Needles, Thread, and Factory Yarns:
Articles in Civil War Newspapers
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, May 4, 1861, p. 1, c. 7
Georgia
Osnaburgs and Yarns.
25 Bales Thomaston
Factory Osnaburgs, a superior article.
50 bales Thomaston Yarns, for sale by
Crane & Graybill
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, May 8, 1861, p. 2, c. 6
New
Goods,
Per Ship Florida,
From Liverpool.
. . . 500 lbs Flax
Thread. . .
The above goods were manufactured expressly for, and imported by
Nevitt, Lathrop & Rogers.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, Sept. 26, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Stocking Yarn. We learn from the Augusta Constitutionalist that the
Graniteville Factory has commenced the manufacture of cotton yarn for the making
of socks and stockings--the machinery for the purpose having been recently
imported from England. The yarn is
said, by those who know, to be of the best quality, and it will be sold at
reasonable prices.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, October 19, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
The editor of the Savannah News has been shown a sample ball of sewing cotton
manufactured at the Sweet Water Factory, in Campbell county, Ga.
The cotton used in making the thread is of the finest kind, costing 23
cents per pound, and the thread is of a very superior quality, strong, even and
free from knots, and adapted for use on sewing machines.
The ladies will undoubtedly find it preferable to the cheating Yankee
spools with which they have heretofore been supplied, as a consequence of our
unnecessary dependence on the North.
ATHENS [GA]
SOUTHERN WATCHMAN, November 13, 1861, p. 3, c. 3-4
. . . The above Factories, nearly all, make a surplus of cotton yarns, which are
now readily sold and are being woven upon hand looms in the country, and there
are several small Factories that only spin yarn in the State, not included in
the above list.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
There are thirty factories in Georgia engaged in making cotton and woolen
goods, besides several smaller factories that spin yarn only.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], March
11, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Sewing Machine Needles.--Dr. B. B. Alfriend, of LaGrange, Ga., has invented
machinery to manufacture sewing machine needles, and is now making them.
CHARLESTON
MERCURY, March 6, 1862, p. 4, c. 5
A blacksmith, in Wilkes county, N. C., has commenced the manufacture of
ladies' sewing needles, and will soon be able to supply and required quantity.
CHARLESTON
MERCURY, March 13, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
Dr. B. B. Alfriend, of LaGrange, Ga., has invented a machine to
manufacture sewing machine needles, and is now making them.
AUSTIN STATE GAZETTE,
March 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
COTTON THREAD.--Wachovia Steam Mills, in Savannah, North Carolina, are
now spinning cotton thread. The article is scarce in the Confederacy, the North being our
whole dependence heretofore.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, April 2, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Reduction in Prices. The Georgia
factory and Athens factory have reduced the prices of yarns, osnaburgs,
sheetings, etc. They furthermore
give preference to those dealers who conform to their schedule of prices, rather
than the speculator. Soldiers'
families are to be supplied at wholesale prices.
This arrangement goes into effect the first of April and continues until
an agreement to change shall be made.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
The course of the Athens, Macon and Augusta factories in fixing the price
of their cotton goods at moderate rates, has met with universal commendation.
Mr. McCullough, near Gladden's Grove, Fairfield District, S. C., is
manufacturing and selling cotton yarn at $1 a bunch. This is a fair, even a liberal price, for the consumer to
pay, considering the price which he has to take for his cotton.—Charleston
Courier.
Would it not be well for the Georgia factories to imitate the patriotic
course of Mr. McCullough. Our
soldiers need socks. Our wives and
daughters are willing to knit them. The
factories throughout the country should, in a corresponding spirit of
liberality, aid this good work.
There is much deep and smothered indignation all over the land against
the greedy extortioner. Let the
Courts and Grand Juries make diligent inquiry in regard to the matter, and bring
guilty parties under inflections of the penal code, or the people, it is
believed, will take the remedy into their own hands and commit acts of
vengeance, which every good citizen should discourage and deplore.
The extortioners may be sure of one thing, that our soldiers will not be
permitted to fight their battles with bare backs and empty stomachs
whilst there are goods and provisions in the country.—Macon Mess.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, May 10, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Augusta
Auction Sale.
By W. B. Griffin.
Package Sale of
Military Goods
Direct Importation
By the Steamship Nashville.
Tuesday, 14th of May instant, in store, commencing at 10
o'clock, will be sold, a large and valuable assortment of Military Goods, direct
importation, as follows: . . .
Black
and Whitney Brown Flax Thread
White Spool Cottons and Needles
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
True Patriotism.—J. Starks Simms, Esq., of Grindal's Shoal, Pacolet
River, S.C. has refused to allow anything made in his factory to be sold for
more than it brought before the war. While
others have sold yarns at $2@2.25 per bunch, he has held it steadily at $1.
WASHINGTON [ARK] TELEGRAPH, May 21, 1862
IMPORTANT MANUFACTORY.--The manufactory for cotton yarns in the neighboring
county of Pike is of such immense importance to our people just now, that it
might become an object of the enemy to destroy it....The prices charged are
moderate, being considerably below those charged by similar establishments in
Georgia and other parts of the South. This
is the only factory here accessible to our citizens.
People anxiously flock to purchase this necessary article from a hundred
miles distant, and that in such numbers as to render it impossible to supply the
demand.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], May
26, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Highly
Important
Form Europe!
Good News for the Ladies!
Arrival of a lot of
J. & P. Coats' Best Six Cord
Spool Cotton,
Nos. 20, 30, 40, 50,
Which will be put up in packages containing one dozen spools of each of
the above numbers, and sent to any part of the Confederacy to ladies making
soldiers' clothing, on receipt of Five Dollars! No one person will be allowed to purchase more than one
package.
Send immediately. First come first
served.
H. L. Emery,
Wilmington, North Carolina.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, June 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Cargo
Sale at Auction of
4,731 Packages
English Goods,
Direct from London, and put up expressly for this Market,
By R. A. Pringle,
Jas. H. Taylor, Auctioneer.
