SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN
1863
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SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Cotton Cards.—We have received a number of letters inquiring the price
of cotton cards manufactured at the Penitentiary, and the chances of purchasing.
In reply, we state that the machinery is running day and night which will
soon be increased and that the cards (No. 10, the only size manufactured) are
sold daily at six dollars per pair, to the widows of deceased soldiers, and to
the wives now in the army; but that preference will be given to those persons
who may bring sheep and goat skins, (raw or tanned) for which an exchange of
cards will be made. Mr. Jones, the
head machinist, has informed us that he is doing all in his power to supply the
demand, in relation to which we design to make weekly reports for the benefit of
all interested.—[Milledgeville Recorder.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
War and Love.
War and Love have
various cares;
War sheds blood and Love sheds tears;
War has sword and Love has darts;
War breaks heads and Love breaks hearts.
War makes foes,
Love makes friends;
War's soon over, Love never ends;
War makes wrath, Love makes strife;
War takes wealth and Love takes life.
War moves bold,
Love moves sly;
War makes us wrath, Love makes us cry,
War's ruled by men, Love's ruled by the fair;
War needs many soldiers, Love needs but a pair.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
The Outrages in Fredericksburg.—A letter in the Tribune, dated
Fredericksburg, December 12th, says:
The old mansion of Douglas Gordon—perhaps the wealthiest citizen in the
vicinity—is now used as the headquarters of Gen. Howard, but before he
occupied it every room had been torn with shot, and then all the elegant
furniture and works of art broken and smashed by the soldiers, who burst into
the house after having driven the rebel sharpshooters from behind it.
When I entered it early this morning, before its occupation by Gen.
Howard, I found the soldiers of his five divisions divesting themselves with
rich dresses found in the wardrobes; some had on bonnets of the fashion of last
year, and were surveying themselves before mirrors, which, an hour or two
afterwards, were pitched out of the window and smashed to pieces upon the
pavement; others had elegant scarfs bound around their heads in the forms of
turbans and shawls around their waists.
We destroyed by fire nearly two whole squares of buildings, chiefly used
for business purposes, together with the fine residences of O. McDowell, Dr.
Smith, J. H. Kelly, A. S. Cott, William Slaughter, and many other smaller
dwellings. Every store, I think,
without any exception, was pillaged, of every valuable article.
A fine drug store, which would not have looked badly on Broadway, was
literally one mass of broken glass and jars.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
An
Account of Two Very Different
Scenes—A Ball and an Execution.
A letter from Murfreesboro', Tenn., dated the 26th ult., gives
an account of two scenes of camp life—a ball and an execution.
The writer says:
On Christmas Eve the officers of the First Louisiana and Second Kentucky
regiments gave a ball at the Court House in Murfreesboro', which proved a
magnificent affair and complete success. The
beauty and fashion of this little city and many distinguished officers were
present. The decorations were
exceedingly handsome. Among them I
noticed four large "B's" constructed of evergreens: "Beauregard and Bragg, of La.;" "Buckner and
Breckinridge, of Ky." Over the
windows were the names, "Pensacola," "Donelson,"
"Shiloh," "Santa Rosa," and "Hartsville," all
enwreathed with cedar. Conspicuous
were numerous United States flags—Union down—trophies belonging to Gen. John
H. Morgan, furnished for the occasion by his lady. New Year's Eve will be celebrated by another ball to be given
by the officers of the 9th and 9th [sic] Kentucky
regiments and Cobb's Battery. Truly
the grim soldiers feel fond of laying aside their stern occupation for the
smiles of fair ladies. I hope they
may not experience another Waterloo; but instead, when begins the "sound of
revelry by night," may the beauty and chivalry enjoy themselves without
interruption from the cannon's opening roar.
In strong contrast with such scenes comes the announcement of five
military executions in one day—one by hanging, the rest by shooting.
The first was a spy, a traitor, and a thief, named Gray. The crime committed by the other four was desertion.
It was my duty to witness the execution of one of the latter.
As the brigade was being formed on three sides of a square, the clouds
grew dark and heavy as if the very heavens frowned upon the bloody deed about to
be enacted. The troops remained in
one of the heaviest rain storms I ever remember, until the prisoner was brought
in the centre of the square, riding in a wagon, followed by a hearse. After bidding a few friends adieu, he, with a firm step,
without kneeling or being blindfolded, faced the firing party composed of one
lieutenant, one sergeant, and fifteen men—twelve of the guns were loaded with
balls and three with blank cartridges. At
12 o'clock Lieutenant B. gave the command "ready!" "aim!"
"fire!" when the prisoner fell dead, pierced by eleven balls.
Some of these men were arrested after an absence of six months.
I would advise all deserters who may be skulking around the cities of the
Confederacy, to return while Gen. Bragg offers them pardon.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
New
Music.
Just Received:
"Stonewall" Jackson's Grand March
50c
President Davis' Inauguration March
75c
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's March
75c
Beauregard's Manassas Quickstep
75c
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
50c
Bonnie Blue Flag
50c
Copies sent by mail.
Schreiner & Oxenius.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 3-4
Fredericksburg, Dec. 27th, 1862.
Mr. Editor:-- . . . Our camps in many places were not struck because Gen.
Lee was confident of the result. Therefore,
the boys just left the lines where the foe had fled, and again the even tenor of
camp life began as smoothly as ever. Again
the buskin was resumed and Ethiopian tragedy and farce stalked across the stage.
"What," you ask, "is't possible there is camp histrionics
among the ragged rebels?" It
is an existing reality. If you will
come sometime and go with us to "Hood's Minstrels"—they show
to-morrow night again—"Old Bob Ridley" will make your sides ache
with fun. It is only a few hundred yards away just yonder in the woods.
An enterprising number of young men from Gen. Hood's old Texas brigade
formed a very fine company and have some very diverting amusement for camp.
Their efforts to relieve the tediousness of the soldier's life has been
kindly encouraged by the Generals, who are often seen mingling with the soldiers
and laughing over the obsequious negro delineations.
A few nights ago the Minstrels contributed by their performance over
three hundred dollars to the sufferers in the city of Fredericksburg.
There fun has been turned to charity, and Humor made mistress of
Philanthropy.
Christmas is with us, but she comes clad in the dark weeds of death—the
land is wrapt in gloom—the grand Nativity in which all should give a free hand
to fellowship and good will is welcomed with rivulets of blood—the shout of
victor is mingled with the wail of sorrow for those who have bought it with
their lives. Such is the decree of fate for our land, and the directing of
an inscrutible [sic] Providence.
"Rise happy morn! rise
Holy morn!
Draw forth the cheerful day from night,
Oh, Father, light the light
That shown when Hope was born."
Tout le Monde.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
A Yankee Love Letter.—The following specimen of Yankee literature was
picked up on the battlefield, near Murfreesboro', by a Confederate soldier:
1000 eight hundred and 60 tew my Dear Thomas I embrace this oppertunity
to let you knough as how I had a spell of aiger and I does hope these fue lines
may find yew enjoying the same gods blessin why dont yew [illegible] a sweate
line to tell suferin Kathrun all about her sweet Thomas, Oh my sweete Thomas my
turtle dove my pidging, my dear Thomas how my pore sole is longing for to hear
yer sweate voyce. I think I hear
him singing jordan is a hard road to travel acs he come from his plow now Oh my
deer Thomas cum home and lets get married so no more at present but remane your
lovin
Kathrun an T.
PS part sekkund James Blaslet has razed a fine house and [illegible] does
live so snug she fits him sumtimes when he is a little antany over,, my sweate
Thomas let us keape house and if yew love me I wont whip you indeed, nor I wont
look at no boaddy else so I wont
Daddy says as how I must get married becaus I have run tue long already.
so no more at present.
K. A. T.
PS part thurd, my pen is bad my inck is pale my luv to yew shall never
fale for Thomas is my own true luv my piging duck and turtle duve so no more at
present.
Ps. Noty Beany—mother is a most ded and Timothy says he dont keer for
anything, so no more at present from yer lovin
K. A. T.
Noty Beny 2—I forget to say as how that are korn on my big toe dont
hurt as it used to did so wonce more yer wife as it is to bee send 2 kisses and
sez faree well yours till deth do us part.
K. A. T.
final Ps. I has most forgot
to tell that Jake has cum home from California, and is porrer than he went poor
Jake he says as how California is all a hoax.
so no more at present from yer dotin
K. A. T.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
We learn that sweet Oranges sold at auction in this city on Saturday at
$25 per hundred—good, bad and indifferent.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The editor of the Knoxville Register relates the following touching
incident:
After the battle of Sharpsburg we passed over a line of railroad in
Central Georgia. The disabled soldiers from Gen. Lee's army were returning to
their homes. At every station the
wives and daughters of the farmers came on the cars and distributed food and
wines and bandages among the sick and wounded.
We shall never forget how very like an angel was a pretty little girl;
how blushingly and modestly she went to a great rude, bearded soldier, who had
carved a crutch from a rough plank to replace a lost leg; how this little girl
asked him if he was hungry, and how he ate like a famished wolf.
She asked if his wound was painful, and in a voice of soft, mellow
accents, "Can I do nothing more for you?
I am so sorry that you are so badly hurt; have you a little daughter, and
won't she cry when she sees you?" The
rude soldier's heart was touched, and tears of love and gratitude filled his
eyes. He only answered:
"I have three little children.
God grant that they may be such angels as you."
With an evident effort he repressed a desire to kiss the fair brow of the
pretty little girl. He took her
little hand between both his own, and bade her "good-bye, God bless
you." This child will always
be a better woman because of these lessons of practical godlike charity stamped
ineffaceably upon her young heart.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
There was a scarcity of beef in the market on Saturday last, and prices,
we learn, which started in the morning at 25c. per lb., suddenly rose to 40 cts.
This may suit long purses, but the poor are not able to stand such
figures.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Near Fredericksburg, Jan. 12, 1863.
Editor Savannah Republican:
Now and then we try to steal a few moments and let you hear of us.
"How is it," you will say, "that letters do not come
oftener now that all is quiet along the Rappahannock." Well, to write in camp is a much greater task than one would
imagine. Such thing as a retired
spot in a volunteer camp is quite impossible to find, and one must have great
powers of abstraction that can write with little to write about, and a Babel of
voices that constantly hum around the camp fire.
Yes, we are all still again; the triumphs of the west even have ceased to
be discussed, and now the soldier reads the stars or the cold face of the moon
as he paces to and fro on the sentinel post, or sits and chats by the cozy
fireside of the winter hovel. Hardly
two weeks ago Gen. Toombs' brigade was moved back to this place, ten miles
distant from the lines, and ordered to make themselves at least temporarily
comfortable, near Guiney Station, on the R. F. & P. R. R.
Axes clamored in the forest, and the log huts rose like magic into little
towns, and the little towns grew to busy thriving cities, as uncouth as one ever
saw in Ethiopia. Most all of the
"castles" have assumed the desired proportions, and a cozy next of
barons laugh, jest or sorrow over the scenes of the past, around quite a
cheerful—however rude—fireside. Go
into your warm beds or be cheerful, "old folks" at home; the soldier
is not now so badly off after all. He
has his straw bed at night under a good shelter, to which slumbers come as happy
as to the prince's gorgeous couch, with now and then the brightest, loveliest
dreams that ever attend poor mortality, or, by day, he enjoys beef and flour
rations, [illegible] cum [illegible]. At
times marvelous tales make the barons look grave, for they let loose the dormant
images which fancy wreaths whenever the occasion is apropos, just to make
the idle hours pleasant. There,
perhaps, the oft told tale of the battle field is rehearsed, to speak of the
virtues of some fallen comrade, who now rests, may be, where glory soothed him
to sleep, or slumbers beneath the flowers a dear mother or a tender,
affectionate sister has placed over him. Sometimes
humorous tales bring forth the merriest peals of laughter, and the hours go
lightly by. "Old Dred"
makes us laugh in spite of ourselves—we call him dred for short; his
name is Etheldred. "Boys,"
says he in his quaint sort of style, "I had a monstrous bully time down in
Alabama wonst. You see I was sorter
cortin down thar at old man Simpsons, and I tell you what he had just about as
purty a female gal as I ever seen." Here
Dred squirted some tobacco juice in the fire, rolled his quid round once or
twice and continued. "The gal,
I kinder believed, tuck to me, and one day, thinks I, I'll drap in and see what
she'll say for hersel'; but drat me, do you think I could say any word? No, sir, jest sot there, and every time I thot I had
somethin' to say, it seemed as how it would'nt do.
Well, we sot thar, me sayin' nothin to her, and she neither to me, till,
thinks I, I'll tell her what a mighty good coon dog old Thunder was.
Jest as I was bout to put in—and I do believe it would a sot as to
courtin right way—in comes a little gal nigger, and says, says she:
"Missus, dinner ready." Well,
I tell you what, I was most politer that day than ever I was before or sence.
I was powerful scared I'd done somethin wrong before Miss Sary, and so I
was powerful pertickerler. I tuck
little bits o' mouthfuls, and chawd jest like I seed them perlite fellers do at
the Perlaski House, when I was in Savannah wonst—did'nt open my murf, Capt.,
when I put in a chaw of somethin'. But
I feeled mighty awkard, somehow or tuther, and I do believe I was skerder of
that yer than I is of a bomb—I raly do. Sometimes
the old lady, and sometimes the old man, would ax me somethin' and then I'd seem
mighty nigh chokin trying to say yes or no to thar questions. Onst or twice I thot I saw Miss Sary a giglin arter me and
then I sorter felt like I was reduced from my estumation. Then I skivird more diffikelty nor evir in trying to swoller
before the gal. Bime-by the little
nigger poked some ish taters at me, and bein mighty nigh cleaned out I tuck one
or two of the smallest which war'nt more'n a mout-full a piece.
They war all slicked over wid butter, and thinks I they are just 'bout a
mout-full. But just as I put in
one, Miss Sary sorter snickered at somethin, and you think boys I did'nt swaller
the tater whole. Well I did. It
chocked me too, for it stop'd rite at my goozle and made me turn right black in
the face.
"The old lady said oh lordy, and the old man riz and struck
me sich a lick in the back till the tater jump'd clean-out again on the table.
Now you just oughter aheard Miss Sary laugh. Gentlemen I did lit [illegible] been back since.
I tell you what I seen a heap of fun down in Alabam."
Dred wound up his narrative by pulling at a fresh quid from a half plug
which he drew from his breeches pockets and ejaculating, "Galls makes a man
feel mighty curis somehow." His
quaint style is the soul of humor, and he makes us laugh many a time that we
would not. Therefore, when
"the rain is never weary" or the dark and dreary days come of the rude
old Winter, the soldier can laugh or be serious, joke with the jokers or let out
in quick moments, the unfettered fancy that may go sweeping down the future to
hunt up the bright pictures where Hope has promised when Peace smiles over our
land once more. With the warm
clothing which our untiring and ever affectionate mothers and sisters are
constantly sending forward, the southern soldier may not be unhappy. Tis only the careless and imprudent who go about now in rags;
all look warmly clad. This, we
know, is most gratifying to the soldiers' friends at home. We think, however, it would be better now, if the Government
would send such agents to buy this clothing from the mothers and fathers of the
land, for this reason. If they
continue to give, the supply will be exhausted finally, and Government
manufactories cannot furnish the demand. But
if each household is a manufactory, with means to purchase manufacturing
articles, when one supply is exhausted, then no one need apprehend that the army
will want good warm clothing in the future.
Everything of this sort should be looked to, that we may ever be able to
conduct this war until Northern fools are satisfied.. . . Tout-le-Monde.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 24 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Wanted
Immediately
Four Good Coat Makers
and
Two Good Pantaloons Makers,
To whom the
following Prices will be paid:
Dress and Frock Coats
$11.50
Business Coats
9.50
Business Sacks
8.00
Officers' Uniform Coats, from $9.50 to
14.00
Pantaloons
2.50
Steady employment. Apply
immediately at
James McCormick's,
Wilmington, N. C.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 26,1863, p. 1, c. 4
Handsome Donation.—Two ladies and gentlemen of Hamburg and Edgefield C.
H., have presented Miss M. A. Buie a splendid service of silver, as a token of
their appreciation of her patriotic and indefatigable labors in behalf of the
Edgefield soldiers. The gift is a
most appropriate one, honorable alike to the donors and fully appreciated by the
worthy recipient. The service
consists of a tea set, cake basket, salt stands, spoons, forks, goblet and
waiter, card case, powder box, egg cup, napkin rings, &c.
They are splendid articles, with proper inscriptions, and will be highly
valued by Miss Buie as a reminder of her efforts in a good cause and as
mementoes of friendship.
[Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 27, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Here's another very pretty item, related by an officer:
A poor woman of Campbell county, Virginia, sent nine sons to the war in
one company in the 42d regiment, one of whom was below conscript age.
One of these has died of disease, another has been crippled by a wound,
but the remaining seven are now "present for duty." Well, this mother of the Gracchi—said Gracchi being
unable to go to see her—came to see them the other day.
She is about sixty years of age, but walked to the post where her boys
were on picket at the time, from Guiney's station, fifteen miles distant, in an
incredibly short space of time. Do
you wonder now at the performances of Jackson's foot cavalry, when they have
such mothers? But to go on with the
story: The accomplished officer now
in command of the 42d having mentioned these facts to Gen. Jones, it was decided
first, that the best ambulance in the brigade should convey her back to Guiney's
whenever it should please her to return; and second, that she should dine with
himself and staff. Hearing that the
wife of one of the nine, as well as another woman, mother of three soldiers in
the same regiment had accompanied the old lady, they too were invited.
Dinner passed off very pleasantly. One
of our guests (the mother of three) convinced us that we soldiers of the second
war of independence, were much better off than those of the first, by telling us
that she had often heard her father, who was a Revolutionary soldier, tell his
boys that he didn't know nothing—that he had often waded through snow a foot
deep in his bare shirt-tail!
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 28, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Murders in Missouri.—The Jackson Crisis publishes the following
statement on the authority of a gentleman direct from Missouri:
Col. Wm. R. Pennick, in command of a regiment of militia, not long since
left St. Joseph with his troops in search of "bushwhackers," and
having reached Clay county, arrested Chas. Pullins, who left Buchanan in company
with Captain Gibson for the Southern army.
Pullins was taken to Liberty, a mock trial was gone through with, and he
was condemned to be hung. He
offered to prove that he was a regularly enlisted Confederate soldier, but was
denied the privilege, and accordingly hung.
After hanging Pullins, Pennick proceeded two or three miles further and
found two men sitting in a widow's door. He
asked them if they knew of the whereabouts of any bushwhackers. Upon being answered in the negative, he proceeded a short
distance when he was attacked and his regiment repulsed by men concealed in the
brush. Pennick immediately returned
to the widow's house, hung the two men he had seen there and burned the widow's
house. Crossing the river into
Jackson county, nominally in search of Quantrel, some of his men arrested a boy
who was taking clothes to Quantrel's command.
They went to the house of the boy's mother, who was a widow, seized and
hung both her and her son. This
man, Pennick, disgraces the position of Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity
in Missouri.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
English
Breakfast
Tea.
500 lbs., at $7 per
pound, put up in one pound packages.
James Doyly,
cor. Whitaker and Bay streets.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, January 31, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Athenaeum.
Fun, Farce, Frolic and Foibles.
Monday Evening, Feb. 2d, 1863,
First Night of
Mago Del Mage,
The Celebrated Southern
Wizard & Magician.
Presenting a grand display of Skill and Dexterity [illegible] with
Mesmerism.
For full particulars see small bills.
Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance
to commence at 7 ½ o'clock precisely.
H. H. Kayton, Jr.
Business Manager.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The little children of New Orleans, who have inherited southern feelings
and southern antipathies have been accustomed to sing the "Bonnie Blue
Flag" and to cheer for Jeff Davis, when Yankee troops are passing.
To suppress such demonstrations, Banks has issued a formal military
order, announcing that he will hold the parents of such children for such
offenses responsible to the highest military penalties.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Something to Eat.—Our market has been very barren for the last few
days, and what is offered is held at such prices as to make the contemplation a
perfect torture. Corn meal four
dollars a bushel; corned pork fifty cents a pound; turkeys five to eight dollars
a pair, and other things—when there is any on hand—in proportion. From sharks, speculators, extortioners, and other vermin and
wild beasts, good Lord deliver us.—[Raleigh Progress.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Maccaboy,
Scotch and French Rappee
Snuff,
At wholesale and
retail, by
F. K. Lee & Co.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
To Prevent Pitting by the Small Pox.—Mr. Solon Robinson, in a
communication in the Plough, Loom and Anvil, recommends the following to prevent
pitting by the small pox:
Get from the apothecary a little vial of stuff called liquid cuticle, and
as soon as the postules [sic] are fully formed, apply a little of the liquid
with a little brush or feather to each one.
As fast as they get ripe, remove the scab and wipe away the matter clean,
and apply the liquid again. If any
one of them fill a second time, you must remove the covering and repeat the
process. It will smart like fun for
a moment, but, my word for it, when you recover you shall not find a mark upon
that pretty face of yours to prove you ever had the disease.
I am told the article is made of gun cotton, dissolved in chloroform.
It forms an artificial skin over a wound just as good as the real one.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The following is a sailor's description of a dance:
Haven't had any fun with the land lubbers till Thursday night at a dance.
When I arrived in the cabin I found them under headway of a Spanish
dance. Took my station in line with
Suke Tucker—fell backed and filled, then shot ahead two fathoms—banked up to
the starboard tack to let another craft pass, and then came stern on another
sail—spoke her, and then bore round against the sun and fell in with another
sail in full chase. Passed twenty
sail on same course, and when half way across to the other shore, dropped
astern, fell back—could'nt [sic] fill, so let go anchor, and hauled up for
repairs.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The leaves of the China tree, if plentifully strewed among woolen
garments when packed away for the summer, are a complete defense from moths.
They are also the best preventive of worms in dried fruit.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Band
of Music Wanted.
The 46th Regiment Georgia Volunteers encamped at White Point
Garden in the City of Charleston, will pay from $500 to $1,000 cash per month,
for a fine Band of Music. Address,
immediately,
Col. P. H. Colquitt,
Charleston, S. C.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Athenaeum.
Tremendous Success!
Thursday Evening, Feb. 5th, 1863,
Fourth Night of
Mago Del Mage,
The Celebrated Southern
Wizard & Magician.
Magic, Mirth and Mystery.
Presenting a grand display of Skill and Dexterity, together with
Mesmerism.
A Grand Entertainment on Saturday for ladies and children, at 2½
o'clock, P. M. Doors open at 2
o'clock.
Admission to Dress Circle
and Parquette, $1; Family Circle, 50 cents; Colored Gallery, 25 cents.
For full particulars see small bills.
Doors open at 7 o'clock; Performance to commence at 7½ o'clock
precisely.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The Camp Itch—A Remedy Therefor.—A gentleman who has had much
experience in the treatment of that loathsome disease, the itch, furnishes the
following recipe for its cure:
For the benefit of our soldiers suffering with camp itch, if you think
proper you may publish the following: Take
iodide of potassium 60 grains, lard 2 ounces, mix well, and after washing the
body well with warm soap suds, rub the ointment over the person three times a
week. In seven or eight days the
Acarus, or itch insect, will be destroyed.
In this recipe the horrible effects of the old sulphur ointment are
obviated.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Among the curiosities lately added to the Museum, is a mosquito's skull,
containing the souls of twenty-four extortioners and the fortunes of twelve
printers—nearly half full.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Snuff,
Snuff.
Tobacco, Tobacco.
The undersigned have on hand 1,000 boxes of Manufactured Tobacco, from
the lowest to the finest grades and will continue to manufacture throughout the
summer. Also, a large amount of superior Smoking Tobacco, and also
Manufacturers of an excellent quality of Snuff. Persons wishing to deal or speculate in any or all of the
above, will do well to give us a call at an early day. Facilities for transportation are good. Our establishment is located twenty-six miles east of
Hillsboro', N. C., twenty miles from N. C. Central Railroad. Address
J. L. Jones & Brother,
Tally Ho, N. C.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Knitting Machines.—The Columbus Sun says that Mr. Keith, of that city,
has a knitting machine in operation, which lays the nimble fingers of our fair
ones completely in the back ground. Mr.
K. has three of these machines, and is preparing to put them in operation when
he will be able to turn out several dozen pairs of hose each day.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
A Liberal Inducement.—Mr. Waldron, the enterprising manager of the
Thespian Family, offers $300 for the best three act Drama, founded on the events
of the war, and $200 for the second best.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Home
for Invalid Ladies.
Correspondence.
Augusta, Feb. 5, 1863.
Ladies: The Convention of
gentlemen connected with the daily press of the South, now in session in this
city, have listened with lively interest to your eloquent appeal in behalf of a
Home for Invalid Ladies of the South; and believing they can subserve your
benevolent purpose in no other way more effectually, have instructed me to
preface that beautiful paper with assurances of co-operation and sympathy, and
to begin at once a series of publications which will give it a circulation
almost co-extensive with the limits of the Confederacy.
