MEMPHIS DAILY
APPEAL
January, 1862 – June 6, 1862
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
New Year's Day.
Another year has rolled back into the dark sea of the past, to sink like
its predecessors in the distance behind us, which every moment becomes more dim.
For a generation it will be a memory, and then subside into a paragraph
in the book of universal history. Fruitful
in events as it has been—the era in which a new nation burst into life and
claimed an individuality among the governments of the world—what a few lines
will tell its history to future generations!
To us, who will soon listen to the clock striking the hour that dismisses
it from existence, it is yet a reality; a fountain throwing out troubled
waters, which still seethe, and bubble, and roar around us, carrying us on to
new and strange events—awaking lofty hopes—arousing mighty energies.
As a
young traveler on leaving a home to which he will never return, pauses on the
ridge of the hill which will soon hide from him forever the house of his
childhood, the scenes of early trials and youthful pleasures, pains, and
efforts, so we look back, at this midnight moment, on eighteen hundred and
sixty-one. Much we have loved, much
we have gloried in, lies in the spot we have left; but before us spreads a
larger career, a nobler domain. From
the summit of the full grown year we survey the valley of bygone time we have
parted with, and drop a tear to its sacred memories.
Turning we gaze on the prospect before us, the new, the untried, the
future. O'er fair valleys and
glittering streams, up among lofty mountains, whose purple tops glow with the
light of promise, we gaze with joy, and yet with awe.
Our
eye kindles—our heart pants—our souls bound within us as anticipation lights
the coming future. Yet a hush comes
to calm the wild emotion, as we think what must be suffered, dared, and done,
before those streams are crossed, those rugged summits scaled.
But the calm brings no faltering—the brow is knit with strong
resolve—the arm is stiff with stern determination—the soul heaves with all
the might of the indomitable will, to suffer, dare, and do, so that the end in
view may be accomplished!
And
thus we welcome eighteen sixty-two. Hope
beams upon its birth; bright aspirations gem its face with smiles; coming
success glitters like a jeweled tiara round its infant head. We welcome it with the thunder of victorious guns, the shouts
of armed men, the clangor of the battle, and the shrieks of dying and retreating
foes. Big with fate, the new year
now is with us—powerless itself for good or ill, bears within its womb the
coming days which, one by one, our own strong will and firm right hand may crown
with fortune. Come on new year!
dauntless we meet you, for we do not wait but make success;
we will not feebly wish for triumph, but by bold deeds command it.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
J. C. McAllister,
Manufacturer of
Shirts and Military Clothing,
Ayres' Block—Court Square,
Memphis, Tennessee.
Shirts cut by measurement—Fits guaranteed. I am also prepared to cut and make
Military Uniforms to Order.
Mrs. Beeman, Shirt Cutter. Orders
solicited and filled with dispatch.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2
A New
Gun.—The Plaqemine Sentinel has the following:
We had
the pleasure of examining during this week a new rifled gun, invented by and
made for Chas. A. Desobry, of this place, who has already been successful with
the late United States government in obtaining a patent for an improved bagesse
furnace. This gun appears simple
and effective. The cartridge is of
tin or some white mal [sic? metal?], the diameter of which is about half an inch.
It
can be discharged and loaded again at will.
In a groove in the stock this cartridge is shoved into the barrel.
By pressing a spring, a curved piece of mechanism springs back, exposing
this entrance. After the cartridge is inserted, this semi-circular piece of
iron, on which is the tube, is pressed back into the spring, and the gun is
ready for firing.
After
being fired, the discharged cartridge is easily pulled out again and another
inserted. It appears, to our poor
judgment upon such matters, that this gun is the simplest, and will be the most
effective weapon in the gun line ever invented. It is so made that the French bayonet can be applied to it.
The barrel, which is rifled and about an inch in diameter, is made to
unscrew, and the shot gun barrel applied. In
the butt end of the metal cartridge is a minute hole which admits the fire from
the cap. It could be fired nine or ten times a minute, we should
judge, though it should be pouring down rain all the time! Such is a hasty and feeble description of what we conceive to
be a magnificent gun.
Mr.
Desobry, we learn, intends to apply early for a patent, and also to exhibit his
gun to the members of our present Legislature.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3,
c. 6
Suspended.—The
German paper published in this city, the Anzeiger des Sudens, is
suspended for the present, owing to the difficulty of procuring paper.
A new German paper, we are informed, will make its appearance here in two
or three weeks.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
Aid to the Soldiers.
Senatobia, Miss., December 28, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: Will you permit us through
the columns of your valuable paper, to give a summary of the proceedings of our
society since its organization on the 7th day of September last.
The
officers of our society are, Mrs. Jane Matthews, President; Mrs. Mary Steele,
Vice-President; Miss Laura Rankin, Secretary; Miss Mat. Miller, Assistant
Secretary; Mrs. Bettie Feeney, Treasurer.
Since
our organization we have made up eighty-eight suits of winter clothing, three
hundred and forty-one pair cotton drawers, and thirty-six flannel shirts.
We
have obtained by donation, twenty pair blankets, one hundred and two pair socks,
twelve pair gloves, and several quilts, comforts and coverlids.
All of these se sent off some time since.
We
have had one concert, and realized about fifty dollars.
Our entire cash receipts amount now to one hundred and fifteen dollars.
We are
still busily engaged, and have on hand 288 yards of calico purchased by the
society of our own home merchants, who (be it said to their praise) put down
their goods fifty per cent. below the old selling price for the benefit of the
soldiers. The calico we are now
making up into comforts for the Columbus hospital; they will all be ready in the
course of a week.
We
still have some money at our disposal which we wish to use to the best advantage
for the relief of the brave men who are, as it were, forming a living
fortification to defend the fair temple of American liberty from the polluted
tread of a Vandal host.
By
order of the Society.
Mrs. Jane Matthews, President.
Miss
Laura Rankin, Secretary.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Woman's
Invention.—The Eutaw (Alabama) Observer states that a lady of that
place, being desirous of obtaining a military scarf for a relative, and not
being able to buy one to suit her, cut up and carded a silk dress, spun it into
thread and crocheted it into a most beautiful and elegant scarf, such as Jeff.
Davis himself might be proud to wear.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Manufactures.
On Tuesday afternoon we paid a visit to the "Confederate Arms
Factory" of Messrs. Froelich & Estvan, in the lower part of town.
It is comparatively but yesterday—the time can hardly be counted by
months—since, on the site of the factory (Mr. Dudley's Mills,) there was only
the usual fixtures of a saw mill and planing machinery.
Now there are facilities for turning out nine hundred cavalry saber
blades per week, or will be by next week. We
would have said, cavalry sabers, but that the difficulty in making the scabbards
has not yet been fully overcome, but it soon will be, and then the factory will
be able to put swords in the hands of a whole cavalry regiment every week.
We saw
the operations of forging the blades—grinding and polishing them—tempering
and fitting them with handles, involving sundry operations, and requiring the
services of men of many trades. The
factory has turned out and is turning out lances, saber bayonets, officers'
swords, cavalry sabers, artillery swords, and we suppose all other cutting
sticking and stabbing utensils.—Wilmington (N. C.) Journal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 3, 1862, p. 3,
c. 6
Excellent.—In
New Orleans they have a ladies' association for clothing the children of absent
volunteers. This excellent
association has distributed over five thousand garments, clothing fourteen
hundred and six children. We think
there is a suggestion here that might advantageously be seized in Memphis.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 3, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
Patriotic Entertainment at Bolivar.
Bolivar, Tenn., December 30, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: It is exceedingly
gratifying to see that, while our brave men are nobly fighting the battles of
the South, and hazarding their lives for what is dearer than life itself, the
fair at home are doing all they can to help on the glorious cause.
It was
my privilege last week to witness, in Bolivar, Tennessee, a most interesting
entertainment, and rendered doubly so by the fact that the object was to assist
the Southern Mothers, of Memphis, in their noble efforts to alleviate the
sufferings of the soldiers, who have either been wounded in battle or fallen
victims to disease.
Besides
the citizens present the camp had sent her representatives in handsome, noble
looking men, and Hardeman
"Had gathered there
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
A 'hundred' hearts beat happily; and when
Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
And all went merry as a marriage bell."
I
could not tell which to admire most, the rare beauty of the singers, or the
beautiful strains of song that bore me up to realms of fancy and delight.
The
tableaux were well chosen, well arranged and well executed.
It may seem invidious to specify one particular scene, but I cannot
forbear mentioning the "Eastern Slave market," as the very climax of
the entertainment. It was a most
beautiful picture. There, in
various postures, some standing, some sitting and some in chains, but all
arrayed in the gorgeous drapery of Eastern costume, their heads covered with
magnificent turbans, their arms and fingers ornamented with brilliant jewelry,
their forms and faces all radiant with loveliness, was as fine and rare a
collection of beauty as could be found among the Georgians or Circassians of the
East. The heartless seller, and the equally cold hearted buyer,
standing there, added to the beauty of the scene by very contrast, and when the
curtain fell a tumultuous shout of applause went up, and did not cease its
rolling thunders till again the signal sounded, and the dazzling vision was
opened to our eyes once more.
The
remainder of the "varieties" were all very interesting, and the
audience showed their appreciation by coming out in good numbers in the second
night.
The
ladies here deserve great credit for their efforts in this cause, as this is the
second time within three months past they have gotten up such an entertainment
for the benefit of the suffering soldiers.
W.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
"The
Me-lish."—The Richmond Examiner is responsible for the following.
Everybody
who traverses the streets of Richmond is aware of the immense quantity of gay
and gorgeous fighting material disporting itself about the doors of the hotels.
The other day one of the Choctaw warriors, who had just paid his respects
at the War Department, was sauntering past the ------ hotel, when a handsome and
highly decorated major was making himself the cynosure of female eyes. The Indian was evidently much struck by the military
appearance of our hero, and pointing to the major's sword, exclaimed:
"Reg'lar?" "No," replied the major.
"Volunteer?" "No—militia."
Drawing himself up the "native" gave the possessor of the
ivory-mounted pistol a look of ineffable contempt, as he exclaimed with a tone
of disgust not easily described: ""malish,
oh he-elle."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
Camp
Amusements.—Nothing is possessed of so much monotony as "camp life,"
especially after going into winter quarters, and the soldier resorts to a
variety of methods to relieve this dullness.
No amusement seems so popular with the great body of our gallant army as
Shakespearian readings, and singing and dancing. On Christmas eve, the "Young Guard" of this city,
circulated neatly written play bills around the camp of the 15th
regiment, stationed near Yorktown, setting forth that there would be a dramatic
performance at the quarters of that company on that night, when the
"eminent tragedian, Mr. George Charters, would make his first appearance on
any stage." We have the honor
of a personal acquaintance with this "eminent tragedian," and have
often seen him, after "tatoo," when naught could be heard but the
"slow, measured tread of the sentinel," emerge from his tent, with a
regal robe, (which consisted of an old blanket, with a "strange
device" upon it, so as to distinguish it from "any other
blanket") closely drawn about him, and with a drawn sword, go through with
the celebrated tent scene from "Richard III," to the infinite delight
of the whole camp.
We
learn that the officers stationed at Manassas by way of relieving the dullness
incident to camp life, are about to cause to be constructed a "Temple of
Thespis," and are endeavoring to engage a dramatic company, the members of
which will receive their salaries from the officers, who will enact the part of
"lessees and managers." We
heartily hope that these brave defenders of the "Sunny South" may
succeed in their undertaking to pass their leisure moments in so rational a
manner.—Richmond Enquirer.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
Cotton
Seed for Soap.—It is said that cotton seed oil is equal, if not superior to
the ordinary refuse-grease for soap. The
process is so simple that any housewife may, with little trouble, make the
experiment. Put as much cotton seed
into a large strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed with a pestle,
crush or mash them well; then boil in strong ley, and proceed as in the usual
way. As grease may be scarce next
year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the grease is
exhausted.—Home Journal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Something
Good in Prospect.—We learn that the Scotchmen in Memphis are preparing a
dramatic entertainment in which the play of Rob Roy will be performed by
Scotchmen. That entertainment will
take.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Southern
Minstrels.—Frayne and Tannehill's Southern Minstrels give a performance this
evening at Odd Fellows' Hall of a character calculated to amuse.
The persecuted darkey, a new piece, and the artist's studio, also a new
piece, and a variety of singing and dancing, are on the bills.
Those who go to Odd Fellows' Hall to-night will have some hearty laughing
to do.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Doctotorial.—While
every family recognizes it as a solemn duty to pay for their sugar and tea, by
some incomprehensible psychological idiosyncrasy, the conscience, so tender on
groceries, is as insensible as leather on physic, and doctors' bills are treated
with as little ceremony as pastors' salaries, or newspaper subscriptions.
The doctors of this city have very properly taken action upon this
injustice, and the result is seen in an advertisement which we publish this
morning. The physicians give notice that from this date they will send
in their bills at the termination of each particular case.
When people take a carriage ride, or buy a new bonnet for their wives,
they expect to pay for the treat—they have a right to do the same when they
have their pulses felt or their tongues looked at.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Bible
Society.—The annual meeting of the Memphis and Shelby county Bible Society
will be held at the First Baptist church at half-past six o'clock on Sabbath
evening next, the 4th instant. Important
information of the past year's work and of the present wants of the society will
be laid before the meeting, and officers will be elected for the coming year.
During the last twelve months the entire city and county have been
canvassed, and every destitute family willing to receive a Bible has been
supplied. Ten thousand Testaments
have been donated to soldiers, yet the work is but just begun, and loudly
appeals for aid to the patriotic and Christian sympathies of our people. It is hoped there will be a full attendance of members, and
of all the friends of the Bible, of all who have at heart the best interests of
our gallant soldiers and of all the youth of the land.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 5, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Another
supply.—It is stated by the Georgia Constitutionalist that the steamer Gladiator, which recently arrived at a southern port, was freighted with
30,000 Enfield rifles, and a large quantity of other munitions of war.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 5, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The
Vicksburg Sun, of the 3d inst., announces that its suspension temporarily
has become necessary, until such time as a supply of paper can be obtained.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Letter from
Richmond.
[Special Correspondence of the Appeal.]
Richmond, December 30, 1862.
Christmas
has come and gone, the holidays are nearly over, and mid-winter rapidly
approaches. The festive season has
been remarkably quiet in all respects at the seat of government.
In the camps, all has been serene, as much so as if no hostile lines
confronted our forces; in the city, the hilarities of our yearly saturnalia have
been attended with but little lawlessness and violence, and the social
entertainments customary at this period have been of an unusually temperate
character. One or two stabbings in
the streets and numerous little evening parties have marked the Christmas week,
which will be set down as altogether the dullest within the memory of that
worthy personage—the oldest inhabitant. Here
and there, at old mansions in the country, the holidays were celebrated after
the ancient fashion with innocent fun and love making by parties of fair young
maidens and officers on furlough, just as though "wild war's deadly
blast" had never been blown across the border, and the blockade was a mere
delusion. In the glow of the bright wood fires, the young heroes told
the story of Bethel, and Manassas, and Leesburg, and, perhaps, another story of
a tenderer, but not less interesting sort, into the eager ears of enraptured
listeners; and as the joyous time wore away, few thought of the months to come,
the privations and exposure of the encampment and the bivouac, the long, and it
may be the final, separation between the guests of the hospitable homestead.
The weather of the current December, which has been all along more like
that of Italy than Virginia, became softer and more delicious as Christmas
approached, and is even now as bright and beautiful as a dream.
Fine weather for military operations, and yet nothing whatever has been
done in the Peninsula or on the Potomac. We
are still under the spell of the "masterly inactivity." . . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 5, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8
Summary: New Memphis
Theater—benefit for General Hospital—"Evadne, or the Statue;"
"Rough Diamond"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Letter from Virginia.
Oatland Mills, Va., Dec. 27, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: The regiments comprising
this brigade, it can be truthfully said, have been enjoying themselves,
individually and collectively, ever since the battle of the 21st of
October, with, of course, the exception of the fluctuations of the weather.
The past ten days have been spent in moving camps, and all are now
pitched in a tolerable good position, where the anticipations run high that we
will remain for the winter, at least all are making what preparations they can
for a permanent stay. . . .
Christmas
has passed and gone; coming without much intimation and leaving without any
regrets. Santa Claus neglected the juveniles in and around here, and it seemed
strange to miss the row of little stockings that was wont to be hung up every
Christmas-eve night. The little
ones attributed his non-appearance to the probable fact that the mythical old
gentleman had gone to the war. In
the regiments great excitement was occasioned by sensation intentions which were
never fulfilled; but in the town, Christmas was observed a little, generally
confined, however, to red eyes and aching heads.
A
Christmas dinner was prepared at one of the hotels in town, among the principal
advertised luxuries served up being egg-nogg.
This important item attracted the attention of the soldiers, and a large
delegation was present, who, at the tap of the bell, rushed in in true
boarding-house style, and commenced a general system of extermination of the
frothy beverage. The exhilarating
effect soon caused an excess of belligerent feelings, and thence arose a general
row, in which glasses, plates, etc., formed the principal missiles. The guard
soon ended it, however, who proclaimed in stentorian voice, "nobody
hurt."
"Yours
respectfully" spent his Christmas ruralizing "over the hills and far
away," and after climbing mountain after mountain, found a little town with
one store, one tavern, a postoffice, and a blacksmith shop.
The tavern bore the unusual sign in large letters, "Manshon Hous,
Eatin hear." This welcome
invitation was accepted by your correspondent, and was refreshed with Virginia
hospitality, of whisky and buckwheat cakes, which I judge to be the principal
staples of Loudoun county, if I throw in "fat gals."
While
on the top of one of the high points, a view of the surrounding country was
charming, as well as romantic. I
won't say anything about what old sol did do, or what pale lunar might have
done, as I do not intend writing a novel; but away to the west was the majestic
Blue Ridge mountain, covered with snow, while around and above me was a dry and
genial atmosphere. A glance to the
east also disclosed the Maryland hills wrapped in the bosom of winter, while the
whiteness of the Yankee tents near Poolesville vied with the lofty hills.
Enlistments
for the war are still progressing, and such is the interest and zeal manifested
that I feel safe in setting down nearly the entire 17th regiment as
volunteers for the war. The
proposition of one hundred dollars bounty has much weight with those whose
families are dependent upon their exertions, while the grant of sixty days
furlough goes down like hot cakes.
The
authorities here have now begun to grant furloughs of thirty days, (which by the
way is short enough) but the soldier has to pay one-half his expenses, which I
think id decidedly wrong. About one
hundred from each regiment will be absent at a time.
Wishing
you and your readers
A merry Christmas,
And a happy new year;
A pocket full of money
And a cellar full of beer.
I
subscribe myself, your friend,
S. L. W., 17th Miss. Reg.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6
How to
Make Candles.—Mr. N. A. Isom has discovered a new and valuable process for
making good candles from tallow, equal to the star.
It is this: to a quart of
tallow add two or three leaves of the prickly pear, and boil out all the water
that may gather. When of the right
consistency, mould in the usual way. We
are of the opinion that a little alum would improve the candles.
Try it, everybody. The prickly pear grows abundantly in this
neighborhood.—Oxford Intelligencer.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
From Leesburg.
Leesburg, December 27, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: If a stranger from the
North or South was to honor our camps with his presence, and to daily note the
philosophic indifference manifested for all change of season, climate and the
thousand and one petty annoyances to which all are more or less subjected in the
monotonous routine of camp and military life, they could not but arrive at the
conclusion that military service had hardened us into a bona fide regiment of
stoics, among whom Diogenes and his immortal washing tub, would not be
considered worthy to associate. Whether lying out in several inches of water, or
travelling and fighting on the shadow, rather than the substance of daily
rations—in sunshine or storm, by running stream, or on the bleak,
frost-covered mountain side, blanketless and supperless—these youth, reared in
luxury and wealth, seem utterly indifferent to every change and reckless of the
fortunes of to-morrow. Simple in
their tastes and desires, indifferent to hardships and fatigue, they withstand
every inclemency of weather and laugh good naturedly at all the real or imagined
short comings of those asses, the quartermasters and commissaries.
Give them their beef and bread, and plenty of fire wood—pay them once
in three or four months, and not forget to give them plenty of rye—(coffee,
of course I mean,) and I guarantee that Messieurs les Yankees will think twice
before assailing them in the tented field.
While I now write, preparations are going on for "winter
quarters," and the sounds of axes and falling timber are resounding through
the woods on every hand. Game cocks
tied to the tent by one leg, are crowing defiantly at all directions—chicken
fights are progressing in every sunny spot, while violins and circles of dancers
are scattered in every warm and dry location, while others roar out bachanalian
and war-like strains from every tent. It
is Christmas! Far away from friends and home, these brave and
simple-hearted volunteers make the welkin ring with their boisterous
mirth—huge logs are crackling and roaring on camp fires—pots are boiling,
and bubbling, and hissing for egg-nog, beef and pork are frying, and bread is
baking—the regimental band has been imbibing, and is now playing away with
great gusto, while some have formed setts for quadrilles to be danced by the
fire light. It is Christmas! Groups are reading the newspaper and deciding the fate and
progress of the war; officers and men are hobnobbing over the social glass;
negroes are busy and gaseous over a pyramid of pots and pans, while their
ear-splitting laughter and incessant rolling of the eyes gives positive
assurance that they have made acquaintance with something stronger than water.
Boxes, and bales, and trunks, and parcels have come from
"home"—coats, and blankets, and boots, and hats are hawked about,
and swapped, and sold, and tossed about, while long letters from the
"Governor," and short ones from "sweethearts" are read, and
praised, and laughed at, while "pay day" coming on the morrow, cheers
are given for the quartermaster, and stentorian groans for the inartistic or
tardy cash. It is Christmas! Friends
with mysterious bundles and parcels, hid under the coat, arrive from town, and
dive therewith into the depth and recesses of the tent, and hide them under the
straw—friends with turkeys, and fowl, and a hundred other things, meet
together and do hungry justice to the same, while songs and stories go the
rounds of tents and camps, and everybody laughs, and everybody is
"jolly" except the poor and unfortunate frost-covered sentinel, who,
with muffled form and a very red nose, walks his lonely rounds and grins at what
he cannot then enjoy. It is
Christmas time, and even the lean, lank, solemn looking parson unbends in
dignity for the occasion, and while forming one of a circle round the blazing
logs, cup in hand, essays to joke, but being "coughed down" for the
attempt, winks ominously at the egg-nog, and apostrophises largely on the vanity
of things generally. The colonel,
too, and the lieutenant, and the shrill-toned, brisk and soldierly adjutant
smoke their Havanas on the portico of "headquarters" with solemn
dignity, while the French band-master electrifies a knot of youngsters with all
sorts of "impossibilities" on the trombone.
It is Christmas time, and coming but once a year none care for expenses.
The Yankees are the last persons thought of—cock-fighting and egg-nog,
and story-telling are the prime order of things, just now, and despite all the
parson says, and notwithstanding the "starchiness" of full-blown
officials, rye and "egg fruit" are decidedly in the ascendant, and
more than that has no baneful effect, since it simply tends to revive old
associations and strengthen those bonds of brotherhood which has indissolubly
linked us for ever to the fortunes of our country.
But
speaking of "presents from home," I would hazard a few words of advice
to those who have sent things to the seat of war "for the use of the sick
and wounded." To such kind
friends I would simply say "keep all such things at home," but
if sent at all let them be consigned to the company direct, as nine
hundred and ninety-nine chances to one they never reach the palate of those for
whom intended. Strange as the
confession is, 'tis nevertheless true, that of all the nice things, preserves,
etc., which thoughtful friends have sent us for the sick and wounded, I have
never yet seen a glass of wine, or a particle of preserves, or pickle served out
to the sick in all my experience or observation at the hospitals; yet, on the
contrary, I have seen petty officers of all grades enjoying themselves
hugely over what was intended for others, and treating their patients with no
more solicitude and care than if they were so many cattle.
Hence I say, let all who have any thing to send have them directed to the
company or regiment direct, and let captains or commissaries tend to
their distribution as common or individual stores, but by no means let them be
handled by those drones of hungry officials who are the annoyance, burden and
pest of nearly all our regiments—men, usually, who covet and seek any petty
paltry office to escape the battle field, and ride rough-shod over their betters
in the ranks. Time will not permit
me to enlarge upon the peculations of "the Army Worm," but rest
assured I have not been blind to their manoeuvres, nor forgotten the shameless
shifts resorted to by them, for self-aggrandizement, or petty oppression.
Let me not mar the Christmas festival with strictures, but wishing you
the compliments of the season in a bumper, believe me, etc.
T. E. C.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
The
Obsequies of Col. Terry.—Saturday was the scene of the honors paid by the city
of Houston and the military to the remains of the late Col. Terry.
The display was one of the most imposing character.
He died as he would have wished to die, and he was buried with all the
honors an admiring multitude of friends could pay.
No one could do too much. Every
store and office in town was closed, and no person was wanting in respect for
the dead. The procession with the
military, marching by sections, occupied twelve squares and streets, and was by
far the most imposing ever seen in this State.
