opened at his office for
the enrollment of citizens of forty-five and over, to organize as a guard for
the protection of wives and children. The
company will choose its own weapons, but double-barreled guns and butcher knives
are proposed.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 15, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Negro
Preaching.—Two weeks ago service in the negro churches was interdicted.
The committee of safety have modified this as follows:
Resolved, That the order for the suspension of negro preaching be so
modified that when the regular minister of a church, attended by respectable
white persons, will agree to hold afternoon services, that the same be
allowed.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 15, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Flag
Presentation at Camp Rector.—We learn that the Jefferson Guards, Captain
Carlton, now encamped at Camp Rector, will be to-day the recipients of a
magnificent banner from some of the fair daughters of Arkansas.
The presentation address will be delivered by Miss Etta Bocage, and the
ceremonies will come off at 11 o'clock, A. M.
Persons from the city wishing to witness the affair can take the ferry
boat Mark R. Cheek.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 16, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Flag
Presentation.—A splendid flag was yesterday presented to the Pine Bluff
Jefferson Guards, lying at Mound City, by Miss Hattie Bocage, on behalf of the
ladies of Pine Bluff. The
well-chosen words of the lady were responded to on behalf of the company by
Capt. Carleton.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 16, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Another
Flag Presentation at Camp Rector.—The Jefferson Guards, from Pine Bluff, Ark.,
who are now encamped at Mound City, and who were presented with a flag
yesterday, will be honored in the same manner again to-day, by the ladies of
their city. Miss Lilian T. Rozell
will make the presentation speech. The
ceremonies will be interesting and the ladies and gentlemen of Memphis are
invited to be present. The boat
will leave the wharf at the foot of Adams street at 10 o'clock this morning.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 16, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Life
in Camp.—The following sketch of life in camp at Randolph is from the
correspondence of a member of the Hickory Rifles, in the Christian Advocate:
"The first two or three days after we came here were very inclement,
rendering it impossible to keep dry or comfortable in marching, or on guard, or
even in our tents. They are open at
one end; plank or straw are placed upon the ground, to lay our blankets on. Yet only a very few have been on the sick list.
Six men are allotted to each tent, and eight to each mess.
Every mess has its head man, who, every day at 10 o'clock, draws rations
for it, and is supplied with an iron kettle, oven wash pan, tin bucket, wooden
bucket and coffee pot. Each member
of the mess has his tin plate, cup, spoon and knife and fork.
We have our own cooking, washing, etc., to do, which seems quite funny.
We are not remarkably skillful in the performance of these domestic
duties yet, but we are learning 'by degrees.'"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 17, 1861, p. 2, c.
1
It has
been said, very truly, that "the battles of the American revolution were
gained by the rifle." The
assertion is suggestive to a people that have, in nearly every household, one or
more of these unerring weapons, and who know how to use them. An article in a late number of the Scientific American,
contrasting the effectiveness of companies differently equipped, says:
"In olden times the solid columns and the desperate charge generally
won the battle; but light, active troops, spread over an extended field, with
good rifles, would soon slaughter the best drilled columns in the world armed
with muskets and handled in the old fashioned way."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
From Texas.
Starksville, Texas, May 5, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: The whole country is in
arms, the news having reached us that the northern troops, with Montgomery's
band, are concentrating at Fort Arbuckle. Fort
Ouchita [sic] has been abandoned by the northern troops, and is now in
possession of the Texans. Seven
wagons with provisions were captured by us, with a large quantity of corn and
oats, and one cannon in the fort. One
hundred troops left Paris yesterday for the fort, and a despatch has been
received to-day calling on the border counties for one thousand men.
Two companies will leave this and Red River county to-morrow.
We are a unit in this matter—the talk of union is no longer heard.
There are scarcely men enough left at home to take care of the women and
children. The Indians are all
right.
W. H. H.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 17, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
A
Beggar.—Rosse Connovey, a professional beggar, though old enough and stout
enough to earn her own living, was arrested yesterday.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 17, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Presentation.—At
Camp Rector, yesterday, Miss Lilian Rozell presented a handsome flag to the
Jefferson Guards for the regiment of which they form a part.