At the same time they direct me to assure you of their readiness to
contribute to your noble work of benevolence in any other manner which may seem
likely to be effective.
The Convention would mostly heartily, gratefully and proudly endorse a
thousand fold more than you claim for our noble Southern women.
They have made themselves illustrious.
They will stand peerless in history—the brightest exemplars, in all
time, of courage in daring and suffering—of faith, constancy and
self-sacrificing patriotism and benevolence.
Our pathway to independence has been watered by their tears, hallowed by
their prayers, and consecrated by their unremitting toils.
Men have faltered and fallen, but women never.
Not an instance is yet on record, since the dawning of the revolution,
where in danger and suffering have subdued the spirit of a Southern woman.
Every vile tool and minion of Northern despotism in the South has borne
testimony to their unconquerable courage and fidelity; and never yet has
Northern oppression been able to tighten the grasp so closely upon the Southern
heroine's heart, and to shut it against our suffering defenders.
In all the most terrible extremities of public distress, the southern
woman has but shone more brightly from the very ordeal.
In camp, in the hospital, at the wayside of the weary march, or the still
more weary homeward pilgrimage of the wounded soldier—wherever there was a
fight to be done, to feed, to clothe, to relieve, to cheer and to
comfort—there the achievements of our noble women are recorded in the hearts
of their countrymen. Nor do we
forget that among the cities which have signalized themselves for the activity
of their women in the service of their country, your enterprising Atlanta
occupies a conspicuous position.
Accept, then, Ladies, our sincere wishes that in this new and additional
scheme of your active benevolence, you may meet with a degree of success which
shall gladden your kindly hearts.
In behalf of the Convention,
Jos. Clisby, President.
To Mrs. J. N. Simmons,
" M. Louise Rogers.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1863.
To the Members of the Editorial Corps, convened at Augusta, Feb. 4th,
1863.
Gentlemen—We hope to be pardoned for intruding upon this intelligent
body the subject that will be submitted, and which is, perhaps, already partly
known to some of its members; but believing that among the most enlightened men
of the country woman ought to find her most appreciative friends, we feel
confident they will "hear me for my cause."
No true patriot but wishes to see the South independent in all internal
resources, politically, morally and physically; and woman, with her timid
intellect, and heart only strong in affection, need not tell these men of varied
information and political scholarship, that our beloved country, the cradled
home of Liberty, to be altogether independent must have internal resources
adequate to our corresponding wants. As
in very many other things, the South has been almost entirely dependent upon the
North for personal attendance upon our invalid ladies whose situation and means
made it convenient for them to visit some Northern State for medical advice, and
remain in one of their institutions for women thus afflicted.
But just before the beginning of the present war, the lady writers of the
South volunteered to assist Dr. T. S. Powell, of Atlanta in erecting a
"Home for Invalid Ladies" at the South in that city—a
"Home" upon so commodious, elegant and efficient plan as to make it no
longer necessary that our suffering women should be dependent for relief upon
any foreign aid. Atlanta was chosen
as being easy of access—for its cold, sparkling water, pure mountain breezes,
and other healthful accessories; but, as the name indicates, the institution is
designed for all suffering women, from the mountains of Virginia to the flowery
plains of Florida, or the fertile shores of the Rio Grande.
Dr. Powell has already purchased the site of the building, and will
commence at once making improvements upon the grounds.
So soon as the material can be procured he will erect the building, the
cost of which will be defrayed from his own private means, aided by the future
sale of the book of varied and elegant literature, contributed for the purpose
by the lady writers of the South, and the manuscript of which is now in Dr.
Powell's possession. We ask no
assistance for the erection of the building; but the women of the South for the
sake of their own sex and the delightful consciousness of "doing
good," with what assistance they can get from our true and noble men, wish
to furnish by donations the Home with apparatus, instruments, and all
necessary appliances requisite for such an institution.
This donation fund, in the hands of the Finance Committee of Ladies, will
be presented to Dr. Powell to make these purchases in Europe; and though we make
it a present to him, he, with a noble and benevolent spirit, pledges himself to
return this fund in gratuitous medical attendance upon any indigent suffering
woman of respectability who may apply to him after the "Home" is in
successful operation.—And if Dr. Powell should die, he also pledges himself to
bequeath these purchases to his successor, that he who succeeds him may
continue this charity practice among those indigent
invalid women.
It is thus seen that Dr. Powell asks nothing for himself; but, as we
before intimated, the women of the South, now that an opportunity is offered in
this way, are anxious to do this much to relieve the sufferings of their sex,
and thus, in some degree, refute the imputation that woman does not feel a
sufficient interest in the welfare of her own representatives; and pardon us for
saying here, that Southern women are proud to know that now, if never before,
they are looked upon by their protectors as something more than gilded
butterflies of fashion and pleasure, and that when "the first grand epic of
the South" is written [illegible] those of the gallant men who have so
bravely borne the colors of the Confederate armies.
But though this benevolent and patriotic enterprise has so far met the
cordial approbation and sympathy of the ladies, and our distinguished
physicians, statesmen, scholars and others, who are aware that for us to succeed
we must have the co-operation and support of the editorial gentlemen of the
South. With their assistance, the
ladies are confident they cannot fail to accomplish what they desire.
Then, can we not hope, gentlemen of the press, that if this enterprise
meets with your approval, you will assist us in any way in your power, as your
judgment may deem suitable and best, and continue to do so until our plan in
perfected and successfully executed?
We have called upon the ladies throughout the Confederacy to aid us; by
sending one dollar each, as a contribution to the fund for furnishing the
"Home," and if all who are able to contribute this very small amount,
will do so at once, and send it to any of these gentlemen who may suggest this
through their respective journals, or to the Committee of Finance at Atlanta, we
can soon have the amount sufficient for the desired purpose; and we are
confident there are very many ladies who will readily contribute this much if
the suggestion is only made to them by the intelligent gentlemen of the press.
We do not think the war ought to materially interfere with the
prosecution of this enterprise; but, on the contrary, believe there can by no
more fitting time to display the energy, talent, benevolent spirit and
enterprise of the South in every department that tends to our national and
social advancement. We need the
Institution now, and even if not now, we will, soon after the war is over, and
its value will but be enhanced by the knowledge that its walls rose upon the
soil of a land invaded by tyrannical foes, and trembling with the shock of
contending armies. We know that it
is through the refining influence of man's intellect that woman is the most
justly appreciated, and we know that woman's suffering—her feeble form, pale
cheeks and sunken eyes—mute, but eloquent pleaders for relief—cannot fail to
move your compassion. Then, while
we will be very grateful for any assistance, again we are confident that we
cannot fail to accomplish what we wish towards the completion of this enterprise
for the relief of our sex, if the editorial gentlemen of the South will only
resolve that we shall succeed. Any
of them who are disposed to favor us in this, if they will let us have their
address, through Major Steele, we will then send them a package of circulars, so
that they may be made fully acquainted with the plan previous to bringing it
before the public. Very
respectfully,
Mrs. J. N. Simmons,
Chairman Finance Committee.
M. Louise Rogers, Cor. Secretary.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Deer
Skins.
300 Dressed Deer
Skins, for sale by
W. B. Adams.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Ground
Nuts.
100 Bushels for
sale by
Crane & Graybill.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Confederate
Segar Manufactory.
5 Cases
Killickinick Tobacco
1,000 Segars (old crop Tobacco)
20 boxes Soap (English)
For sale wholesale and retail by
A. Ponce, Agent.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Bugler
Wanted.
Sixty Dollars per
month will be paid for a good Bugler, clothing and rations furnished.
Apply at this office.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Complimentary to the Ladies of the South.—The annexed resolution was
unanimously passed by the South Carolina Legislature at its late session.
The unwearied exertions of the ladies of the South have been a wonderful
encourager to the men of the South, and the efforts expended by them to
ameliorate the sufferings of the soldiers, have infused new life and vigor into
all our armies. Heaven bless our
country women! They deserve the
legislative record to their patriotism:
Whereas, The women of the South have contributed to the prosecution of
our present struggle for independence all the aid and comfort their gentle but
heroic hearts could devise, as well by the encouragement of their applause as by
the manifold products of their skill and industry:
And whereas, the soldiers of the South, ever brave and patriotic, have
been doubly fired to the discharge of their duties by the lovely charities and
devoted sympathies of these patriotic sisters in a common cause.
Therefore, be it Resolved unanimously, That this General Assembly hereby
testifies its admiring appreciation of their services, and warmly accord to them
the praise of having contributed largely to the rapid progress of our country's
deliverance from the threatened vengeance of a foe who seeks to desolate the
homes of which they are the ornament and pride.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Proclamation
of General Beauregard to Non-Combatants.
Charleston, Feb. 17.—The following proclamation from Gen. Beauregard
will appear in the papers of to-morrow:
Headq'rs Dep't S. C., Ga., and Fla.,
}
Charleston, S. C., Feb. 18, 1863.
}
It has become my solemn duty to inform the authorities and citizens of
Charleston and Savannah that the movements of the enemy's fleet indicates an
early land and naval attack on one or both of these cities; and to urge that all
persons unable to take an active part in the struggle shall retire.
It is hoped, however, that this temporary separation of some of you from
your homes will be made without alarm or undue haste—thus showing that the
only feeling which animates you in the hour of supreme trial is the regret of
being unable to participate in the defence of your homes, your altars, and the
graves of your kindred.
Carolinians and Georgians! The
hour is at hand to prove your devotion to your country's cause.
Let all able-bodied men, from the seaboard to the mountains, rush to
arms. Be not too exacting in the
choice of weapons. Pikes and
scythes will do for exterminating your enemies—spades and shovels for
protecting your friends. To arms!
fellow-citizens. Come to
share with us our dangers, our brilliant success, or our glorious death.
(Signed)
G. T. Beauregard,
General Commanding.
The final preparations for the expected attack are being rapidly
perfected. Our troops and people
are calm and confident.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Order to Non-Combatants.—We invite the attention of our citizens to
the order of General Beauregard requesting all non-combatants to leave the city. It will be found on the first page of this paper.
The injunction that quiet and good order be observed in seeking a place
of safety, is important, and all should keep it in view.
There is no just cause of excitement, much less of panic, and we hope to
see all who can, depart quietly with the consoling reflection that those whom
they leave behind will do all in human power to save their homes from the
desolation of the invader and enable them soon to return to their peaceable
enjoyment.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
New
Music.
Her Bright Smile
Haunts Me Still
50c
I See Her Still in My Dreams
50c
Maiden's Prayer (Instrumental)
75c
Juanita, (Song)
50c
Let me Kiss him for his Mother
50c
"Stonewall" Jackson's March
50c
Schreiner & Oxenius,
107 Bryan and 94 St. Julian streets.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
A Battle Worn Flag.—The Adjutant of the 6th [?] Louisiana
Regiment has left at this office the battle flag of that gallant corps.
Lt is truly an eloquent memorial of glory.
Its folds are in tatters, ripped and torn by a thousand bullets, through
which they always floated victoriously. It
has been through the battles of Middletown, Winchester, Strasburg, Port
Republic, Cross Keys, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Bristow,
Manassas, Chantilly, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shepherdstown and
Fredericksburg.
There have been two color sergeants killed while bearing it; a third
color sergeant and nine corporals of the color guard have been killed and
wounded. The [illegible] T. T. Hays
[?] The regiment has lost
[illegible] commissioned officers killed and sixteen wounded, and is now
commanded by Col. Wm. Mon[illegible], who was previously taken prisoner at
[illegible]burg, and wounded at Chantilly.
It has suffered heavily in the loss of men, but, as its ribboned flag and
well earned reputation will attest, it has not suffered ingloriously nor in
vain.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Marrying by Telegraph.—On the 6th of February, a marriage
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Wm. Carr, chaplain of the 4th
regiment N. Y. S. V., under rather novel circumstances, the clergyman and
bridegroom being in the city of Washington, and the bride in the village of
Fulton, Oswego county, N. Y.,
during the ceremony. The bridegroom
is a member of the 4th regiment, and circumstances prevented his
being in Fulton to fulfill his engagement with the young lady.
By mail, the parties agreed to have a ceremony performed through the
medium of the electric telegraph. The
Oswego Times says:
The day and hour having been arranged, the parties repaired to the
telegraph office at the respective stations, the fair bride accompanied by a
female friend as bridesmaid. The
gentlemanly operator at Fulton officiated as bridesman.
The first despatch over the wire relating to the affair was from
Washington, inquiring if the lady was present?
An answer in the affirmative was returned, and the ceremony proceeded.
Three messages were sent to Fulton and two transmitted to Washington, and
the ceremony was completed. The
last message from Washington was the declaration of the clergyman pronouncing
the parties man and wife.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Among the trophies of war displayed in the Virginia State Library, is a
white silken banner, captured from a Philadelphia Turn Verein Regiment, on one
side of which is the motto, "Gut Heil."
The translation of these words is said to be "Good Luck," but
the majority of visitors give them a phonetic signification, readily believing
that the regiment to which the banner belonged "got hell" on the
occasion of the capture."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
Review.
We seldom see so grand a military display as that which came off on the
common south of the city yesterday. It
was confined to the infantry and cavalry branches of the service and was
witnessed by an immense concourse of citizens of both sexes.
The day was fine, and from the number of ladies who honored the occasion
with their presence, one would conclude either that they had very little
apprehension of an attack or are not afraid to meet the Yankees in arms.
The troops commenced gathering at an early hour and attracted much
attention as they passed through the city from their various encampments.
Those who were present and counted the companies may form some idea of
the number of each force; should the enemy desire information on the point they
can readily obtain it by landing and seeing for themselves. Their long lines stretched from east to west, and glittering
bayonets and sabres, inspired confidence in the bosoms of all.
All felt reassured, and a common sentiment of confidence seemed to
pervade the vast multitude of spectators.
The Review commenced at 12 o'clock and lasted about two hours. General Beauregard, accompanied by Brigadier General Mercer
and their respective staffs, looked every inch a soldier and seemed greatly
pleased with the condition and spirit of the troops.
The exercises closed with a skirmish drill of the sharp Shooters, and a
charge of the immense column of cavalry, both of which elicited the admiration
of all the military men present. The
former, especially, was excellent. Every
movement was executed with the greatest promptness and precision, showing
remarkable proficiency in that peculiar and important branch of the service.
About 2 o'clock General Beauregard returned to the city, and the troops
repaired to their respective camps.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
A Handsome Affair.—Quite a spirited and recherche entertainment
was got up last night by the lady guests at the Pulaski House, as a compliment
to our distinguished leader, General Beauregard, and Staff.
At 9 o'clock a number [illegible] attired made their appearance in the
Ladies' Parlor, where they were soon joined by their illustrious guest and a
number of officers in dazzling uniforms, together with a few others from the
walks of civil life. A fine band
was in attendance, and an hour or more was spent in social converse and the
merry dance. The General moved
about among the "pretty faces and costly laces" with as much coolness
and ease as if he were among the sterner duties of the battle field, and seemed
to partake fully of the spirit of the occasion, whilst all appeared anxious to
do honor to the hero of Charleston and Manassas.
The dance being over, the company repaired to the dining saloon, where,
at the instance of the ladies, mine host of the Pulaski had spread for the
entertainment of their guests a sumptuous repast, which, though almost impromptu,
was got up in a style which the landlords of that establishment so well
understand when the occasion requires it.
At a late hour the company broke up, apparently well pleased with the
dance, the supper, each other, and all the world, and especially with their
distinguished guest, who proved that he had gallantry for other fields than
those of blood.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
London Illustrated News.—Among the visitors now in our city, we are
pleased to mention the name of Mr. F. Vizatelly, the intelligent Pen and Pencil
Correspondent of the above well-known and popular periodical, who is now
journeying through the Confederacy with the view of acquainting himself of the
leading points of military interest, the character of our people and
institutions, and the general aspects of the revolution.
Some of his letters have recrossed the Atlantic and found their way into
southern journals, and whilst they are read for their general interest and the
intelligent view of men and things, the friendly sentiments expressed for our
struggling cause give him a claim to the hearty welcome and our kind
consideration. He is stopping at
the Pulaski House.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Sword Presentation.—On Wednesday evening last the officers and men of
the Fourth Battalion Louisiana Volunteers presented Lieut. Col. McEnery with a
magnificent sword. The presentation
was made on dress parade, by Serg't J. K. Penny, of Co. E, in a brief and
appropriate address, and was a complete surprise to the Colonel.
On accepting the compliment, Col. McE. replied in a feeling manner.
Altogether, the affair passed off most happily.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, February 24, 1863, 2, c. 1
Mr. Editor. I observe that
you recommend that the ladies and children shall leave the city at once, for the
very good reason that in the event of all waiting to go at the last moment, some
must be left. Mr. Adams, the
Superintendent of the Central Railroad, advertises to the same effect.
And General Beauregard in his very eloquent appeal to the citizens of the
State, urges upon the families of Savannah to go to a place of security until
the attack is over.
Yet, notwithstanding these exhortations to the ladies to leave at once,
none of them go. This delay may be
and probably is owing, in a great measure, to a report which has been freely
circulated, to the effect that Gen. Beauregard informed the ladies present at
one of the entertainments recently prevalent at the Pulaski House, that he was
glad to see so many ladies remaining in the city, notwithstanding the
threatening attitude of the enemy; and that there was no danger whatever in
their remaining, for Savannah can never be taken, that his proclamation was not
intended for Savannah, but for Charleston, which is even now at the mercy of the
enemy.
I, for one, Mr. Editor, do not believe that Gen. Beauregard ever uttered
these words. I suppose he
complimented the ladies on their bravery and said some polite things, but it is
very unlike that gallant and sagacious chief to publish a proclamation and then
destroy its effect by privately stating that he did not mean what he said.
And yet that report is current, and implicitly believed in by many
families. Do you believe it?
Can you not authoritatively endorse or correct it?
Common Sense.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Manufacture of Medicines.—We were equally gratified and surprised on a
recent visit to Montgomery by an inspection of the chemical laboratory attached
to the Confederate States Medical Purveyor's office in that city.
Our esteemed townsman, Dr. W. H. Anderson, is the head of that
establishment. Besides attending to
the extensive business of this office as Medical Purveyor, and purchasing and
distributing immense stocks of medicines and supplies of all sorts for the
military hospitals, he has improvised at small expense a chemical laboratory,
where he is making medicines which either cannot be bought at all, or which are
very scarce and high priced. During
the last summer and fall he advertised for medicinal barks and plants, the
growth of our Southern forests, and these were brought into him in large
quantities, from far and near, thus giving profitable employment to many men,
women and children in the country.
These are now being manufactured into extracts, tinctures and other
articles indispensable for hospital use. Many
other medicines are being manufactured besides those made from domestic plants,
and all with a very great saving to the government.
Tannin, a very scarce article and worth in the market $8 per ounce, is
produced at this depot at the cost of $12 per pound.
Chloroform, an article of prime necessity in surgery, is made for $4 per
pound, the market price being $20. Sweet
spirits of nitre, an article much used in the army, and exceedingly scarce, and
bringing in the market $6 per pound, is made here at leas than ninety cents per
pound.
The laboratory, as we have remarked, has been "improvised" and
got up with simple apparatus and great economy.
The whole has not cost the Government more than one thousand dollars, and
the supplies it turns out afford a saving to the Government of not less than
three hundred dollars a day.
Such examples of official industry and tact are worthy of public mention
and high praise. If every
administrative army officer had labored as faithfully to save the Government
money, it would make a difference of millions upon millions in the footing up of
the Confederate National debt.—Advertiser & Register.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The Petersburg Shot Tower has proved a decided success.
For weeks past shot of the most beautiful character have been dropped,
and the proprietors have now on hand, and for sale, a quantity sufficient to
supply all demands, from No. 2 upwards. In
form and finish these shot approach the perfection of the celebrated Baltimore
shot.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We are requested to state that old linen and cotton rags for bandages are
wanted by the Medical Purveyor. All
persons having such will leave them at the drug store of W. W. Lincoln, corner
of Bull and Congress streets.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
200
Tailoresses
Wanted Immediately, to work at my store.
None but experienced Coat and Pants Makers need apply.
H. Haym,
176 Bron_hion street.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Southern Women.—On the occasion of the recent departure of women for
the South, from Washington, some remarkable developments took place.
A Yankee correspondent says:
One lady had seven pairs of gaiters, five pairs of boots, five pairs of
morocco slippers, three pairs of dancing slippers of white kid, four pairs of
India rubber overshoes, and a pair of the longest legged cavalry boots, with
double soles, studded with good spikes, heels tapped with shoes of iron, and
tops splendidly ornamented with an abundance of patch work of waxed ends on a
ground work of patent leather.
"How about these, Madam?" said the officer, as he quietly
insinuated the cavalry boots into her astonished gaze.
"If you will put them on and wear them on your trip to Richmond, you
can take them, but they can go with you under no other circumstances."
"Done—I'll do it," said the heroine, and, grasping the heavy
leather in her hands, she retired behind the friendly crinoline of a group of
sympathizers, and planting her pretty feet—gaiters and all—into the depths
of that monstrous lost harness, returned, and awkwardly displayed them,
double-cased, to the gaping eyes of the this time astonished official.
He kept his word. These
boots went to somebody in the Confederate army, or they may have been an
intended Christmas present for Gen. Stuart.
These secesh women do such things.
[Richmond Dispatch.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Tyranny in Tennessee.—The most infamous order, which has yet fallen
from the pen of an Federal officer, has been issued by tacit consent in Middle
Tennessee. The order reads simply to the effect that there shall be no
further cultivation of the soil in that section. All farming implements are to be seized, all farmers found in
a field are to be arrested and all crops destroyed. It is not enough to insult the weak and the old; it is not
enough to degrade the true and loyal; it is not enough to light a march of
invasion with the burning homes of the defenceless; nor is it, in the eyes of
these desperate men, enough to fill their pockets, whilst they glut their
revenge with the wages of personal corruption.
A deeper—blacker—more damning sin than these, lies yet before
them—the disturbance of the soil which God has bidden to grow. Next to the invasion of the churchyard, no crimes has yet
equalled this. We speak advisedly.
Our information is obtained from a source neither to be doubted nor
questioned. The Federals are doing
this—have done it and are doing it. Plowmen
have been torn from their share, and even women are prohibited from sowing
grain.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Columbia, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1863.
. . . A concert was given last night at the Athenaeum for the benefit of sick
soldiers, under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Smith, the principal of the Young
Ladies' Seminary of this place, and was attended by such distinguished guests as
Generals Van Dorn, Forrest, W. H. Jackson and Frank C.
Armstrong. Notwithstanding a
heavy shower prevailing, the attendance was large and the Athenaeum crowded.
The programme was a selection of some of the finest instrumental and
vocal music from the Italian and English. The
"Bonnie White Flag," a beautiful piece and piece of beautiful
composition, was finely sung and loudly applaused [sic].—Casta Diva,
sung by Mrs. Leigh, from whose pretty lips the musical words flowed in perennial
and entrancing strains, was one of the finest pieces it has ever been our lot to
listen to. And Vivra [?], as
sung by Mrs. Leigh and Miss Smith, (daughter of the Professor,) thrilled every
bosom with quick and joyous pulsations, beating a harmonious chorus, drawing
each bosom in consonance with the other by the "concord of sweet
sounds" which enraptured every one present.
The grand final chorus of "Hallalujah," by Handels, as
performed by three pianos, three harps, and several string instruments and
cymbols, and sung by the whole coterie, was magnificently grand and
produced a fine effect.
The "Chevalier" and a tribute to Gen. Sidney Johnston, original
compositions by Lt. Col. Hawkins, were admirably read by that gentleman and
greeted with much applause. The
ladies who participated in the concert, were all dressed in most admirable
taste, and indeed with no little extravagance, and made the first display of
feminine apparel and attire we have seen in the South since the commencement of
hostilities. Perhaps it is due to
ladies still further South, to say that these fair belles of Columbia have been
enabled to dress better and more tastily than their less fortunate sisters
further Southward, from the fact that they have been able during the Yankee
occupation of their country, to select such articles of dress and virtu
as others were unable to procure on account of the blockade.
Most of the ladies who took part in the ceremonies, were from the Ladies'
Seminary of this place under charge of the Rev. Mr. Smith, one of the most
accomplished and agreeable of gentlemen, and whose suavity of manner and perfect
politeness we have never seen equalled. The
Seminary is one of the first in the South, and is perhaps better fitted up, more
plentifully supplied with musical instruments, and more thoroughly adapted for
the accomplished education of young ladies, than any now open in the country.
It is a matter of great pleasure to see that the young ladies of the
establishment pay much attention to that sweetest of instruments, the harp,
which is rapidly taking the place in our households once occupied by the piano
forte. Miss F. P. Smith, one of the
graduates of the establishment, and the daughter of the Professor, handles this
sweet-toned instrument to perfection itself, and elicits from it much sweet and
perfect harmony as to draw the whole soul forth and hold it entranced.