Every soldier in the ranks even seemed to vie with his neighbor in
circumspection of bearing, and in exhibiting the best of military
appearance.—Houston Telegraph, 30th.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 3,
c. 4
Epiphany.—This
festival was duly observed yesterday by a crowded attendance at the Roman
Catholic church.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 6, 1862, p. 3,
c. 4
Fire
Police.—We saw a petition last night, signed by 198 persons and firms,
generally of the best business houses in the city, asking Council to make an
appropriation to enable Mr. Jno. C. Bond to put a fire police into immediate
operation. We understand that the
men are intended to patrol the city from 6 o'clock at night to 6 in the morning,
and give assistance in fire matters. Our
new steam fire engine has not arrived, and some well digested and efficient plan
to prevent and extinguish fire would be beneficial.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 8, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The
Trenton Standard has suspended in consequence of the difficulty in
procuring paper.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Letter from
Richmond.
[Special Correspondence of the Appeal.]
Richmond, January 2, 1862.
. . . The new year was signalized yesterday by the first levee of the President
of the Confederate States. From 12 o'clock until 3 a continuous stream of visitors
poured into the presidential mansion, where they were presented to his
excellency by his aids, General Jones, Col. Joseph Davis and Col. G. W. Custis
Lee. Mrs. President Davis was not
visible, in consequence of a recent interesting domestic occurrence, but the
honors of the house were gracefully done by her sister, Miss Howell, Mrs. Jones
and Mrs. Joseph Davis. During the
reception, the fine band of the Public Guard discoursed some excellent music in
front of the mansion. The ceremony of reception was very simple and very dull,
being confined to the pump-handle movement of the presidential arm to each
person presented, and his excellency, though very cordial in his manner and
apparently in good health, gave signs about 3 o'clock of being a good deal bored
by it. There were no refreshments
served, there was nothing of display beyond the showy uniforms of the high
officers of the army and navy, who went in a body and in full rig, and no chance
whatever for Jenkins, who would have pronounced the whole business "stoopid"
[note: as written] in the extreme.
From the President's, the crowd went to Governor Letcher's, where, in
addition to shaking the gubernatorial hand, they had the inestimable privilege
(which many of them eagerly embraced) of getting uncommon jolly over a very big
bowl of toddy, in the basement story. I
think the hoi polloi on the whole preferred the lesser to the greater
light, as I am quite sure the Governor regretted having provided the liquor, for
they grew disagreeably noisy and demonstrative toward the bottom, and in one or
two instances at least seemed disposed to honor the flag of Virginia by assuming
the position of the tyrant on its folds. Sic semper tyrannis—thus
always with whisky!
The
heavens were illuminated at an early hour this morning by the light of a big
fire, which in a very short time laid in ruins the Marshall theater and several
adjoining buildings. The theater,
though a small and poorly decorated establishment, has for forty years been the
principal place of amusement in Richmond, and some of the finest actors of the
day have appeared upon its boards. Gilfert
was its first manager, during whose administration the elder Booth made there
his debut as an actor. Subsequently Cooper, Vanderhoff, Kean, Ellen Tree,
Power, Macready, Hackett, Mrs. Mowatt and others, held sway there over the
sensibilities of the play-going public. Twenty-two
or three years ago, George Jones alias the Count Joannes, and father of
Miss Avonia—the recent pet of Australian audiences—leased the building,
ornamented it at great expense with beautiful frescoes of Brigaldi, christened
it the Marshall theater, and strove to resuscitate therein the "legitimate
drah-ma," as he called it, but soon ran off in debt to everybody, and the
business fell into the hands [of] W. R. Blake, the well-known comedian, who, in
turn, made his exit ere long O. P., that is "owing the printer."
Ten years ago, before achieving her European fame, Bosio sang there in
Italian opera. Of late years, the
house has been only semi-respectable, and since the war it has been beastly.
Row upon row, murder after murder have made it a terror to quiet
citizens, and though the manager, a few nights ago, instituted a new order of
things by banishing the bars, etc., etc., there is a general feeling of
satisfaction that the building has been destroyed.
The fire was the work of an incendiary, who was determined to effect his
purpose, having applied the torch to four different parts of the house.
He is supposed to be one of the rowdies excluded from the representations
by the police—seeking thus his revenge.
Not a
word of war news.
I hear
that Beauregard's official report of the battle of Manassas is soon to be
published by order of Congress.
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 8, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
Letter from Leesburg.
Leesburg, December 30, 1861.
Editors
Appeal: . . . "Lige" White, of whom I had the pleasure of speaking
approvingly in one of my letters, is now raising a fine company of cavalry in
Loudoun county, and recruits are fast flocking to his standard.
The object of his corps is to "scout" and protect a long line
of the river during winter, and to summarily punish all depredations of the
enemy who may be tempted from cupidity to cross and plunder. A
better and more daring leader the cavalry cannot boast, and modest as he is in
every pretension, I conjecture that his corps will render all very effective and
meritorious service. Success to all
brave spirits like him. Yours, etc.
T. E. C.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 8, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
A New York Nuisance.
We take the following from a late New York paper:
The
personal advertisements of the New York Herald are becoming quite a
nuisance—not that in general they contain anything objectionable in itself,
anything obscene or immoral; but, besides causing much annoyance, their tendency
is to do incalculable mischief. Many
a virtuous young lady has been brought to ruin by this means.
There are persons who make it a business to be riding up and down in cars
and stages, so that when they meet with a young lady who seems as innocent and
thoughtless as she is attractive, they may put a card in the paper describing
her in full, and requesting an early interview or a letter.
Strange ladies coming to the city are particularly subjected to this
species of annoyance, and it is well that they should be put on their guard
against it.—Cincinnati Commercial.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 8, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Consecration.—On
Friday afternoon the synagogue of Beth El Emith will be dedicated by the
Rabbi of the congregation, Rev. E. Maruson, at three o'clock in the afternoon.
It is situated on Jefferson street, between Front and Second streets,
over Prescott's lamp store. The
public are invited to be present at the interesting ceremony.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The
Marshall Republican of the 4th says:
We yesterday noticed a couple of old-fashioned spinning wheels, bright
and new, in a wagon. Everybody in
the country have gone to spinning and weaving.
If the blockade lasts twelve months, our people will find out that they
can get along very well by themselves.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The
Rogue's march Superseded by Yankee Doodle.—A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch,
writing from "Camp 12th Mississippi regiment," Virginia,
says:
The
only new thing of note is a custom just adopted in the army.
When a worthless soldier is "drummed out," it is done to the
tune of Yankee Doodle, instead of the Rogue's March, as was the custom.
The new custom arose from the fact that more rogues march any day,
now-a-days, to the tune of Yankee Doodle than have marched in all time to the
Rogue's March. The custom arose
from a suggestion of Col. Harry Hays, of 17th Louisiana regiment, and
does that gentleman credit as an observer of events.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Paris Winter Fashions.
From Le Follet.]
Two
distinctly opposite styles will, it is said, meet with equal success this
winter. The skirts of dresses will
be worn either ornamented to excess, or—for there is no medium—thoroughly
simple and void of all ornament. We
can hardly realize this extreme of simplicity, especially as we find, our elegantes
wearing flounces, soutaches, and passementeries of all kinds.
It is true that for an indoor dress a variety of dress is unnecessary and
even inconvenient. For "robes
de ville," of course, the case is quite different.
One thing is certain, a handsomely trimmed dress will always have a
richer appearance than one less so, let the material be what it may. The only difficulty is to choose from the mass offered for
our selection, comprising small gaufered flounces, ruches, braidings,
passementeries of all kinds, buttons surrounded with lace or fur, colored
pipings, tassels, pompons, of frayed silk, medallions of velvet or silk,
embroidered in satin-stitch, lace flounces or insertions, very narrow gauffered
frills, bands of velvets or silks a disposition, etc. It is impossible to name the thousand and one styles and
materials for trimming dresses.
Flounces
are never put to the bottom of the skirt, and are placed together, or in rows
with spaces between, according to the fancy of the wearer.
Many are placed in twos or threes, and each set headed by a rush or band
of color. They are seldom put
straight round the skirt, but in vandykes or scollops.
The flounces are not hemmed—they are either bound or pinked.
Many dresses are trimmed in tunique, and it is expected that this style,
being a common one, as it gives hight [sic] and grace to the figure, will long
remain in fashion. The bodies of
dresses are made either round or with two points, if the latter, the points in
front open. They are closed to the
throat, or open encoeur, according to the style of the material, or the purpose
for which the style was designed.
Alpaca
is still a favorite material with the Parisians and seems to be gaining ground
with the English. It has the
advantage of falling in graceful folds, without so much danger in cutting as
exists in many other fabrics. Poplins,
either English or Irish, are much worn. Taffetas, antiques, and moirs [sic]
still maintain their rank. Velvets
are generally trimmed with Astracan, either real or inmitated [sic], in Thibet
wool, or frayed silk. It is very
rich and soft trimming. Foulards
are much in favor despite the winter. The
most fashionable are those with the brown or gray grounds, and colored flowers.
A white foulard, with colored patterns, makes a very elegant evening
dress, and has the advantage over tarlatane in that it will wash.
Soutaches and cords are very much worn.
The designs in which they are made are very rich and fantastic. The skirts are worn very full and long behind, but rather
shorter in front than formerly.
Colored
petticoats are as much in favor for out-of-door wear as ever.
They are made in wools or droguets, in plain materials, and trimmed with
wide bands of velvet or colored merino; in cashmere, with designs printed to
imitate laces—this latter is hardly good taste; the most elegant and expensive
colored petticoats are in black silk, quilted, with white or color in various
patterns, in squares or medallions, etc.
The
zouave vest is not superseded by the Garibaldi, but is no longer accompanied by
the waistcoat of latute or muslin; the season requires warmer materials, such as
cashmere in all colors, embroidered in black or white.
The
robes de chambre "Louis XV" are in great favor, the front fits to the
body, and the back put in large box plates [sic], which fall from the shoulder,
the corsage is open to the waist, and the skirt is opened from the fastening at
the waist. This style of dress,
made in velvet and trimmed with chinchilla or astracan, has a very rich effect.
Laces
of all kinds are much worn, both for dresses, bonnets, trimming, or for articles
of outdoor apparel. Black lace is
much worn in evening dress, and often accompanies white materials.
The colors most in vogue, perhaps not those most worn, but at all events
the most elegant and fashionable are grays in all shades, the Havana brown, a
peculiar shade of green and a new shade of violet of a very blue tinge; this
last color is an expensive one, arising from some difficulty in the preparation.
Evening
dresses have hardly been decided on yet, but we have noticed one or two very
elegant ones; they are generally made of tarlatane, Chambery gauze and lace;
light silks and satins being kept for older persons. Silk undershirts are seldom worn; tarlatane or crape giving a
much more elegant effect.
Paletots
are much worn; of all these the half-fitting basquine is considered the most
distinque, and the most habille; it just falls into the lines of the waist,
without being fastened, or fitting tightly to it. Shawls made in silk, velvet or cashmere, lined with quilted
silk or trimmed with fur or lace, or surrounded with broad lace.
We noticed a very elegant Arab burnous in black velvet, and trimmed
entirely with lace.
For
opera cloaks and burnous is the most elegant and the most full dress.
If made in cashmere they are embroidered or braided in white or some
color; they are also made in satin, terry velvet, or in white plush; this last
is very novel. The satin must be
embroidered in satin stitch, the terry velvet is trimmed with passementerie or
lace, and the plush is surrounded with a large cord, and has a tassel at each
corner. Chenille ornaments are very
fashionable both for dresses and cloaks.
Ribbons
of shaded velvet will be worn this winter for bonnets; black spotted with white,
or violet with crossbars, seem the favorites at present.
Artificial flowers will be in great request for ball dresses this winter;
they should be mixed with lace, alencon, chantilly, English blonde or gold and
silver lace. They are placed either in large detached bouquets or in long
branches on the skirt.
The
bonnets made by our principal milliners are no longer raised in a high point.
They are distinguished from commonplace bonnets by the fact of their
being rather square at the top and very open at the sides; they are still large,
but not so large as they were. The
top of the cap is full of flowers, or feathers, etc., and the sides, of blonde
or lace, are very full. The crowns
are worn either loose or plain, and the curtains of a moderate depth.
Bonnets are generally composed of two different materials—crape and
velvet for full dress bonnets; silk and terry velvet for those of less dress.
The most fashionable colors are claret, green, capuchin—a new gray, the violet
before mentioned, and black mixed with white.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
From Texas.
The Houston Telegraph, of the 1st,
contains the following welcome announcement:
["]
We learned last night, that a steamer has arrived in a Texas port, within the
past week, under British colors, bringing forty-five tuns [sic] of cannon
powder, a large amount of rifle powder, 700,000 army caps, 500 cannon primers,
and a considerable amount of coffee, dry goods, bagging, rope, etc.
We acknowledge our indebtedness to the purser for a New York Tribune,
of December 17th.["]
We
glean the following from the same paper:
["]
We are pleased to learn that a military lodge of Free Masons has been organized
in Reily's regiment, Sibley's brigade, called Reily's Lodge, U. D.["]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
A
Female Spy on Horseback.—The Washington correspondent of the New York Post
relates the following incident:
A
horseman, clad in a sort of cavalry costume, with a heavy overcoat and slouched
hat, had been noticed for some time dashing about the city in rather a
suspicious manner. At last the
authorities felt themselves warranted in arresting him, and accordingly, one
morning, when trotting down Pennsylvania avenue, he found himself suddenly
surrounded by a file of soldiers, and was carried off to prison.
But the funniest part was to come. The
investigation that followed resulted not only in the discovery of certain
papers, but also of the fact that the cavalier was a woman.
How long she had been at the game it is impossible to guess.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 9, 1862, p. 3,
c. 6
Who
Wants Work?—Hands are so scarce at the levee that twenty cents an hour is paid
to laborers loading and unloading boats, yet it is common for boats to be unable
to get any assistance beyond their own crew.
Yesterday of three New Orleans boats lying at the landing only one
succeeded in getting hands outside of their own crew. Who wants work?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 10, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
The Advertiser
and Democrat, published at Lexington, Miss., have both suspended
publication for the present, on account of hard times and the scarcity of paper.
We see also that the Richmond Sun has been compelled to suspend
until a further supply of paper can be procured.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 10, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Female Patriotism.
The Abingdon (Va.) correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch notices
the following instances of the patriotic sacrifices of the ladies of the South:
["]
Let me now tell the story of a Kentucky lady.
It was related to me by one in whom implicit confidence can be placed.
Some few weeks ago the hirelings of Lincoln went to Cynthiana, Ky., in
search of "arms" and "secessionists."
A gentleman, whom I will call Smith, was a strong southern man, and
feeling that he would be among the first to be arrested, hastened away at dead
of night. He was a man of wealth
and influence, but such was the precipitancy with which he left his house and
his all that he could carry nothing with him.
He hurriedly escaped in his shirt sleeves to a widow's house in the
neighborhood, with whom he was well acquainted, and stated his condition.
The lady, who was herself wealthy, instantly and intuitively conceived a
plan to relieve him. And what does
the reader suppose that plan was? She
ordered a horse to be saddled, took a servant behind her, went to Cynthiana, six
miles distant, procured money for her friend, bought cloth, returned home, had
the cloth cut and made into garments by the next morning, and started Smith off
bright and early! Can any Virginia
lady surpass this devotied [sic] to the southern cause?
Such an act deserves to be held in everlasting remembrance; and the
historian who fails to chronicle the heroic and daring deed of this Kentucky
woman will fall short of his trust.
Another.
Gen. Marshall sent his quartermaster here for the artillery destined for
his command. There was not a
sufficient number of horses to be bought in the ordinary way, and the
quartermaster was empowered to impress. He met with a lady on a splendid gray horse.
She was visiting some of her friends during the Christmas, and was twenty
miles from home. She was asked the price at which she would sell her horse.
She replied it was the only horse she had, and she had refused two
hundred dollars for him frequently. The
quartermaster informed her that one hundred and fifty was as much as the
government could give, and he thought that the horse was necessary to aid in the
defense of the country. Her reply
was characteristic of the ladies in this country, "Kentuckian, take
him." ["]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 11, 1862, p.
2, c. 7
The
Louisville Courier says, there is a soldier in one of the companies at
Hopkinsville who never wore a hat. Acting
upon the maxim of Franklin, he seems determined to keep his head cool.
He is certainly an eccentric character, but he has fire in his eye and
strength in his arm. Referring to
this, the Atlanta Intelligencer says that there are several soldiers in
the Georgia army who never wore shoes, and who absolutely refused to put them on
when supplied by their captains with them.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 11, 1862, p.
2, c. 6
Patriotic
Southern Ladies.—A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing
from Clarksville, Virginia, January 1st, says:
There
lives in the lower end of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, two sisters and one
brother. Some time in June last the
brother volunteered in the noble defense of the South.
The sisters said go, and we will do the best we can; and what they have
done is not to be beaten. They have clothed their brother, gathered the crop and taken
care of it; wove about one hundred yards of cloth for the soldiers, and made
about forty garments for them, besides taking care of and feeding all the stock.
Such patriotism can never be overrun by the Yankee vandals, let them come
as they may. I withhold the names,
but it is certainly true.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 11, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Chaingang.—On
Thursday there was not a single man on the chaingang in this city—something
new under the sun.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 11, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Consecration
of the Synagogue.—The new synagogue on Jefferson street, Beth El Emith,
was consecrated yesterday afternoon, the solemn services of the occasion being
by the rabbi, the Rev. E. Marcuson, with reverential dignity.
The ceremonies were very interesting, taking the mind back to past ages
when the songs of Zion pealed from the temple on Moriah's hill and were echoed
from the hoary sides of the adjacent mountains.
The services opened with sacred music from a fine band.
Before the deep tones had died away the dedicatory procession entered the
sacred precincts. First came a
number of young girls, draped in white, each one carrying a beautiful wreath in
her hand. A like number of boys
followed, carrying lighted wax tapers. After
them came the rabbi, bearing in his hands the sacred manuscript of the Holy
Scriptures, and the procession was closed by six elderly members of the
congregation walking two and two. The
whole made seven times the circuit of the Tabah, which is in the midst of the
synagogue. While this was done, the
choir, led by Mr. Peres, and accompanied by the instrumental music, chanted in
very pleasing style, in the Hebrew language, appropriate psalms. The dedication sermon was preached by the rabbi, who was
followed with appropriate remarks from Mr. L. Alexander, and by a discourse from
Jacob Peres, Esq., who called attention to the remarkable reaction now going on
in the religious and political world. He
pointed out the fallacies involved in the prevailing "isms," the
causes of the attempts at reforms and the effort to unite opposing factions.
He then proceeded to discuss his main topic, "they synagogue, the
Jewish monument." The origin,
destiny and future of the synagogue were considered. He then concluded by
reciting the following lines:
Since Amram's son on Sinai's mount,
First opened revelation's fount,
Has Judah's race, though oft forlorn,
On high religion's banner borne,
Has caused salvation's rills to flow
To earth's confines, and taught to know
The nations, there dwells above,
A god of mercy, truth and love,
Who aids the good, supports the right,
And ne'er discards the heart contrite.
The
services concluded with the chanting of psalms.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 11, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Correspondence.
Headquarters, Memphis, Tenn.,}
December 24, 1861.}
The Southern Mothers:
In
assuming, in behalf of the Confederacy, the full and entire control of the sick
and wounded at this post, it has been found necessary to consolidate your
hospital with the Overton. It is
not the intention of the general commanding to exclude from its hospitals those
patriotic women of your city, who have done so much to alleviate the wants and
suffering of our soldiers, but simply to place these institutions under military
law, thereby better to govern them.
Appreciating
as we do, the gentle hand and influence of "a mother's care," in
soothing the bed of sickness and of sorrow, I most cordially invite you to
co-operate with us in this good work, with the assurance that your presence
shall always receive the kindest welcome.
I remain, most respectfully,
C. H. Mastin, C. S. A.
Supervisor of Hospitals.
Southern Mothers Rooms,}
January 7, 1862.}
C. H. Mastin, M. D., C. S. A., Supervisor of Hospitals:
The
society of Southern Mothers beg you to excuse the delay in replying to your
invitation to aid in nursing the sick and wounded soldiers at the Overton, which
delay, they assure you, has arisen from the impossibility of having a meeting of
the association by reason of the illness of the officers. They gladly accept the invitation, since their organization
contemplates the continuance of their labors during the war, and they have at no
time intended a cessation of their care of the soldiers whenever and wherever
they can reach them; nursing them when needed, and supplying them with such
comforts as the patriotism of the country may place in their hands.
Very respectfully yours,
Mary E. Pope,
Secretary, S. S. M.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 12, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
The
Concert of the Season.—Prof. Winkler, whose high accomplishments and correct
musical taste is well known and appreciated, has been devoting his industrious
efforts and his fine talents for some weeks to preparation for what we believe
will prove the concert of the season. On
the programme are that glorious piece, "The Heavens are Telling," from
the Creation; "Una Voce Poca Fa," from the Barber of Seville;
"Southern Privateers," a quartette, for four male voices; the
"Tyrolese Spring Song;" a selection of arias, recititavos, etc., from
Lucia de Lammermoor, including the famous sextette; the "Texas
Rangers," a fine quartette, by four male voices, arranged by Prof. Winkler;
"Inquete Semplice," from an unknown opera of Donizetti's; a Tyrolese
air, with variations, by Prof. G. Miller, on the violin.
The selection is excellent, combining opera with popular music.
Among the singers are Miss Gibbs, a charming and accomplished cantatrice,
from Lynchburg, Va.; Miss Sallie Houston, Mr. Gibson, Prof. Miller, with a new
piece on his violin, and others. The
object of the concert is an excellent one; it is to provide means to assist
families of absent volunteers who are in want of assistance, and there are some
who greatly need aid. This splendid
concert cannot fail to draw a very full and fashionable audience.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 12, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Southern
Mothers.—The society of Southern Mothers has not, as reported, disbanded.
Their patients have been removed to the Overton hospital, by Dr. Masten,
the supervisor of hospitals, for reasons connected with the discipline of the
army; they propose to continue to nurse the sick and wounded, and to supply them
with such comforts—beyond what the government allows in the way of
diet—servants, attendance and clothing, as the means placed in their hands
will enable them to command. In
vacating the rooms so long occupied by them, they return thanks to Messrs.
Norton & Cook for the noble liberality, which so long furnished a home to
their patients, to the gas company for a constant supply of gas, to the ice
company for liberal daily donations of ice, to the butchers for supplies of
meat, and to the public generally for a constant and generous confidence and
support, which they fondly deem has not been misplaced, and which they beg may
still be continued to them in their efforts to cheer and comfort the sick and
wounded soldier. In this connection
they return thanks for $56 from the young ladies of Bolivar, Tennessee, by the
hands of Miss L. Wood; for $388.50 from K. J. B. L. Winn and his employees, and
$15 from an unknown friend in Columbus, Kentucky.
City
papers copy and send account to the teamsters.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 12, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
Another Gallant Texan Gone.
It is with pain we record the death of Colonel Lubbock, of the Texas
Rangers, who died at the residence of Mrs. Felicia G. Porter, in this city, at 5
o'clock yesterday morning. It was
only the day before his death he was elected colonel of the rangers, to fill the
place of the lamented Terry, the election taking place at Bowling Green. Col. Lubbock was formerly lieutenant-colonel of the regiment.
He had been sick for nearly three months, almost two of which he was an
inmate of Mrs. Porter's house, where every attention possible was shown him, and
where he was as well nursed as if he had been at home.
His physicians, too, did all that was possible for human skill to
perform.
Eleven
hours before his death, the colonel's wife arrived, from her far distant home in
Harris county, Texas, accompanied by his brother, Henry Lubbock.
He son had also arrived from his school in Alabama, and his nephew,
Theodore Lubbock, of the rangers, had preceded them two or three days from
Bowling Green. All of them were
around the bedside of the dying patriot, when he met the last enemy of man upon
earth. And with what joy did he
embrace the wife of his bosom! the partner of his younger and happier days!
God grant the feeble and delicate widow may be enabled to endure the
hardships of the arduous journey homeward.—Nashville Union, 10th.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
At Wholesale!
225 bales best 7-8 Osnaburgs,
10 bales Heavy Drills and Ducks,
10 cases Wool Hats,
3 "
Gum Overshoes,
15 "
Gents' Boots,
9 "
Women's Stout Shoes,
21 "
Children's Shoes,
6 "
Youths' shoes,
60 "
Boys' Shoes,
20 "
Men's Kip shoes,
6 "
Russet
Shoes,
17 "
Umbrellas,
75 pieces Tweeds and Cassimeres
50 "
Jeans,
50 "
Ticking,
25 "
Kersey,
20 "
Merinos,
100 "
Plaid and Striped Domestics,
20 "
Ginghams,
10 "
Heavy Shirting Checks,
150 "
Calicoes,
50 "
Hickory Shirtings,
20 dozen Overalls,
12 "
Heavy Wool Jackets,
300 pairs Pantaloons,
50 Suits Gray Kerseys,
500 dozen Spool Cotton,
10,000 dozen Cotton Yarns,
200 dozen Wool Socks,
20 "
Wool Hose,
50 "
Cotton Hose,
50 "
Misses' and Children's Hose,
50 gross Military Buttons,
200 lbs. Turkey Red Cotton,
50 lbs. Knitting Cotton,
30 lbs. Zephyr Worsteds,
30 lbs. Sewing Silks,
100 Bed Comforts,
Blankets,
Mitts,
Brown Shirtings and Sheetings,
Bleached "
"
Checked Jaconet and Swiss Muslins,
Table Cloths, Napkins and Towels,
Plaid
and Waite [sic?] Linseys,
Canton Flannels, Green Baize,
White
and Red Flannels,
Shawls,
Neck comforts,
Black
Velvets, Alpaccas,
Irish Linens,
Handkerchiefs, Cravats, Gloves,
Ladies'
and Gents' Gauntlets,
Heavy
Buck and Seal "
Grain Bags,
Wool
Yarns, Carpet Warps,
Wrapping Twine,
Flax Threads, Needles, Pins,
Table
Cutlery, Scissors, etc.