It was gallantly received on behalf of the regiment by Colonel Claiborne.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 17, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Three
Presentations.—At Camp Harris to-day the ladies make three flag presentations,
one to Capt. Saffarran's Carroll Guards, one to Capt. Chew's Emerald Guards, and
one to float from the top of the fort itself. The public generally are invited to witness the ceremonies.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 18, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Italian Flag Presentation.
We have little space for the details of these frequent and interesting
ceremonies—flag presentations—but in the case of the presentation that took
place yesterday at Jackson's Mound, Fort Pickering, in which Mrs. Montedonico,
Mrs. L. Rocco and Miss Mary Panisi were the donors, and the Italian military
company the recipients, there is an interesting peculiarity, the parties being
the countrymen of the incomparable Garibaldi and of the other heroes whose
unconquerable determination has made Italy free. The address on the part of the ladies was as follows:
["]
We present to you gallant soldiers, the highest gift that woman can donate to
bravery. We give you this flag,
well knowing that in your hands it will be carried on to victory, and while
under your care it will never be tarnished.
While it waves on the red battle field it will unfold to you the smiles
of mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts, and when you return it shall be
treasured as the ensign of victory and honor.
Guard and defend it forever. ["]
J. A.
Signaigo, Esq., replied in the following suggestive words:
["]
Ladies: Allow me in behalf of the
Italian Bersaglieri military company to return to you our most sincere thanks.
The presentation of this flag is an honor that will never be forgotten by
us. This moment is an oasis in the desert of a soldier's life.
But, be assured, that when the hordes of northern Vandals shall dare to
invade the sacred soil of the Confederate States, the home of our adoption, this
flag will be one of the foremost, among the first in defense of our mothers, our
sisters, our wives, our sweethearts, and of our homes and firesides; and never
will that flag be struck, until every man who battles beneath its folds shall
have died defending it to the last. The
remembrance of the fair ones who presented it will be an incentive to lead us on
to victory; it will be to us what the white plume of Henry of Navarre was to his
soldiers, the beacon that will lead us on to honor and to glory.
The cause of the Confederate States is the cause of every honest Italian
who glories in the immortal names of Cincinnatus, Rienzi, Garibaldi, and last
and greatest of them all—the first soldier of Italian independence—the
darling of the Italian nation—Victor Emmanuel II.
Italy and the Confederate States—twin sisters of freedom.
Liberty's youngest born—the cause of one is as the cause of the other;
they are battling for the same great end—the right of man, against two of the
most desperate tyrants that ever disgraced God's favored countries.
The despised Francis Joseph, of Austria, and the drunken sot who not
disgraces the office that the immortal Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson once
graced and dignified—the American hero who revels in the halls of the old
nation while the country is convulsed in the flame f civil war.
Ladies, we swear to you that while the confederate States remain, and
they will live forever, "we wave the sword on high, and swear with her to
live for her to die." Ladies,
again we thank you for your generous present. ["]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 18, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Hernando
Made Gunpowder.—We yesterday received a very satisfactory specimen of
gunpowder which was made by Mr. W. White in the town of Panola, Miss.
We learn from Mr. White that it is his intention to make a hundred pounds
a day, if the necessary supply of saltpetre can be had.
We see it stated that in East Tennessee this material is being worked,
and that in Alabama vigorous efforts are making to work the immense deposit that
exists in one portion of the State. Gunpowder
will soon be an article of plentiful production and ready use in the South.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 2, c.
3
The
advanced corps of the Texan Rangers has arrived at Richmond, Va.
The editor of the Dispatch after seeing them says they "are
certainly about as dangerous combatants as any the world ever produced.
We believe that the far-famed Zouaves, man to man, would be children in
their hands. Even if they had no
other weapon than the eight-pound bowie-knife, keen as a razor on both sides,
and wielded by hands which use it with the most extraordinary strength and
dexterity, we should not hazard much in betting on one of these Texan lions
against any three of the enemy."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Goods for Uniforms.