While speaking of Southern institutions and Southern ladies, I must claim
pardon for the greatest oversight in having failed ere this to chronicle the
action of one of our most self-sacrificing Southern daughters.
This is Miss Harriet Foster, of Florence, Ala. When it was learned that a bloody struggle, resulting
disastrously to Southern harms, had taken place at Corinth, and that the
Confederate army had been compelled to retire, leaving bleeding and lacerated
thousands to the mercies and cares of the enemy, a pall was thrown over the
country; thousands were paralyzed with pale faced fear.
But one of these was Miss Hattie, then safely esconced in her comfortable
home at Florence, and secure from all danger.
Gathering together, in a few hours' time, bandages, lint, and a few
medical supplies and articles of comfort for the suffering—scarcely caring for
her own wearing apparel—she resolutely set out for the scene of blood, war
and excruciating suffering. Reaching
Iuka, she found that a hospital for the wounded Southrons had been established
there, and procuring hastily a boarding house, she at once made her appearance
at the hospital, tendered her services as nurse, spent the long, long, weary
hours of the Summer days among the maimed and wounded soldiers, far away from
the care of friends and home, tending to their every want and care, and
alleviating the sufferings and trials of the many.
There were those present who mechanically attended and waited upon
the unfortunate as a part of their duty, but Miss Hattie was not one of these.
She proved herself a ministering angel through those long, trying days
and tiresome night watches, and brought home to the soldiers that they had
indeed amongst them a Florence Nightengale.
By her constant presence, always breathing hope and comfort, many a poor
fellow had recollections of the loved ones at home brought to his mind, and
formed a resolve that he would live for them, and buoyed up through her
gentle influence, he has gained hope and strength and finally health.
For three long months this ministering angel absented herself from her
home of comfort and luxuriant ease, and dwelt among strangers, to afford her aid
to those poor fellows far away from the scenes of their nativity and adoption,
lying bleeding and mangled in the hospitals of the enemy.
Let the land re-echo with the praises of this noble pattern of Southern
woman; let every soldier bless her who has aided and watched hour after hour,
day after day, week after week, aye, month after month, by the side of his
suffering comrades in arms, and let thanks and blessings in the shape of prayers
be offered up from the lips of the mothers, wives, sweethearts and sisters of
our dauntless Southern soldiers for their benefactress and ministering angel,
Miss Hattie Foster.
N'Importe.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Richmond, Feb. 22d, 1863.
. . . By dark the snow ceased to fall entirely.
We soon had huge log heaps, and once more were tolerably comfortable.
Lieutenants Williamson and Heard, of the Eighth Regiment, called upon me,
and among other items of interest, told me how they effected an exchange of
papers with the Yankees at Fredericksburg.
They constructed a little boat about two feet long, loaded her with
tobacco and Richmond papers, and taking her some distance above, adjusted the
sails and started her across. In
large letters, the names "Alabama—Captain Semmes," were painted upon
her. As soon as she landed, one of
the Yankees proposed to destroy her, with a stalwart Irishman stepped forward
and said, "No, faith and be jabers, if she's the "Alabama," we'll
parole her and turn her loose!" Loading
her with coffee and a New York Herald, he started her back to his side, which
she safely reached after a half hour's sailing.
Although the weather was cold, the ground white with snow, I slept very
well upon two logs by the fire, without blankets.
A drizzling rain set in Wednesday morning, and continued the blessed day
and night. It was a most
disagreeable day. The mud was
deeper, the clothes and blankets of the men were thoroughly wet, and the
confusion in the regiments was more complete than ever.
Order could not be preserved. Every
man marched for himself, irrespective of rank or company.
At about 2 p.m. we halted in a marshy woodland, where the undergrowth was
thick, but the trees were very large and scattering.
It was simply impossible to render our position at all tolerable.
I directed my company to burn rails, and report the number, to be paid
for, and gave all permission to get into houses, if they could.
I fared sumptuously at a Mr. Terrell's, a mile from camp, where I got a
good supper and breakfast, and slept in a "big, fat" feather bed.
I could hardly realize that I was a soldier!
On the following day the roads were even worse, if possible, by reason of
the recent rains. We waded a creek
which was half-leg deep. The water
covered a large bottom which was washed full of holes, rendering foot-hold so
uncertain that even our Adjutant's horse fell with him, throwing him over his
horse's head upon his all-fours, causing the Adjutant to take an unsolicited and
rather chilly bath! We reached
Hanover Junction by 1 or 2 o'clock, and bivouacked in a pine thicket. The sun set clear, and after dark the stars shone brightly,
the new moon adding to the general good cheer by appearing in a cloudless sky.
Here we drew hard bread, bacon and sugar.
The latter we made up into syrup. The
former we eat without any preparation. . . .
On Saturday we marched through Richmond.
Gen. Toombs' appeared upon a colonnade, and was most enthusiastically
cheered by the brigade as it passed him. He
has a hold upon the affections of his old brigade which time nor adversity can
shake. We crossed the James on
Mayo's Bridge, and passed two miles beyond Manchester.
We bivouacked in a low marshy flat, where we could get nothing but green
pines and sweet gums to burn. It
commenced snowing heavily at dark, and this morning the ground was covered a
foot deep. Having neither tents nor
blankets, I sat up all night, and the fire melting the snow as it fell upon me,
my overcoat was thoroughly wet. Nearly
every man was buried in snow. It
was really amusing to see them rise from their snow beds, where they slept
soundly enough. . . . V.A.S.P.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Wool
for the Soldiers
The General Committee of Savannah, for the relief of our soldiers in
Virginia, are in want of a large amount of WOOL, to be woven into CLOTH for our
soldiers. The subscriber, Chairman
of the Manufacturing Committee, invites those who have Wool for sale to give him
the preference over purchasers for speculators, and to send their Wool to him as
soon as possible, for which he will pay the market price.
Donations in Wool or Yarns for weaving into Cloth for the soldiers, will
also be duly acknowledged.
Joseph Lippman,
Chairman Manufacturing Committee.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
A Good Move.—We find the following among the advertisements of the
Richmond Enquirer:
Telegraphic Notice—The Telegraphic Companies have determined to
afford to all disabled or discharged soldiers, and youths properly recommended
who may desire it, the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the art of
Telegraphing, with a view to give them positions as operators upon the lines as
occasion may require their services.
For this purpose extra instruments will be put up at offices most
convenient to the applicant, and instruction will be furnished without charge.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Geo. W. Rady, Division
Superintendent, or to myself, at Richmond, Va.
J. R. Dowell,
General Superintendent.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
A rich reward in money and fame awaits the inventor who discovers a new
source and mode of supplying paper. Cannot
some ingenious citizen establish a paper mill for the use of corn shucks or
other material that can be found in abundance?
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Man Who Won't Pay the Printer.—A country editor, who works for
glory and prints on trust, is responsible for the following anathematical
aspirations on the man who won't pay the printer:
May he have sore eyes, and a chestnut burr for an eye stone.
May every day of his life be more despotic than the Day of Algiers.
May he never be permitted to kiss a handsome woman.
May his boots leak, his gun hang fire, and his fishing lines break.
May his coffee be sweetened with flies, and his soup seasoned with
spiders. May his friend run with
his wife and his children take the hooping cough.
May his cattle die of murrain, and his pigs destroy his garden.
May a regiment of cats caterwaul under his window every night.
May his cows give sour milk and rancid butter.
In short, may his daughter marry a one-eyed editor, and his business go
to ruin, and he go to------the Legislature.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Encouraging—The following lines are in circulation among our exchanges,
and contain food for reflection to those of our lady readers who began to wonder
why "nobody comes to woo:"
"There never was a goose so gray,
But some day, soon or late,
An honest gander came that way
And took her to his mate."
Don't despair, girls—the war will be brought to an end one of these
days, and the gallant fellows who are fighting the Abolitionists and hard
crackers will come to claim their bounty. Every
girl is entitled to a husband, and if she fails to get one it is because there
is none worth her having; otherwise he would come "up to the scratch,"
and pop the question. We never see
an "old maid," as they are scandalously called, without thinking that
some man has neglected his duty.
Girls to the right of us,
Girls to the left of us,
Girls to the front of us,
Waiting and wondering.
But under the rules of society, it is
"Theirs not to question why,
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs but to wait and sigh—
Some young man has blundered."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Outrages in Rutherford, Tenn.—No people in Tennessee are more loyal
than those of the county of Rutherford, and they are now paying severely for
their staunch adherence to the Confederacy even in the presence of Federal
bayonets. Their property is being
destroyed, their houses pillaged and burned, their churches desecrated, their
slaves carried off, and every imaginable indignity offered to the citizens,
regardless of age and sex.
We understand that the Yankees have not left a fence standing within a
circuit of five miles around Murfreesboro', and that fires are of nightly
occurrences.
The destruction of the fine residence of Judge Ridly, with his library,
papers and furniture has already been noted.
But we have recently had information of an outrage of a still more gross
a character. A few nights since a
party of Federal soldiers under charge of an officer visited the house of Isaac
Jatung in Rutherford, violently seized his person, and taking him into his own
yard cruelly and shamefully whipped him on the naked back. His wife and daughters appeared upon the porch and attempted
to remonstrate with the soldiers, when they fired a volley at these innocent
ladies.
We can scarcely believe that it is possible for Gen. Rosecrans to order
those atrocities, but he certainly countenances them, and should be held
strictly accountable.—[Shelbyville Banner.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Savannah, March 6, 1863.
Mr. Editor:--In your issue of the 6th inst., I find an article
signed "A Soldier," to which I think a reply is necessary.
The writer very properly says that in times of trial like these which now
press upon us "we should humble ourselves in the very dust of humility and
seek the protection and assistance of Almighty God."
He then asks, "Where are the Reverend Clergy?" As one of the body of Clergy I answer, "At their posts,
doing the very things which this soldier calls upon them to do, and exhorting
their people to follow their examples."
For the information of "A Soldier," and others in the camps who
may desire to unite in humiliation and prayer, I subjoin a list of the services
which are held in this city, so far as I know their arrangements.
Prayer every morning (Sundays excepted) at 7 o'clock a.m., at St. John's
Church.
Prayer every afternoon (Sundays excepted) at 4½ p.m., at St. Paul's
Church.
Prayer on Wednesdays and Fridays at 11 a.m., at Christ Church.
Union Prayer Meeting Society, Wednesday afternoons at 4 p.m., at the
Independent Presbyterian Lecture Room.
Lecture at the Independent Presbyterian Lecture Room every Monday evening
at 7½.
Besides these, I have not doubt that there are weekly services at the
Baptist and Methodist Churches, of which I am not informed.
In answer to the enquiry, "Where are the people of God," I
answer that many of them are present every day at these various meetings,
offering earnest supplications for their city and their country, and especially
for the soldiers.
One of the Clergy.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Wanted.
Some of our hospitals are much in want of red pepper, sage, cotton strips
for bandages, and other articles useful to the sick or wounded.
Let those who have any of these articles send them to the Republican
Office without delay for distribution among the needy.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Savannah
Wayside Home
(Late the Pavilion Hotel,)
Under the Direction of the Georgia
Relief Hospital Association,
Is now open, in
charge of the Ladies of Savannah, for the accommodation of Soldiers, when
passing through the city. An
ambulance will be in attendance on the arrival of the railway trains.
All Soldiers, whether Georgians or not, traveling on furlough, either
home or to camp, are welcome to the care and comforts of this Wayside Home.
Donations, in money or provisions are solicited from the patriotic and
benevolent.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
The Provision Question in Richmond.—A Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, writing on the 3d, says:
The food question is alarming to persons of limited exchequer.
Family flour is quoted today at $30 per barrel.
No kind of fresh meat can be obtained for less than a dollar a pound, and
some of the butchers have closed their stalls from inability to purchase stock.
Butter will be up to $3 before the close of the week; indeed, twenty
firkins were sold at auction this morning at $2.62.
The "leading" hotels now charge $7 per day, furnishing in
return a meagre bill of fare; and proprietors of private boarding houses are
trying to mimic the hotels.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Worse and Worse.—Not less than fourteen of the largest boarding houses
in Richmond have closed their doors the present week to table boarders, on
account of the scarcity and unprecedented high prices of all the necessaries of
life, and more will follow their example soon.
At the large hotels the price of board and lodging per diem is six
dollars, and if prices continue to advance in the same ratio in the future as
they have in the past, boarding will advance to ten dollars per day.
Richmond Examiner 6th.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Charleston, March 6.
. . . Our southern railways are beginning to feel the wear and tear of the war
to an extent that must give rise to serious apprehensions for the future.
The locomotives and rolling stock, as well as the rails on many of the
roads, are fast wearing out, and but little effort is being made in any quarter
to replace them. So far has this
deterioration proceeded, that it has been found necessary to adopt a new
schedule on the lines between Richmond and Montgomery, the object of which is to
reduce the rate of speed and allow more time for the trains to make connections.
The change, while it lessons the speed and increases the time, will
render the connections more certain, and thereby really expedite both travel and
the mails.
You will remember that the attention of railway companies and the
government was called to this subject, nearly a year ago, in one of my letters
from the West. The evil has been
allowed to continue, however, and now the roads are barely able to do the
transportation of the government. What
will be their condition a year hence? Iron
bars and iron locomotives, like human hearts and muscles, will wear out in the
course of time. If something be not
done soon the enemy, whose means of transportation are abundant both by land and
water, will have greatly the advantage of us in the rapid movement of troops.
The roads in Georgia have not been so heavily vexed as those in other
States, and are therefore in comparatively good condition.
In this, as in her freedom from invasion, the State has been singularly
fortunate. The Charleston and
Savannah road, and the Charleston and Northeastern road, were just completed
when the war broke out, and with certain lateral lines in other States, are in
good condition; but with these exceptions, the condition of the railroads in the
Confederate States is of a character to excite the serious concern, and call for
prompt action, both of the government and the people.
If some other plan should not be adopted, it may become necessary for the
companies owning the lines chiefly used by the government, to buy the iron,
locomotives and cars on the branch roads, in order to repair their tracks and
keep up their rolling stock. The
government itself may intervene, and require the parties to come into such an
arrangement. . . .
P.W.A.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Information
as to Christian Effort in Savannah.
Mr. Editor: A communication
in your paper signed "A Soldier," implies a want of information.
"One of the Clergy," in the paper of this morning, gives the
appointments in the Episcopal Churches, and says "I have no doubt that
there are weekly services at the Baptist and Methodist Churches, of which I am
not informed."
He is
correct in his suppositions. In the
Baptist Church there are, beside the regular Sabbath services, a prayer meeting
on Tuesday afternoon, and a lecture on Thursday evening at 7 ¾ o'clock.
At all our meetings soldiers are ever welcome.
Then,
the Board of Baptist Missions have two missionaries here, whose whole time is
devoted to the religious interests of the soldiers, Rev. D. G. Daniell, long and
well known in Georgia as a pastor and agent, and recently a chaplain of the 29th
Regiment, and Rev. A. D. Cohen, formerly a pastor at Newbern, N. C., but driven
from his home by the enemy, and recently a chaplain in the Army of the Potomac.
These ministers of experience, intelligence and unquestioned piety,
devote their time to preaching in the camp and hospitals, and distributing
tracts, hymn books and Testaments. They
have circulated thousands and tens of thousands of pages of printed truth.
The tracts are free from all sectarianism.
They also circulate all the religious papers they can get of an
evangelical character.
Then,
the Rev. J. H. Campbell, for thirty years an efficient Baptist preacher, is
acting as army evangelist, and sustained by voluntary contributions from the
citizens of Georgia.—Surely then, this is something for the cause of religion
in this day of trials. And yet this
is but the work of one denomination represented in the city.
To the
soldiers, the labors of these men and the religious reading are gratuitous.
We wish we could do more; but we do not desire that it should be supposed
by any that we are doing nothing.
For more than two years, during the whole war, all the religious denominations
of the city, who were willing to unite, have met every week to pray for the
country. This meeting is held
on Wednesday afternoon. Never has
there been one week of the war which has not been thus whitened in Savannah by
this concert of special prayer. These
meetings are conducted in rotation by the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist
pastors. The soldiers may rest
assured that we shall not forsake our altars, nor cease to cry to God for
blessings on them and our country.
God
grant that our soldiers may be pervaded by the spirit of God!
May they [illegible] the sin which is a reproach to any people, and seek
that righteousness which exalteth a nation.
In the
language of Dr. Palmer, we feel that as ministers of the Gospel, we can carry
our country's cause before God, and leave it under the shadow of his throne.
March 7, 1863.
S. Landrum.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Richmond, Va., March 10, 1863.
. . . It is a source of regret that we have no room to pay our compliment to the
stay-home-boys. We intended to
extol the ingenuity of some of that class in this letter—the ways and means
resorted to, for resisting the polite requests of conscript and enrolling
officers to "fall in." May
be we can at some other time. Boys,
we don't intend to neglect you, but excuse us this time.
Why, Miss D---, did you ask us if we would accept those socks?
Gracious me! let me tell
you. We had on hand a small piece
of candle (was'nt [sic] saving it for "draw" by-the-by) say inch and a
half long, which we on reception of them, immediately "combusticated"
and having dorned [sic?] said socks, elevated our feet otium cum dignatate
on the tent pole and eyed the same with the utmost satisfaction for exactly (by
town time) three-fourths of an hour. Then
we took them off and put 'em away to keep till peace and low quartered shoes
come again. Will it ever pass from
our memory, that checked shirt which was home made?
Never. How delightful to
have something that reminds us of our noble mothers and sisters at home, whose
busy hand are showing contempt on every Yankee fabric.
We almost hate a man now who wears broadcloth, because he reminds one of
that most dispicable [sic] race on earth—Yankees.
Our homespun is a sign of plenty and independence in the land, and that
the dainty hand of fashion is not restraining our developing resources.
In our last we were speaking plainly of those single fair ones who
encouraged their "lovyers" in staying at home, and mentioned casually
that Anna Prucilla was no such, and that "devil" perhaps of yours had
it "not sick." Such
intelligence is extremely gratifying, but we did'nt write it.
We meant that she was a superior young "oman," who had hastened
"Yours Respectfully" forward with kind and patriotic speeches,
declaring she'd cry if we fell and plant flowers over our resting place, and we
went—we had to go.
Tout-le-Monde.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 3-4
[From
the Jackson Appeal.]
Federal Rule in New Orleans.
Jackson, March 9, 1863.
So much curiosity is shown in Mississippi for any details, however
trivial, of Yankee misrule and Butler's course in New Orleans, that a few
desultory remarks and anecdotes from an eye witness, may prove acceptable to
your readers.
A Richmond editor says that the departure of Gen. Butler in safety was a
disgrace to every citizen in New Orleans. This
sanguinary man cannot have reflected that New Orleans is the gathering point for
the runaway negroes from the whole interior and the gulf coast, and that there
were 15,000 of New England's choicest thieves in and around the city, restrained
only by the relentless severity of a commander who would allow no other hand to
share the spoil. Butler's
assassination would have been the signal for the incendiary and the pillager;
and 30,000 of the loveliest, true-hearted, and most helpless of God's creation
would have been at the mercy of a horde more barbarous and loathsome than the
Huns and Goths and vandals of the lower empire.
Gen. Butler wore a coat of mail, which was clearly discernible under his
clothes, and extended to his hips. In
his office two revolvers lay continually on his desk, which he often handled, to
impress or intimidate. Until after
the entire population had been disarmed, he never appeared on the streets except
in a carriage, with three orderly sergeants, and surrounded by a troop of
horsemen, all armed to the teeth. As
he lay stretched back on the cushions, his glances were as cruel, restless and
suspicious as a tiger cat's. His
behavior was full of ostentation and bravado.
His manners showed him to have been bred in a vulgar station, and no
glitter of authority could impress the beholder that he was aught but a parvenu
and a pretender.
A silk banner was presented last November, by the colored people, to a
negro regiment stationed on the Gentilly road, in the rear of the city.
Every dray, furniture car, wagon and other conveyance, was employed from
early morning to carry down crowds of jubilant Ethiopians of both sexes to the
camp. Songs in honor of John Brown,
Massa Butler and Uncle Abe rung upon the air from the throats of those who used
so melodiously to swell the boatmen's chorus upon the Mississippi steamers.
In the evening General Butler, with his numerous and splendid staff, rode
down to officiate at the presentation. He
made a long and incendiary speech, urging the black to redeem themselves from
the taunts of their masters that they would never stand the smell of powder and
the gleam of bayonets. Col.
Stafford, commanding the regiment, replied in extravagant terms; but the only
thing he said worth mentioning was, that one negro, as a soldier, was, any day,
worth five white men. He,
doubtless, deduced his comparison from himself and his fellow soldiers, and was
therefore justified in his assertion. This
Stafford, before the war, was a New York detective.
He is a blackguard, and of the Bowery—an Israelite from his linements
[sic], and "mine ancient" to the magnanimous Butler. The lamented Duncan once spurned him like a dog, but he slunk
away and reported to Butler, who "approved his course" in not
resenting the insult.
Another of Butler's pets is "Colonel" Jonas H. French, whilom
provost marshal general of Louisiana, but degraded by Ranks to be a police
officer in New Orleans—a place which he accepted rather than join the army at
Baton Rouge. In the first named
office this man committed unparalleled extortions and outrages.
Although entitled to nothing but his pay as a captain on staff, his
profits were from one to two thousand dollars per day.
When Banks arrived to supersede Butler, he directed his staff officers to
make inquiries in a quiet way among the citizens, and was soon convinced that
the stories about French were less than exaggerated.
The "colonel," who is by trade a soap pedlar [sic], and is a
showy looking fellow, is the leader of the Yankee ton.
Banks' advent caused great excitement among the official thieves; the
"colonel" remarked to a crowd of them who came to advise with him,
"By G—gentleman, this thing has gone to far. I hear that my name even, has been mixed up in it."
During Butler's reign French had three carriages, with a span of bloods
for each, four buggies, and several saddle horses.
He is now reduced to locomotion.
Every fine residence in New Orleans is occupied by Yankees.
The house of Mr. Surget on Rampart street, has been the headquarters of
Brigadier-General Arnold, who, while laboring under a surfeit of Mr. Surget's
wines, had the city cars passing in front, to travel at a snail's pace, that all
might know that his highness was ailing. The
paintings and furniture have all been sent away, and the cellar emptied.
Lacock's house, close by, is the barracks of the 12th Maine.
Mr. J. P. Harrison's is now inhabited by Banks and his family, and
Sheppard Brown's by Governor Shepley. A
beautiful house on Prytania street, above Jackson street, was taken by some
officers of the line, who, on being called to the field, left their paramours in
possession, and the house is now a common brothel.
George Eustis', Judge Rost's, and scores of other private dwellings have
undergone the same pollution. Butler
seized the house of Dr. Campbell for his family, appropriated the sumptuous
furniture and plate, and had a lieutenant and two privates sent to Fort Jackson
with ball and chain for two years for stealing two of his silver spoons, marked
with Dr. Campbell's initials.
A poor Irish woman, far advanced in pregnancy, was heard by one of
Butler's innumerable spies to say that the priest had told her under no
circumstances to take the oath. She
was dragged before the general, who flew into one of his paroxisms, heaped upon
her the foulest epithets, and directed an orderly to confine her in a dark room,
on bread and water, until she divulged the name of her reverend adviser.
This she refused to do, and she was probably released by Banks.
The most disgusting and characteristic act of the Hyena's career (more
revolting even than his causing the tomb of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston to be
burst open, and his coffin searched for gold and silver) was the affair of Mrs.
Phillips. This lady is the wife of
a gentleman in Alabama, who was formerly M. C. from that State, and law-partner
of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson. She
was standing on her balcony adjoining, when the funeral of a lieutenant, killed
whilst marauding near Baton Rouge, passed along the street.
Being observed by an officer to smile at some remark, she was forthwith
reported to the commander-in-chief, who had her arrested and brought before him
on the charge of indecently rejoicing at the Yankee's death.
He offered the alternative of the oath and a public apology, or unlimited
solitary confinement at Ship Island. She
refused the apology and the perjury, and was subsequently sent down to the
island.
About the same time a man named Kellar, who keeps an old book store,
labelled the skull of a Mexican, which had been left in pawn by a medical
student, with the word "Chicahominy," and placed it in his show
window. For this grave offense he,
also, was condemned to Ship Island, and the general order published on the
subject stated that he should "be allowed no communication verbal or
otherwise, with any person on the island, except with Mrs. Phillips."
Keller, who is a many of family, was induced to believe this was the
notorious Matilda Phillips, a wealthy courtesan, as well known in New York,
Boston and San Francisco, as in New Orleans, begged this part of the order to be
rescinded. Accordingly another
general order was promulgated, abrogating "so much of general order No. __
as authorized the said Keller to hold communication with Mrs. Phillips."
Such was General Butler's subterfuge striking at the good name of a
virtuous wife and good mother to relieve himself of the odium attached to his
unmanly conduct.
"Are there no bolts in heaven, save what serve for the
thunder?"