We offer the above, and other desirable goods to arrive, at Wholesale, for Cash.
Country Socks, Jeans, Linseys, etc. will be taken in exchange for goods.
John L. Taylor & co.,
Corner
of Adams and Second streets.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Entertainment
at Salem.—We learn from a communication from W. L. Stricklin, Esq., of Salem,
Miss., that to-morrow evening, the 15th, the young ladies of that
place will give an entertainment consisting of music and tableaux, for the
benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers at the Methodist church.
We are convinced that the fair ladies of Salem will give an entertainment
of no ordinary interest and beauty, and that the patriotic citizens of the place
will take care that a handsome sum for the soldiers shall be the reward of their
benevolent exertions.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Letter from
Richmond.
[Special Correspondence of the Appeal.]
Richmond, January 10, 1862.
. . . An order has been issued by Gen. Johnston banishing all newspaper
correspondents from the lines of the army of the Potomac, in consequence, it is
said, of important information having been given to the enemy by letter writers
from the various encampments in that region.
The sprightly "Bohemian" of the Dispatch brought his
correspondence to a close, several days ago, probably in anticipation of this
order. "Personne," of the
Charleston Courier, has gone to Norfolk, and is enjoying the oysters of
that ancient town. Capt. DePonte,
of the New Orleans Delta, is in Richmond, writing up the gossip and
political and military on dits of the capital in his lively way.
Whether Gen. Johnston's order will silence your excellent letter writer
at Leesburg, whose communications have kept the readers of the Appeal so fully
informed of events in his neighborhood, I have no means of ascertaining.
As his discretion has not been less conspicuous than his acuteness of
observation, it would seem that his letters ought not to be interrupted.
Our
daily papers manage, somehow, in spite of the blockade and the pause in military
operations, to keep up their interest, and their respective circulations were
never greater than at the present moment. The
Examiner has been making a good fight lately with the rowdyism of
Richmond, and has brought down upon itself in consequence the fierce hostility
of all the "lewd fellows of the baser sort" in the city.
It succeeded, before the theater was burned, in shutting up the bars in
that establishment, and to its spirited paragraphs is due, in a great measure,
the reform in the matter of gaming. During
the last week, its local editor, E. A. Pollard, Esq., has been engaged in a warm
controversy with a character known as "Hagan's John" (such is his own
elegant style of writing his name), who had been detected in blackmailing the
free negroes at work on the fortifications, and who was most properly exposed by
the Examiner. "Hagan's
John" attacked Mr. Pollard in the counting room of the office of the Examiner
and got the worst of it. There was
a subsequent investigation of the matter before the Mayor, which ended in
nothing; but Mr. Pollard's conduct throughout is upheld by all good citizens,
and the course of the paper in the cause of order and decency will make it many
new friends.
The Examiner
is edited with much ability and prudence, but labors under the drawback of
having to publish day after day whole columns of the proceedings of the Virginia
Convention last spring and summer, from which the injunction of secrecy was not
removed till recently. Looking for
interesting items amongst rubbish of this sort is like excavating among the
tombs, but occasionally one finds something startling as at Pompeii.
This morning, the Enquirer gives us a report of certain charges of
intemperance, etc., brought against Col. Francis J. Tomas, of Maryland, upon his
nomination as colonel by Governor Letcher on the 17th day of June,
1861. These charges were examined into by a committee and
"satisfactorily rebutted," but their reproduction now, even to show
they were disproved, works a pathetic injustice to the memory of a brave man.
Col. Thomas fell at the head of his regiment in the battle of Manassas
and lies burried [sic] beneath that classic sod, and the "dewy fingers
cold" of returning spring will not deck a more "hallowed mold"
anywhere upon the wide battle-field, forever consecrate to glorious memories.
Recurring
to the Richmond papers, I should not forget to mention that the Whig of
this morning pays a high tribute to the influence and reputation of the Appeal.
You know, doubtless, that the praise of the Whig is worth
something. . . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Letters
for Abroad.—Persons wishing to send letters to Europe or any other part of the
world, have an opportunity, by taking them to the Southern Express office on
Court square. Postage $1.50.
Letters for the United States will be examined by a committee appointed
by General Lovell, if approved they will be sent, if not, they will be returned.
The mail leaves New Orleans next Wednesday but one, by way of Mexico, or
if deemed prudent, by Havana.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
The
Boat and the Flag.—The sensation that was excited when Capt. De Haven, of the
steamboat Alonzo Child, hoisted the Confederate States flag in St. Louis, is
well remembered. To mark the event,
and the brave and patriotic gentleman who was the first to display the secession
flag in the waters of the Upper Mississippi, the Governor of Missouri, Gov.
Jackson, when the Alonzo Child was in New Orleans last week, went on board,
accompanied by a number of distinguished friends, and in a speech replete with
eloquence—the touching allusions to which, to the families of Capt. De Haven
and other gentlemen present, left in Missouri, brought tears to the eyes of most
present—he presented Capt. De Haven with a splendid and valuable Missouri
State flag. We saw the flag on
board the boat yesterday. It is
very large, is of heavy blue silk, and surrounded with a brilliant lace bullion.
On a ground of gold in the center, the State of arms are exquisitely
painted, with the mottoes: "Salus populi suprema lexits," and
"United we stand, divided we fall."
Many Missouri citizens and others went on board yesterday to look at the
flag, and to express their esteem for its respected owner; among whom were Gen.
Parsons, formerly major-general, now brigadier-general of the State of Missouri.
All who are acquainted with Capt. De Haven, will acknowledge that he well
merits the honor implied in the bestowal of so beautiful a present from the
hands of the Governor of Missouri.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 17, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
The
Wool Interest in Texas.—We understand from the Austin Gazette that the
Texas Legislature has passed a bill to protect the wool growing interest in that
State, which provides that all persons owning sheep infected with scab shall
keep them on their own premises, and on violation of this provision, shall be
liable in damages to any person who may suffer injury by such violation.
Also that no persons shall drive such diseased sheep into or through
Texas under penalty of $50 to $100, and damages to all persons injured thereby.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 18, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
Moccasins
Vs. Brogans.—The Franklin (La.) Planter's Banner informs us that some
of the sugar planters in that neighborhood are beginning to look around to
discover a substitute for shoes for their negroes. They think that $3 a pair for negro shoes, and a cent or two
a pound for sugar will not do. They
intend to make rough moccasins out of beef hides for cold weather, when shoes of
some kind are indispensable, and let all hands go barefoot when the weather will
admit of it.
The
North American Indians formerly wore moccasins, and most of them wear them to
the present day, in all of their hunting excursions, in war, and on all other
occasions, and they answer a very good purpose.
The
common moccaasin is made by simply cutting a piece of rawhide in such size and
shape that when the foot is placed upon it, and the edges are turned up over the
toes and sides of the foot, these edges may be drawn and held to their lace by a
string run through fifteen or twenty holes made for that purpose.
Sometimes a flag piece of leather or rawhide is laid upon the top of the
foot covering the instep, and worked to the edges of the moccasin with strings.
The part behind the heel is cut nearly straight across, and turned up,
and the edges sewed together.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Romantic Incident of the War in Missouri.
Upon the authority of Col. Jones, of the Missouri army, the Nashville Banner
relates an adventure of a young lady of that State, as having occurred during
the late campaign. Her name was
Norah McCartey, though styled by our contemporary the "Jeanie Deans"
of the West. The following is the
history "as it was told:"
["]She
lived in the interior of Missouri, a little, pretty, black-eyed girl, with a
soul as huge as a mountain, and a form as frail as a fairy's, and the courage
and pluck of a buccaneer into the bargain.
Her father was an old man—a secessionist. She had but a single brother, just growing from boyhood to
youthhood, but sickly and lamed. The
family had lived in Kansas during the troubles of '57, when Norah was a mere
girl of fourteen, or thereabouts. But
even then her beauty, wit and devil-may-care spirit were known far and wide; and
many were the stories told along the border of her sayings and doings.
Among other charges laid to her door, it is said she broke all the hearts
of the young bloods far and wide, and tradition does even go so far as to assert
that, like Bob Acres, she killed a man once a week, keeping a private church
yard for the purpose of decently burying her dead.
Be this as it may, she was then, and is now, a dashing, fine looking,
lively girl, and a prettier heroine than will be found in a novel, as will be
seen if the good natured reader has a mind to follow us down to the bottom of
this column.
Not
long after the Federals came into her neighborhood, and, after they had forced
her father to take the oath, which he did partly because he was a very old man,
unable to take the field, and hoped thereby to save the security of his
household, and partly because he could not help himself; not long after these
two important events in the history of our heroine, a body of men marched up one
evening, whilst she was on a visit to a neighbor's, and arrested her sickly,
weak brother, bearing him off to Leavenworth City, where he was lodged in the
military guard-house.
It was
nearly night before Norah reached home. When
she did so, and discovered the outrage which had been perpetrated and the grief
of her old father, her rage knew no bounds.
Although the mists were falling, and the night was closing in, dark and
dreary, she ordered her horse to be re-saddled, put on a thick surtout, belted a
sash round her waist, and, sticking a pair of ivory-handled pistols in her
bosom, started off after the soldiers. The
post was many miles distant. But
that she did not regard. Over hill,
through marsh, under cover of the darkness, she galloped on to the headquarters
of the enemy. At last the call of a
sentry brought her to a stand, with a hoarse—
"Who
goes there?"
"No
matter," she replied, "I wish to see Col. Prince, your commanding
officer, and instantly, too."
Somewhat
awed by the presence of a young female on horseback at that late hour, and
perhaps struck by her imperious tone of command, the Yankee guard, without
hesitation, conducted her into the fortifications, and thence to the quarters of
the Colonel [illegible] Yankee officers, with whom [illegible] politeness,
"to what am I indebted for the honor of this visit?"
"Is
this Col. Prince?" replied the brave girl, quietly.
"It
is, and yourself?"
"No
matter. I have come here to inquire
whether you have a lad by the name of McCartey a prisoner?"
"There
is such a prisoner?"
"May
I ask, for why?"
"Certainly,
for being suspected of treasonable connection with the enemy."
"Treasonable
connection with the enemy! Why, the
boy is sick and lame. He is besides
my brother; and I have come to ask his immediate release."
The
Yankee officer opened his eyes; was sorry he could not comply with the request
of so winning a suppliant; and must really beg her to desist and leave the
fortress.
"I
demand his release" cried she, in reply.
"That
you cannot have," returned he, "the boy is a rebel and a traitor, and
unless you retire Madam, I shall be forced to arrest you on a similar
suspicion."
"Suspicion!
I am a rebel and a traitor, too, if you wish.
Young McCartey is my brother, and I don't leave this tent until he goes
with me. Order his instant release,
or" here she drew one of the aforesaid ivory-handles out of her bosom and
levelled the muzzle of it directly at him, "I will put an ounce of lead in
your brain before you can call a single sentry to your relief."
A
picture that!
There
stood the heroic girl; eyes flashing fire, cheek glowing with earnest will, lips
firmly set with resolution, and hand out-stretched with a loaded pistol ready to
send the contents through the now thoroughly frightened, startled, aghast
soldier, who cowered, like blank paper before flames, under her burning stare.
"Quick!"
she repeated, "order his release, or you die."
It was
too much. Prince could not stand
it. He bade her lower her infernal
weapon for God's sake, and the boy should be forthwith liberated.
"Give
the order first," she replied unmoved.
And
the order was given; the lad was brought out; and drawing his arm in hers, the
gallant sister marched out of the place, with one hand grasping one of his, and
the other hold of her trusty ivory-handle.
She mounted her horse, bade him get up behind, and rode off, reaching
home without accident before midnight.
Now
that is a fact stranger than fiction, which shows what sort of metal is in our
women of the much abused and traduced nineteenth century.["]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 18, 1862, p.
3, c. 3
Wool
Picking for Soldiers' Socks.—The young gentlemen and ladies, little boys and
girls, of this city, under the superintendence of the matrons of the ladies'
association, assembled in the basement of the Presbyterian church, on Friday
evening last, to pick the wool from the scraps left after cutting soldiers'
socks. This is highly commendable
for its economy, utility and patriotism, besides furnishing a most agreeable
entertainment for the young folks.—Huntsville Democrat.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 18, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
The
Concert Last Night.—Bad as the weather was last night, the theater was crowded
to hear Prof. Winkler's concert, and well were they gratified.
The concert was a success, and the audience were more than gratified.
Not only was the singing excellent, but the instrumental part was well
led and finely executed. After the
overture, which was applauded, a quartette was sung with spirit and correctness.
Other quartettes were sung during the evening, and, as we expected, they
were heartily encored. "The
Texas Rangers," arranged by Prof. Winkler, was especially well sung,
and is a fair piece of music. Miss
Houston warbled two songs in a sweet, attractive voice that brought down warm
applause and an encore. Then
came "Una voce poca fa," by Miss Gibbs, of Lynchburg, Va.
There was no little curiosity to know how the stranger would acquit
herself. A very few bars removed
all doubt, and won the entire soul of the audience.
The notes came full, round, and musical, and as distinct as the stroke of
the hammer and anvil. With an ease
that nothing could disconcert, with an aplomb that inspired entire
confidence in her powers, she poured forth the splendid notes of Rossini with an
accuracy that would have pleased the maestro could he have been present.
The roulader gushed from her throat like the free merry trillings
of the thrush. Bird like and sweet
came the stacato notes, like flowers tossed in the air and falling in a
shower of beauty. We cannot
particularlize each piece, but in each she was successful, and was twice crowned
with warm enthusiasm. Mr. Gibson's
ballad was beautifully given and encored. The
selections from Lucia di Lammermoor were a fest indeed to the lover of the
opera; the sextette, especially after the soprano voice came in, was a glorious
piece of music, rendered with spirit, filling the bosom of the entranced hearer
with delight. Miss Houston
surpassed herself. The bass of Mr.
Mas was very effective. We
congratulate Mr. Winkler on the success of this fine piece of music.
The violin solo of Prof. Miller was worthy of fame. We were pleased with
the concert, and have little to wish changed about it, except to regret a
departure from the programme which jarred with the high character of the
remainder of the performance.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p.
2, c. 4
Mobile, January 16, 1862.
Editors
Appeal: . . . We are now arming men with a weapon new in this war and in modern
warfare generally, but a most effective weapon, as it will compel the southern
soldier to his best fighting points and throw the northerner on his worst, to
wit: hand to hand fighting.
This weapon is the pike; a large number having been, and still being
manufactured, under the appropriation of the State Legislature.
The Alabama pike consists of a keen two-edged steel head, like a large
bowie-knife blade, near a foot and a half long, with a sickle like hook, very
sharp, bending back from near the socket. This
is intended for cutting the bridles of cavalrymen or pulling them off their
horses, or catching hold of the enemy when they are running away.
This head is mounted on a shaft of tough wood about eight feet long.
A gleaming row of these fearful implements of slaughter, beaming down
upon them at the pas de charge, would strike the terror of ten thousand
deaths to the apprehensive souls of Butler's Yankees.
It can scarcely be doubted that we would have won more, and more decided
victories than we have, had there not been an ounce of gun powder, except for
artillery use, in the Confederacy. Then
the southrons must have come to close quarters, and their superior physical
prowess and nerve would have made their victories deadly and decisive.
I
would mention that all our uniformed companies have good fire-arms, as also the
regiments of the army hereabouts have. The
mere militia have pikes, in part, and all who have pikes have the additional
accoutrement of a bowie-knife of ferocious dimensions.
The
"web-foots" of Mobile laugh at Abe's blockade.
To them it is begun to be a good joke and a profitable one withal.
None of them have been caught, and they are constantly slipping out and
in with their light-heeled clippers. I
would like to give you more particular information, but the blockade breakers
would not thank me for heralding their successes.
Few of these achievements find their way into print, but I assure you
that some of these daring adventures make their trips to Havana with almost the
regularity of a mail steamer in times of peace.
All
quite at Pensacola—and dull, very dull, say the valiant spirits there, who
chafe in inglorious repose.
Anon.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Gardener's Sale!
Having determined to change my business, I have for sale a very fine lot
of three year old Asparagus Roots, a choice lot of mammoth Pie Plant [rhubarb], the very
best selections of early and late Strawberry Plants, for marketing purposes; a
large lot of Carrots, Parsnips, Oyster Plants or Salsify; Leek, Red and Yam
Sweet Potatoes; Corn, Fodder, Hay, Garden Seeds; a few bushels Early Peas and
Onion Sets; Garden Implements, Hot Bed Frames, etc., all of which will be
offered privately during the week. The
remaining part will be sold publicly on Saturday, the 25th instant,
at 10 o'clock A.M.
A. Worley Patterson,
Hernando Plank Road,
Near the State Female College.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Mats!
Mats!
Wipe Your Feet,
And Keep Your Carpets Clean!
Ingraham & Lees, No. 283 Main street, Brinkley Block have a fine
assortment of
Allicante
Mats,
Shuck
do,
Coiar
[?]
do,
Manila
do,
Jute
do,
Fancy
Bordered
do,
Sheep
Skin
do,
Parlor
do,
English
do,
For
sale by
Ingraham & Lees,
283 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Light!
Light!
Cotton Seed Oil!
We keep constantly on hand a good supply of
Lamps!
For burning the Cotton Seed Oil—an oil which is fast coming into universal use in the Southern Confederacy. We also keep the Oil for sale, wholesale or retail.
Also,
Lard Oil, Non-Explosive Burning Fluid, Camphene, Pitch,
Rosin and our well-known Bar and Soft Soap.
Give us a call.
J. P. Prescott & Co.
No. 40 Jefferson street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p.
2, c. 8
5000 yds. Carpeting,
800 pairs Men's Kip Shoes,
1500 pairs Children's Shoes,
35 boxes and caddies Fine
Virginia Tobacco,
1000 lbs. Feathers,
2000 yds. Cotton Drilling,
20 pieces Ticking,
150 pieces Heavy Brown Domestic,
India Rubber and Buffalo Overshoes,
Cotton Yarns, Spinning Wheels,
Wool Rolls, Batting, Wadding,
Wool Cards, Carpet
Warp,
Bed Comforts,
Blankets
Axes, Hatches, Broad Axes,
Trace Chains, Table Cutlery,
Gunpowder,
Coffee,
Roe Herrings, Pickled Shad,
Smoking
Tobacco, Etc.
We
continue to buy Socks, Linseys, Jeans, Wool, etc.
Taylor
& McEwen.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
A
Valuable Improvement.—We have noticed on exhibition for some days past, at the
office of the Commercial Hotel, a hand loom, for which a patent has been
obtained by Mr. J. J. Kendall. Its
successful performance of the work for which it is designed, has been
universally acknowledged by all who have seen it in operation, and it is so
simple in its construction, and so easily worked, that a child can operate it as
successfully as the most expert. It
will turn out from fifteen to thirty yards of jeans, linseys or cloth, well
woven, per day, with perfect ease. Mr.
Kendall will remain in the city a few days, and invites all interested to call
and examine his improvement. He is
manufacturing the looms at Corinth, but wishes to dispose of the right to this
district.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 19, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Respectability
in Difficulties.—A short time ago a citizen of this place was spending the
night in improper company, in the neighborhood of Beal street market.
Not long after having retired to rest his companion arose and taking
possession of his watch and nether garment, in the pockets of which his money
was placed, stealthily left the room and disappeared.
The gentleman, unconscious of what she had done, remained some time
expecting her return every minute. He
at length became suspicious, and left his bed, but on proceeding to dress he
discovered his loss. He saw that he
was victimized, but what was to be done? The
room was a single one, without communication with others living on the premises.
To awaken any one in any other part of the place would only be to expose
himself without doing any good—if he awaited till daylight he would be in no
better condition. The only
alternative was to make the best of his way home.
He set out—the night was rainy and the streets covered with mud, but
minus a very important article of dress, the respectable citizen proceeded
through alleys and out of the way places toward his home, where an amiable and
unsuspecting wife awaited him. On
his way he fell into the hands of the police, and was compelled to confess the
position in which he was placed. By
then he was supplied with the article of dress his wet and shivering limbs so
much needed, and he reached his home. The
next day the police arrested the woman. She
refused to restore either the money or the watch, which was a gold one of great
value, and much desired as being the gift of a dear friend.
When threatened with prosecution she turned upon the gentleman and defied
him. "You are a man of
respectability," she said, "and a member of the church; you dare
not prosecute me." She spoke
the truth, he dared not, and the watch and money remained in her possession.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 21, 1862, p.
2, c. 3
Suspended.—The
Montgomery Mail, in its issue of the 16th, announces the
suspension of its daily and tri-weekly editions—the weekly to continue to be
published as usual. This suspension
is caused by the war pressure, and will continue until the blockade is raised,
or entirely broken up.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 21, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Femininical.—About
4½ o'clock, yesterday evening a young woman was arrested by officer Sullivan
while indecently exposing her person near Odd Fellows' Hall.
Another girl who was with her that officer also took into custody for
hustling ladies, among them an old lady of sixty, from the sidewalk.
Their names were Lidia Angling and Annie Davis.
The same officer arrested two other women yesterday, who were fighting,
each armed with a hatchet, on Jefferson street, near the bayou. One of them had received a cut on the head, the other was
considerably scratched.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Shelby Nurseries!
1862.
1862.
During the war we will sell our Choicest Trees at the following reduced
rates:
Apples
15c
each.
Almonds
40c each.
Peaches
20c each.
Raspberries
20c each.
Pears
40c each.
Blackberries
20c each.
Cherries
40c each.
Gooseberries
20c each.
Apricots
40c each.
Currants
20c each.
Nectarines
25c each.
Grapes
25c each.
Quinces
25c each.
Strawberries
$1.50 per 100
Small
Trees in quantity at very low rates. To
all who can give us satisfactory city reference as to responsibility and
promptness, we propose to sell Trees for notes due one day after date, but
payment not expected till Cotton is sold; provided, in every case, the order
amounts to twenty dollars or more. And
we further propose to deduct ten per cent. from every bill that amounts to fifty
dollars or more. These propositions
are liberal. Our stock is as large
and fine as any in the Confederacy, and we hope to receive a good share of the
public patronage. We can give the
best of reference if required. We
will ship by Express, unless ordered to the contrary.
For
Descriptive Catalogues and full particulars, address us at Collierville, Shelby
county, Tennessee.
Koen & Bledsoe.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 23, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Femininical.—Mary
McCarty becoming disgusted with her feminine career, on Tuesday night, threw
aside her crinoline and put on masculine bifurcations, for which she was
yesterday fined eleven dollars by the Recorder.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p. 2, c, 5
Letter from the
Confederate Capital.
[Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal.]
Richmond, January 17, 1862.
. . . Some consternation was created a day or two ago in this city by the
announcement—not that McClellan was coming here to celebrate the 22d of
February, but—that there was danger of the supply of gas being cut off
entirely in a very short time. I
mentioned, some weeks since, that the street lamps were regularly extinguished
by the watchmen at midnight, and people who keep late hours were compelled to
grope their way home in darkness. The
fear now is that we shall not be able to light a burner, neither in the streets
nor in our dwellings. The trouble
is a want of tiles in the retort chambers.
Hitherto, that is to say, in the old United States, under Yankee
domination, the city authorities were in the habit of procuring their tiles for
the city gas works from New England, of course. Since the war, it has been discovered that the article can be
obtained, of quite as good manufacture and of quite as reasonable terms, at a
large pottery of kavlin [sic] clay in Edgefield district, South Carolina, within
four miles of Augusta, Georgia. At
the same establishment, besides many objects of rare beauty and elegance,
rivaling Wedgwood and Minton, of British celebrity, they make the very best and
cheapest telegraphic insulators that can be procured in America.
Our superintendent of city gas works has a contract with this company for
retort tiles, which should have been received before this time, and has
dispatched a messenger to South Carolina to hurry them up.
It is to be hoped he will succeed in his mission, for there are not
candles enough in Richmond to last a fortnight, and as for oil it has all been
bought up for mechanical purposes, the lubrication of machinery, etc., etc.,
months ago. . . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
New Memphis
Theater.
January 24th 1862.
For the
Benefit of Volunteers' Families
and the
Home for the Homeless.
Under the Sole Direction of
Mr. C. P. Winkler.
Part I
1. Overture
Orchestra.
2. Gently, gently wake the song. Serenade for 4 male voices.
3. I am the Bayadere.
Song—Miss S. Houston.
4. Blow on, blow on!
Glee for 4 male voices.
5. In this modest Asylum.
Air from "Betty." Miss
M. Gibbs.
6. Over the Summer Sea.
Air from "Rigoletts." Mr.
Gibson
Part II.
Operatic Gems—From the Opera Lucia di Lammermore, by
Donizetti.
7. Recitative and Cavatina for Bass
and Soprano, Miss Houston and Mr. Schneider.