On Wednesday morning, June 11, at 187 Meeting Street, commencing at 10
o'clock. . . .
2 cases Brown Glace
Sewing Cotton . . .
1 case assorted Needles and Buttons . .
1 case Mixed Pins . . .
8 cases Clark's assorted Black and White Glazed Spool Cotton—2,200 dozen, 100
yards
8 cases Geo. Mosley's 3 Cord Colored, Black and White Glaced Reel—100 and 200
yards
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, June 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Notice
Extraordinary.
Good News for the Ladies.
Arrival of 2000 dozen Coats' Spool Cotton, Nos. 20, 30, 40, 50.
This Thread will be put up in packages of six of each of the above
numbers (20 spools) and sent by Express to any part of the country, on receipt
of Five Dollars. Or one dozen of
each of the numbers will be sent on receipt of Ten Dollars.
We design that all shall have a chance to procure thread at something
like a reasonable price. No person
will be allowed to purchase more than four dozen spools.
Also, a few thousand of Wheeler & Wilson, Singer's and Grover &
Baker's Sewing Machine Needles, that will be sold by the single dozen only at $2
per dozen.
Address,
G. S. Pattison,
Atlanta, Geo.
CHARLESTON
MERCURY, July 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
"Sewing Machine Needles, to be Used for the Confederate Soldiers,
Sent by the Ladies of Baltimore."--The officers of the Soldiers' Relief
Association return their heartfelt thanks to the noble, warm-hearted, patriotic
ladies of Baltimore for their valuable and timely present.
Such Southern sisters we must ever be proud to claim.
We feel you are with us, heart and hand; and well do our noble,
courageous Marylanders deserve such fair ones.
WASHINGTON [ARK] TELEGRAPH, August 6, 1862
We were pleased to observe the industry of our country ladies with their
looms. Everywhere they are in operation. Jeans, linseys, and coarse cotton stuffs, are being turned
out in an abundance, which (considering the scarcity of cards, and the inability
of the Pike co. factory to supply yarns,) is truly astonishing.
The country ought to get cards for them at fair rates, and our soldiers
and families would soon be independent. As
it is, we believe the women will make almost enough.
One lady has made a thousand yards already.
Others, perhaps, much more.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, August 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
"Pitch
into 'em--Give 'em Jesse!"
Such langage [sic] is often urged upon us in regard to extortioners, and
urged, too, by men who, themselves, are generally engaged in the same business.
We beg to be excused; we are satisfied that all that has been said on the
subject has had little effect upon that class and has only made the matter
worse. ... Countryman comes to town with a load of watermelons and diminutive
fowls, weighing perhaps a half a pound a piece.
For the first he requires fifty cents each, and for the second thirty
cents. He sells out his wagon load
at thirty or forty dollars, and then, when he goes to the store and finds sugar
forty cents a pound--flour fourteen dollars a hundred--molasses two dollars a
gallon--thread two dollars and a half a bunch--there, you see, is
"retributive injustice at once."
Like Suggs he is "kinder tuk up short," and looks both ways for
Sunday. He skins us--we skin
him--it's fair all round, and when he gets home of a night he goes to bed
with the consoling reflection that "he's been done as he's done to
others." As for we outsiders
who are skinned by both, we pay the prices in the way of a ticket to see the
show.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], August 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
M'Allister's Advertisements.
1.
Cotton cards, for $10 a pair, at McAllister's.
2. Black calico, for $1 per yard,
at McAllister's.
3. French Ginghams, for $1.25 per
yard, at McAllister's.
4. and 5. J. & P. coats'
Genuine 200 yds. Spool Thread, for 60c. per spool, or $7 per doz., at
McAllister's.
6. 100 dozen Maddrass Handkerchiefs
for $9 per dozen, at McAllister's.
7. English shoes, for $9 and $10
per pair, at J. C. McAllister's, State Street, Jackson, Miss.
au8-1w
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], September 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
By Br. Tardy & Co., Auc'rs, Mobile, Ala.
Cargo Sale of Foreign Importations, ...
[includes,
among other things]
1000 dozen Extra Spool Cotton, in tin cans,
1800 lb pkgs. Extra Flax Thread, Nos. 30, 35, 40
75,000 Extra quality needles, assorted,
66 pkgs. English Pins.
50 6-lb pkgs Black Thread,
WASHINGTON [ARK.] TELEGRAPH, September 3, 1862
The cotton and wool may be had here in abundance, and willing hands to
manufacture it into clothing, but the means are wanting.
The old stock of cotton cards is being worn out by use.--There are only
two or three manufactories of spun thread in the whole department.
The supply from these is so inadequate as to be unworthy of consideration
in estimating for a full supply for our army in this department, and the
citizens at home.
AUSTIN STATE GAZETTE,
September 3, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
HIGH PRICES.--A great hue and cry has been raised against farmers because they
are asking fifteen dollars per sack for flour, and one dollar per bushel for
corn and barley. We think they are
doing right, and only hope the shylocks and extortioners of the town will be
made to pay much higher before they get through with it.
A farmer comes to this city and sells his sack of flour for fifteen
dollars in currency. He enters a
store and buys three papers of pins for three dollars; six spools of rotten
thread for three dollars; two lbs of coffee for three dollars and six yards of
common domestic for six dollars, making up the sum total he received for his
flour. This is not all--he cannot
get his plough sharpened, his saddle mended, his wagon repaired, nor his shoe
soled without paying three prices. If
these things require the strong arm of martial law to regulate them, let the
remedy first be applied to the merchants and mechanics, and we vouch for it,
breadstuff and forage will at once come down to their old prices. As a class the farmers are now suffering more than any other
from extortion.
ATLANTA [GA] SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, September 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Yarns to be Distributed to the Needy.