Another general order was published, advising the negroes that whenever a
slave reported h is or her master or mistress for having weapons concealed about
their dwellings, and the weapons were found as reported, the slave should be
liberated directly and the owner incarcerated.
The result has been, in instances without number, that the slaves have
thrown old muskets, sabres, or pistols into obscure corners with their own
hands, given the information, been freed, and their innocent masters are now
suffering on the dreary sands of Ship Island, with ball and chain, hard labor,
and salt-horse rations. The
testimony of a slave is received without comment or objection.
The indignant remonstrance of a Confederate is cut short with
"Silence, sir! the oath of a
traitor and a rebel is not worth that of a loyal black."
Will Confederate soldiers believe that on the 20th of
February, 1863, the day on which the last cartel of exchange left New Orleans, a
company of infantry was ordered to charge, and discharge with fixed bayonets, on
the thousands of women and children who thronged to see us off?
Two women were wounded by the gallant New Englanders—one of them
seriously—but many a brave girl seized the bayonet with one feeble arm and
fearlessly stood her ground, whilst with the other she wafted us her blessings
and adieus. This command was given
by a ferocious looking Hessian Major, who spoke broken English, and subsequently
sent for a battery of light artillery to complete the work of desperation by
trampling the refractory "she-adders" under the horses' hoofs.
The 20th of February was a glorious day for secession in New
Orleans. Gen. Banks must have been
amazed and delighted at the display of "Union sentiment" among her
citizens. It showed him that, after sending her thousands and her tens
of thousands of brave men to fight in our holy cause, her women, undaunted by
the power of the unscrupulous oppressor, and scorning the luxury and wealth
which needed but the worthless "oath" to be thrown at their feet, were
still as zealous and constant in their hour of trial and distress, as when the
fields of Manassas and Bull run bore the fresh footprints of the routed Yankees.
All the late reinforcements to Gen. Butler are Hessians or Prussians.
They are strangers to the English tongue, and the commands are given in
broad Dutch. The men are generally
good looking, and evidently recruits and deserters from the Hesse Dutchies,
Netherlands, Prussia and other German States.
They have been recruited with baits of cotton farms in working order in
Texas, and the spoils of Southern homesteads.
How startling will prove their real welcome when "these whiskered
pandoors and these fierce hussars" shall meet the grim rangers of the
Texian prairies.
Permit the writer to ask, can the gorilla raise 300,000 men more in his
dominions to carry on this war? No,
sir! After recruiting his exhausted
regiments from the negro slaves, and scouring continental Europe for mercenaries
to so little purpose, the moment he endeavors to enforce his conscription
measures an intestine struggle will spring up more (an immediately) fatal to its
vitality than secession.
There is great disaffection among the soldiers and sailors in Louisiana.
A gunboat lieutenant told the writer that three hundred Massachusetts
soldiers had been sent to New Orleans from Ship Island for mutiny and beating
the blacks, and that one hundred and thirty resignations had occurred among the
officers of the flotilla (his own among them), but had been refused, and the
parties classed as deserters. He
said the cause was Lincoln's proclamation.
Credat Judaeus Apella non ego.
It was the retributive fate of the Harriet Lane and the Hatteras, and the
frowning batteries at Vicksburg and Port Hudson which cooled their warlike
ardor. Let our heroes yet a little
while breast the tide of invasion as they have breasted it during the past two
years, and Uncle Abraham himself will sympathize with the South in a few months.
The 26th and 27th Massachusetts are disaffected,
and threaten to lay down their arms when called into the field, and the sailors
of the Hartford, the Pensacola, and the gunboats are arrested in scores for
vociferating through the streets that they "won't fight for the bloody
nager."
If the negroes have not usurped more privileges, or committed greater
outrages in New Orleans, it is not for lack of encouragement from the Yankee
officers. It is due to their conscious inferiority which, as in the
beasts of the field, forces them to cower and quail beneath the reproachful and
threatening eye of the white man. They
are still unaware of their perogative [sic] in lower Louisiana.
If this pleases you, I may write again.
J.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Useful as Well as Ornamental.—We noticed, while passing on Saturday
morning last the residence of Capt. L. M. Coxetter, in Pitt street, (the
patriotic citizen, the fearless privateer, and now the courageous commander of
the fine steamer Havelock,) that he has recently placed on the portico of his
domicil [sic] two small and very pretty brass guns.
Their neat and tastily arranged carriages, together with the beautiful
polish of the guns, certainly present a fine appearance.—Char. Courier.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Laying of the Corner Stone and Dedication of a New Catholic House of
Worship.—For several years the Catholic community of Savannah needed
additional church facilities. Under
the care of the late Right Rev. Francie Xavier Gartland, First Bishop, the
Church of St. John the Baptist on Drayton street, was enlarged, yet there
continued a necessity for an additional building.
The Right Rev. John Barry, Second Bishop, used every exertion on his part
to procure a suitable place, but he was called away from earth before he could
consummate his desire. The present,
and Third Bishop of Savannah, the Right Rev. Augustin Verot, in July last
purchased the commodious brick building on the southeast corner of Liberty and
West Broad sts., and after some alterations and improvements he has succeeded in
making it convenient and suitable for the purposes designed—a house of
worship.
At ten o'clock this morning the solemn services of laying the corner
stone and dedication of the building to the worship of Almighty God will take
place at the Church. At half-past
nine o'clock the procession will form at the Church of St. John the Baptist, on
Drayton street, and move to the new Church in the following order:
The Cross-bearer, in surplice.
The young ladies of the Congregation, under the charge of the Sisters of
Mercy.
The boys of the Sunday School, carrying flags of different colors, and
preceded by their banner.
The Crozier-bearer, Sanctuary boys and Acolytes.
The Right Reverend Bishop and Clergy, in surplices.
The members of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist and citizens
generally.
The corner stone will be laid in the sill of the front entrance door, on
Liberty street. The sill bears the
following description:
THIS
BUILDING WAS CONSECRATED INTO A
CHURCH, BY A SOLEMN BENEDICTION,
MARCH 17TH, 1863.
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MAMMONAE EREPTUM DEO DICATUM SUB INVOATIONE SANCTI PATRII.
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Translation.—"Taken from Mammon, dedicated to God under the
invocation of Saint Patrick."
After the conclusion of the services a collection will be taken in aid of
the funds of the Church. The
benevolent and liberal of all congregations are invited to witness the solemn
services.
Persons having any foreign coins, medallions, continental currency, or
contributions that they may desire to have placed in the corner stone will
please deliver them to the Bishop, or any of the clergy, before the procession
leaves the Church of St. John the Baptist.
The name of the building will be decided by a vote of the congregation
present. It is generally
understood, however, that it will be called "St. Patrick's Church."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Will
Open This Day,
One Bale
Navy Blue Flannel
For
Gentlemen's Shirts.
For Sale by
DeWitt & Morgan.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Theatre.
A. Waldron,- - Lessee & Manager.
Tuesday Evening, March 17
Opening night of the
Thespian Family, or Queen Sisters,
and
Palmetto Band,
when will be
presented an entirely new and original Military Operetta, written and composed
by Prof. J. H. Hewitt, entitled,
The
Vivandiere,
With other
Entertainments as will be expressed in the bills of the day.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1863, p. 4
To
Mothers of Boys
from
13 to 16 Years Old.
Special Notice!
George S. Nichols & Son, being compelled to close their Clothing
Business, have on hand the following Summer Goods, which they will sell at less
than half what such goods can be made for now:
12 Black Cloth Frock Coats
150 Fancy Check and Brown Linen Frocks and Sacks
18 Black Merino and Drap d'Ete Frocks
15 White Linen Frock Coats
36 White Irish Linen and Duck Round Jackets
18 Brown and Check Linen do
30 pair White Linen Drill Pantaloons
75 White, Buff and Fancy Marseilles Vests
N.B.—All of the above are for boys 13 to 16 years old.
Those in want will do well to call soon, at the old stand.
Gibbons' Building.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, p. 1, c. 2
[From
the Richmond Whig.]
A Model Hospital—Mr. Wigfall's Bill.
To the Editor of
the Whig:
Mr. Wigfall has introduced a bill in the Senate, which, if passed into a
law, will probably work a revolution in the present benificent Hospital system
established by Congress.—What is that system?
Perhaps some account of the operations of one of the Richmond hospitals
would furnish a better illustration of the system than any outline I could give.
To that end, let us select General Hospital No. 4, where your
correspondent has had an opportunity, in the course of a somewhat protracted
illness, to investigate the present system.
General Hospital No. 4 is located in a pleasant part of the city, not far
from the Capitol, and was opened in June of last year.
Soon after the battles in front of Richmond, its management was confided
to the Care of Dr. James B. Read,
of Savannah, an accomplished gentleman and an experienced physician and surgeon.
Dr. Read is assisted by a corps of assistant surgeons, one of whom is
assigned to each of the wards into which the hospital is divided. . . .
The distinguishing feature of the present system, however, is the
introduction of females into the hospitals as matrons and nurses.
It is now well established that the mortality in those establishments
where women have been employed is much less than in those where only men have
been engaged. My stay in Hospital
No. 4 brought me in contact with only three of the matrons—there is one to
each ward—and, therefore, I can only speak of the manner in which these three
performed their duties. It is due
to the women of the Confederate States, who have done so much to support our
cause, that the names of these ladies be given.
They are Mrs. Lewis [illegible], Mrs. William Grant, both of Richmond,
and Mrs. James B. Read, wife of the surgeon in charge.
Mrs. Webb is chief matron, and as such she exercises general care and
supervision over the domestic economy of the entire establishment.
This lady is gifted with a talent for administration which I have never
known surpassed by any woman, and which is equal to the demands of any station
to which a female can be called in this country.
The whole domestic machinery of this large establishment is kept in
regular and healthful operation. Nothing
escapes her watchful eye. Not a
particle of dirt or filth is suffered to accumulate in any part of the building
or premises, and no employee is permitted to neglect his or her duty.
The rooms, halls, and passage ways are kept as clean as any private house
in Richmond, whilst every possible attention is given to the sick that the most
tender solicitude can suggest.
Mrs. Grant has charge of one of the wards, where she exercises the same
beneficent authority that the chief matron does over the whole establishment,
and where she has mitigated the sufferings of many a sick and weary soldier by
her kind and cheerful ministrations. She
and Mrs. Webb have been engaged in the good work from the beginning, and were
the first, with two other ladies, to open a private hospital in Richmond.
To Mrs. Read is confided the superintendence of another ward, and the
additional duty of looking after the linen of the entire hospital, and the
clothing of all the patients and the employees—a duty which gives full scope
to her energy and industry. One has
only to glance at her ward, or the bedding of the establishment, to be convinced
of the manner in which she discharges her multifarious duties.
Another matron (Mrs. Lear,) has charge of the cookroom.
The cooking in this model hospital is equal to that we find in most
private families. All the bread is
baked on the premises, and is excellent, and the meals are served with a
regularity and cleanliness that is truly inviting to the war-worn invalid.
These noble women occupy the highest social position, and were reared as
tenderly as the most delicate lady in the land; yet they have voluntarily
abandoned their pleasant homes, and labor day after day, in rain and sunshine,
in winter and summer, in the holy cause of caring for their country's sick and
wounded defenders. They read the
Bible to such as desire to hear its word of heavenly comfort; they encourage the
faint and despondent, gently restrain the impatient and imprudent, and kindly
find time amid all their labors to write letters for such as are too feeble to
write themselves. It is to them,
too the dying soldier whispers his last message of affection to his absent
mother or anxious wife. Who shall
say these angels of charity are not doing a good work!
a work equal in its beneficent results to that performed by the best
officer in the field. . . . A.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Artemus Ward's Toast—Woman.—Tu yure sex, commonly kawled the phair
sex, we are indebted for our bornin as well as many other blessins in these lo
growns of sorrow. Sum poor sperreted fools blame youre sex for the difficulty
in the garden; but I know men are a deseetful set, and when the apples had bekum
plum ripe, I have no dowt but Adam would have rigged a cyder press, and like as
not went onto a big bust and been driv off onaware.—Yure 1st muther
was a lady, and her dawters is ditto, and nun but a triflin kuss will say a word
agin you. Hopin that no waive of
trubble may ever ride across yure peacfurl brests, I konklude these remars with
the following centyment:
Woman—She is a good egg.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The Richest Man in Louisiana.—A correspondent of the Boston Post,
portraying the utter disruption of society in New Orleans, says:
There are none of the leaders of fashion here.
The ladies who moulded society have moved into the Confederacy—their
husbands and sons—"in the ranks of death you will find them."
Many merchants, to be sure, have sat out the rebellion with folded arms,
waiting patiently for the solution,--Mr. John Burnside is one of these.
He is, I presume, the richest man in Louisiana.
He owns numerous plantations, and his mansion on Washington avenue—with
its park, as large as your Boston Public Garden, and its pictures and marble
illustrations of taste and wealth, and its ever-blooming flowers—is one of the
[illegible] in America. It was
erected for James Robb, but when he failed it fell into the hands of Mr.
Burnside. It is a palace, and its
possessor is a king. He is an
Irishman and a bachelor, with ways so winning, hospitality so beautiful, that
the mystery is that he is still a bachelor.
He is a retired merchant; still he finds much to do to keep and save what
he has during a life of honorable venture gained.
Already hundreds of his negroes have been enticed away from his cotton
and sugar fields; and the guerrillas have destroyed one of his plantations—the
finest one on the abundant banks of the Mississippi.
Mr. Burnside's experience is the experience of all the planters of the
South. He has too much wealth to be
impoverished; but those who had at the beginning of the war their entire
fortunes staked in landed estates are ruined forever.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The following is a recipe which answers every purpose of dying copperas
color: Half pint vinegar, half pint
syrup or molasses, three gallons of water.
Put the above into an iron pot with nails or other rusty iron, and let it
stand twenty days. It is of no use
to buy copperas for dyeing, at one dollar per pound, while this will answer
every purpose.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
The Mobile Register says: "The
printers of the Confederacy have heard no news since the beginning of the war
that gives them more satisfaction than that of the resignation of Gen. Sigel,
Sigle, Siegle, Siegel, Seigle, Seagull—or whatever his name may be.
They are rid of him now, and why they are glad it is easy to guess.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
During the examination of a medical student he was asked:
When does mortification ensue?"
He replied, "When you pop the question and are answered
"No."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Queen Sisters.—There was a very fair house at the Theatre last
night, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather.
The performance was highly creditable, particularly in the new dramatic
sketch, "The Veteran, or '76 and '62"—a pleasing afterpiece, in
which the leading characters personating veterans were admirably represented. Bill offered for tonight—"Sweethearts and Wives,"
"Charcoal Sketches, or the Soldier, Sailor, Tinker and Tailor;"
besides the usual accompaniments of singing, dancing, and music.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
A Substitute for Bread.—Now that meal is hard to get about our villages
and towns, we recommend lie-hominy as a good substitute, at least as a change.
The simple plan of preparing it is follows: To a gallon of shelled corn add a half gallon of good ashes.
Boil together until the husk begins to come off the corn.
Then rub briskly to clear the grain completely of husk.
Wash the corn clear and boil it for ten or twelve hours, adding water
from time to time to keep it from burning.
It is then ready, and has only to be warmed over for use as it is needed.
It is perhaps better fried. This
is said to be more wholesome than big hominy, and it is as good diet as corn
bread, if not better. It is easy to
prepare, and saves the toll. Most
housekeepers know how to make it; but a few may not be informed on the important
subject, and we pen this paragraph for their benefit.—Edgefield Advertiser.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
New
Music.
"All Quiet on the Potomac To-Night."
This beautiful and very appropriate Poem has been set to music and
pronounced a success.
This piece, in order to assist in carrying out BISHOP ELLIOTT'S beautiful
suggestion, is dedicated to the
UNKNOWN
DEAD.
Schreiner & Oxenius.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Wanted.
Two competent Buglers for 4th Regt. Ga. Cavalry.
Application will be made for the transfer of any enlisted man, and a
liberal salary guaranteed in addition to his pay.
To one not liable to duty, steady employment and good wages.
Also wanted, two or more Bugles.
Duncan L. Clinch,
Col Comd'g.
N.B. Clinch, Adj't.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
One
Hundred
Gunsmiths and Machinists
Wanted.
Wanted at the Pistol Factory, in Columbus, Georgia, good Machinists and
Gunsmiths. Piece Work will be given, and all who remain with us over
three months will have their traveling expenses refunded.
Haiman Bro. & Co.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Shoe
Factory
For Sale.
I offer my Shoe
Factory, located at Augusta, Georgia for sale, together with all the materials,
fixtures, findings, &c., connected with it, being the best selected stock of
English, French, and German leathers to be had in the Confederacy.
Together with the Factory I will sell the stock of manufactured work at
Savannah, with several Colored Men, accustomed to fine work on ladies' and
gentlemen's shoes.
To those who would invest, no better opportunity can offer.
Address
Lewis C. Teebau,
Savannah.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
To
the Teachers of the South
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 12, 1863.
At the last annual meeting of the State Educational Association of North
Carolina, held [illegible] of October last, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this Association recommend a general Convention of
the Teachers of the Confederate States, to be held at ________, on ________,
1863, to take into consideration the best means for supplying the necessary text
books for schools and colleges, and for uniting their efforts for the
advancement of the cause of education in the Confederacy, and that the Executive
Committee of the Association be directed to correspond with Teachers in the
various States on the subject.
We have thought it would facilitate the accomplishment of the object of
the above resolution to suggest a time and place for the meeting of the
Convention referred to, and we accordingly recommend that the meeting take place
at Columbia, S. C., on Tuesday, April 28, at 8 o'clock, p.m.
The importance of this movement will be readily appreciated by every
friend of our beloved country and we feel sure that no class of persons can be
more useful in achieving, under God, the independence of a nation than those who
are engaged in training the hearts and minds of the young.
The integrity of society itself demands that at least those of our text
books which relate to moral and political science should not be prepared by
persons who hold opinions in conflict with those on which our institutions are
based, and if our schools are to be purged of the semi infidel literature of the
world, we will never have a better opportunity than the present for the
commencement of this good work.
We would add, in addition, that our national enemies arraign us at the
bar of the civilized world, as a people of inferior moral development and
especially, and every consideration which can appeal to our pride, to our
patriotism, and in our manhood, as well as to our sense of duty to God and to
our fellow men, should prompt those who labor in the moral domain, to be up and
doing.
We cannot afford to permit any exigency which our vindictive foes can
bring upon us to arrest our efforts in behalf of those agencies which, next to
religion, do most to promote the welfare of society, and we know that if the
rising generation is properly instructed the lapse of time will, by the blessing
of providence, but insure that independence for which those, who are now on the
stage of action, are so heroically contending.
Believing that these views meet with your hearty concurrence, we
respectfully and earnestly invite you to meet us in counsel at the time and
place specified above, fully believing that by the Divine favor, we may thus be
enabled to lay, in this day of trial, the foundation of a work which will
rebound to the honor and prosperity of our noble country.
With much respect, we are truly yours,
C. H. Wiley,
Sup't of Common Schools of N. C.
J. D. Campbell,
Editor of N. C. Journal of Education,
Willis J. Palmer,
Prin N. C. Inst. Deaf, Dumb and Blind,
Executive Committee.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
How
shall we Feed our People?
Mr. Editor: The subject of
provisions for our city is becoming more and more important.
Our city authorities, in looking at it, thought best to request the
railroads to refuse to carry any out. This,
so far as rice is concerned, may do good; but it is questionable whether we have
anything else. For the past few
days it has been difficult to buy bacon to supply families in this city, and
many persons could not find corn meal, even in small quantities; so the shipment
of these articles need not be prohibited.
But this is not the difficulty, the evil is this:
The retailers of provisions have been forced to go or send to the country
for supplies—they have tried to obtain them—have bought some small
quantities, brought them to the depots of the Gulf Road, there to be stopped by
government agents, even small packages and parcels, and there remain, while
soldiers' families and others of the city require them.
It is well for those agents to be diligent in obtaining food for the
army, but surely there is no necessity for stopping food from coming to this
city to feed fifteen thousand inhabitants.
Nor is this intended, but the present practice of railroad agents, and
others, has brought this state of things upon us.
Parties, for the past few days, have sent to points on the Gulf Railroad
for meal to be forwarded by Express to this city, thus trying to supply
immediate necessity. Now is it not
the true and best policy to let some bacon, meal and corn come to Savannah to
supply its inhabitants? The charge
of speculation and extortion, so far as these articles are concerned, has no
application whatever, for there are more of them in the city.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Printing Paper.—The Southern Recorder says:
"Our last bill for printing paper, such as we now use for the
Recorder, was at the rate of $14 per ream.
Of the propriety of raising the price of subscription our readers can
judge, when we state that paper of the same size formerly cost $3, which,
compared to present rates, shows an advance of nearly five hundred per cent.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
A Female Aid-de-Camp.—The Baltimore Clipper says Antonia J. Ford was
the principal spy and guide for Capt. Mosely [sic] in his recent raid on Fairfax
Court House, and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. Slaughter, Wyndham and
others. She was arrested and brought to the Old Capitol Prison on
Sunday last, with $1,000 Confederate money on her person. The following is a copy of her commission:
To all whom it may concern: Know
ye that, reposing special confidence in the patriotism, fidelity and ability of
Antonia J. Ford, I, J. E. B. Stuart, by virtue of power vested in me as
Brigadier General, Provisional Army Confederate States, hereby appoint and
commission her my Honorable Aid-de-Camp, to rank as such from this date.
She will be obeyed, respected and admired by all lovers of a noble
nature.
Given under my hand and seal, Headquarters Cavalry Brigade, at Camp
Beverly, 7th October, 1861, and first year of our Independence.
J. E. B. Stuart.
By the General,
L. T. Bryan, A. A. G.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Golden Spurs to Gen. Lee.—We had the pleasure of examining at the
Jewelry establishment of Mr. John Hill on 14th street, yesterday, a
pair of very magnificent spurs, of solid burnished gold, which were imported
through the blockade, from citizens of Maryland, as a present to General Lee.
They are each engraved, on the inside, with the following inscription:
"Stemulus
Dedit Virtus,
Presented to Gen. Robert E. Lee, by his friends and admirers of Prince
George county, Maryland."
The gift does honor to the patriotism and credit to the taste of the
givers.—Rich. Enq.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Take Care of Your Commas.—A New York paper, in announcing the wreck of
a vessel near the Narrows, says:
The only passengers were T. B. Nathan, who owned three-fourths of the
cargo and the Captain's wife.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, March 27, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Profits of Extortion.—That our readers may have some idea of the
enormous profits now being made by a certain class, we take the following
extract from the Richmond Enquirer of the 3d instant;
For instance—take the Crenshaw Woolen Factory and the Belvidere Paper
Manufacturing Company. Those
concerns were lately examined before a committee of the Virginia House of
Delegates on extortion, and business facts of a startling character were brought
to light.
President Crenshaw deposed on oath, that his company, on a cash capital
of $200,000 had declared and divided a dividend of $530,000, with $100,000
"subject to dividend, should the directors think it desirable."
President Whitfield, of the Paper Mill, deposed on oath, that the net
profits for the year 1860, 1861, and 1862 combined, amounted to $235,750,"
on an "actual capital of $41,000," and he added, that fully
three-fourths of the dividend mentioned above, was made in 1862, or $172,000
profits in one year on $41,000 of actual capital.
A stock-holder of the Belvidere Manufacturing Company informs us that
since the war began he has received dividends on $1,000 of shares, amounting to
$6,460—an amount which he considered, if not extortionary, at least improper,
and he donated [illegible]
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
There is a blanket and hat manufactory now in operation at Jackson, Miss.
The blankets are very superior, being made of wool felted on thin cotton
goods. They seem to be much warmer
than woven blankets, though scarcely as durable.
The hats are quite stylish, and will wear till a man tires of them.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Rags!
Rags!
We desire to purchase any quantity of clean linen and cotton rags, to be
made up into paper, and we are willing to pay the highest market price in cash. They will also be received in payment of all dues to this
office.
Will our subscribers everywhere interest themselves in this subject.
Every family can save a good supply of rags during the year, just how few
do it even when such economy can be made productive.
It has now become a question of life or death with the newspapers of the
country, and they must go down if the people do not come to the rescue.
To save the Press they have only to save their rags.
All parcels forwarded to this office will be faithfully weighed and
accounted for. Let all send what
they can—even small packages will not be despised.
Let the children do it, if the grown people are too much engrossed with
the war or scheme of speculation.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Camp Near Petersburg, Va.
April 2d, 1863.
. . . P.S.—Pardon me, Mr. Editor, for adding to this already lengthy
letter, but an incident occurred in my company, since writing the above, which
will not only interest the friends of the "Decatur Guards" but the
public generally. Gambling, to some
extent, 'Kenos,' 'Rouletts,' 'Feather and Anchor,' 'Chuckaluck,' 'Mexico,'
'Flying Jinny,' 'Seven up,' 'Poker,' and other games common in the army, was
practiced by members of my company. I
tried to devise some means to break up the vicious practice, so far as my
company was concerned; but there was no law or regulation forbiding [sic] it.
