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Columbus [GA] Enquirer, 1860-1863
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER
April 10, 1860 – December 24, 1860
superseded by
WEEKLY COLUMBUS ENQUIRER
January 7, 1862 – December 22, 1863
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 Mode
of Cultivating Cotton.—Mr. Peter Cox, of Cabarrus, N.
C., who took the second premium offered by the
Mecklenburg Agricultural Society for the second largest
crop on one acre, has furnished the following statement
as to his mode of cultivation: Millgrove, Cabarrus co.,
Feb. 4. I raised 2,210 lbs. of cotton in seed on one
acre of land. My mode of culture is simply as follows:
Planted Petit-Gulf seed on old land the 23d of
April—the land had been made rich in former years by
accidental circumstances, but did not have any recent
application of manure. Rolled the seed in leached
ashes—plowed out the cotton stalks of a former year
with a two-horse bull-tongue, then with a turn plow
ridged on the old bed; used a side harrow in the first
working and chopped through the row with a hoe; the
last week in May used a side shovel with the land side
to the row; the first week in June thinned to stand,
leaving two stalks as near as may be every foot.—Second
week in June threw out the middles with a cotton sweep;
next working used the side-harrow, then used the sweep
again, one furrow in the middle, and closed the working
with the side harrow, about the middle of July. Planted
the rows 3 feet 8 inches to 4 feet apart. Peter Cox.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
Denominational oxen in Texas.--Texas is a great State.
It has not only a large, growing, mixed population--
every variety of climate and soil, game and stock--but
its very oxen have become denominational, if not
sectarian in name, character, and spirit. In proof of
this we give the following incident:
A minister travelling along the road, met a stranger
driving his wagon, which was pulled by four oxen; as
the minister approached, he heard the driver say, "Get
up Presbyterian!" "Gee Campbellite!" "Haw Baptist!"
"What are you doing, Methodist?" The minister, struck
with the singularity of such names being given to oxen,
remarked--
"Stranger, you have strange names for your oxen, and I
wish to know why they had such names given to them."
The driver replied, "I call that lead one in front,
Presbyterian, because he is true blue, and never fails-
-he believes in pulling through every difficult place,
persevering to the end, and then he knows more than all
the rest. The one by his side I call Campbellite; he
does very well when you let him go on his own way,
until he sees water, and then all the world could not
keep him out of it, and there he stands as if his
journey was ended. This off ox, behind, is a real
Baptist, for he is all the time after water, and will
not eat with the others, but is constantly looking
first, on one side, and then on the other, and at
everything that comes near him. The other which I call
Methodist, makes a great noise and a great to-do, and
you would think that he was pulling all creation, but
he don't pull a pound."
The minister having his curiosity gratified with the
explanation, rode on wondering what he should next see
and hear in Texas. This is no dream, but a fact as we
have heard it; nor are we influenced by dyspeptic
feelings, telling our readers the ecclesiastical
relation of Texas oxen.--True Witness.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 8
Notice!
I desire to call the attention of
Southern Cotton and Woolen
Manufacturers!
To my establishment in Baltimore, Maryland, for the Manufacturing of
Cotton and Wool Cards,
being the only establishment South of Mason & Dixon's Line.
I also manufacture "Leather Bands" with Patent Machinery of my own invention.
Also, Leather Hose, of superior quality, all made of
the best oak tanned leather, and warranted equal to any
made north.
On hand a general assortment of articles used by
Manufacturers, Machine Shops, Railroad Locomotive
Builders, &c, &c.
John H. Haskell,
33 South Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md.
April 3, 1860
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 7
Latest Styles of
Dress Goods
For Spring and Summer.
Tafeta [sic] Eugenia Silks; Broche Tafeta [sic] Silks'
Seven Flounced Grissaille Robes;
Foulard Silks;
Striped, Figured, and Bayadere Silks;
Nine-Flounced Barege Robes;
Barege Anglaise Robes;
English Bareges; White Brocade Silks;
Plain Barege Anglaise;
Bayadere Barege Anglaise;
Nine-Flounced French Organdy Robes;
Silk Poplins; New Style Barege Mohair;
Linen Chene Dress Goods;
New style Traveling Dress Goods;
Figured Linen Lustres; Lavella Lustres;
Jaconet Flounced Robes; Chintz Organdy Robes;
Linen Poplins;
Checked and Striped Colored Organdy Muslins;
Muslin Ginghams; French Ginghams;
French, English and American Calicoes;
DeBeize, &c., &c.
All new, and for sale cheap for cash at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Entirely New!
Plain, White and Solid-colored Organdy Muslins, for Evening and Party Dresses, entirely new, at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Mantillas and Shawls!
French Lace Mantillas, in French Lace Points;
Square French Lace Shawls, very large;
Misses' French Lace Mantillas;
Black and White Grenadine Shawls;
Plain, White and Black Barege Shawls;
Plain, White and Black Barege Mantillas;
Barege and Anglaise Dusters, new shapes and figures. For sale cheap for cash, at
G. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Embroideries!
Jaconet and Swiss Edging and Inserting;
English Thread and Real Mechlin Laces;
Mechlin and Applique Lace Berthas and Capes;
Jaconet and Swiss Revers;
Dimity and Frilled Brands, elegant assortment;
Real French Cambric Bands;
Book and Jaconet Flouncing;
Infant's Embroidered Robes;
Embroidered Cuffs; Applique Sprigs;
Embroidered Skirts; Embroidered Handkerchiefs
Valenciennes Lace Sets, Sleeves and Collars;
Marseilles, Dimity and Linen Sets do.;
Black English Crape Collars, silk embroidered;
Plalin Linen Lawn and Cambric;
Ladies' Embroidered Jaconet Caps;
French Dimity for ruffling;
Black French Lace Coiffures,
Black French Barbs;
Just received and offered at low prices, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Veils! Veils!!
Black Silk Guipure Veils;
Fancy Colored Lace Veils;
Black French Lace Falls; Grenadine Falls;
Small Dotted Lace Falls;
Plain Barege and Tissues (all colors) for Veils.
Received this day at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Sleeves and Collars!
Just received, the largest and handsomest stock of
Collars and Sleeves, we have ever had. They are
entirely new. At Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Handkerchiefs!
Ladies' Pine Apple Handkerchiefs;
Embroidered, Clear Lawn and Hemmed do.;
Misses and Children's Handkerchiefs;
Gents' Plain White Hemmed Handkerchiefs;
Gents' Plain White Corded and Printed do.
Just received and for sale at
Geo W. Atkinson & Co's.
Pant Stuffs, Coatings, &c.
Brown Barnaley Linen Drills, White Linen Drills, Linen Ducks, Checked Linens, Marseilles, Vestings, French Drap de Etes, and a full stock of Linen Goods for boys and youth's wear.
Just received and for sale cheap, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Gloves and Mits!
Ladies' Kid, Lisle and Chamois Gauntlets;
Ladies and Misses Black Silk Mits;
This day received at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Calicoes! Calicoes!!
One thousand pieces English, French and American Calicoes, at prices from 5c. to 25c. pr. yard, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Ladies' Ready Made Suits!
Grass Cloth, Anglaise and Chaillete ready made suits for ladies, consisting of Dress and new style Dusters, all complete with exception of the Waist and Sleeves, for which goods are furnished to make. They are beautiful goods for street or traveling. At
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Counterpanes!
Blue, Red, Canary French Marseilles Counterpanes; Turkish and Allendale Counterpanes, Toilet Quilts, Canada Counterpanes, &c. A beautiful stock in store and for sale at low prices for cash, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
White Goods!
Jaconets; Swiss, Book, Mull and Nainsook Muslins; Checked and Striped Nainsook, Swiss and Tape Checked Muslins, &c. Our stock is very complete and prices low. At
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Linen and Cotton Sheetings!
A full line of Linen and Cotton Sheetings, Pillow Case Linens, Heavy Linen for gents' wear, &c., &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Towels and Table Cloths!
Brown Huck Towelings; Bleached Huck and Damask Towels, all prices;
Turkish Towels, for bathing;
Table Napkins, Doylies, Table Linens, &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Parasols and Fans!
Foulard, Plaid Silk, Chene Silk and Plain Colored Parasols; Ladies' Sun Umbrellas;
Extension handle Parasols;
New style Willow Fans;
Boquet Fans;
Palm Leaf Fans in great variety.
Just received and for sale cheap, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Hats! Hats!!
A Full stock of Gents and Boys Summer Hats, at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Straw Goods!
Ladies' newest style White and Colored Crape Bonnets;
Neapolitan, English, Straw and Linen Braid do.
Misses and Children's Flats and Bonnets;
Misses' Neapolitan Flats;
Children's Leghorn Flats and Hats.
We have a beautiful stock of the above goods, and will sell them cheap for cash.
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Ladies and Misses Shoes!
We have a large and complete stock of Ladies' and
Misses Morocco Boots, Gaiter Boots, Kid Slippers, Kid
Ties, &c. Also, a beautiful stock of Children's Fancy
Shoes, Pump Boots, &c., at very low prices, at Geo. W.
Atkinson & Co's.
Sundries!
Combs—Long Combs, Pocket Combs;
Dress Buttons of all descriptions;
Silver Thimbles;
Port Monies, Ladies Moreo [morso?] Bags, Baskets;
Pomades, Colognes, Lubin's Extracts;
Sewing machine Silk, Silk Dress Braids;
Elastics, Elastic Cord;
Silk Lacets, Corsets, Cord and Tassels;
Hair Brushes, Coat and Cloth Brushes;
Fancy Note Paper and Envelopes;
Soap for cleaning silver; Fancy Soaps;
Head Dress, Head Dress Combs, &c., at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
Hosiery!
Ladies' White, Slate and Blue Mixed Cotton Hose;
Ladies' Lisle Thread and Lisle Thread Open Work Hose;
Children and Misses' Open Work and Striped Hose; Boys
and Youths' Hosiery Gents' All Linen Half Hose; Gents'
White Lisle Thread, best, &c., &c., at Geo. W.
Atkinson & Co's.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 4, c. 5
Look Out for the
Sign of the Anvil!
at Nos. 95 & 97,
Broad Street, Columbus, Ga., where
J. Ennis & Co.
Keep constantly on hand, and at the lowest market
prices, a full and complete assortment of all articles
kept in a Hardware Store, consisting in part of Swedes
and American Iron—all sizes. English Iron, common and
refined, imported by ourselves. Horse Shoe Iron, all
sizes. Russia and American Sheet Iron. Rod, Oval,
Half Oval, Scroll, Band and Hoop Iron. Horse Nail Rods
of the best brands.
Blacksmith's Tools.
Anvils, Vises, Sledge and Hand Hammers, Bellows and all
other articles wanted by blacksmiths.
Steel.
Plow Steel of the best make from 2 ½ to 16 inches wide.
English and American blister, German and Spring Steel;
Cast Steel, Square and Octagon.
Files.
A good assortment of Files and Rasps, of the best
brands, our own importation.
Grain Cradles, Five and Six Fingers.
--Also,--
A good stock of Axes—Broad Axes, Hand Axes, Shingling
and Lathing Hatchets.
--Also,--
Steelyards, Patent Balances, Platform Scales, Plows,
Corn Shellers, Straw Cutters, Hoes, Trace Chains, Wagon
Chains, Spades, Shovels, Hay and Manure Forks, with all
other articles usually wanted by the farmer and
gardener.
Rubber Belting.
From 5 to 8 inches wide, 8 and 4 ply. A good assortment
of Carriage and Buggy Materials.
Paints and Oils.
White Lead of the best brand; Linseed, Lard and Sperm
Oil. Japan, Copal and Coach Varnish. A good assortment
of Nails and Spikes—the best brand of Cut Nails sold at
$4.50 per keg, Cash.
Castings and Hollow-Ware.
Gin Gear from 8 to 12 Foot Wheel, Mill Irons, on short
notice, at the lowest Foundry prices.
--Also.—
Keep a full assortment of Carpenters Tools and building
materials, Planes, Saws, Cross Cut, Mill and Circular
Saws, Locks and Latches, Wood Screws, Hinges, Butts,
Paint and Whitewash Brushes, together with all other
articles usually kept in a Hard Ware Store, to all of
which we would invite our friends and customers, and
the public generally to call and see our stock before
purchasing.
Don't Forget the Anvil No. 95 & 97.
J. Ennis & Co.
Columbus, Ga., August 22, 1859.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 4, c. 6
$50,000
Stock of
Ready Made Clothing!
Gent's
Furnishing Goods,
Is now offered at
Reduced Prices
at the
Cash Clothing Emporium
Rosette, Melick & Co
No. 125 Broad St.,
Columbus, Ga.,
The following embraces a few of the Goods in Store:
Overcoats, Overcoats.
100 Moscow Beaver from $22 to $30 00
50 Black " from 18 to 28 00
30 Blk and Col'd Cloth from 10 to 25 00
100 Pilot and Cass. from 7 to 10 00
200 Lion and Seal Skin from 8 to 20 00
250 Satinette and Mohair from 6 to 10 00
100 Blanket and Flushing 3 to 5 00
Business Coats.
100 Black Beaver, plain, from $14 to $25 00
100 " " ribbed, 16 to 20 00
500 Fancy Cas. Sacks & Fr's 7 to 20 00
300 Satinett and Union Cass. 3 to 6 00
100 Flushing Sacks 2 50
100 Peter Sham Satt 3 00
250 Satt. and Kersey Jacket 2 to 3 50
Black Cloth Fr. Coats.
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at $25 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at 20 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at 15 00
100 Black Cloth Frock Coats at 12 00
50 Black Cloth Frock Coats at 10 00
Pants, Pants, Pants
450 Pair Black Doe Skin Cas. $4 to $10 00
600 Pair Fancy Cass. 3 to $10 00
500 Pair Black and Fancy Satt. 2 to 4 00
150 Pair Blue Satinett 2 to 2 50
100 Pair Kersey 1 50
Vests, Vests, Vests.
250 Black and Fancy Silk Velvet and Plush
Vests from $5 00 to $12
500 Blk. and Fan. Silk do. 2 50 to 8
100 Black Satin 2 50 to 6
300 Fancy Cass. 2 00 to 5
100 Black Cass. 3 00 to
Boys and Youth's
Clothing!
We have now in Store a Complete assortment to FIT ALL SIZES, from 4 to 16 years of age, viz.:
100 Boys' Satt. Round Jackets, $2 00 to $3
150 Boys' Gray, Black Cloth do 3 50 to 6
100 Brown and Blue Cloth do 4 50 to 6
200 Boys' Fancy Cass. Sack and Fr. Coats 5 00 to 9
100 Boys' Black Cloth Coats 7 00 to 14
75 Black Satt. Coats 3 00 to 4
125 Boys' & Youths' Overcoats 3 00 to 14
175 Pr. Boys' Fancy Cass Pants 2 50 to 6
125 Pr. Black Cass. Pants 3 50 to 6
150 Boys' Cass., Silk Vests 1 75 to 4
Cash
Clothing Emporium,
No. 125 Broad Street,
Columbus, Georgia.
3,000 Hats! 3,000 Caps!
Of Every Shape, Color and Quality!
And are offered at LOWER PRICES than was ever known in the City, for the same style.
Rosette, Melick & Co.,
125 Broad street,
Columbus, Georgia.
Trunk Depot,
No. 125
Broad St. Columbus Ga.
All who are in want of Trunks, Carpet Bags, Valises, Ladies' Bonnet Boxes, can find a complete assortment at the
Trunk Depot,
No. 125 Broad St.
The following are a few of the styles we have in store:
Ladies' Sole Leather Trunks;
Ladies' Saratoga do. 3 sizes;
Gents' Sole Leather do., 3 qualities;
Gents' English Leather do.;
100 Packing Trunks, 4 sizes;
Sole Leather Valises;
Wood Frame Valises;
Leather, Enamel, Cloth and Carpet Bags.
We would invite an examination of our Stock, feeling assured that the Style, Quality and Assortment that we are enabled to exhibit, together with Unusual Low Prices! cannot fail to please, and give perfect satisfaction. We feel warranted in saying that none will go away dissatisfied, or have cause of regret.
Rosette, Melick & Co.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
The Mountain Meadow Massacre— Horrible Confession
The Salt Lake Valley Tan, of February 29th, contains a
statement from Wm. H. Rogers, in regard to the massacre
at Mountain Meadows in September, 1857, when 120 men,
women and children, emigrants from Arkansas, were
murdered by Mormons. In company with Dr. Forney,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Utah Territory,
Mr. Rogers, about a year since, traversed the district
of country where the massacre occurred. The scene of
the tragedy is thus described:
"When we arrived here in April, 1859, more than a year
and a half after the massacre occurred, the ground for
a distance more than a hundred yards around a central
point, was covered with the skeletons and bones of
human beings, interspersed in places with rolls or
bunches of tangled or matted hair, which, from its
length, evidently belonged to females. In places the
bones of small children were lying side by side with
those of grown persons, as if parent and child had met
death at the same instant and with the same stroke.
Small bonnets and dresses, and scraps of female apparel
were also to be seen in places on the ground there,
like the bones of those who wore them, bleached from
long exposure, but their shape was, in many instances,
entire. In a gulch or hole in the ravine by the side of
the road, a large number of leg and arm bones, and also
of skulls, could be seen sticking above the surface, as
if they had been buried there, but the action of the
water and digging of the wolves had again exposed them
to sight. The entire scene was one too horrible and
sickening for language adequately to describe."
On the authority of information communicated in his
presence to Judge Cradlebaugh, by a participant in the
massacre, Mr. Rogers describes the attack on the
emigrants, the protracted siege which they endured, and
finally the treacherous artifice by which they were
induce to surrender—when all were brutally murdered.
He says:
As soon as it became known that Judge C. intended
holding a court, and investigating the circumstances of
the massacre, and that he would have troops to ensure
protection, and enforce his writs if necessary, several
persons visited him at his rooms at late hours of the
night, and informed him of different facts connected
with the massacre. All these that called thus, stated
that it would be at the risk of their lives if it
became known that they had communicated anything to
him; and they requested Judge Cradlebaugh, if he met
them in public in the day time, not to recognize them
as persons that he had before seen.
One of the men who called thus on Judge Cradlebaugh,
confessed that he participated in the measure, and gave
the following account of it—Previous to the massacre
there was a council held at Cedar City, which President
Haight, and Bishops Higby and Leed attended. At this
council they designed or appointed a large number of
men residing in Cedar City, and in other settlements
around, to perform the work of dispatching these
emigrants. The men appointed for this purpose were
instructed to resort, well armed, at a given time, to a
spring or small stream, lying a short distance to the
left of the road leading into the Meadows, and not very
far from Hamblin's ranch, but concealed from it by
intervening hills. This was the place of rendezvous;
and here the men, when they arrived, painted and
otherwise disguised themselves so as to resemble
Indians. From thence they proceeded, early on Monday
morning, by a path or trail which leads from his spring
directly into the Meadows, and enters the road some
distance beyond Hamblin's ranch. By taking this route
they could not be seen by any one at the ranch. On
arriving at the corral of the emigrants, a number of
the men were standing on the outside by the camp fires,
which, from appearances, they had just been building.
These were first fired upon, and at the first discharge
several of them fell dead or wounded; the remainder
immediately ran to the inside of the corral, and began
fortifying themselves, and preparing for defence as
well as they could, by shoving their wagons closer
together, and digging holes into which to lower them,
so as to keep the shots from going under and striking
them. The attack continued in a desultory and
irregular manner for four or five days. The corral was
closely watched, and if any of the emigrants showed
themselves they were instantly fired at from without.
If they attempted to go to the spring, which was only a
few yards distance, they were sure to fall by the
rifles of their assailants. In consequence of the
almost certain death that resulted from any attempt to
procure water, the emigrants, before the siege
discontinued, suffered intensely from thirst. The
assailants, believing at length that the emigrants
could not be subdued, by the means adopted, resorted to
treachery and strategem to accomplish what they had
been unable to do by force. They returned to the
spring where they had painted and disguised themselves
pervious to commencing the attack, and there removed
those disguises, and again assumed their ordinary
dress. After this, Bishop Lee, with a party of men,
returned to the camp of the emigrants, bearing a white
flag as a signal of truce. From the position of the
corral, the emigrants were able to see them some time
before they reached it. As soon as they discerned it,
they dressed a little girl in white, and placed her at
the entrance of the corral, to indicate their friendly
feelings to the persons bearing the flag. Lee and his
party, on arriving, were invited into the corral, where
they staid about an hour, talking with them about the
attack that had been made upon them. Lee told the
emigrants that the Indians had gone off over the hills,
and that if they would lay down their arms and give up
their property, he and his party would conduct them
back to Cedar City; but if they went out with their
arms, the Indians would look upon it as an unfriendly
act, and would again attack them. The emigrants,
trusting to Lee's honor and to the sincerity of his
statements, consented to the terms which he proposed,
and left their property and all their arms at the
corral, and, under the escort of Lee and his party,
started towards the North in the direction of Cedar
City. After they had proceeded about a mile on their
way, on a signal given by Bishop Higby, who was one of
the party that went to the corral with Lee, the
slaughter began.
The men were mostly killed or shot down at the first
fire, and the women and children, who immediately fled
in different directions, were quickly pursued and
dispatched.
Such was the substance, if not the exact words, of a
statement made by a man to Judge Cradlebaugh, in my
presence, who at the same time confessed that he
participated in the horrible events which he related.
He also gave Judge C. the names of 25 or 30 other men
living in the region, who assisted in the massacre. He
offered also to make the same statement in court and
under oath, if protection was guaranteed to him. He
gave as a reason for divulging these facts, that they
had tormented his mind and conscience since they
occurred, and he expressed a willingness to stand a
trial for his crime.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 17, 1860, p. 3, c. 1
Manufacturing in the South.—The important question
whether the South, being a rich planting region, can
sustain manufacturers coming in competition with the
cheap labor of the North, has happily been solved by
successful experiment. Foremost in this work was our
own city, with her unrivalled water-power; and in the
van of her enterprises was the Eagle Factory, which
commenced operations in December, 1851, and has been
successful from the start. This institution has gone on
enlarging and improving, and all the time paying
handsome dividends out of its profits, until we may now
pronounce it a model factory of the South. It is
announced in our advertising columns that it has
annexed the Howard Factory, another large and
successful establishment. We understand that these
united Factories run 10,000 cotton and 1300 woolen
spindles; that they have looms weaving cotton and
woolen goods 282; that they consume 9 bales of cotton
and 1,000 lbs. of wool per day; and employ 500 h ands,
at a daily expense of $240 per day for their labor. The
capital employed is $395,000.
These figures show the vast importance of this factory
alone to our city and to the neighboring country whose
produce is consumed by the factory and its
operatives.—The superior work of this establishment is
known and appreciated wherever it has found its way,
and to this it owes chiefly its growth and success. We
hail this extensive Columbus institution as one of the
most important agencies engaged in the struggle for
Southern commercial independence, and trust that it may
be long recognized and cherished as such.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 8, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
The Yellow Rose of Texas.
By Samuel.
There's a yellow rose of Texas that I am going to see,
No other darkey knows her, no darkey only me;
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her, we never more will part.
Chorus—
She's the sweetest rose of color this darkey ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew,
You may talk about hour dearest Mae, and sing of Rosa Lee,
But the yellow rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee.
Where the Rio Grande is flowing, and starry skies are bright,
She walks along the river in the quiet summer night;
She thinks if I remember, when we parted long ago,
I promis'd to come back again, and not to leave her so.
Oh! new I'm bound to find her, for my heart is full of woe!
And we'll sing the song together, that we sung so long ago;
We'll play upon the banjo gaily, and we'll sing the songs of yore,
And the yellow rose of Texas shall be mine for ever more.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
Who is a Gentleman.—A gentleman is not merely a person
acquainted with certain forms or conventionalities of
life, easy and self-possessed in society, able to
speak, and act, and move in the world without
awkwardness, free from habits which are vulgar and in
bad taste. A gentleman is something beyond this. At
the base of all his ease and refinement, and tact and
power of pleasing, is the same spirit which lies at the
root of every christian virtue.—It is the thoughtful
desire of doing in every instance to others as he would
that others should do unto him. He is constantly
thinking, not indeed how he may give pleasure to others
for the mere sense of pleasing, but how he can show
them respect, how he may avoid hurting their feelings.
When he is in society he scrupulously ascertains the
position of every one with whom he is brought into
contact, that he may give to each his due honor. He
studies how he may avoid touching upon any subject
which may call up a disagreeable or offensive
association. A gentleman never alludes to, ever
appears conscious of any personal defect, bodily
deformity, inferiority of talent, of rank or
reputation, in the persons in whose society he is
placed. He never assumes any superiority—never
ridicules, never boasts, never makes a display of his
own powers, or rank, or advantages; never indulges in
habits which may be offensive to others.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 7 Osage
Orange.—We have seen nothing used for hedges which
surpasses the osage orange for quickness of growth,
beauty and security. In the fall of 1858, the Board of
Commissioners, of this place, caused to be planted
around the Grave Yard year old plants of the osage
orange, in double rows, about eight inches apart, with
about the same distances between the plants. Last year
they grew an average of at least four feet high. During
the winter the sprouts were cut off to within four
inches of the ground. This spring, although it has
been very dry, each plant has sent out five or six
shoots, and they will average now 3 feet in height, and
by fall it will be a fair hedge almost impenetrable by
any kind of stock.
It will be cut again next winter, however, when the
sprouts will come out five or six to each of those this
year, making from thirty to forty very thorny branches,
in the space of every eight inches, with the rows and
plants alternating, so that those of the inner row are
between those of the outer row. Those wishing to grow
hedges, for protection or ornament, would do well to
try the osage orange.
We have seen nothing equal to it, in all the requisites
of a good hedging shrub.
It is far preferable to any briar fence, because it
remains within the limits where first planted, and is
not subject to die down in some spots, and spread out
in others, as is the case with the Cherokee Rose, tried
some years back by many planters in Middle Georgia.
Those who are scarce of timber would do well to try
this thorn. It is easily propagated from the seed,
which may be obtained from city seed stores.--Madison
Visitor.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
A teaspoonful of salt and teaspoonful of mustard
stirred quickly in warm water and swallowed after any
poison taken into the stomach by accident, will
instantly act as an emetic. As soon after a sthe
stomach is quiet, drink a cup of coffee, clear and
strong, or swallow the white of an egg.
A simple but very effectual remedy for biliousness,
arising from any cause whatever, will be found in
drinking half a tumbler of lemon juice. It can be
repeated, if necessary, and will put many a headache to
flight.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
A Versified Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer. –The
following paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer has been set
to music in England, and is having a great run. It is
the best we have ever seen in any language—there is
nothing wanting and nothing redundant.
Our Heavenly Father, hear our prayer;
Thy name be hallowed everywhere;
Thy kingdom come; Thy perfect will;
In earth, as heaven, let all fulfill;
Give this day's bread that we may live;
Forgive our sins as we forgive;
Help us temptation to withstand,
From evil shield us by Thy hand;
Now and forever unto Thee,
Thy kingdom, power and glory by.
Amen.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 29, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
Whiskers.
The editress of the Lancaster Literary Gazette says she
would as soon nestle her nose in a rat's nest of
swingle tow, as to allow a man with whiskers to kiss
her. We don't believe a word of it. The objections
which some ladies pretend to have to whiskers, all
arise from envy. They don't have any. They would if
they could, but the fact is, the continual motion of
their lower jaw is fatal to their growth. The
ladies—God bless them!—adopt our fashions as far as
they can. Look at the depredations they have committed
on our wardrobes in the last few years. They have
encircled their soft, bewitching necks in our standing
collars and cravats—driving us men to flatties and
turndowns. Their innocent little hearts have been
palpitating in the inside of our waistcoats, instead of
thumping against the outside, naturally intended. They
have thrust their pretty feet and ankles through our
unmentionables, unwhisperables, unthinkaboutables—in
short, as Micawber would say, breeches. And they are
skipping along the streets in our high-heeled boots. Do
you hear, gentlemen? we say boots!
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 29, 1860, p. 3. c. 3
Union Song!
by Toby.
Air—"Old Dan Tucker."
The Union Bell, with a merry peal,
Is ringing for the nation's weal.
The factions all with fear are quaking,
For the slumb'ring masses are awaking!
Hurrah! Hurrah! for BELL and EVERETT,
And the Union! who shall sever it?
The North and South have heard the sound,
The East and West are "bobbing around,"
The Charleston "faction" split asunder
And knocked Democracy all to thunder.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
By the Constitution and the Laws
We stand, without a "nigger" clause,
The "Union" shall our watchword be,
With our JOHN BELL, of Tennessee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
Ye sons of patriotic sires!
Light up again your beacon fires;
From every mountain top and valley,
From town and country, rally! rally!
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
When the battle's fought, and victory won,
We'll all adjourn to Washington,
And pledge our friends with three times three,
For JOHNNY BELL, of Tennessee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 8
How the Southern Belles Dress.—A correspondent of the
Petersburg Express writing from Memphis, Tenn., says:
To give the readers of the Express an idea as to how
the Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi belles
dress, large numbers of whom purchase their dry goods
in Memphis, I would state, that I saw silk dresses, a
single pattern of which sells for $130, and mantles and
other summer wrappings, all lace and worked by the
human hand, which sell at prices ranging from $75 to
$150, $200 and $225. One charming young widow,
residing in Mississippi, spent at a single dry goods
house in Memphis last year, and for the adornment and
comfort of her own person, the moderate figure of
$3,825. What do the North Carolina and Virginia belles
think of that? Enormous amounts are also expended at
the jewelry stores at Memphis, and the ladies here
appear at concerts, balls and parties, literally
covered with diamonds.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 26, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 The
census act imposes a fine of thirty dollars for the
refusal by any person, over twenty years of age, member
of a family, or agent for an absent family, to give
full answers when required by the Marshal or his
assistants to the questions which they are authorized
to put.
COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 26, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 A
machine for making button holes is said to be the
latest thing in the way of invention. It will work, it
is reported, ten button-holes in a minute. The next
thing will be a machine to sew on the buttons, then
"Hurrah for the bachelors."
[Entire year of 1861 missing]
Weekly Columbus Enquirer
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5 Cotton Seed for Soap.—It is said that cotton seed
oil is equal, of not superior to the ordinary refuse-
greese [sic] for soap. The process is so simple that
any housewife may, with little trouble, make the
experiment. Put as much cotton seed into a large
strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed
with a pestle, crush or mash them well; then boil in
strong lye, and proceed as in the usual way. As greese
[sic] may be scarce next year, it may be well to begin
with experiments before the greese [sic] is exhausted.
[Home Journal.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 3,
c. 7
Cotton Batting For Quilts and Comforts.
Our people are called upon to send their Blankets to
the Soldiers. Quilts and Comforts are good substitutes.
The Eagle Company are now manufacturing the Cotton
Batting required in making them. They are also making
Knitting Cotton, Sewing Thread, &c, &c, of which can be
found at the stores of the merchants in the city. J.
Rhodes Brone, Agts.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 3,
c. 4
Fall and Winter Stock of Ready-Made Clothing,
Furnishing Goods, Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c.
&c. &c. J. H. Daniel & co.
Take this method of announcing that they have just
opened their
Large and Well Selected
Stock of
Ready-Made Clothing,
Of Their Own Manufacture
and are now prepared to serve all who may favor them with their custom
At as Low Price as Ever!
Despite the great advance in goods.
Every article sold from this stock is warranted to be as represented, and will be
Sold at old prices for Cash!
Their stock of Men's Furnishing Goods will be found to contain a good assortment of
Linen Bosom Shirts;
Merino, Shaker, and Home-made Flannel Undershirts and Drawers;
Cotton, Flannel and Jeans Drawers;
Gloves, Half-Hose, Suspenders, Cravats, Ties, Collars, &c., &c.
Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings.
A perfect assortment of Black Cloths and Doeskins;
Fancy, French and English Cassimeres;
Milton Cloths;
Velvet, Matalassie, Cashmere and Silk Vestings, &c., all of which they are prepared to manufacture to order, in their usual style.
In the
Military Line
They are prepared to exhibit a general assortment of
Blue and Gray Cloths'
Gray Cassimeres;
Dark and Light Blue Satinets;
Gray Satinets;
Brown Jeans, and yard wide Cottons for lining;
Pant and Coat Canvas and Drill;
Selee[illigible], Holland's, Parmer's Satins;
Flax Thread;
300 dozen Coats' Spool Cotton;
Suspender and Fly Buttons;
40 gross superior Gilt Staff Buttons;
Gold Laces, &c., &c.
Military Caps
Furnished to order, made in the best manner, from every quality of goods.
Confederate Uniforms!
For officers of every grade, made in the very best manner, and warranted to fit.
The Celebrated
Water-Proof Goods!
Impervious to rain, and universally admitted to be the
"Soldier's Best Friend!"
always on hand, made up into Capes, Coats, Blankets, Knapsacks, Haversacks, &c., &c.
Military Men and Civilians
Will find this stock of goods to be one of the best in the South, and are invited to examine it when in want of any of the above goods.
J. H. Daniel & Co.
123 Broad st. Columbus, Ga.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Copperas, almost pure, has been discovered by O. D.
Sledge, Esq., on his plantation near New Market, in
this county. A specimen of it has been left at the
Advocate office. We trust he will go to work and
prepare it for market.
[Huntsville (Ala.) Southern Adv., 8th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Wooden-Soled Shoes.—We learn that the Georgia made
shoes with double maple sole are in very good demand.
Mr. Markstein has already filled a considerable order
from Virginia, for army demand, we suppose. Several
planters have been testing their merits, and the result
has in all cases proved favorable. In our own
immediate vicinity, or in what might properly be called
"The Army of Mobile," they have been tried, and the
report is so favorable that only yesterday an
additional lot was ordered. We have no hesitation in
saying that they will prove an excellent marching shoe.
Some other article might better suit the double-quick
movement, but for an all-day lick they will prove less
fatiguing than a more elastic shoe. Besides, the foot
is less liable to heat in them, no matter what kind of
a sock is worn, or even should the soldier find himself
without any. One thing we must say—though that will
not diminish their value among our boys—they'll never
do to run away in; indeed, they are a Southern shoe,
and not designed for that kind of service.—Mobile
Register.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
From the Fayetteville Observer.
Smoke House Salt—Home-Made Salt.
Messrs. Editors:--As salt is exceedingly scarce and
high you will please permit me through the medium of
your paper to give a few directions respecting home-
manufacture of salt. Dig up the dirt in your smoke
houses as low down as is very salt. Throw a few bushels
of this dust into a hhd., bbl., vat or something of the
kind. Apply water and stir it up well and allow it to
settle. Then have you a stand prepared with clean sand
as though you were going to drip them as you do ashes.
Then dip the water gently out of your hhd., bbl., or
whatever it is, and pour it up in this sand to drip.
When you dip all out add more water and stir up again
as before. Do this until you get all the strength out
of the dirt, then add more and proceed as before.
Dripping it through the sand will, I think, cause it to
get clear. It is an idea of my own, but I think it
will answer the purpose well.—You can at the same time
carry on your boiling and as you drip down through the
sand keep adding the water to your boiler, and once a
day boil down. I think there can be plenty of salt
thus made to answer the demands of the people at
present or until there can be a supply obtained
elsewhere. It does not do well to drip the dirt at the
start as you would ashes, because the water will not
run through readily. And to make it without dripping
the water through; the salt is muddy; therefore,
dripping it through the sand is suggested. MOORE.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
How to Make Candles.—Mr. N. A. Isom has discovered a
new and valuable process for making good candles from
tallow, equal to the star. It is this: To a quart of
tallow add two or three leaves of the prickly pear, and
boil out all the water that may gather. When of the
right consistency, mould in the usual way. We are of
the opinion that a little alum would improve the
candles. Try it, everybody. The prickly pear grows
abundantly in the neighborhood.—Oxford Intell.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
A Female Spy on Horseback.—The Washington correspondent
of the New York Post relates the following incident: A
horseman, clad in a sort of cavalry costume, with a
heavy overcoat and slouched hat, had been noticed for
some time dashing about the city in rather a suspicious
manner. At last the authorities felt themselves
warranted in arresting him, and accordingly one
morning, when trotting down Pennsylvania Avenue, he
found himself suddenly surrounded by a file of
soldiers, and was carried off to prison. But the
funniest part was yet to come. The investigation
resulted not only in the discovery of certain papers,
but also of the fact that the cavalier was a woman.