Office Roswell Manufacturing Co.,
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Roswell, Ga., Sept. 13, 1862.
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Editors Southern Confederacy:
In view of the pressing want of Cotton Yarn in most sections of the
country, the Roswell Manufacturing Company propose a gratuitous distribution, in
October next, of one thousand bunches of Yarn to the needy poor of the counties
of Cobb, Milton, Cherokee, Paulding, Pickens, Bartow, Fulton, Forsyth, DeKalb,
and Floyd. This will give to each county one hundred bunches.
It is desired the Judges of the Inferior Court of each county should
interest themselves in the appointment of a Committee, whose pleasure,
doubtless, it will be, judiciously to dispose of the Yarn, and as the amount is
limited, not more than one bunch could be spared to each family.
The Yarn will be delivered to the order of the Judges of the Inferior
Court, any week day during the month of October; and this early notice is given
that those living remote from the court House may have an opportunity to make
timely application. If it were
possible, the list of counties would be cheerfully increased, but other sections
have mills near them, upon whose liberality they can doubtless depend for
supply.
Geo. H. Camp,
Agent Roswell Manufacturing Company.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, September 20, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
The Roswell (Cobb co. Factory)
proposes to distribute gratuitously one thousand bunches of yarn to the poor of
ten of the counties adjoining, during the month of October.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, September 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Roswell Factory.
Geo. H. Camp, Agent of the Roswell Manufacturing Company, proposes to
make a donation of one thousand bunches of factory yarn to the needy families of
ten counties, mentioned in his letter, which we publish to-day. As a citizen of one of the fortunate counties, we feel
thankful of course. But this is not
what we want. Reduce your prices
greatly, Mr. Camp! otherwise it
will be truly said of your donation—
"With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out."
--Rome (Ga.) Southerner.
Yes, let prices be reduced. When
a mill uses four thousand or more pounds of cotton per day, on which a profit of
eighty cents per pound is made—with yarn at one dollar per pound—and the
public thus extorted upon, there is precious little merit in donating five
thousand pounds to ten counties. The
cost of the yarn is not one third of one day's profit.
We are the friend of the manufacturing interest.
On that subject we come nearer being of one idea than in any other.
We have desired that the introduction of manufactories should be
encouraged, and if they had been, the competition now would have kept prices
down; but we confess to some misgivings when we see persons asking exorbitant
prices for their goods because they know the people are compelled to have them,
and are obliged, therefore, to give what is asked.
We hear of one manufacturer who is now positively refusing to sell at
all, because he expects that yarn will be even higher than it is. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.—[Atlanta Commonwealth.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, September 30, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
The Roswell (Cobb co.) Factory proposes to distribute gratuitously one
thousand bunches of yarn to the poor of ten of the counties adjoining, during
the month of October.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, October 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
E. Lewis advertises to-day, a supply of Sewing Needles, Chewing Tobacco, Starch
and Soda, which will be in store to-morrow.
These articles are scarce, and persons wishing them should call and
purchase immediately.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], October 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
M'Allister's Advertisements.
J. C. McAllister,
Jackson, Missippi, [sic]
Has just received . . .
Also--A large lot Cotton yarns all Nos., and fifty Slaes.
Come soon as they will go off like hot Buckwheat Cakes.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, October 18,1862, p. 2, c.5
Just
Received:
. . . 10 bales
Factory Yarns
For sale, retail or wholesale, by
DeWitt & Morgan.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, October 22, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Athens
Factory.
The Agent of this Factory determined a week or so ago to sell thread at
$3 per bunch for a given time, and adopt the miller's rule, "first come,
first served." The hour for selling was from 8 to 9 o'clock each morning.
Hundreds of people would assemble at the office each morning long before
the appointed time. So great was the pressure that many females fainted, and we
are told that the scene was occasionally enlivened by rough and tumble fights.
Persons frequently put their money on the end of a pole in order to reach
it to the Agent. To some the scene was ludicrous; to others it was sad.
Saturday was the last day for selling in this manner.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN WATCHMAN, October 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
. . . Take homespun cotton, for example. Two
bunches of thread will make 32 yards--thread is selling at 4 and 5
dollars--weaving costs 10 cents a yard. Now
what is the showing. To make 32
yards ten dollars worth of thread is required and the weaving is worth
$3.20--making $13.20 as the cost of 32 yards, which from 90 cts. to a dollar a
yard amounts to from $28.80 to $32!! Talk
about extortion! What greater
extortion have we than this? We
might adduce whole columns of facts showing that nearly everybody is guilty of
it, and usually those who raise the most fuss about it are the very persons who
are most guilty.
It will be seen from the above that the much-abused factories charge only
five times as much as formerly for their thread, while those who weave it and
denounce them so bitterly are charging about eight times as much for cloth as
formerly!
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Athens Factory.—The Agent of this Factory determined a week or so ago
to sell thread at $3 per bunch for a given time, and adopt the miller's rule,
"first come, first served." The
hour for selling was from 8 to 9 o'clock each morning.
Hundreds of people would assemble at the office each morning long before
the appointed time. So great was
the pressure that many females fainted, and we are told that the scene was
occasionally enlivened by rough and tumble fights.
Persons frequently put their money on the end of a pole in order to reach
it to the Agent. To some this scene
was ludicrous; to others it was sad. Saturday
was the last day for selling in this manner.—Athens Banner.
SAVANNAH
REPUBLICAN, October 30, 1862, p. 1, c. 2-3
The
Factories—Gov. Brown—The Bar-
tow Petitioners—Dorcases, &c.
Mr. Editor: There are some
facts about certain Factories which can be states, for the information of some
persons in this State, who are disposed to abuse this branch of industry,
because the war has given it a wonderful degree of prosperity.
Let it be remembered that most capitalists, who, in the former days of
Yankee rule, ventured to invest in cotton manufacturing, lost one half or more
of their investment. Now, there is
an opportunity, it would seem fair to have them double what remains, especially
as the machinery is rapidly wearing out under the present impossibility of
suitable repairs and the heavy pressure of work forced upon them by the demands
of government and the necessities of the community. . .
