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1864
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“The Proudest Words.”—Writes a Chaplain in the force sent from the
Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of Tennessee:
[“]When the din of war shall have died away and the sweet notes of
peace shall be heard through our happy and redeemed country, the proudest words
any lips may utter are, “I served as a private through the fierce struggle for
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New Shoe Store
and
Gaiter Manufactory
L. Louis &
Co.,
Broad Street.
Opposite
Planters’ Hotel,
Augusta
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Blankets for the Soldiers.
A liberal friend had given me fifty blocks of Thread to exchange for
Blankets for the soldiers. I offer
one block of 5 lb Factory Thread for a blanket, the blankets so raised to be
sent to the needy soldiers in
R. H. Vickers, Ag’t
Geo. Relief & Hosp Asso’c.
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Blankets for the Soldiers.
Office of the
December 7th, 1863.}
To the People of Georgia
—
In view of the fact, now well ascertained, that our soldiers cannot be
supplied during the present winter with a sufficient number of blankets, the
Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, by its executive committee, have
determined to try and supply this want to some extent by the manufacture of what
are called comforts or comforters. These
can be made out our thinnest factory cloth, padded with bats of carded cotton,
and quilted. The cloth should be as
light as possible, and the cloth not too thick, otherwise the article will be
heavy for transportation. Even with
these precautions they may not be easily transported by the soldier, and may be
soon lost; still we hope that with the increased experience of our troops, this
may not be an invincible inconvenience; and that at all events, they may secure
warmth for the present winter. If no
more be effected, this result will amply repay the cost and trouble.
The undersigned have been appointed a committee for the purpose of
invoking the aid of our people in this work.
We have already sought and found the assistance of the ladies of
The cloth used by us here is thinner than shirting.
Shirting will do--and is cut seven and a half or eight feet long by six
feet wide. It would be better if
dyed some color, but we have no time to wait for this to be done.|
All packages sent to be forwarded by the association should be addressed
W. H. Potter, General Superintendent,
H.
Starnes,}
C.
J. Jenkins,} Committee.
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Outrages at
[“] The negroes compel white women of delicacy and refinement to cook
and wash for them. In one instance
we heard of a body of these negroes entering a private house and demanding
dinner, which they insisted should be cooked by the lady of the house.
Whilst engaged in preparing the food for her negro guests, the scoundrels
indulged in the most loathsome ribaldry, one of the, with his foot throwing the
lady’s clothes over her back and shoulder, while the rest sent up loud peals
of laughter! These statements are
surely enough to stir the blood of those who would go back to a fellowship with
a nation of whites who cannot only permit this, but encourage it.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Ingomar;” “P. P., or The Man and the Tiger”
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Beauregard Skirts—A hoop skirt manufactory has been established at
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Summary:
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady;” music; “Gale Breezely.”
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Summary: Concert
Hall on Friday—“Macbeth”
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Letters to Soldiers—An Incident.—the army correspondent of the
Atlanta Intelligencer relates the following incident to show how welcome a
letter from home is to a soldier, and how depressing it is when those at home
neglect to write to him:
[“] I witnessed an incident yesterday going to show how welcome a
letter is to the soldier, and how sad he feels when those at home neglect to
write him. As I was riding to town I
heard a man on horseback hail another in a wagon, and going up, handed him a
letter. Another man in the same
wagon inquired if there was no letter for him, and the reply was “none.”
It was at that moment I noted the feeling between the two men by their
changed countenances. The features
of one lit up with pleasure as he perused the epistle in his hand—doubtless
the letter of some dear wife or mother—and as he read it, a smile of joy would
illumine his weather beaten face. This
was happiness. It was an oasis on
the desert of his rough life of danger and suffering, and no doubt was welcomed
by him as the dearest gift a relative could send.
With the other the opposite effect was observed.
As soon as the word “none” had passed the lips of the man addressed,
the look of anxiety with which the question was put faded away, and an
appearance of extreme sorrow could have been seen plainly stamped on his
features, while a feeling of envy at this more fortunate comrade was very
apparent. This was unhappiness.
The song of hope that had illuminated his heart when he inquired if there
was any letter for him, had died away, and a feeling of loneliness and regret at
the neglect of those at home took possession of him.
Happy are they who have homes and loved ones to hear from!
While it is the cruelest of all neglect not to write to those relatives
in the army, if it makes them sad and unhappy, how much more must those feel
whose homes are in possession of the enemy, and they cannot hear from their
relatives.
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The Present Appearance of Vicksburg.—A correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writing from
[“] Situated as an amphitheatre,
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Macbeth”; to conclude with an Olio—“
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Faint Heart Never won Fair Lady;” song “The Valiant Conscript;”
melodrama “Idiot Witness”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Love Chase;” “P. P. or the Man and the Tiger”
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Mrs. Anne Johnston, who formerly resided in
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Musical Publications.—Blackmar & Bro., the untiring publishers of
this city, are continually issuing gems of composition which will suit all
manner of tastes. They have
published a neat edition of the “Monastery Bells,” “Mollie’s Dream
Waltz,” “The Silver Shower,” and several other first class pieces.
They have also on their counter Mr. Hewitt’s new song of “Dixie the
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Macbeth;” olio “France I Adore Thee,” dance
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Osnaburgs, Shirtings, &c.
10 Bales 4-4 Sheetings
15 Bales
20 Bales Heavy Osnaburgs
For sale by
Jackson & Miller.
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“Economy is the Road to Wealth”—How to Save Money.—Coming
leisurely across
“What’s your hurry, Ned?” we asked.
“Going to make six dollars,” was the se[
]ientious reply.
“To make six dollars? why,
how are you going to do that, Ned?” we
again asked.
“Why, you see,” was the reply, “Lager Bier is only fifty cents a
glass to-day; and as I understand it is to be raised to one dollar a glass
to-morrow, I’m a hurrying out to Charley’s to take 12 drinks of it before
the advance takes place. So you see
by that operation I’ll make exactly six dollars;” saying which he passed
hastily on.
We could not help reflecting upon the philosophy of our friend’s
economy, wondering what ails the beer selling; and what our re-porter will do for his lager at $1 a drink.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Macbeth;” olio—“France I Adore Thee,” dance
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[Special
Correspondence of the Constitutionalist,]
Letter from
Longstreet’s Army.
Camp 10th
Near
December 31st,
1863. }
Mr. Editor: As I am lounging
lazily in my cozy tent, with a cheerful fire blazing in my rude but
substantially built chimney, I have concluded to while away an hour or two in
writing something, however uninteresting the news may be, to yourself or others
who may read what is here penned by this “isolated rebel,” who has not heard
from the “old folks at home” for lo! these many weeks.