How long she had been at the game it is impossible to
guess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6 Cotton and Coffee.—We learn from those who have
tested the matter, that the seeds of Sea Island Cotton,
parched and prepared as coffee, are fully equal to the
best Mocha coffee imported; and that the seeds of the
Upland prepared in the same way make an excellent
coffee.—Columbia Guardian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6 A gentleman in Dawson, Terrell county, has
succeeded in making cotton cards, and is now engaged in
manufacturing them. Good for the blockade!—Macon
Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 18, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2 A Substitute for Milk and Cream.—Beat up the whole
of a fresh egg, in a basin, and then pour boiling tea
over it gradually, to prevent its curdling. It is
difficult from the taste to distinguish the composition
from the richest cream.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 18, 1862, p. 1,
c. 6 Newspapers in Texas.—The San Antonio Herald says:
"We cannot count more than ten papers now published in
this state, out of some sixty a year ago. War and
blockade are death to newspapers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 25, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
From the Second Georgia Regiment.
Camp Georgia, near Manassas, } February 9, 1862. }
Editor Enquirer: . . . In this connection, Mr. Editor,
allow me to say to the women of the South, that a great
deal now depends upon them. It is hard, I grant, to be
separated from husbands, sons and brothers, but it
would be harder still to have a ruthless and merciless
enemy march triumphantly through our fair and blessed
land—an enemy who would be blind to all but the
gratification of their hellish instincts and passions,
and would leave no stone unturned to wreak their
fanatical vengeance in every conceivable manner.
Instead, then, of writing to your husbands, sons and
brothers, begging them not to re-enlist, write letters
of encouragement to them, bidding them to go on, and
assure them that your prayers will day and night arise
to the God of Battles for the success and ultimate
triumph of our arms. With this encouragement and
smiles of approval of the fair daughters of the South,
to cheer up the soldiers who are fighting our battles,
there can be no such thing as our subjugation. I fear,
very much fear, that our fair daughters are growing
cold in this matter—but if they would but reason with
themselves, there would be no necessity for this or any
other appeal to their patriotism. Rise up, Ladies, in
your might, and not only give encouragement to your
friends already in the field, but drive from among you
the cowardly wretches who are still hovering around
your cities, towns and neighborhoods, and let them know
that their presence cannot longer be tolerated by you,
wile their country calls for and needs their services
to drive back the black-hearted and unprincipled foe,
who are threatening to level you to their own standard.
. .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The New Flag of the Confederacy.
We learn that the Committee of Congress, charged with
determining and reporting a design for the flag of the
Southern Confederacy, have adopted one, which we
reproduce in the sketch below:
[sketch]
It will be seen from this sketch that the flag is to be
blue "Union" on a red field; the stars being white, the
national colors of red, white and blue being thus
reproduced. There are four stars disposed in the form
of a square within the Union. The committee have chosen
the design from a great number and variety submitted to
them. The collection of the designs offered to the
committee is quite curious—beehives, snakes, temples of
liberty, and all sorts of devices figuring among them.
The design adopted, it is understood, is almost
unanimously approved by Congress, with the exception of
the stars and their arrangement, for which some of the
members propose to substitute the constellation of the
Southern Cross. It is understood that the other parts
of the design will certainly be adopted by
Congress.—Richmond Examiner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 4, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Malone's Mixture for a Cough or Cold.—Take one tea cup
of flax seed, soak it all night; in the morning put in
a kettle two quarts of water; a handful, split up, of
liquorice root; one quarter of a pound of raisins,
broke in half. Let them broil till the strength is
thoroughly extracted, then add that flax seed which has
been previously soaked. Let all boil half an hour more,
watching and stirring, that the mixture may not burn.
Then strain, and add lemon juice and sugar to the
taste. Take any quantity of it cold through the day,
and half a tumblerful of the above mixture warm at
night. The recipe is excellent.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 1, c.
5
Write to the Soldiers.
Could I through your paper pen a sentence that would
reach effectually every Southern reader who may have a
relative, a friend or acquaintance in the army, that
sentence would be, write to the Soldiers. There are
many of them far from home, among strangers, and
enduring every toil and privation for their country. A
line or a word will nerve their hearts and cheer them
on. Go to our crowded post-office, as I go. See the
war-worn soldier's anxiety as he asks for a letter; see
him get it, eagerly break the seal and read the pen
tracings of loved ones at home. Often I've seen the lip
tremble, the eye dilate, and even the tear glisten, as
line upon line was read. Some father, mother, sister
or wife or sweetheart, had sent him words of cheer. You
can see him grasp his weapon tighter, carefully fold
his letter, and with a firmer tread and more elastic
spirits, return to duty. On the other hand look at the
bitter, cruel, stinging disappointment of the soldier
who, day after day, goes for an expected letter, and
finding none, turns away with saddened heart, feeling
that no one cared for him. Again, let me say, write to
the soldiers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 1, c.
5
From the LaGrange Reporter.
Rye Coffee.—Many of our people are daily in the habit
of using rye as a substitute for coffee without being
aware of the fact, that the grain when burnt contains
upwards of 50 per ct. of phosphoric acid, which acts
injuriously upon the whole bony structure. In the
young it effectually prevents the full development of
the osseous tissues, and in the old, it lays the
foundation for dry gangrene. It possesses the power of
dissolving the phosphate of lime, which constitutes
upwards of fifty per cent. of the bone in man. This
same power it exerts over utero gestation, and thereby
brings about all the concomitant evils of abortion.
Cases of this kind have come under my professional
observation during a few months past, and I think the
facts ought to be spread before the people. L. J.
Robert, M. D.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c.
2
To the Patriotic Ladies!
Bring your Old Brass to be Cast into Cannon! The
ladies, believing that there is in the country a large
quantity of old Brass Ware, now of little value to the
owners, but which if collected and cast into cannon,
would materially aid in the public defence, make this
call upon all who have such old metal to contribute it
for that purpose.
Old Brass Andirons, Knobs, Keys, and even Buckles, can
be made available; and even your bright and shining
utensils, if thus appropriated, would burnish with a
greater lustre your own patriotism, and aid far more
your struggling country, than if kept for the
decoration of your parlors.
This appeal is addressed to all who have such articles
to bring or send them to the store of J. Ennis & Co.,
in Columbus, at once.
We have reliable assurance that we can have the Cannon
cast in Columbus on the most reasonable terms, if not
entirely free of charge, and all that we need is the
metal. It is believed that there is an abundance of it
in Columbus and its vicinity, and we earnestly call
upon all having even the smallest article of old Brass
Ware to contribute it to the great work of defending
their own homes from the Northern invader.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
From the Macon Telegraph.
Gunboat Fund.
Mr. Clisby: Sir: We see by the Charleston papers, that
a young lady, Miss Sue L. Gelzen, of Summerville, has
started a subscription to build a gunboat at
Charleston, by the ladies of the Palmetto State, which
is being responded to by the ladies of Carolina. We
propose that her noble example should be followed by
our native Georgia. And as an earnest of our
intentions, we herewith enclose you our subscriptions
of five dollars each, to build a gunboat, for our own
gallant war-worn veteran Commodore Tattnall, who oft
has bared his breast to the "battle and the breeze."
We know there is patriotism enough among the ladies of
the Empire State of the South, to raise the necessary
fund to build one that will do credit to Georgia. We
would therefore, propose the following names to act as
agents to receive funds from the ladies of Georgia:
For Macon.—Editor Georgia Telegraph, Editor Georgia Messenger, Col. L. N. Whittler, Jas. A. Nisbet, Esq., Mrs. Washington Poe.
Savannah.—Savannah Republican, Savannah Morning News.
Augusta.—Constitutionalist, Chronicle & Sentinel.
Columbus.—Times and Enquirer.
Atlanta.—Intelligencer and Confederacy.
Milledgeville.—Southern Federal Union and Southern Recorder.
Albany.—Richard Clark and Sims & Rusk [?]
Americus—John J. Scarboro and T. M. Furlow.
Cuthbert.—Edward McDonald and Otho P. Beall.
Sandersville.—James S. Hook, Esq.
Waynesboro.—Mrs. Shewmake.
Covington.—Wm. P. Anderson.
Not being sufficiently acquainted to name agents in the
various counties of Georgia, we would recommend the
ladies to appoint agents in their various towns and
counties and remit their collections to a committee in
Savannah, to be composed of His Honor Edward J. Harden,
R. R. Cuyler, President, Central Railroad, G. B. Lamar,
President Bank of Commerce.
Respectfully yours,
Mary Ann & Ella.
All newspapers in Georgia please copy.
We need hardly say that we would cheerfully accept a
commission of this kind. The proposition to raise the
fund may as well be regarded at once as successful, for
whatever the Ladies undertake is sure to be
accomplished. All who wish to have a hand in the
patriotic work should therefore respond at once. We
will acknowledge through the Enquirer any subscription
forwarded to us. A large sum for any one subscriber,
we are satisfied will not be necessary. Who will "start
the ball" in this region?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 18, 1862, p. 3, c.
4 Improved Spinning Wheel.—Mr. H. A. Cook, of this
place, has presented us with one of his "Improved,
Dixie Spinning Wheels." The improvement is in the
spindle and can be used upon the old fashioned wheels.
They spin three times as fast as the old spindles. This
is a timely and valuable invention. Everybody should
have one; as everybody who can should be spinning and
weaving during the next winter. The wheels can be had
at the Foundry in this place. [Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 25, 1862, p. 2, c.
2
The Boys Want a Chance.
Mr. Clisby: I see in your valuable paper that the
ladies are getting up a Gunboat Fund. I propose that
the boys of the Empire State come up and show their
patriotism in handing in their surplus dimes to aid in
helping to build another "Virginia" to drive the
Lincoln fleet from the shores of Georgia. I would
propose the following names to act as agents to receive
funds from the juveniles of Georgia:
Macon—J. Clisby, Simri Rose.
Columbus—J. H. Martin, J. W. Pease.
Atlanta—Southern Confederacy.
Milledgeville—Recorder.
Americus—T. M. Furlow.
Covington—W. P. Anderson.
Albany—Sims & Rust.
Cuthbert—Ab. Watkins.
The above named gentlemen will remit the amounts to R. R. Cuyler, President C. R. R.
Respectfully yours, A Boy of 13.
All the papers in the State will please copy.—Macon Telegraph, 18th.
It will give us pleasure to act as the medium for
transmitting any money that the boys may devote to this
patriotic enterprise. We know that the tightness of the
times reduces their usual amount of money, but we hope
that they can still spare something, however small, and
that they will contribute whatever they can spare. It
will be a matter of pride, in their manhood, for the
boys of to-day to reflect that they aided in building
the "Virginia" that drove the Federal gunboats from the
shores and rivers of Georgia.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 25, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
To the patriotic Ladies of Muscogee and adjacent
Counties.—The ladies of this City and vicinity propose,
with your aid, to have one or more small brass cannon
cast, for the defence—if needed—of our homes. If not
needed here, it will be wanted elsewhere. We ask you to
send in for this purpose, all the articles of brass and
copper which you can spare, to help to make a
sufficient amount. Every family has some article of
brass and copperware which can be spared, such as
Andirons, Knobs, Candlesticks, Weights, Mortars and
Bells. Send them in, however small in amount, and
deposit them at the store of J. Ennis & Co., where they
will be taken care of. The ladies have appointed the
undersigned a committee to carry into execution this
patriotic work, and they feel sure it can be
accomplished, if each person will aid what she can. We
are confident that two, and perhaps four, small brass
field pieces can be had from this source, each one of
which will be worth fifty men to our cause. What you
do, do quickly, that the work may go on, for now is the
day of our country's need.
J. F. Bozeman,
H. V. Meigs,
W. E. Jones,
D. F. Willcox,
Jas. Ennis,
Committee.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
The Surrender of St. Augustine to the Federals.
We conversed with a gentleman yesterday who passed the
Federal pickets at St. Augustine, going in and coming
out, unobserved. He gives the following information:. .
. No country resident is allowed to leave the city to
return to his place without a pass, which was granted
upon his taking an oath that should he leave his place,
he will take up St. Augustine as his home; and no
citizen is allowed to leave without swearing that he
will return. On Monday last the Catholic Priest and the
Episcopal Minister, were notified that unless they
desisted from praying for Jeff Davis and the Southern
Confederacy, they should be sent to Fort LaFayette.
Some of the ladies who appeared on the streets wore
miniature Confederate flags in their bosoms. One of
them confronted a Federal officer, telling him that
though there were no men left in the town who had the
spirit or manliness to defy them, there were women who
would. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 2, c.
8 Economy.—We were shown a few days since a sample of
thread spun from cotton carded on a woollen factory at
Mr. J. Summerour's, Amicolala. It proves beyond
question that cotton can be manufactured into rolls on
wool cards so as to answer all the purposes of domestic
use. The rolls are sold at the mill at 20 cents per
lb; and if cotton be bought below at 7 and 8 cents they
would cost much less. During the blockade we can get
neither cards nor goods from abroad, nor thread from
home only at a ruinous price, therefore every prudent
house keeper will at once arrange to make their own
cloth. This is true independence, the results of which
will shortly make us a great self-sustaining nation,
and a wise, good and happy people.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 3, c.
1 The Gun Metal Contribution.—An inspection of the
brass ware contributed by the ladies for the
manufacture of cannon gives a pretty good idea of the
temper of the Southern people. Many fine and costly
household implements have been contributed, including
andirons, fenders, lamp stands, and a variety of ware
for parlor ornament as well as for household and
kitchen use. It is apparent that those who thus freely
devote such articles to the public defence have no idea
of submitting to "subjugation." We are glad to see that
the contribution is progressing so rapidly. A large
quantity of brass and copper ware has already been
collected, and it accumulates daily. The collection is
at the store of J. Ennis and Co.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 1, 1862, p. 3, c.
4
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Commonwealth, 27th.
Extracts—Letter from Nashville.
Nashville, March 19, 1862. My Dear Friend: Since you
left here things have changed to a very great extent.
The Nashville of to-day, is not the Nashville of a few
months since. Fully two-thirds of our best population
have gone, and are now scattered over the cotton
States. Their places are filled by the very dregs of
society from Northern cities. There are thousands of
merchants and drummers here from New York,
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and new business houses
are being opened here every day by Northern men. There
are numbers of steamboats arriving each day from
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. The
cars are now running regularly from Louisville to
Edgefield. Gen. Buell is still in command here. His
headquarters is at the Hermitage, twelve miles from the
city on the Lebanon turnpike. His force is at least
60,000 men. Gens. Thomas and Shoepf are at Lebanon,
thirty miles northeast of here, with 25,000 men. Thus
you will see there are 85,000 Federals in the vicinity
of Nashville, and the cry is still they come. All the
horses and mules and many of the able bodied negroes in
the counties adjoining Davidson have been pressed into
the Federal service, and are working like beavers on
the fortifications around the city, which are of the
most formidable character. The heaviest fortifications
are east and south of the city. The enemy have
possession of the towns of Lebanon, Murfreesboro',
Levergn, Franklin, Shelbyville, Columbia, Centreville
and Charlotte, which towns are east, south, and
southeast from the city, and embracing a radius of
forty miles. They are constructing the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, and the Tennessee and Alabama
Railroad, as they proceed South. . . . The Federals are
sorely disappointed at the reception they meet from our
people. We keep aloof from them and have no
communication with them whatever. The country people
refuse to bring in any thing at all, and our market is
almost bare. Aside from the miserable and money-making
population with which every Southern State is unhappily
afflicted, our people are sound to the core. We are
hopeful and buoyant, and will wait patiently and pray
fervently for the good time coming. Our women, God
bless them! are all in favor of the South. An
incident occurred here the other day, which is worthy
of mention. Several Federal regiments were passing
through the city for some point east. In passing by
the elegant residence of Dr. Bolling, a Federal officer
asked a lady who stood in a porch,
"Whose residence is this, madam?"
"Dr. Bolling's."
"Where is Dr. Bolling?"
"He is in the Confederate Army."
"Ha, so you are the wife of a rebel."
"Yes, sir, I am, and I glory in it. And (calling her
little daughter to the door, who held a Confederate
flag in her hand) here is the child of a rebel, and
here is the proud emblem of rebellion, which can be
seen in every room in this house."
The crest fallen vandal, putting spurs to his horse,
replied, "I will see you again madam." This is the
spirit which animates our women. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Georgia Made Looms.—A few days since we saw in
operation in the Athens Factory some looms that were
put up in this place. We were informed by the Agent
that they would operate equally as well as the Northern
loom. There are twelve of them already running, and
thirteen others will soon be put in operation. They
were put up by the Athens Steam Company. This is
another step towards Southern independence.—Athens
Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Cannon Metal.
Adjutant General Wayne, in a letter to Mrs. Dr.
Blackburn, Barnesville, says: "I fear that some of our
patriotic citizens, with more zeal than knowledge, are
about to inconvenience our good housewives of Georgia
without any corresponding advantage to our cause.
Brass is a composition of copper and zinc, and of no
use in making guns, which, like bells, are made of
copper and tin.
"If Gen. Beauregard, in his appeal to the planters of
Mississippi, meant anything more than to arouse their
slumbering patriotism to active exertion, he wanted the
tin of which their bells were partly composed. We have
the copper, but for the fabrication of bronze,
(commonly, but erroneously called brass guns,) we want
tin.
"That you may understand this, I will tell you that
science has determined for guns, as best, the
proportions of nine parts of copper to one part of tin;
and for bells seven or eight parts of copper to three
parts of tin. By having a large number of bells,
therefore, we can add two or three times the weight of
copper, as analysis may determine their composition,
and bring them to the standard of gun metal.
"The lightest field piece in our batteries, a six
pounder, weighs on an average, eight hundred and
eighty-four pounds. For the casting of a six pounder,
therefore, at least one thousand pounds of metal would
be necessary. Bronze guns are used in field batteries,
only for their lighter weight, by which the battery is
more readily moved. They are not so durable as iron
guns. Science, within the past five years, has opened
the way for casting iron guns of sufficient lightness
for field uses, and there is not a foundry in the
Confederacy that is not now working to its utmost
ability. If there is, I should like to know it, and it
should not be idle long.
"The tin referred to is block tin, not sheet thin,
which is only sheet iron, washed with a solution of
tin. I mention this that we may not have our wives
stripped to no purpose."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 1, c.
4 Prices at Richmond.—The Richmond Dispatch draws the
following picture of trade in the necessaries of life
at the capital:
We have never heard of anything in the history of man
like the high prices which prevail for every article of
use and necessity. Everybody who has anything to sell
or dispose of seems to have no other thought than to
wring from the wants of the purchaser the last dime
that can be squeezed out from him, and to turn the
screws upon the poor victim to the last point of human
endurance. Seventy-five cents a pound for butter,
thirty cents for sugar, four dollars and a half per
pound for tea, fifty cents per quart for salt, fifty
cents for a string of three miserable fish, a shilling
to twenty-five cents a pound for beef, seventy-five
cents a peck for sweet potatoes, forty dollars for an
ordinary jeans coat, twenty-five for an indifferent
pair of trowsers, twelve and fifteen dollars for shoes,
are only a few specimens of the gigantic oppressions
which the rapacity and avarice of man are exercising on
this community.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 8, 1862, p. 2, c.
7
Cotton Seed as a Substitute for Coffee.
To the Editor of the Charleston Mercury:
Seeing a notice, some time ago, that cotton seed was a
good substitute for coffee, I was induced to try a
mixture of two-thirds cotton seed and one-third coffee,
and found it answered extremely well. The seed merely
require to be washed and parched before grinding, the
same as coffee. We have been using it for six or seven
weeks constantly in our family, and many of our friends
who drank it without knowing what the mixture was,
pronounced it equal to the best coffee. A friend
suggest that parched cotton seed in future may be known
as "Carolina Mocha." As these are times in which all
are called upon to practice economy, I send you the
result of my experiment, requesting an insertion as
early as convenient, in your paper. An Old Housekeeper.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
The Cotton Factories.
The Augusta Chronicle says:--The Augusta Factory has
followed the commendable example of the Athens and the
Macon factories, and fixed the prices of their cotton
goods at rates below what could have been extorted from
the necessities of the people. It has also provided
that it will only sell to such merchants as will pledge
themselves not to charge at retail more than two cents
per yard over the wholesale prices they pay the
Factory. This is very well, but we must confess it
would have come with a better grace from the Cotton
Factories had they done it before a storm of public
opinion was about to gather around them for their
exorbitant profits.—Sav. Rep.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c,
8 Demise of Newspaper.—The Red Land Express thus sums
up the demise of our old Texas exchanges: The days of
the "Chronicles" are past; the shrill notes of the
"Clarion" no more heard; the stalwart strokes of the
"Pioneer" have ceased to greet our ears; the "Banners"
(Carthage and Beaumont) no longer unfurl their bright
folds to the sun; the "Times" gave place to revolution;
the "Enquirer" long since ceased his questionings; the
"Printer" has yielded up the ghost, and there is not
even an "Echo" to tell us where they are gone. We can
but "Express" our deep grief at the early loss of our
boon companions, and pray that our fate be not too soon
like theirs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c.
8 We are gratified that Mr. J. M. Keep, of this city,
has in process of construction a machine for the
manufacture of woolen and cotton cards. He has shown a
specimen of his handiwork, and we have no hesitancy in
pronouncing him fully capable of his undertaking. The
specimen shown us was made by the model of his machine,
which is to be moulded out of iron.—Selma Reporter.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c.
3
The Druggist and the Speculator.
Speculator.—"Have you any copperas for sale, sir?"
Druggist.—"Yes, sir, a small quantity."
Speculator—"How many barrels?"
Druggist—"Six or seven."
Speculator—"What do you ask for it?"
Druggist—"Sixty cents a pound."
Speculator—"Well, I'll take it all!"
Druggist—("Smelling a rat.")—"But I can't sell it all to you, sir. I must keep up a supply for my regular customers. I will, however, think of your offer. Call again."
Before the "call again" was made our clever and thoughtful Druggist ascertained that the greedy Speculators had combined to monopolize all the copperas in the city and raise its price from 60 to 75 cents. They were, however, in part, balked in that speculation.
This is one only of the many schemes resorted to, almost daily, by the cormorants who are after the almighty dollar, all over the country.
Yesterday, bacon was sold from a wagon in this city, at 35 cents. Just as soon as it was weighed, the purchaser refused to take less than 40 cents for it from those who witnessed the sale and purchase.
[Atlanta Intell.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Rice Cakes.—As rice is the cheapest kind of food we have, as well as the most nutricious [sic], the following from a correspondent of the Field Notes, will be read by every good house-keeper with interest.
While visiting the West India Islands, I became very fond of rice, cooked after this fashion: they boil the rice in the usual manner and let it cool, then add a little water or milk to it, making it about the consistency of common buckwheat cakes. Add to this a little salt and a handful of flour, and bake on a griddle as you would batter cakes and buckwheat. An egg will help some by making them bake quicker. Try it, housekeepers; I thin you will find it an excellent dish. Any dyspeptic can eat these rice cakes.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Keeping Husbands at Home.
Some worthy wives are much troubled with erratic husbands, and are much perplexed to keep them at home. If the domestic experience of many of the fair sex were unveiled, it would afford a curious chapter of life history. A little incident in the life of Mr. Josiah Quinhart, hereinafter related, will illustrate our meaning. Mr. Quinhart is a middle-aged gentleman, of sober habits; but having read Dr. Armstrong's poem on the Preservation of Health, he accepts one piece of advice given by the Medical Board, viz: to get typsy [sic] once in a while, believing that an occasional fit of intoxication purifies the corporeal system as a thunder storm does the atmosphere. Since the stoppage of the sale of liquor, he has indulged the practice by some process only known to the initiated, and facetiously by them termed, "running the blockade." Mrs. Quinhart, however, has no faith in the anti-temperance prescription of Dr. Armstrong, and when Mr. Quinhart becomes headstrong on the subject, in order to keep him from "running the blockade," she purloins his suspenders, without which, as she supposes, he would scarcely venture out of doors. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Quinhart gave notice that he felt a bilious attack, which announcement Mrs. Quinhart understood to signify that he was about to take the Armstrong physic, and waiting her opportunity while Mr. Q. sat dozing in the parlor, she contrived to ungear his suspenders, and slip them out without any incumbrance [sic] to his nap. Mr. Q. waked up, and feeling the want of some stimulating medicine, arose to leave the house, but immediately discovered that his mainstay has been unslipped. Being an ingenious man, he bethought himself of a substitute for suspenders, and while his wife was out of the way, he untied a paper parcel containing four pounds of sugar, cut off two pieces of the wrapping twine of a suitable length, and making loops in the ends to serve for button holes, he rigged himself up to his entire satisfaction. Slipping on his vest and coat, he laughed in his sleeve, thinking how he had tricked Mrs. Q., and proceeded, without a moment's delay, in search of "contraband." Having physicked himself with six or eight glasses of brandy and sugar, he began to feel quite vigorous, and left the repository of the hidden treasure for the purpose of walking off some of his surplus animal spirits. Exercise only made him more sprightly; he became as frolicsome as a young colt, prancing and skipping along the pavement to the astonishment of the older citizens, and the infinite entertainment of the juveniles. At last, while he attempted a squirrel-like leap over a wide gutter his frail substitute for suspenders gave way, and his progress was arrested in a manner which delicacy will not permit us to describe. Mr. Quinhart was relieved from his embarrassed position by an officer of police, who thought he deserved a night's lodging in the cage at least, for the shock he had given to the spectators. On Mr. Quinhart's promise to renounce the Armstrong theory and join the Sons of Temperance, the kind hearted officers let him go. Mrs. Quinhart is under the impression that her husband's late experience has effectually cured him of any desire to practice the Armstrong theory, especially as long as the "blockade" shall show the effect of "contraband" when swallowed in large doses. [Richmond Examiner, 3d.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Cut off the Back Legs of Your Chairs.
I will tell you a secret worth knowing. A thousand
things not worth half so much have been patented, and
elevated into a business. It is this:
If you cut off the back legs of your chairs, so that
the back part of the seat shall be two inches lower
than the front part, it will greatly relieve the
fatigue of sitting, and keep your spine in much better
shape. The principal fatigue in sitting comes from your
sliding forward and thus straining the ligaments and
muscles in the small of the back. The expedient I have
advised will obviate this tendency, and, as I have
suggested, add greatly to the comfort and healthfulness
of the sitting position. The front edge of a chair
should not be more than fifteen inches high, for the
average man, nor more than fourteen for the average
woman. The average chair is now seventeen inches high
for all, which no amount of slanting in the seat can
make comfortable—Lewis' Gymnasium.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 15, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Cotton Cards.—We have inadvertently neglected to call
attention, editorially, to the important fact that
Messrs. J. Ennis & Co., of this city, have in store a
large lot of Cotton Cards. It is an important fact,
for such cards have for months been in much demand, and
it was almost impossible to procure them at any price.
It has been stated that they cannot be manufactured in
the South, for the want of the right kind of wire. The
ingenuity and enterprise of our people will supply all
such wants in time; but it is essential that they
should have cotton cards now, when the raw material is
uncommonly cheap and every process of its manufacture
extravagantly high. The cotton card, the spinning
wheel and the hand loom, though they look very much
like a return to primitive and "old fogy" customs, will
act an essential part in working out our people's
independence and prosperity.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 1, c.
8 Affairs in Nashville.—The Nashville correspondent of
the New York Herald says: Men do not make any
demonstration publicly, but it is plain by whom women,
girls and boys are pushed in to offer the grossest
insults to officers and men. Any one of the
demonstrations made by the ladies would appear
ridiculous if mentioned, but it is certain that though
harmless, their actions are very aggravating to the
men, particularly as the whole army has been careful to
appear, if not in reality, polite as my Lord
Chesterfield. Let me mention an instance of the means
employed by the fair dames of Nashville to insult our
officers. Some of our Generals were standing yesterday
on the sidewalk in front of the St. Cloud Hotel.—While
they were conversing, a couple of ladies, in full dress
of gaudy colors, approached, they followed by a great
fat, dirty and slovenly negro wench. As the ladies
neared the Generals, they changed from lines of battle
and marched to a single file, although there was plenty
of room. At the same time they carefully drew their
dresses aside, to prevent their coming in contact with
the Generals—ten feet distant—and placed their
handkerchiefs upon their diminutive nasal organs. The
negro wench had been well drilled, and it was with the
most serious face and admirable delicacy that she drew
her hoopless skirt to one side, and put a great red
bandanna to her nose. One General scratched his pate
with a puzzled air; another swore in "approved German
style," while a third appeared to enjoy the joke of the
ladies and anger and chagrin of his friends.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
1
Make Your Own Salt.
Editor Enquirer: Having seen in your paper, a month or
two ago, a statement that Salt in considerable
quantities could be made from the dirt in old
smokehouses, I have given it a trial, with entire
success. Being satisfied that n o one having a smoke-
house that has been used for several years, need be
personally uneasy about the price of salt for a year or
two to come, I give you my experience as a guide for
others.
I dug up earth, which I found by taste to be strongly
impregnated with salt to the depth of two or three
inches, and filled a flour barrel with it, first
putting in the bottom a layer of straw and about six
inches of clean sand. Through this salty earth water
was dripped, just as ley is made, and the brine was
quite strong and of a color much resembling pale ley.
This I boiled down until the salt solidified, and sunk
to the bottom of the vessel, leaving but little brine,
and that of a dark color.
The salt thus obtained is coarse-grained, and but
little darker than that ordinarily used to cure meat;
and I am satisfied that if the brine, before boiling,
were dripped through a barrel of clean sand, the salt
would be as white and clean-looking as the imported
article. My experience indicates that about a pint and
a half of salt can be made from a gallon of strong
brine, and I believe that at least ten or twelve
gallons of such brine may be dripped through each
barrel of earth from the smoke-house. M.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
2 Muskets Against Rifles.—A young man, who was in the
midst of the fight at Donelson, tells us, that, in the
beginning, the enemy shot as rapidly as we did; but,
after an hour or two, we fired twice to their once;
and, before the battle was ended, we shot three times
to their once. The reason of the difference was, that
the enemy used rifles, which became foul and very
difficult to load; while our men had muskets. This is
a very important difference in favor of the musket, and
may decide the fate of empire. Muskets at short range,
from 50 to 150 yards—the shorter the better, are the
best weapons yet invented. The short range can
generally be obtained by having an eye to the
ground.—Richmond Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
2 Extortion.—The paper mills yesterday took another
hitch upward in their prices. Last Wednesday paper for
our little daily stood at $6 00—Monday, $8 25. What
will it be Saturday? We shall always retain a fond
affection for those fellows. When a man gets you into
his power and shows that he can appreciate and approve
the advantage to the utmost, he entitles himself to
everlasting remembrance. [Macon Tel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
5
Federal Accounts from Nashville.
We copy from the Baltimore News Sheet, of the 3d inst.,
the following late Nashville items:. . . The women of
Nashville still continue to behave very naughtily. They
have devised all manner of ingenious insults, greatly
to the annoyance of the Federal officers, who cannot
walk the streets without being subjected to the
mortification of seeing these fair but cruel dames and
damsels turn their backs upon them and draw their
skirts aside from contact with them. In retaliation of
those most uncomplimentary proceedings, Gen. Negley has
ordered a guard to be stationed at the door of the
residence of two ladies who were discourteous to Gen.
Crittenden, and who are not to be permitted to leave
the house until they promise—not to do so again.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 2, c.
8 Castor Oil.—The New Orleans Crescent furnishes the
following directions for the preparation of this
delicious beverage: Strip the seeds of their husks or
pods; then bruise them in mortars. Afterwards they are
to be tied in linen bags, and boiled in water until the
oil which they contain rises to the surface. This is
carefully skimmed off, strained to free it from any
accidental impurities, and bottled for use. Pressed
castor oil is obtained like almond oil, by bruising the
seeds into paste with water and distilling the mixture,
when the oil passes over.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 3, c.
6 The course of the Athens, Macon and Augusta factories
in fixing the price of their cotton goods at moderate
rates, has met with universal commendation. Mr.
McCullough, near Gladden's Grove, Fairfield District,
S. C., is manufacturing and selling cotton yarn at $1 a
bunch. This is a fair, even a liberal price, for the
consumer to pay, considering the price which he has to
take for his cotton.—Charleston Courier. Would it not
be well for the Georgia factories to imitate the
patriotic course of Mr. McCullough. Our soldiers need
socks. Our wives and daughters are willing to knit
them. The factories throughout the country should, in
a corresponding spirit of liberality, aid this good
work. There is much deep and smothered indignation all
over the land against the greedy extortioner. Let the
Courts and Grand Juries make diligent inquiry in regard
to the matter, and bring guilty parties under
inflections of the penal code, or the people, it is
believed, will take the remedy into their own hands and
commit acts of vengeance, which every good citizen
should discourage and deplore. The extortioners may be
sure of one thing, that our soldiers will not be
permitted to fight their battles with bare backs and
empty stomachs whilst there are goods and provisions in
the country.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 4, c.
2
From the Southern Federal Union. Raw Hide Shoes.
A few weeks since I casually heard one of the most
intelligent planters of Georgia, and who also plants
largely in Texas, giving a description of this article,
and believing that the manner of preparing them would
be useful to a people who are fighting a powerful enemy
without and a worse enemy within our midst—the vile and
detestable extortioner—I procured for publication the
following statement. Baldwin.
Raw Hide Texas Shoes.
Capt. Clark Owens, of Texana, Jackson county, Texas,
has a company of eighty men, now stationed at Houston,
Texas, defending the coast and city of Galveston; many
of these gallant soldiers are well shod with the raw
hide shoes, which in symmetry and utility are not
behind the best shoes used in our Southern Confederacy.
The beef hide is placed in water and ashes, and remains
there until the hair will come off, the hide is then
soaked in fresh water and rubbed until the lye is
extracted; it is then soaked from 40 to 60 hours in
strong salt and water; this prevents the hide from ever
becoming hard and horny; it is then dried in the open
air, not in the sun, and then beat with a maul or
mallet until it becomes pliable as leather; it is then
made into shoes as shoemakers make other shoes; upper
part and sole are all made of this prepared raw hide,
and made by sewing or pegging on the sole. The shoes
are then well greased with oil, hog's lard or tallow,
greased all over the outside, both upper and bottom
parts; this renders the shoes water proof, and in every
way as valuable as the best leather shoes. These shoes
are made with the grain or hair side outside, and in
every respect are a cheap and valuable shoe.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 22, 1862, p. 4, c.
3 Louisiana Cottonade.—We translate from L'Avant
Courier the following: The Creole women of Attakapas
have been making for a long time, out of the cotton
grown upon the soil, certain goods much esteemed in the
markets of the South. A woman can make twenty-five
ells (an ell is a yard and a half), of cottonade a
month, and this is worth $3 an ell, which makes $75.
The expenses of fabrication are small. Two years since
a Tennessean brought into Attakapas a certain number of
machines to clean, card and spin the cotton. There are
now in this region about a hundred of these machines,
capable of making 300 ells of cottonade a month. The
cottonade sells at a price reduced to $1.75 an ell. The
machine imported from Tennessee does not occupy more
than four or five square feet, and can be worked by two
children.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 1, c.
8 Substitute for Soda.—A lady in Fluvanna county sends
us the following, which we publish for the information
of housekeepers: To the ashes of corn cobs, add a
little boiling water. After allowing it to stand for a
few minutes, pour off the lye, which can be used at
once with an acid, (sour milk or vinegar.) It makes the
bread as light almost as soda.—Exchange.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 2, c.
3
Bran Beer.
Editor Enquirer: Severe imitations of coffee and tea
have been proposed, and they make a beverage pleasant
to the taste and in this respect much resembling our
common table drinks before the war. But it is not
pretended that they have the invigorating properties of
real tea and coffee. It is my purpose to suggest not an
imitation, but a substitute for tea and coffee, which,
if once fairly tried, I think will be adhered to by
those giving it a trial. It has the stimulating effect
of coffee, and is exceedingly palatable and wholesome
in its effect. The article to which I allude is bran
beer, which can be made quite strong and very cheaply,
thus: Take three quarts of wheat bran (costing three
cents), pour on cold or hot water enough to soak it
thoroughly, let it stand until the bran sours and rises
(which will be about twenty-four hours), then pour on
one gallon of boiling water and let it steep in a
covered vessel until cold enough to strain through a
cloth; strain it through a thin cloth, and let it stand
in a pan or pail until the fine flour in the bran
settles to the bottom; pour off gently, and to a gallon
of water thus expressed add half a pint of molasses,
bottle, and set it away until it ferments. It will
have all the life and pungency of ginger pop, and is
the most palatable beer I have ever drunk. It will take
two or three days to prepare beer in this way; but by
starting the process daily a daily supply can be kept
up. It will not cost more than six cents a gallon when
molasses costs fifty cents. The fine flour settling at
the bottom of the vessel after the water is strained
from the bran can be mixed with flour in making bread;
and the beer made as above will make bread rise fully
as well and as light as soda or yeast. The sour bran
will be greedily eaten by pigs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 29, 1862, p. 2, c.