Again, it is a fact that some of the factories of Georgia tried to keep
down the price of yarns, &c. A
circular, issued about a year since, is proof before the country.
But all in vain. Like an
inflated balloon, the thing would go up, and up, notwithstanding all efforts to
keep it down. And manufacturers
discovered that merchants and speculators were receiving the profits without the
labor, capital or risk of their business. It
was their duty, and they took steps to take what was due.
They put their goods up at auction, and they brought them the market
value, no more, no less. If the
factories continued to sell their yarn at a dollar a bunch, the state of things
would have been the same, but the profit would have gone to Jew and Gentile, who
had done nothing to earn it but speculate! . . .
During the last summer the writer was spending a short time near a large
manufacturing establishment in Georgia, which, for months, had been retailing a
large part of its production to families applying at the mills, for half
the market [illegible] repeatedly occurred when [illegible] bunches of yarn,
re-sold [illegible] full market price before they left the place!
Was that factory and its liberal managers to be blamed for this?
It is very hard that the poor women, "whose husbands and sons are in
the army, and need clothes," cannot get the yarn; but the factories are not
to be blamed. It is the war and the blockade, developing the practical
results of the theory of free trade. When
a country, like the South, has given no attention to manufacturing, and depended
entirely upon a foreign supply of manufactured goods, and suddenly, as by this
terrible war, has had all commerce cut off, it must suffer, and can never be
independent and prosperous until its necessary supplies are raised and
manufactured in its own territory. Instead,
therefore, of blaming the factories for what they cannot prevent, let all our
capitalists build more of all kinds of manufacturing establishments, and
speedily secure Southern independence of England and France, as well as the
North! It does seem as if this is
the only legitimate remedy—increase the supply. . . .
Oh! Gov. Brown will work the factories, increase the
supply, cheapen the yarn, fill the looms of all the women in Georgia, and our
brave boys will then have plenty of clothing.
Most heartily does every manufacturer wish the ladies all they desire,
and our noble soldiers all they so richly merit from their fellow citizens,
whose homes and property they have so courageously defended.
But the good ladies (God bless them for their good works,) are mistaken
in the means for the accomplishment of the desired object.
The manufacturers, stimulated by high prices, cannot now meet their heavy
contracts with the Confederate government, at low rates, and at the same
time meet the popular demand for goods. The
fact that the government is now, and has been for a long time, making such heavy
claims upon all cotton and woolen manufactories is one great reason for the
present prices. But even if another
party could produce more than the owners and agents of Georgia manufactories,
experience proves Gov. Brown is not the man "to work the machine." Gov. Brown went into the banking business, and now we have
neither gold nor silver, or even "a quarter of a cent!"
He undertook the management of military affairs, and came near involving
Georgia with the Confederacy; and now, as commander-in-chief, has brought the
tax payers of our commonwealth of Georgia an extra war debt of a million
or more dollars! Hurrah, for Gov.
Brown! He turned merchant and
speculated in salt when it was $15 a bag, and now, behold!
it can scarcely be had for $150! Hurrah,
for Gov. Brown!
Should the Governor follow the advice of his feminine counsellors, and
try his skill in manufacturing, reasoning from past experience and analogy, he
would soon have yarn, now selling at 47, scarce at $70!
Hurrah, for Gov. Brown!
Ladies and gentlemen, let the Governor mind his own business, and the
manufacturers theirs, for, by proof of word and deeds, they have shown
themselves as patriotic as he, or any other class of Georgia's sons.
K. B. C.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Cotton
Yarns—Roswell Factory.
We would call the attention of all such as are buying this article in
Macon to ten dollars a bunch, to the following letter from Geo. H. Camp, the
agent of the Roswell Factory, and then give their opinion of such Factories and
dealers as have extorted these prices.—Macon Mess.
We are retailing yarn here in large quantities each day at $3 per bunch,
when a moments reference to your Atlanta exchange, will demonstrate the fact
that we supply your county not only, but residents in nearly every county in
Upper Georgia, with yarn at but little over one-third the market price, which is
now eight dollars. This concession
in price from the market price is the result of no pressure, aside from the
wants of the country, and as our desire is solely to benefit the country no
unjust comments will cause us to waver from the plan we have adopted to place
yarn in the hands of the needy at a price they can afford to pay.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Cloth—Home
Made.
The Milton, N. C., Chronicle says: "A
very estimable lady—one of the smartest and prettiest in the country—wishes
to know of us what she ought to charge per yard for a piece of cloth now in the
loom, the cotton in which cost $4 50 per bunch, and the wool rolls $2 per pound.
To this must be added the cost of weaving, &c.—We are rather
puzzled for a reply, but she ought to exact of shoemakers, tanners, flour and
corn speculators about $15 a yard; and if she can possibly find a cotton factory
"lord" obliged to buy it, charge the rascal $25 a yard—and then she
can't "get even" with him. To
people of conscience, we do not think she could sell her cloth for less than $4
a yard, and make anything. When we
say cloth, we mean cloth; because she makes the best and prettiest article that
we have ever seen manufactured in the Southern country.
This industrious lady seems desirous of selling her cloth at a price that
will barely pay for the material and labor of weaving; she does not desire a big
profit, for she loathes the name of an extortioner, and wishes to avoid it.