I hope, however, the mail will soon come through, bringing a host of
letters and copies of the Constitutionalist. . . .
From Bean’s Station we proceeded to our present camp, where we are
making preparations for the winter; and while we are making ourselves as
comfortable as circumstances will admit, let not our friends at home be
unmindful of us; let them bear in mind that while we confront the enemy and give
him battle upon all occasions, we too have to contend with the bleak and chilly
winds of winter. I regret to say
that we are in bad condition for a winter campaign.
Two thirds of the men composing this regiment, and in fact of the brigade
are in want of that very essential article of wearing apparel—shoes, without
which, at this season of the year especially, soldiers must suffer severely, as
we are called upon to do our duty under any and all circumstances.
The weather is extremely cold and disagreeable, and as one of the many in
the above unfortunate condition, I speak feeling on this very serious subject.
Soldiers, (and the 10th Georgia have a world-wide reputation
for being such) like cavalry horses, to be effective, should be well shod. . .
There is an eruption (not volcanic) in this camp which is quite prevalent, known
as the “camp itch,” and very troublesome, in some instances rendering the
victim “unfit for duty.” My
hands are now very much swollen from it, and is quite painful at times.
Medicine for the treatment of such cases, like shoes, is beautifully
scarce, and growing “more so.”
Jan. 1st, 1864.—This morning was ushered in by a snow storm,
and it is now falling pretty freely, otherwise things remain in status quo.
. .
J. W. T.
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A letter from a highly intelligent lady in
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Hall—“The Factory Girl; or All that Glitters is Not Gold;” “Slasher and
Crasher.”
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A Grand Soiree,
Will be given by Thomas Russell at Masonic Hall, on Thursday Evening, Jan. 21st, for the benefit of
Longstreet’s Corps,
To enable them to purchase Shoes, &c.
Tickets, $10 each. To
be had at the Book, Music and Jewelry Stores, and at the Hotels.
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[From the San
Antonio Herald of Dec. 5th.]
We hear that the whole country below us is rallying to the rescue.
Everything is put upon a war footing.
We predict that Gen. Magruder seconded by his gallant soldiers and the
patriotic people of the coast counties, will give Banks, Hamilton & Co., a
sound drubbing, or drive them to their ships before many weeks elapse.
Meantime is
Since the appearance of the Yankees on our coast the people of Goliad,
Karnes and DeWitt have turned out most gallantly in defence of their homes—and
better fighting men are not to be found in the South.
We have no doubt other counties have done as well, but we have not heard
the particulars. Should the
heartless invaders get into the interior of
We take the following from the Victoria Advocate of Dec. 5th:
Little if anything was done (at Esperanza) on Saturday, but early on
Sunday morning fighting was resumed with considerable severity by the enemy,
which was spiritedly replied to on our side, both from the rifle pits and from
the fort. The artillery practice on
both sides is said to have admirable. Our
men during the day were obliged to retire from the rifle pits, which were then
occupied by the enemy, and rifled cannon planted on the south side of the fort,
which completely commanded it on that face, throwing balls with great precision
into the fort. The firing continued
until dusk. Our loss was one man
killed, Booth, and two wounded.
Shortly before the moon rose, signals were discovered showing that a
gunboat has passed the fort during the darkness, and was near Decrow’s Point.
The movement completely commanded Saluria Bayou and the road to the fort, and
the situation of the fort became critical. It
was resolved to evacuate and destroy it.
The movement began at 9 o’clock, and the fort was blown up at about 11
o’clock. We are sorry to say that
the destruction of stores and munitions was considerable, as well as of heavy
siege guns. Whose the fault for
building a fort in such a position, or whose the want of foresight for not
providing adequate force to defend its weak points, we know not; certainly a
large amount of time, labor and means has been used to little purpose.
Our men retired safely and without loss.
G. Onderdonk, Hobby’s regiment, one of the party sent to blow up the
fort, is missing, and is probably a prisoner.
Mr. J. C. Moody, of this place, is also missing.
On Thursday evening information was received here that the Yankees had
landed in strong force at Deckrow’s [sic] Point, and were marching across
Matagorda peninsular [sic] with the presumed intention of reaching Velasco at
the mouth of the Brazos.
Yesterday an express arrived stating that they were still below Saluria,
and that two hundred tents were stretched. Allowing
ten men to each tent, this will give them two thousand men.—But we must wait
further development, and in the meantime carry on the good work of preparation.
According to the spirit and words of the resolutions passed last week,
all the males in Victoria from sixteen and upward have been enrolled—the aged
and decrepid for police duty, the able-bodied for service; and the result is a
fine company of exempt volunteers, with a large reserve of others.
This is very gratifying, but a thorough system of drill and discipline
should be gone into at once, to make their service effective.
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Wanted to Hire,
Two good Moulders
One good Pattern Maker,
One good Machinist and Engineer.
Apply to
John D. Gray & Co.,
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Hall—“Ben Bolt;” double dance; “Dumb Belle”
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Hall—“Robert Macaire;” song “
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Lecture of Rev. C. W. Howard.—The Rev. C. W. Howard, will, on to-morrow
evening, deliver a lecture at the Masonic Hall on the “Women of the Present
Revolution.” The subject is one of
such attractive interest, and the lecturer so well and so favorably known to the
citizens of our community, that it is unnecessary for us to do more than remind
the public of the rich treat in store for all who attend.
We hope that the reverend lecturer will have a large audience, and that a
liberal sum will be realized for the benevolent purpose of the Georgia Relief
and Hospital Association.
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The Rev. Capt. C.
W. Howard.
“The Women of
the Second Revolution.”
Mr. Editor.—The Lecture which is to be delivered to-night has been
prepared at the instance of our Association.
It will make history. For
nearly a year, the distinguished author has been preparing this address; which
whilst it will impart to us the knowledge which belongs to history, will no
doubt present the pleasing grace of an attractive elocution.
For the first time during this crisis, justice will in this way be done
to our woman, to whom for the elements of such success as has attended our
efforts, we have been as much indebted as to our armies in the field.
It is time that this tribute was paid to their virtues, and their
untiring patriotism.
The proceeds will be for the benefit of our Wayside Home, now greatly
needing such aid.
E. Starnes.
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Condition of the Army of Tennessee.—The regular army correspondent of
the Columbus Enquirer, writing from Dalton on the 9th, makes the
following gratifying statement: “In
consequence of the extreme cold weather for the past two weeks, drillings in
camp have ceased; fatigue parties grow slim every day; no business is carried on
whatever, except what is absolutely necessary to be done; the trains arrive very
irregular from Atlanta, our commissaries find it a difficult matter to keep a
sufficient supply of the staff of life on hand to supply our wants.