8. Chorus with Tenor Solo.
Solo, Mr. Mas.
9. Sextett; Instant Vengeance, what
Restraineth. From Linde di
Chamounix, by Donizetti.
10. Our Faith then Fondly
Plighting. Miss M. Gibbs.
Part III.
11. Overture
Orchestra.
12. Robert, Idol of my Heart.
From Mayerbeer's Opera "Robert."
Miss M. Gibbs.
13. Violin Solo.
Prof. G. Miller.
14. Speed Away!
Quartette.
Tickets One
Dollar.
For sale at McClure's Music Store and at the Theater.
Seats can be secured by application at the office of the Theater from 10
to 12 A.M., and from 2 to 4 P.M.
Doors
open at half past six; Performance to commence at half past seven.
Special
Notice.—Owing to the obstruction on Jefferson street, carriages will draw up
on Third street, in front of the Post Office.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Grover & Baker
Sewing Machines!
Two Hundred
Grover & Baker Sewing Machines!
Comprising all kinds of that make. For sale in New Orleans by
Wm. L. Cushing,
57
St. Charles street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
A Great Bargain!
For Sale
Four English Machines!
for
Knitting Undershirts,
Drawers, Stockings, Socks,
Etc.,
With all the necessary appendages,
--Also—
Two Buildings where the business has been carried on. Inquire at
Borgfeldt & Thompson's,
26 Cherry street,
Nashville, Tenn.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
Texas
Intelligence.—The Houston Telegraph says:
The
Tyler Reporter of the 9th says several large droves of hogs
have passed through town within a few days past, from the west, and destined for
Louisiana.
A
large building for a woolen and cotton factory is being erected at Dallas.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 24, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Manufacture
of Cannon in Georgia.—The Rome Courier says:
At
this foundery [sic] they are now completing, on an average, one cannon a day,
and in the manufacture of gun carriages, caissons, etc., are fitting up a
battery of six guns once in three weeks. With
a few other establishments as active and energetic as are the Messrs. Noble, the
Confederate States would soon be supplied with abundance of cannon of her own
manufacture. We are glad to learn
that these guns have been proved to be of the very best character of iron
ordnance. The famous Cutts battery
that did such distinguished service at Dranesville, we are told, was from this
establishment.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
The Largest
Orchard
and
Nurseries in the South!
Two Hundred Acres in Fruit Trees
And Fifty in Nurseries.
I have for sale at the LaGrange Nurseries, Warren county,
Mississippi,
70,000 Pear Trees.
70,000 Apple Trees.
70,000 Peach Trees,
Nectarines, Apricots, Plums, Figs, Grapes and Strawberries.
Also—Shrubbery,
Roses, etc., in abundance.
Send
in your orders, as the season of transplanting is approaching.
All
orders must be accompanied with the cash.
I will
take Cotton for Fruit Trees, at 10 cents per pound, provided it comes up to
middling quality, to be delivered in Vicksburg, free of charge.
Catalogues
furnished to all applicants.
John Hebron,
Bovina Post Office, Miss.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Ward &
McClelland
Wholesale and Retail
Druggists and Seed Dealers,
175 and 177 Main Street,
Opposite Worsham House, Memphis, Tenn.
Just Received and for Sale
50
boxes Garrett's Snuff,
50
boxes Goodwin's "
25
bbls. Turpentine,
50
baskets Olive Oil,
25
boxes Castile Soap,
50 dox.
Hostetter's Bitters,
30
doz. Scheidam Schnapps.
Garden
Seed—A Full Supply.
Grass
and Field Seeds
of All Kinds.
For sale low by
Ward & McClelland.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The Present Social
Condition of Bowling
Green.
In the Bowling Green Courier, of the 20th, we find the
following editorial article:
["]
Bowling Green is not as quiet as the town Keats saw no the Grecian urn,
"whose streets forevermore shall silent be."
There is an infinite deal of running to and fro—galloping horses,
plodding drays, strings of wagons, sauntering soldiers—such as was not seen in
the town "in the olden time, long ago."
Bowling
Green life and blackened boots are contradictory expressions.
The streets look like a gray band of cooling lava—they are streams of a
compound, which, to name it after its principal ingredient, we will call mud.
Imported dirt, shaken from ten thousand feet, mingles with the native
soil, and is seasoned with rare condiments of nameless origin and odor. This
recondite substance has taken bold possession of the pavements, which we tread
by faith, sinking our feet down through the dividing compound with a wavering
hope that there is a bottom. It has
invaded the houses, and has driven before it mop and broom.
None
but the more verdant think of being comfortable.
We look at our hotel keepers with a melancholy, only one step removed
from the deepest deep, and the depths are sounded when we see their boarders.
If we estimate a man's time at a dollar a day, his fire-wood will cost
fourteen dollars a cord. It
requires four days to get it hauled, (in which time one is told a score of
lies,) six dollars to pay for it, two more days to get a wood-shopper, and two
dollars to pay for chopping. There
is a mystery connected with the business of hotel purveyor which we never
pretended to understand, and we involuntarily think of the gentlemen engaged for
our hotels as little if any inferior in strategic ability to Napoleon himself.
From
the most considerable grocer down to the ragged boy who hails you on the street
with "Here's your cake," business is flush in the eating line.
The army is gradually taking possession of the larger houses, and store
rooms are coming in high demand. From
present indications trade will soon be driven to shanties in the suburbs.
But there is too much Tennessee money afloat to allow the energetic
dealer to abandon the field. The
army may drive them further into the mud, but there they'll stick.
Some
books are sold. Shakespeare,
Shelley, Byron and Keats—the delicate, divine Keats—have friends in the
central army. We heard of some
soldier having bought Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, Aurora Leigh. This is a hopeful sign.
Nevertheless, we are not in possession of facts sufficient to justify us
in saying that there are more thinkers than eaters. The Chinese theory, that the stomach is the seat of
intellect, may be the reigning philosophy, which would account for the sedulous
care with which it is nourished.
What
we have said is not intended to encourage our good-natured friends in any
flattering design they may have of visiting us. We appreciate the compliment, and will suggest, for the sake
of our friend, that he come in day time. If
vigilant all day, it is not impossible he may, by night, find choice lodging in
some private hay-loft, but if he gets in at midnight on the cars, there is no
hope. One of our enthusiastic
friends, a trifle too unsuspecting, came up the other night.
He reached here at 11:30 P.M. Failing
to get in at several hotels, he found himself at the last place.
"All full." "Can't
I sleep on the sofa?" "The
sofa's engaged." "Can't I
get some blankets?" "All
the blankets are spoken for." "Give me a chair, and I'll sit by the fire all
night." "The chairs are
all rented out." Looking
around, our friend saw an old trunk in the corner, and inquired in a most
forlorn voice, "is that engaged, too?"
It was. He left the house
just as the clerk began to draw chalk on the floor, with a view of setting apart
the particular space each of several fortunate gentlemen had secured for the
night! The morning found him at our
door, wisely sad, having every appearance of
"A wandering melancholy ghost."
It is
proper to say that the chances for lodging are now greatly diminished, as one of
the largest hotels has, since our friend's adventure, been taken for a
hospital.["]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 25, 1862, p.
2, c. 6
Tri-Weekly
Appeal.—Many of our contemporaries have, within the last few months, been
compelled to suspend publication, on account of the entire impossibility of
obtaining paper to print their articles upon.
Many of them have had the support of a wide and liberal circulation, but
the patronage that in other circumstances would have brought prosperity, only
had the effect of increasing their difficulties, and the more surely rendered
suspension necessary. To escape
such a contingency in their own case, the proprietors of the Appeal have been,
and are compelled to make exertions of no ordinary character, and personally to
travel over hundreds of miles to obtain a supply of the material upon which that
journal is printed. But what is
more than this, they are obliged to pay a very much higher price than was
formerly charged. This change in
price to them, compels a rise in price to their tri-weekly readers. That edition of the Appeal costs for the blank paper alone,
all that is now charged for the printed sheet; from this date we shall be
compelled to raise the terms of subscription, and the price of the tri-weekly
Appeal will, for the future, be six dollars a year.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Army Suits!
650 Uniform Suits, made of heavy Kentucky Jeans; metal buttons, black
trimmed trimmed [sic].
Speed, Donoho & Strange.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Heavy Tent Duck!
15,000 yds, very superior Tent Duck.
For sale by
Speed, Donoho & Strange,
314 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 26, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
Bloomer
Dresses.—On Friday morning week, a number of young ladies, probably from the
country, appeared on Broadway, New York, in full Bloomer attire—short dress,
overcoat, and last, but not least, pantaloons, which one of the damsels had
tucked in her boots.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
Georgia
Hay.—The Atlanta Confederacy says:
"We have from Hon. G. H. Gilreath, of Bartow county, several bales
of the best hay we have ever seen—it far exceeds in bright color, delightful
flavor and nutritious properties, any northern or Tennessee hay that we have
seen. It will keep a horse fat to
smell it, (provided he can get enough of it to eat.)"
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
Those
who are grumbling about the sacrifice of luxuries imposed by the Lincoln
blockade, ought to recall to mind the fact that during the wars of Napoleon,
coffee sold in France for a dollar and a half per pound.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Odd-Fellows' Hall!
Tuesday, January 28th,
The Southern
Minstrels!
Handiwerker's Brass and String Band.
Tannehill, Frayne, Sherwood, Boice and Master Charley, in their
Comicalities!
Go and see them.
Admission
50 cts.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
New Memphis Theater.
Friday evening, January 31st, benefit of Capt. Sherwin's Company, the Falwell Boys, the great drama transcribed from the French of
Camille, or the Fate of a Coquette.
Admission $1.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Odd-Fellows' Hall!
Johnson's
Burlesque Opera Troupe!
Will open with their Fashionable Entertainments at Odd-Fellows' Hall, on
Thursday Evening, Jan'y 30th.
Admission to all parts of the house 50 cents.
Reserved seats 75 cents.
For
particulars see programme of the day.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
Southern
Minstrels.—Tannehill and Frayne's minstrels give one of their popular
entertainments at Odd-Fellows' Hall this evening. They have a fine assortment of comicalities, pungent,
piquant, peculiar, peppery, and provoking.
There will be a merry time.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
Johnson's
Burlesque Opera Troupe, formerly the Tennessee Minstrels, have been compelled,
owing to an accident to the furnace of the new Memphis Theater to perform in
Odd-Fellows' Hall. The Hall will be
thoroughly cleaned, chairs re-arranged and numbered so that families and parties
may engage and secure their seats. This
band numbers among its members some of the best negro delineators in the
Confederacy. They will open on
Thursday evening, January 30, 1862.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
Home
for the Homeless.—We have received the first annual report of this
institution. The association of
ladies organized, in April, 1850 [sic?]. An
application to the city council resulted in the purchase and donation of fifteen
acres of land, four miles from the city, on the Ohio railroad.
The objects of the association are to provide a home of industry, an
asylum for the aged and infirm, and a house of correction and reform for the
erring. Owing to a want of
buildings, only one of these objects has so far been carried out.
Destitute women and children, such as would have been reduced to begging
in the streets, have been lodged, clothed and fed, they partly earning their own
living. The Board of Managers
consists of twenty-four ladies, two from each religious denomination in the
city. Since the Home was opened
December, 1860, a building containing six rooms and a dining room, with
comfortable attic, has been erected. All
the ground that could be used has been put in cultivation.
Seventy-nine inmates have been received during the year, thirty-five
women and forty-four children, five of the latter were born in the institution.
A large proportion of them have been discharged honorably; a few have
been dismissed for insubordination. The
women are principally occupied in washing, ironing and sewing, and work of this
kind is solicited. The institution requires more buildings and wider grounds.
It is intended, if means can be raised, to employ a teacher of the
children. The health of the
institution has been good—there has been but two deaths.
Owing to sympathy with objects connected with the war, the receipts have,
for the last six months, been small, and donations and subscriptions are
respectfully solicited. The
receipts for the year were $4003.73. Current
expenses $2783.30, expenses of building $1026; leaving $659.19 in the city
treasury and $82.25 cash on hand. The
report is a well written and lucid statement.
The objects of the institution are admirable, and if well conducted the
Home for the Homeless will be one of the best organizations connected with our
city.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 29, 1862, p.
3, c. 1
Summary: Reprint of "A Month
With the Rebels", Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine, December 1861
. . . But the slaves are not employed exclusively in outdoor labor.
Necessity has taught the South that she must rely upon herself for many
things which she cannot do without, and which, in former times, it was cheaper
to import than to manufacture. Large
numbers of hand looms and spinning wheels are seen in the country districts,
which the population are rapidly learning to make good use of; and we met one
planter who showed us enough cloth for the uniforms of fifty men, that had been
entirely made on his own premises. .
. .
At
Charleston we had an opportunity of visiting one of those societies which are
organized throughout the South for supplying the army with clothes.
The central depot is situated in the middle of the town.
In the basement floor we found large packages marked for different
regiments then at the seat of war. Up
stairs several ladies were engaged in arranging in "lots" different
kinds of uniform, and measuring out cloth, flannel, linen, and cotton, to be
made up by the hands of the fairest in the land.
We
learn from those who have the superintendence of this vast establishment, that
about one thousand ladies are daily employed at their sewing machines, making
different articles of military attire. The
work of the week which had just then elapsed, consisted of 200 coats,
[illegible] pairs of trousers, 300 shirts, besides worsted gloves for the
winter, stockings, old linen, and many fancy articles which were sold for the
benefit of the society's funds.
These
establishments save the government enormous sums of money, and appear to be
increasing in number and efficiency every day.
The
army, being composed in a great measure of volunteers, possesses the hearty
sympathy and affection of the whole population, and as most families have more
than one of its members at the war, the comfort of the soldier is not only
universally considered a subject of patriotic interest, but also one which
excites the anxiety and stimulates the energy of every household. When we met ladies who spoke with evident pride of the number
of coats, trousers, shirts, stockings, which they had completed, we could not
help hoping that the useful education that the war had given them would not in
happier times be thrown away, and that being independent of tailors, dress
makers and haberdashers, they would be able to avoid many of those mundane
difficulties which usually beset "frugal marriages" and interrupt the
"course of true love." We
may, perhaps, have also expressed our conviction that no "mother of
seven," south of the Ohio, could ever have reason to "lament,"
but the daughters of the South, having emulated the virtue and Spartan fortitude
of Penelope, would each be rewarded with as many suitors and as brave a husband.
. . .
The
appearance which a regiment presents on parade, is remarkable to the eye of a
European. many are composed of
companies who have uniforms of different colors; but in these cases there is
always some distinctive badge by which their particular corps can be easily
told. This defect, consequent upon
the companies being raised in different neighborhoods, is being quickly
remedied, and we saw numerous regiments which had lately arrived, whose dress
was all that the Horse Guards could desire. . . .
The
Washington Artillery, composing many batteries, is composed of the best blood in
New Orleans. The gunners, dressed
in light blue uniforms, are all men of independent means. . . . From the same
city comes a very different regiment, called the New Orleans "Zouaves,"
dressed in red caps, blue braided jacket, and trousers striped with light gray
and red. These men look like
pirates—bearded, fierce-looking fellows—
"Theirs to believe no prey, no plan amiss."
Apparently, at least; for, as they marched past the general with a long,
swinging step, singing a wild martial air, we thought they were as formidable a
body of men as we should care to see.
The
drill of the enemy is the same as the French, the step even quicker than the
Zouaves, and a good deal longer than that of the English infantry.
Movements are executed with considerable precision, and as rapidly as in
English light infantry battalions.
From
the reports we had heard in the North, we expected to find ragged and half-clad
regiments, instead of which we failed, during many rides through the various
camps, to see one man who was not clad in serviceable attire.
It was expected that winter clothing would be served out before the 1st
of November, and that the dress would then become uniform.
But
the point to which chief attention of officers and men is directed is the arms.
Besides the Enfield rifle, most of the privates in the army carry at
least one revolver and a bowie-knife—these are invariably kept bright and in
good condition—and the early training which all southerners undergo in
shooting squirrels, as soon as they are able to handle a gun, gives them a
facility of using their weapons and a correctness of aim that renders their fire
unusually formidable. . . .
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 29, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Femininical.—The
fair sex figured largely at the Recorder's court yesterday.
Four of them were charged with throwing rotten eggs and brickbats at the
residence of a sister in sin. One
of the four was fined twenty-six dollars, and the hackmen who drove them to the
place was fined eleven dollars. Two
others, one of whom had the pretty name of Emma Golden, were fined six dollars
each for fighting. Two others,
charged with a misdemeanor, had the luck to be discharged.
The Recorder's court is extensively patronized; thirty cases were
examined there yesterday.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 30, 1862, p.
1, c. 7
The
number of cotton looms in operation in Mississippi is 183; 80 at Jackson, 40 at
Grenada, 35 at Bankston, and 28. Each
loom is capable of turning out sixty yards of cloth per day the full number of
working days in the year, (313) which would give a product of 3,435,740 per
annum. This aggregate will not near
supply the wants of the State.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 31, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
The
North Carolina Arsenal.—Captain John C. Booth, superintendent of the North
Carolina arsenal and foundery [sic], situated at Fayetteville, writes to the
Baton Rouge Gazette as follows:
My
foundery [sic] will cover three or four acres.
My laboratory is shaping itself into a chef d'oeuvre, and I have
the best chief in the world. I am
getting out timber for one hundred field batteries and five hundred heavy
gun carriages; the latter, however, will be made principally of iron.
My rifle factory has just begun to work, and we ship to-morrow one
hundred to Richmond. Then I am
building a railroad connecting me with the road to the iron and coal mines,
which also gives me communication with the river and steamboats.
You will get a better idea of the magnitude of my establishment from the
statement of the fact that the government has contracted for ten thousand tuns
of pig iron, to be delivered here, with the privilege of increasing the amount
to twenty thousand tuns.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 31, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Altered Muskets.
Considerable prejudice exists against flint lock muskets altered to
percussion, and this prejudice is, no doubt, well founded in most cases,
inasmuch as many of the pieces so altered have been really dangerous and
comparatively inefficient. This may
be said of the great proportion of those altered by private contract.
In these the tube, having so slight a hold in the barrel, is apt to blow
out and injure the firer more than the person fired at. In truth, where a hole is drilled in the barrel of a flint
lock musket the thickness is not sufficient to give a long enough thread to hold
the tube firmly in its place.
We
learn that this objection does not apply to the muskets altered at the
Confederate armory in Fayetteville, where, by a process of punching the metal is
crowded up around the hole made for the tube, so as to add materially to the
length of the screw and render its hold in the barrel fully as firm as that of
any original percussion gun. The
old State arms thus altered are said to be equal to any muskets in use, and
probably superior to any guns that could not be made, since it might be
difficult, if not impossible, now to obtain as good materials as were used in
the manufacture of guns made carefully during peace, and when unlimited
opportunity of selection could be had.
Experiments
have been made at the armory, to test the value and efficiency of the guns so
altered, especially with reference to the tubes, and they have been perfectly
satisfactory. Even in cases of guns
that did not pass inspection the firing of a hundred rounds failed to show any
effect whatever on the firmness of the tube.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 1, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
The
blockade attempted by the North is affecting the Yankees.
The paper makers are breaking down since they have lost their southern
customers. The Trenton (N.J.) American
says:
All
the paper mills in this city have suspended operations, simply because they
cannot get cash for the manufactured article; and at such times as these, no
reliance can be placed on men's promises to pay.
Large sums of money have already been lost by our paper makers by the
failure of the New York houses, and they do not feel like risking any more.
We had four paper mills in operation in this city, all a year ago doing a
very prosperous business.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Bellevue
Gardens and Nursery!
The proprietor of these Gardens offers to the public a variety of choice
Fruits, Flowers,
Evergreens,
Creepers, Greenhouse Plants, and hardy Shrubbery of all kinds. An extensive variety of choice Pears, Apples, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, Cherries, Plums, Grapes, Strawberries, Quinces, Currants, Gooseberries, Figs, Pecans, Spanish Chestnuts, Almonds, Filberts, English Walnuts, Raspberries, etc. Also, thousands of Magnolias, of different kinds and sizes; Firs, Yews, Cedars, Junipers, Arbor Vitae, Tree Dwarf and Variegated Box, Hemlock and Weeping Evergreens, of sorts suitable for cemeteries.
Cut Flowers
Furnished at all seasons of the year.
A choice collection of Bulbs and Flower Seed daily just received from
Europe.
From
persons unknown to the proprietor a remittance or satisfactory reference must
accompany all orders. All orders
should give specific directions as to route of shipment and place of
destination. A moderate charge made
for packing sufficient to cover expense of boxing, bagging, etc.
All
packages, after being receipted for by boat or railroad, are at the risk of the
purchaser. should any omission or mistake occur in a shipment, the same will be
cheerfully corrected upon notice being given to the proprietor.
S. M. Wheaton,
Memphis, Tenn.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 1, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Scarce.—Local
news has been very scarce during the last few days. On applying to a policeman last night for intelligence of
anything going on, he replied: "There
is nothing at all; there is too much mud for mischief."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 1, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Books
for the Soldiers.—In camp the soldier passes many weary hours, especially at
this period of the year, when he must be confined within when off duty.
The pressure of tedious, unemployed hours is of evil influence both
mentally and physically. As a means of relief to the soldier, to amuse and occupy his
leisure the Rev. Wm. A. Bryan, ward master in the general hospital at Columbus,
has undertaken to get up a library of books to be lent to soldiers at that post.
On this subject he has written to the Rev. Ed. MacClure, of Grace church
in this city; from his letter we copy the following:
"In connection with my duties as ward master in the hospital I have
made an effort to get up and sustain a circulating library for the whole army at
this place. I have succeeded in
collecting some three hundred volumes; when this became known I had applications
so numerous that in ten days most of them had been read again and again. I ask you in the name of members of your own communion, and
of the army here, to present our claims to your congregation, to booksellers,
librarians, literary societies, and to all who may be willing to send us books.
We do not ask for new and finely bound books, but for any good old works
that may have long lain neglected in the book shelves.
I wish ministers of other denominations to apply for us to their
congregations for contributions of books that we may have such a collection of
useful reading matter as will suit the taste and gratify the minds of our
soldiers." We are desired to
call upon the various ministers of the city to invite their congregations to
contribute. We presume all
ministers will receive books for this purpose, they may also be left with the
Rev. Mr. MacClure, who will forward them, the Rev. Mr. White, of Calvary church,
or in the Appeal counting room. One
book from each citizen will make a good library for the boys at Columbus.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 2, 1862, p.
2, c. 3
Richmond, January 27, 1862.
Give me leave to
sermonize a little.
Your correspondent
went to church yesterday, as is his habit, and heard a most eloquent appeal from
an eminent divine in behalf of missions, which was followed up by a collection
for that excellent object. The
church was large and fashionable, the pews were filled with miserable sinners in
elegant attire, and the collection, let us hope, was large, although it was
exceedingly ragged. The red velvet
bags on the ends of long poles were stuffed quite full of shinplasters, with
probably not a coin of any denomination in the bottom. . . .
There
is a distillery in this city, the proprietors of which are making a clear profit
variously estimated at from two to four thousand dollars a day!
There's a per diem for you! They
manufacture whisky. Would you know
what this whisky is? It is a
chain-lightning, blue-ruin, liquid fire, death in the cup, aqua tofance,
a more vulgar but not less certain poison than the wine of the Borgias.
It has been so well known in Virginia for years that practicing
physicians, in the country, when called to attend sick negroes on the
plantations, inquire first of all whether they have been in the habit of using
it in harvest; if they have, the ordinary medicines will be wholly
inefficacious. Well, this infernal
drench, which was sold before the war at 23 cents a gallon, and the like of
which may be obtained to-day in Hogopolis—I mean Cincinnati—at 13 cents, is
eagerly bought up at $1.60 a gallon. The
sale of the establishment are only limited by the capacity of manufacture, the
demand being infinitely greater than the supply.
And where does it go? Every
drop of it to the army! Nor is
this wholesale laboratory the only one in operation here.
Smaller distilleries have already been established in the neighborhood of
the city, and are springing up every day, in consequence of a demand which is
every day increasing. There is
nothing men will not do for money. The
auri sacra fames overrides all considerations of duty and patriotism.
These
facts give us pause.
The
amount of public inquiry, of demoralization, of crime, which is caused by this
immense production of whisky can not be computed.
The seeds of ruin are thus sown broadcast over the land, and the fatal
crop will only too surely be gathered in crowded hospitals, in bloody street
fights, in fatal military misfortunes, in the utter debasement of the finest
body of soldiery the world has ever seen collected. Can nothing be done to remedy this frightful evil?
Are we powerless? Shall the Confederate States of America be left at the mercy
of a few unscrupulous whisky-dealers, whom we have more to fear than the ships
of Burnside or the bayonets of McClellan?
I am
no advocate of a Maine liquor law, and have never believed in legislating men
into sobriety. I can even suppose
that a ration of spirituous liquors may be rational, that it is necessary to the
comfort and good health of troops in the field—though this is at least
questionable. But the liquors
should be pure and the quantity fixed by strict military regulation.
If the vile compound to which I have referred, is to be carried into
every camp, and the men allowed to drink what they can procure, it needs no gift
of prophecy to declare that we shall be beaten, that our efforts for independent
nationality will be unavailing.