8 A Cheap Dye.—A gentleman has handed us a specimen of
cotton yarn colored to represent copperas, which it
does very closely. The dye employed is very cheap. It
is made of red or black oak bark, the rough outside of
which should be first trimmed off. Make a strong
decoction of the bark by boiling, and to a pot of about
ten gallons, add a tablespoonful of blue vitriol. The
yarn to be colored should be put in and boiled for an
hour or two, and then washed as much as you please.
The color will stand, and the yarn will be found soft
and free from the hardness usual in copperas dye.—Exc.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Cotton Cards Made in Athens.—We have seen a pair of
Cotton Cards manufactured by Mr. R. S. Schevenell, of
this place, and a specimen of the rolls made by them.
So far as we are a judge, they do as good work as any
of Northern make. Mr. S. has invented a machine for
drawing the wire and pricing the leather. The wires
are placed by hand, which renders the operation more
expensive than if done by machinery. Mr. Schevenell
will soon be able to turn them out very fast.—Athens
Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Letter from "Berrien."
Friday, May 9th, 1862. Dear Enquirer: In Wakulla
county, Fla., midway between Tallahassee and Hell's
Half Acre, in Rattlesnake Hammock, is a lake called the
Devil's Punch Bowl . . . On the water edge of this
bluff are pitched the tents of one of the finest
cavalry companies in the service of the Confederate
States. Commanded by an accomplished soldier and
christian gentleman—Capt. P. R. Brokaw, of
Tallahassee—all its officers and privates are
representatives of the finest society in the State.
Each man is armed with a brace of pistols, a Maynard
rifle, and a sabre; and woe be to any 400 Federal
soldiers who shall encounter them in an open fight! As
a picket guard and scouts along the coast of Middle
Florida, they are rendering a service for which the
whole State, and Tallahassee particularly, will ever be
heartily thankful. Their encampment, mirrored in the
clear lake below, makes a picture which no painter can
copy, and no pen describe. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Home-Made Soap and Starch.—A lady sends us the
following simple and useful recipe for making soap and
starch. Put up the bones of everything for a
fortnight, and then boil them in strong lye, skimming
as long as the grease rises. The next day boil the
grease with strong lye until it becomes soap. Put some
lime in the lye barrel, and it makes much better soap.
All of my starch is soft hominy or gruel, strained. If
you have not come to it yet, try it. How much this war
will teach us!—Charleston Mercury.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
True Patriotism.—J. Starks Simms, Esq., of Grindal's
Shoal, Pacolet River, S.C. has refused to allow
anything made in his factory to be sold for more than
it brought before the war. While others have sold
yarns at $2@2.25 per bunch, he has held it steadily at
$1.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republican. Books
and Letters found in the Federal Camps.
Memphis, April 25. The books and letters picked up in
the Federal camps at Shiloh are not without their
significance. They may serve to "point a moral,"
though they may never "adorn a tale." With one single
exception—Youatt on the Horse—all the books I saw were
of a religious or moral character. At this time I can
only recall the following:--Claude's Essays, Doctrinal
Points, Butler's Analogy, Oral Discussion on
Justification, Elements of Moral Science, by Wayland,
Minutes of the Ohio Annual Conference, Thanksgiving
Sermon, in which the South is duly libeled and
stigmatized. The Soldier's Library, etc. Under the
title of the last named work, a large number of volumes
are grouped together, nearly all of which were prepared
by northern authors, and partake of the prevailing
sentiment among our enemies. Indeed, it is apparent
that the committee whose business it was to arrange and
prepare the Soldier's Library for publication, were
careful to select nothing that was not intended to
intensify the prejudice already existing against our
institutions. They strive to produce the conviction
upon the mind of the soldier that it is not simply a
political duty to restore the Union and exterminate
every institution that may endanger its existence but
that it is his religious duty also. In other words, an
adroit appeal is made to the fanaticism of the North.
Ingenious arguments are used to inspire the soldier
with a feeling akin to that which fired the souls of
Cromwell's Puritan followers. Religion, political
power, sectional domination, personal greed, individual
animosity—every feeling and sentiment of the human
soul—is appealed to by turns. Sometimes the author
adopts a form of pleasant narrative or interesting
biographical sketch of some popular hero, such as
Washington or Havelock. Now and then an ingeniously
worded sermon is introduced, under the head of "Sunday
Reading," in which an effort is made to arouse, mislead
and mystify the conscience. I saw but one Bible in the
entire Federal encampment! There may have been many,
yet I saw but one. Nor did I see a single plain
envelope or sheet of paper. All the letters and
envelopes, as well those used by the soldiers as those
received from home, were embellished with some motto or
device, the object of which is to inculcate devotion to
the Union and hatred of the South. I brought away a
number of letters, envelopes, and sheets of paper, not
one of which is without the ever-present Federal flag.
One envelope now before me is ornamented with the tree
of liberty, all the leaves of which are tiny flags,
with these words underneath: "Traitor, spare that tree,
Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And
I'll protect it now." Another is surmounted by a
cannon, with the stars and stripes waving over it, and
these words, in red ink: "The only compromise for
treason." There is method to all this madness. The
object of the Federal government, its pulpit, its
press, and its pestilent demagogues, is to warp the
judgments and fire the hearts of their brutal soldiery
with a fanatical hatred of the Southern people and
their institutions. What their armies lack in
principle and courage, they hope to supply by hatred
and fanaticism. If one may judge from the ignorance and
poverty of ideas manifested in most of the letters
found on the field, they have abundant material upon
which to operate. There is a singular uniformity in the
beginning and ending of many of the letters. Out of a
half dozen now on my table, four of them open after
this style: "dear friend i now sete my self to inform
you that I am well and truly hope those few lines may
find you engoing the same good health." The conclusion
is frequently after this form: "Your friend til deth
rite soon. Ethalinda Coln to James R. Wakley." Miss
Ethalinda writes two letters upon the same sheet to two
of her acquaintances in the army, and she uses the same
form in the beginning and conclusion of both letters.
Miss Amanda Smith is more sentimental. She concludes a
very pathetic letter after this fashion: "I wish you
all could be here but as you said there is no use of
wishing anything about it well you must keep in good
courage and just think you are doing your duty Write
soon So fare Well From Miss Amanda Smith to J, M, Wise
your best friend. Dont let any one see this letter
Write rite off and dont put it off. You are the one
that I love best so let your thoughts upon me rest."
Many of the letters from home speak of the prostration
of all branches of business and the scarcity of money;
while many of those from camp, which had not been sent
off, express much uneasiness on account of the climate,
the water, and the increasing sickness. The writers
all desire to see the war terminated. I learn from one
of the letters, that a volunteer from Ohio had entered
into a copartnership before he left home. He says in a
letter to his brother:
"Gim promises to giv me half that he makes on the mill
if i will give him one haf that I make in the
army—thats the agreement."
The following letter from the surgeon of the 53d Ohio
regiment to the Colonel Commanding, I give entire:
"Col. I. J. Appler,
"Sir—It again Becomes my Duty to address you in
Reference to Rev. Mr. McIntire he Has not Recovered his
health, but was worse Last Knight than Ever he whole
Difficulty is in his Mind. By Spells he is perfectly
Deranged which was the case Last Knight he amedgined he
had bin in a battle and was sounded But was still Ready
to Stand his Ground, I Suppose the Difficulty is Caused
by a Determination of blood To the Brain, and I Doe not
think He will be able to Regoin his Regt for months, ad
to this the warm Weather Coming on the armey Going
South which I think will All make against him,
Therefore I have advised him to Resyne which I think he
would Doe by youre Consent, for he Esteemes you very
highley and is afraid you or the Regiment will think
The Less of him for such a corse, And he Would Rather
Suffer Death than his character should Suffer, I hope
you will answer this, and give some Expression that
will set his Mind at Ease, for his Relation to the Reg
a greate deale to Doe with the case, I have Attended
him closely & am satisfied that he will not be able to
stand a Campaign, for he cannot stand the Excitement
of the Battle Field, All of which I respectfully
submit, Please take Dew notice and govern yourself
accordingly
S. Littler, M.D.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 6
Paper.—The scarcity of writing paper drives to all
sorts of shifts. We learn that a letter has been
received here from Hillsborough, written on a leaf cut
from an account book of a mercantile house in this town
just one hundred years ago—1762.—Fay. Obs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Navy Beans for the Army.
We would earnestly recommend the cultivation of this
important article of food to the attention of farmers.
Now is the time to plant. It has always been found to
be one of the most convenient, healthy, and nutritious
articles for the army and navy. When roasted (which
with a simple apparatus for the purpose can easily be
done and in large quantities) and round into meal, it
can be made into soup in five minutes. Being already
cooked, it is only necessary to cut the pork into thin
slices put in water, into which, when brought to a
boil, the meal is to be stirred until it attains the
proper consistency, when the soup is made and ready for
use. The whole process, with a good fire, will not
require more than five minutes—and will be found to be
not only nutritious in the highest degree, but
exceedingly pleasant to the palate, far better than
eating the fat meat without any other accompaniment
than bread, which now constitutes almost the sole
staple of a soldier's food. The earth yields nothing
more abundantly and with less labor and pains to the
husbandman than this bean. Its cultivation, therefore,
in large quantities, is most earnestly invoked. As this
is a matter of the greatest importance, we suggest that
the papers generally call the attention of farmers to
the hint we have thrown out.—Richmond Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
We notice that two new Paper Mills have gone into
operation within the last few days—one at Athens, Ga.,
and the other at Mobile, Ala. Two or three more in
Georgia would supply the demand and correct the
prevailing extravagant prices.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
A Most Pleasant Summer Drink.—To the many thirsty souls
in this city, and elsewhere, who suffer inconvenience
from martial law, we recommend the following drink,
which has not been inaptly called "Cream Nectar," as a
thirst assuager, and at the same time a most refreshing
and delightful beverage. It is better than the best
"snow-drop julip" that was ever manufactured, and
Sherry Coblers [sic] cannot begin to compare with it in
quality. Take 3 pounds white sugar, 3 ounces tartaric
acid, and one quart cold water, put them into a brass
or copper kettle, and when warm, add the white of 3
eggs beat up with three spoonfuls of flour; stir till
it boils 3 minutes; when cold, add one gill of essence,
and bottle up.
Directions for use.—Two dessert spoonfuls of the Nectar
to each glass; then fill them two thirds full of ice
water, if it can be had, and add a little carbonate of
soda. [Tallahassee Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 20, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
The Quakers of North Carolina have memorialized the
State Convention to release them from the duty of
bearing arms, on the ground of their religious faith
they cannot conscientiously do it. They say the whole
number of Friends in the Confederate States does not
exceed ten thousand.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 27, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
A Sunday Among the Cherokee Warriors.
We mentioned a few days ago the arrival at Knoxville of
a band of Cherokee Warriors from the mountain region of
North Carolina. The Knoxville Register says that on the
Sunday following their arrival, religious service was
held in their camp by Unaguskie, the chaplain of the
Cherokee braves, and gives the following account of the
ceremony.
At the appointed time the battalion formed in double
file and marched under an elegant Confederate flag,
under command of Major G. W. Morgan. Entering the city
the troops, attired in their new dress, continued the
march and entered the church in an orderly and quiet
manner. It was at once seen that public expectation was
so high as to have drawn out a larger crowd than the
building could accommodate. An offer was made by the
First Presbyterian church, and the meeting was
adjourned to that large and commodious building.
The pews on the South side of the aisle on the right
side were assigned to and at once occupied by the
Cherokee braves. The Rev. W. A. Harrison, pastor of the
church, introduced to the audience "our brother
Unaguskie, chaplain of the Cherokee battalion, and the
services commenced by reading and singing (in the
standing posture) a hymn in their own dialect. The
types resemble a little the Hebrew, but are read from
the left side, as our common language. Prayer
followed, the chaplain and his braves all kneeling.
Another hymn was sung and the text announced as found
in Luke sixth chapter forty-third verse.
The sermon was like the entire service, delivered in
the original Cherokee language, but was addressed alike
to all his auditors wherever seated or of whatever
complexion. A very short address to his own people and
the usual benediction closed the services. They were
probably two hours long and in every part of them
secured the fixed attention of a very large auditory.
Every part of the church was filled and yet not a word
was understood by anyone in front or to the right of
the preacher.
Unaguskie is the grand-son of a Cherokee chieftain long
known as a distinguished warrior of his tribe, as the
most eloquent orator of his day. In person, he is
almost six feet high—tall, slender and erect, has an
excellent voice, graceful and rather emphatic
gesticulation, with little of the mannerism of the
modern pulpit. His sermon seemed to be persuasive
rather than denunciatory, advisory and parental rather
than condemnatory and authoritative. His prayer had the
appearance of deep devotion and humble earnestness and
sincerity. The music of the occasion was characterized
by melody more than what we often hear in religious
service. Of his theology, of course, nothing can be
known certainly. Adoration, veneration, supplication,
could easily be imagined from his manner to be a
prominent characteristic of his worship and his
imagery, if he had any, seemed to be drawn from the
material rather than the ideal and sentimental.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 3, 1862, p. 4, c. 1-2
Every Soldier his own Physician.
Editor Enquirer: Horrified at the rapidity with which
our soldiers die in camp, we are tempted to give them
the following recipes, the result of some experience,
in hopes that some may be saved by using remedies
simple, safe, and generally sure cures:
To Prevent Sickness.—Have a jug of salted vinegar,
seasoned with pepper, and take a mouthful just before
going to bed. The salt and vinegar make a near approach
to the digestive gastric juice of the stomach, and are
besides antidotes to many of the vegetable and
miasmatic poisons.
For Pneumonia, Colds and Coughs.—Take half a cup or
less of the salted pepper vinegar, fill the cup nearly
full of warm water, and then stir in a raw well-beaten
egg slowly. Take a mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes; in
the intervals slowly suck on a piece of alum. If the
attack is violent, dip a cloth in hot salted pepper
vinegar and apply it round the throat, covering with
dry cloths to get up a steam, and do the same to the
chest.
For Chills.—Put a tablespoonful of salted pepper
vinegar in a cup of warm water, go to bed and drink; in
two hours drink a cup of strong water-willow bark tea;
in two hours more another tablespoonful of the vinegar
and warm water, and so on, alternating, until the fever
is broken up. After sweating, and before going into the
out-door air, the body ought always to be wiped off
with a cloth dipped in cold water. Dogwood will do if
water-willow cannot be obtained.
For Measles.—Put a small piece of yeast in a tumbler of
warm sweetened water, let it draw, and drink a mouthful
every 15 or 30 minutes, and drink plentifully of cold
or hot catnip, balsam, hoarhound, or alder tea; and use
in place of oil or salts, one tablespoonful molasses,
one teaspoonful lard, and one teaspoonful salted pepper
vinegar, melted together and taken warm. Take once a
day, if necessary—keep out of the wet and out-door air.
For Diarrhoea.—A teaspoonful of the salted pepper
vinegar every one or two hours. Take a teaspoonful of
the yellow puffs that grow round oak twigs, powdered
fine; take twice a day in one tablespoonful of brandy,
wine or cordial. If these yellow puffs cannot be found,
suck frequently on a piece of alum. The quantity of
alum depends upon the severity of the attack; take
slowly and little at a time.
For Camp Fevers.—One tablespoonful of salted pepper
vinegar, slightly seasoned, and put into a cup of warm
water—drink freely and often, from 4 to 8 cupfuls a
day, with fever or without fever. Pour a cupful more or
less of the salted pepper vinegar into cold water, and
keep the body, particularly the stomach and head, well
bathed with a cloth dipped in it. Give enemas of cold
water, and for oil use a tablespoonful molasses, a
teaspoonful lard, and a teaspoonful pepper vinegar,
melted together and taken warm. If the pepper is too
exciting for delicate patients, leave it out in the
drinks and bathings, and use simply the salt and
vinegar in water, and very little salt.
Antidote for Drunkenness: for the benefit of Officers:
One cup of strong black Coffee, without milk or sugar,
and twenty drops of Laudanum. Repeat the dose if
necessary. Or take one teaspoonful of Tincture Lobelia
in a tumbler of milk; if taken every ten or fifteen
minutes it will act as a emetic; taken in longer
intervals, say thirty minutes, it will act as an
antidote. The Yankees declared that poisoned liquor was
put on the counters in Newbern to poison their
soldiers. Nobody doubts the liquor being poisoned, but
it was made of poisons to sell to our own Southern
boys; and it is horrifying to think of the liquors now
being made down in cellars, of "sulphuric acid,
strychnine, buckeye, tobacco leaves, coloring matter
and rain water." For the poisoned liquor, the best
antidote is an emetic, say lobelia and warm salt and
water, and then drink freely of sugared vinegar water.
For Snake Bites.—The best thing is one teaspoonful of
Lobelia and ten drops of Ammonia, taken every few
minutes, and a bottle filled with Lobelia and Ammonia,
stopped with the palm of the hand and warmed in a
panful of hot water, then apply the bottle to the bite,
and it will draw out and antidote the poison. Either
of these, Lobelia or Ammonia, will answer without the
other. Tobacco, or Nightshade, or Kurtle Burr, or
Deer-tongue, (a rough-leaved herb, in flower and
appearance like to hog artichoke_ stewed in milk; drink
the milk, using the rest as a poultice. The last is an
Indian remedy and will cure in the agonies of death.
For the Chicken Cholera, now devastating Fowldom.—Put
one or two Jimptson [sic] or Jamestown weed leaves,
properly called Stramonium, into the water-trough every
day—fresh leaves and fresh water. This is one of the
triumphs of Homeopathy for we were just from a perusal
of one of their works, and finding that the chickens
died and made no sign of sickness, except holding the
head down, we concluded the head must be the seat of
the plague, and reading that Stramonium affected the
brain with mania and stupor we tried it, and have not
lost a chicken since the using.
If other papers will copy these recipes, they will save
many lives, now sacrificed to the negligence of
salaried physicians. The Eastern monarch's plan ought
to be adopted, to strike off a certain per cent. of a
Doctor's salary every time he loses a patient—that
would soon stop the feast of Death! X.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 10, 1862, p. 1, c.
4 Fine Regiment.—The 3d Georgia Regiment, commanded by
Colonel A. R. Wright, made its appearance in Richmond
yesterday. As Yankee overcoats were considerably
sprinkled about, we judged that they had a brush with
the wooden nutmeg makers somewhere, and such an injury
proved to be the case, as they met and drove back not
long since at South Mills, N. C., a large body of
Hessians, and possessed themselves of some of their
toggery. The 3d Regiment numbered about 1200 men and
were accompanied by a full brass band. They brought
along as a trophy, a flag which they had taken from a
Vermont regiment. The men were all healthy looking,
young fellows, and will make their mark, we have no
doubt.—Richmond Dispatch, 30th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 17, 1862, p. 2, c.
7 Epsom Salts.—Messrs. Sensabaugh, Mingus and Long sent
us a specimen of Epsom Salts manufactured by them from
a cave in Smokey Mountain, between N. Carolina and
Tennessee. They are now making 300 lbs of Epsom Salts,
and 400 lbs. of Alum daily. The salts are said to be
superior to any heretofore sold in the South, and the
Alum is equal. The manufacturers say they will be able
to supply the whole Southern Confederacy with these
necessary articles. Any one interested can take the
Salts sent us, and try their effects.—Augusta
Chronicle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 24, 1862, p. 1, c.
6 Jonathan Afraid of "Pies-an'-Things."—The following
incident is vouched for as having lately occurred at
Nashville: A little boy, a vendor of pies, started out
with his basket, when he was accosted by a Federal on a
horse; a tempting pie was purchased, when the Fed,
suspicious from a depraved nature, requested the boy to
taste a piece; the boy complied, then returned it, and
the Fed commenced eating. The boy, understanding the
fears of Uncle Sam's hireling, immediately sang out
"Don't you think I know which side has the pisen?" The
pie was thrown down hastily, but the boy kept the dime
and the joke.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 24, 1862, p. 1, c.
7 In Luck.—The boys and the gingercake makers have
struck a streak of luck, which if taken at the flood
will lead on to fortune. The Yankee prisoners at the
Fair Grounds have a pockefull of rocks in the shape of
gold dollars, quarter and half eagles, which they
exchange with avidity for bakers' bread and
gingercakes, and yesterday there was a continuous
stream of boys pouring out to their place of
confinement, bearing these much-coveted edibles. We
heard of one boy who cleared fifteen dollars by dinner
time, all in "yellow jackets," and when we saw him, he
was striking a bee line for the cake man's shop, to
secure another stock in trade. We would advise all to
pitch in at once. From the looks of the varmints, we
should think the supply will soon be
exhausted.—Lynchburg Rep.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 1, 1862, p. 2, c.
4-5
From the 20th Georgia Regiment.
Camp of 20th Georgia Regiment, }
Toombs' Brigade, near Seven Pines, June 18, 1862. }
Dear Enquirer:
. . . Our army is being put in thorough trim for active
movements. Old Stonewall's success has caused them to
copy after him in some things of minor importance:
officers' baggage 40 pounds each; the staff 80; flys
are to be issued for every eighty enlisted men, and one
for two officers; two ambulance wagons, two for cooking
utensils, one for commissary, one for ammunition, one
for forage, one for staff. That is all well enough.
Now, for Heaven's sake, let us have the orders to
commence the aggressive and forever give up our
wonderful and hastily-retreating policy.. . . Men and
officers had pressed the lean, the lame, and the blind
of the horse and mulekind, to transport their rain-
besoaked overcoats and blankets over the miry, muddy
and slippery roads. These caravans were frequent, but
the most unique and I may say the most sensible one I
observed was the quadruped on which a Louisianian had
his wife, baby and baggage fastened with strap and
cord.
It was a magnificent large Durham cow, with a milk
pouch large as a half bushel measure. The clover and
wheat and oat fields were unending on the road; the cow
received full rations, and yielded three times a day
all the milk the trio could desire and enough to supply
several more. It was a ludicrous sight, like many
other things in life, but full of worth and importance,
riders and leader furnishing transportation and
subsistence—decidedly on Sahara desert plan, with
camels.
It may not be out of place to say that Georgia has as
fine and as healthy a part of the array here as any
other State. Though like the hues of the rainbow are
the diversity of the colors of their suits and the cut
and style of every kind, from Queen Anne's time down to
the present, yet there is unanimity of purpose, feeling
and courage prevailing among them, which are one and
inseparable.
June 25, 1862.
Dear Enquirer: . . .
To-day several huge boxes arrived in camp, on which I
saw Charley Harrison's name, and Capt. Dillard's brand.
It contained clothing from the Quartermaster's
Department at Richmond. I presume it was Georgia web,
woof, make and thought, throughout, and gotten up in
Columbus under the supervision of the gentlemen whose
names are above mentioned. It is indeed a proud
thought to us so far away, to know that there is life
enough left in the old land of Georgia, to clothe and
feed her warrior sons. .. Listen how extravagantly we
live here: puny cabbage $1 per head; hams 60c; sugar
50c; syrup $6; coffee $2 ½ per lb.; eggs $1; butter
$1.50; ginger bread 3c to $1; and the "ardent," meanest
sort $20. Virginia will bag a host of Confederate
bonds at these prices which the soldiers have to pay.
J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Spirits of Turpentine.—B. Tyson, a correspondent of the
Raleigh Standard, recommends to the army the use of
Spirits of Turpentine for colds, hoarseness, coughs,
&c. He advises that the turpentine be placed in a
coffee pot, (or other vessel) and heated until it
begins to send off a steam. The patient should then
take the spout in his mouth and inhale the steam until
it causes his head to feel light and giddy. His own
experience has satisfied Mr. Tyson the remedy is a good
one. He also recommends that spirits turpentine be
sprinkled in the tents as a means of preventing
disease, and says he believes he kept off the yellow
fever while in Norfolk, in 1855, by swallowing a few
drops each day.
Blacking.—A correspondent sends us the following: Fill
a snuff bottle nearly full of soot from a common
chimney, put in a good drink of whiskey, and the same
quantity of vinegar, shake it well, and you have a
first rate bottle of glossy blacking.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 22, 1862, p. 1, c.
1
Extortion in Poultry, Vegetables, etc.
The prices demanded in this market for country produce
of all kinds are so extravagant that we fear our
readers at a distance will receive our report with
incredulity. It has been a month or more since spring
chickens rose to 49@50c. a piece. How much higher they
are, now that they are fully fledged, we have not
ventured to ask. It would seem as if the poulterers
charged a dime for every chirp. And when the chickens
get large enough to cackle or crow, it is likely that a
pocketful of shinplasters or a $5 Treasury Note will be
the price of every pie that a city family has for a
Sunday dinner. We have heard it said, and probably with
some truth, that the demand and competition caused by
chicken dealers of the city, who buy to sell again, and
who take a wagon load at a time at high prices, knowing
that city consumers must have the poultry even at
higher rates, was the starting point of these
exorbitant prices, and that the country dealers,
finding from this trade what they could obtain, "put on
the tariff" accordingly. Proper regulations would have
stopped this kind of traffic long since.
Corn—of which probably three acres have been planted
this year to one ever planted before—is selling at 40c
per dozen for small roasting ears. For Tomatoes, 50c
per quart is demanded; for Irish Potatoes, 25c per
quart—equal to $8 per bushel. Watermelons—with which
the country is now filled—sell from wagons at 50c@$1
apiece.
Peaches—scarce article—we learn, sell at 75c per dozen,
etc.
Where a man obtaining these prices has to buy as well
as to sell perhaps some others get even with him; but
the unfortunate individual who has everything to buy
and nothing to sell finds "Jordan is a hard road to
travel" in these latter days. The spirit of speculation
and extortion, when it prevails to the extent now
witnessed in this country, is a vortex that progresses
in a circle and draws everything within its greedy
whirl. Many a man, we know, has yielded to it in self-
defence. His chickens, butter, vegetables, etc., will
buy no more domestic cloth or yarn, sugar or molasses,
coffee, shoes, or other necessaries, at the very high
prices which he is now charged for them, than they
formerly would at the old prices. He is but making an
offset with those who manufacture or sell what he has
to buy. But it is, nevertheless true that in this
checkmating game between him and his merchant or
manufacturer, a very large class, who have nothing to
sell and who are generally the best customers of the
country producers, are the chief if not the only
sufferers by the game.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 1, c.
4 Home-Made Starch.—Messrs. Editors: In the present
state of the corn as good starch can be made of it as
any housewife needs. Grate it from the ear; mix the
pulp thoroughly with cold water, and strain it through
a sieve. Let the liquor settle, and, pouring off the
water, which will be discolored, the starch will be
found at the bottom of the vessel in a rather soft
cake. Pour on more water, stir it up, and repeat the
process. At each repetition the cake will be found
firmer, and when the water comes off clear, and the
starch is free from a pink or yellow tinge on the top,
the process is complete, except drying. IL never knew
but one miscarriage, and that was in warm weather, when
the water was not cold enough, or was allowed to stand
too long, and the mass fermented. A grater can be made
from an old coffee pot or tin bucket by punching it
(outwards) full of holes—a hammer and nail will answer
the purpose—and tacking it to a piece of board.
Economy. [Mobile Evening News, 14th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 1, c.
8 On our army's retaking Satillo, some Yankee wrote on
the door of a house, "All loyal and Union men are
admitted here, but nary a d-----d Secesh."
Whereupon some wag of a Secesh, with pencil in hand, wrote:
Whosoever wrote this
Wrote it well,
For the same is written
On the gates of H_ll.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Extortion in Cotton Goods.
Since the adoption of the auction system for the sale
of their fabrics by the Augusta and other factories,
the progress in the prices of such goods has been
steadily upward, until they have now attained figures
astounding to contemplate. The following are the
published prices obtained for Augusta Factory goods at
the sale in that city on Thursday last: 7/8 shirting
37 ½@38c. per yard; 4-4 sheeting 42 ½@44 1/2c.;
drilling and osnaburgs 30c. (the latter to the Augusta
Needle Women's Society.) To a people deprived of other
markets and compelled to have these goods, and at the
same time staggering beneath the load of other
exactions and monopolies, these prices are an incubus
that threatens to suffocate them in their hour of
weakness. It is true that the goods are sold at
auction and in the face of open competition; but,
instead of being thus sold, as with goods in ordinary
times, to persons who only purchase because they can
get them cheaper under the auctioneer's hammer, they
are put up in this way with a full knowledge that the
necessities of the people, excited by competition, will
induce them to give more than the manufacturers can
venture to demand at private sale. The goods are sold
at auction, because a higher price can thus be exacted,
and not because a lower one than the current rates has
to be accepted. A crowd of greedy merchants attend the
sales, all of whom have to replenish their stocks at
almost any price, well knowing that they cannot
purchase elsewhere, and that the necessities of the
people generally will compel them to buy the goods at
whatever price. The consequence is a spirited
competition for the scant supply of goods offered, and
prices beyond figures that the manufacturers would feel
safe in demanding at private sale. These auctions,
viewed in this light, are more reprehensible than the
"Peter Funk" or mock auctions of the northern cities;
because, while the latter decoy into their meshes only
the ignorant and unsuspecting few, stern necessity
drives the great mass of the people into the deadfalls
baited with such necessaries of life and comfort as
cotton goods. And these auctions regulate prices
throughout the country. If other manufacturers are not
governed by them, the dealers whom they supply are, and
thus the consumer has to pay them, no matter where the
goods bought are manufactured.
These exactions by greedy monopolists are daily
directing attention, with increasing earnestness, to
the question. What remedy can be applied? The
Montgomery Advertiser suggests a remedy proposed by an
old planter, who asked the editor, "Why is it the
Government seizes my mule at a lower price than I was
offered the day before for him, and, instead of seizing
the goods of provision speculators and manufacturing
establishments, pays them exorbitant prices for
supplies?" The Advertiser says that the manufacturers
bought cotton at from 4 to 6 cents, and are now selling
osnaburgs at three or four times the prices when cotton
cost them 10 or 15 cents. It blames the Government for
permitting extortion in provisions, manufactured goods,
etc., to go on unchecked so long, and suggests: "Let
the Government instruct its agents throughout the
Confederacy that whenever more than a fair and
reasonable profit is demanded for the necessaries of
life, the articles shall be valued and bought for the
public use."
We have reason to believe that the Government did
contemplate such a course of dealing with the
manufacturers a short time since, and would have taken
charge of some of the factories had not the proprietors
agreed to furnish the Government with goods at about
one half the prices now paid by the people. We are
reliably informed that a Government agent, with
authority to take possession of manufacturing
establishments in case of intolerable extortion,
effected, about four weeks since, a contract with a
cotton factory in this State, for a very large amount
of 4-4 sheeting at 20 cents per yard. This is the
description of goods that is now sold to the people,
direct from the factories and by the bale at 42c 44
1/2c. If the factory can afford to sell these goods to
the Government at 20 cents per yard, is it not guilty
of extortion of the grossest kind in selling them to
the people at more than double that price? We will not
discuss the question whether the Government is
discharging its duty to the country in thus protecting
only itself from extortion, and leaving its people to
the "tender mercies" of those whose model is a compound
of old Shylock and Benedict Arnold. But we suggest to
Gov. Brown whether the laws of Georgia are not violated
by so gross an extortion as this discrimination
discloses, and whether, in view of all the facts, he is
not authorized to arrest such an imposition upon the
people as these auction sales of factory goods, and
thenceforward see that the act against monopoly and
extortion is duly enforced.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 5, 1862, p. 2, c.
3 The Lincoln (Illinois) Sun says: "A car load of
contrabands passed through Lincoln on Monday last, who
were willing to work for ten cents per day and board.
What chance have the poor of Illinois to make a living
when placed in competition with thieving, runaway
negroes, at ten cents per day."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 1,
c. 1
Letter from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Aug. 1, 1862. Editor Enquirer: A portion of
Colonel Hunt's regiment of Georgia cavalry, belonging
to Col. Jack Morgan's squadron of cavalry, arrived here
a few days ago from Kentucky, and have gone into camp
at the Fair Grounds near this city. They returned
loaded with the spoils of their recent successes in
Kentucky—overcoats, jackets, swords, sabres, carbines,
boots, shoes and blankets, were hanging around
everywhere. The day after their arrival they had
orders to march, and supposing from the direction in
which they were ordered to go that an action would
occur, they commenced selling off their stock; their
camps were immediately converted into one grand bazaar.
"Camp Convalescence" really resembled a live Yankee
camp. You can scarcely turn a corner in Knoxville but
what you meet with a man sporting a fine blue overcoat
with its long cape. I don't blame the boys much for
donning Yankee uniforms when they can be obtained for
eight and ten dollars, while the Knoxville merchants
are selling ordinary cottonade pants at five dollars
per pair. . . The soldiers composing the 2d Brigade,
Department of East Tennessee, are ragged, hatless,
shoeless and penniless, having received no pay since
December last, with the exception of two months pay
about six weeks ago. Hundreds of these soldiers have
large families at home who are altogether dependent
upon the cold charities of the public for something to
eat and wear. Numbers of such cases can be seen, I
doubt not, in the streets of the patriotic city of
Columbus—that, too, in a city, according to population
and wealth, I venture the assertion, has done more for
the cause of our Confederacy, and the support of the
families of those who are defending it, than any other
city in the Confederacy. . . Col. Morgan arrived here
yesterday from Kentucky, and looks as blooming and
modest as a girl just sweet sixteen. He is a decided
favorite with the ladies, judging from the extravagant
language they use when speaking of him, and I suspect
many of their dear little hearts go pit-ti-pat, when
thinking how Mrs. Col. Morgan would sound. I know the
kid glove and silk stocking beaus about here wish he
was "the other side of Jordan."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Enigma.
I am composed of twenty-three letters. My 18, 20, 4,
21, 20, is the name of a young lady. My 22, 16, 16, 10,
3, 3, is the name of a Confederate General. My 17, 2,
6, 20, 1, 9, 2, is a staple commercial export. My 5,
19, 28, 14, 9, is a source of exquisite pleasure. My
12, 2, 7, 21, is a possessive pronoun. My 8l, 4, 18,
20, 21, is a tropical production. My 11, 19, 15, is a
small boat. My whole is the name of a well known
volunteer company from Georgia. Lucius. Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Va., } July 30, 1862. }
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 12, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
No Use for Quinine.
Editor Mississippian: I beg to make public, through
the medium of your paper, the following certain and
thoroughly tried cure for ague and fever: 1 pint of
cotton seed, 2 pints of water boiled down to one of
tea—taken warm one hour before the expected attack.
Many persons will doubtless laugh at this simple
remedy, but I have tried it effectually, and
unhesitatingly say it is better than quinine, and could
I obtain the latter article at a dime a bottle, I would
infinitely prefer the cotton seed tea. It will not
only cure, invariably, but permanently, and is not at
all unpleasant to the taste. Yours, truly, &c. H. G.
D. Brown, Copiah county, Miss.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
Letter from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Aug. 11, 1862. Editor Enquirer:. . . The
Editor of the Sun clips a paragraph from one of my
letters relative to overcoats, and expresses a great
curiosity to know if the boys wear them this hot
weather. He can have his curiosity satisfied very
easily, and be of some service to his country, too, if
he will only lay aside his quill, shoulder his musket,
and report himself at Camp Convalescence for duty,
where he can have a practical demonstration of the fact
of the boys sporting fine blue overcoats with capes
attached, and in addition thereto, he can see that the
boys wear woolen pants, coats, shirts and socks, and
that, too, with the thermometer at 95 degrees. J. T. G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6 A correspondent sends us the following recipe for
making soap without grease, which is of importance to
housekeepers at this time: To four gallons of strong
ley add ten pounds of distilled rosin, or eight pounds
of pine gum not distilled and free of trash is better;
boil steadily until there is no rosin to be seen, and
if the quantity of ley is not sufficient, add more and
continue to add until the rosin is out, and boil until
it makes a brown jelly soap. I have used this soap for
a year, and it is equal to the best soap made with
grease.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1 Liberal and Patriotic.—We take pleasure in making
public the transaction referred to in the following
receipt: Richmond, July 25th, 1862.—Received of J.
Rhodes Browne, President of Eagle Manufacturing
Company, Columbus, Ga., through the hands of Major J.