The severity of the weather will induce many of your readers to think
that the troops must necessarily suffer.
Such, however, is not the case. I
have yet to meet up with the first individual case of suffering in our division
for the want of shoes and clothing. In
making this statement I know very well that I run afoul of and contradict the
statements of nearly every army correspondent upon this subject.
My position in the ranks, with a gun on my shoulder, affords me a better
opportunity of ascertaining the condition of the troops than those men who have
snug quarters about the General in town.
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Wanted,
Twelve Negro Teamsters to drive Post Teams.
Wages for good drivers $60 per month.
Apply to
J. T. Winnemore,
Major and Quartermaster.
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The City Council of Macon, in order to relieve as far as possible the
pressure upon the necessitous families of soldiers and upon the poor generally,
growing out of the extraordinary price of provisions, have determined to
establish a city store, where provisions shall be bought by wholesale at as
reasonable rates as possible, and sold to consumers at prime cost and expenses.
To take charge of this business they have selected Elijah Cond, Esq., a
gentleman of well known probity, and the owner of a large and commodious
warehouse adapted to the business, and it will be carried on under his
management, supervised by a special committee of the City Council.
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Lecture of the Rev. C. W. Howard.
The appearance of this gentleman was greeted by a large, select and
appreciative audience. The
subject—“the Women of the Present Revolution”—was handled in a masterly
manner. His remarks were chaste,
eloquent, and in every way appropriate to the noble theme selected for the
occasion. He paid an eloquent and
deserved tribute to the steadfast devotion and self sacrificing conduct of the
women of the South, who have devoted themselves heart and soul to the great
cause of Southern independence. Speculators,
extortioners, stragglers and skulkers were denounced in unmeasured terms, and
held up to the contempt and scorn of our fair women as being unworthy the name
of man. The discourse was listened
to throughout with undivided attention, and frequently elicited enthusiastic
applause. After the conclusion of
the address a number of young ladies, assisted by a few gentlemen, sang a
beautiful piece in harmony with the sentiments and views of the lecture.
We regret that the lateness of the hour precludes a more extended notice.
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Letter from a New Correspondent.
. . . The war affords no topic of interest or special
promise, save Gen. Morgan, whose triumphal progress back to the war-path is the
current sensation of the time. His
new command is reviving the volunteer spirit which has been long at low ebb, and
every train contains young men in high spirits, on their way to the point
designated for the reorganization of his command.
I am not sure but recent legislation has had much to do with the
exhibition of a volunteer spirit, but certain it is that Morgan’s men evince a
degree of ardor and enthusiasm, suggestive of the early period of the war, and
which none of our other leaders inspire.
On the cars from
An entertainment is to be given for this patriotic object to-night, at
the Atheneum, in which Wm. H. Barnes takes a conspicuous part.
Mr. Barnes has, in connection with a select company of amateurs here,
raised many thousands of dollars for objects connected with the war, and his
zeal in the good work is unabated. I
observed Capt. Ellsworth, Gen. Morgan’s famous telegraph operator, selling
tickets in the street, for this benefit of the command with which his name has
been indelibly linked.
“From the front” there is nothing of importance.
Both armies appear to be securely waiting in their winter quarters for
the return of better weather. I
heard a rumor to-day that the authorities of the
I alluded to the busy aspects of the place.
The streets are thronged constantly—the military elements
predominating. What so many “gay
and festive” men in the garb of soldiers are doing here, it is difficult to
conceive. Guards may be seen on
every hand, and supposing they were on duty for some purpose, I went to the
Provost Marshal and got a pass. The
guard, however, failed to discover men, and in all the throng I did not see a
man halted. I therefore concluded
that guard duty in
Business is called dull here, goods do not bring the fabulous rates that
they have commanded. I saw several
horses sold at auction—all good and desirable, at prices ranging from $400 to
$1000. These horses would have
brought nearly double these rates three months ago.
Recent advices through the lines of the enemy indicate that there is but
a single corps of 15,000 men in
Are we making preparations adequate to the work of driving the enemy from
the fastnesses of the Appalachian chain, and bringing the people in these loyal
districts back under the folds of our national ensign?
Viator.
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Soiree at
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Hall—“Ben Bolt;” “Crossing the Line”
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Letter from
. . . The streets are thronged with men in the attire of
soldiers—many of them officers—and it cannot be that so many are here by
authority. The local or Provost
Guard of the city seem to have become oblivious to this stream of stragglers,
and seldom interrupt them.
There is a complete dearth of army news, our troops being quietly
“cribbed, cabined and confined” in their winter quarters.
Furloughs are being granted quite liberally, both in Johnston’s and
Longstreet’s armies, and numbers may be found on every train on their way to
see the loved ones at home. I have
been glad to observe little evidence of despondency or demoralization among
them. Let the people at home beware
how they indulge in croaking and contaminate these heroes with the cringing
spirit painfully prevalent in some of our avarice-smitten towns and cities.
Rumor says that few of Grant’s forces remain in
In the absence of news from the front, permit me to make a suggestion, in
the name of humanity, relative to the comfort of soldiers and others.
I have recently witnessed the most heart-rending suffering for want of
fires at the depots, while waiting for the arrival or departure of trains.
I this morning went in vain to each of the hotels, to warm, finding
nothing but the most pitiful excuse for fires, and returned to the smoking
embers in the open air near the car shed, to find a crowd of women, children,
and wounded soldiers, almost freezing. It
may not be the duty of the railroads to furnish fires for the crowds always
gathered here, but it would be a noble charity if they, or the State, would give
the matter immediate attention. I
appeal in behalf of the hundreds of soldiers who daily wait here in these
piercing winds, for the provision of some place where they can have fires, if
shelter is impossible. I am happy in
hearing witness to the unremitting and kind attention of the conductors and
train hands on the
The provision for keeping war at the depot in
The recent action of Congress in reference to those having substitutes,
has created a sensation here. Several
circumcised commercial patriots have left on the underground railroad, and
others are checking their baggage for the same route.
In consequence, and perhaps owing to other causes, in part, goods here
are somewhat easier. There is room
for a further decline.
Amicus.
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Hall—“Toodles;” “Milly, the Maid with the Milking Pail”
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Hall—“The Stranger;” comic song; “Slasher and Crasher”
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Cloth for
Blankets.
Comforts for
Blankets.
Through the liberality of the Augusta Factory Company, I am prepared to
exchange cloth and comforts for blankets for the soldiers.
I will give fifteen yards of light 7/8 shirting for one blanket, or two
comforts, large size, for three blankets. Persons
at a distance can send the blankets by Express to my address and write me their
address and instructions how to send the cloth or comforts.