I at length resolved to appeal to their pride as gentlemen.
I asked all who would pledge themselves to refrain from gambling and use
their influence in assisting me to put down the vice, to bring their guns to an
order at the command. Every gun
came down with a clang that showed how deeply in earnest they were. Only two hesitated for a single instant, and one of these had
been part owner of a 'Keno'—a Texas gambling machine.
My heart felt lighter than it had for months.
I was unspeakably happy, for it had been my pride and boast that mine was
one of the most moral companies in the service.
There is not a bad man in it. I
would that as much could be said of all Georgia troops.
V.A.S.P.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
A Dusky Volunteer.—A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing
from the camp of the Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, relates the following:
Some weeks ago, a young man came to camp and proposed to volunteer.
He was accepted, there being nothing in his physical appearance to
indicate the singular denouement which followed six weeks afterwards.
While on drill he was recognized and claimed as a runaway slave.
He enlisted by the name of Solomon Vernoy; but after his arrest owned up
to be nick named Pieg, and being a runaway.
He says that he has a boss, but that "by right" he is free. He says that his mother was a domesticated Indian, who was
unlawfully sold into slavery, and run off from Kentucky.
His looks do not indicate the African, and if he gets a good lawyer and
sues for his "by rights," there will be a pretty law suit, since the
master will have to rebut the presumption of color by proof.
He must, at least, admire the patriotism of Vernoy, or Pieg, as the case
may be.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Blackberry Wine.—The following is said to be an excellent receipe [sic]
for the manufacture of superior wine from blackberries:
Measure your berries and bruise them, to every gallon adding one quart of
boiling water; let the mixture stand twenty four hours; stirring occasionally;
then strain off the liquor into a cask, to every gallon adding two pounds of
sugar; cork tight, and let stand till following October, and you will have wine
ready for use, without any further straining or boiling, that will make lips
smack as they never smacked under similar influence before.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
A celebrated philosopher used to say, "The favors of fortune are
like steep rocks; only eagles and creeping things mount to the summit."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 8, 1863, p. 2, c, 1
Sassafras Blossom a Substitute for Green or Black Tea.—If the blossom
of the sassafras (which will now soon be in full bloom,) be gathered and dried
in the shade, be used in making tea, instead of the root, it will be found an
excellent substitute for tea, which now sells at from twelve to fifteen dollars
a pound. By many who have tried it, it is pronounced to be a most
delicious and palatable beverage. Why
should not some of our country friends try it and send some to this place, as
well as the large quantity of the root, which finds a ready sale at remunerating
prices, it might be found to be a useful article in the Hospitals, as also in
the army and would, consequently, command ready sale.
It will cost but little time and labor to try it.—Examiner.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Passports are now issued in Augusta at 25 cents each—the proceeds to be
handed over to the Augusta Purveying Association for the benefit of the city
poor. This is a good idea.
No one will refuse to pay the amount where so much good can be
accomplished by it. We hope to see
the same rule adopted here.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
An Item for the Northern Press.—The Lynchburg Republican says that in
the interior of some of the Southern States flour is so scarce that children
three and four years old have never seen biscuits.
The father of a family being on a visit to Savannah, took home with him
some biscuits for his boys, aged three and five years old.
Observing the eldest with a coal of fire on the top of his biscuit, he
asked him what it meant. "To
make the darned critter poke his head out," answered the boy, "that's
the say, dad to make terripins [sic] crawl."
The father laughed a hearty haw, haw, and left.
It is to be hoped this contraband news will not reach the enemy, whom it
would greatly rejoice.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Dangerous Feminine Amusement.—A new amusement for women has been
invented out in Winstead, Connecticut, as a sort of relief to the skating fever,
when the ice is bad. They stick a
penknife into a door about three feet from the ground, and kick at it; if they
hit it they take it out and stick it in higher up.
This was getting to be a favorite exercise, and a good many girls could
kick pretty high. But the amusement
has come to a sudden end through an accident to a young married lady of the
lace, who, at the first vigorous kick, went over backwards upon the floor,
injuring herself severely.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
One grain of corn in the earth is as a bullet in the heart of a Yankee
soldier; and a ridge of potatoes is worth any mile of breastwork from Vicksburg
to the Rappahannock.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Augusta papers, in consequence of the uncertainty of procuring
supplies of paper, owing to the destruction of the Bath paper mills, have
determined, for the present, to furnish their paper at the rate of $5 for two
months, and have fixed the rate of advertising at $2 per square of ten lines.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Theatre.
Thursday evening, April 9.
Overture to the Crown Diamonds.
To commence with
the Farce of
State
Secrets.
Southern Girl's
Song
Miss Laura.
Music
By the Palmetto Band.
To conclude with
the Melo Drama (for the last time) of
The
Scouts; or, the Plains of Manassas.
Written by Prof. J.
H. Hewitt, and performed in Augusta and Richmond with the greatest success.
In rehearsal the Nautical melo-Drama of "Black Eyed Susan."
Box Office open daily from 10 to 12.
Admission to the Dress Circle and Parquette, $1; Second Tier, 50 cents; Gallery,
25 cents. Private Boxes, $5 to $10.
Tickets for sale at the Hotels, Music and Book Stores.
Doors open at 7 ¼ o'clock; to commence at 8.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Amazonians.—On Thursday and Friday last, feeble outbreaks of females
armed with pistols and bowie knives, headed by a few vagabonds, were made in
Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus, in this State, for the purpose of helping
themselves to merchandize at what they considered fair prices—all of which
were promptly suppressed by the proper authorities.
The Columbus Sun, alluding to the affair in that city, says:
This is some of the legitimate fruits of what Gov. Brown is pleased to
call "impressments" for the benefit of the people!
It began in this State with that functionary, two years ago, in Atlanta,
or other markets in Georgia, where salt was selling at ten and twelve dollars
per sack, and has culminated in just such riots and lawless outbreaks as we
witnessed in Columbus this morning.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Jacksonville.—The editor of the Lake City Columbian paid a visit to
Jacksonville, and gives the following account of the destruction of that town by
the Abolitionists:
Probably about one-third of the town was destroyed by the fires set by
the enemy. A heavy rain and the efforts of the few citizens remaining,
with the heavy aid of our troops as soon as they reached town, extinguished the
flames in many of the buildings. Of
the Churches, but two were burned—the Episcopal and the Catholic.
The residence of the late Judge Pearson, and another dwelling near the
former, was destroyed. Around the Catholic Church, pretty much all the buildings for
the space of two blocks, were consumed. The
Washington Hotel and the former residence of Mrs. Foster, and all for the space
of two blocks in their rear, were destroyed with the exception of Mr. Hern's
house on the upper corner. The
Court House and Jail were consigned to the flames.
The four stores in the two-story brick block on Ocean street, north of
Hoeg & Ambler's block, were entirely destroyed. On Bay street, the following buildings were totally consumed:
Bisbee & Canova's block, T. O. Holmes' block, Mr. Kipp's house, Mr.
Bisbee's, Judge Dorman's, Dr. Baldwin's, and the four brick stores below Hoeg
& Ambler's owned by Messrs. Canova, Blackwell and Miller; also a brick store
near, on the street running north. On
the hill above the late Judson House, the buildings were entirely swept away,
including the residences of Messrs. Geo. R. Foster, Emery, Gibbs, Fairbanks and
several others whose names are unknown to us.
In fact, from the railroad Depot to Mrs. Haddock's place, (a distance of
two miles,) there is not a building of any description left standing; even the
brick church being burned and the brickyard destroyed.
Besides this, an almost irreparable injury has been done to Jacksonville
by the destruction of her beautiful shade trees. It was evidently the intention of the villains to destroy the
whole town; but as usual, in their infamous and cowardly undertakings, they only
partially succeeded.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
All
Right Again.
A few days since it was a problem whether the Republican would continue
its regular visits to its large list of subscribers or not.
The destruction of the paper mill from which we drew our supplies,
rendered the prospect gloomy indeed. We
are gratified, however, to be able to inform our readers that we have succeeded
in contracting permanently for ample supplies of paper, and have reason to
believe that we shall be subjected to no interruption during the war.
Our arrangements, however, involve necessarily a large additional
expenditure of money, and we shall be compelled to increase our prices in order
to meet it. Our new terms will be
published as soon as they can be definitely settled, and we trust to our
subscribers to sustain us in a movement dictated purely by the necessities of
the times.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
More More.—We learn from the Raleigh Progress that a number of women,
most of them very abandoned, collected at Greensboro' the early part of this
week and intended to make a mob demonstration similar to that at Richmond and
other places, but by the promptness of the authorities, the contemplated
disgraceful proceedings were frustrated.
We are informed also, (says the Progress) that an attempt was made by a
number of "hard cases" at Durham's Depot, on Wednesday.
They threatened to break open the warehouse at that place and help
themselves to flour, and even had carts there to take off the flour, but they
concluded after demonstration, to put it off until Saturday.
In both cases, we learn, the women represented themselves as soldiers'
wives, but in fact most of them were not, but on the contrary the most degraded
and worthless characters that could be congregated in the neighborhood from
whence they came. Profligate,
unprincipled men, too, we are assured were hounding them on in each case.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Different sounds will travel with different velocity—a call to dinner
will run over a ten acre lot in a moment and a half, while a summons to work
takes from five to ten minutes.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Among other incidents of the battle of Murfreesboro', we heard of one the
other day, in which a soldier observed a rabbit loping across the field under a
heavy fire. "Run, cottontail," he said, "If I hadn't got a
reputation to sustain, I'd travel too!"
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.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Woman's
Mission and Ministrations.
There is no country in the civilized world where quite the same devotion
is paid to woman as in our own sunny domain.
There is no land where woman, occupying in society her own appropriate
place, deserves and receives a more unqualified homage, or exerts a more general
and potent influence. Our present
struggle for civil liberty and the heroism of Southern women were not necessary
to our high appreciation of the sex. We
were taught to love and to honor glorious womanhood as one of the attributes,
and one of the evidences of true nobility in man.
But never did woman furnish such illustrious proofs of worth, goodness
and greatness, to demonstrate how much she merited our devotion, as in this
glorious struggle for home and country the women of the South have shown!
As if to inspire us with a new creation of virture [sic]—as if to
exhibit new phases of loveliness—to enthrone the sex in the holy places of our
affections—to impress the public mind with a new sense of their worth—to
exhibit to the world the highest attributes of character—to cheer the
brave—to soothe the sick—to minister to the wounded—to endure labor—to
incur danger—to despise ease and luxury—to make unwonted sacrifices—to
surrender, at the altar of liberty, those dearer than life—still to utter the
words sacred to patriotism, "let us defend the country, or
perish!"—to ply all human agencies, and to call on God for help—to
astonish our enemies, and interest the gazing world with a devotion as holy, a
courage as sublime, as ever marked the great characters of history, the women of
the South have gone forth to cheer, to save, to comfort, and to bless!
It is not affirming more than simple truth to say, without their aid our
struggle could not have been maintained. Their
influence and their ministrations have saved the country—By their efforts, in
large part, the troops have been clothed and warmed.
They have blessed the sick and restored the sinking in the hospitals. They have nerved the arm and inspired the courage of the
soldier in the shock of battle. For
them we feel we are enacting the deeds of glorious manhood. To them the dust-stained, toil-worn veteran looks for the
laurel wreath when the battle is won. To
the sanctity of home and the purity of the domestic circle the patriot looks for
the safety, glory and strength of the country.
With the help of God, they must save the country, if it is saved; they
must purify it, if it is pure; they must elevate the standard of virtue; they
must frown vice into the hidden recesses of its own shame; they must banish the
extortioner, or mark him for infamy; they must, and they will improve and bless
the world. They are heaven's messengers.
Ever true, kind, merciful, pitying, sympathizing women!
Last to leave the victim on the cross, first to crown triumphant virtue,
and to hail the conquering heroes who drew the sword for truth.
Next to our worship and our supreme reverence for God, is our worship and
our devotion for noble, self-sacrificing woman!
With the aid of such a power, and God's approval, we shall triumph
gloriously, and our country shall yet be free as the eagle that cleaves the sky.
These reflections have been suggested by reading the proceedings of a
convention of some of the matrons of Mississippi, held at Meridian on the 4th
of March, 1862, to organize a "Confederate Soldiers' Aid Society," for
the better accomplishment of the objects suggested by the style of the
association. The army will bless
these ladies, and all those associated with them; and the country will record
their names, and preserve their memory, as among the treasures of its
inheritance.—Mississippian.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Texas Militia.—The Texas Pioneer says Gen. Magruder has ordered that,
if the militia, which have been called for the defense of the State, will
organize into companies, and have their arms, ammunition, equipage, &c.,
boxed and sent to the Ordnance Office at Houston, they may be disbanded and
allowed to return home. They will
be required to muster once a week, in order to go into action whenever called
upon; but the "arrangement is made in the hope and expectation that the
militia will not be called away again from their industrial pursuits."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
State Operations for Clothing the Troops.—Col. Foster's Report under
the $1,500,000 appropriations for clothing the Georgia troops, shows up to the
25th [?] March last he
had issued on requisitions from Confederate Quartermasters, 4,648 hats, 4,556
coats, 5,288 pair pants, 4,858 pair drawers, 5,449 shirts, 6371 socks, 5,744
pairs shoes. He had then on hand
129 hats, 7,273 coats, 9,237 [?] pair pants, 11,867 pair drawers, 10,400 shirts,
1,976 pair socks, 5,878 pairs shoes. Also
12,983 yards osnaburgs, 18,850 yards shirtings, 6,410 yards kersey, 970 yards
duck, 35,068 pounds leather. Expenditures
and contract engagements to date amounted to $1,200,000. If it is intended to clothe the troops during the war he asks
a further appropriation. He has
purchased and is tanning several thousand pounds of green hides, and has sent
agents to Savannah, Vicksburg and Texas to buy hides, leather and wool.
The noble women of Georgia have responded patriotically in furnishing
socks, and they are daily coming in.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Cheap ink.—We write this paragraph with a very black, free-flowing ink
made by boiling in water the bark of the bay or dwarf magnolia, cut into small
pieces. The ink appears to us to be the equal in every respect to any
other we have seen, and is easily made from a material obtainable almost
anywhere in the low country. It
seems as though it would permanently retain its color, at least some writing
done nearly a month ago looks blacker than it did at first.
[Wilmington Journal.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Latest Fashions.—The London Illustrated News, containing the
fashion plates, has arrived through the blockade—from which it would appear
that the costume of the ladies is returning to a simple style.
Hoops are resuming rational dimensions, and the ballroom dress, compared
with the past styles, is almost denuded of adornment.
This change is especially true in relation to street costume.
Trains have entirely disappeared. The
dress falls hardly below the ancle [sic], leaving the whole foot exposed.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The
People of North Carolina
Dismal Swamp.
Dismal Swamp, N. C.,
}
April 21st, 1863.
}
Mr. Editor:--From the above captain you may judge that we have gone
nearly to the "jumping off place."
I never was so near out of the civilized world.
But let this dismal region come in at its proper place.
I will continue the narration of our expedition in order.
The day I last wrote from Gatesville, and after my letter was sealed,
there was enacted, at Col. Cumming's headquarters, one of the most interesting,
comic, and amusing hypodromes recorded in the annals of this war.
In the evening, a dozen or more young ladies from Gatesville visited our
brigade, paying especial honors to the 20th Georgia.
They were neatly and appropriately dressed, and tolerably good looking to
boot, but most of them came out in "go-carts"—a vehicle in common
use in this region. They went by
singing "Wait for the Wagon," &c., and were heartily cheered by
the boys. When they reached Col.
Cumming's headquarters they all descended from their "carriages", and
were entertained by the band and songs by Thad. Murphy—an amusing character
who had gained considerable reputation in comic shows and negro minstrelsy.
Col. C. was pressed to address them, but declined.
The evening passed off pleasantly enough.—When the hour of departure
arrived, the young ladies were in the most gallant manner escorted to their
"go carts"—some drawn by horses, some by mules, but the greater
part, by oxen! One young lady, and a pretty one too, exclaimed "Where's
my carriage?" The "carriage"
drove up and wheeled about for her to get in.
What do you suppose that "carriage" was?
A little two wheeled cart, with a body 3 by 5 feet, and drawn by a little
red two year old bull! Now that's a fact! During
our entire trip through northeastern North Carolina, I have not seen but two
carriages, a half dozen buggies and three sulkies. But I have seen five hundred go-carts! They are fashionable. But
the funniest features of this funny mode of locomotion is that all, male and
female, stand up to drive. The
first time we saw two girls standing up in one of those two wheeled carts busily
plying the whip to the pony between the shafts, there was a universal burst of
laughter from all beholders. But
they became so common as to create no remark; on the contrary, a buggy or sulky
became a matter of some importance, if not of surprise.
The citizens of Gatesville gave an entertainment the same night and
invited the brigade. It was
intended as a supper and ball; but the jealousy and misguided pride of some gold
laced officers broke it up. There
was too large an attendance of privates to suit them, and they determined to
carry the day. The soldiers seeing
what was in the wind, determined to "stick 'em out."
It was little less than a "row"—disgraceful to the brigade.
It is understood that brandy was at the bottom of it.
The next day (Saturday) we passed through Gatesville, on our way to the
"Block House," on Chowan river, distant about twenty miles.
Numerous Secesh flags hung from the windows, and the children cheered for
the "Jeff Davis boys." Gatesville
is rather a pretty town. The Court
House is large, and the churches speak favorably for the morals of the people.
The streets and walks are well shaded, and, with a little attention, it
could be made one of the prettiest towns in the eastern portion of the State.
Fish, eggs, butter, milk, chickens and potatoes were abundant and cheap.
Southwestern Georgia cannot surpass this country in the production of
potatoes. I never saw finer,
sweeter yams. For once I got my
"fill" of eggs and shad.
Two or three hours by sun we halted at an old church, near a large swamp,
and within two miles of the entrenched camps and block houses of the Buffaloes,
but they were gone.—Had we been a day sooner we could have captured the whole possee
comitatus. There was one
company of Massachusetts men and renegades, numbering about one hundred and
fifty. They were in great distress, fearing we would come down upon
them before the transport from the Yankee fleet, off Newbern, I suppose, come to
their assistance. They are said to
have been in despair, and would have surrendered without resistance.
But about three o'clock of the morning we reached them, a transport came
up the Chowan and carried them off. Before
leaving there, they destroyed their block houses.
The Chowan is very wide and deep—capable of floating a vessel of heavy
burden. It affords an abundant supply of the choicest shad, rock,
mullet, perch and pike. The people
are all good livers in this section, and many are wealthy.
Mr. Elliott had stolen from him 55 negroes, and I heard of some farmers
who have lost from 100 to 400.
This class of citizens have been sorely persecuted by the Buffaloes or
renegades. There is a hybrid breed of traitors, called "sawed
horned Buffaloes," because they do not take up arms and engage in open acts
of war, but profess to be friends to whichever party happens to be in power.
They are said, however, to favor the Yankees most, by informing them of
our movements. They bring news to
us also, but their tales are not credited.
On the following day the enemy were reported as having crossed the swamps
by the turnpike and moving towards Gatesville to get in our rear.
In consequence of this report we marched twenty or twenty-two miles by a
circuitous route to Sandy Crossing, where we halted for the night.
The report was exaggerated, only a small scouting party having appeared
at the west end of the pike. At 12
m yesterday we reached the Dismal Swamp turnpike.
The 17th regiment was detailed to guard this pike while the
rest of the command proceeded with the expedition.
It is useless for me to attempt a description of the swamp or the country
in which we are stationed. In the
absence of a map, and my ignorance of the geography, or topography, of the
country, I am at a loss to understand any thing about it.
It is the wildest, strangest country I ever saw.
The sun rises in the south and sets in the north!
The swamp is dark and dismal, and impassable to every creature but bears,
wolves, panthers, et id genus, which are said to be numerous.
In many places a man will sink to his neck in the quagmires.
The water looks as black as tar; the fish are black; every thing except
man is black, and he is swarthy enough. The
people are ignorant beyond anything I have seen in the States.
I have asked every man (citizen) I met the name of the county, and at
last was told by a soldier. He says
it is Perquimon county. It ought to
have been persimmon county. Possum
Scuffle District! Some told me it
was Colmmon co.; some McColmmon; some Gates, Aquamine and Pasquotank. It is positively affirmed that some of the people don't know
that there is a Southern Confederacy. One
family was very anxious to learn how Gen. George Washington is "getting on
with his army!" They have
never heard of Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, or Beauregard! In one precinct near the Dismal Swamp the people, it is said,
vote for Henry Clay at every election! They
think he is running for President. I
think there is a slight mistake here. It
is Jackson—old Hickory—they vote for. Whigs don't live in "sich" a swamp.
Not one half of the people have ever heard of the battle in front of
Richmond—or the last battle of Manassas!
This must be the region from which came the honest "tar
heels"—the victim and source of so much raillery and jest.
The enemy's cavalry pickets are two miles in front of us at the toll
gate, where the pike turns southward towards South Mills.
They destroyed a barn near the gate last night, containing from 300 to
500 barrels of corn. We have one
section of artillery, one company of cavalry, and can hold in check a force of
ten thousand men.
But I am spinning my narrative to too great a length.
Bear with me one moment and I am done for the time.
I know not what direction Gen. Benning will take, nor how long this
regiment will remain here.
We are in total ignorance of what is going on at Suffolk.
Can hear nothing reliable.
It is reported and believed that the Yankees have evacuated Elizabeth
City. We get no papers, and very
few letters. If we stay here long
we will all become "tar heels" or hoosiers.
More anon.
V.A.S.P.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Marriages in the Army—A Caution.—A letter from Raleigh, North
Carolina, contains the following paragraph.
It needs no explanation:
Some of our soldiers who have wives and children at home, have married
again among the Virginia girls. The
sweet, lovely damsels of the Valley and Fredericksburg little think as they take
these gay young gentlemen for "better or for worse" that they have
left other devoted wives and prattling chaps behind.
An instance of this sort "leaked out" a short time ago. A "nice young lieutenant" of a Louisiana regiment
wrote a very long, endearing letter to his wife and children in Louisiana, and
about the same time wrote a most affectionate, loving letter to his newly
married bride, who was staying a few miles away from the camp, and accidentally,
but unfortunately for him, he sent the wrong letter to each, so that his lovely
bride got the letter intended for the wife of his "busum," and she the
other. I guess that made a
"fuss in the family," of not in both families.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Cuffee
in Yankee Harness.
A gentleman who crossed the Mississippi within the last few days brings a
Yankee Circular from which we extract the following rules and regulations
governing work on plantations in Louisiana in the hands of the Federals.—What
with the fines, lost time and bad marks the poor negro will have a small showing
of cash at the close of the year.—Col. Times.
Rules
and Regulations.
1st—We agree to work on this __________ Plantation for one
year, and to do such a day's work as was done in former years.
2d—We will obey the manager in all things, and assist him to enforce
these Rules against all offenders.
3d—Lost time will be deducted. Lazy
work will cause a deduction of wages. Tasks
will be given when possible.
4th—We will go to work at day-light, and will work until
dark, taking the usual number of hours for meals.
For being too late at getting out, ten minutes after the last tap of the
bell, a fine of ten cents. Habitual
laziness, stealing, quarrelling, for breaking any other Rules, expulsion from
the place, with loss of all back wages to the hospital fund.
All fines go to this fund.
5th—All hands will be in their cabins at the last tap of the
bell, and to remain there till the first tap of the bell in the morning, under a
fine of ten cents for each offence.
6th—The wages are one dollar per month for women and boys;
two dollars for field hands, and three dollars for mechanics—or one-twentieth
of the crop; with clothing and rations usually furnished.
7th—Each hand will be responsible for loss of damages to
stock, tools, or other property.
8th—Each family will be allowed half an acre for a garden.
9th—No liquor will be sold or brought on the place by any
one, under a fine of one dollar for the first offence.
Liquor will be kept in the Hospital, and sold for the general fund.
10th—No one will leave the place without a written pass.
11th—We will appear in clean clothes, on every Sunday
morning—fine, ten cents.
12th—All disputes among ourselves will be brought before the
manager, whose decision we will abide by.
13th—During grinding, we will make our usual watch, being
entitled to ten cents each night, and fifty cents for each Sunday's work.
14th—If over five hogsheads of sugar are raised to each
hand, the proprietor will divide five dollars for each hogshead over that
number. The hand who has the
greater number of credit marks and the fewest number of bad marks, will be
entitled to the highest prize ($25.00) with five prizes of $15.00 each, twenty
of $10.00, and the balance will be divided equally among the hands.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Lost,
A Lady's Gold Chatelaine, with a small desk key attached to one end and a
bunch of charms at the other. The
finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving it at this office.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
A
May Party
Will Be Given At
Masonic Hall,
Friday Evening, May 1st, 1863,
Under the Auspices of the
Young Men's Literary Association.
--------
Committee of Arrangements.