B. Ferguson, Jr., Five Hundred Dollars, to be
appropriated to the use of the sick and wounded
soldiers at Richmond. Mrs. G. W. Randolph. We are
assured that this Company, which has been largely
engaged in manufacturing cloth for the use of the army,
has dealt with the Government on terms more liberal and
accommodating than any other establishment of the kind
in the country. We hear other companies, and
especially the Crenshaw Company in this city, spoken of
as evincing a much stronger disposition to feather
their own nests, than to aid the Government in
protecting them and their property from the approach of
the robber. President Browne is laying up for his
company treasure in the grateful remembrance of the
people, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and
thieves do not break through and steal.—Richmond Whig,
13th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 3,
c. 6 A Female Volunteer:--In calling the roll of a
regiment of conscripts who had just entered the camp of
instruction at Raleigh, N.C., last week, one more "man"
was present than called for by the list. The Winston
Sentinel says: This, of course, involved an
investigation, when it was discovered that the features
of one claimed to be a conscript were quite too fair
and fine for one of the sterner sex. The soldier was
charged of being a female, when she confessed the truth
and acknowledged that she had determined to accompany
her friends in the perils of war, and avenge the death
of a brother who fell in the fight near Richmond. We
have heard nothing in any degree to implicate the good
character and standing of this gallant heroine.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 1,
c. 6 A Great Remedy for Coughs.—Just aw we were
convalescing from our recent illness, we took a very
severe cough, which used us quite seriously. Quite a
number of remedies having failed to arrest it, a friend
sent us a bottle of the syrup of "Life-Everlasting,"
which soon had the desired effect, and we take pleasure
in recommending it to persons troubled with coughs or
weak lungs. The "Life-Everlasting" is a weed commonly
known and easily obtained in Florida and the southern
part of Georgia. You boil the leaves to a strong
liquid, and put the liquid in syrup, then boil the
syrup to a proper thickness, and it is ready for use.
Honey will do as well as syrup. Gainesville [Fla.]
Cotton Planter, 9th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2
Ladies of Stewart Preparing for a Long War.
We are reliably informed that three ladies in the
neighborhood of Petaula creek, Stewart county, have
given birth to six boys—two each—within the last few
days. It is quite evident that these ladies are aware
of the demands of the occasion and are doing their
whole duty to their country. Let Lincoln enlarge his
requisitions and his drafts as much as he pleases—let
him and his supporters protract the war as long as they
can—the South will be fully able to meet his myrmidons,
if these examples afford an index of the patriotic
spirit of the women of Georgia. Old Stewart has not
only acted nobly in sending large numbers of her sons
capable of bearing arms to the field, and in raising a
most bountiful crop of provisions to sustain them and
their cause, but her patriotic women are making ample
provision to "fill up the ranks" in after years, should
the war be long protracted, or should future troubles
again involve us in hostile conflicts.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 Down with Extortion.—It is with much satisfaction
that we refer to the announcement by Messrs. J. Kyle &
Co., that they will sell osnaburgs to consumers at 40
cents per yard; no speculator need apply. The price at
other places is 50 cents. We do not attribute this to
the merchants, for we have no doubt that they sell as
cheap as the prices they have had to pay by the bale
will allow. But it is sufficient for us to know that
Messrs. Kyle & Co. have somehow obtained goods on such
terms as will enable them to sell at 40 cents, or have
consented to abate all profit and retail at wholesale
prices—we don't know which. They will sell a large
stock at this price, and the public would do well to
bear it in mind. Such a reduction of the price of goods
so generally needed is a great public benefit at this
time.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 26, 1862, p. 4,
c. 5
Captured Goods.
We have been asked to direct attention to the manner in
which goods captured from the enemy are disposed of in
some instances. A correspondent cites one which came
under his own observation, and doubtless others of a
similar character are transpiring among Government
agents. After a lot of captured goods had been
advertised and the community at this scarce time
wrought to the highest pitch to obtain supplies,
individuals were allowed to go through the goods and
select such as they desired, much below what would have
been obtained if the same goods had been offered at
public auction. The single article of copperas, which
in our stores, where it is to be had at all, is worth
from $5 to $8 per pound, was obtained by these
individuals, in the manner alluded to, at the low price
of 25 cents per pound. Now, this is not right, and is
robbing the Government to put money in the hands of
private parties, who perhaps have no higher interest in
the war than to make money by its continuance.—Richmond
Dispatch, 18th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 2, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5 Blockade Sales.—We are becoming more convinced day
after day of the injurious effects of the auction sales
of cargoes which run the blockade. The prices of the
goods sold in Charleston are almost fabulous, and of
course are paid by speculators, who advance even these
extravagant prices to the consumer. Just think of it,
candles $3.35 cents per pound, soap $1.70 cents, tea
$14 per pound, and other articles in proportion! Some
of our merchants attended the sale, but bought nothing.
The principal buyers were merchants and dealers from
Richmond and Petersburg, who run up the goods to
enormous prices. The effect of all this is simply this:
our merchants return home, and finding that they had
been retailing goods cheaper than they were sold at a
"cargo sale," and that there was no probability of
replenishing their stocks at fair buying prices. These
cargo sales benefit nobody but the petty jobbers and
speculators at a distance, and have become a serious
injury to the legitimate merchant and
consumer.—Columbia Guardian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 3 Jerked Beef for the Army.—There is a process of
curing beef known to Mexicans and old Texans, as
"jerking." The process is simple: cut the meat into
strips of eight to fourteen inches in length, salt it
moderately, then string it upon ropes in the sun,
taking it in at night; in three of four days it is
ready to use. The transportation would be much easier
than of cattle, as it could be put in barrels, or bales
made of "raw hide," or "hickory bark." Beef cured in
this manner is always juicy and palatable. It is
healthy. A haversack of jerked beef will last a man
for days without bread. Cooking is unnecessary as it
is as good raw.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2
From Crawford's Cavalry Regiment.
Camp Sewell, Aug. 27, 1862.. . . We remained at
Chattanooga but a few hours, when we received orders to
march to Shell Mound, a distance of twenty-five miles,
over one of the roughest roads ever known. Our wagons
broke down, and we were compelled to leave nearly all
of our cooking utensils and provisions behind; so we
have lived on roasting ears for the past three days. We
remained long enough to visit the famous Nicojack cave,
to give a full description of which would fill a
volume. This cave is situated on the corner of two
States, Georgia and Alabama, and on a line with
Tennessee, so your correspondent has dined in the three
States at once without moving from the table; ate,
drank, and smoked in three States at the same time.
Myself and others visited the cave with a guide, and
penetrated its depths about a mile. It has been
explored about five miles, and no one knows here how
far it extends. There is a beautiful lake near the
mouth of the cave, as clear as crystal and as cool as
ice water. I went into many of the apartments, some of
which are 100 feet high. I have not time nor space to
give particulars, but will in my next. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2
From Crawford's Cavalry Regiment.
Chattanooga, Aug. 30, 1862.. . . To-morrow (Sunday) we
leave. We are allowed fifteen pounds of baggage to the
man, and five tent flies to the company. This looks
like stripping for the fight. So it is, and my next
may be written from Nashville. So may it be. Depend
upon it, if there is fighting to be done, the 3d
Georgia Cavalry will see it, as our position will be
nearest the flashing of the gun, and all are eager to
do their part in the coming bloody conflict; and come
it will.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 16, 1862, p.
2, c.3
From Knoxville—"J.T.G."
Knoxville, Sept. 9, 1862. Editor Enquirer: . . . Quite
a serious row occurred last night at a brothel in this
place. Capt. Hartshell, Chief of Police, went down
with his posse to quell the disturbance, to accomplish
which he ordered his men to fire upon the rowdies. A
volley was fired into them, wounding several. This
placed a quietus upon them instanter. The inmates of
the house were carried off to the guard-house this
morning; they were severely strapped upon the bare
flesh for being participants in the row. It strikes me
that our authorities could have found some other mode
of punishment that would have served their purpose as
well, if not better, than corporal punishment. It is
bad enough to have to whip a white man, and infinitely
more so a woman, though she be degraded. Knoxville,
however, is a great place, famous for tories, free
negroes, and free dogs—just the place to hatch and rear
such worthless curs as Brownlow and Maynard. . . We
have at the Gap about 300 Indians, dressed cap-a-pie in
the usual Indian costume, including the paint. They
have a merry time picking off the Yankee pickets with
their unerring rifles; nor have they forgotten how to
handle their scalping knives, for a few days ago one of
them came strutting into camps with a Yankee's ear
dangling by his side. The enemy's pickets have a
mortal fear of these Indians, and as soon as they are
espied they "skedaddle" instanter to the Gap.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 23, 1862, p.
2, c. 3
From Knoxville—Letter from J.T.G.
Near Knoxville, Sept. 13, 1862. Editor Enquirer: . . .
Before closing this letter, I must say a few words in
defence of that portion of the ladies of Knoxville who
are with us heart and soul in this contest. Both in
public and in private have they been charged with
indifference and neglect towards the thousands of sick
now languishing in the hospitals in and out of
Knoxville. Time and again have they solicited the
privilege of attending at the hospitals in the capacity
of nurses, but as often refused by the authorities, who
have even gone so far as to station sentinels at the
gate to prevent their visits. No wonder the poor
soldier enjoins upon his messmate to slip him away to
some private house in the event of his sickness. Give
the ladies a showing. One intelligent lady in a sick
room is worth a dozen doctors. Prominent among the
ladies of East Tennessee in good works is Miss Anna
Law, of Sweetwater. Possessing a heart of the most
noble and generous impulses, ever on the alert to lend
a helping hand, this young lady has never ceased, since
the commencement of the war, to aid and encourage the
weary soldier to the extent of her ability; her
unbounded devotion to our cause, her untiring energies
that have been used so well in behalf of our soldiers,
and her unremitting efforts to render them comfortable,
will ever be remembered with feelings of gratitude and
love by hundreds who have been the honored recipients
of her handiwork. God bless the ladies! J.T.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 23, 1862, p.
3, c. 1 Native Copperas.—We saw in a wagon on our
streets, yesterday, a quantity of crude copperas, from
Henry county, Ala. It was represented to be nearly
pure, and was selling for 50 cents per lb. We did not
learn what was the extent of the supply in Henry
county.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 30, 1862, p.
1, c. 6 The Roswell (Cobb co.) Factory proposes to
distribute gratuitously one thousand bunches of yarn to
the poor of ten of the counties adjoining, during the
month of October.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 30, 1862, p.
3, c. 5
Tennessee Female Tories.
The editor of the Henderson (N.C.) Times has recently
made a visit through East Tennessee to Cumberland Gap.
Upon his return, he fixed up the following story for
the edification of his readers. At Powell's river, I
stopped and engaged more milk, at an old Lincolnite
jade, keen as a brier, and mother of three (and I don't
know how many more,) rather nice looking gals. She
complained to me of having been rudely treated by a
North Carolina officer, the morning previous. Arriving
at camp, I informed the officer of the old lady's
story, and he told me that knowing their political
status, he had placed a guard around the house, to keep
any of the family from going to the Gap, while our army
was crossing the river, and in the meantime, the
following conversation took place: Officer.—(Entering
the house,) Good morning ma'am. No answer. "Where is
your husband, ma'am?" Old Woman.—None of your business,
you rebel you. Officer.—I know. He is in the Yankee
army. Old Woman.—Well he is. What are you going to do
about it? He is in the 1st Tennessee Federal regiment
at Cumberland Gap, and will take off your rebel head,
if you go up there. Officer.—Yes. But we have him and
your General Morgan's whole command completely
surrounded—hemmed in—with an army on both sides of the
Gap, and in a few days they will be starved out, and
have to surrender on our own terms. Old Woman.—We know
all that, and are easy. But Lincoln will send an army
through Kentucky, which will wipe out your General
Smith, just like a dog would lick out a plate, and then
you and your army of barefooted, roasting ear stealers,
will have to leave here in the dark again, and badly
scared at that. Besides this— Officer.—That's your
opinion, but you are deluded. Where were you born? Old
Woman.—Born! Why I was born and raised in Tennessee.
I am an Old Hickory Tennessean—dead out against
Nullification, and its bastard offspring, Secession.
But where are you from? Officer.—I am from North
Carolina, but a native of South Carolina. Old Woman.—A
South Carolinian—scion of nullification—double rebel,
double devil. Old Jackson made your little turnip
patch of a State walk the chalk once, and Old Abe
Lincoln will give you rebels hell before Spring.
Officer.—(Quitting the old lady, and turning to the
eldest daughter, whom he recognized as a mother)
Madam, where is your husband? Young Woman.—That is none
of your business. Officer.—But it is my business.
Where is he? Young Woman.—Where I hope I'll never see
him again. Where I hope you will soon be.
Officer.—Where is that? Young Woman.—Why, a prisoner
in the hands of the army at the Gap. Officer.—What is
that for? Young Woman.—For being what you are, an
infernal rebel. Officer.—Oh, if that's all, I will send
him back to you as soon as we take the Gap. Young
Woman.—No you need'nt. Cust if ever he sleeps in my
bed again. I intend to get some Union man to father
this child. Here, Bet, (calling a nurse,) take this
little rebel and give him Union milk. Let us try and
get the "secesh" out of him. Officer.—(Turning to a
Miss.) Did you find a beau among the Yankee officers?
Miss.—Yes, I did; a nice, sweet, gallant fellow. One
who stepped like a prince. When you become his
prisoner, give him my love, and tell him for my sake to
put a trace chain around y our infernal neck.
Officer.—When do you expect to see him again?
Miss.—Just after your General takes the next "big
scare," which will be in ten days from this time.
Daylight having broken, and the army having crossed the
river, the conversation I have given terminated.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 7, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
The Second Battalion.
A letter from Major Ross, dated Martinsburg, Sept.
21st, says:. . . A great many of the soldiers are
barefooted, and we are getting pretty ragged, having no
clothes but those we have on, and but one blanket, and
I don't know how we are going to get more. We make up
our dough without grease, roll it in strings, twist it
round a ramrod and cook it in a blaze; our beef is
cooked in the same way.—Macon Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 7, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8 The condition of our market is getting truly
deplorable. There is not a pound of salt or a bushel of
corn for sale at retail, and very little meal or flour,
and we are informed that all the bacon has suddenly
disappeared from the market. Everything else is very
scarce.—Rome Courier, 30th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 1,
c. 3 Sock Manufactory.—An enterprising firm in
Wilmington, N. C., has a factory in operation in that
city that turns out daily 1000 pairs of thick, strong
and soft socks, suitable for soldiers' wear, which are
supplied to the North Carolina troops. The same firm,
it is said, are endeavoring to establish a branch of
their business at Montgomery, Alabama, for furnishing
the troops of that State in like manner. It would be a
great blessing to the army were a similar factory
located on a large scale in every Confederate State.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Letter from "J. T. S."
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 16, 1862. Dear Enquirer: . . .
At an appointed hour, in your city, on Monday last, the
heretofore long sealed doors of the Eagle Manufacturing
Company were thrown open, and the families of the
soldiers permitted to supply themselves with cloths at
prices almost nothing in comparison to those charged by
the sharks of Columbus. The opportunity was a glad one
to the poor, and they very numerously availed
themselves of it. Every one bought just what their
wants required, but the speculators were ruled out. I
went down with the rest, and laid in my humble supply
for my wife and little ones and servants. I found
there that best of men, J. Rhodes Browne, the Prince of
Southern manufacturers, up to his eyes in personal
attention of the work and dealing out with uniform
politeness the great desideratums of the hour. Much
credit is due him for the perfection to which he has
brought the cotton and wool manufacturing in Columbus,
and much credit is his share for having furnished so
great an amount of good cloth to clothe and tent our
army in the field. Me he prosper as he deserves! I
offer him my thanks for the cloth which he presented
me, to have made into a genuine Confederate suit, to
shield me from a cold Virginia winter. My memory from
comfort will often revert to his appropriate give when
snow does most abound.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.
West Point, Miss., Oct. 5, 1862. Editors Mobile
Register & Advertiser: It may be of interest to your
numerous readers to know that, with not a cent of
additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully
equal in point of merit to the common star candle. To
two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong
ley from wood ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when
a greasy scum will float on top; skim this off for
making soap, (it is very near soap already), as long as
it continues to rise. Then mould your candles as
usual, making the wicks a little smaller—and you have a
pure, hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make,
and one that burns as long and gives a light equal to
sperm. The chemistry demonstrates itself. An ounce or
two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and
steeping the wicks in spirits turpentine will make it
burn some brighter. I write with one before me. Yours,
W.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5 How to Make Chimnies [sic] for Kerosene or
Palmetto Oil Lamps.—Take a common sweet oil bottle, cut
off the bottom, by burning a string wet with
turpentine, around the bottle. Then make a bottom of
tin to fit the lamp, and fasten it to the bottle with
plaster of Paris, and you have as good a chimney as you
can buy. This is something worth knowing at the present
time. When one chimney breaks, the same tin bottom will
do for another. Please let this be known for the public
benefit. D. B. Haselton. We have received from our
ingenious friend, Haselton, a bottle prepared as above
directed, and a mate to one he has used successfully.
It may be seen at the Courier office.—Charleston
Courier, 14th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5 Egg Plants.—How to Cook Them.—To our friend H.,
who sent us those five or six model egg-plants, we
tender our thanks, and also offer his good lady, and
the ladies in general, the following recipe for cooking
this vegetable, which we have from an experienced
housekeeper, and which has been tried by our people
with the most unctuous success. One merit of it over
frying is, that it avoids the use of lard, now very
costly, and takes but little butter in proportion to
the size and excellence of the dish: Recipe.—Boil the
egg-plant whole and with the peeling on in water
slightly salted; when it is supposed to be cooked
through and through, take it off, drain the water
entirely from it, take away the black peeling; then
mash it well, mixing with it a piece of butter the size
of an egg, two grated biscuits, one beaten egg, salt
and pepper to taste, and bake in a dish; it is ready
for the table.—Edgefield Advertiser.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5 Athens Factory.—The Agent of this Factory
determined a week or so ago to sell thread at $3 per
bunch for a given time, and adopt the miller's rule,
"first come, first served." The hour for selling was
from 8 to 9 o'clock each morning. Hundreds of people
would assemble at the office each morning long before
the appointed time. So great was the pressure that
many females fainted, and we are told that the scene
was occasionally enlivened by rough and tumble fights.
Persons frequently put their money on the end of a pole
in order to reach it to the Agent. To some this scene
was ludicrous; to others it was sad. Saturday was the
last day for selling in this manner.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1 To Dye Solferino.—Take a quantity of poke-berries,
squeeze out the juice and to each cup of the juice add
one cupful of vinegar; put in a brass or tin kettle,
put your yarn in warm water, squeeze it out, then put
it in the dye and let it boil slowly about thirty
minutes, or until it received the proper color.
Wynnton. The writer of the above has shown us a child's
stocking dyed after the above recipe. Though it has
been worn and washed, it retains a deep and handsome,
and apparently permanent scarlet color. Indeed it is
as pretty a color for children's wear as any we have
ever seen.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 28, 1862, p. 3.
c. 4
Doctress Riley,
A Southern born lady of long experience, and thorough
education in the medical profession, hereby offers her
services to the suffering of her own sex, in the
eclectic treatment of all those peculiar diseases to
which WOMAN is alone subject. Ladies may now rejoice
in the assurance, that all such cases can be
successfully treated without pain, or the confining of
the patient to bed. Females with fistula in ano [sic?
hard to read] can be cured without a surgical operation
in a very short time. Residence at Cook's Hotel, where
a private parlor is in readiness for the reception of
ladies wishing consultation. References given if
required. Columbus, Ga. Oct. 17, 1862
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
From Knoxville—"J. T. G."
Knoxville, Oct. 28, 1862. Editor Enquirer: Our army is
now resting from its recent retreat from Kentucky,
recuperating its energies, which have been sadly
impaired by the long and tedious circuit they have so
recently made, for another march to relieve Tennessee
of the Abolitionists. Which way and where they will go,
is more than I can say. Their health and spirits are
remarkable, when we consider how devoid they are of
clothing, hats, and shoes. Thousands of these heroic
spirits are in rags, without a blanket, and numbers of
them without a coat. I saw one regiment to-day of 450
men, and only 220 of them had shoes—the remainder had
not a shoe or covering to their feet. This regiment is
not an isolated one—nearly every regiment of Bragg's
army is destitute of clothing and shoes in the same
ratio. Yet these men, barefooted as they were, have
marched from Kentucky over a road, that for rocks has
not its equal on the continent, with scarcely a murmur.
Why shoes were not put upon their feet, and clothes
upon their backs, while in Kentucky, I cannot say. An
intelligent officer tells me, however, that there were
shoes and clothing enough burnt up by order of the
General commanding to have supplied our whole army. . .
This morning the snow lay five inches deep upon the
ground, so the boys to-day have indulged to their
hearts' content in snow-balling each other; and every
darkey that had the temerity to show his head received
a liberal share. J. T. G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8
The Condition of Nashville.
A letter from Nashville, published in the Rebel, states
that any citizen is grateful at the close of each day
that his house is not burned, and that he is himself
outside of the Penitentiary. Throughout Sumner county
a "silk dress war" is waged by the abolition thieves. A
silk dress will attract a Yankee five miles from his
line of march. Those of Gen. Mitchell's men now out of
service have opened shops where the dresses of
Huntsville ladies are exposed for sale. Negley's
followers expect to do a flourishing business in the
same line. Pope's orders as to private property of non-
combatants are enforced by Negley. Cannot Gen. Forrest
retaliate on Negley's officers as was done on Pope's? A
Yankee Dutch officer robbed an old lady of her
spectacles while she was reading her Bible. A gallant
Yankee officer, by threatening to cut off her finger,
forced a young lady to deliver to him a diamond ring.
Another officer tore an ear-ring from the ear of a lady
while she was unfastening the other to deliver to him.
The only cow which furnished sustenance to an infant
was killed in the presence of the widowed mother of the
child. Her house had already been plundered, and she
and the infant were left to starve. Such are the deeds
committed by the followers of Andrew Johnson, and in
his very official presence.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8
Cotton Yarns—Roswell Factory.
We would call the attention of all such as are buying
this article in Macon to ten dollars a bunch, to the
following letter from Geo. H. Camp, the agent of the
Roswell Factory, and then give their opinion of such
Factories and dealers as have extorted these
prices.—Macon Mess. We are retailing yarn here in large
quantities each day at $3 per bunch, when a moments
reference to your Atlanta exchange, will demonstrate
the fact that we supply your county not only, but
residents in nearly every county in Upper Georgia, with
yarn at but little over one-third the market price,
which is now eight dollars. This concession in price
from the market price is the result of no pressure,
aside from the wants of the country, and as our desire
is solely to benefit the country no unjust comments
will cause us to waver from the plan we have adopted to
place yarn in the hands of the needy at a price they
can afford to pay.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 Cotton Cards.—A Cotton Card Factory is now in
successful operation at Rome, Georgia, with wire
enough, as the manufacturers say, for twelve thousand
pairs. The cards at present are sold only for hard
tanned sheepskins.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 The game of fashionable life is to play hearts
against diamonds.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1,
c. 3
Cloth—Home Made.
The Milton, N. C., Chronicle says: "A very estimable
lady—one of the smartest and prettiest in the
country—wishes to know of us what she ought to charge
per yard for a piece of cloth now in the loom, the
cotton in which cost $4 50 per bunch, and the wool
rolls $2 per pound. To this must be added the cost of
weaving, &c.—We are rather puzzled for a reply, but she
ought to exact of shoemakers, tanners, flour and corn
speculators about $15 a yard; and if she can possibly
find a cotton factory "lord" obliged to buy it, charge
the rascal $25 a yard—and then she can't "get even"
with him. To people of conscience, we do not think she
could sell her cloth for less than $4 a yard, and make
anything. When we say cloth, we mean cloth; because
she makes the best and prettiest article that we have
ever seen manufactured in the Southern country. This
industrious lady seems desirous of selling her cloth at
a price that will barely pay for the material and labor
of weaving; she does not desire a big profit, for she
loathes the name of an extortioner, and wishes to avoid
it. Would to heaven that all Southern ladies were like
her!—There would be no laziness, no extravagance, no
hifalutin tomfoolery, no Miss McFlimseys who think that
God created them merely to thumb broken down pianos,
screech like right owls, cut fantastic capers in fancy
dances, and "show off" merchants' dry goods and prop
themselves up in parlors as pretty toys for men to look
at and admire. The best music a female can make these
war times is the music of the spinning wheel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1,
c. 4 Lamp Wicks.—A correspondent gives the Columbia
Guardian the following useful bit of information: It
might interest some of your readers to know at this
time when it is so difficult to get lamp-wicks that the
tops of old home-knit cotton socks cut into strips of
the proper width make as good ones as the best that
ever came from Yankeedom.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 1,
c. 8 To Dye Wool Yarn a Durable Black Without
Copperas.—Place in your kettle a layer of Walnut
leaves, then a layer of yarn, then a layer of leaves,
and another of yarn, and so on till the kettle is full,
pour on water till all is covered, and boil all day.
The next morning pour off the liquor into another
vessel, and put fresh leaves with the yarn in layers as
before and pour the same liquor over it and boil again
all day. Then hang the yarn in the air a few days,
after which wash it, and it will be a fine black. The
Walnut leaves should be gathered in the autumn just as
they begin to fall from the trees.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 8
Helping Themselves.
We were informed yesterday evening that a party of
ladies went into a store at Cartersville and
appropriated a small stock of goods, such as they said
they were in pressing need of. They represented that
they were driven by necessity to that course. The
people who are able to help the poor, should bear
proportionate shares in the matter, and by concerted
action, supply their real necessities, without waiting
for them, especially helpless women, to be driven to
such an extremity. Atlanta Conf.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 Carpet Blankets.—Major M. W. Perry yesterday
exhibited to us a Carpet Blanket made for the army. It
is undoubtedly a most excellent and warm covering, and
will be a very comfortable addition to a soldier's bed
clothing. It is made of scraps of cloth cut into
strips and woven closely together, forming a heavy and
warm counterpane, one of them being worth two or three
common bed blankets for warmth and durability. We
understand that a reliable gentleman has contracted
with Quartermaster Dillard to make these blankets out
of the scraps left in making soldiers' clothing, and
that he has several looms at work weaving and a number
of children cutting and sewing together the strips. He
will be enabled to turn out the blankets pretty fast
for a new business, and the work will give employment
to a number of women and children needing something to
do. These blankets would also be the most comfortable
night covering for negroes, and they will no doubt be
extensively used hereafter by those planters who
examine them.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 11, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 We were glad to receive a call yesterday, from our
valued Knoxville correspondent, Adjt. James T. Gray,
who is now in this city. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 18, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1 Editor Enquirer: The following beautiful verses
were written by a prisoner of the 3d Georgia Cavalry to
a young lady at Louisville, being the recipient of
clothing and other articles during his confinement in
prison.
Acrostic.
May angels guard thee, dearest miss, on thy kind
mission here, In bitter anguish here we lie, poor
prisoners in despair. Should fortune smile upon us now,
once more our homes to see, Sad though in parting from
our friends, we'll oft remember thee.
Kind friend we've found Miss Katy, in this our sore
distress, Away so far from our loved ones, their
prayers for thee we bless. Though dark and gloomy in
the hour, our noble cause we'll gain, Enduring
hardships, care and toil, our freedom to obtain.
Grateful we are, and many thanks to our kind donors
here, All that we ask is Southern rights, to these we
hold most dear; Millions against us may be sent, our
country shall be free, By all that's sacred we have
sworn to die for Liberty. Like patriots of old, we'll
fight, our heritage to save, Engendered by our
Forefathers, perchance an early grave.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1863, p. 1,
c. 4 Patriotic Examples.—The Lexington (Va.) Gazette
says: Col. R. H. Brown, the proprietor of the
Rockbridge Woolen Factory, has set an example worthy of
all imitation. He manufactures an excellent article of
jeans, which he sells at $1.60 and $1.75 per yard to
consumers. He will not sell to speculators at any
price. The goods sold at so low a figure could not be
bought in Lynchburg at less than $4 or $5. The man who
can be satisfied with a moderate profit, when the
necessities of the community would enable him to treble
that profit, deserves the lasting gratitude of every
true hearted citizen; and deserves to be remembered
when the war is ended. We have also been informed that
Wm. Withrow, Esq., of Brownsburg, continues to sell
leather at forty or fifty cents, while others are
getting two dollars. A noble heart throbs in his
bosom.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5
From the Mobile Tribune. Extortion Gorged.
Mr. Editor: In the news columns of the Advertiser &
Register, of this morning, appeared the following card
of a Georgia Cotton Factory Agent, under the title of
"A Patriotic Card.": To Manufacturers.—Sometime since,
we had a meeting to advance the prices of fabrics. Now
the time has arrived when it is equally important to
hold another meeting to put prices down. The families
of our brother soldiers require that we should do our
duty to them. A plan can be adopted by which the
consumers can have the goods at factory prices. And
unless we wish to continue the suffering of our women
and children, we should take prompt action. We can
keep the goods from falling into the hands of
speculators. I, therefore, propose a convention of
representatives, from all the cotton manufactories of
Georgia, to assemble in the city of Atlanta, on Monday,
17th of November next, to take this matter into
consideration. E. Steadman.
Agent Gwinnett Manufactur'g Company.
Having grown heart-sick at the extortion practised
[sic] upon the people heretofore, this Agent now
proposes to the manufacturers to take some action to
prevent the continuance of "the sufferings of our women
and children." Content with the enormous profits
already accumulated by the manufacturers, "some time
since," "to advance the prices of fabrics"—and,
perhaps, with the fear of their liability to
conscription, if henceforward they attempt to realize
over 75 per cent. profit on their goods—they now, very
patriotically, propose to reduce their prices to a
lawful standard. On their part, this may be a very
judicious and charitable proposition—but let it not be
heralded to the country as the impulse of patriotism.
Like vampyres [sic], gorged with blood until they can
contain no more, they seem especially concerned lest
somebody else should now take their places in extorting
from "consumers," and propose to set their victims free
under the specious plea of patriotism. We have no
desire to censure their conduct in the past, if they
have the approval of their own consciences, nor have we
the least shadow of sympathy for monopolizers and
extortioners in the mercantile classes; but we are
decidedly opposed to calling that patriotic which is
simply a necessity on their part—all of whom doubtless
would rather make "cotton fabrics" at the very small
profit of 75 per cent. than enlist in the ranks of our
ragged soldiery. Truth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 1,
c. 6 A Loom for the Times.—Dr. P. R. Clements, from
Eufaula, Ala., has in our city a loom of his
invention, which we think is just the machine for the
times. This loom can weave with one ordinary hand about
40 yards of good homespun a day. It is worked by a
small balance wheel and crank. Dr. Clements proposes
to sell the right for counties for the State. Here is
offered a splendid opening for an enterprising
mechanic. The looms can be purchased in Eufaula, Ala.,
for $75 each.—Milledgeville Union.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 2,
c. 7 Confederate Candle.—This rivals the rush in
simplicity, and far exceeds it in serviceableness. To
make it, melt together a pound of beeswax and a quarter
of a pound of rosin, or turpentine fresh from the tree.
Prepare a wick thirty or forty yards long, made up of
three threads of loosely spun cotton. Saturate this
well with the mixture, and draw it through your fingers
to press all closely together, and to keep the size
even. Repeat the process until the candle attains the
size of a large straw or quill; then wrap it around a
bottle, or into a ball with a flat bottom. Six inches
of this candle elevated above the rest will burn for
fifteen minutes, and give a pretty light, and forty
yards have sufficed a small family a summer for all the
usual purposes of the bed chamber.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 25, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1 Button Factory.—We saw some neat and strong wooden
buttons, the other day, which we understood were made
by Mr. A. D. Brown, at the Carter Factory of this city.
They appeared as strong as bone buttons and equally
well finished.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
Praiseworthy Conduct of North Carolina Manufacturers.
We published, a short time since, the proceedings of a
meeting of Manufacturers, at Augusta, which resolved
that cotton could not be manufactured at less than 50
cents per pound, and that it was inexpedient to bargain
with the Government at any fixed prices for cotton
fabrics for more than a month at a time. This
resolution is regarded as a rejection of the terms held
out by the Exemption act of Congress, offering
exemption from conscription to employees of factories
at which a profit of not exceeding 75 per cent. upon
the cost of production is charged. This convention
adjourned to meet again at Columbia, S. C., at a time
to be announced by the President. It was not fully
attended, and we believe that no delegate from any
factory of this city was present. We have not yet
observed any movement, either towards the appointment
or instruction of delegates to the proposed meeting in
Columbia, or any formal acceptance by the other
manufacturing establishments of the policy, indicated
by the meeting at Augusta. But we note, with pleasure,
that several of the Cotton Manufacturing Associations
of North Carolina have resolved to repudiate the policy
announced by the convention at Augusta, and to reduce
their prices to the proffered profit of 75 per cent.
They have moreover called a meeting of the
manufacturing establishments of North Carolina, at
Greensboro, on the 3d of December, to consult as to the
best means of giving the desired effect to the
provisions of the Exemption act, by securing to the
consumers the goods at reasonable prices. The Rockfish
Manufacturing Company, of that State, took the lead in
this movement by the passage of the following
resolution:
"Resolved, That the Rockfish Company accepts and will
abide by the terms prescribed by the Exemption Act of
the Confederate Congress, and will so regulate the
prices of its manufactured goods as to bring the
profits within the per cent. upon the cost of
manufacture prescribed by the said act."
The Fayetteville Observer of the 24th announces that
another of our Fayetteville companies (the Beaver
Creek) has resolved to abide by the terms of the
Exemption law, and to reduce its prices accordingly.
These are movements in the right direction, and we hope
that we shall soon have occasion to report many more of
the same sort.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5 Substitute for Copperas.—We have received from
good authority the following recipe, which answers
every purpose, in dying, where copperas is used in
setting colors, or for 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 dying at one dollar per pound
while this will answer every purpose.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Brandy from Persimmons.—We find in an old magazine an
account of an experiment in distilling brandy from
persimmons which may be interesting, since the powers
that be seem determined that the people shall not get
corned on corn. The writer prepared the persimmons in
the same way as peaches are usually prepared for the
still, and the result of the experiment was an average
of one gallon of proof spirits of an agreeable flavor
for each bushel of persimmons. Will somebody try
it?—Aug. Chron.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
An Objection to Low Prices.—A gentleman gravely
remarked a few days ago, that he was not so sure that
this reduction of the price of cotton goods was so
great a benefit after all; for that while his wife
wouldn't buy a yard when the price was 70 cents, she
now insisted upon having a whole piece at 33
cents!—Fayetteville Obs.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 2, 1862, p. 3,
c. 2 Clothing for the Army of the Mississippi.—We learn
from a friend that the Government clothing
establishment at Augusta, recently removed to that
city, has already manufactured some five thousand suits
out of the jeans brought by Gen. Bragg's army from
Kentucky. Major L. O. Bridewell, of the
Quartermaster's Department, superintends the
establishment, and has been untiring in his efforts and
personal attention to the work. Success has rewarded
these efforts, and it is now hoped, in a short time,
that the establishment will be enabled to relieve in a
great measure the necessities of the army of the
Mississippi from the material captured from the
enemy.—Chas. Courier, 27th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 1
Soldiers' Clothing.
The Richmond papers publish an important announcement
from the Quartermaster General's Office, dated
Richmond, Nov. 28th. It gives notice that that
Department will pay for shoes, blankets, and other
articles of clothing which may be contributed by the
people of the counties in the several States to their
soldiers in the field, provided that such articles are
supplied under the direction of the county
authorities—and offers the following prices therefor:
Caps $2, Jackets $12, Pants $9, Flannel Shirts $8,
Cotton Shirts $1, Striped Cotton Shirts $1.50, Drawers
$1, Shoes $6, Woolen Socks $1, Overcoats with capes
$25, Blankets per pair $15. The articles so furnished
will be issued, as far as needed, to the particular
troops for whom they are intended—but if they are
already supplied, to others. Payments will be made on
delivery at the nearest Quartermaster's post.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 1
No Clothing to be Sent out of the State.
The agent of the Southern Express Company, at Macon,
gives notice through the Telegraph that that Company
will not receive for shipment out of the State any
shoes, cloth, clothing or leather, until further
notice. It pursues this course by order of Gov. Brown.
This may be regarded as a measure preliminary to the
seizure of the factories and tanneries by the Governor,
according to authority vested in him by the
Legislature. The act of the Legislature authorizes
him to pursue this course in the event of the refusal
of these establishments to furnish their fabrics for
soldiers' clothing at prescribed prices, viz: Osnaburgs
and Shirtings 25 cents per yard, Woolen Jeans $2.50 per
yard, Cotton Yarns $2.50 per bunch, Leather $1 per
pound, Shoes, best army pattern $8 per pair.
We presume that the Railroad companies have also been,
or will be, forbidden by the Governor to take these
articles out of the State until he effects the desired
arrangement with the manufacturers. . .
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 3
From the Atlanta Intelligencer, 30th.
The Eagle Mills, Columbus, Ga.
Are now manufacturing, for the Government, daily, two
thousand yards of heavy grey tweeds, besides large
quantities of cotton duck and oil cloth. The tweeds is
sold at $2.00 a yard, and furnishes two regiments a
week with warm clothing. The duck goes to the tent
maker, and the oil cloth is used for knapsacks, &c.