Here is a good chance to supply the soldiers with blankets without
depriving your families of bed clothes. Send
the Blankets at once.
W. H. Potter, Gen’l Sup’t.
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“God Save the South.”—Blackmar & Bro., of this city have sent
us their new issue of this patriotic anthem.
This, they assure us, is the real simon pure, which so many pretenders
have tried to imitate, being a copy of the original, published by Miller &
Beachman, of
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Hall—“Toodles;” “The Secret; or a Hole in the Wall”
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Home Industry.
As the time is at hand when families are making their plans and
preparations for the ensuing year, we deem it appropriate to offer a suggestion.
Much more than heretofore, should house keepers and farmers make their
arrangements for meeting all their wants by home industry and enterprise.
It will not do to rely on importations.
Already the blockade has closed all our Atlantic ports, except
A hundred reasons combine to urge upon every family to look to its own
resources. The hand card and the
hand-loom and the spinning wheel, whose music is sweeter far than that of the
piano, should be found everywhere. All
who can should grow their patches of flax and cotton.
All should have sheep, if but a few.
Our forests furnish dyes as various and as bright as the tints that make
their foliage so glorious at “the turn of the leaf.”
With these materials, there is no reason why our ladies should not be
clad in beautiful apparel, the product of their own industry and taste; while
they may clothe their husbands and sons fine enough for kings.
There is not a farmer’s wife who may not easily provide clothing for
all her servants, and make some to sell besides.
And how much more independent and happy should we all be, if thus
providing for ourselves. A pig for
blockades, we might well exclaim; nor would we be any longer exposed to the
extortioner’s grip. And those
eventualities of the future to which we have alluded would bring no terror to
us. Earnestly, therefore, do we
advise every one to use every means and make every arrangement in his power to
provide for the clothing of his family from his own resources, and thus make
himself independent of manufacturers and blockaders.—Rich. Sentinel.
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Hall—“Still Waters Run Deep;” “The Rough Diamond or Cousin Joe”
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“Reduced.”
DeLaines, DeLaines.
5000 Yards beautiful DeLaines, at $8 per yard.
G. R. Crump & Co.
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[Correspondence of
the Constitutionalist.]
Letter from
War intelligence from the beleaguered city presents few new phases of
interest, beyond the stereotyped reports which appear in the city papers.
The enemy continues his fiendish bombardment, with little change, save in
the adoption of shells with time fuses, which are designed to burst in the air,
and to be more destructive than those heretofore used.
Thus far, they have not realized the object sought, and during the last
week the only injury inflicted to life or limb, has been the stunning of a
soldier, and a slight wound on a colored woman.
The number of shells thrown during the week, has been about one thousand,
some of them from hundred pounder Parrott guns, and some from the Wiard [?]
rifle. . .
The God of Justice reigns—and from the day when our flag was flung to
the breeze on Sumter until now, the marks of His favor have been unmistakable in
the preservation of the lives of the people, and in the success of our efforts
for defence. The limited destruction
of property by the protracted rain of shells, is as wonderful as the small loss
of life. I walked through the
streets where the effect of the shells is most apparent.
Here a cornice is knocked off, there is a small round hole through the
side of building, and at remote intervals the earth is torn where a shell
exploded, and looks like the work of a porker in search of some hidden treasure.
Venders of the staples of the market sit serenely by their little stores,
unmindful of the pyrotechnic salutations of their Yankee deliverers.
I bought delicious apples and cakes at one fourth the price charted two
hundred miles away in the interior, where abundance and extortion seems to go
hand in hand.
In reply to a question if she were not afraid, one of these old women
replied, “Lor mars, we no feard now—we’s usen to em.
Dey make big noise and fro trash all about—dat’s all—de good Lord
pertects us.” Thus is the radiant
trust of these people exemplified even in the spirit of this simple African.
I confess that I could not feel thus indifferent to these missiles of
destruction, and as they came screeching across the bay, I felt an instinctive
inclination to change my base of observation.
Extending my ramble to other portions of the city, the track of shells
was here and there discernible, but they have not effected a tithe of the injury
sustained by the great fire of two years ago, whose blackened outline stretches
across what was once the heart of the city.
In only two or three instances have fires been occasioned by them, and
then the loss was trifling. In
localities most exposed to the shells the old tide of business is suspended.
Here and there a pedestrian moves hurriedly along, and the rattle of a
cart or dray is heard for a whole square. The
blinds are closed, vases of rare exotics droop and wither on the lonely window
sill, because there is no tender hand to twine or nourish them.
The walk glistens with fragments of glass, rattled thither by the
concussion of exploding shells, and little tufts of bright green grass are
springing up along the pave once vocal with the myriad tongues of busy trade.
If this be food for exultation to the malevolent foe, he is welcome to
the tender morsel. I do not mean to
say that any part of the city is abandoned.
Here and there stores are opened, machine shops are active, and labor
incident to the public defence is pushed vigorously forward, even in the most
exposed districts. Still many
branches of ordinary business, and most of the residents are removed, because it
would be foolhardy for those not compelled by special duty to remain.
The Mills House and Charleston Hotel—those princely abodes of comfort
and good cheer are closed; the Pavillion still invited the sojourner to its
hospitable roof, most of the habitues of Hayne and parts of Meeting and King
streets abandoned the merchants desk for the camp, or transferred their wares to
points secure from Yankee guns.
That part of the city to which the cowardly vengeance of the foe has not
penetrated is “a map of busy life.” The
newspapers, post office, express office, banks, and many business houses are in
successful operation and streets present a scene of animation not at all
suggestive of a state of siege.
I trust the allusions to the effects of the bombardment will not be
considered contraband. I have penned
them for the eye of those who have known
Viator.
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Did You Ever.—Did you ever know a lodging-house landlady who would own
to bugs?
Did you ever know a dancing-master’s daughter who was not to excel
Tagliano?
Did you ever know a man who did not think he could make sallad [sic]
better than you could?
Did you ever know a house-maid who, on your discovering a fracture in a
valuable
Did you ever know a man who didn’t consider his razor a better razor
than your razor?
Did you ever know a shirt-maker who was not prepared to sell you as good
a shirt for eighteen dollars the dozen as the one you’ve got on at thirty?
Did you ever know a red-haired man who had a very clear notion of where
scarlet began and auburn terminated?
Did you ever know a lady with fine eyes wear green spectacles?
Did you ever know an amateur singer without a “horrid bad cold?”
Did you ever see a cool fat woman in black in the dog-days?
Did you ever know an author who had not been ill-used by the publishers?