Just received several lots of Goods suitable for Uniforms at
Southworth, Nance & Co's,
Webster Block.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 2, c. 8
Notice!
To the Quartermasters for the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas also, to such officers as are disposed to furnish Camp Tents for their own Companies.
John J. Brown
(Late of the firm of Deane & Brown, Richmond, Va.) No. 159 Webster Block, west side Main street, Memphis, Tennessee, is now prepared at short notice to furnish a superior article of Virginia Cotton, manufactured expressly for
Camp Tents,
close, heavy and round, hard twist Thread. Also, Memphis manufactured Soap, to the extent of 400 boxes per week. Also, Corn, Flour, Chewing Tobacco, Vinegar, Whisky, Brandy, Wine, Smoking Tobacco, Buckets, and sundry other articles too tedious to name—all at the lowest cash prices, and all on consignment.
John J. Brown & Co.,
No. 159 Webster Block.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Swiss
Rifles.—The members of this company, having tendered their services to the
State, wish to purchase uniforms, and not having sufficient funds, they call on
their fellow-citizens for assistance.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Our
Irish adopted citizens are coming to the rescue with a commendable zeal.
We understand that Captain J. H. Healey is now recruiting another company
of adopted citizens, to be called the "Irish Invincibles," for active
service, by order of General Pillow. We
expect to see them distinguish themselves under the command of so efficient an
officer.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 19, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Juvenile
Beggars.—The presence of a number of little girls upon our streets for some
time past, who are not only importunate for alms but annoyingly impudent, has
been a source of much vexation to numbers of our citizens.
We have frequently seen them follow persons for a square at a time, day
after day, protesting their poverty and detailing their misfortunes, yet when
offered employment in some gentleman's home, it has been invariably refused,
upon some pretext or another. To
give in such cases is not charity, however much we may be inclined to relieve
want. Rose Conner, one of these juvenile lazaroni, was yesterday
before the recorder, and fined five dollars and costs, which was readily settled
from a purse well filled with the gleanings of importunate impudence.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Notice.
To Quartermasters and
Army Officers.
After weeks of incessant efforts we are gratified to announce to the Quartermasters and Army officers of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and the Indian Territory, that we are prepared to furnish
Virginia Manufactured Cotton Cloth,
hard twisted and closely woven, weighing nearly half a pound per yard, for
Camp Tents!
warranted to hold water on a level.
Nothing is more important to the soldier than to look well to his
protection from inclement seasons while in camp.
To be thus secured he must have a water-proof Tent, and not suffer
himself to be deceived by those looking more to dollars and cents than to the
comfort of him who is far from his dear family, in defense of his country.
We
warrant our Camp Cloth to give satisfaction, if not, we will refund the amount
paid.
We
also have SOAP, manufactured here, which will be sold at low rates.
All purchases must be paid in cash, before delivery.
John J. Brown & Co.,
179 Webster Block,
Memphis, Tenn.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 22, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Attention,
Maynard Riflemen!—You are hereby ordered to attend promptly at your drill
ground, at two o'clock this afternoon, equipped with full compliment of ball
cartridges, for immediate service. Your
arms will be inspected. By order of
Capt. Cole.
C. L. Anderson, O. S.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 2, c.
2
Work
at the Penitentiary.—The Nashville Patriot says that there are at least
two hundred men employed at the penitentiary in the manufacture of haversacks,
caps, pouches, camp chests, gun hammers, tool chests, and remodeling bayonets,
scabbards, and that in a few days, preparations for making cartridges, etc.,
will be completed. A large Number
of hands have also been employed in the manufacture of shoes for the soldiers,
and wagons for army purposes. Col.
Johnson is thus making the prison subserve the use of the State in this
emergency, and we feel well assured that he will make it as useful as possible.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 2, c.
2
Vaccination.—The
Augusta Constitutionalist suggests to our volunteers who expect to be
called into service, the propriety of protecting themselves against small pox by
vaccination. That terrible disease
is said to be already spreading among Lincoln's troops, and it may be
communicated designedly or accidentally to ours. Vaccination has been so much neglected of late years, that
not one person in ten is protected from small pox, and if it gets among our
soldiers it may be spread throughout the country.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 2, c.