D. G. Purse,
John McConaughy,
M. J. Doyle,
John Ryan,
Lewis Lippman,
Martin Duggan,
John C. Duggan,
L. McSor_ey,
E.
H. Smith.
Tickets of Admission may be obtained from the Committee only.
A limited number will be disposed of and none sold at the door.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
A Worthy Deed.—The Augusta Manufacturing Company, through their
President, Wm. E. Jackson, Esq., have generously allowed ten bales of sheetings
and shirtings of their manufacture to be taken to Lake City, Fla., to be sold to
the families of sick and disabled soldiers, and families of soldiers in the
service, at a small advance on cost. It
will enable very many families, whose means are limited, to obtain the goods at
less than half the rates charged by merchants.
Such acts of kindness should not pass unnoticed in these days of high
prices, and this is recorded with the hope that the example may be followed by
many who are able to come to the relief of the needy in this time of trial.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Georgia Buttons.—We have before us a liberal sample of bone and wooden
buttons, from the Macon Button Factory, which has sprung into existence and is
prospering under the auspices of our enterprising fellow-townsman, Mr. C. W.
Brunner. H had no machinery, models, tools or other implements except
of his own invention, to commence with, and not a man connected with the
establishment has ever before been inside of a button factory.—The company
have not six machines in operation, which turn out from 30,000 to 40,000 buttons
per day. The specimens on our table
are strong and excellent in every respect, a slight polish being all that is
necessary to make them complete. It
is through the agency of these small beginnings that we are becoming a free and
independent people as well as by our arms.
The company are in need of bones in large quantities.
See advertisement in this issue.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Famine
at the South.
In spite of all the efforts of Confederate journals North and South to
conceal the fact, or deprive it of importance, no doubt remains that very
serious bread riots have taken place in Richmond and other southern towns.
In these riots the women have been the leaders; and that fact alone
proves that absolute hunger must have been the cause of them. Women do not get up street riots, break open provision shops,
and pillage bakeries and flour stores from political sympathies, nor from
resentment against high prices. When
their children are in peril of starvation, they become capable of anything. Nothing
short of that extremity can have provoked the demonstrations admitted by the
Rebel papers to have taken place in Richmond, in Raleigh, in Salisbury and many
other Southern towns.
In each of these cases the rioters were women—"mostly soldiers'
wives," say the North Carolina papers, that give account of the latest
transactions. And these papers, more honest than those at Richmond,
candidly admit that the women were prompted by hunger, their spirit sharpened,
perhaps, by "hatred against speculators."
The women armed themselves with hatchets and axes, broke upon stores that
were not willingly opened to them, and took barrels of salt, flour and molasses,
which they had hauled to the market house and divided equally between those who
needed it. This was a real hunger
riot, and no cloak for indiscriminate robbery, as pretended in Richmond.
The Raleigh, N.C., Standard, in giving an account of it, exclaims with
feeling, and with despair: "Bread
riots have commenced, and where they will end God only knows."
We do not wish nor expect to create hopes of advantage over the rebellion
by the mere representations of scarcity of provisions in the South.
The best reliance—as it is, indeed, the only one—that a wise and
powerful government should have, is the arm of military power delivering
irresistible blows upon the enemy in the field.
But it is certainly sound policy to consider the physical condition of
the enemy we are contending with, and take advantage of any moment of weakness
and exhaustion that may come upon him. That
time with the Rebels we surely believe is now.
We have cumulative evidence that a scarcity of food never before
paralleled exists in the South, that is weakening the Rebel army, disturbing the
Rebel rulers, and upturning the most inveterate traditions and usages of
Southern society. This is the time,
then, to press our armies upon the enemy, and still further disturb and
disorganize his agriculture. Two
months hence it may be too late. He
may have then harvested his crops and passed the point of famine.—N. Y. Times.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, April 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
May
Day.
This day having been observed from time immemorial, in our city, as a
holiday, no paper will be issued from this office to-morrow—Should news of
importance arrive previous to our next day of publication, it will be
communicated in the form of a slip, or extra.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
A Remedy for Small Pox.—The German Reformed Messenger has received a
letter from a friend in China, in which it is stated that a great discovery is
reported to have been recently made by a surgeon of the English army in China,
in the way of an effectual cure for small pox.
The mode of treatment is as follows:
When the preceding fever is at its height, and just before the eruption
appears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil and tartar emetic ointment.
This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body,
to the relief of the rest. It also
secures a full and complete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from
attacking the internal organs. This
is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the English army in China
by general orders and is regarded as a perfect success.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Theatre—An entirely new play, of the patriotic type, from the pen of
Mr. Hewitt, will be presented to-night. Those
who have read it in manuscript speak very highly of its merits.
The leading parts will be sustained by Miss Fanny, Master James and
Master Andrew.
A new son, entitled "All is quiet along the Savannah to-night,"
the words by Miss Sinclair, and music by Mr. Koenigsburg, will be sung by Miss
Laura. The entertainment will, no doubt, draw a full house.
It will be seen that Mr. Waldron, whilst putting money in his own purse,
is not unmindful of other objects which have claims on all who are able to aid
them. He has set apart to-morrow
(Tuesday) night for the benefit in behalf of the Savannah Wayside Home, an
institution which is doing much for the relief and comfort of our traveling
soldiers. Let our citizens see to
it that not a vacant seat or standing place is left in the house.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
An Editor's Climax Capped.—The senior editor of the Charleston Courier
has been adding to his personal comeliness and comfort for the Summer, by the
presentation, from a lady, of a beautiful palmetto hat, of her own manufacture. The example is a good one, and worthy of imitation.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Dr. E. H. Norwood, of Whitesville,
Ga., says that a strong decoction of Sassafras roots will remove lice and vermin
from all animals—including those cases for which fine tooth combs were
formally [sic] used.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
[From the Mobile Advertiser and Register, 1st inst.]
The
Yankee Raid in Mississippi
The recent Yankee incursion in Mississippi is still the object of much
speculation as regards its real object and the numbers composing it. . . .
At Starksville they took from the stores such articles as they desired.
They visited most of the houses, appropriating the watches, jewelry and
money. They did not visit the Court
House at all. They stated there and
at other places that this was but an advance guard, but that in two or three
weeks an army was coming that would make a clean sweep, and that they would burn
every house in Columbus. . . .
It was supposed that a portion left Starkville to destroy the buildings
of the Mississippi Manufacturing Company at Bankston, in Choctaw county; but
they did not go there. They,
however, captured a team and wagon load of hats going from the factory to
Columbus. The hats they distributed amongst the negroes who were with
them, and took the team long with them.
They compelled a great many negroes to go with them, but a great many are
returning to their homes, and they say the rest will return as soon as they can
escape.
They took all the good horses and mules, money, jewelry and silver-ware
they could find. At one house in
Lowndes county, a portion stopped and called for milk.
This was handed them in fine cut-glass goblets, which, when they had
drunk the milk, they dashed to pieces on the ground.
A squad stopped at one house and demanded dinner.
The lady replied, "not a mouthful." They tried to persuade her without effect; for she would not
cook for men acting as they were. They
said, "You may think us bad, but we ain't nothing; for you'll see hell
along here in a few weeks!" When
asked why they did not fight us in an honorable manner, they replied they had
tried that and could not make it work, and were now going to try another plan.
They all admitted they could not subdue us by fighting, but intended to
starve us out. Among other
information picked up from them, it was stated that there is a force of 3,000
negroes in Corinth drilling daily. All the invaders appear to have been from Illinois. . .
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
A correspondent of the Richmond Sentinel says a young lady in Winchester,
Va., went to Milroy to get a permit to buy forage for her father's cow, when the
general asked:
"Are you loyal?"
"Yes," she replied.
He began to write the permit.
"To the United States or the Confederate States?"
"To the Confederate States, of course," she replied.
"Then I shall give no permit. This
infamous rebellion must be crushed."
"Well," said she, "if you can crush it by starving John
Arnold's old cow, do it and be drot to you!"
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
The Flag and Seal at Last.—A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner
proposes to relieve the Congressional Committee on a Confederate Flag and Seal.
He suggests the following, which we approve of till the close of the war,
at least. It is intelligible enough
and simple:
Design—Man paddling his own canoe.
Motto—"D—n England and France."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Grand Ball at Masonic Hall.—We are requested to announce that a Ball
will be given by the Queen Sisters, at Masonic Hall, in about ten days.
It will be a select and grand affair, and would advise ladies to be
prepared in time.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Poppy.—We have a considerable quantity of the seed of this valuable
medicinal herb in hand, which will be cheerfully distributed among those who are
inclined to embark in the production of opiate, a drug much needed in the
Confederacy.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
New Music.—We are under obligation to Messrs. Schreiner & Oxenius,
of this city, for a new piece of music entitled "Gen. Mercer's Grand
March," composed by Mr. Schreiner, and printed in Macon.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
The war upon women—waged only here and there two years ago—is
becoming universal. The stubborn fealty, lofty patriotism, and fiery spirit of
the women of the South, which ought rather to excite a noble admiration and
would do so in a generous foe, only begets persecution from the cowards, which
composed the Yankee army. There is
hardly a gentleman now holding rank in the army of Rosecrans. A consummate scoundrel himself, his officers take pattern
after him, and mostly resemble him. Let
our troops remember, when they go into battle, that they are fighting the
cowards who have persecuted their wives and daughters, robbed, pillaged and
burnt.—Rebel.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
A Female Soldier Boy.—A
young woman, apparently about 17 years of age, attired in military apparel, was
arrested in this city, Tuesday, and lodged in jail, until some satisfactory
information in regard to her can be obtained.
She says that she is a married woman, that she is from Mississippi, and
was with a company stationed near Charleston; and that, having lost her dresses,
she was unable to procure any other clothing than that in which she was attired.
She probably pants for glory, but "seeking the bubble reputation at
the cannon's mouth" doesn't accord with woman's sphere—doesn't suit her
at all. But if girls do take to
britches and guns, woe betide old Uncle Abraham.
He will soon find use for that inevitable Scotch cloak and cap.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Rhode Island Orthography.—A box was sent from Providence, Rhode Island,
recently, with the following address: "John
McPherson, squire, kumpinary C, sekund regiment rode ilan privitears,
Washington, d. ce., Kamp klose to the Wrappanok, an ak wy kreak."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Theatre.—Last night the house was well filled, and the drama of
"Toodles" was well appreciated by an intelligent audience.
Master Andrew sustained the part of Toodles with his usual ability.
The ludicrous farce of "Wanted 1000 Milliners," brought down
the house with laughter. Masters
Oliver and Andrew sustained the leading parts with considerable spirit.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Theatre.—A new piece, "The Jayhawkers", altered from the
popular play of "Jessie Brown, or the Relief of Lucknow", will be
brought forward to-night. Norah
McGhee, whose interesting story we published last year, is the heroine.
It should command a full house.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Personal.—A splendid pic-nic will be given by the ladies of this city
and county to General Forrest and his brave men in the beautiful grove of Mr. W.
R. Smith on Saturday next. An
elegant horse will be presented to the General by the citizens on the occasion.
We are informed the City Council of Rome has presented Mr. J. H. Wisdom,
of Gadsden, Ala., and a former resident of this place, with a beautiful silver
service for giving timely notice of the approach of the Yankees, which he did by
tiding [illegible] miles in a few hours. We are glad the Council paid Mr. Wisdom this well-deserved
compliment—Rome Southerner.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Flag of Truce Letters.—We would state, for the information of persons
who may write to friends abroad, or in the enemy's lines, that no flags of truce
are now allowed on the Georgia or Carolina coast, and all letters should be
addressed via Petersburg, Va., and flag of truce to City Point, and a three cent
piece inclosed [sic] to pay the United States postage.
Letters that have been sent to this office up to the present time have
been forwarded to their destination.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Blacking from China Berries.—The Columbus Sun recommends its readers to
preserve the following recipe:
If you want good blacking, take a half bushel of China berries, and
having them well picked from the stems, put into a kettle, and add three gallons
of water; boil down to one gallon, then strain the liquor, through a sieve, from
the seed and skins, and add as much pine wood (the richer the better) soot as
will make a good black, and it is ready for use.
A point [sic] of good, or a quart of weak vinegar, (or stale beer,) first
mixed with the soot will make it better, and if you add the whole of one egg to
half a gallon of the liquor it will be best and equal to any Yankee blacking.
This blacking costs little besides trouble; and we have seen boots
cleaned with it inferior to none in gloss, and it will not soil a white
handkerchief. Let it stand several
days before you bottle it off.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Macon Button Factory.—In referring to this enterprise some days ago, we
omitted to give deserved credit to Mr. F. W. Maura, a worthy mechanic of Macon,
who invented the entire machinery used in the establishment, and that without
any previous knowledge on the subject.
In addition to the specimens of their work alluded to some days ago, we
have a sample of large wooden buttons, suitable for soldiers' coats, &c.,
which are the best we recollect to have seen.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
At Brownsville, Texas, molasses is selling at 50 cts. per gallon.
Shoes, of good make, eighteen dollars per dozen.
Hats, at the same price.—Domestics, twenty cents per yard.
Two hundred barrels of flour sold at auction at ten dollars and fifty
cents per barrel.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
[From
the New Orleans Era, April 24]
From New Orleans—Great Riot in the Varieties Theatre.
There was an exciting time in the Varieties theatre last night.
The house was crowded, and many ladies were present, as it was a benefit
occasion. The play of Richelieu had
progressed to the conclusion of the first act.
The curtain fell, and quiet reigned throughout the theatre, while without
the elements were at war—the thunder rolling, lightning flashing in the
windows, and the rain pouring down upon the roof.
The orchestra prepared to play as usual, when there was a sudden shout
raised as if by preconcerted signal; the "Star Spangled Banner" was
displayed in the second tier, and a general demand was made for "Hail
Columbia." The orchestra
hesitated, and the demand grew more loud and determined—the excitement
increased—but still the music tarried.
A portion of the audience began to leave, and calls of "come back,
come back;"" let no one leave"—"he is a coward that flies
now"—"we will have 'Hail Columbia'"—mixed with shouts and all
kinds of noises—threats and violent language—conspired to make the scene one
of the most stormy and boisterous we have ever witnessed.
One man who was leaving with a lady stopped to expostulate, saying it was
unjust to call for national airs while there were Confederates in the house; but
he had scarcely spoken the words before he was surrounded by an angry crowd of
Union men, and a struggle ensued in the dress circle, during which we saw a
pistol drawn. This served to
increase the fright among the ladies, and several of them fainted.
Still the orchestra refused to answer the demand.
In the midst of this exciting scene Mr. Baker appeared on the stage.
He was received with applause; and, upon asking what was the meaning of
the demonstration, he was informed by Dr. Dostle that this being a Union city,
the audience were determined that the national airs should be played; that the
theatre had had a prosperous season, and had been patronized by Union people,
and no symbol of the Union had been displayed, or national air played, during
the entire season—and the present company were determined that "Hail
Columbia" should be played before the performance proceeded any further.
To this Mr. Baker answered, that
he held permission from the military authorities and license from the city to
conduct the theatre, and he had received strict authorities to allow nothing of
a political character. "'Tis a
lie, 'tis a lie," from all parts of the house.
That only four weeks since he had received such orders from Captain
Kilborn, and he dare not disregard them; therefore he could not comply with the
demand.
The audience interrupted him with the demand that the national airs
should be played, and would listen to no further reasoning.
Mr. Bowers now appeared on the stage, as also Mrs. Baker, and attempted
to speak, but it was in vain—there appeared to be but one determination on the
part of the majority of the audience then present, and that was Hail Columbia or
a row. Mr. Ives, the mayor's
secretary, now made his appearance and attempted an explanation, to the effect,
that under the orders of the mayor, it was not permitted to play the national
airs. His voice was drowned in a
renewed outburst of vociferations, and he was compelled to withdraw, when an
officer, wearing the uniform of a major (Major Foster, 128th New York
volunteers,) stepped upon the stage from one of the private boxes, and
commanding silence, said he would take the responsibility.
He ordered the orchestra to strike up Hail Columbia, and the order was reluctantly obeyed.
The old tune was greeted with cheer upon cheer; and the Union men having
carried their point, resumed their good humor, and it was announced that their
demands having been satisfied, the play could proceed.
Many of the ladies returned to their seats, and good order again
prevailed, and the play went on.
But we discovered another storm brewing, which we felt must soon burst
with greater fury upon the house than the first.
When Mr. Bowers made his appearance there was much applause from a
portion of the house, which subsided amid hisses from another portion of the
house. He stepped forward to the
footlights and inquired: "What
is the meaning of those hisses?" repeating the question several times
before he was answered, when some one said:
"Because we wished to hiss."
He then said that he would be happy to meet the man who hissed outside,
where they could settle the matter. This
episode caused some hard feelings and harder words, and one gentleman threw his
card upon the stage. Dr. Dostle
quieted any further demonstration at the time by saying:
"Gentlemen, let the play go on, and we can settle all these private
matters tomorrow."
The curtain had fallen on the third act, and the signs of a renewal of
the difficulty were so portentious [sic] that we thought it advisable to see
some ladies, in whose company we were, and who were trembling with fright, out
of the building. When we returned,
loud cries were being made for music; but the musicians, after the first
difficulty, had gathered up their instruments and notes, and skedaddled.
The call was responded to by hoisting the curtain for the fourth act.
The disturbance, however, continued.
The audience were determined not to let the play go on until the
orchestra had responded to their call for Yankee Doodle.—The audience [sic?]
persevered, but the audience out-persevered the actors—still there was no
music. Again were the wails of the
theatre shaken by the shouts of the people, and everything was indeed
"confusion worse confounded."
The noise attracted the provost guard at this juncture, and they entered,
just as a rush was made by several parties for the stage.
One gentleman had got on the stage and struck at Vining Bowers, who drew
a small stage sword which he wore, and throwing up a guard, cried, "Stand
off, sir;" the gentleman at the time appeared to be in the act of drawing a
pistol. The scene of excitement was
now far beyond description, ladies and gentlemen rushing precipitately in fright
from the theatre—the actors and actresses hurrying excitedly around the
stage—people, maddened by passion, rushing forward in a menacing
manner—while the provost guard marched in and at once took possession of the
stage.
The guard having succeeded in establishing some sort of order, Capt.
Davis, of General Bowen's staff, promptly ordered the theatre to be closed.
Lieut. Col. Hopkins empowers
us to say that this order was not authorized—and that the guard could have
restored order without closing the theatre.
Col. Hopkins was at the St. Charles hotel, and hearing of the
disturbance, at once reported it to Gen. Bowen, who issued an order immediately,
and sent it to the theatre to be read to the audience, which order would have
put an end to all further disturbance; but, unfortunately, it did not reach the
theatre until after it had been closed. We
append the order of Gen. Bowen, under which the management of the theatre will
in future be required to conduct the establishment.
There was but one arrest made during the evening, that of a gentleman who
sprang upon the stage during the excitement, and drew his pistol on Bowers, when
that gentleman's sword was drawn, and the person arrested was a Union man. We are happy to be able to state that notwithstanding the
excitement, there were no accidents, and nobody was hurt.
The following is the order of Gen. Bowen, referred to above:
Office of Provost Marshal General, }
Depart'mt of the Gulf (208 Carondelet
street).}
New Orleans, April 22, 1863.
}
Mr. Baker, Manager Theatre:
It is reported that you have declined to cause national airs to be played
at your theatre at the request of the audience, for the reason that you have
been forbidden by the mayor of the city. No
such order can be recognized or held as valid in the presence of the United
States army. You will, therefore,
cause the national airs—Hail Columbia, Star Spangled Banner and Yankee
Doodle—to be played before the audience leave your theatre this evening.
James Bowen,
Brigadier General, P. M. G.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Castor Oil.—We have a small supply of Palma Christi seed at our office,
which we will distribute to such as desire to promote the manufacture of Castor
Oil.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Bread.—Good flour is selling in Augusta from $30 to $40 per barrel,
according to quality. In Savannah
holders are asking from $40 to $80!
This shows why the bakers of Savannah are unable to respond to the
reduction on bread in other cities. Will
none of our merchants bring flour into the city that can be sold at a reasonable
price?
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Fish
Lines.
Cotton and Silk Lines.
For sale by
John H. Deppish,
Gibbons' Range.
Fish
Hooks.
An Assortment of Fish Hooks,
For sale by
John H. Deppish,
Gibbons' Range.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Substitute for Copperas.—To the Ladies:
Copperas is composed of sulphuric acid, or oil of vitriol and iron, and
is called by chemists sulphate of iron. A
better material for dyeing, and the one invariably used by dyers, is called
acetate of iron, and let it stand several days; the vinegar will eat off or
dissolve the rust, and when it ceases to act on the iron, pour off the clear
liquor and use it as you would copperas, and you will find it a much better
article, and cost you nothing.
E. N. Elliott, Chemist.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Flag
Presentation.
Isle of Hope, May 15, 1863.
Editor Republican:--A beautiful battle flag was presented to the 1st
Volunteer Regiment, at the [illegible] the Isle of Hope, by the Ladies
[illegible] on the afternoon of the [illegible].
Lieut. Col. [illegible] D. Capers, of the 12th Battalion,
represented the Ladies, and in a most chaste and eloquent address, in which the
Colonel eulogised most appropriately the heroism and devotion of the women of
the Confederacy, he entrusted to the keeping of the Regiment this "insignia
of honor, justice and truth."
The flag was received by Maj. Martin Ford.
The Major's reply was full of ardent patriotism and his eloquent energy.
His address to the Color Guard was especially appropriate and closed a
most interesting day for all present.
An Oglethorpe.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Gen. Gustavus W. Smith.—We are gratified to learn that this
distinguished gentleman has been appreciated in Georgia and assigned to the
control of an important interest. He
has been chosen President of the Etowah Iron Mining Company, in Bartow county,
who have one among the finest works of the kind in the country.
It is said, and we believe correctly, that, in order to secure his
valuable services, the Company transferred to him stock to the amount of
$25,000, besides voting him an annual salary of $7,000.
We congratulate the Etowah Company on their good fortune in securing such
superior scientific acquirements and business qualifications in the direction of
their important interest.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Direct
Importation from Paris.
F. Gradot
Has just received from Paris the following
articles:
Ladies' and Misses'
Corsets, Ladies and Gentlemen's Kid Gloves, Ladies' and Misses' Congress
Gaiters, &c., Ribbons, Velvet, Silk, Crape, Flowers, Dotted Lace, Illusion
Blonde Lace, Black Pointe de Laine Lace Shawls, Thread Lace Veils, Fancy Soap,
and many other goods too numerous to mention.
F. G. informs the Ladies and Customers that his invoice of Shoes is to be
sold at Mr. L. Robider's store, Broughton street.
All these goods are now ready for inspection.
118 Broughton Street.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Smoking Tobacco.—Mr. M. Molina has presented us with a bag of the
"Zarona Smoking Tobacco," a new brand just put upon the market by
Messrs. Marshall & Thornton, of Richmond, Va.
It is handsomely prepared, free from stems, and a friend who is a veteran
at the pipe (we don't smoke) pronounces it a perfect solace.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Wool
Hats.
The undersigned has on hand a supply of coarse Wool Hats, substantial and
durable, lined and bound with homespun, which he will sell by the case or by the
dozen. Send in your orders soon, as
wool hats are bound to go up, owing to the great advance in the price of wool
and other material.
J. A. Turner,
Eatonton, Ga.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Brandon, Miss., May 16.—Five gentlemen who rode to Jackson to-day, and
traversed the place while there, report that the city was evacuated by the enemy
about two o'clock. They are
supposed to number about 40,000, and they retreated in the direction of
Vicksburg. Firing was heard by the party in that direction, and they
suppose Pemberton was in their rear.
Before leaving Jackson, the enemy burnt the Confederate House, the
railroad depots, Green & Phillip's factories, Storm's foundry, Lenoir's hat
factory, together with a block of buildings on State street, including the
Medical Purveyor's and other government offices.
Both bridges over Pearl river were destroyed, together with several miles
of railroad track.
It is reported in Mobile that some of this burning was done by the
Confederates before they retired. The
Confederate House was burned by the proprietors.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
The
Spoils.
Although Hooker crossed the river without baggage, the spoils of the
battle field have proved unusually valuable.
Already fifty thousand muskets and rifles have been picked up and
secured, and are being sent to Richmond by rail.
The quantity of great coats, knapsacks and rations, thrown away by the
enemy, exceeds anything that has occurred during the war.—Richmond Examiner,
15th.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The flag presented to the First Regiment, alluded to in our paper a day
or two since, was the handiwork of the lady of our worthy fellow citizen, A. N.
Miller, Esq. We were in error in stating that it came from the ladies of
Savannah. It was her own work, and
solely the gift of this patriotic lady.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
The Late Fire at Richmond.—The large fire at Richmond on Friday last,
and of which telegraphic announcement was made in these columns, is thus alluded
to by the Richmond Dispatch:
"The large fire of Friday morning, which destroyed the Crenshaw
Woolen Manufacturing Mill and part of the Tredegar Iron Works, was the most
serious that has occurred in the South since the war.