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The Marietta Rebel says that when the history of this war is written by
an impartial hand, the chapter which records the noble conduct of our Southern
women will constitute the most brilliant chapter.
But what pen will be able to do justice to the glorious theme?
What words can properly describe and give to future generations anything
like a clear outline of the unyielding devotion, the sturdy fortitude and the
unshaken faith which has marked their attachment to the cause of Southern
independence from the commencement of the rebellion up to the present time.
Their enthusiasm, the promptness with which they yielded up their loved
ones to the support of what they believed to be a holy cause, the activity and
earnestness they have displayed in providing for the comfort of the soldiers,
their watchful and unceasing care of the sick and wounded, the angelic
tenderness with which they have bent over the couch of the dying, and the words
of comfort and consolation they have poured into the expiring hero’s ear;
these things can all be told.
But the story of uncomplaining anguish, of the unbearable sorrows of
loving hearts, bereft of all that was dear, and about which the tendrils of
affection had twined and wound themselves, until separation was the ruin of all
hope, and entailed enduring woe—this must constitute the unwritten, but the
saddest feature in the narrative of this horrid conflict, and must be
transmitted down the stream of time, through the families, from generation to
generation. Few families will there
be, who will not have their tale of a father, husband, son or lover, who
perished in a holy effort to prop the reeling cause of human rights, assailed by
overwhelming odds, but defended with an unfaltering spirit and resolution, which
considered not the numbers of the foe, but with eyes fixed upon the sacred
banner to be upheld, staked all upon the issue, and poured out life upon the
bloody field. And what untold
wretchedness they left behind? How
unmurmuringly endured? The stifled
sob, the heaving breast, the quivering lip, and grief’s rough lines made daily
deeper and more lain, by the iron finger of despair, speaks a language not given
to words to tell, or pen to portray.
Can it be supposed that a God of justice takes no note of these bereaved
hearts, and that he will not hold to a stern accountability the authors of all
this woe? Does any one doubt, that
when the great account shall be made up, at the general judgment, every tear and
sigh will demand indemnity, and every sorrow recoil with fearful power upon its
guilty authors?
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Little Blanche;” “The Swiss Cottage"
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Imported Goods.
Dry Goods.
1 bale Red Flannel
3 bales White do
4 cases Merino Shirts
2 cases Linen Cambric Hdkfs
25 cases Fancy Prints
25 cases Bleached Shirtings
2 cases White Shoe Thread
3 cases Brown Shoe Thread
Hardware.
2 M. sett Knives and Forks
500 doz Pocket Knives, Ass’td
500 pair Wool Cards
10 pair Trowels, Assorted
200 pair Shovels and Tongs
20 doz Sledge Hammers
75 doz Rivetting [tear in paper]
200 doz Files, Assorted,
For sale by
Chamberlain, Isaacs & Co.,
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Augusta Powder Mills.
A correspondent of the London Times gives a very interesting account of
the Augusta Powder Mills, and pays a deserved tribute to the skill and untiring
energy of Colonel Rains and the officers connected with the Government Works in
this city.
[“] A long conversation with Col. Rains, the Superintendent of the
Government Powder Mills in
There are two men whose names are seldom heard in connection with the
history of this war, but who have probably contributed more to the Confederate
success than any other persons, with the exception of Lee, Jackson and
Longstreet—I mean Colonel Rains and Captain Brooks.
Each of them modest and unobtrusive men, absorbed in scientific
researches, inexhaustible in the fertility of their resources, indefatigable in
energy, they have presented during the last thirty months a record for the study
of their countrymen, which will everywhere be read with profit whenever the
history of this great revolution is fairly told.
I have seldom had the advantage of encountering any man whose
conversation was so instructing as that of Colonel Rains.
His recapitulation of the difficulties which he has every day to
supplement and circumvent by ingenuity, and the results of his work, as
evidenced by his contributions to the Confederate armies, is such as to awaken
amusement.
In a former letter, written some months ago from this town, I gave a
short sketch of the Augusta Powder Mill. From
that time up to the present hour the efficiency has been constantly on the
increase, and as evidence of its prolific working, I may mention that since its
opening on the 27th of April, 1862, Col. Rains has sent a million and
a half pounds of powder to Richmond alone, exclusive of his contributions to
Vicksburg, Charleston, Mobile and the armies of Gens. Bragg and Johnston.
From his Arsenal of Construction he has sent off six million cartridges
for small arms and 50,000 round shot and shell, to say nothing of caps, hand
grenades and torpedoes. From his
cannon foundry he is continually turning out 12 pounder Napoleons, 20 pounder
Parrotts and howitzers; but the wealth of artillery already possessed by the
Confederates is such that he has ceased to produce Napoleon guns with the
rapidity which at one time characterized his proceedings, his rate of production
having been one Napoleon gun per diem. The
daily yield of the powder mills is now at the rate of 3,400 pounds a day, which
might, if occasion required, be indefinitely increased.
But, with every important station in the Confederacy already surfeited
with powder, with large supplies in the hands of Generals Beauregard, Bragg,
Johnston, and at Mobile and Wilmington, (Gen. Lee, of course, draws his supplies
from Richmond,) and with two other powder mills in active operation, it is of
little importance that even this rate of production should be maintained.
The ordinary consumption of powder in the Confederacy is rated at two
thousand pounds per day; that is, of course, greatly increased by such sieges as
those of
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[Correspondence of
the Constitutionalist.]
Letter from
Leaving
And yet they are usually destroyed to make room for a second growth of
gnarled and scrubby oaks, or a motley growth of sickly exotics, whose chief
attraction is in the expense and trouble by which they are made to supplant
those indigenous to the soil. It is
refreshing to find here and there an exception to the ruthless custom of
exterminating the pine from its proper place among the ornamental growth of our
country.
From
A walk up town reveals many new and spacious business blocks, and elegant
private residences which do not meet the eye of the traveler in passing through
the city. I observe also new
churches of very tasteful architecture which are the unmistakable evidences of
refinement and virtue.
Trade is dull. The frequent
disasters that have attended the blockade trade, have somewhat interrupted the
regularity of communication with foreign ports.
The latest
From my observation here, I am led to believe that the character of the
blockade trade has been somewhat misunderstood.
Their stocks embrace few positive luxuries or articles not essential to
the comfort of our people, while they have added invaluable stores to the
supplies of the Government.
Considerable uneasiness is felt here on account of the rapid spread of
small pox. This loathsome disease is
not confined to any particular class or condition, but has invaded some of the
most respectable circles. The Mayor
has issued an order that the people be vaccinated, and appealing to all exposed
persons to preserve the utmost caution not to communicate the disease. . . .