2
Jewels
on the Altar of Her Country.—The Richmond Examiner records the
following worthy example of noble patriotism:
One of
the most amiable and fashionable young belles of our city, on yesterday, placed
in the hands of a friend her casket of jewels, valued at $1200, which she
instructed him to sell to the best account, and appropriate the proceeds to the
benefit of such volunteer soldiers of the State as might require it.
This generous gift was not all, however; she promised to put by, from her
"pin money," one dollar each day, as long as the revolution might
continue, the aggregate to be handed over quarterly to some responsible party
for the purposes the same as above. Lastly,
she has patriotically determined never to wear a jewel or ornament of any kind,
until the independence of the South is recognized by the Federal Government and
the world.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Presentation.—An
elegant silk flag was yesterday presented to the Young Guards by the hands of
Miss Lovin, and received in very handsome terms by Captain Cameron.
The presentation took place in Court Square.
This company leaves to-day for Jackson.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Scandalous.—The
people passing along Main street between six and seven o'clock last evening were
disgusted by the exhibition of a drunken fellow driving in an open barouche four
of those creatures of whom the poet significantly wrote:
"A shameless woman is the worst of man," who were also under
the influence of liquor. Along the whole length of the more business part of
Main street they past shouting, laughing uproariously, vociferating remarks upon
individuals in the street, and as if this was not enough to call the public
stare down upon them, waving a flag as they went along.
Officer Sullivan overtook them beyond Winchester street and brought women
and driver to the station house and locked them up.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 23, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Dead
Child Found.—Last evening, near the Market street bridge, a newborn child,
dead and wrapped in a blanket, which was covered with some bricks and stones,
was found in a ravine. No attempt
had been made to bury the little one, and it had evidently been but recently
placed where it was found. It is
natural to expect that a case like the present is the result of illicit
intercourse, but, as we some time ago explained to our readers, on the authority
of a public medical official, the secretary of the board of health, still born
children are often surreptitiously disposed of in this city on account of the
outrageous expense attending burial in the regular cemeteries.
The practice of such revolting acts will only be abandoned when the city
council do as other cities and provide a potter's field where the poor can have
free burial and the working population have sepulture at prices within their
means.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 24, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
May 23d, 1861.
To Military Men
Speed, Donoho & Strange
314 Main Street, Memphis,
Are Now Having Manufactured
In the City of Memphis,
Wand's Patent Water-Proof
Camp Rug.
Answers all the Purposes of India Rub-
ber, and at One-third the Cost.
Now Manufacturing about 500 Rugs
per day, and shall soon be
able to increase the
number to 1000
per day.
Contracts for Fifty Rugs and upward
at $1 each. Less number
$1.25 each.
First Orders First Served.
Fine Assortment
of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods.
Speed, Donoho & Strange.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 24, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
The
Messrs. Cayce Son will sell this
morning at 10 o'clock a large lot of oranges and pine apples, which are nice and
fine, being part of the goods taken from the steamer John Walsh.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 24, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Southern
Mothers.—Send in your contributions of beds, bedding, and other articles
suitable for a sick room, to the committee, who will be in attendance at the
reception room of the society, in Greenlaw's new house, corner of Union and
Second streets, on Saturday morning. It
is desired to have the room in order for the reception of the sick by Monday
morning next. The committee will
also receive, at the same time, bandages and linen for the use of the wounded.
Mary E. Pope, secretary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 25, 1861, p. 2, c. 7
Military Goods
Just Arrived at
M. Simon & Co.'s,
194 Main Street.
A Large Quantity of
Gray
Cloth and Satinets,
Gray
Tweeds,
Gray
and Blue Jeans,
Flannel
of all colors,
Military
Buttons,
Gold
and Silver Lace and Braid, etc., etc.
M. Simon & Co.,
194 Main street, opp. Clay Building.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 25, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Aid to
the Families of Soldiers.—The county court have undertaken to allow to the
wives of those who are absent on military duty twelve dollars a month, and to
each of their children six dollars a month, when such families require such aid.