In addition to the above, a quantity of stripes,
osnaburgs, sheeting and knitting yarn, worth over
$1,500 per day, is manufactured, and retailed from the
office on the morning after the production, at about
one half the price which elsewhere such goods bring.
The stripes is selling at 50 cents, the osnaburgs at
40, and the sheeting at 35 cents. Before the war this
Company steadily refused to retail from its office, but
has recently adopted this plan, so that its goods, now
so indispensable to the country, may pass at fair
prices directly to the consumer. The Government, it
will be observed, gets about three-fourths the entire
production of the mills, and at about one-half the
price which similar goods bring elsewhere at auction.
The example of this noble corporation stands out in
bold relief in these times of almost universal
speculation and avarice; and were a similar course
adopted by all our factories, the war would not fall
with such crushing weight upon the poorer classes of
society. No sincere patriot could have believed, when
we went into this life and death struggle for our
liberties, that the Southern people would prey upon
each other!
It is proper to say that this article is written by one
who is in no way interested in the Company alluded to,
or has ever been benefited by the liberal course which
it has, with provident patriotism, seen fit to pursue,
and that it is quite without the knowledge of any of
its managers. Atlanta, November 1862.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Flour is held at $50 per bbl., molasses at $7 per
gallon, and salt at $20 per bushel, in Tallahassee,
Fla.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 1,
c. 5 We find in the Selma Reporter the following
recipe, which is said to be a sure cure for small pox:
Take one grain each of powdered Foxglove (Digitalis)
and sulphate of zinc. Rub them together thoroughly in
a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water; this done, add 4
or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with sugar. Dose—a
table-spoonful for an adult, and one or two
teaspoonfuls for a child every two or three hours until
the symptoms of the disease vanish.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 9, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1 Elegant Home-made Fabrics.—Mr. John Dawson, of
Russell county, Ala., exhibited to us, the other day,
some beautiful bolts of cloth from his spinning wheels
and loom. They consisted of Stripes for ladies wear,
which were not only nearly as smooth and fine as
calico, but the several colors were woven in with a
taste and nicety that made the goods appear very pretty
and genteel; also a superior article of Jeans, and two
spools of colored Thread, of a fineness not equal to
Coates, of course, but much finer than that sold by the
factories. We learn that those handsome fabrics were
not only made entire with the spinning wheels and loom
of Mr. Dawson, but that the cotton and wool were also
of his own raising, and the loom of his own make!
Such men as this old gentleman, are "illustrating" our capacity for independence in a most conclusive manner. Let his example be generally imitated, and
"We'll be a glorious people yet,
Erect, redeemed, and free."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Special Correspondence of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Columbus Factories.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 4, 1862.
It is refreshing, in these days of extortion, to find
individuals or corporations who are content with
reasonable profits, and who refuse to lend themselves
to the devices of monopoly and extortion which prevail
in most of our markets. The factories of Columbus—I
allude especially to the Eagle and Howard mills and the
Columbus Factory—afford noble examples of public
spirited enterprise, which will entitle their names to
grateful remembrance when those who are taking
advantage of the necessities of the people are
remembered, as they deserve to be, among the tories of
the second revolution. The Eagle and Howard mills have
from the beginning of the war had heavy contracts with
the Government, and all last year, with wool at 45
cents a pound, kept their woolen jeans at $1 per yard,
furnishing 700 to 800 yards per week at that price.
Before the war, with wool at 25 cents, the price of
their jeans was 55 cents. Now, with wool at $2.75 per
lb., they continue to furnish the Government at $2.
Thus, while wool has advanced eleven prices, or 1100
per cent., their goods have advanced only five prices,
or 500 per cent.; and they have, I learn, advanced the
wages of their hands from 100 to 300 per cent. They
have exchanged large quantities of goods at old prices
for provisions at the same rate, which they have
furnished to their operatives at cost. For nearly a
year they have furnished the Government with 1200 to
1300 yards of 10 oz. duck, per day, at 22 cents, while
the market rate was 40 to 45 cents; and are now making
the same goods at 45 cents, while the market value of
even 7 oz. goods is 50 per cent. above that price. Four
fifths of their goods are under contract for the
Government, the balance are retailed out among
consumers in small quantities, favoring as far as
possible the families of soldiers. They sell stripes
at 50 cents, for which the market price is $1.20 cents;
osnaburgs and sheetings at 40 cents, for which the
market rates are 65 to 75 cents. Cotton yarns they
have never sold at over $2.50 per bunch. They have
never allowed their goods to be sold at auction, or to
merchants or speculators, save in exchange for wool not
to be had in any other way, and they are daily refusing
from all quarters offers of 65 to 100 per cent. over
present rates.
The record of the Columbus Factory is equally clean.
They have been making tent cloths at 18 to 25 cents per
yard, for over a year. Their woolen looms made Kerseys
at 75 cts, to $1.25 last year, and this year, owing to
the price of wool, they have charged $1.60, until
recently they have been obliged to stop for want of
wool, save on work for farmers, whose wool they work up
at 25 cents per yard. At their tannery, they have
furnished shoes at $3.50, as long as they had leather,
and now they make them at 75 cts. to those furnishing
the leather. They have furnished soldiers' wives with
thread at $2.50 per bunch.
I make this statement without the knowledge of the
factory owners, on authority perfectly reliable, and
commend their example to manufacturers throughout the
Confederacy.
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Our Milledgeville correspondent, a few days since, in
speaking of the Eagle Mills Manufacturing Company of
Columbus, Ga., stated that their mills furnished from
seven to nine hundred yards of woolen jeans to the
Government per week; this was an error; the mills
furnish the Government with from seven to nine thousand
yards per week—or at the rate of from twelve to fifteen
hundred yards per day. Quite a difference in the
amount. The proprietors of the Eagle Mills are
deserving of great praise for their patriotic
liberality—Chronicle & Sentinel. Dec. 13.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Cotton Cards.—The Milledgeville correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph, under date Dec. 3d, says: One of the
most important measures of the session passed the House
on yesterday relating to a supply of cotton and wool
cards. The bill proposes to authorize the Governor to
pay Messrs. Lee & Co. $60,000 for a half interest in
the establishment, and to furnish half the means
necessary to duplicate 20 machines. It is stated that
they can be made in 3 months at the Penitentiary and
put in operation. Estimating the work of each machine
at 80 pairs daily, these machines would turn out 600
pairs daily, or about 15,500 pairs per month. This
would very soon supply the wants of the State, and
enable our heroic women to clothe every soldier and
citizen without resort to the arbitrary measure of
seizing factories. It would save also a great portion
of the appropriation of $1,500,000 for clothing the
soldiers. Therefore, this cotton card measure is of
the highest importance, and should be disposed of
without delay, and in a liberal spirit. Sixty thousand
dollars may look like a high price for half the
establishment.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2,
c. 6 Recipe for Making Soap.—Pour 12 qts. of soft
boiling water upon 5 lbs. of unslacked lime. Then
dissolve 5 lbs. of washing soda in 12 quarts of boiling
water. Mix the above together and let the mixture
remain together from 12 to 24 hours, for the purpose of
chemical action. Now pour off all the clear
liquid—being careful not to disturb the sediment. Add
to the above 3 ½ lbs. of clarified grease, and from
three to four ounces of rosin. Boil this compound
together one hour, and pour off to cool. Cut it up in
bars for use, and you are in possession of a superior
chemical soap costing about three and a half cents per
square.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 30, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2 Cap'. V. W. Wynne.—This gallant officer, who leads
a Tennessee company in Gen. J. H. Morgan's command, is
now in this city, for the purpose of obtaining uniforms
for his company. We hear him spoken of as an
accomplished and dashing officer, of much value to the
very valuable and efficient command to which he is
attached.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2,
c. 2
Our Advanced Rates.
It will be seen that all the newspaper proprietors of
this city, following the example of the press
everywhere else, have advanced their rates of
subscription. We have held out as long as possible
against this disagreeable expedient, but must resort to
it at last. Its necessity is so forcibly presented in
the following plain statement of facts and figures,
made by the Macon Telegraph on publishing a letter from
a paper mill notifying it of another advance in the
price of paper, and on announcing an advance of its
Daily subscription rates to $10, that we need not add a
word to it: "The paper used on our Daily and Tri-weekly
editions weights 25 pounds to the ream. The price
therefore per ream (at 25 cents per pound) will be
$8.75 at the mill, and transportation will make it cost
at the office $8.90 or thereabout. There are, or ought
to be, in each ream of paper, counting imperfect
sheets, 480 sheets in all—worth, at this price, a
little over 18 ½ mills per sheet. We issue to each
subscriber of the Daily in the course of the year 312
sheets, and counting wastage, imperfect sheets,
duplicates, &c., it would be only safe to average 400
sheets to the subscriber. 400 sheets at 18 ½ mills per
sheet, amount to seven dollars and forty cents for
precisely the cost of the blank paper alone to each
subscriber, leaving all other expenses—typesetting,
printing, ink, fuel, wear and tear, rent of office,
editors, telegrams, mailing and all other multitudinous
incidentals, all of which have been in our experience
equal to three-fifths of the whole expense—to be met
out of the odd sixty cents and advertising in these
times. It is needless to say the case is hopeless—it
can't be done.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1 Yankee accounts report that the steamer destroyed
on the Yazoo by a torpedo was the gunboat Cairo. They
say that she had fished up out of the river a torpedo
sunk by the Confederates, and that it exploded in her
bow-port, with an effect so terrific as to part her
casemate and hull and cause her to sink in deep water
in about eight minutes. The officers and men, they say,
escaped to the shore, but lost everything. They call
it "one of the most terrible disasters of the war."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 2,
c. 8 It is facetiously suggested that the reason so
many Yankees are shot in the head, is the desire on the
part of our boys to get clothes without any holes in
them.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 3,
c. 1
A Card.
The undersigned, physicians and surgeons, practicing in
Columbus and vicinity, find themselves compelled, in
consequence of the advanced expenses of living, to
increase their fees for professional services, in
proportion to the increased prices of all the
necessaries of life. They have therefore agreed upon
the accompanying scale of prices, and will be governed
by it, in the items of service provided for therein.
Abstract of Physicians' Fee Bill,
City.
Each visit during the day $2.00
" at night before 10 o'clock 4.00
" " after 10 " 10.00
" Consultation 10.00
Remaining with patient during night 20.00
Vaccination or Venesection 2.00
Obstetrical case—simple 30.00
Cauterizing throat 2.00
Lancing abscess 2.00 to 5.00
Vaginal examination—simple 5.00
Cauterizing uterus 10.00
Leeching uterus 15.00
Office prescription—simple 2.00
Country.
Each visit during the day 2.00
" at night before 10 o'clock 4.00
" " after 10 10.00
Mileage in the day 2.00
" at night 4.00
Signed by
J. J. Boswell,
S. A. Billing,
W. K. Schley,
Thos. W. Grimes,
Jno. E. Bacon,
John B. Baird,
M. Woodruff,
Jno. L. Cheney,
T. S. Tuggle,
Jas. F. Bozeman,
F.f A. Stanford,
A. C. Wingfield,
W. W. Flewellen,
Geo. S. Davis,
H. H. Cleckley,
E. F. Colzey,
Jas. E. Ropes,
Saml. J. Higgins.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
No More Use for Yankees.
Having procured the services of some of the most
experienced workmen in the Confederacy, I will be
prepared for the manufacture of HATS by the 15th of
January inst., any style, warranted to last five years,
will do well to give me a call. Hats will be exchanged
for wool or fur hides, such as Coon, Beaver skins, &c.
My shop is located near Union, Stewart county, Ga., ten
miles north-west of Lumpkin, and eight miles east of
Florence. Persons desiring Hats for themselves, or for
those who are engaged in the service, should bring or
send in the material immediately with the number of the
Hat. And as I do not expect to be more than able to
supply the demand, I will act upon the Miller's
principle, "first come, first served." Prices
moderate. J. B. Gilbert.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 13, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5 Cotton Cards.—Cotton cards are now being made at
the Georgia Penitentiary at the rate of thirty pairs
per day. Skins of sheep, goats or dogs will be taken in
exchange at present, as it is the desire of the factory
to get skins on hand to work up. The cards are worth $6
a pair. Let those who can furnish skins to that amount
and forward to the Penitentiary and receive cards in
exchange.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 13, 1863, p. 2,
c. 5 How to Make Good Soap.—Take good strong lye from
oak ashes and chop fine a good parcel of corn shucks,
put them in the lye, boil until the lye eats up the
shucks, add more shucks, taking the strings out, then
you will have good soap.—Char. Courier.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2
Yarborough House, Raleigh, N.C. }
January 9, 1863.
Dear Enquirer: A rapid railroad speed landed your
correspondent in this gallant old State. No sooner had
we crossed into its healthful domains, than we were
most delightfully edified at the first station with the
lusty cry of "persimmon beer!" Believing as we always
did that nothing bad, from her brave soldiers to her
peanuts, had origin here, we went in on the beer with
our usual "vim," and had only one regret: that you were
not along to participate in this time-honored
refreshment.
The Georgians and North Carolinians are great cronies,
and mutually swear they are the best fighters in our
army. Anecdote and repartee were quite profuse on the
trip, and North Carolina corn juice and apple brandy
added a stimulus to the passing hour. We were much
amused, though the story may be old, how the age of the
North Carolinians can be told with accuracy. By usual
practice each year the people visit the whortleberry
(huckleberry) ponds, and daily, bare-legged, pick their
fill of these delicious berries, and the character of
the troubled water is such as to leave a ring around
the leg. Adding three years to the number of the rings
and you have the exact age. You can tell better than a
Georgia clay-eater whether it is true or not! But,
pleasantry aside, Raleigh is a time honored old city.
It has a most magnificent State House, built of light
gray granite, a bronze monument of Washington,
Magnificent churches, both granite and brick, fine and
indifferent residences and places of business, good
water, excellent railroad communications, etc., and
what is more than all, some of the prettiest women in
the Confederacy. Speaking to some of the latter to
whom I had the honor of an introduction, your name came
up, and we enquired how it was that you, (you, Mr.
Editor!) did not marry in your own State. "Oh," says
one whose cheeks were like rose leaves, and whose eyes
sparkled like diamonds—"John and Tom were too ugly for
any of our tastes; and do when you write to them say
never claim North Carolina as their place of nativity."
You see I have complied with their request, and you are
at liberty to obey or disobey. . . I leave to-day for
Richmond, and will remember you when there. J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 2-3
American Hotel, }
Richmond, Va., Jan. 10, 1863. }
Dear Enquirer: To-day about lunch time we arrived at
the Capitol of the Confederacy, wearied with the
tedious seventeen hours railroad time from Raleigh. The
train was crowded with soldiers returning to duty,
conscripts, and a heavy reinforcement of speculators of
a very nation, the latter ostensibly coming to "these
Headquarters" to obtain war prices.
The past two days of heavy snow wound up this afternoon
and night with a heavy fall of quite cold and
disagreeable rain, and it is continuing whilst I write.
The streets and side walks are muddy beyond conception,
and ladies with voluminously lengthy skirts have a
tough time of it in towing the muddy embargo which
attaches itself to their dragging petticoats and
dresses. . . The hotels and boarding houses are filled
up with soldiers returning to duty and persons in
search of their sick and wounded kindred and friends. .
.
Hotel rates are enormous here. Board and room at the
present commands and goes like hot cakes at five
dollars per day. Every article of prime necessity is
held and sold at mastodon rates. Gold lace and brass
buttons, high top boots, and ginsaw rowell spurs are in
abundance—those sporting those au fait military
appendages holding such positions as precludes them
from the possibility of ever smelling gun powder.
Scions of the powers that be must have safe and
lucrative places, if offices have to be created! . ..
Direct to me as heretofore, only substituting Hood's
for Jones' Division. . . J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1,
c. 3 Port Hudson, La., Jan. 4th, 1863. Editor Enquirer:
. . . The troops continue in the highest spirits.
Health very good. We have built winter quarters of
willow poles, with the cracks daubed with mud, with
dirt chimneys and floors. They are more comfortable
than tents. The officers continue to live in tents with
chimneys built to them.
Since we have been stationed here our mails have been
very regular. There is a rush every mail day. It seems
everybody here expects a letter every day. I hear
considerable complaint among the boys about their
sweet-hearts getting married since they left home.
They cannot account for it. They thought that by
voluntary enlistments or conscription all the men were
in the army. It would be a strange state of affairs if
all the old bachelors and widowers marry all of the
young ladies while the war is going on, and when the
young men return they will have to take the old maids.
But I suppose turn about is fair play. I heard a young
man say a few days ago, when he started off for this
war, he went by to tell his sweetheart good bye. They
parted with tears in their eyes, each promising the
other they would write long and often. He said he was
captured shortly after he went into service, and
remained in prison five or six months. Immediately
after his exchange he dispatched a letter to her, and
in due time he received an answer which informed him
that she married in three months after he left!—He says
now he is willing to wait until after the war and take
his chance with the old maids. I think there is no
cause for a panic on the matrimonial subject; there
will be men enough left. The prospects of peace are
very good. . . J.J.C.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1. c. 7
A Cheap and Excellent Soap.—The following recipe,
handed to us by a South Carolina planter, will be most
acceptable in these times of scarcity. He assures us no
better soap can be made.
[Sav. Rep. To eight quarts of strong ley, add three
pints of pine gum or three pounds of rosin; boil for
five or six hours, stirring well to keep the fluid from
burning at the bottom. A little wheat flour added will
make it hard, if desired.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
"Ma," said a little boy, "the blockade stops
everything—why don't it stop babies from coming?" The
reply was not given. It might have been like that of
the old lady of North Carolina, when she couldn't get
any more tea. "Well, bless the Lord, they can't
blockade sassafras!"
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cotton cards were being manufactured in Williamson
county, Texas, and were pronounced by judges to be
good. The Natchitoches Union announces that a cotton
factory was about to be established in Natchitoches
parish. The company had been fully organized.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 3-4
Camp Near Guinea's Station, }
January 10, 1863, }
Editor Enquirer: To-day being a cold, rainy day, I do
not know as I can employ a part of it better than by
writing you a short letter, though I have nothing of a
"war like" nature to communicate. The whole Regiment
is now pretty well prepared for the bad weather that
has set in, though it is rather hard to kill time
sitting around fires in log cabins.
I witnessed an exhibition of articles the other day,
made by Georgia girls, and sent to the soldiers. One
article was a shirt, with the buttons on the wrong
side, another a pair of drawers, with the buttons
ditto, another a shirt, ditto, another a pair of
drawers with a slit in the leg on the outside, while
another pair of drawers consisted of a pair of balloon
shaped legs, merely hung together by a narrow
waistband. Fie, fie! Mr. Editor, can't you old married
men at home instruct the young ladies better than this?
Why, sir, it took nearly a hank of black flax thread to
make a decent fit of the last named article, for they
fell to the lot of a young Confed. who, though his head
reached considerably above the tops of his boots, does
not boast of the size of his underpinning. However, we
ought to be satisfied with anything, now, and therefore
I think the Confederate soldier, when asked by a Union
lady, in Maryland, "why the Confederate soldiers all
dressed so shabbily," made a most excellent reply when
he informed her that "we always wore our worst clothes
when we went to a hog killing!" Though we may need,
and are willing to wear most anything our fair and
generous daughters may make and send us, still we find
it rather difficult to become left handed. So, if they
will just put the buttons and strings on at the right
places, we won't grumble if they are a little odd in
shape. . . . J.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
Cotton Cards.
Such being the demand, we promised to advise our
readers weekly as to the progress of the manufacture of
Cotton Cards in the State Prison, and the terms on
which they can be obtained. We have no change to
announce. The machine now in operation turns out
twenty four pairs a day, which are sold at six dollars
each. Two other machines are nearly completed, and we
learn that the increase will continue as rapidly as the
machines can be made by the workmen, until about 300
pair shall be furnished daily. In the meantime,
persons who furnish sheep and goat skins will have the
preference, and next to them soldiers' families. The
latter absorb the whole supply at present. Southern
Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2
Letter from J.T.S.
Headquarters, 20th Reg. Ga. Vols., } near
Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 20, '63. }
Dear Enquirer: Since the date of my last, everything
has been quiet along the Rappahannock. . . . J.T.S.
P.S.—Captain Mims, Co. I, requests me to tender to
Misses Lucy and Emma Peabody, of your city, thanks for
the donation of two splendid carpet blankets for his
company. The gifts were appropriately distributed to
two of our most needy and brave boys, who will ever
bear the names of the beautiful and charitable donors
in lasting remembrance. We trust their lucent example
will be so far imitated until every soldier in our army
will be provided with warm covering to shield him from
the excessive cold of this latitude. Fair damsels,
whom shall we thank next? J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3,
c. 1 Woolen Factory Burnt.—On Monday, the 12th instant,
the large Wool Carding Factory, located near
Lincolnton, N. C., accidentally took fire and was
entirely consumed, together with all the machinery,
much of which was entirely new. The property was owned
by Col. L. D. Childs, one of the proprietors of the
Saluda Factory, near Columbia, S. C., who lost by a
similar cause, some weeks since, an extensive cotton
factory situated at the same place. There was no
insurance, and it is, consequently, a total loss.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3,
c. 6 Dog skins make the best leather for the
manufacture of cotton cards. Those who supply dog skins
can get cards in Milledgeville, manufactured at the
Penitentiary, at six dollars per pair. Money will not
buy them—nothing but dog or other skins. The great
question is now presented to the people of Georgia
whether they will do without dogs or clothes. [Aug.
Chron.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 3, 1863, p. 3,
c. 7
Cotton Cards.
A small lot of best A No. 10 Cotton Cards (Whittemore
Cards) on consignment, to be closed out immediately.
Rosette, Lawhon, & Co.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 10, 1863, p. 2,
c. 2 The Athens (Ga.) Factory, we learn, has been
selling yarn at three dollars per bundle at the factory
all the time, limiting the quantity to a family in such
a way as not to allow one family to get more than
another. In the same way the Macon Factory has been
selling its shirting, allowing one piece to a family,
the head of which was to register his or her name, so
that no advantage may be gained. The cloth is
furnished to one or more agents in the city who pay
twenty-five cents per yard for it and sell it to the
families at an advance of ten per cent. By this
generous and enlightened policy, much good has been
done; by its adoption on a larger and more extended
scale by all the Manufacturers in the State, a much
greater amount of good may be done.—Sou. Cultivator.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 2,
c. 4
Letters from J. T. S.
Camp 20th Georgia Regiment, }
Toombs' Brigade, Pickett's Division, }
Near Fredericksburg, Va., Feb. 1, '63. }
Dear Enquirer: . . .
The amusements of the camp since the late heavy fall of
snow have changed from "base" to "snow-balling"—both of
which are very healthful exercises and serve to drive
away the ennui of camp. On yesterday the boys of the
15th Georgia, with a ragged blanket for a flag, made a
furious onset with snowballs on the "hard 'uns" of the
20th. The challenge was instantly accepted and a most
magnificent and terrific battle of snowy missiles raged
until the 15th was driven furiously homeward and forced
to yield their colors and surrender. Soon thereafter
the 20th and 15th Georgia shook hands, and forming in a
vast line of battle, advanced and made a gallant and
dashing charge on Corse's Virginia Brigade, and after a
most exciting combat with them, drove the Virginians,
helter skelter, to their huts for protection. The
sport was exhilarating and exciting and continued for
more than one hour. To-day the Virginians came over
with their water buckets filled with balls, but were
disappointed in learning our regiment had gone out on
picket. We shall satisfy them soon.
I had almost forgotten to state to you that some of the
donors feel much offended that the contributions of
this regiment to the Charleston and Fredericksburg
sufferers have never been published, though we all feel
confident they have been faithfully applied to the
object for which they were specially contributed. The
donations were very handsome, and the fact of their not
being published may cause our friends at a distance to
think there is no liberality in the 20th Ga.
Professor James Ryan has been employed as the teacher
and leader of a new brass band for the 20th Ga.
Regiment, and with the funds contributed by the
officers thereof, has sent to Richmond to purchase the
instruments. We have great confidence in the capacity
of our friend Ryan to teach the art, and look forward
with pleasure to the time when we shall be marching in
the enemy's country to the music artfully elicited by
his clarion key bugle. J. T. S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 2. c. 4-5
Camp 20th Georgia Regiment, }
Near Fredericksburg, Va., Feb. 4, 1863. }
Dear Enquirer: . . .
On several occasions of late, some soldiers of this
regiment have exhibited to your humble correspondent
the letters they have received from their wives, in
which the most piteous and lamentable complaints are
made of their wants, and the cold, uncharitable
treatment they receive from those who promised them
faithfully before leaving for the war that their wives
and little ones should not suffer—for a home, food or
raiment, so long as their sole support was thousands of
miles away in the active services of the Confederacy.
One writes that she only gets forty cents per pair, for
making pantaloons, and ten pairs are all she can make
if she could only succeed in getting that many per week
to make. She then says the extraordinary cold weather
causes the whole income from her labor to be expended
for fuel, or herself and little babes must freeze. Oh!
there must yet be some sympathetic hearts and purses in
chivalrous Columbus, and they at once should take this
matter in hand and alleviate the wants of the suffering
families of absent and disabled or deceased soldiers.
In connection with this, would it not be an easy matter
for the benevolent ladies of Columbus to co-operate
together and establish a free market in the city, on
the plan of one now in the most successful operation in
the city of Montgomery, Alabama? At the latter place
we saw some of the prettiest girls, of the highest
positions of wealth and society, daily dispensing
contributions made by themselves and solicited from
those who were able to give, to the wanting families of
the poor, absent soldiers. They seemed like beautiful
angels on errands of mercy, exhibiting the highest
virtues of their hearts. Young ladies of Columbus, get
you up a free market—make the stay at home, money
idolaters, foot the bill. Press the importance of the
charity upon their hard hearts and make them loosen
their purse strings. Who will immortalize their names?
There is a general complaint of a dearth of medicines
among the surgeons in this portion of the army. What
cause there can be for such scarcity is beyond
comprehension, when so many steamers with other
governmental supplies are continually running the
blockade. We can only apprehend that there is a screw
loose somewhere, and that speculation on the curatives
is so rampant and the profits so great that the
Government, which we ever believe means well, is
euchred by some of the numerous sharps in its employ. .
.
By the way, we learn that Maj. Dillard is having
manufactured large quantities of clothing and shoes.
Cannot this estimable gentleman fix it somehow that our
Georgia boys could get clad and shod from his bountiful
supply? We are nearly "Georgia Majors" in apparel, and
then it is very cold to have nothing on but a shirt
collar and spurs. J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 17, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
From Texas.—A late private letter, from a friend in
Galveston, says: This city is being fortified with the
utmost rapidity and dispatch which a zealous and
efficient general and a willing people can command.
Night and day the works of defence are being
constructed, and in a few days more it will be
impregnable to a very large fleet. Hurrah for Magruder,
he has imbued new life and vigor among us. "Freedom or
death" is the Texan motto. The Yankee prisoners in our
city are treated with great kindness; most of the
officers are at large—too much kindness, in my humble
opinion, for villains who came here avowedly to turn
our slaves into demons and murderers, our country into
waste and ashes, and our ladies into—what?—Memphis
Appeal.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, February 24, 1863, p. 1,
c. 1. . . We are not defending the importers because of
any great advantage to our people that enures [sic]
from their running the blockade. Our readers are aware
that we long since arrived at the conclusion that goods
running the blockade were really of but little benefit
to the people generally. Only a few among us can pay
the prices demanded for them, and those few are
generally those who are making fortunes by speculation
or monopoly, and who can afford to pay any prices
asked. The trade only serves to define classes among
us, and to enable those who make large amounts by
questionable practices to live better or to disport
more fashionably than the great mass who cannot afford
blockade prices. The man whose income is no more than
it was before the war derives no benefit whatever from
cargoes running the blockade, though the telegraph
should report "another arrival at a Confederate port"
every day or night of the year.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c.
5 The Indian Legion.—Major Thomas, commanding the
Legion of Cherokee Indians, who have rendered much
service to the Confederate cause in East Tennessee, was
in our city yesterday. The Major is now with his
aboriginal allies in the mountains on the border
between this State and North Carolina, where he is in
reality conciliating the tories. Let us mention a fact
or two communicated to us by Major Thomas, to the
credit of these dusky warriors. They excel any troops
in either the Northern or Southern armies for
subordination—an Indian always executes an order with
religious fidelity. They scrupulously respect private
property—there are no reports of depredations where
they are encamped. They are the best scouts in the
world, and hence the good that they have accomplished
among the mountain tories and bush-whackers. A notice
that Maj. Thomas' Indians are in a section of country
brings in the dodgers at once, for they know that
hiding out will not avail against the Cherokees. By
their aid the Major has enlisted without bloodshed, a
great many men in his corps of sappers and miners, who
have thus been converted from mischievous tories and
bush-whackers into useful employees of the Confederate
Government. The Major, if the war lasts, will yet be of
infinite service to the Government.—Knoxville Register,
21st.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c.
6 Cure for Chills.—A lady subscriber to the Winchester,
Tenn., Bulletin thinks it would be well for us to
inform our readers and the public generally, that the
marrubium vulgaris plant, commonly called hoarhound
[sic], is a certain cure. Boil it in water and drink
freely of the tea, which though very bitter is a sure
remedy. It cured her.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 1, c.
7 A Good Wool Dye.—A gentleman in Terrell Co., Ga.,
says a good dye for wool, or woolen cloth, may be made
of white oak and spanish oak bark. Make a strong
decoction of these barks, and let the goods remain in
it a day or two, and then set the dye by dipping them
in a weak lime water.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Letters from "J. T. G."
Knoxville, Feb. 21st, 1863. Editor Enquirer: Since the
departure of the important personages that have
enlivened "all" Knoxville for the past ten days, the
denizens have lapsed into their usual ways. However,
the attractive, "dashing" Belle Boyd, once an inmate of
Fortress Monroe upon the charge of being a Confederate
spy, perambulates Gay Street in all her glory. . . .
J.T.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 3, c.
5 Novel Idea.—During a recent debate in the Confederate
Senate, Mr. Phelan, of Mississippi, adverted to the
fact that he had seen white women, in "hoopless skirts
and broad sun-bonnets" guiding the plow in Southern
fields. He invoked God's blessing upon such women, and
hoped that they would be "mantel ornaments in the
parlors of Paradise."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 3, 1863, p. 3, c.
5 Epsom salts are now manufactured at South Newport,
McIntosh county, Ga.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, March 31, 1863, p. 2, c.
4 Novel Impressment.—Fifteen or twenty women, the
leader of whom carried a revolver, in Atlanta, on
Wednesday, went around to a number of grocery stores,
seizing bacon, meal and vegetables, paying such prices
as they thought proper. They were dispersed by the
police. The Confederacy says the women were only
imitating the examples set them by Government
officials.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 1, c.
8 The Cheapest Food.—The cheapest and most nutritious
vegetable used for food is beans. Prof. Liebig says
that pork and beans form a compound of substances
peculiarly adapted to furnish all that is necessary to
support life. A quart of beans and a half a pound of
pork will feed a small family for a day with good
strengthening food. Four quarts of beans and two
pounds of corned beef, boiled to rags, in fifty quarts
of water, will furnish a good meal for forty men.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
The Cotton Card Manufacture.
On Tuesday last Gov. Brown sent a special measure to
the Legislature in reference to the cotton card
manufacturing enterprise in which the State has engaged
as a partner. The message was referred to a special
committee. We copy a report of its substance from the
Macon Telegraph: The Governor states that 100 pair
cards could be turned out per day if there was on hand
a supply of wire. Engagements have been made with a
firm in Dalton—Messrs. Russell, Brother & Co., to make
wire, and parties are also engaged to import a supply
through the blockade. The exact cost of making a pair
of cards is about $4. Two new machines are completed,
and three more well under way, with five more half
done, and three large machines begun for making 44 inch
card cloth for factories. About 1,200 cards have been
made since the purchase by the State, which have been
sold for sheep and dog skins. The Governor says that
Messrs. Lee & Co. did not turn over more than wire
enough to make 1,130 pair of cards, when they
contracted to furnish enough to make 12,000, and
recommends that the value of the wire be deducted from
the sum to be paid for the Works. He does not deem it
best to purchase the remaining half interest, as,
according to the contract, the State controls the Works
as fully as though it owned them all, and the interest
cannot be bought except at an exorbitant price.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c.
1 The Women Rising.—A crowd of women, some of them
armed with revolvers and bowie-knives, entered the
store of Rosenwald & Bro., on Triangular block, this
morning, and took forcible possession of several pieces
of calico.—The proprietor demurred to this seizure, and
rushed upon the woman who had the bowie-knife, and took
it from her—also re-captured two bolts of calico in
possession of the invaders. He has lost but one piece
of goods, he thinks. The scene in Second street was, we
learn, quite exciting for the time it was in
progress—but the women shortly dispersed and the usual
quiet of the neighborhood was resumed. We know nothing
of the cause of the outbreak, but sincerely deplore the
circumstances. It is all wrong, decidedly wrong—and it
behooves our authorities to take such action as will
supply the destitute women of the vicinity, and thus
prevent, for the future, any such raids upon private
property. These women probably need clothing as well as
food, and their wants should be supplied from public
contributions, in the absence of employment that will
yield sufficient remuneration for their toil! Men of
wealth, open your coffers and let the poor be clothed
and fed, before they become desperate and help
themselves to what their hands can find.—Macon Confed,
1st.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c.
4 A Female Aid-de-Camp.—The Baltimore Clipper says
Antonia J. Ford was the principal spy and guide for
Captain Mosby in his recent raid on Fairfax C. H., 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 patriotism, fidelity and
ability of Antonio 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.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c.
7 Bath Paper Mill Destroyed.—We regret to learn that
the Bath Paper Mill, situated on the South Carolina
Railroad, six miles from the city, was destroyed by
fire about 2 o'clock, p.m., yesterday. The roof of the
building was discovered to be on fire, when every
possible exertion was made to extinguish the flames;
but owing to the prevalence of a high wind, all efforts
to overcome the fire was of no avail—the entire
building being consumed. This is a severe loss, and in
the present scarcity of paper will most seriously
interfere with the publication of the journals that are
dependent on the Mill for a supply of paper.—Augusta
Const., 3d inst.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c.
7 We learn that fourteen bacon hams were sold in this
city on yesterday, and brought the small sum of nine
hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
These hams, we learn, were raised by one of the oldest
and best farmers, and were none of your little boney
[sic] pieces of meat like that which you find scattered
around some places in town, and better worth one dollar
and twenty-five cents per pound than common meat is
worth fifty cents. But that is a big pile of money
these hard times for fourteen hams of bacon. Why it is
almost the price of a number one negro. [Selma
Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 7, 1863, p. 3, c.
7 An exchange gives the following recipe to make cheap
blacking. To a tea-cup of molasses, stir in lampblack
until it is black, then add the white of two eggs, well
beaten, and to this add a pint of vinegar or whiskey,
and put it into a bottle for use—shake it before using.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
5 Corn and Bacon for Soldiers' Families.—I have 400
bushels of corn that I will sell to poor soldiers'
families of Spalding county for one dollar per bushel;
also, 2,000 lbs. of meat, at 40c per pound. R. H.
Tooley. Griffin, Ga., March 28, 1863. The above notice
was posted by Mr. Tooley, a man of moderate means, who
keeps a candy store in Griffin. He purchased these
articles before the seizures, and now, with a generous
liberality, while corn is selling in Griffin at $2.50
per bushel, and bacon at 80 to 90c per lb., he is
giving relief to soldiers' families at the prices named
in his notice. There are many whose means would better
enable them to assist the poor, but who are slow to
follow his example.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
5 Whiskey sells in Little Rock at two dollars and fifty
cents a drink, and the purchaser is not allowed to pour
it out, or gauge his own, so says the True Democrat.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
8
From the Augusta Constitionalist of 11th. Amazonian
Display.
It is an old saying that "one might as well be dead as
to be out of the fashion," and so a small portion of
Richmond county women must have thought yesterday, as
they followed the fashion of female mobocracy, which
was set them by some of our sister cities
recently.—Some time during the morning, a number of
Amazonian warriors—well, not a very large
number—assembled in the upper part of the city, and
proceeded to the store of Mr. Reinhardt, where one of
them queried:
"Got any shoes at a dollar a pair?"
"No," responded the store keeper.
"Any calicer, at 50 cents a yard?"
"No," said Mr. R.
"Well, that's all we're goin' to pay for 'em," responded one of the female women.
By this time, Reinhardt began in the language of the Irish lawyer, to "smell a mice, to see it brewing in the storm," and, therefore, determined to "crush it in the bud." Consequently he informed his warlike patrons that he had some important out-door business to attend to, and could not wait upon them; with which explanation, he locked up his store, and left.