While the spirit of endurance and confidence is most encouraging here,
occasional evidence of the evil work of croakers and traitors is observable.
I saw three poor fellows tied together, under sentence of death, for
desertion. I learn that they belong
to this State. They are the victims
of the traitorous teachings of Holden, who, if justice were done him, would fill
their places.
I have had the pleasure of meeting a lady recently from
Mr. James Gray was captured at the same time with this lady, and is
sentenced to two years’ confinement at Fortress Monroe.
She has communications from this gentleman to his friends, and will stop
in
Provisions are very high here, and hotels are not slow to keep pace with
the advancing prices and the present charge--$20 per day, and present as nearly
an utter absence of the usual comforts of such establishments as it is possible
to conceive. Corn is $12 per bushel,
meal $15, and flour $150 per barrel. Yet
it is said that thousands of bushels of the former are rotting at the depots in
the upper districts. Still the cars
and depots reveal a considerable amount of cotton in transit to this port, where
it commands $1 75 cts. per pound. The
question of transportation opens up a field for a volume, but your readers need
not be reminded of the manifold inequities that have prevailed in that
department.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Miss Buie, the indefatigable
“soldier’s friend,” who is pursuing her labors of love in their behalf,
with all the zeal and industry for which she is proverbial.
Her praise of
Viator.
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Running the Blockade at Wilmington.—A semi-official statement relative
to running the blockade at
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Hall—“Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady;” comic song; “The Young Widow”
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Artichokes Wanted.
In small and large quantities, at
Corner
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Wanted
100,000 Bushels of
Coal.
At the Government Foundry and Machine Works.
Estimates for contracts will be received for delivery of Coals at salt
works. Apply to
A. P. Girardey,
Major in Charge.
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The Spirit of a Patriot Woman.—We have before us, says the Richmond
Sentinel, a letter from a lady of a Southern State, to a gentleman who had
transmitted to her a message from her brother, that had turned traitor and
ingrate to his mother State, and is now a
*
*
*
“As to holding any communication whatever with one who has proved
himself, though brother in blood, alien in heart and sentiment, is very distant
from my intentions.
As he has obtained his consent to turn traitor to the State that gave him
birth, and to arm himself against all I hold dear on earth, to enslave me and my
little children, it is not hard for me to get my consent to leave him without
help of mine. Tell him for me that
he has, in his short and troublesome life, given me many a heart-blow, many a
shock, but this is the severest of them all; that it shall be the study of my
life to forget his very existence, so that his memory may not be a foul blot on
all that is pure and bright to me now. If
I extend him any aid, it is only as we are commanded to do good to them that
hate us and despitely use us and persecute us; not for any tie of blood or
kindred that exists between us, for it seems monstrous to believe that we were
born of the same mother. For that
dear mother’s sake, I enclose him the slight pecuniary assistance which he has
lowered himself so far as to ask from one against whom he is fighting.
when he shall throw off his allegiance to a despot’s rule, and wash his
hands and heart clean of the blood stains resting upon them, and which are
crying to Heaven for vengeance on his guilty soul, then will I consent to bury
the bitter past, and acknowledge him as my brother, that ‘was lost, but is
found; dead, but alive again!’ But,
communicate with him as a Yankee soldier, the base hireling of a base master, never,
NEVER, NEVER! If you wish, you can
read this to him; but, upon no account, allow him to place his hand upon what I
have written.”
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Dancing.—A batchelor [sic] friend in
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Serious Family;” “The Two Gregories”
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The Justice and Mercy of Butler’s Rule in Eastern North Carolina.—The
18th inst., was the day in
. . .
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Naval Engagements;” “The Limerick Boy, or Paddy’s Mischief”
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Young Men’s Library Association.—The annual report of the officers of
this most useful association exhibits a gratifying result.
Notwithstanding the blockade, several new works, from the pen of European
authors, have been added to their already select and well-filled library.
The periodicals embrace, the Southern Literary Messenger, the Record, the
Illustrated News, the Southern Field and Fireside, and the Cultivator.
The newspapers comprise the Constitutionalist, chronicle & Sentinel,
Savannah Republican and News, Atlanta Appeal, Marietta Rebel, Charleston Courier
and Mercury, Richmond Enquirer and Dispatch, Petersburg Express, Montgomery
Advertiser, Mobile Register, Christian Advocate and Milledgeville Confederate
Union. We commend the association to
the generous support of our citizens as one which, on account of the beneficent
results accruing from it, should be well patronized.
At the sixteenth annual meeting on Thursday evening last, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President—George Robertson.
Vice-President—W. C. Jessup.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. G. Ives.
Librarian—John A. Millen.
Managers—John Bones; G. M. Thew, J. S. Bean, D. B. Plumb, Jas. W.
Bones, R. S. Sayre.
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[For the Constitutionalist.]
Office,
Resolved 1st, That the thanks of the Ga. Relief & Hospital
Association are due, and are hereby heartily tendered to the Augusta Factory,
for continuing to supply us, at less than one-third the market price, with all
the shirting used in our Manufacturing department, and for a large amount of
Empire cloth, to be given in exchange for blankets, and for a recent grant of
cloth weekly, at the same low rates, to be given in exchange for such articles
of prime necessity as shoes, leather, &c., by which this association is
enabled to procure these articles at less than one-third of their market value.
Resolved 2d, That the thanks of this Association are due, and are
sincerely tendered to the Eagle Factory, of Columbus, for a continued supply of
all the woolen goods used by us for manufacturing purposes, at very low prices,
and for other favors.
Resolved 3d, That from our knowledge of the scarcity of the goods of the
kind manufactured by these factories, and from our daily observation and
personal knowledge of the fact, that they are striving to meet the wants of the
country and so furnish the Government, and all Soldiers’ Aid Societies, and
soldiers’ families with their manufactures at less than one third the market
price, we feel it our duty to express the belief that any action on the part of
the Confederate or State Government, calculated to diminish their capacity to
manufacture these goods, would be a serious detriment to the whole country, and
to express the hope that the authorities of these Governments will find it
consistent with their duty to allow them laborers sufficient to turn out the
largest possible amount of cloth, thread, &c.
Resolved 4th, That the Secretary of the Executive Committee of
this Association, be, and is hereby requested to furnish a copy of these
resolutions to Wm. E. Jackson, President of the Augusta Factory, and to Wm. M.
Young, President of the Eagle Factory, through whom these Factories have
courteously and liberally supplied us, and also a copy to the city papers for
publication.
Resolved 5th, That the General Superintendent and
Corresponding Secretary, in writing to the Governor of Georgia, be
requested to furnish a copy of these resolutions to his Excellency, together
with such other facts as may fully exhibit to this officer the relations of said
factories to this Association.