Persons desirous of availing themselves of the allowance offered, will
apply at the office of Esq. Hume F. Hill, on Main street, between Madison and
Monroe streets, over Mansfield's drug store, or to Esq. Mallory, over Dearing
& Wetherill's drug store, Main street, between Union and DeSoto streets.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 26, 1861, p. 2, c.
5
The
Habanese are already making cigars done up in wrappers adorned with the flag of
the Confederate States. This, we
believe, is the first foreign recognition.
Mrs.
Emily Tubman, of Augusta, Ga., formerly of Frankfort, Ky., has armed a regiment
in that State.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 26, 1861, p. 3, c.
2
Aid to
the Poor.—Mr. Underwood, city almoner, had several applications at his office
on Second street near Madison yesterday, for assistance. Nine persons received articles of food for which they
appeared very grateful. Three were
refused, having revealed that they were not in necessitous circumstances.
One woman, on being offered a piece of bacon, turned up her nose with the
remark that she did not eat the article. She
was informed that she might call again when real necessity had made her less
delicate. Mr. Underwood will
evidently make a good almoner. He
is kind without credulity, and firm without harshness.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 26, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
A Call
from North Carolina and a Response from Tennessee.—The teachers and pupils of
St. Mary's School, in Raleigh, North Carolina, having contributed a fund for the
purchase of a flag to be presented to the cavalry company of that city, and not
being able to procure the materials there, telegraphed yesterday to have the
order filled at Memphis, and an elegant banner of the young Confederacy,
promptly prepared by our townsman Cameron, and forwarded gratis by the patriotic
Borden, of the Adams Southern Express, was speedily sent on its way to the
capital of the old North State.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 26, 1861, p. 3, c.
1
Camp
Jackson Men.—We were called upon last evening by Mr. Ed. A. Withers, a
Virginian, who has for many years resided in St. Louis, who informed us that the
was one of a party of thirty-eight persons, all among the prisoners lately
seized at Camp Jackson, St. Louis. We
learn from him that there are two thousand men who are panting to reach the
South, that they may have an opportunity of avenging the indignity to which they
have been subjected. This party of
thirty-eight is the first instalment [sic] of the coming crowd. They came to
Columbus on the Dickey. Capt.
Abel treated them well, and gave them a free passage. At the Welbourne house, Columbus, Mr. Welbourne made them
welcome, fed them sumptuously, and declined to present a bill.
The ladies of Columbus assembled and made a handsome flag, which they
presented to the company. At Humboldt, for the first time since their captivity, the
escaped men, for they felt themselves to be such, indulged in hearty cheers for
Jeff Davis. At that place the
landlord of the hotel treated them liberally to the best in his house, and
charged them nothing. The officers
of the railroad treated them kindly and gave them a free passage; to all these
kind persons Mr. Withers was desired by the company to present their warm and
grateful thanks through the Appeal. To
the ladies of Columbus, they offer especial acknowledgements. Mr. Withers was at Jefferson City a few days ago.
A large number of troops were there who were to be disbanded under the
operation of the agreement between Gen. Harney and
Gen. Price. They declared if
they could not fight for Secession in Missouri, they would march in Arkansas and
take service in the Southern army. From all that he saw, Mr. Withers is
confident that if the repressive measures now inaugurated in Missouri are
carried out, the South will receive large accessions of men from that State, if
means can be found to enable them to reach the spot where they are wanted.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], May 28, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
A Good Work Going On.
The Nashville Union speaks encouragingly of the manner in which
military work is being forwarded in the penitentiary.
On visiting that institution on Friday last, the editor found sixty-five
men employed alone in making cartridges, turning them out at the rate of 20,000
per diem. A little practice will
greatly increase the result of their labors.
Thirty men are employed in repairing and cleaning muskets, who finish up,
as bright and perfect as when new, about one hundred daily.
The manufacture of cap boxes, cartridge belts, haversacks, camp chairs,
stools, cots, military chests, etc., etc., is also being vigorously prosecuted.
Of course all these preparations are being made at a very trifling
expense to the State.