The Amazonians then visited the grocery store of Mr. E.
Gallaher, near the Upper Market, but were received
there with some show of resistance. In the meantime,
information having been conveyed to Mayor May, he
started for the field of operations, with two of the
Police Officers, at the sight of whom the crowd
"skedaddled" in every direction.
A gentleman asked one of them if they wanted bread, to
which she replied in the negative, and said that she
had bread enough, but wanted meat. Upon being asked why
they made this demonstration, she replied: "We heard
that they had raised the red flag all over the country,
and people only had to go and take what they wanted."
What the red flag is we do not know. Perhaps it is
something of the balmoral kind. The whole affair was a
very insipid thing, and perhaps hardly worth a local
item, but as exaggerated reports may get abroad, and
possibly "cross the line" to "the aid and comfort" of
our enemies, we have though proper to give a correct
statement of it, to show that it did not amount to much
after all, and was soon quieted. Several of the
parties implicated were not citizens of Augusta, and
were of the real Amazonian style of female
architecture.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
6 Marriages in the Army—A Caution.—A letter from
Raleigh, N. C., 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 "buzum," and she
the other. I guess that made a "fuss in the family,"
if not in both families.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
7 A very painful and disgraceful scene has occurred on
the streets of Milledgeville. An immense crowd of
women collected and helped themselves to dry goods in
the stores of some Jewish merchants here—Gans & Co.—and
were about to help themselves to cotton yarns at
Waltzfelder's—who are connected with the factory.
Judge Harris appealed to them to desist from such
lawless conduct, and their wants should be supplied;
whereupon a large purse was made up for their relief.
It was not suffering, so much as a spirit of revenge
toward the exactions of these houses, that urged these
deluded women to this course.—They did not seek
provisions, though provisions stores were at hand, but
helped themselves to fancy dry goods, such as they
never wore in their lives. It was a painful spectacle,
because it will be distorted into an outbreak of the
hungry and suffering. They were all comfortably clad,
and looked more like Amazons than starving
people.—Correspondence of Macon Telegraph.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 1, c.
7 The Lynchburg, Va., Republican, says: A fine fat
sheep raised by Wm. Hix, Esq., on his farm in Amherst,
was sold to one of the butchers in the city, on
Saturday, to be killed for mutton, at the handsome
price of $130. A year ago and the same animal would
have brought from five to six dollars. A yoke of
ordinary work oxen, in low order, sold here Saturday
for $800. When our country friends talk of the high
prices of articles purchased from stores in town, don't
it sound much like the pot calling the kettle black.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 3, c.
6 James C. Gibbes, of Columbia, S. C., has arrived from
abroad, bringing with him machinery for making cotton
cards and other purposes.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 21, 1863, p. 3, c.
3 "To be done with two mice, a rat, a cat, and a
cataract," is said to have been the order given by a
young lady in New York for the dressing of her hair, to
a fashionable artist in that city. Ridiculous! Not at
all. Her great grandmother, no doubt, had her hair
turned up over a cushion, two feet high, and powdered
into the bargain. Times are not as they were; but the
latter days, in matter of dress, are no more absurd
than the former. Let the "menagerie and waterfall
style" have its little day, as did the pyramidal "mode"
of old.—Chattanooga Rebel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 28, 1863, p. 1, c.
5 A New Idea—Cotton Cards.—We are informed that there
is a farmer in Washington county, who spins his cotton
filling without the aid of cards. The process is
simple. He goes to the gin house or lint room, puts
the light flakes of cotton ginned into a basket, not
packed, carries it to the spinning wheel, and the
thread is made with rapidity. With a little practice,
more thread can be made in a day, than with the aid of
cotton cards. If kerseys are desired to be made, put
cow hair into the gin with the cotton, and it will be
thrown into the lint room nicely mixed. The same
process as above, will give him the filling he desires.
Will our farmers practice upon the important idea
thrown out?—Milledgeville Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, April 28, 1863, p. 3, c.
6
Columbus Relief Association.
This Association will commence business today in the
house formerly occupied by Mr. E. A. Smith, on the east
side of Broad street, below the Bank of Columbus. Its
object, as the public has already been advised, is to
buy provisions and sell them at cost to the families of
absent soldiers and others whose means are not
sufficient to enable them to pay war prices. The want
of transportation, with the inadequate supply has
advanced the price of provisions beyond the ability to
buy of many honest, but poor people in our community.
The large number of laborers, too, which the stagnation
of the regular channel of industry has thrown upon the
cities, has not permitted the wages of labor to advance
in a ratio corresponding with the advance in the price
of provisions, and, in consequence, much suffering has
been entailed upon a most deserving class of our
population. Under the beneficent operations of the
plan inaugurated to-day, it is expected that at least
the profits of the merchant will be saved to the
consumer. This to the needy laboring man is no
inconsiderable item. It may enable him to put shoes on
his feet and clothing on his body, or to provide these
little comforts to his wife and little ones. The object
and end of this Association are thus briefly stated:
the rest is in the hands of the farmers of the country.
After all that we have done, if we cannot secure the
generous encouragement and co-operation of this class
of our fellow-citizens, failure is inevitable.—We,
therefore, earnestly appeal to them to assist us—not
indeed with their money, but with their trade. We ask
in the name of those whose natural protectors, even
now, are standing on the brink of battle, ready with
their lives to defend everything we possess or hope for
in this life; in behalf of those to whom succor and
relief is the direct command of the Almighty—the
suffering poor—that our association receive from
provision raisers and others thro'out the country that
encouragement to which its noble purpose entitles it.
While affording them an opportunity of contributing to
the needy, we shall at the same time make it to their
interest to trade with us. Through the liberality and
patriotism of the Eagle and Columbus Factories in
furnishing as large quantities of bacon at 50 cents per
pound, and Messrs. Habersham & Sons, of Savannah, who
have furnished with twenty-five casks of rice at 17
cents per pound, and Mr. E. T. Shepperd and J. E. Hurt
who furnished us sweet potatoes at $2 per bushel, we
are enabled to commence operations under very favorable
circumstances.
L. G. Bowers, President.
B. F. Coleman,
Jno. D. Gray,
H. M. Jeter,
D. B. Thompson,
Jno. Quinn,
Directors.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
The Raid on McMinnville.
We have conversed with a gentleman just from
McMinnville. He represents the outrages of the enemy in
that quarter as surpassing any yet perpetrated in
Middle Tennessee. His account is substantially as
follows: The enemy appeared on the Northwest side of
the town at noon on Monday.—Tidings of his approach had
been brought in an hour or two before, allowing the
stray cavalrymen, convalescent soldiers and others a
chance of escape. There was a company of Provost
guardsmen present, who made a stand against the first
advance for the purpose of giving our wagons, et
cetera, a fair start. After a brisk skirmish of half an
hour, overpowering numbers forced this handful of men
to disperse. Some escaped and others were captured.
There being no further obstacle the Federals proceeded
at once to the public square. They were mostly mounted
infantry, estimated at between six and ten thousand in
number.
Their first business was the destruction of the large
Cotton Factory, near the railroad bridge. It is one of
the most extensive, and has been also one of the most
useful in the South. It was completely destroyed. They
then burnt the depot buildings, and adjoining houses,
and the bridges across the Barren Fork. . . –Chatta.
Rebel, 26th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
Tallow Candles.—It may be of some interest to our
numerous readers to know that, with not a cent of
additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully
equal in point of merit to the common star candle: To
two pounds of tallow add one teacup full of good ley
from good ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when a
greasy scum will float on top; skim this off for soap,
(it is almost soap already) as long as it continues to
rise. Then mould your candles as usual, making the
wicks a little smaller, and you have a pure hard tallow
candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that burns
as long, and gives a light equal to sperm. The
chemistry demonstrates itself. An ounce or two of
beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping
the wicks in spirits of turpentine will make it burn
some brighter. I write with one before me—Mobile News.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Blackberry Wine.—The following is said to be an
excellent recipe 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 24 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.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Cotton Yarns for Soldiers' Families.
Mr. E. Steadman calls upon all the cotton yarn spinners
of the State to meet in convention at Atlanta on the
15th inst., to arrange a united effort on the part of
the factories to supply the destitute families of
soldiers with yarns. Col. Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster
of the State, whose duty it has been made by the
Legislature to procure supplies of yarn for soldiers'
families, approves this call, and urges that the work
be commenced as generally and as soon as possible.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
From Benning's Brigade.
Camp Wood. }
Near Gatesville, N. C., }
April 26th, 1863. }
Ed. Enquirer:--Since my last to you, we have been
continuing our march—seeking out provisions and forage
for Lt. Gen. Longstreet's corps d'armee. From alpha to
omega, we have been entirely successful in obtaining an
abundant supply of bacon, lard, corn and fodder, for
our peregrinating brigade, and the corps proper
stationed in front of Suffolk. We have had an
interesting time of it generally. Plenty of good food
to eat, lots of pretty girls to greet us by the wayside
and cast their angelic smiles upon us and bid us
welcome to their boards and parlors; and then we have
music from our brass band at every big mansion.
Our field and staff officers have had quite a gay time
on the march and in the bivouac. For genuine
gallantry, we will wager that Benning's Brigade is
without a compeer, and the field, staff and line
officers of the 20th Georgia pride themselves on being
a head and shoulder taller in the art of fascination
than the other regiments of the Brigade. But it is
best to keep shady on this subject, lest some of our
loving, lonely wives at home might surmise we were
playing off as single Apollos in this section where
Virgin beauty is as plentiful as the whortleberries in
this old State of primitive customs and genuine
hospitality. A thousand blessings say we on the old Hog
and Hominy region! . . .
But I fear, friend Martin, several of the boys of our
Brigade have unconsciously allowed the beauteous
damsels of this plain, domestic and chivalrous State to
bear their hearts away, when they spiritedly drove away
in their unique and common one-horse chaise—it being
the only vehicle left by the vandals, who have stolen
all the buggies and carriages. True must be the
patriotism of those who can forego the elegant carriage
for the rude, one-horse chaise. Well the contrast in
our eyes makes the beauty of the girls more
resplendent, and has a dash of genuine independence
about it. What say you? Such a thing as charging a
soldier an iota for board or bed is an exception to the
prevailing custom in this part of rural North Carolina,
i. e., in the counties of Pasquotank, Perquimons,
Chowan and Gates. Even the wives of the renegades and
disloyal citizens have treated us kindly and
hospitably.
I observed a custom here well worthy of imitation in
other States of the Confederacy. Children are required
to work at something at an early age. Such sized boys
as our recherche citizens at home would place under the
immediate charge of a buxom sable nurse, here drop corn
by a V fork, and do various other farm duties. This
accounts for the reputation the North Carolinians bear
wherever they go for industry and thrift.
But I fear I have tired your patience with this pencil
scrawl on such a variety of scraps of paper, and must
close to face a smoking meal of fresh shad, ham and
eggs, fowl, sweet potatoes, corn bread and biscuit,
which our servant Frank , with an exulting air, has
spread on the mundane table, before our shed of rails
and blankets, for immediate demolition. Three cheers
three for North Carolina! J.T.S.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
From the Dismal Swamp Region.
Camp Near Minnsville, }
Chowan county, N.C. }
April 25, 1863. }
Editor Enquirer:--For the last three months this
Brigade has been on duty in the counties of Gates,
Perquimons, Pasquotank and Chowan. The reason of our
being here is to break up a next of Buffaloes (a set of
lawless renegade and traitorous citizens) who have
banded themselves together, and have given great
annoyance to the loyal citizens. . . To the praise of
your old State, Mr. Editor, I must say that we have met
with the most hospitable people we have ever been
among. Nothing seems to be too good for the "Dixie
Boys," and every one seems to see how much they can do
toward contributing to our comfort and enjoyment. Even
when they take pay at all it is just the old prices
before the war—eggs 10 to 15 cents per dozen, and the
finest potatoes you ever saw at $1 per bushel; corn $1
per bushel; grown hens 25 cents each, and other things
at like prices. Even the very poorest give away all
they can spare. Our boys are loth to leave here, and
if the exigencies of the service will permit, would be
willing to remain during the balance of the war, and
your correspondent thinks from indications some of them
would make a lifetime home of it. Every evening our
camps are thronged with citizens, and among them a host
of the prettiest girls I ever saw (can't for the life
of me see why you lived to be an old bachelor, and then
had to go all the way to Georgia to find a wife), and
all seem overjoyed by the presence of the "Dixie Boys."
Professor Ryan generally favors them with some music by
his fine band. . . . Yours, J.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Cotton Spinners' Convention.
In conformity with a request published some time since,
a meeting of the Cotton Spinners of the State was held
at Atlanta, Ga., on the 15th of May. There were
present, John White, of Georgia Factory; Isaac Powell,
High Shoals Factory; Hugh McLean, Agaudon Mill; Thomas
Leslie, Troup Factory, and E. Steadman, Gwinnett
Manufacturing Company. On motion, John White was
elected Chairman, and E. Steadman, Secretary. After
consultation the meeting agreed upon the following:
(Circular.) To the Cotton Spinners of Georgia.
In pursuance of a call made upon the Cotton Spinners of
Georgia to assemble in Convention in the city of
Atlanta, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the best means of supplying the great destitution in
Cotton Yarns, now being felt all over our State, the
undersigned duly assembled. After a deliberate
examination of all the facts laid before us, towit: the
great scarcity of Cotton Yarns; the limited means of
soldiers' wives and families; the probable continuance
of this unholy war; and the apparent suffering that
must continue to accrue to the families of our noble
defenders on account of the scarcity of Yarns; and the
almost impossibility of procuring Cotton Cards, we have
determined to act upon the following plan, and
earnestly request Cotton Spinners all over the State
heartily to co-operate with us. We hereby pledge
ourselves to furnish to General Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General of the State, one-eight of our
production of Cotton Yarns weekly, at one-half the
current prices at the time they are furnished. These
Yarns to be issued to the Inferior Courts of each
county, and by them to be distributed to the destitute
of their counties, as provided for by a resolution of
the late Legislature. These Yarns to be delivered by
us at the nearest depot of transportation. This plan
cannot fail to commend itself to every patriot of the
Empire State.—Thousands of our fellow citizens, clad in
the armor of war, are on distant fields battling for
our rights and cheerfully risking their lives in
defence of us, our homes and altars. Their families are
consigned to our care. They are in great need of Yarns
with which to weave them necessary clothing. Cotton
Cards cannot be procured. Their only hope is in the
factories of their State. To them they appeal, and to
them they surely will not appeal in vain.
John White,
Georgia Factory.
Isaac Powell,
High Shoals Factory.
Hugh MacLean,
Aguadon Mill.
Thos. Leslie,
Troup Factory.
E. Steadman,
Gwinnett Manufacturing Company.
____
Quartermaster General's Office, }
Atlanta, May 15, 1863. }
The above circular is sent forth with the earnest hope,
that every cotton spinner in Georgia will cheerfully
and promptly respond to its appeal and act upon its
plan. I know of no act by which proprietors of
factories can more surely nerve the arms of our brave
soldiers, than by furnishing thread, by which the loved
ones at home can be comfortably clad and protected from
the rigors of a coming winter. A failure to respond
will result in much suffering among the families of
those who have sacrificed their all for our defense and
our comfort. Let it be remembered that without the aid
of factories, thread cannot be obtained, and the
destitute poor cannot be clad. Let the families of our
soldiers be fed and clothed, and they will more
cheerfully and patiently bear the toils and suffering
of the camp, and more gallantly meet the assault of the
enemy. Let them be neglected, and dissatisfaction on
the part of many, and desertion in some, will
inevitably follow. How much then depends upon the
action of our cotton spinners in this matter. In
behalf of the destitute families of our gallant
soldiers who appeal to the cotton spinners of Georgia,
we appeal with confidence that they will not disappoint
us, but will nobly and patriotically come to our aid in
this our time of need.
The yarns so obtained will be furnished gratuitously to the destitute of our State.
Ira R. Foster,
Quartermaster General State of Georgia.
P.S.—Each daily of the State will copy the above three times—each weekly twice. As the matter is one of charity, it is hoped that the charges for insertion will be as small as possible—if made. Bills presented at the office will be paid. I.R.F.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
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 is thus prepared:
Take common vinegar, the stronger the better, put into
it rusty nails, or any pieces of rusty iron, and let it
stand for 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.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, May 26, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Not long since we heard a young lady say that hereafter
she intended to buy none but homespun dresses. It was
a wise conclusion, and we hope every woman in the
Confederacy will follow her example, and buy no more of
those goods which blockade runners are palming off on
the people as from England, when, in reality, they are
from Yankeedom, and thus save gold in the country
which, by this means, goes into the pockets of the
enemy. This revolution has proved that the women of
the South are not mere butterflies of fashion; they
have labored cheerfully and made sacrifices
unmurmuringly, and have proved themselves worthy of
their patriotic husbands who are in the field. The
young ladies have learned lessons of usefulness and
economy and will make model wives for our brave young
soldiers when they return from the bloody field to
peaceful pursuits.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Spinning Without Cards.—Perhaps it is not known to all
to whom it might be of service, that very good and even
yarn may be spun from cotton just as it comes from the
gin, as can be made from rolls. This has been, and is
now done very successfully, by people of more ingenuity
and industry than those who are continually grumbling
about the prices of cards.—Macon Mess.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
From the Augusta Chronicle, 28th. Cheering from
Arkansas.
We have had the pleasure of an interview with a
gentleman recently from Camden, Arkansas, 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 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 eight
months, has been beyond all parallel in the history of
the State. By precaution and a wise 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 times, 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 least four fold that of any previous
year. All kinds of provision crops will yield
generously. There is no suffering among the poor in
Arkansas. The Legislature appropriated a million 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 the
circumstances, it is impossible to resist the
conviction that the people are even better off than
before the war commenced. . . . On the whole, the
statement which we have 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 an honored and prominent member of the fair
sisterhood of Southern States.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
From the Knoxville Register. Stonewall Jackson's
Message to the Women of the Confederacy.
After a visit to the Rappahannock army, the writer of
this made a parting call on General Jackson, in his
tent. As we stood exchanging the last words, some
reference was made to what our ladies were doing.
"Yes," said he, "but they must not entice the men away
from the army. You must tell them so for me. We are
fighting for principle, for honor, for everything we
hold dear. If we fail we must lose everything. We shall
then be slaves—we shall be worse than slaves—we shall
have nothing worth living for." I am sure the women of
the Confederacy will give these words of the now
lamented hero a place in their hearts. Let them not be
impatient even about their friends in the army coming
on visits home. Let them encourage and cheer them in
staying at their posts whenever and so long as may be
necessary. But, whether there may have been much
occasion for such a suggestion to them or not, the
words which Jackson spoke in connection with it, are
words alike noble and solemn, to which every man, as
well as every woman, in the Confederate States ought to
listen. Let our soldiers inscribe them on their
banners. Let our citizens at home keep them before
their eyes. Let those who are mad in the pursuit of
gain, amid the sufferings of their country, aid their
fellow-citizens, and give ear to the tones of warning
which these words convey. L.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Alcohol from China Berries.—Messrs. Beusse & Hines, of
this place, are now manufacturing alcohol from china
berries. They have succeeded in making it ninety per
cent. proof. It has been tested, and pronounced an
excellent article for mechanical purposes. The
enterprise deserves encouragement.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Mrs. Wm. N. Wyatt has sent us a sample of soft soap
made without the use of a particle of grease, which is
equal to the best article of the kind we ever saw; and
as the process of making it is simple and the
ingredients within the reach of all, we take pleasure
in making it known that the public may be benefitted
thereby. Take corn shucks, remove the hard, or shank
end, strip those up find, and place them in a pot or
kettle of strong boiling ley, stir until all the
particles of shuck are consumed; add a tea-cup full of
pine gum or rosin, to an ordinary pot full, and you
will have as good soap as you could wish. We presume
that the soap could be hardened in the usual way, if
desirable.—Marion Commonwealth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Pine apples are selling in Mobile at ten dollars
apiece.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c.
3-4 A Most Horrid and Fiendish Murder Committed by a
Member of the Third Georgia Cavalry. Ed. Enquirer: The
particulars of this horrible murder we hasten to lay
before your readers. The awful deed was committed at
midnight, on Ashley's Farm, near Mount Hebron Church.
Hear the confession of the dastardly wretch: It was
midnight, when all nature seemed hushed in quiet
repose, and the weary soldiers were slumbering in
fancied security upon their pallets, save the martial
tread of the watchful sentinel as he paced his post,
vigilantly guarding his comrades from skulking
intruders, when suddenly from the west, dark clouds
ominously gathered upon the horizon; when, as time grew
apace, the muttering thunders and vivid sheets of
lightning darting like forked tongued serpents across
the heavens indicated a terrific storm. The heavens
were pervaded with darkness--darker and blacker it
grew--peal after peal rent the air; the lightnings
flashed, the thunder roared, the earth quaked and
vibrated at sounds of heaven's artillery; large drops
of rain fell thick and fast. I awoke! Would to heaven
that I could have remained as unconscious as my
sleeping comrades. Slowly and cautiously an object,
apparently invisible, came creeping towards me; the
monster had taken hold of my foot. I tried to speak
but could not; my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth;
a dizziness came over my bewildered brain; large drops
of perspiration stood upon my forehead. I endeavored to
awaken my companion, but my strength failed me. I grew
faint.--Another flash more vivid, accompanied by
terrific peals of thunder, revealed--Oh, God! how can
I describe it! It was already on my body. I used
every effort to shake the monster off, but could not
move a hand. I almost ceased to breathe. I could not
endure such awful agony much longer. With one
tremendous bound I grasped my bowie knife and pistol
with one hand, and with the other grasped the monster
by the head. My teeth were clenched, my eyes protruded
from their sockets. I raised the murderous weapon in
the air, and, with giant strength, plunged my knife
into the largest, fattest, bloodiest looking body
bedbug I ever saw. Steve Wells told me to lie still,
or he would kick me out of bed.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
New Paper Mill.
We learn that some enterprising gentlemen from Georgia
went to Tennessee, a short time ago, and purchased a
paper mill that was exposed to the enemy, and succeeded
in removing its machinery just before a raid of the
enemy swept through the region where it was located.
It is to be put up somewhere in Georgia. There is no
enterprise more important, or more promising of speedy
returns, than paper mills. A half dozen new ones, of
the largest capacity, would scarcely supply the demand
for paper.—Some of our enterprising blockade runners
might import the machinery, and mills could be in
running order in three or four months. Will not
capitalists consider the great good they might do, in
risks like this? Books, papers and tracts can only be
published at an enormous price, owing to the scarcity
of paper. The religious, educational, and literary
advancement of our people is sadly affected by the
paper famine, which is in the power of our capitalists
to remove.—Aug. Const.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
A Receipt to Dye Black.—We publish for the benefit of
our lady readers, the following recipe which has been
furnished us, to dye cotton a beautiful jet black
colour: 1 pot of red oak ooze; 1 do. of maple dye; 1
do. of strong ley; 1 do. of strong copperas water. Dip
the hank in the red oak, and next in the ley, and then
in the copperas water five times. Then dip in the
maple, ley, and copperas water five times. It is no
humbug. Try it.—Atlanta Intell.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Deacon Johnson is a great temperance man, and sets a
good example of total abstinence as far as he is seen.
Not long ago he employed a carpenter to make some
alterations in his parlor, and in the corner near the
fireplace, it was found necessary to remove the
wainscoting, when lo! a discovery was made that
astonished everybody. A brace of decanters, a tumbler,
and a pitcher were cozily reposing there as if they had
stood there from the beginning. The Deacon was
summoned, and as he held the blushing bottles, he
exclaimed: "Well, I declare, this is curious, sure
enough! It must be that old Burns left them when he
went out of this 'ere house thirty years ago." "Perhaps
he did," returned the carpenter, "but, Deacon, the ice
in the pitcher must have friz mighty hard to stay all
this time."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Palmetto Hats.—A correspondent of the Mobile Gulf City
Journal, gives the following mode of preparing the
Palmetto Leaf for making hats: "The leaf must be taken
while very young and tender, (before it comes to
maturity, as at that age a nice hat could not be made
of it.) "The proper mode of getting and preparing is
thus: When the bud is about eighteen or twenty inches
high, dig below the surface of the earth and cut off
the bud where it joins the root; boil in clean water
four or six hours, take it out, place it in the sun for
six days, when it will be bleached a beautiful white,
and ready for being manufactured into hats; dampen
before using. "The long leave of Cabbage Palmetto is
much better than the short, or swamp leaf. Now (April
or May) is the proper time to prepare it.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Alum.—We have in our office a specimen of crude native
alum, which was found in York District, S. C., on the
lands of Mr. O. Spratt, about one-fourth a mile from
his ferry. Two of his sons being in a hail storm
sought shelter under a shelving rock. Exuding from the
crevices of the rock they found the crystals. The
extent of the mine is not known. We presume it will be
immediately explored.—Mountain (N.C.) Eagle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
Blue Stone.—We have on hand at this office a sample of
Blue Stone, manufactured at the Polk county Copper
mines. This is an article indispensable to telegraph
operators, and for some other purposes, and in general
demand among farmers at seeding time. The supply had
become nearly exhausted, but it is now being largely
manufactured at Ducktown, and no further difficulty
will be experienced in procuring it.—Athens Post.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 4, c. 2
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.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 1, c.
5
The Raid into Florence.
The Federal cavalry, under Col. Cornyn, entered
Florence on last Thursday. The force was about 1,000
strong. The stores, &c., were broken open and robbed.
Martin, Weakly & Co's three large cotton factories were
burnt. They worked up about 4,000 bales of cotton per
annum, and the loss is a heavy one to the owners and
the country. There was a skirmish in or near the town,
one man was killed and a few wounded on our side. An
old man named Bob White was killed at the factories.
The enemy soon retired. Five prisoners, left drunk in
the town, were brought up here on Monday. We learn,
that the Federals, in large force, advanced up to Bear
Creek, on the Tuscumbia side—Roddy's forces opposed
them there. In the meanwhile they sent a portion of
their cavalry over to the Florence side to burn the
Factories, while nearly all our forces were confronting
them at Bear Creek. In this way, they seem to have
deceived our officers and accomplished their design to
a partial extent—that of burning and destroying our
factories, machinery, &c.
A deserter from the Yankees at Florence states their
force to have been 2,000, with 8 mounted howitzers.
That they crossed the river near Pittsburg Landing on
gunboats, &c. There were five regiments, the 7th
Kansas, 10th Missouri, 9th Illinois, &c.—Huntsville
Adv., 3d.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
5 A Texas paper has the following: We learn by a
gentleman from Hempstead, that the ladies of that
county gave a fair on last Tuesday night in Hempstead,
for the benefit of Waller's Battalion, the proceeds of
which amounted to upwards of ten thousand dollars. This
is the largest contribution we have yet heard of at any
one fair, and speaks stronger than any language for the
patriotism of Austin county.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
6 Beech Tree Leaves.—The leaves of the beech tree,
collected at autumn, in dry weather, form an admirable
filling for beds. The smell is grateful and wholesome,
they do not harbor vermin, are very elastic, and may be
replenished annually without cost.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3, c.
4.
Correspondence of the Atlanta Intelligencer. Food and
Raiment.
Dear Sir: You have kindly allowed me the use of your
columns heretofore, to treat on divers subjects
bearing, as I thought, materially upon the public weal;
I now desire to say something which may be of advantage
on the subjects of food and raiment. . . As to
raiment—my own wardrobe (always very scant) is to the
patch, pretty threadbare and very little on hand, but
never did I feel more defiant than now.—We shall find
out after a little, that it is not in the Yankees we
have to "live, move and have our being;" we shall be
forced to live without them, and no tear on that
account shall ever bedew my cheek. I want to live
without them, and my children after me to the latest
generation.—They have drenched in tears and blood, and
filled with woe and wailing, the fairest land and the
most prosperous and happy people on the globe. I have
no fellowship—I want none, for such a people. But this
is a digression. My subject is raiment. This we can
make—we can grow wool, raise flax, and raise cotton,
and all these we can spin into thread without carding.
Let no one be startled at this. It has been done, and
having been done, can be accomplished again.—Cards were
invented long after clothes were made. Our good women
will fine this out after a little, and this they will
do. Through great privations and labor, they have
already been the active agents, the main instruments,
in clothing our armies, and, cards or no cards, they
will clothe their children. A good thread can be made
from cotton on the common spinning wheel without
carding. It takes, however, two to do it, one to turn
the wheel, and the other to draw and properly adjust
the lint. But this is too slow a process—the "flax
wheel" of olden times is the machine to make thread
with without carding. My mother spun on one when I was
a boy. The operator sits on a chair and works a
treddle with her feet, which puts the whole machine in
motion. She uses both hands in adjusting the lint, and
drawing and twisting the thread ready for use. The
whole machine used to cost about three dollars. Some of
them are kept as a sort of family "heir loom," and can
be easily duplicated—will some one do it? If good warp
cannot be made n this way, good filling can, and that
constitutes one half of cloth after it is made. If our
blockade runners would bring cotton spinning machinery
from England instead of fancy articles, it would be of
much more advantage to the country. I trust this will
be done. Respectfully, John W. Lewis.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3 c. 5
Latest from Florence.
A friend who left Florence on Tuesday evening, brings
the latest news from Roddy's command. It had returned
from the pursuit of the Yankees, under the brutal
Cornyn, having followed them to Hamburg, where, under
the protection of gunboats, they got aboard transports
and crossed the Tennessee. Hannon's regiment was in
advance and had a skirmish near Hamburg, without loss.
It was impossible to charge the enemy at the river,
when embarking, on account of the nature of the ground,
the thick woods and bushes preventing it, except by a
road which, for a considerable distance, exposed them
to a direct fire from the gunboats. Cornyn's force is
variously estimated at 800 to 2000. Roddy's command,
consisting of his own, Hannon's and Biffle's regiments,
were much too scattered in squads, foraging, on detail
service, &c., to be concentrated in time, for
successful fighting pursuit. The Vandals burnt the
Masonic Hall, and every machine, blacksmith and
carpenter shop in Florence, and set fire to a drug
store, which, if consumed, would have communicated fire
to and destroyed nearly all the business part of the
town. A Federal soldier demanded of the incendiary,
who applied the torch, what he meant by it, which
caused a quarrel between them, that was terminated by a
Federal Lieutenant stepping up and shooting dead the
soldier who interfered to prevent the Vandal act.
Martin, Weakley & Co.'s three factories were burnt
likewise. Almost every private vehicle was carried off
or destroyed, under the pretext that they were
sometimes used for ambulances. Horses and mules were
taken, and negroes who flocked to the Yankees were
mounted on them and taken off. Individuals were robbed
of money, jewelry, &c., &c., and all the usual savage
depredations were committed. Cornyn promised to return
again when the wheat fields were ripe for
harvest.—Huntsville Confederate, 5th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Dedicated to Miss Mollie E. Moore.
By W. P. H.
The Southern Cross.
AIR—The Power of Prayer.
'Midst the battle's wild carnage and cannon's loud roar,
When the brave soldiers struggle for liberty true,
To the breeze unfurled, there the broad pinions soar
Of the broad Southern cross, with the red, white and blue.
On the fields of the Potomac there rallied the brave,
And hurled back the tyrant's unprincipled crew,
And the foe saw the banner triumphantly wave
With the proud Southern cross of the red, white and blue.
On the walls of Fort Sumter 'twas thrown to the breeze,
When the great Northern Navy came boldly in view,
But the sons of the South drove them back to the seas,
And then honored the cross—with the red, white and blue.
Where the Father of Waters rolls down its dark tide,
The oft-baffled foemen the vile contest renew,
But vainly they struggle in their insolent pride
To banish the bright cross, with the red, white and blue.
Though by Hessians outnumbered, we never shall yield,
Nor for peace from a tyrant disgracefully sue,
Whilst a soldier is left to uphold on the field
The proud, glorious cross with the red, white and blue.
To the God of High Heaven we meekly would bow
And claim his protection and assistance anew.
And ask that in mercy He may freedom bestow
On the land of the cross, with the red, white and blue.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 23, 1863, p. 1, c.
6 What They Did.—During the recent Yankee raid into
Florence they burnt the three Cotton Factories of
Martin, Weakley & Co., which worked up 4,000 bales per
year; the Woolen Factories of Darby, Benham & Co., and
of James Martin & Son—5 factories. In Florence they
burnt the Masonic Hall, one unoccupied tavern, two
blacksmith, one coach and one carpenter's shops, three
unoccupied houses, one small residence, &c. They broke
open every store in the place, took what they could
carry off, robbed citizens of money, watches, jewelry,
horses, &c., took off some negroes, desolated and burnt
Mrs. James Jackson's place, &c. They were only in
Florence about three hours, and got off with but a
trifling loss. Their success in this raid will
stimulate to other raids into our region. P.S.—We also
learn that the Yankees burnt several Mills and Tan
Yards in the county. Their force was only about 700 in
Florence.—Huntsville Adv., 10th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 23, 1863, p. 1, c.
7 The Milwaukee correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
(Republican) says: Another disgraceful scene occurred
in our city this afternoon, similar to that of a few
days since. An enrolling officer, while engaged in his
duties in one of the wards, was attacked by a large
number of women armed with clubs, stones and other
missiles, who very seriously injured him. He succeeded
in escaping from the infuriated vixens by taking refuge
in a grocery near by, and the mob dispersed without
committing further outrages.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
An Honorable Flag.
We have seen a private letter stating that recently new
Battle Flags had been distributed to the regiments in
General Lee's army.
The Flag of the 35th Georgia Regiment, commanded by
Col. BOLLING H. HOLT, of this city, has inscribed
thereon—"Seven Pines," "Mechanicsville," "Cold Harbor,"
"Frazer's Farm," "Cedar Run," "Manassas," "Ox Hill,"
"Harper's Ferry," "Shephardstown," "Fredericksburg,"
and "Chancellorsville."
A regiment that has participated in so large a number
of battles, and never beat a retreat nor suffered a
defeat, may well feel proud of such a flag—and proud,
too, that it has contributed its full share towards
sustaining the honor and gallantry of its native State.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c.
7 An exchanged Massachusetts officer, who was taken
prisoner on the Rappahannock, says of our soldiers:
Doubtless a great many reasons are given for our most
disgraceful and disastrous defeat at Chancellorsville.
There is only one real reason, and that the simplest
possible. Our army didn't fight as well as that of our
enemies. We had every possible advantage. Our numbers
more than doubled theirs till Longstreet's
reinforcements came up, which didn't then bring their
forces up to 100,000 to oppose our 130,000. Indeed, it
would now seem that Longstreet didn't come up at all.
We had the advantage of position and no inconsiderable
amount of entrenchment. Gen. Hooker's plan was
admirably arranged and excellently carried out, until
the fighting took place.—He exposed himself in the
hottest place of danger and set an electrifying example
of heroism to the whole army. The terrible loss of life
among our Generals shows that on the whole they were
not found wanting at their posts of duty. We had men
enough, well enough equipped and well enough posted, to
have devoured the ragged, imperfectly armed and
equipped host of our enemies from the face of the
earth. Their artillery horses are poor, starved frames
of beasts, tied on to their carriages and caissons with
odds and ends of rope and strips of raw hide. Their
supply and ammunition trains look like a congregation
of all the crippled California emigrant trains that
ever escaped off the desert out of the clutches of the
rampaging Commanche [sic] Indians. The men are ill-
dressed, ill-equipped, and ill-provided, a set of
ragamuffins that a man is ashamed to be seen among,
even when he is a prisoner and can't help it. And yet
they have beaten us fairly, beaten us all to pieces,
beaten us so easily that we are objects of contempt
even to their commonest private soldiers, with no
shirts to hang out of the holes of their pantaloons,
and cartridge boxes tied round their waists with
strands of ropes. I say they beat us easily, for there
hasn't been much of a fight up here on the Rappahannock
after all, the newspapers to the contrary
notwithstanding. There was an awful noise, for I heard
it. There was a tremendous amount of powder exploded,
for I saw the smoke of it ascend up to heaven. There
was a vast amount of running done "faced by the rear
rank," but I cannot learn that there was in any part of
the field very much real fighting.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 2, c.
7 Forrest's forces on Friday last went in pursuit of a
woman to whom suspicion had been attached. She had
reached the Yankee pickets in front of Franklin when
they came in sight, but on they dashed, driving in the
Yankees and capturing their "booty." She proved to be a
Miss Cushman, a theatre actress, claiming relationship
with the celebrated Charlotte, and had upon her person
plans and drawings of our fortifications, and the
disposition made of the latter. It is said that she was
a crinoline scout for McClellan in Virginia, and
performed valuable services. Her fine talents are
doubtless occupied at the present time in planning an
escape from Columbia, where she is under guard.—Chatta.