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Summary: Concert
Hall: “Toodles,” quartette
“Fling Forth our Southern Banner;” “The Dead Shot”
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New Music.—Messrs. Blackmar & Bro. favor us with copies of the
following sheet music, just published by them.
Schulhoffs Impromtu Polka,” price $2,00, Les Tures de la Gardes 2 ma
Polka Militaine by “Ascher,” $2,00; Juanita $1,25.
We may be Happy yet, $1[,]00.
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Summary: Concert
Hall: “Robert Macaire, or the Two
Murders;” “Milly, the Maid with the Milking Pail”
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Summary: Concert
Hall” “Toodles;” “Limerick
Boy, or Paddy’s Mischief”
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Letter from
Mr. Editor: I again take time
to write you how affairs are progressing on Big Black, and in our extreme front.
To all, except a close observer, everything is unchanged west of the N.
O. J. & G. N. R. R., but, should strict inquiry be made, and the condition
of the country closely scrutinized, a marked difference would be
discovered—and that difference is for the better.
The affrighted population, who so hastily deserted their homes in July
have, for some time past, been slowly returning, until the country, which, a
short time since, appeared so desolate and ruined, is again, enlivened, and
shows some sign of prosperity. Many
persons returned, but they found naught but the charred remains of their
dwelling and fences; but we notice their fences have been repaired, and enough
attention given to plantation, to show that “that there’s life in the old
land yet.”
It is particularly gratifying to know that amidst so much gloomy weather,
there is much good fortune anticipated for and by the people in the front, where
the ravages of war have so indelibly marked its unrelenting course, and so
darkly stained the pages of Federal history with damning deeds of unheard of
tyranny.
When the passions of the times have subsided, and the unprejudiced
historian prepares to record the advance of the Federal army into the State of
Mississippi, me thinks he will pause before he soils the immaculate page upon
which he is writing, with a recital of such crimes; or rather hesitate to know
whether his pen had better be dipped in blood, or await the invention of a
darker [?] fluid than is known, so as to more surely impress upon his readers
the deep meaning which he feels and knows he should, as an impartial writer,
pass down to posterity.
Many planters here propose to bring half their hands to the front and
leave half in
A more sanguine and permanent feeling pervades the whole country.
The deep gloom which fell like a pall over this part of the land at the
close of the last year, has slowly changed its sombre cast for a more cheering
color, until beams of hope are spreading, with glorious radiance, around the
hearts and hearthstones of our oppressed people.
But let the shout of victory arise from any quarter of the land, and it
will be hailed as the day-star of our redemption, the turning point of our
struggle, and will elate many who are now depressed. . . . –Mississippian.
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Nellie Bryant, and three other female convicts, who escaped from the
Penitentiary on the 23d ult., were captured near
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Hunchback”
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Aboriginal Visitors.—A family of Cherokee Indians, from
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Hunchback”
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Now Ready
A Series of Valentines (eighteen in number) Sentimental and Caricature.
Price $50 per hundred. Trade
half off. To be had at the Bock and
Music stores.
Geo. Dunn & Co.
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Cotton Cards.—The Milledgeville Recorder understands that the increased
number of machines in the Penitentiary, for the manufacture of Cotton Cards,
will do much toward supplying a great public need, and that Cards may now be had
at the sale room at the old price of six dollars a pair, half in skins, and the
other half in money. This is a
change of the former rule, which required the whole price to be paid in skins.
For the benefit of those desiring Cards on these terms, (and in no other
way can they be obtained at the Penitentiary,) we again state the quantity of
skins, and the price to buy a pair of Cards:
For sheep, goat, dog or deer skins, raw, the price allowed is 25 cents
for 22 inches in length and five inches in width; and for tanned skins of the
same description, the sum is 50 cents.—The skins must be sound, and without
holes. It will take from two to
three skins, according to size, to bring three dollars in exchange; the other
three dollars will be received in money for a pair of Cards, under the present
regulation.
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The Calico Dress.
[From the
Knickerbocker.}
It is remarked by some one, some one unknown to us by name, but a
sensible and plain-spoken man, whoever he is, that women in the middle ranks of
society is in her true glory: not a
doll, to carry silks and jewels; not a puppet, to be flattered by absurd
adoration, revered to-day and discarded to-morrow, and always jostled out of the
place which nature and society would assign her, by sensuality or contempt;
admired but not respected, and desired, perhaps, but not esteemed, compared such
an one with a wife who partakes of the cares and cheers the anxieties of her
husband; who divides his toils by her domestic intelligence, and spread
cheerfulness around her, for his sake sharing the reasonable refinements of the
world, without being vain of them. Now
this, as we have intimated, is well and truly said; and it reminds us of a few
very clever lines which a western lady correspondent, in a kindly courteous
note, now lying before, us, has desired us to “circulate” in the Table.
With moderate crinolines, therefore, and no other redundance [sic] save
that which Nature gives, ladies and gentlemen, “The Girl with the calico
Dress” will have the honor of appearing before you.
A fig for your fashionable girls,
With their velvets and satins and laces,
Their diamonds, and rubies, and pearls,
And their milliner figures and faces;
They may shine at a party or ball,
Emblazoned
with half they possess,
But give me in place of them all,
My girl with the calico dress.
“She is plump as a partridge, as fair
As the rose in its earliest bloom;
Her teeth will with ivory compare,
And
her breath with the clover perfume,
Her step is as free and as light
As the fawn's whom the hunters hard press;
And her eye is as soft and as bright--
My girl with the calico dress.
“Your dandies and foplings may sneer
At her modest and simple attire;
But the charms she permits to appear
Would set a whole iceberg on fire.
She can dance, but she never allows
The hugging, the squeeze and caress;
She is saving all these for her spouse--
My girl with the calico dress.
“She is cheerful, warm-hearted and true,
And kind to her father and mother;
She studies how much she can do
For her sweet little sisters and brother.
If you want a companion for life,
To comfort, enliven and bless,
She is just the right sort for a wife--
My girl with the calico dress.”
Pass this good “Girl” around.
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The
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Summary: Concert Hall—“Hunchback;” new national song
and quartette “God Save the South!”