Would to heaven that all Southern ladies were like her!—There would be
no laziness, no extravagance, no hifalutin tomfoolery, no Miss McFlimseys who
think that God created them merely to thumb broken down pianos, screech like
right owls, cut fantastic capers in fancy dances, and "show off"
merchants' dry goods and prop themselves up in parlors as pretty toys for men to
look at and admire. The best music a female can make these war times is the music
of the spinning wheel.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], November 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
The Montgomery Mail states, as an instance of female patriotism, in Butler,
Alabama, that Miss A. Dunham, finding that she could not buy shoes, with her own
hands tanned skins, and made shoes for her mother, three brothers, a decrepit
father and herself; and Miss E. Ficklin, a girl of nine years of age, spun a
most beautiful article of fine cotton sewing thread upon a common spinning
wheel. Hurrah for the Alabama ladies.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], November 13, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
A lady living five miles north of Ozark, Arkansas, with an axe, a saw, a chisel
and an auger, made herself a loom out of oak rails, upon which she now weaves
eight yards of coarse cotton cloth a day. The
thread is furnished by Major N. B. Pearce, and woven into cloth for army
purposes. Think of that, ye
effeminates who loll on a sofa or carriage cushions and complain.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, November 13, 1862, p. 1, c.
7
Shoe Thread.—To make shoe thread out of cotton:
Spin the thread very fine, well twisted in spinning—put eight strands
together and twist on the wheel. Let
the broach roll in starch as the thread is wound in balls.
It is best to use a needle in sewing.
The gentleman furnishing this receipt says that it will wear longer than
flax shoe thread, having made and used it himself.—The thread can be colored
by dyeing.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA], November 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The same journal [Pine Bluff Southron] had seen a letter from the clerk
of the cotton mill at Van Buren, recently burned, which stated that their
proprietors intended rebuilding it as soon as possible.
The loss by the fire was about $40,000.
He states that nearly all the wool was saved, and will be delivered to
owners upon call. The factory had
just got fairly into operation, having put a double set of hands to work, which
enabled them to turn out fifty pounds spun yarn per hour.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, November 21, 1862, p. 1, c.
7
A lady living five miles north of Ozark, Arkansas, with an axe, a saw, a
chisel and an auger made herself a loom out of oak rails, upon which she now
weaves eight yards of coarse cotton cloth a day.
The thread is furnished by Maj. N. B. Pearce, and woven into cloth for
army purposes.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, November 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
2
The Montgomery Mail states that Miss A. Dunham, of Butler county, finding
that she could not buy shoes, with her own hands tanned skins, and made shoes
for her mother, three brothers, decrepit father and herself; and Miss E.
Fickling, a girl of nine years of age, spun a most beautiful article of fine
cotton sewing thread upon a common spinning wheel.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c.
3
How to Color Thread.—Prepare a lump of beeswax by mixing into it while
in a melted state enough of soot to make it perfectly black. When cold it is ready for use.
By drawing a white thread of cotton or silk over this twice, you will
have gray thread, and by repeating it you will have it black and good enough for
nearly every purpose.
With the above we were furnished a sample of thread colored as described,
and find it all claimed for it. The
method has been tested by a well known citizen, and there is no question of its
value.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, December 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
How to Color Thread. Prepare a lump
of beeswax by mixing into it while in a molten state, enough of soot to make it
perfectly black. When cold it is
ready for use. by drawing a white
thread of cotton or silk over this twice, you will have grey thread, and by
repeating it you will have it black, and good enough for nearly every purpose.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
No
Clothing to be Sent out of the State.
The agent of the Southern Express Company, at Macon, gives notice through
the Telegraph that that Company will not receive for shipment out of the
State any shoes, cloth, clothing or leather, until further notice.
It pursues this course by order of Gov. Brown.
This may be regarded as a measure preliminary to the seizure of the
factories and tanneries by the Governor, according to authority vested in him by
the Legislature. The act of the
Legislature authorizes him to
pursue this course in the event of the refusal of these establishments to
furnish their fabrics for soldiers' clothing at prescribed prices, viz:
Osnaburgs and Shirtings 25 cents per yard, Woolen Jeans $2.50 per yard,
Cotton Yarns $2.50 per bunch, Leather $1 per pound, Shoes, best army
pattern $8 per pair.
We presume that the Railroad companies have also been, or will be,
forbidden by the Governor to take these articles out of the State until he
effects the desired arrangement with the manufacturers. . .
AUGUSTA [GA]
CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Special
Correspondence of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Columbus Factories.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 4, 1862.
It is refreshing, in these days of extortion, to find individuals or
corporations who are content with reasonable profits, and who refuse to lend
themselves to the devices of monopoly and extortion which prevail in most of our
markets.
The factories of Columbus—I allude especially to the Eagle and Howard
mills and the Columbus Factory—afford noble examples of public spirited
enterprise, which will entitle their names to grateful remembrance when those
who are taking advantage of the necessities of the people are remembered, as
they deserve to be, among the tories of the second revolution.
The Eagle and Howard mills have from the beginning of the war had heavy
contracts with the Government, and all last year, with wool at 45 cents a pound,
kept their woolen jeans at $1 per yard, furnishing 700 to 800 yards per week at
that price. Before the war, with
wool at 25 cents, the price of their jeans was 55 cents.
Now, with wool at $2.75 per lb., they continue to furnish the Government
at $2. Thus, while wool has
advanced eleven prices, or 1100 per cent., their goods have advanced only five
prices, or 500 per cent.; and they have, I learn, advanced the wages of their
hands from 100 to 300 per cent. They
have exchanged large quantities of goods at old prices for provisions at the
same rate, which they have furnished to their operatives at cost.
For nearly a year they have furnished the Government with 1200 to 1300
yards of 10 oz. duck, per day, at 22 cents, while the market rate was 40 to 45
cents; and are now making the same goods at 45 cents, while the market value of
even 7 oz. goods is 50 per cent. above that price.
Four fifths of their goods are under contract for the Government, the
balance are retailed out among consumers in small quantities, favoring as far as
possible the families of soldiers. They
sell stripes at 50 cents, for which the market price is $1.20 cents; osnaburgs
and sheetings at 40 cents, for which the market rates are 65 to 75 cents. Cotton yarns they have never sold at over $2.50 per bunch.