Rebel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c.
4 To Destroy Vermin in Houses.—As the warm season
approaches, when these ephemerides swarm and multiply,
the following simple remedy is suggested to prevent a
late querist from being flea'd alive: Up with your
carpets, down with your curtains. In a pailful of cold
water mix well 1 lb. of chloride of lime (having first
diluted it into a thin paste in a bowl of water for
facility of mixture,) with a mop wet and saturate well
the floor, skirtings, and any other woodwork that will
not suffer injury; then shut the doors and windows
close. If there should be a suspicion of other tenants
in the bedstead, take that down too. In three or four
hours all will have disappeared or perished; but to
insure perfect immunity from the plague, it might be
well to repeat the lustration a second time, a day or
two after. A house infested with bugs was completely
expurgated on the second process as above at the cost
of only 8 cents, together with the loss of a mop burnt
by the fluid.—Builder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c.
4
The Ladies of Vicksburg.
Among the heroic defenders of Vicksburg none merit more
honorable mention than those of the gentler sex who
dwell in that fire girdled city. We are told that most
of them have excavated caves in the hill sides where
they repose with their children safe from the bursting
shells of the enemy, and all day long they toil for the
soldiers, taking care of the sick and wounded, cooking
for the well, and providing as far as possible for
their comfort in the way of clothing. A wreath of
glory waits every one of these heroines, when Vicksburg
shall emerge triumphant from the tempest of fire. To
say that they were in Vicksburg during the siege and to
tell what they saw and experienced, will itself be
worth the sufferings they have endured.—Macon Tel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, June 30, 1863, p. 3, c.
7
Dedicated to Miss Phil Edmondson. By W. P. H.
A Fine Secession Gentleman. AIR—The Fine Old English
Gentleman.
I'll sing you a new ballad, that was written very late,
Of a fine secession gentleman that keeps a large estate;
He owns a thousand acres broad, of cotton-bearing lands,
And makes his twenty thousand clear, and works a hundred hands,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He does not own a chick or child, and has no pauper kin,
But for a race to catch a dime, you'll always find him in.
At every stage of politics, he talks exceeding loud,
And gives his voice for bitter war in every public crowd,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
But when a small subscription list, for money takes the round,
No matter what the object is, he cannot then be found,
But if a scheme for profit starts, where nothing will be spent,
You'll find him late and early then, with nose upon the scent—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He thinks our armies in the field deserves a laurel crown,
But if it costs a cent to make, let others pay it down;
He has a crib of corn in store, and bacon very nice,
Which any soldier's wife can get—by paying market price,--
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
He bought his sugar and his tea, when things were not so dear,
And thinks he'll stand the "blockade" out, for yet another year—
He wonders how the soldier's wife her little children feeds,
And while he sips his good old wine, his neighbor's paper reads—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
To carry on this bloody strife, he has not paid a red,
But praises to the very skies, the brave and gallant dead.
If words could feed their hungry wives, the army would rejoice,
For ever to this holy cause, he gives his constant voice—
Like a fine secession gentleman, all of the present time.
And now, when life's last stage is o'er, and all accounts made up,
And from the icy hand of death, he drinks the bitter cup,
The world will give him o'er to one I need not name to you,
But should he reach the other place, what will the angels do
With this fine secession gentleman, all of the present time?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
From the Richmond Christian Advocate.
A Cheap Light.
As times are very hard, or rather as it is quite
difficult to get some articles of domestic use in these
days of home-spun and Southern Rights, I send you two
receipes [sic] that may be of some value to some of
your subscribers. For Making Copperas.—Take a stone
jar, fill it with pieces of rusty scraps of iron, fill
the jar with very strong vinegar, cover it, and let it
stand for two weeks. One quart is equal to a pound of
copperas. To Make a Good Light at a Light Expense.—Take
a cup of grease of any kind (lard or tallow) and into
it put a sycamore ball, saturate it in the same, and
then light it—you will have a light superior to two
candles. One ball will last three or four nights. The
expense will be about three cents a night, till usual
bedtime—not more, even at the present prices of tallow.
You can publish these or not, just as you choose; they
have been fully tested. Your brother, Geo. C.
Vanderslice.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p. 2, c.
3 Preserving Buttermilk.—Take a vessel that contains
nearly twice as much as you wish to save. While milk
is plenty, fill it two-thirds full of buttermilk, and
then fill up with water. Drain off the water and
refill with fresh once a week, stirring it well each
time after filling, and you will have a good article
always ready.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p. 2, c.
4 Preserving Peaches.—Mr. Edward Bancroft, of Athens,
Ga., has brought the art of preserving peaches in their
own juice to a great perfection. Having superior ripe
peaches, a little hot syrup made from double refined
loaf sugar and their own juice, heated with the pealed
peaches, prepares them for the most perfect sealing in
the cans or glass bottles. His rule is one pound of
sugar to two of fruit. We did not know, before we drank
of his make, that the juice of delicious peaches is
capable of yielding a valuable wine.—Preserved without
fermentation, rich peach juice may be used at the table
in various ways, and give satisfaction every day in the
year. It should be bottled in the way for putting up
new cider, to keep it sweet indefinitely.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 14, 1863, p.3, c. 8
New Cards
At One Dollar!!
Old Cards Repaired
At One Dollar
By Thos. J. Whitly,
Huntsville, Alabama.
No Teeth put in.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Detection and Arrest of an Alleged
Female Spy of Northern Birth—She
writes "Letters of Instruction" to
the Yankee Government—Interest-
ing Developments.
An arrest, which is whispered to be of great political
importance, was consummated in this city, on Friday
last, by the military authorities, in the person of a
woman of wealth, but of Northern birth and sentiments,
on the charge of communicating to the public enemy
treasonable information of the military status and
movements in the South. The authorities, though for
some time aware that such communication existed, were
unable to discover the source until a few days since,
when certain facts reached Gen. Winder, the Commandant
of the Department of Henrico, which led to the arrest
of Mrs. Allen, of Ohio, married abroad to Patrick
Allen, son, we believe, of a respectable Scotch
merchant who made a fortune in Richmond. It was not
until after evidence the most incontrovertible and
conclusive had been obtained, in the shape of letters,
that the arrest was determined upon. On Friday
afternoon, detective George Clackner with a guard was
dispatched to the residence of Rev. E. M. Hoge, corner
of Fifth and Main streets, where Mrs. Allen was a
guest. The detective was instructed to arrest and
bring her at once before General Winder. The officials
found the corpse of a child lying in the house awaiting
interment, and, as the funeral was soon to take place,
the forebore to disturb the privacy and grief of the
family; and in compliance with orders from General
Winder, postponed the arrest; kept watch and ward over
the house, and the movements of the object of their
visit, who was made acquainted with the nature of their
business, and instructed to consider herself within the
meshes of military law. The lady preserved unusual
sang froid under the circumstances, and after the
departure of the funeral cortege she was placed in a
carriage and driven to the headquarters of General
Winder, on Main street. At the examination, which was
only partially entered into, several intercepted
letters were produced. She at first denied their
authorship, but afterwards admitted that she had
written one of them, but as they were all in the same
writing, her confession or denial was of little
consequence. Enough having been elicited to warrant her
commitment on the charge of being a spy, it was so
ordered, but instead of being sent to Castle Thunder,
the prepared receptacle of such persons, the commandant
saw proper to commit Mrs. Allan to the maternal and
religious care of the Sisters of Charity, at the Asylum
St. Francis de Sales, Brooks Avenue, where she is kept
under surveillance.—The letters intercepted and
examined are evidently not the first productions of
this woman's pen sent the same direction, and for the
same purpose. The manner in which she operated to
conceal the real character of her correspondence was to
inclose [sic] the letter addressed to the person for
whom it was intended in an outside envelope, directed
to some female in the North, on intimate terms and of
like sentiments with the writer, to be mailed to its
proper address. One of the envelopes "and a few lines"
addressed to a young female in Baltimore, contained a
long letter, directed "Rev. Morgan Dix, New York," the
brother of Major General Dix, the ninth and last "On to
Richmond" General. In this letter she imparts the
names of prominent clergymen of New York city, and the
names and connexions [sic] of a lady, high in Southern
circles in Baltimore, all of whom she accuses of
sympathizing with the rebellion. Availing herself of
the family secrets, in whose bosom she was then
reposing, the writer betrays this confidence reposed in
her, and makes a malicious attack upon Rev. Dr. Hoge,
now in England upon a philanthropic mission. The writer
affirms the Doctor's mission to Europe was undertaken
with the sanction, and by the authority of the
Confederate Government, and that his ostentatious
object, given out to be the purchase of bibles and
religious works, is all "gammon" and a "blind." She
designates about the time, and by what steamer he
expects to return, and considers his arrest and
imprisonment in a Northern bastile, during the
continuance of the war as an object worth being
attained, at some hazard [sic], by the capture of the
steamer in which he sails for home. The names of
owners, and the location of a number of plantations on
the James river are given with minuteness. She
suggests that they ought to be destroyed, names
prominent points commanding for artillery, &c., &c.
She expresses a strong hope that the "rebels' may soon
all be "crushed out," and concludes the letter thus:
"If the United States does not suppress the rebellion,
they do not merit the respect of the world." A second
letter, addressed to her sister, "Miss Jennie V.
Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio," gossiped over the Stoneman
raid around Richmond, the practicability of which was
first doubtless communicated to the Lincoln Government
in some of her previous letters. In the letter to her
sister, the writer expresses great petulance over what
she terms the "failures of General Stoneman to
devastate and destroy as he went." She styles him "a
white gloved General," and thinks he was "too easy and
timid with the rebels." She is downright mad with him,
and blames him for not burning the residence of the
Hon. James A. Seddon, "the rebel Secretary of War"
whose plantation is in Goochland, near one owned by her
husband. The above are, in substance the main points of
the letter named. It will not be denied that, if
proven, they are sufficient to consign the writer,
whether man or woman, whether degraded in society or
exalted in the social scale, to the fate of the spy.
The power of wealth ought to be, and will be, we trust,
powerless to destroy the equipose [sic] of justice.
But there are circumstances, which, instead of
mitigating the crime of this woman, stamps it with
almost incredible baseness and malignity. Through the
sacred amenities of friendship expressed for a worthy
Minister of the Gospel and his household, Mrs. Allan
was received into the family—the deadly Northern asp
into the garden of Southern hospitality. Her intervals
of visits were frequent, and her stay protracted, the
more perfectly to probe into secrets of political
significance of which she knew Dr. Hoge, as the
associate of public men, and his family and visitors,
through him, were more or less cognizant. Here the
lamented Jackson visited, and its roof often sheltered
his head when in the city; here his wife and afterwards
his widow, made her temporary home. Though it is not to
be presumed that Jackson ever imparted military
movements to his nearest and dearest companions, the
fact of the presence of such a woman in such a place,
sacred to Southern honor and integrity, makes it too
plain to be denied that the treacherous spy sought it
out as a most convenient and peculiarly adapted point
from whence to operate. Again, while the Stoneman raid
was in progress, Mrs. Allan was not an inmate of Dr.
Hoge's family, but happened to be absent at her
husband's plantation in the line of Stoneman's route.
It is said Stoneman himself alighted with his staff as
he passed down, and did the honor of a visit. However
this may be, certain members of his cavalry corps are
known to have stopped there and refreshed themselves,
and departed without injuring a blade of grass except
those their horses trod upon and eat. So much for the
circumstances, and they are decidedly against the
subject of this sketch. We have no desire to probe
further than in necessary into the hideous business,
but the subjoined we deem essential to a clear
conception of the case. The maiden name of the accused
is Mary Wilson, and she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Her father was a steam doctor, but died abroad poor,
with his family about him. A few years ago, while
travelling in Europe, with his mother, Mr. Allan met
the Wilson family in Rome, Italy, and becoming enamored
of Miss Mary, married her. His wealth immediately
placed the family in a competency, and the two families
returned to this country, Mr. Allan bringing his wife
to Richmond, his place of residence. Since that time,
Mrs. Allan, though a Northern lady, has held a decent
position in society. She has chosen to prostitute that
position to the basest of crimes, ignoring all the
honorable conditions of life, in the hope of advancing
in the South the triumph of an accursed purpose held at
the North, her birthplace. The letters written by Mrs.
Allan reached the North—if any ever did reach there—by
the circumlocution officers and the "underground
railroad." For instance, she would send a letter by a
servant's hand, addressed to a well known gentleman of
undoubted loyalty, whom we shall not name, with an
enclosed note running in this wise: "Please send this
letter (or letters) North by some reliable man. They
affect me and a very dear friend only." The letters
would be given into the hands of another party, also of
undoubted loyalty, who knew a professional "blockade
runner," and here our tracing cease. One of the
letters overhauled and produced in evidence against her
was dispatched by express messenger, a negro boy, to a
point on James river, to the care of a party who would
communicate with the Federal gunboats. The messenger
was captured by the Confederate pickets, and the letter
with him, and both the negro and the letter were
consigned to the custody of Gen. Winder.—Richmond
Examiner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, July 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Making Soap.
One of our lady subscribers sent us a specimen of soap
manufactured under her own directions. Some of our
female friends to whom we shoed it were so much pleased
with it, that they asked us to write to her for full
directions as to its manufacture. The receipt we
publish below. Our friend says in a private letter to
us "You may tell your lady friends that much of the
beauty of the soap depends on personal attention to the
cleaning of the utensils, as the least impurity will
discolor soap. I always have the iron pot in which I
make soap well rubbed with dry corn meal after it is
washed and apparently clean; if the meal in rubbing
becomes dark, I throw it out and get more. If your
friends have no moulds, while the soap is hot it can be
poured into a shallow dish, previously made wet. This
will make it come out of the dish without sticking. As
our correspondent has taken five premiums for her soap
in different parts of Virginia, our readers may be
assured that the receipt is a good one. All of us may
learn to do something, and everything that tends to
make us independent is good for the country.—Southern
Churchman. Have ready hickory lye strong enough to bear
an egg, showing the size of a dime above the surface of
the lye. To three pounds of clean fat, after being
melted, add three gallons of lye to a bit of lime the
size of a walnut; boil fast, and stir frequently. When
it is boiled an hour, stir in two gallons of the lye;
continue to stir it often and always one way. After it
has boiled several hours, take out a spoonful and cool
it on the plat; if it does not jelly add a little
water; if this causes it to jelly, add while the water
is poured in, till you perceive that it ropes on the
stick, or becomes heavy. When this is the case you
have jelly soap, called soft soap by some. To make it
hard stir in one quart of salt into the kettle, and let
it boil ten minutes longer, then set it by to cool.
Next day cut the soap out of the kettle and clarify it
by melting it over, adding water enough barely to cover
it; let it just come to a boil and set it away. When
perfectly cool and firm, turn it out of the oven,
scrape off any of the residuum that may adhere to the
cake of the soap, cut it in pieces, and place it on
boards to harden. To make this soap fit for toilet
purposes it is only necessary to cut it into thin
shavings place it in a nice tin pan, add a little
water, scarcely enough to cover the shavings; set it on
some embers and stir and beat it with a nice spoon
until it becomes a smoothe [sic] jelly; while in this
state, if you wish to color it mix Chinese vermillion
[sic] in a little water, and stir it in till you get
the desired hue, take it off the fire and add oil of
lavender, bergamot, sassafras, or other essential oil,
the scent of which you like; and while it is somewhat
liquid pour it into moulds.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 4, 1863, p. 2, c.
8—letter written by Northern born man in Columbus,
seized as possibly treasonous.
The Chapman Letters. [copy.]
At Home, Saturday Evening, } June 13th, 1863.
. . . New wheat has been selling at $10 per bushel.
Monco has bought some, 30 miles from town, which he has
to haul, for $5. This morning I bought 1½ lb. butter
for $1.85, and 1¼ is the price it sells for; 3 beets
for 50c; one qt. string beans, 40c; 4 cucumbers, 50c,
&c. Chickens sell for $.25; new Irish potatoes $1 a qt.
How under Heavens people live I don't know. . . We do a
great deal of manufacturing here, such as harness,
saddles, shoes, caps, cotton cloths, yarns, swords,
guns, cannons, clothes, &c., besides it is a great
depot for corn brought from further South, where they
had good crops last year. . . . Mutton is 75c per lb.,
beef 60c. The enclosed stamps want more sticking
matter on them. . . S.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 4, 1863, p. 4, c. 6
Wool Wanted.
The Eagle Manufacturing Co.,
Columbus, Ga.,
Having large contracts with the Confederate Government
for the manufacture of Woolen Goods, are prepared to
pay a fair price for Wool. Mr. Eugene A. Smith is our
travelling agent. He has appointed agents in all the
principal localities in the State. They are prepared
when called upon to show the authority upon which they
act. As the goods we manufacture are for the Government
and Soldiers exclusively, it is hoped that persons
having WOOL, WILL SELL directly to our agents, rather
than to other parties for speculation. May 29, 1863.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5 Embalming.—Since the bloody battles of this war
embalming the dead has become a profession in the
Confederacy, and a profession which will be gratefully
remembered by those who have been enabled by it to
inter the bodies of loved ones in the family graveyard
in sight of the old homesteads, from which those brave
spirits went forth to give up their lives for their
country. The art which was for so long lost has been
lately revived in Europe, and still more recently
introduced on this continent. Richmond, we believe is
the only city in the Confederacy where the profession
is practiced, and from here assistants are sent by Dr.
W. Maclure to the different points occupied by our
armies. The chief office is on 12th street at Belvin's
Block.—Richmond Dispatch.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 2,
c. 5 The drafting proceeded quietly in Philadelphia on
the 21st, and 2,000 men were drafted. It was decided
that a negro substitute may go in for a drafted negro,
but not for a white man. [Yankee paper. The Yankee
government insist that their negro soldiers shall be
put on the same footing with whites by us; why, then,
do they themselves make a distinction between the
two?—Mobile Adv.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 11, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3
Wooden-Sole Shoes.
We mentioned some weeks ago a very valuable improvement
in shoemaking, the invention of Mr. Robert Kreuzbaur,
of Texas, for which a patent had been taken out. The
improvement consists in a wooden sole, rendered
flexible and easy to the foot by means of a leather
hinge, and a method of attaching it to the upper
leather that makes the shoe strictly water-proof. Since
taking out the patent Mr. K. has been engaged in
perfecting his improvement, and has now brought it to a
point which leaves nothing to be desired. The present
enormous cost of shoes is due in great measure to the
price of sole leather--$4 a pound. Mr. K's improvement
dispenses altogether with this costly material, and
substitutes an article that affords better protection
to the foot, thereby promoting both comfort and health,
while at the same time greater durability is secured.
It is thought that shoes with these soles can be
furnished at but little, if any, more than one-half the
cost of the common style, or, if made of canvass, still
less. We regard the improvement as one of much value,
and expect to see it come into general use. We were
shown yesterday a pair of shoes made on this plan by
Mr. Debel, a very skillful workman, on Broad street,
above Madison, which would not have misbecome the foot
of the President. It does not, however, require
unusual skill to apply the improvement, and any
plantation workman will learn in half an hour how to
manage it.—Richmond Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 18, 1863, p. 2,
c. 3
War Mementoes. A Fashionable Last Winter's Hat.
Editor Enquirer: I called on a friend a few days ago,
and was admiring both her economy and ingenuity as
displayed in renovating some old style apparel. "But,"
said she, "this is nothing compared to my last winter's
hat." Of course, I wanted to see the hat. "This
bonnet," said she, holding it up, "was bought three
winters ago--straw, trimmed with blue velvet. I took
the straw cape and made a sky scraper of it by putting
it in front. I made the blue velvet cape out of the bow
that was on the side trimmings at first. I then took a
blue velvet hat my mother bought fifteen years ago for
her babie [sic], and afterwards gave to my first babie
[sic], and worn by several others, but which had been
laid away ten years as a family relic--and ripping it
up, bound the front of my bonnet with the brim; (the
crown of the hat I gave to my sister to make a collar
to a babie [sic] cloak--the trimmings I put on my
daughter Fannie's hat.) I next took the former blue
trimmings and finished the outside. The lining inside
was abstracted from an old silk cape, and the black
silk lace twisted round these artificials came from
another cape. Part of these flowers were here before,
and this large heartsease came from an old remnant of
flowers left when Mr. _____ closed his store twelve
years ago; these blue and black silk flowers were made
from two sets of sleeve linings, and this white blonde
lace going round the front came from the neck of a pink
Tarlton dress worn by my niece to a concert several
years ago. The beads forming the centre of the silk
flowers came from a necklace sent North before the war
for my daughter to wear to a wedding, and the black
velvet and lace twisted in this outside blue bow came
from an old black lace mantilla, and that little
chenille drop came from an ancient head-dress of mine.
These inside invisible strings for tying under the chin
came from the aforesaid sleeve linings, and these
handsome blue and black plaid strings came from a fall
hat my sister gave me four years ago, and which were
saved because they were too beautiful to throw away." I
assure you, Mr. Editor, such was the taste displayed in
putting together these heterogeneous materials that you
would have supposed the bonnet came direct from Paris
if you had seen it, and like me, have thought it worthy
of handing down to posterity.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 18, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3 The Chicago Tribune publishes the following bill
of fare found in one of the camps at Vicksburg. It is
surmounted by an engraving of a mule's head, behind
which is a hand brandishing what may be a carving or a
bowie knife. The Tribune thinks it is a melancholy
burlesque. The most melancholy thing about it is the
reflection which it must suggest to a thoughtful
Yankee—if there be such an animal—on the prospect of
conquering the men who can live and jest on such fare:
Hotel de Vicksburg.
Bill of Fare for July, 1863.
Soup.
Mule tail.
Boiled.
Mule bacon with poke greens.
Mule ham canvased.
Roast.
Mule sirloin.
Mule rump stuffed with rice.
Vegetables.
Peas and rice.
Entrees.
Mule head stuffed a la mode.
Mule beef jerked a la Mexicana.
Mule ears fricasseed a la gotch.
Mule side stewed, new style, hair on.
Mule spare ribs plain.
Mule liver hashed.
Side Dishes.
Mule salad.
Mule hoof soused.
Mule brains a la omelette.
Mule kidney stuffed with peas.
Mule tripe fried in pea meal batter.
Mule tongue, cold, a la Bray.
Jellies.
Mule foot.
Pastry.
Pea meal pudding, blackberry sauce.
Cottonwood berry pies.
Chinaberry tart.
Dessert.
White oak acorns.
Beech nuts.
Blackberry leaf tea.
Genuine Confederate coffee.
Liquors.
Mississippi water, vintage of 1492, superior, $3.00.
Limestone water, late importation, very fine, $2.75.
Spring water, Vicksburg brand, $1.50.
Meals at all hours. Gentlemen to wait upon themselves. Any inattention on the part of servants will be promptly reported at the office.
Jeff. Davis & Co.,
Proprietors.
Card.—The proprietors of the justly celebrated Hotel de
Vicksburg, having enlarged and refitted the same, are
now prepared to accommodate all who may favor them with
a call. Parties arriving by the river, or Grant's
Island route, will find Grape, Canister & Co.'s
carriages at the landing, or any depot, on the line of
entrenchments. Buck, Ball & Co. take charge of all
baggage. No effort will be spared to make the visits of
all as interesting as possible.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, August 25, 1863, p. 4,
c. 3 No persons are fonder of a joke than the soldiers.
The Atlanta Confederacy humorously tells how some of
them amused themselves at the expense of one of its
editors: In His Shroud.—On Sunday morning one of our
city editors, who resides a little way out of town,
(the morning being very sultry), drew out of his
wardrobe an old suit of pure white duck, in which he
arrayed himself. He mounted his horse, and rode
leisurely along, coming into the city to get the latest
news, and passed by the soldiers' camp—about 100 men
lying around loose. As he rode along by them one of
the soldiers cried out, "Come on, boys, let's attend
the funeral;" whereat upon the whole crowd fell into
line, and started on, with the solemn, measured tread
of the dead march after the "solitary horseman." At the
further end of the column one of them halloed out, "How
do you know he's dead?" "Oh, I know he is," replied
the first; "they've got him in his shroud."
At this point the editor took the hint, and an
application of his spurs to his horse sent him forward
at a speed rather unusual in funeral processions.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 1, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2 Squirrel Skin Shoes.—Squirrel skins tacked down to
a board, the hair next to the board, with hickory ashes
sprinkled over them, for a few days, to facilitate the
removal of the hair, and then placed in a strong
decoction of red-oak bark, will, at the end of four
days, make excellent leather, far stronger and tougher
than calf skin. Four skins will make a pair of ladies
shoes. We hear that the ladies of some of the interior
counties are wearing these shoes, and find them equal
in softness and superior in durability to any others.
The longer the skins are left in the decoction of bark
the better the leather. By this plan anybody may have
a tan-yard, and make their own leather, as the skins
are easily and cheaply procured and any vessel holding
a gallon will serve as a vat. Our readers will do well
to try it. [Richm. Whig.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Florida Card Factory.
We have recently examined a pair of wool cards turned
out by the card factory established at this place by
the Governor, assisted by other patriotic citizens. We
were pleased, proud and surprised at the perfection of
workmanship exhibited in the specimen before us. They
are equal, if not superior, to the same article
formerly obtained from our Yankee "friends." We are
informed that the factory will be prepared to turn out
a large supply of this indispensable article as soon as
suitable skins can be obtained. Surely our citizens
will not let so patriotic an enterprise suffer for want
of skins. We are informed that this factory can
furnish cards cheaper than any other establishment in
the Confederacy.—Floridian.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, September 8, 1863, p. 2,
c. 5 Ohio Spelling.—Among the letters captured at
Winchester, Va., was one from a Yankee girl at
Somerville, Ohio, to her sweetheart in the army. The
following is an extract. Yu ort to See So me Rebs
Letter tha Tom brot hum With him Whur they bin Rtin to
thar galls and if i cud get holt of har fur Em i am a
gud union gal as ever you seen you ort to see how them
Rebel husseys Spel you Kin hardly Reed it they Spel the
Durndest Wurds you did ever Seen I mus Klose no mor but
Remain your Expected Wif til Deth.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 6, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3
The Female Lieutenant.
The public will remember the numerous paragraphs
published concerning one "Lieut. Harry Buford," nee
Mrs. Williams, with a history romantic in war as that
of Joan of Arc. Last summer the Lieutenant got into
Castle Thunder, her sex not corresponding with the
dashing uniform she wore. She was released, and went
from Richmond to Chattanooga, where she joined Gen.
Bragg's army, got upon the staff of Gen. A. P.
Stewart, and for a time was employed in the secret
service, effecting important arrests of spies, and dong
some very daring things. The other day she visited
Richmond again, not as the gay Lieutenant, but in the
garments more becoming her sex, and bearing the name of
Jeruth DeCaulp, she having, in the interval, married an
officer of the Confederate States Provisional army of
that name, first obtaining a divorce from her first
husband, Williams, who is in the army of General Grant.
In consideration of her services the Confederate
Government has commissioned Mrs. DeCaulp with the rank
of Captain, and since her arrival in Richmond, she has
drawn $1,800 back pay.—She is now at the Ballard House,
en route for Georgia, and the home of her new husband.
The heroine of this sketch is a native of Mississippi,
and a devoted Southern woman.—Richm. Ex.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 13, 1863, p. 2,
c. 8 The Eagle Company.—It has been our privilege on
several occasions to record and receive liberal tokens
and proofs of the considerate generosity of the Eagle
Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga. We are,
therefore, not at all surprised at the following
additional instance:
Office Eagle Manuf'g Company, }
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 29, 1863. }
Editors Courier:--We send by express to-day, 100 pair
of drawers and 100 shirts for the use of the sick and
wounded soldiers of your city and vicinity. We had a
large number prepared and also provisions, &c., but
such pressing need exists among the soldiers of the
Army of Tennessee, that we feel lit best to divert all
we have ready to that point, except the articles sent
you as above. We shall, however, be ready at all times
to assist the needy, the sick and the wounded,
according as the case demands, and at any point from
Virginia to Texas.
J. Rhodes Browne, Agent.
We shall take pleasure in applying this acceptable and liberal donation when it reaches us.—Chas. Courier.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 8
10,000 Pounds
Of Rags
Wanted at This Office,
For Which the
Highest Market Price
Will be Paid!!
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
To the Women of Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9, 1863.
You responded nobly to my first appeal to you for
socks. But few anticipated the measure of our
successes. From my heart I thank you for what you have
so cheerfully and promptly done. You have enabled me
to make many a war worn soldier bless the women at
home, as he placed your love tokens on his weary feet.
Women of Georgia, and such others as contributed to my
stock fund, in the name of over 10,000 soldiers, do I
most cordially thank you. But you must enlarge the
circle of your benefactions. God loves the cheerful
giver and also the liberal soul. Let us devise and
execute liberal things. It will take besides what I
have on hand, nearly 50,000 pair of socks to carry our
Georgia heroes comfortably through the coming
Winter.—Send in those already knit under my late call.
Ship to me at this lace as before directed. Organize
at once, throughout Georgia, into Societies, and let
your Secretaries, with the approvals of your Presidents
make requisitions on me for the number of bunches of
yarn which each Society will undertake to work into
socks. I hope to make arrangements for an ample supply
of yarns for the purpose contemplated. Notify me at
your nearest railroad point, and I will forward the
yarn required. Continue to place the name upon each
pair of socks knit and sent. I am keeping a faithful
record of the names of my fair colleagues in this good
work done by each one. May I not hope to put upon
every Georgian in the army needing them a good pair of
socks before spring. Methinks I hear a hundred
thousand women, answering. Yes, send on your yarns; we
will soon fill the bill. By the gloom which has lately
been over us, let me exhort you to redouble energies
for those who are your only preserve, under God, from a
far deeper gloom and an intolerable destiny. By the
groans of our wounded and the deaths of our noble sons
on our battlefields all over the South, whose deeds of
imperishable glory have illustrated names that mankind
will not willingly let die, let me exhort you to strain
every nerve to hold up the courage and strengthen the
arms of t hose still surviving the shock of battle! By
the brightness of the future, opened up by the glorious
and God-given victory upon the banks of the stream of
death, the now historic Chickamauga, let us thank God,
take courage and press forward, till we conquer a
peace.
Let the loss of some dear father, husband, son, or
brother, or loved one, nerve you to redoubled
determination never to cease struggling till we are
thoroughly and totally divorced from those whose hands
are red with the best blood of the Confederate States.
Cheer our soldiers, discourage desertions, hurry off
able-bodied furloughed men to the front, and stimulate
them to prefer an honorable death in the face of the
enemy, to dishonorable lives prolonged by shrinking
from duty. Women of Georgia! you have done much in our
great and bloody struggle. You can and will do much
more, and y our heroism will be admired wherever and as
long as true patriotism shall find a lodgment in the
human heart. Let the example of the tree patriots of
Switzerland, headed by the heroic William Tell, who
took a solemn vow to cease not in their efforts until
Switzerland was free from the horrid tyranny of the
infamous Gesler, fire our hearts to choose annihilation
rather than subjugation. The one will give an honorable
record, the other a sickly existence under the most
abhorrent of despotisms. The one is a result of a
noble self respect, the other the fruit of a degraded
self abasement. Rather than yield when our men fail
us, let us have multiplied examples of the Maid of
Orleans, who, when wounded by an arrow, drew out the
arrow, exclaiming, "It is glory not blood which flows
from the wound." But I need not write about yielding.
With an humble reliance upon the God of battles, if we,
men and women, will but do our duty, before another
year shall roll over us, the bloody sword will likely
be sheathed and the bright banner of peace will
gloriously wave over our ransomed homes.
Ira R. Foster,
Q.M. General of Georgia.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Voting by Classes.
Editor Daily Sun:--I notice in the Enquirer, of Friday
evening, an article complaining bitterly of the people
voting by classes, in which both classes are accused of
clannishness, but the burden of his complaint seems to
rest on mechanics and working men. He says, "there is
certainly no ground for any antagonism in the city." In
this the Enquirer is mistaken; for any man, woman or
child can see that the people are dividing into two
classes, just as fast as the pressure of the times can
force them on. As for example: class No. 1, in their
thirst for gain, in their worship of Mammon, and in
their mighty efforts to appropriate every dollar on
earth to their own account, have lost sight of every
principle of humanity, patriotism, and virtue itself,
and seem to have forgotten that the very treasures they
are now heaping up are the price of blood, and unless
this mania ceases, will be the price of liberty itself;
for we know something of the feeling which now exists
in the army, as well as in our work-shops at home. The
men know well enough that their helpless families are
not cared for, as they were promised at the beginning
of the war.—They know that the depreciation of our
currency is only a trick of our enemies at home, else
why should they strive so hard to secure it all? They
know, too, that every day they remain from home,
reduces them more and more in circumstances, and that
by the close of the war a large majority of the
soldiery will be unable to live; in fact, many of them
are ruined now, as many of their homes and other
effects are passing into the hands of speculators and
extortioners for subsistence to their families. Thus
you see that all the capital, both in money and
property, in the South, is passing into the hands of
class No. 1, while class No. 2 are traveling down, seem
to take their station among the descendants of Ham.—You
can easily see who are class No. 2. The soldiery, the
mechanics, and the workingmen, not only of Columbus,
but of all the Confederate States. In view of these
things, is it not time that our class should awake to a
sense of their danger, and in the mildest possible
manner begin the work of self defense, and endeavor to
escape bondage more servile than that imposed by the
aristocracy of England on their poor peasantry? Then
we claim the right, as the first alternative, to try
and avert the great calamity, by electing such men to
the councils of the nation as we think will best
represent our interests. If this should fail, we must
then try more potent remedies. As the Enquirer is
ignorant of the evils we complain of, and the cause of
our alienation, I will briefly enumerate some of them,
though we thought they were plain enough to all who
wish to see. In the first place, there has been an
effort made to fix a price on labor without the consent
of the mechanics or working men, whilst the producers
of the necessaries of life and the speculators are left
to extortion without stint or limit, until nothing less
than fifteen hundred per cent. profit will satisfy the
most of them. Let us compare a few figures before we
close, and you can see that we have justifiable cause
of complaint. I once could get 75 pounds of flour for
a day's work. What do I get now? I once got 25 pounds
of bacon for a day's work. What do I get now? Only
two. I once could get 50 pounds of beef for a day's
work. What do I get now? Only six. I once could get
eight bushels of sweet potatoes for a day's work. What
can I get now? Not one. And at the same rate through
the whole catalogue of family supplies. Thus you see
the Enquirer is again mistaken, when he says that
"labor is independent of capital and always commands
remunerative prices. Wonder if he would work for three
dollars per day, and board himself, at the present
prices of provisions? But, notwithstanding the
mechanics and working men can barely sustain animal
life, their condition is much better than the poor
soldiers, who are fighting the rich men's fight, for
they suffer all of the privations and hardships
incident to the life of a soldier, with a perfect
knowledge of the sufferings of their families at home,
who are (many of them) without a comfortable shelter;
many of them refugees in a strange land, despised,
persecuted and insulted, because a merciless foe has
driven them into exile, and because their husbands,
brothers and natural protectors are engaged in the
noble cause of liberty. True, they are sometimes
offered assistance at the sacrifice of their honor, and
that by men who occupy high places both in church and
State. Then is there not an "organization of hostility"
against the interests of our class, which justice and
honor demand that we should guard with unceasing
vigilance? The Enquirer speaks of equality which is
denied us by class No. 1, in the doctrine of property
qualifications or disfranchisement, which is gradually
working its way (secretly) into the circles of the
rich, which I , for one, have heard strongly advocated.
Mechanic.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 20, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5 To Make Butter in Five Minutes Without a Churn.—A
correspondent highly recommends the following recipe:
After straining the milk, set it away for about twelve
hours, for the cream to "rise." [milk dishes ought to
have strong handles to lift them by.] After standing as
above, set the milk, without disturbing it, on the
stove; let it remain there until you observe the
coating of cream on the surface assume a wrinkled
appearance, but be careful it does not boil, as should
this be the case the cream will mix with the milk and
cannot be again collected. Now set it away till quite
cold, and then skim off the cream, mixed with as little
milk as possible. When sufficient cream is collected,
proceed to make it into butter as follows: Take a
wooden bowl, or any suitable vessel, and having first
scalded and then rinsed it with cold spring water,
place the cream in it. Now let the operator hold his
hand in water as hot as can be borne for a few seconds,
then plunge it in cold water for about a minute, and at
once commence to agitate the cream by a gentle circular
motion. In five minutes, or less time, the butter will
have come, when, of course, it must be washed and
salted according to taste, and our correspondent
guarantees that no better butter can be made by the
best churn ever invented. To those who keep only one
cow, this method of making butter will be found really
valuable; while quite as large a quantity of butter is
obtained as by the common mode, the skim milk is much
sweeter and more palatable. In the summer season it
will usually be found necessary to bring the cream out
of the cellar (say a quarter of an hour before
churning) to take the excessive chill off. In winter
place the vessel containing the cream over another
containing water to warm it—then continue to agitate
the cream until the chill has departed. Before washing
the butter, separate all the milk you possibly can, as
the latter will be found excellent for tea cakes.