What
is the remedy? Not certainly in
"general orders." Good
generals like Braxton Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston, recognizing the appalling
mischief wrought by the bad liquor in camp, have issued strict disciplinary
orders on the subject, but these have no effect whatever upon the distilleries.
The sale is undiminished. The
distillers laught [sic] at the moral deductions of the commanding officers, and
deride the official signature of the "A. A. G."
Clearly there is but one way—the fountain of bitter waters must be
sealed or purified at its source. Not
to put too fine a point upon it, the distilleries must be cleaned out.
We
establish a censorship of the press, we legislate concerning the adulterations
of food, we protect ourselves against the impurity of drugs and medicines, we
have laws prohibiting the wearing of concealed weapons—shall we not defend our
defenders from the poison of the distilleries?
I
leave the matter with you, Messrs. Editors, and with your readers, having
sermonized somewhat prosely, perhaps, and beg that you will agitate the question
of an excise, as a matter absolutely of life and death to the Southern
Confederacy. . . .
A sad
accident occurred this morning in the laboratory of the Confederate States
armory in this city, in the fixed ammunition room. A shell in some manner ignited and exploded, severely
wounding six of the workmen, and setting fire to the building. The flames were soon extinguished by the fire brigade without
material damage to the armory, but two of the sufferers were so badly injured, I
am sorry to learn, that their recovery is despaired of.
General
Longstreet arrived in town yesterday from Centerville.
His mission is a distressing one—to bury two sweet little children, who
died on Friday and Saturday, within twenty-four hours of each other.
The general has the lively sympathy of this whole community in his deep
affliction. . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Wholesale!
60 doz. Fine Black and Drab Hats,
2[illegible] M. G. D. Percussion Caps,
50 cases Youths' and Children's Shoes,
10 cases men's superior Kip Shoes,
350 pairs superior Gray Army Pantaloons—all Wool filling;
2000 yds Army Jeans—all Wool filling;
1000 yds. superior homemade Flannel,
1200 yds Cotton Drillings,
5 pieces Ticking,
150 dozen Ink.
Heavy Kip Boots—Women's Kip Shoes,
Black Merino, Canton Flannels,
Gray Shirting Flannels
Weaver's Sleys and Shuttles, Wool Cards,
Bleached and Brown Sheetings and Shirtings,
Zephyr Worsteds, Flax Threads,
Black Sewing Silks.
To
arrive 100 bags Cotton Yarns, 10,000 yards English Calicoes and Jaconets, 500
kegs Nails. For sale by
John L. Taylor & Co.,
Corner Adams and Second streets.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 2, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Fruit.—G.
R. Angelovich, opposite the Appeal
office, has for sale fifty boxes apples, twenty boxes lemons, and eighty boxes
oranges. A good opportunity to buy
fine fruit in good condition.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 2, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Home
for the Homeless.—At ten o'clock this morning, at the First Presbyterian
Church, will be held the first annual meeting of the association of ladies by
whose pious and devoted efforts this important institution has been commenced.
Like all our new institutions the Home has to struggle with difficulties,
with opposition, and with lukewarmness; to help in the struggle to conquer the
difficulties, to carry out triumphantly a magnificent design of holy charity,
the old and new members, and ladies of the city, are invited and urged to be
present at the meeting, to enrol [sic] their names among those who are setting
on foot a plan to help the poor, to console the sorrowing, to teach the
ignorant, to protect the orphan, to console the widow, to relieve the sick, and
to bring comfort to the dying; and also to take the families of deceased
volunteers when they are left friendless, and to be to them husband and father.
Will not the ladies crowd the house, pay the trifling initiation fee and
enrol [sic] themselves among those
who are carrying on this good work? To
those who have a superfluity of this world's goods, who dwell at ease, and who
have it in their power to help on this enterprise of kindness, the appeal is
especially made. A large meeting is
desired, and a large acquisition to the subscription list is earnestly sought
for. Ladies, let not the call be
made in vain.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 2, 1862, p. 3, c. 8
Chesterfield Tactics.
The following, from a late Yankee paper, will be appreciated by the
lovers of fun:
Lord
Chesterfield was greatly regarded as the paragon of politeness; and as some
people think that orders given by military officers, from a colonel down to a
corporal, as a general thing, are entirely too harsh, a correspondent, who has
paid much attention to military etiquette, sends us the following, which plainly
shows that even in warlike times these little amenities incident to first class
gentlemen are not to be forgotten. Our
correspondent, who is a member of the Home Guard, says:
From
the fact that the usual mode of giving command by military officers falls so
harsh upon the ears of sensitive privates, the following style has been attached
to a regiment of "Reserved Grays," and is appropriately termed the
Chesterfield manual:
By Commanding Officer.
1. Gentlemen, you will
please give me your attention.
2.
You will be kind enough to cast your head and eyes to the right, and
endeavor to observe the "immaculate bosom" of the third gentleman from
you.
3.
Oblige me now by casting your visual organs to the front.
4.
Allow me to suggest the propriety of coming to an order arms.
5.
Gentlemen, will you condescend to order arms.
6.
You will confer a special favor by coming to a support.
7.
If it meets with your approbation, I beg leave to propose that you carry
arms.
8.
Now, gentlemen, you will please present arms.
9.
I shall consider myself under everlasting obligations if you will once
more oblige me by carrying arms.
10.
Having a just and high appreciation of your intrinsic worth, as well as
your exalted position in society, I humbly trust that I am not infringing upon
your good nature when I request you to trail arms.
11.
Gentlemen, for the last time, permit me to remark, that it is my earnest
desire that you should come to a shoulder arms.
12.
If it is not too laborious, I should be delighted to see you change your
position by coming to a right face.
13.
To conclude your arduous exercises, I will still further trespass upon
your well-known affability by desiring you to come to arms port.
14.
Gentlemen! soldiers!
blood-stained heroes! if
congenial to your feelings you may consider yourselves dismissed.
I beg to remark, however, that should it suit your convenience, you will
be kind enough to hold yourselves subject to be again called into line, which
you will be made aware of by the repeated and vigorous tapping of the
"spirit-stirring drum," recollecting at the same time, that the first
vibrations of that sweet instrument that strikes the tympanum of your ears, is
merely precautionary. Allow me to
exclaim, in stentorian voice: Sever
the ranks! march!
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 4, 1862, p.
2, c. 6
"Pony,"
one of Thayer's minstrels, said his lady love died from the following complaint:
"She kotched cold in her chest, and it settled down into her trunk,
went through her valise and burst open her carpet-bag."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Rio Coffee, Etc.
500 lbs. Rio Coffee, superior;
160 half bbls. N. C. Family Roe Herrings,
25 bbls., N. C. Shad,
300 lbs. Sole Leather,
800 lbs. Live Geese Feathers,
30 half boxes Fine Virginia Tobacco,
10 bales Heavy Plantation Osnaburgs,
5 bales Light
"
"
Spinning Wheels, Cards, Wool Yarn, Cotton Yarn, Knitting Yarn, Carpet Warp,
Turkey Red Cotton, Winding Blades (Clock Reels to arrive) Batting, Calico for
Comforts, Weavers' Sleys, Shuttles, etc.
We
continue to buy Socks, Jeans, Linseys, Wool, etc.
Taylor & McEwen,
184 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 4, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Editors
Appeal.—I have on hand one dozen round jackets made of good jeans and well
lined, that will fit boys from ten to fourteen years of age, which I will give
to those who have fathers in the army, if they will call at my clothing depot
well indorsed.
J. C. McAllister, Ayre's Block.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Raisins!
Through the Blockade.
2000 boxes Malaga Raisins—whole, half and quarter boxes.
For sale by
Burnett, Hendrix & Walker
165 Main street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 5, 1862, p.
3, c. 1
Richmond, January 29, 1862.
. . . There has been a good deal of talk in and out of the Richmond papers of
late with regard to the social aspects of our city, and the disputants are as
far as possible apart. According to
one set of critics, Richmond is excessively stupid.
There is a lack of hospitality among her citizens.
We have no amusements. Because
there is war, that affords no sufficient reason why young ladies and gentlemen
should be bored to death. Care
killed a cat. Ennui is a distressing malady. The other class of censors contend, and I confess I think
with much force, that the present is no time for the gaieties and dissipations
of a metropolitan winter. In a
struggle for life and death, when our brave fellows are keeping up a heroic
fight with the frost and the foe in the field, or falling before the fever in
the hospitals, it becomes our daughters, far more our sons, who are not in the
camp, only in the departments as clerks, etc., to check the levity of youth—to
leave camellias and diamonds and patent leathers and hot suppers and the German,
and all the display and pleasant tom-foolery of the ball room, unused till the
return of peace. Moreover, with the
heads of families, lavish expenditure, just now in mere luxurious entertainments
would be not only wicked, but, what is far worse, in the estimation of the
world, vulgar. And if Richmond
during the eventful winter of 1861-2 is less lively than other cities, which are
seats of government, the people of the Confederate States at large will credit
the fact to the good sense and patriotism of its citizens, rather than adduce it
as a proof of their want of hospitality. . . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 5, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Letter from Virginia.
Leesburg, January 25, 1862.
. . . Of local news there is not much worthy of transmission or comment. Gen.
Hill and Griffith are apparently untiring in their offices, perpetually in the
saddle, and ready for anything. "Local defense" is now a favorite subject with all,
and companies are forming as volunteers to serve the cause in this manner.
Among other organizations of this character I would particularly mention
the cavalry company of Captain "Lige" White, which already numbers
some sixty gallant spirits; enlisted under their adventurous leader. . . .
T. E. C.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p.
2, c. 3-4
Richmond, February 1, 1862.
. . . The Examiner complains that the gambling houses, which underwent a
temporary suspension under the visitation of the police, have commenced
"their little games" again with dogwood chips and less elegant
apparatus, and are nightly offering their fascinations to the mob of officers in
the city. The most stylish and
expensive of these establishments has inaugurated a new system by which to avoid
a descent upon them by the officers of the law in future.
The regular patrons of the bank are furnished with latch keys, by means
of which they can let themselves in at the outer door and successively pass
through half a dozen barriers to the inner hall of the temple, and to provide
against the use of the passe-partout by any unauthorized person, such as
a policeman for example, servants are placed in the passages where they can
always command a view of the staircases and thus bolt the inside doors in case
of necessity. This dodge is considered as making the business perfectly
secure.
I am
sorry to say there is but little improvement in the morals of Richmond since the
destruction of the theater. The rowdies now infest two smaller places of public
amusement, where a fight occurs almost every evening. The old "plug ugly" element of Baltimore ruffianism
enter largely into the lawlessness prevailing here, which never fails to
manifest itself at these resorts where "My Maryland" is sung.
By the
way, the author of this song, which is to be the Lillibullero of
Lincoln's overthrow in Baltimore, complains with abundant reason of the bad
treatment he has received at the hands of the press in the way of typographical
errors, both in this and other productions of his muse.
The second line of "My Maryland," as generally sung and
printed, reads
"His touch is at thy temple door,"
whereas the author, referring to the tyrant that has bound Maryland in chains,
designed to say
"His torch is at thy temple door,"
which is a very different proposition. But
the printers made sadder work still with the lyric—"There's Life in the
Old Land Yet." The second
stanza of this should begin as follows:
"Minions! we sleep but
we are not dead
We are crushed, we are scourged, we are scarred,"
but to the horror of the author it has frequently been printed—
"Minions! we sleep but
we are not dead,
We are crushed, we are scourged, we are scared,"
and "scared" is just the very thing that Marylanders are not..
. .
"Blind
Tom," the negro musical prodigy, is giving concerts here to crowded houses.
The ladies and gentlemen amateurs advertise another concert for next
week.
The
weather is wretched again, rain and mud, mud and rain, and utter darkness in the
streets, not a gas light throughout the entire city, except before the
departments and in the markets. No
war news.
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
For Mattresses,
Army Cots,
Comforts and
Waterproof Goods!
Go to C. Woolmer & Co., Jefferson street, near the Post Office.
Attention,
Soldiers!
C. Woolmer & Co's. Camp Cot
Can be folded, making a chair and table, and when the legs
are folded, occupies a space only seven inches in hight [sic]—Headboard and
Pillow making a Portfolio and Valise. Manufactured
and sold by
C. Woolmer & Co.
Jefferson street,
Memphis, Tenn.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Outrages in Virginia.
From the correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer we take the
following recital of the outrages perpetuated by the Federal troops on the upper
Potomac:
Hampshire County, January 24, 1862.
In
passing over the road from Romney to this place to-day, I was shocked to see the
signs of the inhuman outrages perpetrated by the enemy under Col. Dunning, of
Ohio, just before their evacuation of Romney.
The appearance of the country betokens an inroad of savages rather than
of men claiming to be civilized. Everywhere
is to be seen the most wanton destruction.
The greater part of the houses between Romney and Hanging Rock are in
ruins. The little village of
Frenchburg, six miles from Romney, has been entirely consumed.
Nothing is to be seen in the place of the once picturesque and pleasant
village but a smouldering mass. Not
a single house of any description has escaped the incendiary, and all along the
road one sees house after house, barn after barn in ashes.
At every turn dead hogs, cattle and horses, which have been wantonly
shot, are to be found. When I came
to the farm of Col. Blue, a sad scene of desolation presented itself.
His dwelling, barn, stables, everything is in ruins, and on every side
might be seen piles of dead hogs, cattle, and even dogs, upon which these
gallant warriors had wreaked their vengeance.
I saw twelve hogs in one pile. They
seemed to have aimed to destroy every living thing.
But one thing was yet lacking to fill up the measure of the infamy of
Col. Dunning and his brave comrades, and this they added.
Near
Col. Blue's lived a helpless poor old man, a shoemaker, whose humble dwelling
these self-styled apostles of civilization and justice rudely entered, and then
shot him dead. After this they
dragged his body a few feet from the door, and set fire to the premises, leaving
his corpse to be roasted and partially consumed by the flames. His crime was that he had sold shoes to the southern troops!
These
are but few of the outrages which marked the occupation of Romney by the
northern troops. Long and fearful
would be the catalogue which would chronicle them all.
In every direction the people have been robbed; their grain, horses and
slaves taken, and this from Unionists as well as from Secessionists. The
villainies perpetrated in this county within the last few months by wretches
laying claim to humanity, nay, even civilization, are almost incredible.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
The Levee at the White House.
Washington Correspondence New York Evening Post.]
The
presidential levee far outshone that of the old. Even the semi-secessionist croakers who go to the White House
to ridicule and tell every lady they meet how much finer things used to be, can
but confess that the red, blue, green, and east rooms were most resplendent that
night, without the reflected lights of their vanished southern belles.
Southern women are very sumptuous. They
fascinate with their vivant grace, their exuberant sweetness, their
sensuous, prodigal beauty. They
lack the exquisite delicacy of perception and feeling, the broader intellectual
culture of the woman of the North; but they cultivate their manners with as much
assiduity as the former do their heads and hearts, exalting their social
magnetism to the dignity of consummate art.
It is very natural, then, that people who have been accustomed to bask in
the splendor of Mrs. Douglas's smiles, and to believe that Mrs. Crittenden, Mrs.
Jeff. Davis, and a few others, alone made the bon ton of Washington
society, should deplore their departed idols.
But we get along very well without them.
The tides of beautiful women sweeping under the chandeliers left nobody
room to regret the absent.
With a
single exception, Mrs. Lincoln's costume was in exquisite taste.
She wore a dress (decollet) of azure silk, shot with white,
mottled with gorgeous velvet leaves of a deeper blue.
A shawl of point lace hung over her arm, and a point lace berthe of
marvellous fibrous texture, encircled her neck.
Her ornaments were pearl bracelets and necklace; her head dress of blue
and white plumes.
Mr.
Lincoln looked a little care-worn, thoughtful; if not anxious.
But in such an assembly, how easy it is to see that he is not a selfish
man. Every motion, every look,
indicates the genial kindness of his heart.
The Hutchinson family were present.
Taking both of "John's," hands the President told him with what
pleasure he remembered his singing in Springfield, and asked if he would sing
for him the dramatic song of the "Ship on Fire."
In a
moment more, the great drawing-rooms were vocal with the rich melody of the
Hutchinson voices. "Only
think," said little Viola Hutchinson to me, with childish naivete,
"after I was through, N. P. Willis kissed my hand, and thanked me for the
song. No one ever kissed my hand
before. And you know he is such
a lion." "Yes, a born
lion," I replied, as I watched him promenade with Mrs. Lincoln, beaming
down on what he calls her "motherly face." At least, he is inevitable.
At concert, reception, lectures, the first object stamped on the retinae
is the Brummelish figure and Byronic forelock of N. P.
He does not at all resemble the man who, from the death-bed of a
"consumptive" composed as many farewells to the world as John Shivery
did epitaphs to his own memory, when expecting to die daily for the love of
little Dorrit.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Deprivations.—The
war has deprived us of coffee and fashionable bonnets and has sadly limited our
allowance of bacon, and for the last two weeks the clerk of the weather has
entirely cut off our supply of sunshine. Is
he not a fit subject for a congressional committee of inquiry?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Soldiers'
Library.—We learn that the Rev. Ed. McClure has received a considerable number
of books at his residence on Monroe street, next door to Grace church, for the
Soldiers' Library at Columbus. Any
books left in our counting room for this purpose, will be forwarded.
The gallant fellows want reading for their leisure hours.
Let every citizen send a book.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 6, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
The
Southern Mothers have received, through the hands of Mr. Muir, $70.30, proceeds
of a concert and tableaux in Macon, Fayette county, Tennessee, and from Mr. Jas.
H. Steen, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, $159, proceeds of a concert given by the
"Pine Bluff Amateur Minstrel Band." One dozen flannel shirts sent to them by the Military Aid
Society, Mrs. E. H. Pope, secretary, were distributed to the patients of the
Overton.
Mary E. Pope, Sec. S. S. M.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Wanted.
1000 Bushels Red Stock Peas.
J. M. Patrick & Co.
18 Front Row.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p.
3, c. 1
Summary: Formation of an Irish
Brigade CSA proposed at Columbus, KY, January 30, 1862—preamble, resolutions,
address to the Irishmen enlisted in the Western Department.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Elopements of a Dozen Nantucket Wives.
On Saturday evening last our unusually quiet community got somewhat
excited to hear that at least a dozen of our good citizens, who for years had
enjoyed the bliss of matrimony, found themselves deserted by those who had
promised to sustain them in sickness and health and be to them affectionate and
obedient wives. Many a forlorn
husband sat choking and silent at the supper table.
Some had to swallow their grief and undress the little ones who were
sobbing at the absence of their maternal guardian.
Lots of backs unused to bending had to be bowed over the wash-tub and
bathing-tubs to prepare young America for a Saturday night bed. Some fumed, some grumbled, and some sat and silently dangled
their watch keys and chain, and some went stalking by moonlight to find, if
possible, their absconded half, and lead her home by the ear to duty and
dish-washing. But it was all no go.
Saturday night rolled away, and Sunday and Monday, and houses were still
wifeless, and husbands still moody and astonished.
After
a while it leaked out that the ladies were on a "toot" by themselves,
and making good a threat they had often pronounced to their better halves, to
prove to them that women could keep a secret, and had skill enough to hide and
have a good time where their wonderful wiseacres of husbands could not find
them. They succeeded.
Although every nook and corner of the town was searched wherever a dozen
pretty young wives could hide themselves, yet it availed nothing.
They hid themselves, and fed themselves, and enjoyed themselves, while
their anxious husbands were passing and repassing often within a few feet of
them, and none the wiser in regard to their vicinity.
These
gay and good humored ladies are to have a turkey supper as a penalty from their
obtuse husbands who went poking round with hand lanterns and poorly trained
terriers to look out or smell out the hiding place of one lot of women who could
keep a secret. They have got them
now safely at home, and have promised the dear creatures, if they would not
serve them so again, they will no more "go to the lodge," when it is
not lodge night, nor go down town "to meet a man," whose name they
cannot tell, nor have "writing to do," when they should be with their
wives and little ones.—Nantucket Inquirer.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
Fire-Proof
Dresses.—"A Sufferer" writes to know if there is no simple and
inexpensive means of rendering dresses fire-proof. It should be more generally known that all light textile
fabrics may be made fire-proof by steeping them, or the substance used in making
them, in a diluted solution of chloride of zinc.
The finest muslin, when so prepared, will not blaze when submitted to the
fire.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Ordered
to Leave.—At the Mayor's court, Richmond, Va., on Tuesday week, Harriet
Holland, a quadroon from Memphis, Tennessee, charged with living in that city
contrary to law, was ordered to leave instanter.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Cutting
Up.—Officer Sullivan yesterday arrested two girls who were being driven up
Main street in a hack, while in a state of intoxication; they were "cutting
up" and one of them threw the bonnet of the other into the mud.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Mud!
Mud!—Everywhere mud is predominant. Efforts are made, in a despairing way, to
keep the crossings of the main streets in a passable condition, but they much
resembled the attempts of the angry old lady who strove to keep the waters from
the tide entering the house by strenuous exertions with a broom.
The ladies are prisoners as close as the houris in a Turkish harem, like
the caged parrot, they "can't get out;" and the men have the streets
to themselves, which is no improvement to the appearance of "all out
doors" in Memphis. Hurry on
those street railroads. Ladies, why
don't you rebel, and—declare that not a lord of creation shall have another
smile or ladies' favor until they are making a "long pull, a strong pull
and a pull altogether," to have street railroads, so that, spite of the
mud, you could have the liberty of the streets, shew [sic] your new bonnets, and
do your shopping. How many stores,
that for the last two weeks, have been bare of business as heaven is of visitors
from Chicago, could have been making money if the railway cars came rolling up
Main street every half hour pouring down customers at their doors. The aldermen are busy discussing a plan to build a hall for
themselves, which they can do very well without; let some attention be bestowed,
and without delay, on what the citizens require as a necessary thing for their
business, and the ladies an absolute requirement for their comfort.
The street railway will cost the city nothing, on the contrary, it will
pay largely toward the city taxation. The
money is ready, the material is ready, only let the City Council say the word
and we shall have street railways in a trice, and then a fig for the mud.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 7, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
Coffee.
A lady encloses us a recipe for making coffee from red wheat—red being
much better than white—using one fifth part of Rio coffee.
She asks who discovered the particular virtues of coffee, and wonders
that we have waited until the blockade to realize a palatable substitute.
It is said the virtues of coffee were discovered by the prior of a
monastery, who noticed that his cattle which browsed on the coffee-shrub would
wake and caper all night. He was
thus induced to administer a decoction of the berry to his monks, to prevent
their sleeping at matins. Others
ascribe its origin to the Persians, as far back as the 15th century,
when it was used by the dervishes to inspire joy and induce wakefulness during
their night-long devotions. It
subsequently was introduced into Mecca, where it cheered and encouraged the
followers of Mahommet in their long pilgrimages, and was used by all travelers
and students. It was first used in
England in 1652. Probably the
reason its use has become so general, is that none of the substitutes proposed
possess its cheering and invigorating qualities.
We shall try the recipe you enclose.—Field and Forest.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
To Candle Makers!
For Sale, cheap for cash, the best Machine for dipping Candles in the
world, with the rods, reservoirs and appurtenances.
Also, one sixty gallon Kettle and one one hundred gallon Kettle.
They
can be seen at our Factory on Monroe street near the Bayou.
Bateman & Co.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 8, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Where
is Gas Light?—Last night was cloudy and dark, yet not a lamp in the city was
lighted. The new contract by which
the lamps are lighted and extinguished by the gas company, and not by the city
as heretofore, has just gone into operation.
Is this "beginning of troubles" a sign of yet more troubles to
come? The matter was discussed in
Council last night, and some action taken upon it.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 8, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
Soldiers'
Families.—A petition, of which the following is a copy, is about to be
presented to Judge Pettit. It is on
a subject with which the community at large feel great sympathy:
"Hon. J. W. A. Pettit: The
undersigned commissioners, appointed by the County Court to disburse a recent
appropriation of said court to the wives, etc., of our soldiers, would
respectfully represent to your Honor the importance of a renewal of said
appropriations, the first one having been exhausted.
The undersigned are fully advised, from experience, of the necessity of
such an action of the County Court, and would urgently request your honor to
convene said court, and recommend a renewal of their first and very liberal
appropriation. Lewis Amis, jr.,
Samuel Tighe, S. T. Morgan, H. Vollintine, A. P. Merrill, C. M. Farmer, J. O.
Greenlaw, Jno. Robinson."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 8, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
A
Lady's Studio.—We had the pleasure yesterday of visiting an artist's studio,
and that artist a Southerner and a lady—Miss Annie Perdue, at No. 326 Main
street, between Union and Gayoso. She
has just finished a portrait of Gen. Price, which has been inspected by several
officers and civilians of Missouri, who are acquainted with the general.
They give it high praise for fidelity, and pronounce it a good likeness.
As a picture it is most creditable to the skill and genius of the
youthful artist. There is a freedom
of touch, a naturalness of expression, and a charm in the coloring that gives us
a high idea of the young lady's intuitive perception of the esthetic principles
of her divine art. We have had much
said of late, and not too much, of the importance of cultivating southern
literature and southern art. Here
is a young lady, destined, if encouraged, with a liberal patronage, to take an
important place in the future list of southern painters.
Those who have a taste for her glorious profession should pay her studio
a visit, and all who desire faithful and well executed portraits will find her
well capable of doing all they could desire.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 9, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
The Wheat Regions of Texas.