They have never allowed their goods to be sold at auction, or to
merchants or speculators, save in exchange for wool not to be had in any other
way, and they are daily refusing from all quarters offers of 65 to 100 per cent.
over present rates.
The record of the Columbus Factory is equally clean.
They have been making tent cloths at 18 to 25 cents per yard, for over a
year. Their woolen looms made
Kerseys at 75 cts, to $1.25 last year, and this year, owing to the price of
wool, they have charged $1.60, until recently they have been obliged to stop for
want of wool, save on work for farmers, whose wool they work up at 25 cents per
yard. At their tannery, they have
furnished shoes at $3.50, as long as they had leather, and now they make them at
75 cts. to those furnishing the leather. They
have furnished soldiers' wives with thread at $2.50 per bunch.
I make this statement without the knowledge of the factory owners, on
authority perfectly reliable, and commend their example to manufacturers
throughout the Confederacy.
--------
Our Milledgeville correspondent, a few days since, in speaking of the
Eagle Mills Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga., stated that their mills
furnished from seven to nine hundred yards of woolen jeans to the Government per
week; this was an error; the mills furnish the Government with from seven to
nine thousand yards per week—or at the rate of from twelve to fifteen hundred
yards per day. Quite a difference
in the amount. The proprietors of
the Eagle Mills are deserving of
great praise for their patriotic liberality—Chronicle & Sentinel.
Dec. 13.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, December 17, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
The Cotton
Factories.
The Graniteville Factory has reduced its rates to a reasonable scale, as
will be seen in their advertisement.
The North Carolina Factories met in Convention on Monday, the 3d instant,
in Greensboro'--eighteen establishments being represented--and adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That we will sell all the products of our several mills at a
profit not exceeding 75 per cent; and further that we give the orders of the
State the preference.
Resolved, That we will use our best endeavors to discourage speculation
in factory fabrics, and to secure this end we will sell in quantities to such
agents, as will prevent them reaching the hands of speculators.
Resolved, That we believe the following prices are in conformity at
present with the Exemption Act, to wit: 4-4
sheeting, 35c. per yard; cotton yarn, No. 5's to 7's, at $3 25 per bunch, of 5
pounds; No. 8's to 10's, at $3 50; No. 11's to 12's, at $3 75.
Resolved, That C. W. Garrett, Assistant Quartermaster at Raleigh, be
requested to publish once a month the list of prices he pays each factory for
their goods.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [JACKSON], December 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
How to Color Thread.--Prepare a lump of beeswax by mixing into it while in a
melted state enough of soot to make it perfectly black.
When cold it is ready for use. By
drawing a white thread of cotton or silk over this twice, you will have gray
thread, and by repeating it you will have black and good enough for nearly every
purpose.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, December 20, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Shoe thread. 40 pounds, very
superior. For sale by John Fuggo.
dec20.
Goods for Christmas Holidays! Just
received a lot of groceries, dry goods, &c., such as coffee, leather, rice
flour, shoe thread and pegs, starch, India rubber shoes, soap, shawls, handk'fs,
smoking tobacco, dress patterns of different kinds, chewing tobacco, white
goods, blacking, black velvet ribbons and others, cotton cards, homespun,
needles, ladies' and misses' hose, hooks and eyes, spool cotton, and a large lot
of china and glass ware, and a great many other articles too numerous to
mention, for sale at the corner of Jefferson and Pine streets.
S. Schatz. dec20.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, December 23, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Just Received, Cotton cards; shoe thread; needles; pins, and spool cotton at
Hewit & Coulson's old stand. dec23.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, December 24, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Sundries Just
Received.
Greer's
Almanac for 1863; Needles, Pins, Fine Combs, Coarse Combs, Brace Buttons, Flax
Thread.
Dec. 24, 1862.
L. M. Kenney.
ATHENS [GA]
SOUTHERN BANNER, January 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 7
Sundries on Hand, Just Received.
New Rice;
Peas;
Flour;
Sugar;
Meal;
Syrup;
Copperas;
Salt;
Needles;
Pins;
Fine Combs;
Almanac for 1863.
Jan 21.
I. M. Kenney.
WASHINGTON
[ARK.] TELEGRAPH, February 4, 1863
One bale spun thread will be given in exchange for every ten pounds washed wool
delivered to me at Washington. The
balance will be paid in cash.
Geo.
Taylor.
ATLANTA
[GA] SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, February 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 4-5
Richmond, Feb. 7-- . . .
. . . Wood is ten dollars a load--equal to from thirty to forty dollars a cord.
This is far more costly, in proportion, than sugar at 60 cents, coffee at
$3 per pound, or yarns at $7 a bunch. When
warm weather comes again, wood can be had for $3 or $4 a load.
Demand and supply regulate prices.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, February 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Athens (Ga.) Factory, we learn, has been selling yarn at three
dollars per bundle at the factory all the time, limiting the quantity to a
family in such a way as not to allow one family to get more than another.
In the same way the Macon Factory has been selling its shirting, allowing
one piece to a family, the head of which was to register his or her name, so
that no advantage may be gained. The
cloth is furnished to one or more agents in the city who pay twenty-five cents
per yard for it and sell it to the families at an advance of ten per cent.
By this generous and enlightened policy, much good has been done; by its
adoption on a larger and more extended scale by all the Manufacturers in the
State, a much greater amount of good may be done.—Sou. Cultivator.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, February 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Shoe Thread--Made in the Confederacy, for sale by I. M. Kenney.
Feb. 11.
THE
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], February
18, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Flax Seed.--Raise and spin your thread. For
sale at $10 per bushel, or 25 cts per lb.
Feb. 18.
I. M. Kenney.
Pins, Needles and Fine Combs, at
Feb. 18.
I. M. Kenney.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, February 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
To Arrive in a few Days. 75 boxes
very choice Virginia chewing tobacco; 5 tierces new Carolina Rice; 25 barrels of
flour; 300 pounds Killockinick smoking tobacco; 500 pounds of cotton yarn; and
for sale cheap, by Jos. Nehr, Pearl Street, near Post Office, feb25.