Butter made in this manner will be much firmer and less
oily in hot weather than when made in the ordinary way.
Field and Fireside.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, October 27, 1863, p. 1,
c. 8 Eugenie and Striped Stockings.—The Paris
correspondent of the Liverpool Courier says: The
Empress, you are aware, possesses the immortal glory of
having invented, or at least revived crinoline
petticoats. Such a brilliant act would have fully
satisfied the ambition of an ordinary woman. But Her
Majesty has a lofty soul, and aspires to the glory of
making another revolution in female costume. Fir
thirty or forty years past, and for ought I know, more,
French ladies have been faithful to the white stocking,
and they have firmly set their faces against the
attempt of English ladies to introduce the red one.
The Empress, thinking that the eternal white had become
rather monotonous—the red was too glaring, and blue too
literary—asked herself if some other color could not be
adopted. She though long and anxiously; and at last,
inspiration came—the stocking might be striped! The day
after this mental illumination the Imperial ankles, and
some little space above them, came forth adorned with
stockings of blue and white stripes; and all the
courtiers proclaimed it the union of the two colors,
ravishing to behold. By this time next year, no doubt
the new fashion will be as prevalent as that of
crinoline.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 1,
c. 6 An officer, who was inspecting his company one
morning, spied one private whose shirt was sadly
begrimed. "Patrick O'Flynn!" called out the Captain.
"Here, yer honor!" promptly responded Patrick, with his
hand to his cap. "How long do you wear a shirt?"
thundered the officer. "Twenty-eight inches," was the
rejoinder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 2,
c. 4
The Fight at Kelly's Ford.
Mission Ridge, Tenn., } October 28, 1863. }
Editor Enquirer: Yesterday a sharp engagement occurred
at Kelly's Ford, nine miles below this place, between a
division of the enemy and Law's Alabama Brigade. . .
Our Division has received its distributive share of the
fruits of Cols. Dibbrell's and Morrison's victory at
Philadelphia, East Tenn. Many a poor soldier, that was
minus shoes and blankets, are now rejoicing over the
fact of being well shod and clad. En passant, while
speaking of this, I would take occasion to say that our
company is sadly in need of socks. Will not the
relatives and friends of the members of the company
supply their sons, their brothers and their
acquaintances, with this indispensable article to meet
the rigors of winter amid the mountains of Tennessee?
Cannot some of the public spirited, patriotic ladies of
Columbus take this matter in hand and have at least two
pair of socks to each soldier knit and forwarded
immediately? Remember that this is an article that the
Government never furnishes us. Your Georgia Relief and
Hospital Association have heretofore completely
overlooked the Georgia regiments in Bragg's army. Your
State Quartermaster, Gen. Ira R. Roster, can and does
write pathetic appeals concerning the soldier's
condition and merits, but it is lamentably true that
this regiment (37th Ga.) has yet to receive its first
pair of socks through his agency. Why are we ignored?
J.T.G.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 2,
c. 6
A Rough Question.
October 22, 1863. Sometimes one may sit down, light a
"fragrant Havana," admire the rings upon his fingers,
arrange with careless negligence the glossy locks over
his intellectual frontal sinus, smooth his broad brow,
and in elegant posture consider a "grave" question with
great dignity.—But our question "knocks all this into
last week." There is no gravity about it, for hunger
is beginning to swear and rags are beginning to stare,
and like the "sear and yellow leaves of autumn" shiver
before the coming blasts of winter. "Dirty faced" boys
throw bricks at church going people on the Sabbath, and
the old folks at home, lean-jawed and sitting in
squalor, feel that moral duty dwarfs insignificantly
before the imperious claims of want and nakedness.
Physical want is a sheriff with an execution and cannot
be stayed. Morals is a preacher without judicial
penalties. The desire for bread and clothing and fuel
has a keener edge than the sweet persuasives of truth
and virtue, and where the rude ploughshare of the
farmer passes heartlessness is the soil left to the
seeds of virtue. But before we introduce our question
let us take another stand point. I saw a hungry man a
few weeks ago meet his neighbor and remark, "I attended
a sale to-day to buy meat and shoes, but bought none."
Ah, replied his friend, I was there, and know the
reason. Auction has a forked tongue, one to cry and
another to buy the goods; attend next sale day at
another place and the same articles will be sold again,
and should the profit be high Auction's left fork will
not buy, but kindly allow consumers to purchase,
although the articles are very scarce.—Nevertheless,
Auction is an active man and somehow or from somewhere
he always has more to sell when it suits him. Hungry
mouth understood, and with a cunning wink of the eye he
laughed and exclaimed, Auction is a shrewd, smart
fellow, but neighbor you have a great deal more meat
than your home demands will consume—sell me a small
quantity. No, said neighbor, the army needs a great
deal of provisions, and my merchant is very high upon
me, and I do not think it safe to spare any at all; and
they both laughed and each said these are terrible
times; I do not know what the poor people are to do.
But the hungry man walked away and wanted to curse
something, and he cursed as he walked, cursed the
Government officers and extortioners and Jeff Davis,
and wished the d—d war would close; but he stepped into
Mr. Grocer's and bought a small piece of meat; Grocer
was sorry to charge so much price, but couldn't help
it; and the hungry man again swore, but pleasantly this
time, "these were tight times." But now three or four
weeks have passed, and the man is now mad and says that
Auction, farmer, merchant, manufacturer, grocer and
horseboy are all a pack of scoundrels together, and
vows by heaven, by earth and by hell, that food and
raiment he will have by fair means or foul. And, Mr.
Editor, if you will listen, this man's mouth seems to
have a thousand, thousand echoes until from brogan to
prunella, from dray cart to the coach and four and from
the counter to the pulpit, above, beneath, around, from
far, the voice proclaims that public sympathy and
public integrity is lost, "played out." The smile in
the parlor is a cheat in the streets, and friendship at
the table is war in the "mart." Now sir, I hazzard
[sic] nothing in the venture that this echo from the
gouber [sic] patch to the planter's barn, the shingle
block to the palace steeple, from the hen roost to the
wholesale Millionaire, plants distrust in every heart;
and alarm steals in lighter or deeper shades through
all practical business operations. I am not the
alarmist, but universal famine price has lost its
blush; rather has made a reputation for business tact
and shrewdness, and men smile and smile and talk of the
"laws of trade," of "supply and demand," and close
their eyes and fold their hands as if inexorable fate
had pronounced humanity helpless, and decreed
desolation and robbery in a land of plenty in a day of
pity and prayer.—Base falsehood, where is thy
shame.—Awake, fellow-citizens, strike off the bands of
despair. No man was ever lost unless first self-
forsaken. Hear me—there are spies among us who set
traps around our corn cribs and meat houses, under the
counter and in the market—indeed they are so sly that
the whole land, even to cow pens and fowl roosts are
surrounded and entangled in the meshes of an infernal
spider webb [sic]. Gray old gentlemen who in times of
peace and prosperity seem to slumber and make a sortie
only now and then, but in times of war or famine go
forth everywhere and spread their web over creation.
They are angels, glorious once, but now fallen and
seeking whom they may devour. Look upon them, for they
now stand bravely in the market place. They are the
"laws of trade," of "supply and demand." I said they
were angels and once glorious. It was when "supply"
said to the hungry and naked, come I have plenty and to
spare, and trade bought and shipped to the needy for
the maximum profit which sufficed to enjoin economy to
the consumer; when small but quick and frequent gains
rewarded "trade" for his labor and defended the goods
of "supply" from the prodigality and rapacity of
spendthrift and proud "demand." "Supply" and "trade"
are brothers. The one is a producer and the other is a
sailor, and in youth, when they were honest and loved
their neighbors as themselves, peace and prosperity
resulted to the million by their operations; and the
people blessed them, the one for his rich granaries,
the other for the rich convenience of his beautiful and
heaven laden ship. Brothers of the Confederacy hear
me. The wail of hunger and nakedness has never been
heard in our streets until now. Supply and trade had
once a heart like God and the child of want could never
sylable [sic] his woe in this land where only the voice
of truth is heard. A few years ago and the child of
Erin cried for bread; the wail was sharp and the moan
was heard across the far waters of the wide Atlantic.
"Supply" exclaimed, I have bread, and "Trade"
exclaimed, here are my ships; and there went bread to
the destitute, "without money and without price." Such
they once were—showering blessings along the path of
life. But we said they are angels fallen. Trade was, in
his youth, comparatively a fishing smack; now his sails
whiten every sea; then he was gracious and his
fraternal feelings were strong, and his motto was to
"live and let live;" but success made him avaricious,
and he threw off his old system of laws, and became a
monopolist. Like the maw of Hell, insatiate, he seized
the administration of the American Republic, corrupted
its Congress, prostituted the cabinet, disrupted the
Union, and now wages relentless war that he may seize
the ports of the producing States. I say it is the
cupidity of the Northern (a commercial) people which
forbade the peaceable secession of the South, and
insatiate avarice it is now, which inspires both her
Council of State and Military Camp.—But even this is
not the most horrible of his crimes. His emissaries are
scattered throughout the Confederate States, and if
what "everybody says" be true, no man now considers his
neighbor, but every man "looketh only upon his own
things," and who considereth the things that are
Christ's—alas, who? Hear me, fellow citizens. I say
the legitimate and just limitations of the "Laws of
Trade" are thrown aside and substituted by the spirit
of a rapacious and relentless system of monopoly, and
every ear has heard the insidious whisper that there is
a fortune for him in these flush money days, and a
little "diplomacy" may set him among the Princes and
nobles of the land. And hence the producer as well as
the salesman has closed his heart to hunger and rags;
shut up his commodities in the cellar or the barn, and
with a clean shirt and a fashionable collar to it,
walks out into the market places with a "demme, good
fellows, but these are hard times—the Government with
its officials, its seizures and impressments have
nearly ruined the country." Mr. Editor, I could narrate
some piquant and amusing conversations between Trade
and Supply, but they are now in fraternal league as
extortioners, the time of tears has come, instead of
merriment; and "her who won't sell corn," and he who
puts a lock upon his clothes, each placing famine price
to guard the doors, have been cursed, and the people
are now cursing them; and pillage and blood are
scenting the winter winds. How shall we prevent it?
This is our question. More anon. Confederate.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 3,
c. 4 A Wife's Prayer.—Lord! bless and preserve that
dear person whom Thou hast chosen to be my husband; let
his life be long and blessed, comfortable and holy; and
let me also become a great blessing and comfort unto
him, a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet helper in all
the accidents and changes in the world; make me amiable
forever in his eyes. Unite his heart to me in the
dearest love and holiness, and mine to him all
sweetness, charity and compliance. Keep me from all
ungentleness, discontentedness and unreasonableness of
passion and humor; and make me humble and obedient,
useful and observant—that we may delight in each other
according to Thy blessed Word, and both of us may
rejoice in Thee, having our portion in the love and
service of God forever. Amen.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 4, 1863, p. 3,
c. 6 Where does it come from?—There is not a factory
within a day's travel of this or any other city, where
a person can get more than an occasional bunch of
thread, while nearly every retail dealer in the city
has his shelves piled up with it. Hence the query,
where does it come from? The only way in which we can
solve it is, that these dealers pay the factory prices,
with the promise to say nothing bout it—and this
enables the manufacturer to evade the law, which allows
him hands to carry on his establishment, on condition
that he does not charge over 75 per cent. profit. We do
not know that this is the case, but suspicion strongly
points to the culpability of these parties in this
matter. The Upson Factory allows every head of a
family, in that and the adjoining counties, two bunches
every two months—which greatly aids the people in that
vicinity to get along in these hard times tolerably
well. If other manufacturing companies would do the
same thing, there would be much suffering, to say
nothing of complaints, obviated. If retail dealers can
get thread to sell, why cannot others get it to weave
into cloth for their own use? The per cent., we
apprehend, is not enough—and the fear that some one
will peach, prevents a more liberal policy on the part
of manufacturers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 1,
c. 1
"Mary and the Children."
We heard a soldier remark, but a day or two since, "I
have fought through eleven pitched battles, and been
wounded twice; I have marched hundreds of miles in the
ranks barefooted, and subsisted for days at a time on
parched corn, and I am ready to fast and fight as long
as any other man will in the Confederate cause; but
while shoes are seventy-five dollars per pair, and salt
is twenty-five dollars per bushel, and my pay is only
eleven dollars per month, what is to become of Mary and
the children? If this state of things continues, I
shall have to throw down my gun or they must starve,
and before they shall starve that gun I will certainly
throw down; and if they want to shoot me for that, they
can just shoot and be d____d. I ask only that it shall
be recorded n my tomb-stone that here lies a soldier
who was shot as a deserter, who gave the government
notice that he was only going home to save his family
from starvation." In the Confederate States there are
not less than 100,000 Marys and 400,000 children,
precisely in the same situation, and this husband and
father uttered the sentiments of every husband and
father in the Confederate service similarly
situated.—What is it that constitutes country?
"Country, that dear name, comprises kind kindred,
fostering friends and protecting laws;" and if the
soldier's family is to starve, well might he finish the
quotation and add, "and none of these are Bertram's."
The very sentiments of devotion to his family which
makes an affectionate husband and tender father, are
the very sentiments which makes the sentinel at his
post true and the soldier in battle brave. He feels
that he is fighting for "Mary and the children," and
"Mary and the children" are ever present in the dreams
which enchant his pillow at the dead of the night,
where he lays upon his pallet of straw by the wolf-
scaring faggot that is guarding the slain; and if our
government is to leave him to hear breaking upon the
ear of his fancy in the stillness of the gloom that
reigns around his midnight camp-fire the sobs of a
starving wife and the cry of his little ones for bread,
and expect him to have nature in him and submit to it,
they are making a mistake that may cost us more than we
have yet lost. The next Congress are to be charged
with a responsibility far greater than has yet been
brought to the door of any man or body of men in this
revolution, to-wit: the enactment of a law which shall
effectually provide for "Mary and the children." Upon
the speedy passage of such a statute more now is staked
than ever has been upon the issue of any battle that we
have fought. The private soldier of this Confederacy
is the salt of our earth, the day-star of our
country.—His "Mary and the children" are dear to him,
and in proportion as he is invaluable to the country,
"Mary and the children" must become dear to the
country. The existence of this fact is not to be
blinked nor its discussion adjourned, and we can see
but one way to drive famine from her door, and that is
for the Government to make speculation in anything a
high misdemeanor, and in the necessities of life a
felony. To be just, then, the Government ought to
impress every imported article for sale now in the
Confederacy, and pay for it whatever it may have cost.
It then ought to put these same goods immediately upon
the market at retail only, and at the prices they sold
at before the war. They then ought to require the
farmer, artisan and mechanic to put his produce,
services and wares on the market at the old prices,
(which should be fixed by the bill.) In less than 12
months from the day such a law would go into operation,
we would find that God had made of the Confederate
States a land capable of living entirely upon its own
resources and of prospering even though at war with all
the world. The price of gold has well nigh closed up
the blockade running business, and this bill ought to
finish it. The Government ought to be the sole
importer, and nothing ought to be imported save such
articles as are necessary for the support of the army.
We can live on that which our land produces, and those
who do not think so ought to have the starch taken out
of their fastidious taste and pompous vanity. "Mary
and the children" have it to do, and the best are no
better than "Mary and the children." The first answer
that we will be met with will be that if the government
attempts to do anything of the kind it will open the
door to immense frauds, and that is indubitably true.
It will for the first six months doubtless open a wide
door to fraud, but it were a far higher and nobler
mission to save "Mary and the children" than to close
doors in the face of a few frauds. The simple, plain
truth is, that the fate of "Mary and the children" is
to be the fate of this Confederacy. If we save one we
will the other, and if "Mary and the children" are left
to starve, we will not only deserve to be subjugated
but to be annihilated. By the law we have suggested,
the Confederate currency will be at once restored to
the value of gold in the Confederate States, and it
will then cost the government the one tenth of the sum
it now costs it to support the Confederate army. All
they will lose on the price of the foreign goods they
buy at high prices and sell at old prices will be saved
in less than one year's expenditures of the army.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2
That Rough Question.
We said it was rough, because it presents us only with
the alternatives of a contest with a heartless
monopoly, or pillage and blood. For myself and for my
friends I cannot hesitate in the purpose to grapple
with the former. I know well enough that the whole
country is trembling and cowering under his iron grasp,
while the puerile and stupid are blowing the trumpet
which he sets to their mouth; to-wit: "you can't
dictate prices; you can't regulate trade—that always
was and always will be controlled by 'demand.'" Stop,
stop, my fine fellows, not so fast, nor so confident,
otherwise "demand," by your flatteries, will grow
exorbitant and take your crib, and your smoke house,
and your factory, and your furniture, aye, and if you
chirp, your blood with them. Pause, for I warn you, he
contemplates just than now. Will you hear? It is false
that demand always did regulate trade. It is a false
prophecy that it always will. It is the quintessence of
childishness and treason against manhood, as well as
Jehovah, to say it will. Solon repudiated gold,
established an iron currency instead. This was too
cumbersome for avarice, it smashed prices, buried
monopoly, bridled speculation, and dignified his
Republic by simplicity, temperance and moderation.
That which mortals have done, mortals can do again.
Think a moment; is it not the "Law of Trade," clothed
in vestments of monopoly, which now creates demand, is
spurting it to desperation, with vampire wing fanning
the sleepers to a deadly torpor, while his vandal
appetite saps the life-blood from their vitals? I say,
sirs, that Trade has married Monopoly, and the foul
progeny is a "demand" which can be satisfied only with
pillage and blood, unless we can annul the hellish
league and reconstruct the beautiful and healthful
relation between the producer and the merchant. And now
to this point we address ourselves. Let us assemble in
council and constitute a Society pledged to receive
Confederate currency as the equivalent for gold; to buy
and sell only at specie rates to such as unite with us,
together with the families of soldiers and the needy in
general, denouncing such as refuse, as fit subjects for
moral scorn and Government impressments. Our
enterprise is but an honest effort of humanity and
religion for the relief of wretchedness and the
protection of our homes from imminent and perilous
discord among ourselves. We are not the pioneers of
this experiment; it has been made and found practical.
The Secretary of such a Society from Enterprise,
Mississippi, h as been among us here for a few days,
and reports eminent triumph, on a grand scale; has
received the congratulation and thanks of the President
of the Confederate States, and now, with his confreres,
rejoices with that peculiar satisfaction which only
good men feel who relieve distress at the high cost of
self-denial. But permit, before I close, a few remarks
in reference to some of the noble efforts of private
beneficence; such as contributions of small quantities
of meal and wood for the alleviation of present
distress. Every man knows that the expedients of
individual sympathy must of necessity be merely
temporary and inevitably fall far short of the wasting,
lasting penury which pines along the tracks of
protracted war. Indeed, I almost regret these ill-
regulated impulses to the humane and christian purpose
of staying a despolation [sic] threatening the entire
Confederacy. These ebullitions can but exhaust the
energy which might be competent to mature a plan of
success; aye, and worse a ill, the vultures among us
are but too ready to imitate these precious deeds of
virtuous humanity, and with a mere tithe of their ill-
gotten gains, seduce the popular esteem of the army,
allay the vigilance of the watchmen, that with
unsuspected rapacity they may glut their cormorant maws
with the blood of their wives and children, widows and
orphans—"stealing the livery of Heaven to serve the
Devil." Merciful God! are we given over to an
infatuated inertia or a childish imbecility, to await
in troubled dreams or fitful spasms the descent of a
burning lava which must leave only sterility and
solitude behind, broken alone by the wail of straggling
starvelings?—Oh, shades of ancient Greece! teach us to
transmute the golden guinea into the cent of iron and
the ashes of vice into the seeds of virtue. Oh,
friends of the children, defenders of gentle women and
ye that fear God, arouse to life rescue! Life, Liberty
and Religion tremble in the balance. Meet for counsel,
and pledge for conquest. Confederate. In the former
communication, instead of "farmers' ploughshare," read
"famine," instead of "voice of Truth is heard," read
"voice of the Turtle." City papers please copy.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3 Ingenuity of our Ladies.--We have been somewhat
surprised, as well as gratified, at seeing the many
handsome and elegant dresses still worn by our ladies,
notwithstanding the blockade, and have been not a
little puzzled to know where they came from. We were
fully aware that there were but few if any really fine
dress goods exposed to sale by our enterprising
merchants, and even had there been, the noted frugality
of our ladies, we felt, would prevent their wearing
them. When our perplexity had reached its highest, a
lady friend relieved it, by informing us that many of
these dresses were old ones, turned and altered, and we
confess we should never have known it, and doubt
whether even the ladies themselves, who are noted for
their discernment, would have recognized them. Many of
those bought nowadays are of sombre and grave colors,
but are so trimmed and bedecked with cord and other
trimmings as to greatly relieve the grave appearance
which they would otherwise present. We admire and
commend the taste and ingenuity of the ladies thus
displayed, but above all, we admire the spirit which
actuates and enables them to bear the privations they
have to encounter in these perilous times, while their
husbands and brothers are battling and striving for the
independence of our bright, sunny South. In this, as
in their many deeds of charity, and watchful attention
to the sick and wounded soldier, do we see their noble,
self-sacrificing patriotism. Even the little girls seem
to be imbued with the same high and lofty spirit their
mothers evince and cheerfully glide along in their
childish sports, reckoning of the time when the war
will end, and they can again go forth, canary like,
proud of the beauty of their plumage. We sincerely
sympathize with these little creatures in the
privations imposed upon them by the mean Yankees--for
nothing gives us more pleasure than to see handsomely
dressed misses promenading and admiring, yet vieing
[sic] with one another as to who has the most beautiful
and neatest fitting dress. The grave colors they are
now compelled to wear give them a decidedly matronly
appearance, and even seem to cast a cloud over their
once bright and smiling countenances. We bid them only
look upon the bright side of the horrible panorama now
passing before them, and to be of good cheer, as
bright, happy days will yet come, and we hope at no
distant period, when they will not only be able again
to deck themselves in many charming colors, but to know
and feel that, while they were undergoing a few petty
privations, their fathers and brothers were engaged in
winning the blessed peace they will then enjoy.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3 The Lawyers are the only profession, as a class,
that we know of, who have not and are not making money
during our political struggle. They may, and doubtless
do, when they get a case, charge more than they ever
did before, but they get so few cases that, after all,
they make comparatively nothing. People will get sick,
and must necessarily take medicine, and a doctor is
indispensable to administer it, and the doctors are
charging three or four times the old prices for visits.
The mechanics are getting a large advance on former
prices, and pay their laborers much higher wages. The
merchants have all turned speculators, and nearly all
of them have made their fortunes. Whiskey sellers are
asking and find ready sale for their foul decoctions at
ten times the old prices. But the poor lawyers get
nothing to do, however industrious and constant they
are at their post.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 3,
c. 4 Delivery Clerk.—Our worthy city postmaster has
secured the services of an accommodating young lady to
attend to the delivery of letters at the postoffice.
This is a decided improvement, as ladies are noted for
their disposition to please and give satisfaction, and
therefore when we ask at the office if there is a
letter, and are told by them there is none, we will be
better satisfied than when gruffly told "No!" by some
beardless chap, who neither has politeness nor knows
the use of it.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 4,
c. 3 Cotton Cards.—The Richmond Sentinel says: We have
seen a specimen of Cotton Cards (No. 10) manufactured
by Hargrove, Penick & Co., at Pittsylvania Court House,
Va. These cards are equal in appearance, and we have no
doubt in material, workmanship, and value, to any of
the imported or Northern manufacture; and, we are
pleased to learn, are meeting with a ready sale, as
rapidly as they can be made. The machinery—a very
complicated invention for manufacturing these cards—was
constructed by a gentleman of experience in the
business, at the works in Pittsylvania; and the same
gentleman is erecting machinery for making filleting
[sic], sheeting, &c. He also contemplates the
manufacture of Cotton and Wool Cards for mill machines.
Such a manufactory in our midst, at this time, will
prove of great benefit to the Southern people.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 10, 1863, p. 4,
c. 4
Substitute for Blue Stone.
Mr. E. L. Newton, of this place, informs us of an
experiment of Mr. Williamson, of Floyd county, last
year, which will prove valuable to wheat growers, in
the present scarcity of blue stone. Mr. Williamson took
common stable manure and dripped it just as ley is
dripped. He soaked a part of his wheat in this liquid,
and a fine crop of clean wheat was the result.—Other
wheat, which he did not soak, was so full of smut that
he did not cut it.—Mr. Newton has some of the wheat,
which can be seen at any time.—Athens Banner.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 17, 1863, p. 2,
c. 2 At the marriage of a couple at Mt. Crawford, Va.,
the bride appeared for the ceremony in a full dress of
real Confederate—that is, old time linsey woolsey made
with her own hands. The bridegroom wore a woolen suit
of gray, the product of the country. After the
ceremony, the couple started for Richmond, she hiding
her blushes beneath a cute little straw hat (the straw
of which it was made having grown on her father's farm)
made by herself, and protected from the insinuating
familiarities of Rude Boreas by the ample folds of a
Confederate cloak, of the same material as her bridal
dress, and made by the same fair fingers.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 17, 1863, p. 3,
c. 8
Clothe the Needy Soldier!
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 14, 1863. Mr. Editor Enquirer:
Many of the soldiers of the regiment to which I am
attached are destitute of socks, in fact there are but
few who can boats of a whole pair. Many more have not a
single blanket, quilt or coverlet of any kind to
protect them from the chilling blast of winter which
has already hovered her icy mantle around us. And this
sad condition is but the representative of the brigade
(Buford's) to which I am attached, or at least it is
the case with all who are cut off from communication
with their homes. The government no doubt has been
doing all it could to meet this exigency, but as yet,
but little has been done to alleviate their sufferings.
Cannot something be done for them? I am here in the
vicinity of this place, having received a detail for
the purpose of calling on my native State to lend a
helping hand to the suffering soldiers who are in the
field cut off from their homes, and who, noble
patriots, are ready to die for their country without a
murmur. Will not the ladies of Columbus and vicinity do
something for them? Wilt not the citizens generally
give them something? I think they will answer nobly to
the call. While thousands are being given for the
distribution of tracts and other religious literature,
which without contradiction is a noble work, I think
something can be done to alleviate the sufferings of
our noble soldiers. If any aid society or any private
individual who may chance to see this, wishes to
contribute anything, I would be glad to hear from them
either through your columns or by letter addressed to
me at Box Springs, Ga. Come forward and clothe your
soldiers, and they will defend your country. Very
respectfully, Your obedient servant, James H. Tigner.
Private Co. E, 12th La. Regiment. Contributions may be
left at the drug store of Messrs. Urquhart & Chapman,
in Columbus. Persons desiring to contribute any
articles, will please send them in before the 1st of
December, as my time is limited.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2 Extortion Among the Tailors.—A very worthy and
intelligent soldier, having drawn his jacket and pants
from the Government, and paid $21 for the same, stepped
into a tailor's shop to have the garments altered to
fit him. The price asked for doing the job was
$100—five times more than the cost of the suit. The
soldier being shocked at the charge went off to
another, and was told that he could not do the altering
for less than $40—double the cost of the articles. The
result was he left one of the articles to be altered at
$20. The poor women do the work after all, and these
extortioners reap the enormous profits. It will be
well for the Government to hunt up these extortioner
examples and learn them the use of the musket.—Richmond
Sentinel.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5 A Girl Worth Having.—One of our fair country
women, the daughter of a rich and independent farmer of
Rockingham, was married the other day to a gentleman
who may congratulate himself upon having secured a
prize worth having. She was what we would call "an
independent girl," sure enough. Her bridal outfit was
all made with her own hands, from her beautiful straw
hat down to the handsome gaiters upon her feet. Her
own delicate hands spun and wove the material of which
her wedding dress and traveling cloak were made, so
that she had nothing upon her person when she was
married which was not made by herself! Nor was she
compelled by necessity or poverty to make this
exhibition of her independence. She did it for the
purpose of showing to the world how independent
Southern girls are. If this noble girl were not wedded
we should be tempted to publish her name in this
connection, so that our bachelor readers might see who
of our girls are most to be desired. If she were yet
single, and we were to publish her name, her pa's house
would be at once thronged with gallant gentlemen
seeking the hand of a woman of such priceless
value.—Rockingham (Va.) Register.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 3,
c. 6
Cotton Yarns Without Cards.
Gov. Shorter has received the following communication
on the subject from Hon. Wm. E. Clarke, the Senator
from Greene and Marengo, which we publish for the
valuable information it contains. A specimen of the
yarn can be seen at the Executive office:--Montg. Adv.
Capitol, Nov. 12, 1863. His Excellency, John Gill
Shorter: Dear Sir—A constituent of mine, Col. R. R.
Pickering, of Marengo county, is making excellent
cotton yarns, for the manufacture of bagging and heavy
clothing for negroes, without the use of cards. he gins
the cotton slowly, so as to throw large flakes through
the flue, which are caught in a hamper basket placed
under the flue, and taken to the spinning wheel,
without pressing the cotton. Col. Pickering informs me
that his best spinners average eight cuts per day.
Since he made this discovery he has abandoned the use
of cards in making coarse yarns. I herewith send you a
specimen of the yarn for examination. Believing this a
matter of much importance to our country, I have taken
the liberty of making this communication. Very
respectfully, Yours, &c., W. E. Clarke.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 4,
c. 2 Spun Cotton.—The act of 15th April, 1863,
authorized the Governor to expend $100,000 in the
purchase of Cotton Yarns, to be distributed among
soldiers' families who were reported by 1st of June.
The Inferior Court having reported 250 families in
Muscogee county, of this description, and no Yarns
having been supplied, Mr. Russell offered a resolution
on Wednesday, requesting the Governor to have the due
proportion furnished out of the $2,500,000 fund set
apart for the support of indigent soldiers'
families.—Sou. Recorder.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, November 24, 1863, p. 4,
c. 4
Substitute for Quinine."
Eds. Chas. Courier—A paragraph with the above heading,
in a late number of the Courier, suggests to me the
propriety of making known the result of a late
experiment of my own. I had in my black family a case
of fully developed and confirmed chills and fever of
about fifteen days standing—one of those cases which in
our country frequently last several weeks or months. I
cured it in three days by giving a strong decoction of
the berries and root bark of the Dogwood, with one
third the quantity of brandy added.—Dose: a small wine
glass full three times daily. I have tried it since,
in the incipient stages of the disease, and found it
entirely effective. Anson County, N. C., Nov. 7th.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1,
c. 3 Receipt for Dyeing Brown.—Take red oak bark,
sufficient to make four gallons of very strong dye,
boil very strong, then strain it; add two table-
spoonsful of blue stone, then dip your thread in the
dye, then in strong lye; repeat it four times, then
hang out and let it get half dry and rinse in clear
water. Blue Dye.—Take one quarter of a pound of extract
of logwood, put it in four gallons of water, boil one
half an hour, add two table-spoonsful of blue stone,
put in your thread or cloth, boil one-half hour more,
take it out and let it air fifteen minutes; put back
and wash out in warm soap suds, then rinse in clear
water. Black Dye.—Put a quarter of a pound of extract
of logwood in three gallons of water, boil it thirty
minutes, add two table spoonsful of copperas, put in
your thread, boil fifteen minutes, take out, wash in
strong soap, then air and rinse in clear water. Yellow
Dye.—Take of each a lot of sassafras, swamp bay and
butterfly root, put in four gallons of water, boil
until strong, then strain and put in your thread or
cloth and boil it thirty minutes, take out and air
fifteen minutes, put in a table spoonful of burnt
copperas and two of alum and boil fifteen minutes, then
rinse in clear water and let it dry. Five pounds of
thread can be dyed in any of these. To Dye a Blue Color
Without Indigo.—Make a strong dye of red oak bark,
another of maple bark, and have in a third vessel of
weak copperas water, and in a fourth vessel a weak lye.
Wet your cotton thoroughly in each vessel of dye, and
rinse it out in the order in which they are mentioned,
having each fluid as hot as the hand can bear,
repeating the process until the color is sufficiently
deep. By making the thread a deep copperas color first,
and then going through the process, you can have a good
black color.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1,
c. 7 "Agar said, 'Give me neither poverty nor riches,'
and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our
income should be like our shoes; if too small, they
will gall and pinch us, but if too large they will
cause us to stumble and to trip.—Wealth, after all, is
a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants
less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub
was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too
little for Alexander."
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 1,
c. 7 The Savannah Republican mentions a novel way that
has recently been discovered to smuggle whisky. There
is a woman who sports gutta percha breasts, filled not
with lacteal juices, but old Bourbon of best quality
and greatest age. What a jolly old wet-nurse she would
make for the boys up at "the front."--Atlanta
Confederacy.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 2,
c. 4 To Dye Cotton or Wool.—A lady sends the following
recipe for dying cotton or wool brown: Take the bark of
the root of a common wild plum—boil in iron or brass,
as most convenient, until the dye looks black. Strain,
and add a small quantity of copperas dissolved in a
small quantity of the dye. Add the article to be dyed.
Boil an hour or so. Wring out, and dip in strong cold
ley. When dry rinse in cold water. This gives a
genuine, bright brown which is the prettiest contrast
for blue; and when checked in together, it makes the
dress becoming enough for the proudest Southern dame or
belle.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 1, 1863, p. 3,
c. 4
The Conscription in North Carolina.
North Carolina has furnished during this war nearly
100,000 men for the Confederate army. For the year
ending in July last she sent 11,874 conscripts, and
between 3 and 4,000 volunteers. In her quota there
have been only 2,040 substitutes—a smaller number in
comparison than any other State of the same population.
The following is a list of the exempts in the State:
... Express company employees 14, ... factory employees
155, ... hatters 3, harness makers, 1, ...papermakers
14, ...shoemakers 651, salt makers 627, ...tanners 174,
... Total 21,558. Richmond Dispatch.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 1,
c. 6 A New Cotton Mill.—The public will be gratified to
learn, says the Lynchburg Republican, that a cotton
factory is completed and is now turning out yarns near
this city. The enterprise is due to Messrs. Nowlin &
Murrelli, and that it will be a complete success no one
can doubt. They have gone quietly to work, and the
first intimation the public have of it is in the shape
of yarns spun almost at their doors. They deserve great
credit for their enterprise and energy in getting it
up.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 1,
c. 6 Mule Hair for Hats.—Mr. Edward Barnes of Barnes'
Cross Roads, says the Clayton Banner has exhibited to
us an elegant, substantial hat, manufactured from the
hair shorn from a young mule, with the addition of a
small portion of wool. While our patriotic people
continue to economize and develop all our abundant
resources as we are now doing, the combined powers of
the earth can not subjugate us. This hat is far
superior to those made of wool. What next?
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 2,
c. 8
Dried Pumpkins.
For the Mobile Tribune. Mr. Editor: Although it is a
duty of every friend to the Confederacy to offer his
mite of contribution to the army, however small, yet my
modesty barely permits me to make a suggestion which my
judgment tells me will be useful to the army, if
adopted. In the winter season, when vegetables are
scarce, dried pumpkins would be found an excellent
vegetable for the army generally, as well as the
hospitals; and where dried fruit could not be obtained
this article would prove "a good substitute," if
planters would dry their pumpkins, an abundant supply
of which could be obtained every where in the
Confederacy. The process of drying is as follows: The
finest pumpkins thoroughly ripe should be selected. Lay
one on its side on a table, cut off the end to the
hollow, take out the seeds, and continue to cut slice
after slice about an inch in width until the whole
hollow of the pumpkin is cut out in rings. Then peel
the rind off each ring and hang them on sticks to dry
in an airy room, passage or loft. When dried, the
luscious rings are reduced to ribands [sic]. But I
think there is nothing lost but the water, which is re-
supplied by cooking. They may be packed in a small
compass for transportation. If thoroughly dried they
will keep a long time.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 8, 1863, p. 3,
c. 6 There are 22,855 persons in Georgia dependent upon
soldiers for support, who are unable to take care of
themselves.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 22, 1863, p. 1,
c. 4 The Yankees have decided that "abdomens grossly
protuberant, or excessive obesity," are sufficient
causes for exemptions, and the decision is creating
considerable discussion.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS [GA] ENQUIRER, December 22, 1863, p. 1,
c. 4 The Georgia penitentiary has wire enough for two
years, and will turn out about two hundred pairs of
cotton cards daily.