From the Galveston News.]
A
gentleman who has just been traveling over most of the wheat counties of Texas,
informs us that the people in all that section are more independent and
prosperous than they have ever before been.
The fine wheat crop of the past year has placed everybody in easy
circumstances. The market for it
has been greatly enlarged, the blockade having excluded competition by the usual
large importation of flour from the Northwest, so that for the first time in our
history, Texas has had no other flour than that produced by her own soil, while
the extensive demand for it to supply the whole coast and the thousands of
troops now waiting the approach of the enemy, has carried the price up to a
higher figure than has ever been known before.
It is true, a large share of this enhanced price is caused by the heavy
rates of transportation, but even the price paid at the mills is, we understand,
nearly double what it has usually been in previous years. . .
The
farmers generally completed sowing their fall wheat about the first of December,
and the quantity of ground sown is larger than it has ever been before.
The labor saving agricultural implements now in common use enable the
farmers to cultivate more acres to the hand than we had imagined.
The gang-plow, patented by Mr. Wilson, of Dallas, is now being
extensively used. A gang of four
plows, worked by four or five yoke of oxen and a single man, breaks up four
acres a day, plowing the ground deeper and better than the common plow, which
will do only about one-fourth of the work.
To show the quantity of land cultivated to the hand, our informant states
that he met an old acquaintance there, who is engaged in wheat raising, and has
only one negro man to help him. With this small force he cultivated, last year,
247 acres in wheat and eight acres in corn.
But he has to get additional help in harvesting.
From this it is easy to see what enormous profits are made by the Texas
wheat growers, with an average yield of fifteen bushels to the acre, at the
least calculation, and twenty bushels being a more common yield.
Our
friend had never visited that section of our State before, and he says he was
astonished to find a country so beautiful, so productive, so well settled with a
wealthy population, and so well supplied with all the comforts and necessaries
of life.
The
people there manufacture nearly all their own clothing in their families.
Spinning wheels and hand looms are found in every house.
The soldiers that have gone to repel the invaders of our country, are all
clothed in their own domestic manufacture—whether of wool or cotton. The hand loom and spinning wheel will, however, soon be
superceded by cotton and woolen factories, a number of which were chartered by
the last Legislature, and some are already in operation on a small scale.
It is manifest, therefore, that the people of the wheat country have very
little cause to complain of the blockade, as [it] is scarcely known to them
except by its benefits.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 11, 1862, p.
3, c. 4
A
"Broomstick Battalion."—We learn from a lady friend that a project
is on foot among the gentler sex of Memphis, to organize a "broomstick
battalion" for the especial protection of such young gentlemen as are
indisposed to enlist in the military service for the protection of their
country. Nice young men that attend
"small tea parties," wear kid gloves, and have their hair dressed five
or six times a week by the barber, will receive their particular attention.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 11, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Meeting
Yesterday.—At a meeting of the citizens of Memphis and suburbs, at the city
hall on the 10th inst., the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
["]
Resolved, by the meeting, That the Mayor of the city be requested to issue a
proclamation desiring that all business houses, banks, offices, etc., of the
city be closed at 2 o'clock P.M. of each day, that the people may have
opportunity to drill, that all patriotic citizens are expected to obey it, and
that the meeting adjourn till 9 o'clock this morning to meet at the City Hall to
organize and drill. ["]
All
the patriotic citizens of Memphis, Chelsea, and Fort Pickering are respectfully
requested to meet at the City Hall this morning at 9 o'clock, each bringing his
gun and other weapons, where a military procession will be formed for drill.
By order of
A. Wright, Chairman of meeting.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 12, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
Southern
Arms.—The Fayetteville (N. C.) Armory is turning out some highly finished
firearms at this time. The Observer
notices a splendid rifle lately manufactured at these works.
It is much the same in general appearance as the United States rifle, for
some years past made at Harper's Ferry, and at Springfield, Mass.; but for
certain improvements in the matter of sword-bayonet, Maynard primer, and
perfections of finish in all parts, it must be pronounced very far superior.
The back sights are set for 300 and 500 yards.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Letter from the
Confederate Capital.
[Special Correspondent of the Memphis Appeal.]
Richmond, February 5, 1862.
The
ruffianism of the city is frightfully on the increase.
Not a day passes without some shocking outrage on law and public decency,
and the nights are filled with all manner of tumult, violence and crime.
Men are knocked down and beaten in the open streets.
Men are stabbed and hacked to pieces.
Pistols are drawn at almost every corner with an alarming frequency.
The headquarters of the rowdy class is a low place of amusement, known as
Metropolitan Hotel, formerly the House of God, when the congregation of the
First Presbyterian worshipped within its walls, now the chosen court of the
devil. The entertainments are of a varied sort, often winding up
with a general fusillade in the gallery, where the most conspicuous seats
are set apart for the "great social evil," with flaming dresses and
painted cheeks. Only night before
last, pistols were fired from all parts of the house upon the occasion of
"a muss," and last night the symptoms of an unmanageable outbreak were
so unmistakable that the proprietors had the good sense to close the
establishment. The worst feature of
this lawlessness is the tendency it has shown towards a regular organization.
The ruffians are enrolling themselves into distinct parties, clubs or
clans, with party cries and catchwords and wearing their own peculiar badges by
which they are known to each other, and by means of this machinery they hope to
defy the police. Only one thing remains to be done, if the municipal
authorities of Richmond are impotent to restore order to their town, and that is
that Congress shall remove the seat of the Confederate government to Nashville
or some other city where the Mayor and police can and will maintain the laws.
It is scandalous that the Capital of the Confederate States should be the
scene of one continued broil between outlaws as vile as the lazzaroni of Naples.
. . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 12, 1862, p.
2, c. 8
Cotton
Spinning.—R. L. Patterson, Esq., proprietor of the Wachovia steam mills, in
Salem, N. C., has put his machinery in order, and is now spinning cotton thread.
This article is scarce in the South.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 13, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Shooting
at a Woman.—The name of "Big Mary" is notorious from the frequency
with which the owner of it appears at the Recorder's and Magistrate's courts.
On Monday, a man with whom she cohabits entered her house, on Gayoso
street, and found a man occupying the place in a manner he considered an
infringement upon his own rights. He
commenced an attack in a manner that lead the intruder to pick up his boots, and
other personal property, and run off in his drawers. The man sent a "leaden
messenger" from his pistol after him, which failed to reach the aim. He
then turned on the unfaithful Big Mary, and fired at her three times.
The last ball struck her on the right side of the head, grazing the
skull, and causing the loss of considerable blood.
The injury, however, is not serious.
The man, who probably believed he had killed her, fled, and has not yet
been arrested.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Another Suggestion.
Columbus, Ky., February 11, 1862.
Editors
Appeal: There is [a] great deal of
services rendered in the army by white men that could be as well or better done
by negroes, and without any impropriety. For
instance, there are employed as drivers of wagons and ambulances for each
regiment, say twenty-five able-bodied men, who would make an
aggregate—supposing we have three hundred regiments—of seven thousand five
hundred. Then there are cooks and
nurses in hospitals and details to attend the sick, making probably an average
to each regiment of twenty more, which would make six thousand more.
Thus you see we have thirteen thousand five hundred men fit for duty, who
are doing service that could be better done by negroes, for all know the negro
and mule go well together, and they are better cooks and nurses than white men.
Now there are ample negroes in the South, owned by patriotic men, who can
spare them from their farms without any detriment to their interest, to take the
places of all those soldiers who are driving wagons and cooking in hospitals,
and doing other menial service that would be quite as well done by the negro as
white man. Suppose that these
thirteen thousand five hundred men had been in the service, and with Zollicoffer,
we would never have suffered a defeat at Mill Spring. These men would make a good division—one that would render
invaluable service in a contest with the enemy. I write to call the attention of citizens who have and can
spare the slaves, and the authorities who have the power to control the services
of the slaves, to the subject.
Hickman.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
2, c. 4
Important.—The
Montgomery Mail submits the following suggestion:
One
great obstacle in the way of paper manufacture, in the South, is the difficulty
of obtaining clean cotton or linen rags. The
saving, collecting and baling of rags has been considered a business too small
for most persons to engage in. We
respectfully suggest to such persons that they give their rags to their slaves,
and allow them to wash, bale and send them to market for their own account.
Sambo and Dinah will thus make a handsome little revenue annually, and at
the same time subserve a great public interest.
There are many thousand dollars worth of rags annually wasted, swept out
or otherwise destroyed which ought to be made to aid the cause of southern
independence in the manner indicated.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
2, c. 8
500 dozen Coats' Spool Cotton;
100 gross Shoe Laces;
500 dozen Ladies' Hose;
200 packs Pins, all numbers;
100 dozen Hair Brushes;
50 dozen Ivory Combs;
30 dozen Rubber Round Combs;
Needles, Hooks and Eyes, Flax Thread,
Lead Pencils and Agate Buttons,
Coat, Pant and Vest Buttons,
Linen Handkerchiefs and Dress Braid,
Linen Shirt Bosoms,
Shirts, Drawers and Suspenders,
Dressing and Tuck Combs,
Two hundred pieces Bleached Domestics,
Brown and Bleached Drillings,
Corset Jeans and Cottonades,
Children's Cotton and Wool Hosiery,
Ginghams, Calicoes, DeLaines,
Swiss, Jaconet and Nansook Muslins,
Window Shades and Curtain Muslins,
Ribbons, Velvet Ribbon and Belts,
Crash, Brilliants and Paper Muslin,
Table Cloths and Napkins,
Sheet Wadding brown and white;
Cotton and Linen Damask,
Wool Cards and Cane Hoops.
Wm.
A. Coit,
Second street, corner of Beal st.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Letter from Virginia.
Leesburg, February 4, 1862.
Editors
Appeal: Long rows of comfortable
mud huts upon the hillside, parallel with, and at convenient distance to the
river—plentiful supplies of army stores, and kind, considerate officers,
abundance of acceptable "trifles" from home of eatables, clothing, and
reading matter—those are the qualities of our winter quarters in Virginia.
Yet, while without, upon the broad expansive landscape, winter has thrown
her mantle of icy, hoary desolation—and, while the winds are howling through
the mountains, and snows interminably fall, I close the door upon all without,
and piling logs upon the ashes, comfortably smoke by the hour, and as the fire
crackles fast into a cheerful blaze, and midnight silence deepens, my thoughts
will unconsciously revert to men and times when war was not. . . .
[discussion of pre-war, now wartime, leaders of Confederate Missouri, including
physical appearance and dress]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Valentine
Day.—This is Valentine day. We
believe our fair readers are more in favor of the young masculines sending
bullets to the enemy than "perfumed missives" to themselves.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Banks
Closing.—The various banks of the city give notice through our columns this
morning that in compliance with the Mayor's proclamation, they will close at two
o'clock in the afternoon instead of at three as heretofore.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Captured
Flag.—Capt. W. S. West, provost marshal of New Madrid, exhibited to us, in our
office last evening, a United States flag taken by a picket party of four or
five men a few days ago, who, under command of Dr. W. P. C. Hendington, made a
bold dash into Charleston, Mo., tore the flag from its staff, and rode off
before a Lincolnite could lift a hand against them. The gallant Missouri boys are hard to beat.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Serious
Affray.—On Wednesday night a number of abandoned persons of both sexes had a
ball at Fransioli's place in Fort Pickering.
At two o'clock in the morning a quarrel arose and a fight followed, in
which a considerable portion of those present participated.
A number of pistol shots were fired and some four or five persons were
wounded. We were unable to learn
whether any of the wounds were likely to prove fatal.
One man was shot through the cheeks, and another received a bullet in his
leg.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Attention,
Allifuquis.—The Allifuquis are notified to attend a meeting of their order, at
the Excelsior, 338 Main street, on Saturday, February 15, at half-past seven
o'clock. All friends of the
southern cause are invited to attend. By
order of President Phillip Mead.
John Walker, Skylahlphyne.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Proclamation.—In
accordance with the following resolution, adopted at a meeting of the citizens
of Memphis, I hereby request all business houses of this city of whatever
character, to close their doors from and after this date, at two o'clock P.M.
John Park, Mayor.
Copy
of resolution adopted unanimously by a meeting of citizens at the city hall, on
the 10th day of February, 1862:
Resolved
by this Meeting, That the Mayor of the city be requested to proclaim that all
business houses, banks, etc., be closed at two o'clock of each day, and all patriotic
citizens, are requested to obey the proclamation.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 15, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Bully
Memphis.—The Athens (Tenn.) Post has the following:
"A gentleman just from Memphis, assures us that common cotton cards
are selling there at fifteen dollars a pair, coffee at ten cents a grain, and
everything else in proportion. Memphis
always was a bully place."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 15, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
The
Fort Pickering Affray.—Cornelius Martin, C. Brophy, H. Morris and Melinda St.
Clair were examined before Recorder Moore yesterday at Fort Pickering at 2
o'clock on Thursday morning. All
were fined, and the two former are now in jail.
We learn that the outrage did not occur at Fransioli's as had been
reported to the police, but at a boarding house in his neighborhood, kept by Mr.
Smith. A number of respectable
ladies and gentlemen were having a ball there, when a company of worthless
characters, male and female, entered the ball room.
In the attempt to get rid of the intruders pistols were fired and four or
five persons were wounded. A
respectable lady who was present was shot above the ankle.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 1
Cultivation
of Fish.—A correspondent of the Greenville (S. C.) Herald thus
describes a fish pond in Sumter district: During
my last visit to Sumter, I was shown all over the plantation of my friend
Freeman Hoyt, Esq., and here I met with a perfect model of a domestic fish-pond.
My Hoyt told me that the little stream of water running through his
place, was the main thing that sold him the land.
The branch ran through a low place of such a form as to enable him, by a
dam of some fifty yards long, to construct a pond of 700 feet in length, by 150
in width, with a depth varying from the shores to 12 or 15 deep in the centre.
This gives him a pond of over 2¼ acres where he could raise nothing
else. One year ago this spring, he
deposited in this pond eight good-sized trout, and near three hundred thousand
eggs, with a large amount of smaller fish for the trout to feed upon, and he now
has the water literally swimming with the finny tribe.
His trout are now one year old, and I caught one while there that was
over seven inches long. My. Hoyt
will not catch his until next year, and then I think he will almost be able to
supply the town of Sumter with fish. The
water running from his dam passes through a sieve, so that his fish cannot
escape from the pond. A little
below the dam is built a small two-story house, the lower story for bathing,
while in the upper one is kept all the apparatus necessary for cultivating,
feeding and taking the fish. All
this convenience has been gotten up with a trifling expense, and will be in the
future a large source of pleasure and profit to Mr. Hoyt and his family, and a
perfect blessing to his neighborhood.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
An
Incident in Baltimore.—The more we hear of the outrages of the Yankees in
Baltimore, the more assurance we have that the people of that down-trodden city
would hail with joy the day of their deliverance.
A gentleman who left there very recently furnishes a narration of
incidents of every day occurrence, one of which is sufficient to illustrate this
position. A lady, whose brother was
known to have participated in a gallant exploit at an early period of the war,
had become an object of especial venom among the Yankees, and was consequently
narrowly watched. Not long since,
while she was passing through the streets, a Federal soldier seized her and
throwing her violently to the pavement, tore open the bosom of her dress and
took from thence a Secession flag. The
outrage was observed by an Irishman, who had prudence enough to say nothing at
the moment, but followed and watched the scoundrel as he bore off his trophy;
and on the first convenient opportunity stepped up and accosted him with,
"Be jabers! ye knocked down an
innocent famale in the strates, ye dirty blackguard!
Take that, and that, and that!" accompanying his vehement
expressions with blows of his ponderous fist, nor did he leave the hapless
Yankee until he had disguised him to such an extent that his best friends would
not have recognized him. Of course,
the Irishman made himself scarce immediately afterwards, acting upon the rule
that self preservation is the first law of nature.—Rich. Dispatch.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Soldiers'
Families—Our wealthy citizens are determined that the families of soldiers now
in the war from our city, and of those who may go, shall be adequately provided
with the necessaries of life. We
conversed yesterday morning with an influential gentleman of this city, who went
out with a subscription book on Friday and obtained eleven thousand dollars for
this object. Last evening the fund
amounted to fifteen thousand dollars. It
is intended to create a fund of fifty thousand dollars, which will be dispensed
by a committee among the families of soldiers requiring assistance in their
husbands' absence. The wealthy
people of the city are called upon, individually, to contribute to this object.
Many of them are so situated that they cannot themselves to into camp;
they must help to support the families of those who shed their blood to save
their country and the property of the rich man from the invader.
Women and children must not want while their husbands and fathers are
sharing the dangers and fatigues of war. Let
those who have the means contribute, and with no niggard hand, to this fund.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Soldiers'
Widows and Orphans.—As the war progresses, and especially that portion of it
in which our own Memphis people are engaged, there will be widows and orphans
left without a protector. Such will
be a sacred legacy left by their heroic sires for a grateful people, who
treasure the memory of the brave, to support, to shelter from want, to educate,
and to set them out in life under circumstances worthy of the honored names of
the patriotic dead. We learn with
pleasure that the ladies of the Home for the Homeless at their late meeting
adopted a resolution that their institution would take charge of the widows and
orphans of slain soldiers, provide them with a comfortable home, with education,
and start the young persons in life in a way to become prosperous citizens.
To do this the wealthy, for whom the patriotic soldier is fighting, must
provide this valuable institution with the means of carrying out their
benevolent intentions. We know of no better way than that proposed by the ladies
of making provision for the destitute widows and orphans, left a legacy to a
grateful country. Shall not steps be taken to provide the necessary funds?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 6
Benefit
to Refugees.—The Southern Burlesque Opera Troupe will give two benefits on
Monday and Tuesday nights next at Odd Fellows Hall, for the rebel refugees who
have had to leave their homes on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
There are many persons fleeting to this city from that portion of the
State, and the contributions given will be handed to Mayor Park for
distribution. These benefits should
be patronized.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
The Way to Provide
for the Families of
Our Soldiers.
Editors Appeal: I notice
that subscriptions are on foot to raise a fund of $50,000 or $60,000, to support
the families of such men as will shoulder the musket and go into active service
when they feel certain that their families will not be left to want and
privation. The object of this
subscription is to afford a permanent, not a temporary support for those
dependent upon husbands, fathers and brothers whom this war may have called to
the field; and looking to the expenditure of the money voted by the county
court, it is evident that the $50,000 or $60,000 sought to be raised, will last
only about one year, if disbursed as the county found has been disbursed. As our enlistment are all now for the war or for two years,
the relief should continue for that period; and, in order to render it thus
permanent, I propose to be one of a hundred gentlemen who will obligate
themselves to pay each $50, monthly, for the two years or for the war, for the
use of the families of such volunteers as need assistance. The money to be employed in purchasing provisions by the
wholesale and distributing them to the needy, through the instrumentality of a
free market as has been done in New Orleans.
Let the market be regulated by a directory who shall inquire into the
necessities of each applicant, and let the directory issue weekly tickets for
the provisions necessary for their support.
Food is the important item, for work is so abundant here, that any
family, if in health, can get clothing by work. The county court might also make a subscription for the same
purpose; and in this way a fund of from $5,000 to $10,000 per month might be
raised, and our gallant soldiers feel at ease about the welfare of those whom
they have left behind them.
H.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 7
Home
for the Homeless—Washing.—The managers of this institution having
established a laundry at the Home, are now well prepared to take washing, and
would respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. Price, 75 cents per dozen.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 16, 1862, p.
3, c. 7
Garrett's
best Scotch Snuff, 50 dozen received by Potter & Merwin, 65 Jefferson
street, near the post office.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Letter from the Confederate Capital.
Richmond, February 11, 1862.
. . . Great solicitude is felt here for the army in Kentucky, and the safety of
your city; and yet, in spite of our own darkened horizon and the dangers which
menace our sister States, hundreds go every night to hear Blind Tom.
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Chambermaids Wanted!
Ten dollars per month for good, quiet chambermaids, will be given to
those who apply immediately at the Gayoso House.
D. Cockerell,
Proprietor.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
A Spinning Factory
For Sale Cheap!
Four hundred and eighty spindles, with cards and other machinery annexed,
is offered for sale at a reasonable price, either for cash, or on time for good
indorsed notes. For further
information call on John Brooks, of Lexington, Tenn., or John D. Smith, at
Henderson, Tenn., on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, about 18 miles Southeast from
Jackson, Tennessee.
Brooks & Smith.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 18, 1862, p.
4, c. 1
The Knoxville Register says that Capt. Storms, who had been
commissioned by Gov. Harris to collect arms in Blount county, has delivered
three wagon loads of guns at the armory in Knoxville, and have several loads yet
to transmit. In addition to this he
has armed a company, raised in Blount, for the Confederate service.
Besides the firearms captured by Capt. Stephens, he also has a two horse
wagon load of the most dangerous looking bowie-knives we have lately seen.
These arms have been principally taken from disaffected men in Blount
county, many of whom, we learn, are now making their way to the mountains to
join the Lincoln army.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 18, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Express Agent Fined.—H. Borden, agent of the Southern Express, was
fined six dollars yesterday for carrying on his business without taking out a
license. He appealed from the
decision of the Recorder, contending that the business in which he is engaged is
not one of those requiring a license. It
strikes us if the express business has not hitherto been subjected to the
operation of the license ordinance, one fine appealed from and decided by
competent authority is as effective as the harassing process of inflicting a
fine a day. The 550th
section of the Code of Tennessee says that the occupations and transactions to
be deemed privileges and taxed, and not pursued without a license, are selling
at auction, selling on commission, the business of a broker or broker of real
estate, granting policies of insurance for companies not chartered by the State,
the business of banking, importing or selling playing cards, shaving notes,
keeping a race track, theatrical and musical exhibitions, menageries, circuses,
legerdemain, keeping a confectionary, or a stallion or jack, and retailing
liquors. We do not know under which
of the above eighteen heads the business of carrying goods by express is ranked.
The city charter gives powers to the Board of Aldermen to license negro
traders, livery stables, auctions, grocers, dry goods stores, forwarding,
commission, and all other mercantile houses, coffee houses, tippling houses,
confectioneries, brokers, insurance offices, hotel keepers, pedlars, bankers,
shows, circuses, theaters, and all other places of public amusement, and to tax
the same. Also to license drays,
carts, hackney coaches, etc., porters and their charges, coachmen, hackmen, etc.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Good News!
Just Received—
106 Yards all wool English Gray Cloth.
125 Yards North Carolina Gray Cassimere.
200 Yards Alabama Gray Cassimere.
--Also—
A Supply of Staff Buttons and Lace for Trimming.
I am prepared with Cutters and Journeymen Tailors to put up uniforms with
neatness and dispatch, in as good style as any establishment in this city.
Give me a call.
J. C. McAllister,
Ayres Block.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 20, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Stylish Memphis.—A correspondent of the New Orleans Crescent
writes to that paper as follows: Visiting
Memphis a few days ago, for the first time in ten years, I was greatly surprised
at the expansion of the place and its stylish improvements, as well as at the
great amount of military and civic business transacting. The quantity of sugar and molasses there is positively
tremendous; the whole landing is covered, and the streets and warehouses fairly
glutted with the saccharine. Of
course, you understand this—the blockade and the gorge of the railroads.
The draymen of Memphis are getting rich under the sweet pressure.
They get five and sometimes as high as ten dollars a load for hauling
sugar from the landing to the Charleston depot, such is the anxiety of shippers
to get ahead of each other. The
shinplasters and checks of Memphis are various as those of New Orleans.
Brass dray checks appear to be the favorite circulating medium.
The Planters' Bank shinplasters it from five dollars down to five cents.
And you will smile to hear that the clipped bills and checks and the
omnibus tickets of New Orleans are as good currency as any in Memphis. At least I took them and passed them without trouble.
These are bully times. From
the Crescent City to the Bluff City, and even up to the very gates of Cairo,
every man appears to be his own banker.
Note: from
this point on, most issues are two pages only.
Since before this point the format has been advertising page, general
news, local news, advertising page, I have continued to place the general news
page (now page 1) before the local news page (now page 2) no matter in which
order they were microfilmed.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 21, 1862, p.
2, c. 2
Fiends in Human Shape.—The Winchester Virginian says it has been
informed by a reliable gentleman that eighty-five houses in Hampshire were
burned by the Yankees, and that the Yankee commander (now on the line of the
railroad, in the northern port of Hampshire) threatens to burn every house
within his reach, if his pickets are disturbed.
To the crimes of stealing horses and other property, arson, murder, etc.,
committed by the Yankees in Hampshire, that of rape is to be added.
Five respectable females were victims of the brutes.
Will not a just God blast such infamous wretches?—Petersburg Express.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 21, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
In Town.—Many refugees from Nashville were in town yesterday.
The dry goods stores did an active business owing, it is said, to a large
proportion of them having arrived in advance of their wardrobes.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 21, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
Soldiers' Families.—The subscribers to the fund of the association for
the relief of the needy families of soldiers in the army, held a meeting
yesterday at the Merchants' Exchange, T. A. Nelson in the chair, and W. O.
Lofland, Esq., secretary. The
chairman announced that $30,000 was already subscribed toward the fund. The following resolutions, offered by Mr. Nelson, were
adopted:
Resolved, That the subscribers to the fund in aid of the needy families
of soldiers, in the service now, form themselves into an association to be
called the "Association for the Relief of Needy Families of Soldiers in the
Service."