But it is gratifying to know that, though the woolen mill cannot now be
restored, there is no irreparable injury done to the iron works.
The delay that may occur in the completion of some unfinished work for
the Government will be of no consequence. It
is probable, indeed, that nothing that is now needed will be delayed at all.
The works have been of so much public service that this assurance is
quite gratifying. The Crenshaw
Mills furnished [illegible] to the Government; but, of course, means will be
taken to get it from other sources. The
fire happens at a period of the year that gives ample time before the next
inclement season for the Government to make all necessary arrangements for this
purpose."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 21, 1863, p. 1. c. 2-5 [Summary:
splendid letter from Mahone's Brigade, describing battle of
Chancellorsville]
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Save the Rose Leaves.—Rose leaves, says the Southern Cultivator, are
extensively used in the manufacture of blue pills, and are in great demand for
preparing this valuable medicine. The
gardens of city and country now abound in roses, and we are sure that the ladies
will see to it that the leaves are made to subserve this purpose of utility.
Surgeon J. J. Chisholm, of the Medical Purveying Department, in Columbia,
S. C., invokes the aid of the ladies in collecting a supply, and we trust our
lady readers everywhere will heartily respond to the call.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
The Arrest of Miss James.—The following is a copy of the letter to Miss
James, of Baltimore, intercepted by the Federals, and upon which she is
imprisoned in the Baltimore jail:
Richmond, Va., March 15, }
Tuesday Noon. }
My Dear Fannie:--Your letters have just been received, and the pleasure
it gave us you cannot imaging. Harry
was perfectly delighted with his uniform. The
goods you spoke of in your last have been received, and were a perfect God send. The quinine and liquor were very much needed.
Those I presented to our Government as you desired, and the other things
were sold at cost. Will you please forward goods to the amount of the enclosed
order immediately? We have great
demands for several items in the list, as they are needed by our Government, and
knowing your promptness in filling all such orders, we can rely on your
dispatching the goods at the earliest possible moment.
I received the carte de visite of _____, whom you suspect as a
spy, and have given it to our authorities.
There will be a strict eye on him.
*
*
*
They request me to tell you, Fanny, to keep quiet, and don't let them
have anything on you, as you can do much more for us, where you are; and if they
should find you out, why—take the Yankee oath three times a day if they wish
it, just before every meal. You
have taken many a bitter dose of medicine, and it won't taste a bit worse than
the rest.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Miss Fanny C. James, daughter of Mr. John James, of Baltimore, has been
arrested in that city and committed to the Baltimore jail to be tried by the
civil authorities under the treason act of Maryland, under the charge of giving
aid and comfort to the rebels, in corresponding with a lady friend in the South.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
From
Jackson.
The following letter to the Mobile Register, dated Jackson, 6th,
shows that the citizens were not altogether unprepared for the enemy's advance,
and had time to remove a great many valuables:
Jackson, May 6, 1863.
The people are leaving Jackson in numbers.
The trains for the interior are crowded with non-combatants, and the
sidewalks blocked up with cases, barrels, old fashioned trunks and chests, which
look antiquated enough to have come out of Noah's ark.
One doesn't see the rosy, laughing faces of young girls upon the streets
now. Only here and there is a
crinoline to be met with. Sunday
before last the churches were radiant with an array of beauty which the world
could not surpass; but now, alas! the
encroaching outposts of the enemy are within our country, and our women are
wisely fleeing before their polluting approach. . .
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Save the Rose Leaves.—Rose leaves, says the Southern Cultivator, are
extensively used in the manufacture of blue pills, and are in great demand for
preparing this valuable medicine. The
gardens of city and country now abound in roses, and we are sure that the ladies
will see to it that the leaves are made to subserve this purpose of utility.
Surgeon J. J. Chisholm, of the Medical Purveying Department, in Columbia,
S. C., invokes the aid of the ladies in collecting a supply, and we trust our
lady readers everywhere will heartily respond to the call.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
The Arrest of Miss James.—The following is a copy of the letter to Miss
James, of Baltimore, intercepted by the Federals, and upon which she is
imprisoned in the Baltimore jail:
Richmond, Va., March 15, }
Tuesday Noon.
}
My Dear Fannie:--Your letters have just been received, and the pleasure
it gave us you cannot imagine. Harry
was perfectly delighted with his uniform. The
goods you spoke of in your last have been received, and were a perfect God send. The quinine and liquors were very much needed.
Those I presented to our Government as you desired, and the other things
were sold at cost. Will you please forward goods to the amount of the enclosed
order immediately? We have great
demands for several items in the list, as they are needed by our Government, and
knowing your promptness in filling all such orders, we can rely on your
dispatching the goods at the earliest possible moment.
I received the carte de visite of ________, whom you suspect as a
spy, and have given it to our authorities.
There will be a strict eye on him.
*
*
*
They request me to tell you, Fanny, to keep quiet, and don't let them
have anything on you, as you can do much more for us where you are; and if they
should find you out, why—take the Yankee oath three times a day if they wish
it, just before every meal. You
have taken many a bitter dose of medicine, and it won't taste a bit worse than
the rest.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cargo Sale.—Messrs. LaRoche & Bell, Wednesday last, sold the cargo
of the steamer President and others from Nassau.
The following prices were realized:
Turk's Island Salt, 53 to 85 cents per pound; Coffee, $3 to $3.60 per
pound; Copperas, 75 cents to $1 per pound; Morphine, $23 per oz., Quinine,
$23.50 to $25 per oz; Saltpetre, $2.15 per lb; Carb. Soda, $2.55 per pound;
Cream Tartar, $1 per pound; Epson Salts, $1.25 per pound; Nails, $90 per keg;
Matches, $12 per gross; Blankets, $19 per pair; Cotton Cards, $26 to $30 per
pair; Prints, wide and narrow, $1.75 to $2.50 per yard; Ladies' Gaiters, $19.50
per pair; Misses; Gaiters, $14 per pair; Men's English Sewed Shoes, $14.50 per
pair; Letter Paper, $45 to $50 per ream; Green Tea, $7 per pound; Ladies' Hose,
$25 to $45 per dozen.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Choice Family Groceries.—E. Ehrlich—whose family grocery at the
corner of Jones and Barnard streets, has established a reputation throughout the
city as "The Store" where everything the times can furnish are always
at hand—advertises in to-day's Republican a variety of most acceptable
groceries just added to his stock; among which will be found Crosse &
Blackwell's "Chow-Chow," which for some time had almost become
forgotten, together with other good things with which the knowing ones will at
once provide themselves. Give him
an early call.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Released.—We are happy to record the arrival at this place of Mrs. Mary
Samuel, her two daughters and son, who have recently been released from
confinement in the bastille of the North, where they were subjected to treatment
of the most brutal and outrageous character.
Mrs. Samuel and her daughters were arrested on the first of February, and
her son was seized by the United States authorities on the 1st of
January, 1863. They were dragged
from their home in Nashville, while peacefully attending to their legitimate
business, and without trial and upon a mere suspicion of disloyalty to the
United States government, were incarcerated at Camp Chase, Ohio, for three
months. They were afterwards transferred to Columbus, and from thence
to Washington, D. C. At each of
these places they experienced the worst of ill usage, poor fare, miserable
accommodations, deprived of all clothing excepting such apparel as they wore,
insulted by insolent and depraved soldiery, and made the objects of every
indignity.
While in Washington, Mrs. Samuel had a guard stationed in her chamber
night and day, and they were paraded in company with others three successive
days through the streets of the city to induce the belief that new lots of
prisoners had at each time arrived.
The family is destitute. Every
thing valuable, money, clothes, jewelry—all has been taken.
They have come to cast their destiny among us rather than dwell with a
people lost to every feeling of honor and humanity.—Atlanta Confederacy.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Moss Rope.—Among the articles of domestic manufacture which the
necessities of the times has produced, is moss rope, pronounced by those who
have used it superior to cotton, and almost, if not quite equal to hemp.
We saw a bale of this kind of rope yesterday, made by Messrs. Segure
& Bryars, of Union Springs, Ala., who design to go largely into its
manufacture. It was made from the
moss so common throughout the Gulf States, and appeared to be strong and
durable. As it will not be affected
by the weather, it will serve an excellent purpose for baling cotton. We understand it can be manufactured for much less than the
cost of common hemp rope.
[Montgomery Advertiser.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
[From
the Brandon, Miss., Republican]
The Yankee Occupation of the City of Jackson—
Terrible Destruction of Property.
In order to ascertain the amount of damage done by the Yankees during
their forty-eight hours occupation of the city of Jackson, we went over and took
a careful survey of the place yesterday morning, and give below the result of
our observations. We could not get
a complete list of the property burned and otherwise destroyed owing to great
confusion in the city. The
following buildings were burned:
Green's Cotton Factory, together with all the machinery, 300 bales of
cotton, and all the buildings connected with the factory, Phillips' factory, and
all the small buildings connected therewith, J. A. Stevens' foundry, Bailey's
cotton shed, containing a large quantity of tar, lime, cement, &c., Catholic
Church and parsonage, Mrs. Bakewell's house, and contents; Confederate House,
together with furniture &c., Railroad depot, and all the buildings
immediately west and south of the same; State penitentiary, with all the
machinery; flouring mill, near Phillips' factory, all the houses on State
street, from Shaw's store to
Graves' corner, including Green's Banking House; Ambrozier's grocery, Allen
& Legon's store, and Grave's large brick building, with a number of small
intervening houses; all the houses on the south side of Pearl street from State
street to the Mississippi Baptist office, including the Confederate
Quartermaster's office; a number of sheds or were houses, near the old old depot
of the Southern Railroad, containing an immense quantity of cotton, sugar,
molasses, &c., and a number of old cars, belonging to both railroads, all
the houses in front of the City Hall, and Market house, except Mrs. Sanders'
boarding house and one or two small shops, Lemley's hat factory, Robinson's
warehouse, General Freeman's dwelling house, all the buildings belonging to the
fair grounds, rope factory and salt petre works; the railroad and city bridges
across Pearl river, and all the bridges and trestle work on the Southern Railroad for several miles; all shops where government work
was being carried on. All the
stores in the city were pillaged, their contents either carried off or thrown
into the street and burned. The
Mississippian office was broken open, the type thrown in the street and the
presses and furniture broken up. The
Post Office was rifles of its contents. The
Governor's mansion was broken open and pianos and furniture destroyed.
The Episcopal church was entered and the whole interior effaced.
Nearly all the private residences were entered and trunks broken open,
fine dresses torn to pieces, and all jewelry, silver ware and provisions taken.
Dr. Knapp's office was broken open, his dental instruments carried off
and his furniture destroyed. Capt.
L. Jullian's book store and bindery was destroyed.
J. W. Gray & Co's drug store was partially destroyed. Jo.
Morgridge was an extensive sufferer by the depredations of the vandals.
E. Vorden's loss in sugar, molasses, &c., is estimated at $200,000.
D. W. Busick lost heavily in his tobacco commission store.
Allen & Ligon lost all their books, paper, money and merchandize.
Dr. S. C. Farrar lost his horses and mules.
J. M. Rawlins lost his carriage and carriage horses.
Almost every horse, mile, cow, and hog in the city was taken.
Watches and breastpins were forcibly taken from gentlemen on the street.
Negroes, from 300 to 500 were taken from the city and adjacent country,
and as an inducement for them to go they were promised commissions in the Yankee
army, and about 100 of them were armed before they left the city.
Intelligent gentlemen estimate the total loss of property in the city at
five millions of dollars.
On Friday morning a squadron of cavalry came over to Rankin and tore up
the railroad about 4 miles, and a few rails at other places to within two miles
of Brandon. They ransacked the private dwellings for arms and ammunition,
taking away a few negroes, horses and mules.
Among the chief sufferers in the raid were Mrs. S. M. Hamilton, 14
negroes; Austin Neely, 14 negroes; A. J. Neely, 6 negroes; A. P. Miller, 4
negroes; G. W. Rains, 2 negroes; Gen. P. Henry, 1 negro and 3 horses, &c.
It is asserted and believed that in the retreat between Jackson and
Clinton, many houses were burned and nearly all the horses, mules and cattle
driven away.
We could learn no particulars of the fight at Raymond, except that our
loss was about 200 and that of the enemy from four to five hundred.
It is reported that we whipped the one my [sic?] very badly at Edwards'
Depot on Friday, and that we captured his immense wagon train. We have no doubt of the truth of the report.
We can get nothing reliable as to the position of the two armies, but we
think it quite likely Grant's army will be totally destroyed before the end of
this week.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Moss Rope.—Among the articles of domestic manufacture which the
necessities of the times has produced, is moss rope, pronounced by those who
have used it superior to cotton, and almost, if not quite equal to hemp.
We saw a bale of this kind of rope yesterday, made by Messrs. Segure
& Bryars, of Union Springs, Ala., who design to go largely into its
manufacture. It was made from the
moss so common throughout the Gulf States, and appeared to be strong and
durable. As it will not be affected
by the weather, it will serve an excellent purpose for baling cotton. We understand it can be manufactured for much less than the
cost of common hemp rope.
[Montgomery Advertiser.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Changes in the Medical Staff.—Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Chief Surgeon of
this Military District, has been transferred to Rome.
Dr. John M. Johnston, who has been in charge of the principal hospital,
corner of Broughton and Jefferson, has been made Chief Surgeon of the District,
and removed his headquarters to the Barracks.
Dr. William G. Bulloch has been assigned to the principal hospital.
We took occasion, some days ago, to make a visit to the principal
hospital, and found it in all respects creditable to the management.
It is probably the largest establishment of the kind in the State,
consisting of one ward 60 by 90, and five wards 30 by 90, besides spacious rooms
for dining, apothecary's shop, linen and baggage, offices, &c., &c. The wards are all comfortably furnished and kept perfectly
neat and clean. Sweeping and
scouring is the regular order of the day, and, with admirable ventilation, the
apartments are obliged to be pleasant and wholesome.
The female employes [sic] of the establishment are all capable and
energetic, evincing a most praiseworthy interest in behalf of the suffering
soldiers. Dr. Johnson turns over
the establishment to his successor in excellent order, and we have an assurance
in the well known character and professional abilities of Dr. Bulloch that the
institution will continue to reflect credit on the army and the country.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Millen Wayside Home.--The ladies of Burke county have completed their
beautiful and patriotic arrangements at Millen, and are now dispensing their
hospitality daily to large numbers of traveling soldiers.
We dropped in a few evenings since and found a well supplied table and
every comfort prepared for our brave defenders, the gentle hands that provided
these benefactions rendering them doubly acceptable.
We wish them every success in their praiseworthy undertaking, and as they
rely on contributions and their own means alone for the support of their
"Home," we hope the public will deal liberally with them.
Will not the friends of the soldier in Savannah lend them a helping hand?
We feel assured they are so disposed, and we would add that, to save them
trouble, all contributions left at this office will be promptly acknowledged and
forwarded.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
[Communicated.]
The Needle Women.
Mr. Editor: Heretofore,
during the war, the wives and daughters of our poor soldiers from this city have
been enabled to obtain, through their needles, a support, in working for the
government on clothing, tents, &c. Of
late this work has been removed to interior towns, and none left to be done
here—thus cutting off the sole dependence of hundreds of industrious females.
I speak, Mr. Editor, in behalf of those poor people, and ask, through
your columns, that some consideration for their condition be had by our
government officials, who have the disposal of this encouragement to the poor.
Cannot the work be distributed—a portion to Savannah as to other
cities—and thus help those whose condition is rendered dependent exclusively
on the patronage of the government.
Impartial.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
50
Tailoresses
Wanted Immediately,
for
Pants, Shirts and Drawers.
H. Haym, 174 Broughton st.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 27, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
A
Letter from Mrs. Hall.
Augusta, May 23, 1863.
Mr. Editor:--Having read in the morning papers of this day, May 23d, a
set of resolutions drawn up and signed by J. N. Taliaferro, Capt. and Edward
Clayton, Secretary, of the "gallant Walker Light Infantry," of this
city, now encamped at the Isle of Hope, in which they make a most earnest appeal
to the citizens of Augusta to send
beyond the lines, or place in confinement, certain persons whom they accuse of
giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy.
Now, as I do not wish any innocent person to suffer for my misdemeanors,
I take this method of acknowledging my crime—if crime it be. I have a son, dear to me as live, who is detained in
Washington by circumstances beyond his control, and with whom we can hold no
communication from this side by letter, as we have written a dozen of them,
which he has never received.
Hoping to find one in the groups of Federal prisoners who would take a
letter or message to him, I went with one of my daughters to see them.
Shall I say, that that Providence, who has guided me through a long life
of three-score years, directed me to one who I think (though among our enemies)
is a gentleman and a Christian. I
stopped in front of him, beckoned him to come to me, and asked him if he was
going to Washington, and if he would take a letter for me; also, if he knew the
Rev. Dr. Hall of the Church of the Epiphany.
He said he did, and would take letters or bundles or anything for us with
pleasure, as he was Paymaster of the Indianola, taken at Vicksburg, and was
obliged to report at Washington as soon as he was exchanged.
I returned home and got together such photographs as we had of my family
and but one letter, that had been written the night previous, and went down
again in the afternoon before the train left to give him the package (to which
were then added two letters from some friends in this city) and sent some
messages to my son. The second time
I went I took my whole family of children that he might report to my son that he
had seen us all, which I did not think a crime, and as I have been taught from
my earliest infancy to "Do unto others as I would have others do unto
me," under like circumstances, I extended to him some little courtesy which
I thought due to a gentleman.
Mr. Editor, I make this confession publicly that the innocent shall not
suffer for the guilty, and I also think my devotion to the good of my country,
from the first dawn of this ungodly strife up to the present moment, must be
understood by all right-minded persons. One
of my daughters presented to the Confederate Guard a bouquet in consideration of
his kindness in allowing us to converse with the prisoner.
My greatest object in holding this communication with the prisoner was to
let my son know the particulars of my heart-rending sorrow for the death of my
gallant son, Edward, who lost his life at the head of (his) Cox's battalion of
Georgia sharpshooters in the bloody battle of Murfreesboro'. Yours, most respectfully,
Margaret C. Hall.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
German
Ladies' Association
The German Ladies' of Savannah are invited to assemble in Concordia Hall
School on Wednesday, 3d June, at 4 o'clock in the Afternoon, in order to form an
Association for the benefit of those families whose fathers or husbands are in
the army.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Last Friday in May.—This is the occasion of the annual inspection by
the Mayor and Aldermen of the Savannah Fire Company, and is always a source of
much enjoyment to the colored firemen, free and slave, under its command.
In their parade yesterday afternoon, they presented a neat and handsome
appearance; their uniforms bright and clean; their engines tastefully decorated
and in good condition; and their happy countenances told that there could be no
greater pleasure to them than "running wid der masheen," or joining in
their chosen songs and choruses. In
passing along the Bay their engines were decorated with Confederate and battle
flags as well as wreathes of flowers. They
sang with a hearty good will the "Bonnie Blue Flag," and at the chorus
they swelled out in very good accord the "Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
that bears the Southern Star." Their conduct was very orderly and done them credit.
The following was the order of the procession:
The line was formed on South Broad street in front of the Fireman's Hall.
After inspection by the Mayor and Aldermen, the companies passed down
South Broad to East Broad street, through which to the Bay, thence as far as the
Exchange, where they were dismissed.
It being a rainy day, and a large number who are employed by the
Government being absent, it was a much better turn out than we expected to see.
The following are the officers of Savannah Fire Company for the present
year:
Chief Fireman—Wallace Cumming.
Second Chief Fireman—C. C. Casey.
Third Chief Fireman—J. L. Haupt.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Our
Virginia Correspondence
In Virginia Somewhere,
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May 24th, 1863.
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. . . Solemn as it is, we cannot help recalling a funny incident connected with
the black flag. On the morning
after the night of the 18th September, the army had crossed the
Potomac with the enemy pressing upon our heels, but dared not cross after us.
They cursed and swore at us from the opposite bank, threatening every
minute to make a general advance.—We happened to go into the little village of
Shepherdstown, which is just on the
south bank, above the ford where the army had crossed the river, and in passing
by the door of a small dwelling we stopped to get some water.
A black flag hung in the portico, much to our astonishment, and we
wondered whether the bold people of that dwelling had been wrought to such
desperation by the enemy as compelled them to hang out that awful sign of
resistance. An elderly lady
appeared at the door as soon as our footsteps sounded on the doorway, and
relieved our doubts. She was tall,
stout, red-headed, with a firm look, and carried in her hand a bright barreled
pocket revolver. She asked what we
wanted and we answered water. "Very
well," said she, "do you see that," pointing to the flag. We answered in the affirmative.
"That means no quarter, and this," pointing to the revolver,
"is to shoot the first man that goes into that yonder cabbage patch."
It is most sincerely hoped that the Yankees will give us as little cause
to exercise our firmness as we did that good Virginia lady the use of her
firearm. . . .
Tout-le-Monde.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
For
Sale,
500 Pairs
No. 10 Cotton Cards,
In Lots to Suit Purchasers.
H. Haym,
176 Broughton Street.
Savannah.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Dry all the fruits and vegetables possible this year.
They will be needed by our armies. Beets,
carrots, and other roots, may be gathered and dried, and tomatoes, okra,
&c., sliced and dried, then packed away in cloth bags or boxes.
Fruits of all kinds should, also, be dried in quantities for our brave
soldiers. The Southern Cultivator
says: We will give an article on
this subject in our next number; but it is now time to begin the work, as some
vegetables and fruits are becoming plentiful.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
A Beautiful Flag.—We have been shown a splendid battle flag, made for
the Sixteenth North Carolina regiment, by Miss R. C. Semon, of this city.
The flag is of double silk, fringed with silver tinsel.
Upon either side are marked in white silk the names of eleven battle
fields where the regiment has won for itself a noble name:
Raices' Mill, Ox Hill, Fredericksburg, Frazer's Farm, Harper's Ferry,
Seven Pines, Cedar Run, Sharpsburg, Mechanicsville, Manassas and Shepherdstown.
The name of Chancellorsville is to be added to the list, as the regiment
was engaged in that fierce battle, and there the Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel
were both wounded, having hitherto escaped unhurt through all previous mentioned
battles.
The cost of the flat is one thousand dollars, and is one of the most
beautiful we have ever seen.—Rich. Enquirer.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Mysterious Disappearance.—On Thursday morning last, about the hour of
seven o'clock, Mrs. Mena Landgraff, wife of Charles A. Landgraff, who is now a
member of Company D, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, left her residence,
situated at the corner of Broughton and West Broad streets, for the purpose of
going to the market house and returning. At
the time she left she had about her somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred
and fifty dollars, and wore a lilac calico dress, light plaid silk apron with a
frill; the sleeves of her dress was trimmed with a different colored calico than
that of her dress; a white straw hat trimmed with red ribbon, and a thick pair
of shoes—black silk mantilla and white collar, and carried a basket of reddish
color. At the time she left I had
every reason to believe that she would shortly return home to breakfast, but
from that hour she has never been seen by me.
She was seen in the market by several purchasing her meats.
I make this statement known to the public in as much as I was living with
her, and feel confident that some foul play has been done.
I call upon the public officers and citizens to use their honest efforts
in ferriting [sic] out this thing in order that the guilty may be brought to
that punishment so much deserved.
Miss Ellen Kennedy.
Savannah, May 30th, 1863.
Any information given will be thankfully received.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Found Drowned.—The body of a white man, aged about twenty-five years,
wearing a striped shirt and pants of homespun, corresponding with the clothing
worn by the Confederate marines of this post, was discovered floating in the
Savannah river yesterday morning about Fort Jackson, having being drowned.
Coroner Eden held an inquest—verdict in accordance with the above.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Vandalism
in Jackson, Mississippi.
The following extract from a letter received from Jackson, Miss., is but
in keeping with the conduct of the enemy against whom we are battling.
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"I must tell you of some of the outrages committed by the vandals.
Besides destroying every pound of food they could find in the stores and
on the plantations, they destroyed furniture, fences, killed milk cows and hogs,
leaving them lying on the ground. Even
good old Bishop Green was visited very hardly.
They took his sermons and scattered and trampled them in the mud—took a
favorite prayer book and cut it up; chopped the piano and melodeon to pieces,
and even carried off his robes. At
the Church they carried off the robes and offertory plates.
"They robbed a woman with four children of her cow and pigs, took
her last pound of meal from her refusing to leave her any for her children, and
even took off a cake that was cooking, saying they intended to starve them out. Ladies' wardrobes were sacked, the clothing torn to pieces,
and everything like jewelry was carried off.
One prisoner taken yesterday had fifteen watches, besides jewelry.
Fences, hedges and shrubbery were wantonly destroyed—indeed, every
outrage that a fiendish malignity could suggest.
But I will not shock you further with the recital of these cruel
wrongs."
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SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
"General,'" says Jinks, "I always observed that those
people who have a great deal to say about being ready to shed their last drop of
blood, are amazin' partic'ler about the first drop."—Rebel.