DALLAS HERALD, February 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Spun Thread.
The undersigned have a fine lot cotton yarn for sale at our factory near
Lancaster.
Nance & Moffett.
Feb. 25, 1863—13:3t
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Here is your Chance!!! Received and
for sale--copperas; chewing and smoking tobacco; crockery and glass ware;
needles; pins and silk sowing thread; ribbons and trimmings; assorted colored
lining silk; black vails [sic]; very rich laces; buttons; cinnamon; spice;
cloves and starch; leather; shoe pegs and shoe thread; Lowells; &c. &c.,
by S. Schatz, corner of Jefferson
and Pine streets, mar3.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just received, cotton cards, quinine, toilet soap, spool cotton, shoe-thread,
and matches. J. M. Benbrook, at
Hewit & Coulson's old stand. mar17
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 24, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Just Received. 20,000 large needles; 12 doz. toilet soap; 50 pair cotton
cards; 500 pounds choice smoking tobacco; 5 pounds black sewing silk.
Will be in store shortly, 80 boxes fine chewing tobacco, which will be
sold for cash only, by E. Lewis, Auctioneer, Commerce Street.
mar24.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [JACKSON], March 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
The cost of manufacturing a five pound bunch of spun cotton.--A gentleman
who for many years was engaged in manufacturing cotton yarn and cloth in this
State, has furnished us with the following estimate of the cost:
When cotton was selling at eight cents per pound, the cost of
manufacturing a five pound bunch of cotton thread, including the raw material,
was about seventy cents, and including labor, wearing of machinery, etc. Then,
the usual selling price was ninety cents a bunch paying a profit of about thirty
per cent. nett to the manufacturer. Suppose
the raw cotton is at this time worth sixteen cents a pound, (most of the
manufacturers had already laid in more than six months supply at half that
price) and the cost of manufacturing to be double former expenses, (which is not
true); but at double rates for material, labor, etc. the nett cost of producing
five pounds of yarn will not exceed $1.40 at the outside.
Add seventy five per cent to this which is allowed by the conscription
law ($1.05, a very large profit on one bunch of yarn) and the selling price will
be $2.45 per bunch.
The same rule will apply to cotton cloths, and restrain the
manufacturer's price to a trifle less than twenty-five cents per yard.--Iredell
Express.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 31, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5
Just Received. Cotton cards; toilet soap; spool cotton; tooth brushes; pins;
needles; hair pins; dressing combs; black flax; and silk thread.
J.. M. Benbrook, at Hewit & Coulson's Old Stand.
mar31.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Blockade Goods!! Just Received:--20 pieces English Prints; 275 doz. Coates and
Clark's Spool Thread; 30,000 Large Needles; 15 doz. Fine Tooth Brushes; 12 doz.
Dressing Combs; 10 doz. Fine Teeth Combs; 5 lbs. Black Sewing Silk; 6 Extra fine
French Calf skins; 5,000 Fine Segars; 500 lbs Copperas; 15 boxes I. I. Wood's
Pearl Starch. Will be in store
shortly--10 tierce rice; 250 lbs. Castile soap; 40 boxes fine chewing tobacco
300 lbs. smoking tobacco; which will be sold for cash only, at the sale room of
E. Lewis. apr9.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, April 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Cotton Factories.—The Milton (N.C.) Chronicle says: "We have a rod in pickle for a cotton factory in our
mind's eye, the owner of which had his son detailed out of the army as an
operative, and which factory evades the 75 per cent. law by bartering yarns for
sugar, bacon, corn, wheat, flour, spirits of turpentine and cotton, while his
'operative' son buys yarns of his father and sells them at the tallest prices
possible. Uncle Jesse Holmes has
been peeping into things over there in Alamance, and as soon as he can put his
hands on a copy of the conscript oath prescribed for cotton factory 'exempts,' a
small earthquake will probably jar the factory of some one in Alamance county.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1863, p. 4, c. 3
Cotton
Yarns
Ten Bales
Yarns,
Numbers 5 to 12,
For sale by
Henry Lathrop & Co.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, May 12, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just Received, on consignment, 40 pieces of English prints, 10 doz. Linen
Handkerchiefs, 24 pair ladies' gaiters, 2 cases of green tea, 5 tierces rice, 20
pounds of calomel, white and colored thread, and other articles, which will be
sold low for cash only, by E. Lewis. my12.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cotton
Yarns for Soldiers' Families.
Mr. E. Steadman calls upon all the cotton yarn spinners of the State to
meet in convention at Atlanta on the 15th inst., to arrange a united
effort on the part of the factories to supply the destitute families of soldiers
with yarns.
Col. Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster of the State, whose duty it has been made by the Legislature to
procure supplies of yarn for soldiers' families, approves this call, and urges
that the work be commenced as generally and as soon as possible.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, May 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just Received, English berage; black alpacca; cottonade; L. C. handkerchiefs;
silk handkerchiefs; head handkerchiefs; white cotton hose; pins; grey and black
flax thread; English tooth brushes; shirt bosoms; dressing combs; bund [?]
combs; fine tooth combs; puff combs; bonnet and tuck combs; pocket combs; 12
doz. lead pencils; 150 gross assorted buttons; 2000 harness needles; coat
binding; hooks and eyes; envolops [sic]; letter paper; spool cotton; gents
cravats; &c. for sale cash at
Hewit & Coulson's old Stand. J.
M. Benbrook. my20.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, May 20, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Cotton Spinner's Convention.
In conformity with a request published some time since, a meeting of the
cotton spinners of the State was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 15th of May.
There were present: John
White, Georgia Factory; Hugh McLean, Alguadon Factory; Thomas Leslie, Troup
Factory; and E. Steadman, Gwinnett Manufacturing company. ... for the purpose of
taking into consideration the best means of supplying the great destitution in
cotton Yarns, now being felt, all over our State ...