Resolved, That a committee of twelve be appointed whose duty it shall be
to solicit subscriptions from the citizens of Memphis, and of Shelby county, for
the purpose of carrying out the object of the association.
Resolved, That it is with pleasure that we now announce to the soldiers
who have families entitled to aid from this society, that the subscriptions
already amount to more than $30,000, and it is confidently believed that the
patriotic and liberal citizens of the county will as soon as called on, increase
the amount to $100,000.
Resolved, That we feel warranted in assuring our brave men who may enlist
in the army, or those who may re-enlist, that their families shall be cared for,
and not permitted to suffer while they are absent.
Resolved, That the affairs of the association shall be managed by a board
of five directors, who shall adopt such rules for their government and for
carrying out the objects of the association as they may think best.
And that they be authorized to employ such assistants as may be
necessary, and to call on the subscribers to the association for installments,
from time to time, as necessity may require.
Resolved, That the election of directors be held between the hours of 11
o'clock A. M. and 2 P. M. at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, 21st
inst., under the supervision of the secretary of the Chamber, and that each
subscriber be entitled to one vote for every one hundred dollars subscribed, and
that each subscriber, if less than $100, be entitled to one vote.
Resolved, That the city papers be requested to publish, from time to
time, a list of those who have so generously contributed to the association.
Resolved, That in the event of the disability or resignation of any of
the directors, the remaining directors shall fill the vacancy.
Resolved, That the five directors of the association shall be chosen only
from the subscribers to the fund.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
An Appeal from a Lady.
Editors Appeal: I hope you
will not think me bold—boldness I deprecate above all other things in women,
but the want of it in man I deplore.
I come with an appeal from my bleeding country to lay it at the feet of
the young men of my disgraced city. In
the name of my God, in the name of scores I have seen die in those hospitals
without hearing a murmur drop from their pallid lips; in the name of those, the
though of whose hideous, ghastly wounds still sicken the souls of delicate women
who attended upon them; in the name of those whose smoking blood, made the sun
lurid for three long days at Donelson, and the scent of which birds of prey and
the wild animals still snuff from afar; in the name of pride of manhood and
honor hereafter, what are young men doing in Memphis at such a time as this?
What! do they intend to let
band after band of gallant men from their neighbor States, yes, and band after
band from the far frontiers of Texas, toil and travel worn, file through these
streets on their onward march to drive back a foe, whom they must have made up
minds to receive and acknowledge as masters or they would not be here?
And are you really willing, my countrymen, to be slapped in the face,
snubbed, pricked with bayonets, hustled from the sidewalks and insulted by every
epithet that a gloating, jubilant Yankee can manufacture, and justly heap upon
the head of cowardice? And this,
too, day after day, and perhaps months and years before the very jaws of bright
and lovely ones whose smiles you have so often sought.
think of those lovely ones gulping down the indignation they dare not
utter as the rude slur and offensive words of hatred, and abhorred hirelings
meet them at every turn—their watchword, beauty and booty! Young men, come out from behind the counters.
Get from behind molasses and sugar casks.
Take the pen from behind your ears.
Wash the ink from your finger tips.
Stave the ledger across the counting-room.
Grasp your musket, or what is better, your cold steel, and be off.
The very sight of a broad-clothed, frangitanni [sic] perfumed, macassar-haired,
rigorous, tall young man behind a counter, is a blasting mildew to the eye-balls
of patriotism! I have ever been an
admirer of perfect manhood when I could think what a noble spirit must actuate
such a form, but now I am ashamed to look you straight in the face as you
measure my tape, for fear you will divine my thoughts and blush. I am afraid to mention the names of our brave soldier boys
for fear it will give you offense. Young
men, from behind those orange stalls, their cigar stands, at their desks, in
their bar-rooms and restaurants, in their buggies and on their fine horses, for
the love of heaven come out! The
sight of your bright, happy faces makes my heart sick. Heads of firms! there
are plenty of young women who in this emergency, could make excellent clerks and
need your money. Take them to sell
your dry goods and cease making counter-hoppers of your young men when you could
make soldiers of them. Every young
relation I have on earth is in the field. Had
I one to hold back I should weep over his disgrace and forget the ties that
bound him to me. Married men may
have some excuse for not going off—wives and young children are clogs upon
their efforts. But if there be any
here, who from fear, or the doubly accursed love of gold, would not lay the city
in ruins, and fight over its ashy altars ere the polluting footstep of the foe
should deface it, let them be accursed—may their wives and children turn in
loathing from them, and let history say for them molasses and sugar, sacks of
coffee and salt, dry goods, rent-rolls and lawyer's fees push their souls out of
their bodies, so deep into the unfathomable depths of oblivion that the light of
honor has never been able to decipher their records.
Young men! infamy lingers in
the atmosphere of Memphis. Glory and honor beckon from afar. women and children are wandering homeless through the land.
Widow's wails are rising to heaven. Mangled
men are writhing under the knife of the surgeon.
A voice is heard! Streaming eyes and bloodstained are appealing to you—'tis
the voice of your country! 'Tis the
streaming eyes and bloody hand of your native land that beckon.
Will you linger?
Thiste.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 22, 1862, p.
1, c. 5-6
Richmond, February 14, 1862.
. . . The committee appointed by the provisional Congress
to make choice of a new flag for the Confederacy, have been engaged a long time
in looking over the thousand devices which have been submitted to them, but are
not yet quite ready to report. The
design which will most probably be selected has been exhibited by the Hon. Roger
A. Pryor and meets with general approval.
But lest your printers may not be able readily to "set up" the
diagram, I will endeavor to describe the flag.
The field is divided into two equal portions by a perpendicular line
running down the middle—the outer portion being just one half the flag, to be
of a bright red. The laner [sic]
portion is again divided into two equal parts by a line drawn diagonally from
the top of the perpendicular line just mentioned to the loser portion of the
flag next the staff; thus making two triangles, of which the diagonal line is
the common hypothenuse [sic]. Of
these the triangle next the staff is to be blue and will be spangled with the
stars of the Confederacy; the other triangular portion will be a pure white.
The Confederate colors will thus be preserved, while the flag itself will
be wholly unlike the United States flag and will be easily distinguished at a
great distance. . . .
Dixie.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p.
1, c. 2
What a knapsack should contain.—The official regulations in Louisiana
enumerate as follows: One blanket,
one shirt, one undershirt, one pair of drawers, three pairs of socks, one pair
of shoes, one towel, one tin cup, one tin pan or plate, one knife and fork, one
cake of soap, one handkerchief, a piece of oil cloth to use under the blanket,
and nothing else. No token of
friendship, no daguerreotypes, no books, are allowed.
But we don't suppose there would be any objection to a hair brush, a
comb, a toothbrush, a box of blacking, a shoe brush, a little looking glass, and
scissors, with thread, needles and pins. We suppose many ladies will be called
upon to pack the knapsack of their volunteering friends.
Let them make a note of the above.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p.
1, c. 2
The Texas White Man, of the 30th ult., says that within
four or five weeks previous to that time, about 103,500 pounds of pork were
packed in the town of Weatherford, Parker county.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p.
1, c. 2
The Houston Telegraph says: "Upwards
of 35,000 beeves have crossed Turscacete crossing in this county within the last
four months, bound for New Orleans."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Potatoes.
150 Bushels White Neshannock, Pink Eyes and Peach Blossoms.
For sale at
Shannon &
Sibbald,
19 Madison street.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Chelsea Nursery!
We have on hand a large and full variety of every kind of
Fruit Trees!
Ornamental Trees for Garden, Flowers or Putting out
Plants and Roses in every variety.
Moret & Behringer,
Proprietors.
Gardens and Groves arranged.
Bouquets of unsurpassed style and beauty furnished by orders, with price
named, and left at the drug store of Chandler & Co., where we also have a
stand.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 23, 1862, p.1, c. 8
Flowers,
Evergreens,
Etc., Etc.
On Tuesday Next, the 25th instant, Messrs. A. L. Andrews & Co., Auctioneers, No. 251 Main street, next door to J. E. Meriman & Co.'s Jewelry store, will offer for sale a large and beautiful selection of Flowers, Evergreens, Shrubs, etc., consisting in part of
Japonicas,
Heliotropes,
Geraniums,
Roses,
Varieties of
Cactus,
Etc., Etc.
The especial attention of the Ladies is called to the above sale.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock A.M.
Frank Hyde, }
A. L. Andrews & Co.,
Auctioneers
}
General Auctioneers.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
A Southern Woman's Opinion of the Crisis.
Editors Appeal: I am a
woman, I know it is presumed the limit of a woman's business is bounded by her
own house; but in times like these, when thousands of women and children are
driven from their homes and friends, it may be conceded to our sex the right to think
a little, and possible [sic] to speak a little.
Who can tell how soon the Memphis women and children may be forced to
flee from the insolent foe? But why
must we flee? Are there not men
enough in our country to drive back the invader?
If there are not, for God's sake let the Governor call out the mothers of
the South to defend their children and their homes from desecration.
Women have proved brave soldiers before to-day, and can do it again, if
need be.
Messrs. Editors, I was one of the last who wanted to begin this war, but
now it is begun, I feel we must fight it out to the bitter end. We must conquer or die.
Not only the last man, but the last woman must fall in this dreadful
conflict before we talk of submission. There
is no returning to the point whence we started.
This quarrel has been baptized into immortal life by the blood shed on
the battle field. The very infants
in our arms prattle of inextinguishable hatred to our foes. who is so ignorant
of the human heart as to believe there can ever be an equal Union now?
Who does not know what we must expect from a conquering and triumphant
enemy? Our opinions insulted, our
feelings outraged, our property stolen, our country crushed down by taxation!
And can it be credited for an instant, that the proud southern heart
could tamely submit to an ignominious vassalage?
Suppose we are overrun and patch up a peace, and the northerners fill our
land with forts and strongholds, and maintain a standing army in our midst to
keep down disaffection. Can
we be kept down? Will all the
aids and appliances of a powerful tyranny be able to keep us down?
Freemen can never be slaves! There
would be an eternal succession of rebellions, until our cause were triumphant,
or our race extinct. Therefore, men
of Memphis, you would economize blood and money by now, now rushing to
arms, and fighting on until you have achieved an eternal separation and a
glorious independence.
I am told there are men in our midst whom the late disasters have
disheartened and discouraged. If
there be any such, send them to us, the women of Memphis.
We will point them to the dark days of the first revolution, to
the days of Valley Forge, when our band of patriots were famished, and frozen,
and sick, yet not disheartened—to the days when every seaport city was
in the hands of the enemy, and defeat on defeat had fallen on us, but not
overwhelming us.
Just one hundred and five years ago one of the smallest kingdoms of
Europe offended all the great powers of the continent.
Austria, Sweden, France, Russia, the Germanic body, and Saxony, were all
leagued against the little kingdom of Prussia.
They swore to dismember it, to divide the spoils among themselves.
Prussia had not five millions of people; the allied enemies had one
hundred millions. Faint hearts
would have yielded without a battle, the odds were so unheard of, so fearful.
It is said every soldier and politician of Europe believed the conflict
would end in a few days, in the utter prostration of the kingdom of Prussia.
But Frederic, the unconquerable, took the field against his powerful foes
and maintained it for seven terrible years.
During some of those years his campaigns were made splendid by glorious
victories. During others, the darkest disasters seemed to sink him into
irretrievable ruin. He continually
carried poison about his person, determined not to outlive his kingdom.
His capital was twice taken and plundered by the enemy.
On one occasion he had an army of fifty thousand men.
By one battle, in one day, he lost all save three thousand. He saw no resource left.
The country was desolated and exhausted, the coin debased, "but
still there were men and beasts, armies and food, and still Frederic fought
on."
This man was triumphant; he saved his kingdom—not an acre was wrested
from his grasp. After seven years
of the most terrible warfare the civilized world has ever seen, an honorable
peace was concluded. And must
southerners talk of submission because defeats have come on us?
Our defeats are our glory. They
are of no kin to the Bull Run defeat enacted by our enemy.
OUR men fell with their feet to the foe.
The day shall come when Tennessee will erect monuments to her sons who so
bravely fell at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
They are not unwept, those noble men.
Every woman's eye fills with tears as she listens to the tale of the
brave fight they made for three days, without food, without rest, up to their
knees in mud and snow. Their memory
is immortal. Our children will
honor and revere them as martyrs to the cause of freedom.
People of Memphis! is
Columbus to fall? Are the brave men
there to fight against fearful odds as at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson? Are the women and children of Memphis to be run from their
homes, as at Nashville and Clarksville? Is
the insolent foe to flaunt his flag from our towers and steeples?
The women of Memphis can scarcely walk the streets for the men
that throng them. why do they not
rush to Columbus and fill the ranks there thinned by sickness?
Are they willing to be conquered?
There is a cry among the poor that the rich hold back for the poor to
fight their battles, and married men wait for the unmarried.
The time for such distinctions is past.
all must fight or all must be ruined.
The poor must fight, for if we are conquered their poverty will be ten
fold more grinding. The rich must
fight, of if we are conquered they are rich no longer.
The single man must fight, for if we are conquered, he loses liberty and
honor, boons a hundred, nay a thousand fold of more worth than life itself.
The married man must fight. He
fights for the home of his wife; if he is a father, he fights for the birthright
of his children, for their godlike inheritance of freedom; he fights that they
may have peace in the time to come. If
he falls in this sacred cause, his memory is immortal, his children grow up to
honor and revere his name.
Mr. Editor, if I write strongly for a woman, let it be remembered my
husband is at Columbus, and Columbus MAY fall, as our other forts fell, for want
of men. Memphis is full of men, let
them go. My husband at Columbus, my
house full of refugees from the towns taken by the army, can you wonder if I
speak earnestly? What woman does
not dread the future, when men throng the streets instead of rushing to arms.
The Wife of a Soldier.
Sunday, February 23, 1862.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 26, 1862, p.
1, c. 3
Summary: Sketch
of the new flag of the Confederacy, according to the correspondent Dixie.
See his description above.
note: February 27 is a four page issue.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 4-5
Letter from Columbus.
Columbus, Ky., February 24, 1862.
Editors Appeal: . . . Who is "TRISTE?"
Her name is on every tongue, and I am anxious to know the authoress of an
appeal well worthy to rank with the efforts of Kossuth to arouse the flagging
spirits of the Hungarians, as a young lady friend of mine was to know the name
of your polished correspondent "Dixie."
Her appeal, to say the least of it, is powerful, and the young men of
Memphis, who will heedlessly pass it by, must be dead to every impulse of
patriotism, honor, or manly feeling. She
is, however, but one of the many ladies of Memphis and the south, who have
proved beyond question, by their kind and gentle ministrations to the sick and
wounded volunteers, the truth of the poet's apostrophe:
"When pain and anguish wring the brow
A ministering angel thou!"
In times of peace home is woman's place—the social circle the empire in
which she reigns a queen, and to the family altar she brings the purest and
tenderest affections of her nature; but in all great struggles for liberty, when
violence threatens to usurp a barbaric sway, when the cherished and fundamental
principles of republican institutions are set at defiance, her mild and gentle
disposition seems to burst forth in the wildest, most impetuous and daring
patriotism. Unmoved by ambition's
glittering hopes, she rises above the dangers that surround her; and in accents
more touching than those of Horbutius or Tully, Chathorn or Roussel, she comes
forth like John of Arc, a willing martyr for her bleeding country's cause.
True patriotism must be dead, and patriotism forgotten in your fair city
if the voice of Triste passes heedlessly by.
All the powers and all the enthusiasms of your young men, I am confident,
will be aroused in response to her eloquent and touching appeal; and soon the
enemy's cannon will cease to boom athwart the fair plains of Tennessee, and no
longer shall the oppressor's sword crimson our soil with the best blood of our
land. God grant that it may be so.
Juvenis.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 27, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Ladies, to the Rescue!—A lady of this city, well known for her high
talents, sends the following for publication:
"A number of the young ladies of Memphis offer their services to the
merchants and bankers, to stand behind their counters in the place of the
clerks, who are now so much needed at Columbus behind bayonets."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 28, 1862, p.
2, c. 4
Patti's Concert.—The concert tendered to our gifted young friend Carlo
Patti by his numerous admirers in this city will take place at Odd-Fellows'
Hall, on Thursday evening next. The
Theater, we learn, could not be obtained, owing to some professional
impediments. Signor Patti has left
his profession, and it was hoped would have been regarded in a non-professional
point of view. The ladies are
looked to to use their influence to gain for this patriotic young gentleman a
successful concert. He laid aside a
profession in which his powers as a composer and a performer promised him a high
rank, to enter the army of the Confederacy.
He has served the term of his enlistment and has re-enlisted for the
entire war—let it be seen that his spirited zeal is appreciated among his
fellow-citizens in Memphis.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
The Defense of Columbus.
Editors Appeal: In this
morning's Avalanche are some strictures which, no doubt, the writer
fancies very cutting, and for which I suppose I may come in for my share.
I am neither, as he suggests, a woman crazed by the panic, nor man in
petticoats. I am, as I stated in
the article that came out in last Tuesday's APPEAL, the wife of a soldier in
Columbus. There are many of my sex,
in this city, who feel with me on this subject; nor do our children suffer from
neglect because of our anxiety for our husbands, as this amiable writer would
insinuate. The mothers of this land
need no urging from this writer to make them perform their duties to their
children. The very paper that
publishes his strictures tell us the enemy is coming on Columbus with 100,000
men. Is there a woman with a loved
one there whose heart does not stand still as she hears the rushing of the
coming storm? And in times like
these this man dare reproach us for the expression of our anguished
solicitude. This man dare
assert men able to be soldiers should stay at home to protect female relatives.
Short-sighted vision! The
best way to protect women is to slay the foe before he gets a foot-hold in our
midst.
I am a woman; I mingle with my sex; I know their sentiments. I assert they think with me if Columbus falls as Fort
Donelson fell for the want of men, woe be to the people of Memphis!
If Columbus falls the blood of that devoted band will cry aloud from its
hights [sic] and trenches; will cry to the men that throng our streets, whether
they be Memphians or strangers. Are
they not southerners? or is the
city already in possession of the enemy?
I do not perceive that the crowd on our streets is perceptibly thinned.
The pavements are yet darkened with the stream of the sterner sex.
Darkened! Oh, my God!
and the word brings to mind that black cloud now darkening over
Columbus—Columbus! where so many
loved ones are working and watching and waiting, with brave hearts and steady
eye, for the coming conflict. Husbands, brothers, sons, lovers, are there.
To us, the wives, the mothers, the sisters of that band of soldiers,
standing guard at the threshold of our valley, sworn to lay down life in its
defense; to us, it is a daily marvel that the men in our streets
do not rush to Columbus and join that noble guard.
Why do they not? Did
they not to a man vote to go out of the old Union?
and will they now like slaves, like curs, stand still and be
whipped back to the government they abjured?
Forbid it, race of freemen; admit for an instant, there was no just cause
for leaving the Northern States, admit 'twas whim, caprice, folly, anything you
will, must freeborn men be whipped into good conduct?
Has one section the heaven-given right to dictate terms to another?
Oh! monstrous doctrine of
insolence and absurdity. A doctrine doubly insolent, doubly absurd, coming as it does
from a people who have always made the largest professions of freedom, always
set up the hugest cry about liberty of any people on the face of the green
earth. Free speech, free thought,
free everything was their hobby, their watch-word, by which they imposed on the
nations of the earth. They
continually taunted the South with its non-possession—they eternally vaunted
their own absolute inheritance of the God-like boon.
In early youth I was grossly deceived by these loud professions.
I naturally adore Liberty. LIBERTY!
The very word is grand and large; it expands through space.
It sounds out a tocsin of joy and hope to the listening nations.
In the freshness of youth my ear caught the thrilling sound; it seemed to
come from the North—the North which called itself "the free North."
I respected, I loved the North. I
loved it for the worship it seemed to pay to the god of my idolatry.
This worship has proved itself but a lip service.
By her own acts the North has given the lie to all her professions of
freedom. Future ages will stand
aghast at the monstrous absurdity perpetrated by this people—at the fantastic
contrast between her conduct and her teachings.
For eighty hears they professed to believe in the right of a people to
frame its own government. In the
face of this, they gather up 700,000 Vandals to coerce ten millions of freemen
under a government they hate. For
the last quarter of a century they have been pouring out torrents of crocodile
tears over the vassalage of the black race, a race born and bred in bondage, a
race, not reduced to ignorance and degradation, not made inferior
by its white masters, but created so by the Almighty for his own wise
purposes; yet this consistent people—a people with the hypocrite's tears yet
streaming from their Puritan eyes—send forth their hordes of hirelings to
enslave thirteen sovereign States. And
while the echoes yet send back their cries for free speech, and free thought,
every bastile within their limits is filled with the victims of their tyranny.
Prisoners, for opinion's sake, groan in dungeons as deep and dark as the
dungeons that disgraced the middle ages in the absolute monarchies of the old
world. By her own acts the North
has given the lie to all her professions of freedom.
She has bound on her brow the infamous name of Hypocrite.
The nations of the world look on her with scorn and contempt, the true
lovers of liberty loathe her. She
has cast aside the cloak of virtue, and stands hideous in her naked deformity.
Of all monsters of wickedness, a hypocrite is least to be trusted, most
to be feared. We are told her
policy is "kind and conciliatory in the extreme." Who does not know the cat's paw is velvet until she is ready
to devour her victim? Is there one
so short-sighted as not to know, when once in her power, prostrate at her feet,
she would set her armed heel on our necks and grind us to the dust?
Who but the most foolish will put faith in her "kind and
conciliatory policy?" If now,
when we have her at bay with 300,000 men, she has the insolence to talk of
annihilating one of our States, the insolence to arraign for treason one of our
generals fallen in her power, the insolence to discuss the propriety of
abolishing our institutions, what hight [sic], what depth of audacious insolence
may we not expect from her should we suffer ourselves to fall conquered, to lie
in fetters, helpless at her spurning feet?
Is there an ignomy, is there an outrage she would hesitate to inflict?
People of the South, think of this!
Our country is our mother. Our
noble mother—our beautiful South. Who
does not love her? Has she a son
who would not lay down his life in her defense?
The insolent foe, drunk with recent successes, triumphs over her griefs
and flaunts his jeers in her tear-stained face.
Her daughters week for her, her daughters pray for her, but her souls,
tears and prayers are not for them. Up!
sons of the South; avenge the mother you adore.
Drive back the invader from her soil.
Oh! my country! even
your daughters would die to bring you peace, to bring you honor.
The Wife of a Soldier.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1862, p. 1,
c. 4
Bellville Factory Burned.—We regret to learn that Bellville Factory,
Messrs. Geo. and Wm. Schley, of this city, proprietors, was destroyed by fire
last Tuesday night, about nine o'clock. The
light was distinctly seen from the city. The
fire, as we are informed, originated by accident in the oil cloth department of
the building and communicating to the turpentine, varnish and oil in use there,
obtained such speedy headway as to become unmanageable almost at once, and
admitted of but little time to save anything.
The factory was insured to the extent of $20,000, about one-fourth its
value--$10,000 in the Virginia Marine and Fire Insurance company, and $10,000 in
the Southern Mutual. This is the second time this factory has been burned,
having been destroyed about three years ago.
This time, the loss is irreparable, it being impossible to replace the
machinery; and the loss is a public as well as a private calamity.
It is most serious to the proprietors, and not only deprives the
government of manufactury much wanted, but throws out of employ a good number of
industrious poor, who were dependent on its successful operation.—Augusta
Chron., 25th.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Nurses and Servants Wanted!
I wish to hire six or seven good female NURSES and four or five good
NEGRO BOYS at the Overton Hospital immediately.
G. W. Correy,
Assistant Surgeon P. A. C. S.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 1, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
Soldiers' Families.—We are informed by Judge Hill that the Shelby
county court yesterday at Raleigh made an appropriation of twelve thousand
dollars ($12,000) per month to support soldiers' families.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5
The news boys of New Orleans are organizing into a battalion "in
view of the perils which now surround us."
The True Delta says "there is not in this or any other
community a more industrious, useful and patriotic class than the news boys.
They are sometimes a 'little wild and turbulent,' but these are only
faults of youth. If the accursed hosts of Lincoln should ever reach this city,
they will wish they had the devil at their heels in preference to the New
Orleans news boys."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1862, p. 1,
c. 8
3500 yds. Heavy Gray Army Jeans,
2000 yds. ray Army
Shirtings,
1000 prs. Gray and Brown Army Pantaloons,
50 gross Military Buttons,
200 dozen Army Handkerchiefs,
50 dozen Drab Army Hats,
50 dozen fine Drab and Black Fur Hats,
50 dozen Black and White Negro Hats,
500 yards bright colored Plaid
Linsey,
50 boxes Fine Tobacco,
50 bales Batting,
150 Heavy Blue and Gray Pilot Jackets,
50 suits Heavy Gray and Brown Kerseys,
100 cases Men's, women's, Misses', Boys and Children's Shoes.
Readymade Coats, Pants, Vests, shirts, etc.