There is a wine merchant in our town who fills up the intervals of trade
with mending shoes. In other words
he is himself a "sherry cobbler."—Ib.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
[From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Cheering
News from Arkansas.
We have had the pleasure of an interview with a gentleman recently from
Camden, Ark., who has kindly furnished us with some facts in regard to the
situation of affairs in that State, which cannot fail to be of great interest to
our readers. Our informant is a gentleman of rare cultivation, strong good
sense, and pleasing conversational powers, and his knowledge of affairs in that
quarter is ample and reliable.
The social condition of the people of Arkansas is most encouraging.
The war has proved to them a blessing, in the sense that it has brought
out the resources of the country, taught the inhabitants self reliance, and
developed their slumbering energies. In
the enterprise and activity, born of the emergency, the State has become a
perfect hive of industry. Factories,
machine shops, forges, foundries, etc., abound, where articles for home use, and
for the use of the army, are abundantly supplied. Salt wells have been found, and the manufacture of salt is
carried on extensively and successfully. The
tanning of hides, for the past eighteen months, has been beyond all parallel in
the history of the State. By
precaution and foresight, cotton and woolen cards are plenty, and many families
are engaged in carding, spinning and weaving cloth, both for domestic purposes
and for clothing the soldiers. Our informant mentioned some households where eight hundred
yards had been wove the past year, who intended this year to increase the amount
to one thousand yards. Under the quickening influence of the time, the whole
State is alive with industrial enterprise.
The crops this year, we are happy to learn, are very bountiful, and the
breadth of wheat sown, and now nearly ready for harvest, is at four-fold that of
any previous year. All kinds of
provision crops will yield generously.
There is no suffering among the poor of Arkansas.
The Legislature appropriated a millions and a half for the benefit of the
poor and the families of soldiers. And,
in addition labor is everywhere wanted, and commands liberal compensation. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to resist the
conviction that the people are even better off than before the war commenced.
We are glad to know also, that the most unlimited confidence is felt in
the officers who have been placed in command of the army in that quarter.
The soldiers—officers and men—are perfectly enthusiastic in their
love for their leaders, and especially is this the case with Gen.
Price—"Old Dad," as he is called.
One has only to mention his name to the men, and they instinctively set
up the wildest huzzas for the old hero. Generals
Kirby Smith, Price and Holmes are a tower of strength, and under their
leadership the men will march anywhere and do any deed of daring. Our army in that quarter is all right we are quite sure.
The citizens of other portions of the Confederacy have entertained the
idea that Arkansas was almost entirely given over to the tender mercies of the
enemy. This is a mistaken notion.
They have actually invaded but a small portion of the State—a fact
accounted for by the excellent fighting qualities of the Arkansas boys, who are
a perfect terror to their enemies.
The Indians are generally quite favorable to the South, and have given
the people no trouble. The amicable
feeling among them has [been] greatly encouraged by the frequent visits of the
Poet General, Albert Pike, among them.
The gratifying condition of affairs at present in Arkansas, our informant
thinks, is in a great degree due to the promptness, energy and perseverance of
Gen. Hindman, who took the command there at a critical period, and saved the
State by swelling an army at 12,000 men to one of 50,000 in sixty days.
His services, until he was superseded, were invaluable, and should and
will be appreciated by our Government.
One the whole, the statement which we listened to, and which we have here
perhaps but imperfectly set down, is of the most hopeful character, and if any
fears are felt for Arkansas, we think they may be dismissed.
Her career, glorious as it has been in the past, we predict will be yet
more glorious, and we feel a glow of pride that she is as honored and prominent
member of the fair sisterhood of Southern States.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
[Written for the Richmond Whig]
"Oh! He's Nothing But a
Soldier."
By A Young Bebelle, Esq.
"Oh!
he's nothing but a soldier"
But he's coming here to-night,
For I saw him pass this morning,
With his uniform so bright.
He was coming in from picket,
Whilst he sung a sweet refrain,
And he kissed his hand at some one
Peeping through the window pane.
Ah!
he rode no dashing charger
"With a black and flowing mane,"
But his bayonet glistened brightly,
As the sun lit up the plain.
No waving plume or feather
Flashed its crimson in the light—
He belonged to the Light Infantry,
And he came to war—to fight.
"Oh!
he's nothing but a soldier,"
His trust is in his sword—
To carve his way to glory,
Through the servile Yankee horde.
No pompous pageant heralds him,
No sycophants attend,
In his belt you see his body guard—
His tried and trusty friend.
"Oh!
he's nothing but a soldier,"
And a stranger in our land;
His home is in the sunny South,
By the blue Gulf's golden strand.
But I wish I knew his people,
Some little of his past,
For father's always telling me
About our social caste.
"Oh!
he's nothing but a soldier,"
But his eyes are very fine,
And I sometimes think, when passing,
They are piercing into mine.
Pshaw! "he's nothing but a
soldier,"
Come, let me be discreet;
But really, for a soldier,
His toilet's very neat.
"Oh! he's
nothing but a soldier,"
But last night he came to tea—
What an interesting soldier—
But then, he's rather free.
'Twas two o'clock this morning,
Before he took his leave;
He has my ring—the fellow!
But what's the use to grieve?
He has been again
to see us,
The gentleman in grey;
He calls to see us often—
Our house is on his way
At times he sadly seeks the shade
Of yonder grove of trees,
I watched him once—this soldier—
I saw him on his knees.
One day last week I
asked him
To tell me of his home.
He answered, pointing to his camp,
"Where'er these brave ones roam."
I asked him once to tell me
Of his mother, sister dear;
A funeral cortege passed along—
Said he, "you have them here."
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
But this I know right well,
He has a heart of softness
Where tender virtues dwell;
For once when we were talking,
And no one else was near,
I saw him very plainly
Try to hide a startling tear.
We are speaking of
Manassas,
Of that first great bloody day,
When a handful of our "brae ones"
Held the Yankee hosts at bay
'Twas here he lost his aged sire,
While fighting by his side;
He sleeps beneath the crimson turf,
Where roil'd that bloody tide.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
But within that eye so clear,
There lurks no craven spirit,
No timid glance of fear
For though at pity's pleading
It can melt with tender light,
I've seen it flash like lightning
Across the brow of night.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
Such as pass us every day.
He calls them "Ragged
Devils,"
But you know that's just his way.
But there is one thing very funny,
One thing I can't explain
That when this soldier goes away,
I wish him back again.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
And a stranger yet to fame;
But they tell me in the army,
That the "Boys" all know his name;--
The Yankees, too, have heard it,
They dread his battle shout;
They have no wish to meet him,
This dreaded Southern scout.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
Yet you'd call his features good;
That cut he got at West Point,
While fighting under Hood.
He has a halting in his gait,
A trifle in the knee;
He brought it back from Sharpsburg,
Where he went with General Lee.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
But his triumphs are not few;
He has seen our glorious battle flag
In all its trials through;--
At Seven Pines he followed it,
On the heights at Gaines' Mill
At Williamsburg, at West Point,
In the smoke of Malvern Hill.
Oh, he's nothing
but a soldier,
But, then, it's very queer—
I feel somehow when absent
I'd rather have him near.
He's gone to meet the foeman,
To stay his bloody track--
O! Heaven shield the soldier,
O, God, let him come back!
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He is back again,
this soldier,
With his eyes so deep and clear,
And his voice like falling waters,
Maketh music to my ear.
One empty coat-sleeve dangles,
Where once a stout arm grew,
But this soldier says, in hugging
He has no use for two.
"Oh, he's
nothing but a soldier,"
And I know that on his form
He bears the scars of conflict
And of many a battle storm.
But I wouldn't give this soldier,
In his simple, humble home,
For all your perfumed monkeys,
That strut about the town.
He is back again,
this soldier;
He is sitting by my side,--
To-morrow, ho! for Texas.
With his young Virginia bride.
True, "he's nothing but a soldier,"
But I'm now his loving wife;
Pledged, through good report, or evil,
To dwell with him through life.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 4, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
We are glad to learn that the paper mill of Messrs. J. W. Grady &
Co., that was partially destroyed by fire on the night of May 25, was their
writing and not their newspaper mills.—It is bad enough to have a paper mill
of any kind either damaged or destroyed, but the burning of a newspaper mill in
these times is a loss that cannot be made good to the public by money.
We trust that the machinery of the mills spoken of can be repaired and
put in operation again.—Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
To Choose a Wife.—Lay a broom in the way she has to pass.
If she steps over it, don't take her; but if she picks it up, and puts it
carefully away, or goes to work with it, choose her if you can get her.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Wool
Cards,
Cotton Cards,
Mosquito Netting,
For sale by
N. Lyon.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Notice.
Parties wishing to
send letters to Foreign ports will have them ready by to-morrow (Saturday)
night. I will take them via Nassau.
All letters mailed at Nassau for Foreign ports, are required to be
pre-paid 25 cents. Letters, before
being received by me, must be submitted to Gen. Mercer for his approval.
J. M. Haywood,
Broughton street.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
[For
the Savannah Republican.]
The Stage.
Mr. Editor:--Amid the confusion of war, and the din and clash of arms, it
is pleasant occasionally to turn to those sources of amusement with which in
days of yore we were favored. Among
them all, none perhaps afforded more pleasure and instruction than the Stage.
Nothing, the Pulpit and Press excepted, at the same time, has and does
contribute more to the formation of public moral sentiment.
A proper appreciation of its merits is a certain indication of a high
state of refinement in society.
While we do not set ourselves up as a critic of the stage, it is our
purpose in this article to throw out a hint or two in relation thereto, which
common sense would seem to suggest. They
may or may not be correct; if they are not, we hope some one sufficiently versed
in such matters will set us right, for we would not under any circumstances
knowingly inculcate a false sentiment on any subject.
First, then, a sound and discriminating judgment should be used in the
selection of the plays to be presented. They
should contain nothing offensive to good taste or morals; while at the same time
they should, as nearly as possible, be true to nature painting the scenes of
practical every day life; something that could be understood and taken home as a
source of information and profit to every one.
Then as to the performance. The
players should, in our judgment, represent their respective parts as if they
were the original characters. The
scenes of the lay are generally represented as having transpired in the presence
of these alone who participate in them, and not of a vast assemblage of people,
or even fifty or a hundred. The
actors therefore, as a general rule, should not address themselves to the
audience or give themselves any extraordinary trouble to learn what effect a
fine sentence, or a kingly or queenly toss of the head may have on the
spectators; in fact, they should be oblivious to their presence.
This toss of the head may do very well, and give effect to some
particular character in some instances, but we think we have seen it on some
boards oftener than we ever have in the scenes of real life, nay, we are unkind
enough to think it is sometimes done more for the purpose of "showing
off" the "parts" of the performer, than common sense or the
spirit of the play would require. To illustrate in part our meaning, we will give an incident,
or short criticism as you may choose to term it, as given by Fielding, whom by
the way we consider good authority on such matters.
In the chapter describing the behavior of Partridge at the theatre, he
says: "Partridge gave that
credit to Mr. Garrick which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a
trembling that his knees knocked against each other.
Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the
warrior upon the stage? 'O la,
sir,' said he, 'I perceive now it is what you told me.
I am not afraid of anything, for I know it is but a play; and if it was
really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance and in so much
company; and yet, if I was frightened, I am not the only person.'
'Why, who,' cries Jones, 'dost thou take to be such a coward here as
thyself?' 'Nay, you may call me a
coward, if you will; but if that little man there on the stage is not
frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life.'
He sat with eyes fixed partly on the Ghost and partly on Hamlet, and with
his mouth open. The same passions
which succeed each other in Hamlet, succeeded likewise in him.
"Little more worth remembering occurred during the play, at the end
of which Jones asked him which of the players he liked best.
[Illegible line—fold in paper] nation at the question.
'The King, without doubt.' 'Indeed,
Mr. Partridge,' says Mrs. Miller, 'you are not of the same opinion with the
town; for they are all agreed that Hamlet is acted by the best player who was
ever on the stage.' 'He the best
player!' cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; 'why, I could act as well
myself. I am sure, if I had seen a
ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
And then, to be sure, in the scene, as you called it, between him and his
mother, when you told me he acted so fine, why, any man, that is, any good man,
that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same.
I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, Madam, though I never was
at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country, and the King
for my money. He speaks all his
words distinctly, and half as loud again as the other.
Anybody may see he is an actor."
Of this passage an excellent writer has remarked, that Partridge "is
represented as a very bad theatrical critic.
But none of those who laugh at him possess the tithe of his sensibility
to theatrical excellence. He
admires in the wrong place; but he trembles at the right place."
Precisely so. It is not loud
declamation, nor fine tosses of the head, which make the accomplished player; it
is the one who makes us feel that if we were placed in the same position, and
the circumstances were real, we would have acted in the same manner.
But the length to which this article has been extended admonishes us to
conclude. The views we have advanced may subject us to the charge of
fogyism; but we care not. If we
succeed in directing public attention to this subject, our main object will have
been accomplished. We have heard
within the past week or two that actors were to be imported from Europe for the
Richmond stage. This should not be.
We have ample talent in the Confederacy for the theatre.
It only needs cultivation to insure the richest fruits.
The Thespian Family possess every qualification to insure the most
flattering success in this line, and of honoring alike themselves and their
country. Let them continue their
efforts, which have so far been eminently successful.
Let the public appreciate them as it should, and in due time, it is our
deliberate opinion, they will compare favorably with the best players in Europe
or America. We trust we shall hear
no more of foreign importations for the stage.
We are struggling now for commercial independence; let us also strive for
literary and theatrical independence. And
this may and can only be obtained by the cultivation of talent in our own
country. Let the public extend to
it aid and sympathy, and it will never have cause to regret it.
Amicus.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
English
Mustard.
50 tin cannisters [sic] 10 lbs. each of Coliman's celebrated London
Mustard, just imported, and for sale by
Claghorn & Cunningham.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Heights of Fredericksburg, Va.,
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June 3rd, 1863.
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. . . The scene from Lee's Hill—so called because it was from that point Gen.
Lee directed the first battle of Fredericksburg—is imposing and suggestive. The valley of the Rappahannock, with its wide-sweeping plains
and cannon crowned hills, is spread out before the beholder like a vast
panorama. To the left are Marye's
bloody heights, where McLaws made his gallant fight in December, and where Cobb
offered up his life in defence of his mother's birthplace.
In front of those heights is the half ruined town of Fredericksburg, now
garrisoned by Barksdale's impetuous Mississippians and occupied by a few
miserable inhabitants who still cling to their homes under the very muzzles of
the Federal guns. To the right and
below is the wide, fan-shaped plain upon which Burnside deployed his immense
host, and where Jackson fought and Gregg perished.
On this side of the plain and far down to the right sweeps the range of
hills occupied and successfully defended by the Confederates in the first great
battle. In front and beyond the
river, above and below, loom up the bare hills of Stafford, their crests crowned
with batteries and their slopes checkered by a hundred camp roads and pathways,
and covered with rifle pits and breastworks.
Wagon trains and detachments of artillery, cavalry and infantry show
themselves in the gorges between these hills and manoevre on their slopes.
Beyond the heights a thousand spiral columns of blue smoke ascend from
the camp fires below, and here and there in the far distance great bands of dust
are outlined against the northern horizon like immense yellow rainbows.
Tents and white wagon tops dot the hills and glisten in the evening
sunlight, whilst squads of teamsters and idle soldiers stroll listlessly about,
and their hard served horses pick such scant herbage as the wasted and trampled
soil offers. The pickets, the eyes
and ears of the two armies, are guarding either bank of the river; the signal
men wave their mysterious alphabets from the hills, and high over all soar the
monster balloons of the inquisitive and anxious enemy, who have not yet
recovered from the last stunning blow given them by Gen. Lee and his invincible
legions. Meanwhile, the two armies
lie back of the hills in the timber, like tigers in the jungle, ready to spring
upon each other as opportunity may occur.
In this valley and behind these hills are gathered the muscle and manhood
of the continent. What vast power! what engines of destruction!
Thus far the smaller, but more active and intelligent combatant has had
the best of the conflict. Better
led, and with a better cause and more hardy and enterprising material, let us
hope that Triumph will continue to crown our standard and that the enemy we have
so often beaten, will ere long lay down his arms and give us peace.
Lee's army was never in better condition, or so well prepared to maintain
the combat, if the adversary shall so decide.
P.W.A.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Fresh
Lager Beer.
A supply just received from the Brewery of Jacob Kauffer, Hamburg, South
Carolina, will be on Draught.
This
(Monday) Morning, May 8,
At the Planters'
Hotel.
George Gemenden, Proprietor.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
40
Ounces
P. and W. Quinine,
Received and for sale by
G. M. Heidt,
Corner State and Whitaker sts.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Tullahoma, June 2d.
. . . While Roddy had taken his entire force, except Hannon, to pursue the
invaders, numbering about 2,000 mounted infantry and a battery of light
artillery, on the south bank, the force on the north side, numbering 800 mounted
men and two mountain howitzers, learning of the success of their diversion on
the opposite side of the river, advanced rapidly and were met by Hannon's
regiment beyond Florence, but pushed them so vigorously that the latter were
compelled to retire to Florence and beyond, while the Vandals, much to their
delight, entered the place, commenced their work of destruction, and fully
accomplished the object of their expedition, burning two large and very valuable
cotton factories, upon which the people of the Tennessee valley were dependent
for their supplies, and from which large quantities of cloth were procured by
the army. These factories were the
property of Martin, Weakley & co., and in their loss the Confederacy suffers
severely. The Vandals then
proceeded to burn the Masonic Hall, hotel, livery stable, blacksmith shop, and
such other buildings as might have proved useful to the Confederates; and having
been in the town for two or three hours, accomplished their mission, got drunk,
abused the inhabitants, and were finally driven out by Hannon in a brisk little
fight, in which the latter suffered the loss of Captain Locke and Major Jenks,
captured, and but few were killed, wounded or captured on either side.
The Vandals fell back, pursued by Hannon, who despatched couriers to
Roddy to endeavor to intercept the party, and a force from Columbia was sent out
for the same purpose. It was
reported on Saturday that Roddy had cut them off from their boats and was
driving them back towards Florence, but this proved untrue.
Our forces which went in pursuit have not yet returned, nor have they
been reliably heard from. In the
engagement between the enemy and Hannon we were very fortunate in not losing a
battery of artillery which had been sent without escort to the aid of the
latter. It got in between the two
forces, and was driving directly to the Yankees, unaware of their presence, when
it met them on the march. The
officer in command of the battery proved to have good sense and presence of
mind, and coolly directing one piece to go into battery and fire on the enemy,
he put the rest of the artillery upon the retreat while the Yankees were getting
into line of battle, and then withdrew his other piece without loss, and ran
back in safety to Athens.
The result of the whole affair was that Roddy was completely outwitted
and deceived, and that the vandals accomplished everything they desired, and up
to the latest advices had escaped unchastised. . . N.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
Pic-Nic at the Isle of Hope.
Camp Davant, Isle of Hope,
June 7th, 1863.
Mr. Editor:--Since the war had begun we had given up every hope of that
sweet and special enjoyment with the ladies which we were wont to do in times of
peace and plenty. But our removal
to the Isle of Hope, in the beautiful village of Parkersille, has enlivened and
buoyed us up.
The Isle of Hope is indeed a charming place.
On one side, the lovely shores of the Skidaway, rolling along in splendor
and majesty, which, when seen at a distance, seem the ideal of a poet's dream;
on the other, the tall and majestic pines murmur their grand and solemn music
along the shore, which, when combined with the lasting roar of the surf, seem
the music of some fairy land. 'Tis
a picture that would attract the eye of the lover of the picturesque and
beautiful. Therefore, Mr. Editor,
it is not surprising that such a place, with such scenery, should attract some
of the fairest of your city, especially as it is a spot so conducive to all
kinds of social amusements. Some of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Regiment of
Cavalry were lucky enough to procure government wagons and horses, which were
immediately pressed into service for the transportation of the ladies.
This novel mode of conveyance seemed to heighten their spirits, so that
when they arrived on the scene of action they were in a humor for anything that
would add to the enjoyment of the trip. A
room was soon procured and made ready, and musicians obtained, in order that
nothing might be lacking to the intended amusement of the party.
Everything being now complete, couples on the floor, the dance
began—and a dance it was—one that revived the days of "Auld Lang
Syne," and brought wildly to our recollection the time when peace reigned
supreme, and our beloved land was enjoying the freedom it is now striving so
hard and heroically to obtain. It has been said that the ladies contribute more towards the
gaining of our independence than the soldiers.
It is true; for what could have revived our somewhat drooping spirits
more than the presence of so much beauty? And
what would cheer us on more in battle than the recollection of the "girls
we left behind us?"
Preparations for the "inner man" was by no means the least
important item in our programme, for we had a dinner that would delight the
taste of an epicure.
All was pleasure and gaiety, stern discipline was forgotten for the time,
and officers and soldiers gave themselves up to the delight of the present
moment. Every kind of amusement was started and entered into with
good gusto, until evening brought to a close a day of enjoyment that will ever
be remembered as one of the happiest of our lives.
As we have already trespassed on your patience longer than we intended,
we close this article with an adieu to the ladies, sincerely hoping that they
will favor us again with their presence, for they come like a ray of sunshine to
dispel our gloom and scatter sweet flowers of happiness and cheerfulness along
our pathway.
D. R.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Lecture To Night.—By a sudden withdrawal of a portion of our troops
from this vicinity, families in many instances have been left in very destitute
circumstances. This coming to the
knowledge of the lady managers of the Wayside Home, they are endeavoring to
relieve them. To aid them in this
good work, the Hon. H. R. Jackson will deliver a lecture to-night in the Masonic
Hall, to commence at 8 o'clock—the proceeds of which to be applied to further
their laudable undertaking. The
subject of the Lecture will be: "The
radical and fatal defects in the civilization of the United States of
America."
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
President Davis has had a flag presented to him on behalf of some ladies
of Washington city. It was brought
over by a gentleman to whom it was entrusted, and was presented to the President
by the Rev. J. P. Davison.
It was received by the President with many thanks to the noble-hearted
ladies who made it and sent it as a testimonial of their zeal and devotion for
the South.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Letters by Flag of Truce.—The following rules are enforced by the
officers of the Unites States Government, in regard to letters offered for
transmission under flag of truce by way of City Point:
1. No letter must exceed one page of a letter sheet, or relate
to an other than purely domestic matters.
2. Every letter must be signed with the writer's name in full.
3. All letters must be sent with fie cents postage enclosed, if
to go to Richmond, and ten cents if beyond.
4. All letters must be enclosed to the commanding general of the
department of Virginia, at Fortress Monroe.
No letter sent to any other address will be forwarded.
"All letters sent to Fortress Monroe without a strict compliance
with these rules, except for prisoners of war, will be transmitted to the dead
letter office."
Equivalent rules will be applied by General Winder, to all letters sent
from the South to Fortress Monroe, for parties in the U. States.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Military News Through the Spiritual Telegraph.—The Chicago Journal of
the 11th ult., says:
Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch, the spiritual medium, of this city,--ranked among
the most reliable, in the estimation of spiritualists of the country—declared
last evening to a party of gentlemen, that a joint naval and land attack was
made upon the forts of Charleston harbor on Friday and Saturday last, and that
two of the forts had been demolished, but that Fort Sumter was still held by the
rebels; that two of our gunboats had been sunk and three others disabled; that
there was no fighting yesterday, but it would be renewed to-day.
Mrs. Hatch, two weeks ago, predicted to those same gentlemen, that
Hooker's army would cross the Rappahannock, within a fortnight, and be
successful. She was reminded of this prophecy last evening, and she
insisted that her prediction had substantially proved true; that Hooker had
crossed, and that his retreat was not the result of defeat.
She further stated, last evening, that Hooker had again crossed the
Rappahannock, and would this time be certainly successful.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
An order from the Federal War Department directs that within the States
of Tennessee and Mississippi, wherever the Federals have the rule, all citizens
shall be registered in three classes: First,
avowed enemies; second, neutral foreigners; third, loyal citizens.
The first class are to leave their lines by or before the 16th
of June, and their property confiscated—the second are to take an oath of
neutrality—the third to bear certificates of loyalty. No goods of any kind are allowed to be sold except by special
permit, except to those showing evidence of loyalty.—Jackson Mississippian.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
We have just seen a gentleman from the neighborhood of Edward's Depot,
who informs us that the vandals are making a clean sweep of everything in that
vicinity. They have burnt every gin
and mill, and in many instances every building on nearly all the
plantations—arrested the men and taken them off, leaving no white person but
the women on the premises, and when the negroes remain they are armed.
Our informant thinks that a small force would be able to repel these
robbers. Can't our military authorities do something for that
neighborhood!—Jackson Mississippian.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 10, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Many of our soldiers being constantly subject to change of waters and
trying exposure, suffer from the flux. An
almost immediate remedy for this painful affection of the bowels is found, says
an old head, in the use of sage tea, with some red pepper stirred in it.
Let it be drank at intervals, and in a short time the patient will be
entirely relieved.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 11, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Shelbyville, Friday, June 5