The great scarcity of Cotton Yarns--the limited means of soldiers wives
and families--the probably continuance of this unholy war, and the apparent
suffering that must continue to accrue to the families of our noble defenders on
account of the scarcity of y yarns, and the almost impossibility of procuring
Cotton Cards ... Let it be remembered, that without the aid of Factories, thread
cannot be obtained, and the destitute poor cannot be clad. Let the families of our soldiers be fed and clothed, and they
will more cheerfully and patiently bear the toil and suffering of camp, and more
gallantly meet the assaults of the enemy. Let
them be neglected, and dissatisfaction and desertion will inevitably follow. ...
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, May 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Something new at Nash's Music Store. Linen
lawn and muslin dresses; calicoes; ladies black and white hose; socks; Coates
spool cotton; Hemming & Son's needles; solid headed pins; pens; ink and
paper; black sewing silk; flax thread; pearl and agate shirt buttons;
Woostenheim pen knives; army knives; guttapercha hair pins; tooth brushes; fine
union drill for pants; lawn and cambric handkerchiefs; also violin strings,
again. my23.
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Cotton
Spinners' Convention.
In conformity with a request published some time since, a meeting of the
Cotton Spinners of the State was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 15th of
May.
There were present, John White, of Georgia Factory; Isaac Powell, High
Shoals Factory; Hugh McLean, Agaudon Mill; Thomas Leslie, Troup Factory, and E.
Steadman, Gwinnett Manufacturing Company. On
motion, John White was elected Chairman, and E. Steadman, Secretary.
After consultation the meeting agreed upon the following:
(Circular.)
To the Cotton Spinners of Georgia.
In pursuance of a call made upon the Cotton Spinners of Georgia to
assemble in Convention in the city of Atlanta, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the best means of supplying the great destitution in Cotton Yarns,
now being felt all over our State, the undersigned duly assembled.
After a deliberate examination of all the facts laid before us, to wit:
the great scarcity of Cotton Yarns; the limited means of soldiers' wives
and families; the probable continuance of this unholy war; and the apparent
suffering that must continue to accrue to the families of our noble defenders on
account of the scarcity of Yarns; and the almost impossibility of procuring
Cotton Cards, we have determined to act upon the following plan, and earnestly
request Cotton Spinners all over the State heartily to co-operate with us.
We hereby pledge ourselves to furnish to General Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General of the State, one-eight of our production of Cotton
Yarns weekly, at one-half the current prices at the time they are furnished.
These Yarns to be issued to the Inferior Courts of each county, and by
them to be distributed to the destitute of their counties, as provided for by a
resolution of the late Legislature. These
Yarns to be delivered by us at the nearest depot of transportation.
This plan cannot fail to commend itself to every patriot of the Empire
State.—Thousands of our fellow citizens, clad in the armor of war, are on
distant fields battling for our rights and cheerfully risking their lives in
defence of us, our homes and altars.
Their families are consigned to our care. They are in great need of Yarns with which to weave them
necessary clothing. Cotton Cards
cannot be procured. Their only hope
is in the factories of their State. To
them they appeal, and to them they surely will not appeal in vain.
John White,
Georgia Factory.
Isaac Powell,
High Shoals Factory.
Hugh MacLean,
Aguadon Mill.
Thos. Leslie,
Troup Factory.
E. Steadman,
Gwinnett Manufacturing Company.
____
Quartermaster General's
Office, }
Atlanta, May 15, 1863.
}
The above circular is sent forth with the earnest hope, that every cotton
spinner in Georgia will cheerfully and promptly respond to its appeal and act
upon its plan.
I know of no act by which proprietors of factories can more surely nerve
the arms of our brave soldiers, than by furnishing thread, by which the loved
ones at home can be comfortably clad and protected from the rigors of a coming
winter. A failure to respond will
result in much suffering among the families of those who have sacrificed their
all for our defense and our comfort. Let
it be remembered that without the aid of factories, thread cannot be obtained,
and the destitute poor cannot be clad. Let
the families of our soldiers be fed and clothed, and they will more cheerfully
and patiently bear the toils and suffering of the camp, and more gallantly meet
the assault of the enemy. Let them
be neglected, and dissatisfaction on the part of many, and desertion in some,
will inevitably follow. How much
then depends upon the action of our cotton spinners in this matter.
In behalf of the destitute families of our gallant soldiers who appeal to
the cotton spinners of Georgia, we appeal with confidence that they will not
disappoint us, but will nobly and patriotically come to our aid in this our time
of need.
The yarns so obtained will be furnished gratuitously to the
destitute of our State.
Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General State of Georgia.
P.S.—Each daily of the State will copy the above three times—each
weekly twice. As the matter is one of charity, it is hoped that the charges
for insertion will be as small as possible—if made. Bills presented at the office will be paid.
I.R.F.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, June 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Wool for
Thread.
We
will give one bunch of cotton yarn for four lbs. of Wool.
This arrangement will continue until due notice is given in this paper.
June 3.
John S. Linton, Agent.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, June 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Wool for
Thread.
We
will give one bunch of cotton yarn for four lbs. of Wool.
This arrangement will continue until due notice is given in this paper.
June 3.
John S. Linton, Agent.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, June 10, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
For the Ladies.--Fine bleached homespun, linen handkerchiefs, stay binding,
needles, pins, knitting pins, just received and for sale by
[June 10]
I. M. Kenney.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 12,
1863, p. 2, c. 8
Flax Thread. Black, white, and
drab, on spools for machine and hand sewing of superior quality.
For sale by
W. F. Herring & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Shirtings,
Osnaburgs,
and Yarns,
From the Curtright
Manufacturing Company, Greene county, Georgia, for sale by
Cohen & Hertz.
ATHENS
[GA] SOUTHERN BANNER, July 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Donation to Soldiers' Families.