Drawers, Cravats, Collars, Gloves,
Fine and Stout Boots and Shoes,
Blankets, Comforts, Pillows, Socks,
Bleached and Brown Shirtings and Sheetings,
Striped and Plaid Osnaburgs, Tickings,
Towels, Combs, Toilet Soap, tumblers,
Pins, Suspenders, Paper, Ink, Pens,
Crash, Huckaback, Irish Linen,
150 pieces Dotted and Figured Printed Jaconets,
For sale by
John . Taylor & Co.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6
Col. Forrest.—This gentleman, whose gallant deeds have excited so much
admiration, is now in the city; in another part of this paper is a call upon the
young men of the city to take arms in the company of Capt. McDonald, in
Forrest's regiment. The recruit
will find his own horse; all other equipments are furnished by the government.
Capt. McDonald's company left Donelson with only the dress they had on,
all their other clothing and equipage being left behind. The captain will call
upon our citizens for assistance to fit out his brave fellows for another
campaign. Such a call will not be made in vain.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
The Weekly Appeal.—there has been an irregularity in the issue of our
weekly, and this week we are compelled to send our subscribers a half sheet.
We are much pained that this should be the case, for it has always been
our pride to fulfill all our undertakings to the letter, but the extreme
difficulty of procuring paper leaves us no alternative.
We have used and are now using our greatest efforts, and are incurring a
very heavy expense to keep ourselves supplied with paper, but no exertion can
prevent straits and difficulties. In
this state of things we can only pledge ourselves to do all that money and the
severest exertions can do to prevent, if possible, further irregularity, and to
make good to our subscribers any temporary deficiencies that have, or may arise.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
The Free Market.—The association for the relief of the families of
soldiers in the army have opened a free market, where provisions are freely
given to the objects of their care. These
families must be taken care of and supplied with what they require, and the
citizens are appealed to to liberally contribute to keep up the free market.
Money, cotton, sugar, in short all kinds of necessaries and provisions
are receptable [sic?] A book is opened at the merchant's exchange where all who are
willing to aid this patriotic and benevolent work may register their names and
their contributions.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2
Refugees.—The trains from Norfolk every afternoon bring up a large
number of refugees from points below us. Yesterday
evening a great many ladies, children and servants, who have fled from the scene
of the future operations of the hostile armies.
Some stop here, some go to Richmond, and many go further into the
country. It is a sad sight thus to
see innocent women and children driven from their comfortable homesteads by the
fortunes of war, but it is infinitely more so when we know that they fly from a
merciless invader, who seeks to subjugate and destroy us, to confiscate our
property and desolate our firesides.—Petersburg Express.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Notice!
I will not receive anything more at the Military Store until notice is
given by me.
Jno. E. Logwood,
Military Storekeeper.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Carlo Patti's
Complimentary
Concert
at
Odd-Fellows Hall.
Thursday Night,
March 6th, 1862.
Programme:
Part I.
1. Overture,
"Zampa," Herold
Orchestra.
2. Solo and
Chorus, "Dear Mother I'll Come Home Again," Mrs. Katzenbach, Miss
Hammerskold, Messrs. Maas and Hagood.
3. Air and
vars. for violin and Piano, "Let me Weep," H. S. Saroni, Signor Carlo
Patti.
4. Song—"Je
suis la Bayadere," Bochsa; Miss Hamerskold.
5. Flute
Solo—Stanca di Pinconbatt, Forde; Mr. H. Farmer.
6. "Judith"
Beneath the Ramparts of Bethula, Concone, Mrs. Jas. Armour.
7. Duo pour
Violin et Piano, Op. 14, De Beriot and Osborne; Sigr. Carlo Patti and Mr. F.
Katzenbach.
8. "D'un
Pensiero," Sixtette from Somnambula, Bellini; Mrs. Jas. Armour, (amina;)
Miss Hammerskold, (Lisa;) Mrs. Katzenbach, (Theresa;) Sigr. Carlo Patti, (Elvina;)
Mr. Hagood, (Aless;) Mr. Maas, (Rudolpho.)
Intermission of
Ten Minutes.
Part II.
1. "Tremolo
Waltzes," Libitzky
Orchestra.
2. "Duet
from Robert Devereux," Donnizette; Mr. and Mrs. Katzenbach.
3. Russian
Air, Violin and Flute with Piano Accompaniment; H. S. Saroni, Sigr. Carlo Patti
and Mr. H. Farmer.
4. Ballad—"I
Love Thee," Carlo Patti and Mrs. Hamerskold.
5. Solo on the
Piano russe; Mr. F. A. Pfaffensehlager.
6. Violin
Solo—"Carneval de Venice," Sigr. Carlo Patti.
Tickets, One Dollar!
Tickets may be had at the Music store of Jas. A. McClure, where, also,
reserved seats may be secured.
Doors open at 7 o'clock, concert to commence at half past 7 o'clock
precisely.
the Piano to be used on the occasion is one of Hallet & Cumston's
semi-grand's, and has been kindly furnished by Messrs. Ames, Huniwell & Co.,
Gayoso Block.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 5, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2
Railroad Accident—A Sad Romance.—An accident occurred on Wednesday
evening, on the East Tennessee and Georgia railroad, by which several persons
were injured, one fatally. The
train which was bringing the 23d Alabama regiment to this city, ran off the
track a few miles this side of Cleveland, wrecking the train badly.
A girl, in uniform, who was with the soldiers without revealing her sex,
but who did not belong to this regiment, was sitting on the platform of one of
the cars, had her legs so badly crushed that amputation was necessary, and both
were taken off, but without avail; and death put an end to her sufferings last
night. She gave her name as Lilly
White, and told a sad story of woman's wrongs.
She had disguised herself in male attire, and joined this regiment with
the expectation of finding her deceiver, who is in the army, and avenging her
shame. A few of the soldiers were
slightly wounded, but none others seriously.
This poor girl's fate is another warning against the danger of sitting on
the platforms of railroad cars in traveling.—Knoxville Register.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11,
1862, p. 2, c. 1
Mississippi University Hospital.—By order of Governor Pettus the
university buildings, at Oxford, are appropriated, and are now being fitted up
for the use and benefit of sick and wounded soldiers of the Confederate army. To meet the wants of the institution, an appeal has been made
to the friends of the cause for donations of good nurses, servants, bedding,
clothing and hospital stores, such as mattresses, pillows, blankets, comforts,
quilts, sheets, towels, old linens, lint, second hand flannels—very
important—socks, linseys, bales of cotton, and, last but not least, money.
All packages and communications should be addressed to
W. F. Avent, Oxford, Miss.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The Tyler Reporter, of the 27th ult., has the
following:
We learn that five fellows were hung at South Sulphur, Hopkins county, a
few days ago, for treasonable conduct. Right!
Preach us long funerals about the evils of mob law at other times and
under other circumstances, but we say hang the last one that can be caught.
We have been notified to watch for Lincoln incendiaries, and let us do
it, and never have to hunt the same one twice.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Things in San Antonio, Texas.—The San Antonio News of the 20th
of February thus sketches the appearance of things in that beautiful city:
A person in traveling through our city could hardly be persuaded that the
blockade was still in existence. You
see bustle and business on every corner, and all our markets well supplied.
We have any quantity of coffee at fifty cents per pound, and some two
hundred sacks of this article arrived here during the past week.
Our gardens are wearing their carpets of green; buildings are going up,
and our city is not only widening but becoming more corpulent, and we will
venture the assertion that there is not a town in the State that pays day
laborers better than San Antonio, and some will not work, but continue as usual,
loafing on the streets, complaining of hard times.
Every few days the different companies may be seen drilling. All this in a city not very near Abraham's bosom.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
The Sick Soldiers.—A gentleman, one of our merchants, who sat up in a
room with six patients in the Overton Hospital, on Sunday night, informs us that
attendance as night nurses is very greatly wanted there.
The necessity is too great for mere chance assistance and unorganized
efforts to meet. A regular and
methodical system of night attendance is wanted. Who will make an effort to
organize a methodical system, and who will volunteer to carry the system out?
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
Overton Hospital.—The large number of sick now in our military
hospitals, and the probability of a large accession of patients at an early day
from the battle field, calls upon our people to extend to them all the help with
the resources of the country will supply. The
Society of Southern Mothers, so long and so well known for their unselfish
devotion to the sick soldier, are still at their work at the Overton, and night
and day some of their number are in attendance upon the patients.
They earnestly appeal to the people everywhere in the South to continue
that confidence which, on previous occasions, poured into their treasury the
means to make their nursing effectual by supplying nourishing and delicate food,
invigorating and pure cordials, fresh bedding, and the thousand little
necessities of a sick room. All
contributions from abroad should be directed to Messrs. Pickett, Wormeley &
Co., No. 8 Front Row.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
The Police Force.—Our police force have of late had hard duty to
perform; the present Council materially reduced their number, while
circumstances connected with the war have brought very many strangers into the
city, and as thieves, gamblers, and swindlers always follow the crowd there has
been an unusual number of that class of gentry among us.
At the present time the number of the floating brigand population is
greater than at any previous period, and just now, when the services of the
police are so much required their ranks are being thinned by the volunteer and
militia service, and the services of some of those remaining are partially
required to assist militia organizations. These
are facts which in justice to the police force, should be taken into account in
estimating their services, and should also awaken serious attention on the part
of those interested in the safety and welfare of the city.
Judging from numerous occurring incidents and from many circumstances
that came to the knowledge of the police, the new Provost Marshal will find a
wide field for activity. We have too many disreputable drinking houses, too many
gambling houses, and other vile places.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
A Feminine in Pants.—Mrs. Piquet was found parading the streets on
Sunday night in masculine habiliments. Nelson
Warsaw was in company with her. The
Recorder fined them six dollars each.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 12, 1862, p. 3,
c. 5
Closed.—The drinking saloons were generally closed throughout the city
yesterday, but the knowing ones say they found plenty of back doors open.
Whether the Provost Marshal's order applies to the back as well as the
front doors remains to be seen.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6
The Florence Gazette, of yesterday, says:
We learned yesterday that the Federals had landed a large force at
Savannah, Tennessee. We suppose
they are making preparations to get possession of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad. They must never be
allowed to get this great thoroughfare in their possession, for then we would
indeed be crippled. The labor and
untiring industry of too many faithful and energetic men have been expended upon
this road, to bring it up to its present state of usefulness, to let it fall
into the hands of our enemy, to be used against us.
It must be protected. We, as
a people, are able to protect and save it.
If unavoidable, let them have our river, but we hope it is the united
sentiment of our people that we will have our railroad.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6
Warlike.—The city has a very warlike appearance just now; lamp post
committees and street corner lounges are much less numerously attended than they
were a week ago, and in every quarter are seen squads of men drilling, while
persons in uniform are hurrying to and fro as if they had important business
upon their hands.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 13, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
The Crescent regiment, the first from this city to respond to the call of
our gallant Creole chief, numbers 900 muskets, and is one of the most complete
and efficiently equipped regiments we have yet sent to the war.
It was organized and placed on a war basis in a few days.
Its gallant colonel, Marshall J. Smith, has won the highest distinction
by the energy and promptitude with which he formed and organized this regiment.
The uniforms, consisting of strong, substantial grey cloth, and very
neatly and handsomely made, were furnished in three days.
The men of this regiment may be styled the Young Guard of our city.
They are chiefly the younger brothers and sons of those who are already
in the army. Many have left the
high schools and academies of our city. Very
many of the regiment are below twenty years.
We know several of the principals and teachers of our public schools in
the ranks.—N. O. Delta.
note: March 14, 1862, is a four page issue
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Northern Opinion of the South.
The army correspondents of the Cincinnati papers have been furnishing their readers many sketches of their observations in Tennessee. Of course their tales are told for the edification, especially, of the people of the North, and should be accepted with many grains of allowance. The following extracts from the correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette will not be found uninteresting:
The Rebels of Nashville.
A good deal has been said about the dormant Union feeling in Tennessee. Most of the statements about this "dormant feeling" has been exaggerated. In Nashville we ought to find a large proportion of loyal men; yet the assertions of those who have the best means of ascertaining the facts in the case are, that loyalty to the government is to be found only among the mechanics and laboring classes of the city; that the mercantile and business men are nearly all sympathizers or abettors in the rebel cause, and can only be made to side with the government by repeated and unequivocal demonstrations of its ability to enforce national law. That this is true appears evident from the fact that as soon as it became known that the Federal army was advancing in Nashville, all the business houses in the city, with a few exceptions, closed their doors, and many of the merchants commenced shipping their goods further south. Nearly all the gold and silver coin belonging to these merchants has been sent to Atlanta, Georgia. The streets of Nashville wear a sad and gloomy aspect. Whole rows of houses which two years ago were occupied by families of wealth and respectability, surrounded by all the circumstances that make homes happy and prosperous, stand vacant, and the gaze of the passerby is met, instead of, as in former days, with fine, tapestry window curtains and neatly polished marble steps, with panes of dust-dimmed glass, over which the spider has spread his web, as if to hide from recognition the mournful vacuity within. If Tennesseans had cause to pride themselves upon the architectural beauty of their capital city, it was before the bats and the owls of treason took up their abode in the finest edifices of Nashville.
The Texas Villains.
The Nashville Banner does not say anything, of course, about the
depredations which two Texas regiments, in ascertaining that they must evacuate
the city, committed on unoffending citizens. Throwing off all guise, these
villains openly entered upon the legitimate object of their enlistment, just
before the arrival of the Federal army, and commenced a system of plunder and
robbery which would disgrace any civilized nation. They knocked men down in the public streets, in open
daylight, and rifled their pockets. They
entered private houses, and defiantly carried off such articles of value as they
could lay their hands upon. They
dismounted riders to steal horses—all this conducted, too, toward the people
of a city where they had been named as protectors of God-given rights.
Such acts of these the Banner includes in the general term of
"riot."
[The Gazette's correspondent was not in Nashville or he might have
learned two important facts, that with a few exceptions, the Texas rangers did
not stop here, and that there was the smallest possible foundation for his
story. In fact, that it was a
veritable fancy sketch.] . . . .
Clarksville—How Secession Leaves It.
Clarksville is, next to Nashville, the most important point in the
western half of Northern Tennessee. A
pleasant little city of five or six thousand inhabitants, with steamboating up
to Nashville and down to Paducah, and railroad connections to Louisville and
Memphis, with a larger shipping trade than Nashville, beautifully located on the
rolling bluff of the Cumberland, with flourishing business houses, elegant
private residences, full academies and female seminaries, tasteful churches, and
the seat of not a little wealth and refinement—so the rebellion found
Clarksville.
It leaves her with trade destroyed, many of her business houses bankrupt,
her costly bridges burnt, preventing railroad connection with either Louisville
or Memphis, some of her best families exiles within the fast receding boundaries
of the Southern Confederacy, a regiment and a half of her sons prisoners of war
in the North, a victorious general's headquarters established in the residence of
one of her absent traitors, sentries at every corner, an armed guard patrolling
the streets, encampments of loyal soldiers around her treason-built forts, the
people sullen, cut off from the cause to which they had given themselves, and
forced to associate with and depend for the very necessaries of life upon the
North they have been so industriously reviling.
Such are the rights secession has brought to Clarksville; and still the
people pray the end may be not yet.
[It is rather singular that all this prosperity should depart with "Secessia!"].
Still Rebel.
We have all been curious to know the condition and feeling of the people in the rebel States. Here is a piece just cut of rebeldom, and still palpitating with its old life-blood. The people may eventually return to their allegiance, and become good Union men again; but just now they take particular pride in informing us that there are but six Union men in the whole city. They submit quietly to a force they know it would be madness to resist; but they are frank enough to make no secret of the fact, that all their hopes and sympathies are with the rebellion, and that for us their best wish is that we may get soundly beaten on every field where we meet the southern armies.
Secessionists Professing Confidence.
Strange as it may seem to those who, flushed with our recent successes, are predicting that a month will end the war, these people seem to believe in the ultimate success of their cause. Fort Henry they talk of as an affair hardly worth mentioning; and they insist that Fort Donelson wasn't so very big a thing after all. The gunboats were beaten, they say; the land forces were driven off on Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday forenoon they nearly made a Bull Run stampede of it for us; and, in short, but for the cowardice of Buckner, and the "excessive caution" (with due emphasis on "caution") of Floyd, Fort Donelson, they maintain, might still be theirs.
The Gunboats.
They cherish a very wholesome respect for our Mississippi fleet, (which a captured letter very mildly calls "the infernal hell-born contraptions known as Yankee gunboats,") but they insist that while "the Federals are dangerous on the river, we can whip 'em anywhere, easy, on land."
One to Five.
"It's about time," I suggested, in the course of a conversation with one of their merchants, "that we were getting beyond the idea that one man on either side can be equal, in a fight, to five of his antagonists." "Why," responded the merchant, with evident earnestness, "why, I never heard it questioned before that one southern soldier was as good as five northern ones." I strained my eyes looking to see if the man was joking, but there was no room to doubt that he was in absolute, solemn earnest. And yet he was an intelligent, educated business man.
How Gen. Smith Treated a "Rebel."
Gen. Smith has made a very favorable impression upon them. The gray-haired old veteran looks like a soldier.
He was very cordially received by Cave Johnson and other prominent
citizens on his arrival, and there seems no doubt that whatever latent Union
feeling there may be in the place he will draw out.
His treatment of a pompous rebel at headquarters, the other day, was
characteristic. The man called on
him to ask a special favor. "Who
are you, sir?" asked the general. "I
am a southerner, sir, (very pompously), and I am not ashamed to say, a
Secessionist." "Get out
of my room you scoundrel! don't
talk to traitors! Get out of my
room, sir!"
Excitement During the Fight.
Clarksville was in a perturbed state during and after the battle at Fort
Donelson. Up to Saturday evening,
all was the most perfect confidence. They
received almost hourly dispatches from the field, and each gave additional
encouragement. On Friday, Gen.
Pillow threw them into a fever by telegraphing that the gunboats were within two
hundred yards of the fort, and that his guns had no effect on them; but
subsequent dispatches soon glorified over the brilliant victory they had won
over Commodore Foote. During the
jubilation it was decided advisable to hang one of the Union men, as a terror to
future evil-thinkers. They finally
thought best, however, to wait till they were ready to celebrate the victory,
and by that time there was so much confusion, the hanging was overlooked, and
every body was more concerned about the safety of his own neck.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
A Woman Elected Mayor.—At a recent city election in Oskaloosa, Ia.,
Mrs. Nancy Smith, Democrat, was elected Mayor by a majority of twenty-one over
the Republican candidate for that office.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
Since the liquor blockade was established in Huntsville, it is
astonishing to see the number of ailing persons of all sorts, who need a little
liquor for "the stomach ache and their other infirmities." The doctors
are busy writing permits for its purchase, and great is the ingenuity displayed
in running the blockade. N. B.
The physicians at Bowling Green fixed the fee for a liquor prescription
at $5.—Advocate.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 14, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2
The gun factory at Holly Springs, Miss., is now turning out forty good
muskets per day. It will soon be
able to turn out 100 per day for the government.
Muskets are the best weapon for three-fourths of the army. It shoots strong, far and accurate, and seldom gets out of
order.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5
Nashville Items.—The Times of the 8th says:
Two men dressed as soldiers, went to the residence of a gentleman of this
city the other day, and inquired of his lady if there were any "secession
flags" about the house. She
replied that there were; that the negro children had two or three with which
they amused themselves. They
demanded that they be produced. The
lady indignantly replied that brave men sought flags on the battle field and not
from defenseless women. About this
time the brother of the lady came into the house, when the scamps deemed it the
better part of valor to beat a hasty retreat. . .
We heard that the house of one of our citizens was searched yesterday for
Texas rangers, dressed in ladies' clothing.
Somebody was "sold."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
Speculating.—A week ago a New Orleans paper spoke of Memphis having
"a nest of speculators" in her midst.
A correspondent in the Abeille, of that city, says that
speculators there are going from store to store buying up the stocks of black
cloth, anticipating that the loss of life in approaching battles will cause so
great a demand for black for mourning that it will rise greatly in price, and
they will secure that object of the speculators' aims, "a handsome
profit." Well done, New
Orleans! A pretty place that to
talk about "a next of speculators" in Memphis!
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
Rye Coffee Not Injurious.—We publish in another column a paragraph from
the LaGrange (Ga.) Reporter, which states that more than one half of the
substance of rye, when burned, is phosphoric acid, and that its effect upon the
structure of the bones is so injurious that rye coffee is a dangerous beverage.
Rye coffee is in extensive use among us at the present time, and if the
statement be true, it ought no longer to be drunk.
The action of phosphoric acid upon the bones is injurious in the highest
degree, but we are informed by Mr. Farnsworth, druggist on Main street, who is
an accomplished chemist, that the quantity of phosphoric acid in rye, and it is
found only in the hull, is too minute to produce any appreciable effect upon the
system. Parching the grain, instead
of increasing the quantity of the acid, which is of a volatile nature, drives if
off and leaves the grain free of any deleterious constituent. There is a diseased rye known as "ergott," which
has powerful properties that are sometimes used for injurious purposes, but the
size, color, and smell of the grain in that condition, are so different to the
healthy state, that a child can readily tell the difference.
We may safely drink rye coffee, and defy phosphoric acid and federalism.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 15, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
Soldiers' Families.—In the midst of the excitement caused by troubles
around us, we are glad to see that the families of soldiers absent in the field
are not forgotten. The president of
the association for their relief has received the following, dated Memphis,
March 13, 1861.
F. Lane, President Free Market:
Dear Sir—We herewith send you five boxes soap and one box candles for
the free market of Memphis. Shall
contribute same amount each month.
Yours truly,
J. P. Prescott & Co.
The market value of the above generous contributions is $111. Mr. Lane informs us that several contributions have been
received from the country, of potatoes, meal, and other produce.
We see it stated in one of the Provost Marshal's orders, that sugar and
molasses, if found concealed, will be destroyed.
We suggest that it would be much better to turn them over to this
association than to destroy them; they would be distributed among the families
of soldiers. Any kind of provision will be thankfully received at the free
market, No. 10 Shelby street, and faithfully distributed.
The president of the association, F. Lane, Esq., is attending with great
diligence to the distribution. The
list of soldiers' wives and children now receiving from the free market includes
nearly 2000 persons.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
An Appeal for the Soldier.
The Medical Director of the General Hospital lately established at
I-u-ka, informs us that the invalid soldiers at that point are in great need of
many comforts required for the sick, which it is impossible to supply from the
regular hospital stores of the army. The
want of comfortable quarters, incident to the rapid movements of a large and
active army, has contributed to induce an increase of sickness, especially
during the late wet weather, and unless they are provided for, much suffering
that could be relieved by contributions from the abundance of those who are
defending, must ensue.
The appeal is specially directed to the ladies of Northern Mississippi
and Alabama. Many of their
husbands, brothers, and sons are in position to become the recipients of their
benevolence. The invitation is to
them, and others, to forward boxes of cordials, light bread, hams, butter, and
other delicacies for the convalescent, and old cotton sheets and linen that can
be spared. All packages should be
marked—"Medical Director, I-u-ka, Hospital Stores."
Ladies, do not let this appeal be made in vain.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5
The Richmond Enquirer of the 10th inst. says:
Miss Ann E. Scott, a resident of Leesburg, was arrested in that city by
order of Gen. Hill last week, and sent to Richmond, where she arrived on
Saturday evening, and was at once consigned to "Castle Godwin." It is understood that she is suspected of having played the
spy for the Yankees. The
prisoner—the first female of the war arrested by the Confederate States
government since the commencement of these troubles—is about twenty-five years
of age, and has a brother in the Southern army.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7
The Yellow Flag.—The yellow flag was hoisted last evening at the
hospital in the Overton Hotel.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 16, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8
"Brilliant" Saloon.—At this saloon, Mr. S. Oishel is now
supplying his customers with excellent coffee, delicious chocolate, fine tea,
splendid cigars, and unrivaled pies. The
saloon is in Center alley, rear of Merriman's jewelry store.
All change tickets he has out will be received.
Give Oishel a call.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 18, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
St. Patrick's Day.—Yesterday was St. Patrick's day—St. Patrick's day
and no whisky to be got, this is hard on our friends of the Green Isle.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6
Juvenile Thieves.—Four girls, the eldest not more than twelve or
thirteen years of age, were yesterday afternoon arrested on the landing, each
having a sack partially filled with rice, which they had stolen from a tierce,
the head of which they had contrived partially to remove.
One of them said her mother had sent her out with orders that she must
get something. If such things are
done from poverty, means should be adopted for relief; if from vice, it must be
repressed.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Movements on the Tennessee.
Our latest intelligence of the movements of the enemy is that a large
force has been landed on the west bank of the Tennessee at Chalk Bluffs,
twenty-six miles from Corinth. At
this point it is said they have thrown up defenses of considerable strength and
extent. They have also commenced
the construction of a road in the direction of Corinth, several miles of which
have already been completed. Their
force now concentrated on the river is variously estimated at from forty to
sixty thousand.
The outrages committed by their scouting and foraging parties upon the
property of the States Rights men, are reported to be of the most destructive
character. In every instance all
personal property that they cannot remove, or that would not be of service to
themselves, is utterly destroyed. Instead
of making converts to their cause, their conduct is having the contrary effect,
as has been the result of all their forays into the country.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2
At the late term of the Confederate States district court, held at Tyler,
Texas, a decree was entered for the sequestration of 40,000 acres of land,
valued at $150,000. In Western
Texas, the sequestration property amounts to $30,000,000.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], March 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
The Fight on the Tennessee River.