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Interesting Letter
from
The Savannah News publishes the following exirscis from a letter from a
former typo of that office to one of his “chums” in
Battery Marion, Sullivan’s
February 2, 1864.}
Friend M:--When I closed my last letter to you (Sunday last), we had, up
to that time, enjoyed comparative quiet. Since
then the Yankees have opened a terrific fire on
Tuesday, Feb. 3.—There is an old saying, and a very true one, “that
it is an ill wind that blows no one any good,” which was very truthfully
illustrated this morning. Reveille
had just beat and we had answered roll call, when the sentinel sung out that
there was a vessel ashore on the beach, opposite
Barrels, packages of blankets, dry goods, etc., were thrown overboard
promiscuously, and at one time I thought one of Erin’s fair daughters had sunk
to rise no more; but like a true Irish woman as she was she arose from the
yeasty waves with a codfish in one hand, while with the other hand she held on
to a barrel of Irish potatoes. She
didn’t look much like the “Queen of the Naiads” as she arose from the sea
exclaiming, “bad luck to the spelpeen wo did that.”
I made my way down into the cabin, and, after filling my pockets with
sardines, lobsters, pickles, jellies, etc., came across some pure old Bourbon,
and in a short time we had forgotten our cares, and were as happy as princes.
Shortly after, the iron clads saw her, and the first thing we knew a
shell came screaming over her, and without waiting for further notice, we
retired, or, as the Yankees would say, “skedaddled.”
In fact we made as good time back as we did going.
A guard was stationed around her to prevent any one going on board after
the Yankees opened on her, and one of the regulars refusing to obey orders, was
shot through the head and instantly killed by one of the sentinels, and I hear
that another was bayoneted. The 18th
Georgia Battalion was foremost in the breach, and came out “right side up with
care.”
It would do your heart good to take a look in our little shanties to-day.
Bunches of bananas, oranges, pickles, coffee, tea, sardines, lobsters,
condensed milk in cans, sweetened and ready for use, mustard, pepper, beef,
etc., etc., and for a while we will live as princes. . . .
Your friend, A. C. W.,
18th Georgia Battalion.
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“Till H-ll Freezes Over.”—The Texas Telegraph offers to receive
contributions in accordance with the following request.
Fort Point, Nov. 27, 1863.
Editor Telegraph: Can’t
some of our good friends send us some tobacco?
Our money has been out for a long time; we don’t draw any these times.
A few twists of homespun would be a Christmas present that would rise the
sunshine on our faces. We intend to
“hand up our stockings.” If they
can’t send tobacco, please send us the seed, and we will commence preparing
the ground; for we mean to defend this place till h-ll freezes over and then
fight the Yankees on the ice.
Private,
Company A, Cook’s Regiment,
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Hall—“Michael Erle, the Maniac Lover;” “The Spectre Bridegroom”
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Erina Ball.
Masonic Hall.
Monday Night, Feb.
8.
The proceeds to be
devoted to a charitable object.
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Glass!
Southern Glass!
The undersigned, Sole Agent for Georgia,
One Thousand Doz. Pressed Tumblers
Fifty Glass Vials
Received and now offered for sale.
Railroads and Hotels can be supplied with Lamp Shades, Chimneys, &c.
All kinds of Glass made to order.
If sales will justify, a General Depot for the supply of dealers will be
established here. The public are
invited to call and see our samples.
H. T. Greenwood.
P. S.—I am also Agent for the Richmond Wire Factory and the Georgia
Tack Factory.
H. T. Greenwood.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Robert Macaire, or The Murderers;” “The Lottery Ticket”
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Something for the Ladies.—Messrs. J. H. McDonald & Co., of Hamburg,
have favored us with a specimen of prepared chalk, manufactured and prepared by
them, labelled “Superior Velvet Pearl Chalk, for beautifying the
complexion.” Now, as we do not use
the article ourselves, we cannot judge of its beautifying qualities, but on
presentation to a competent judge, it was pronounced to be an excellent article,
and upon the authority of our friend, we recommend it to our lady readers as one
of the indispensables.
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Hall—“The new Drama of The Noble Soldier;” comic song; “The Swiss
Cottage”
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To the Women of
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Broken Glass Wanted.—It may not be known to our citizens that a Glass
Factory, on an extensive scale, is about to go into operation in
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To the Women of
State of
Quartermaster General's Office, }
A report has been put in circulation in various portions of the State
that the socks knit by the Ladies of Georgia for this Department have been sold
by me to the troops in the field. Without
entering further into the details of this vile and malicious report, I hereby
pronounce the whole tale to be a malicious FALSEHOOD!
I deny, and challenge the world for proof to the contrary, that there has
ever been a sock sold by this department to a soldier of the Confederate army
since my first appeal to the women of Georgia to knit for their destitute
defenders. I hereby bind myself to
present One Thousand Dollars to any person, either citizen or soldier, who will
come forward and prove that he ever bought a sock from this Department, that was
either knit by the ladies or purchased for issue to said troops.
This report has been invented, on the one hand, by the enemies of our
noble boys, who rejoice in their sufferings, and are delighted when they suspend
the efforts of the noble women in their behalf; on the other hand, by servile
opponents of this department, who forget that, in venting their unprovoked spite
upon us, they are causing the troops of their State to march over frozen ground
and the drifting snow with uncovered and bleeding feet.
Women of
Daughters of
I
Ira
R. Foster,
Quartermaster General of
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Office Southern Express Comp’y.
Augusta, Geo.,}
February 10th, 1864.}
Much complaint being made of the delays by this Company in forwarding
merchandise, I am instructed to advertise that the Rules of the Company require
that Government packages shall take precedence over all others, and next in
order packages forwarded by friends or Associations to officers and soldiers in
the field or hospitals. The
observance of this rule, together with limited facilities for transportation,
necessarily cause delay in the forwarding of packages for merchants and others.
E. F. Ludwig,
Agent.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Artist’s Wife;” “Crossing the Line”
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A Bloody
Dear Cousin: Fred has
consented at last to let me come to
No one will complain of this, as they know the barbarians have sworn to
destroy every vestige of the Secession nest if they can take it.
If they should ever enter our homes, may God have mercy on them, for I
can’t. If they ever enter the
city, you will hear of the greatest earthquake ever caused by human agency.
It will be a consolation to know, that should the vandals ever get here,
they will never be able to reach
Gen. Beauregard is confident they can never get ten miles beyond the city
in any direction, but he is fully confident they can never come.
It is mournful to go through our streets, once alive with beauty and
fashion, and see them entirely deserted, with the exception of now and then one
of our colored people, or a squalid Irish woman; but as I am to see you soon I
will not write a long letter. Fred
sends his love—but says he will not write until, dipping his pen in a Yankee
carcass, he can write with red ink.
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An Appeal to Georgians.
We call the special attention of every reader of the Constitutionalist to
the following appeal of General Wright. General
Wright, in a private letter to us, says “that repeated requisitions have been
made on the Government for leather, but supplies cannot be obtained. Our only
and last chance for success is upon the generosity of our people.”
This gallant brigade has re-enlisted for the war, and shall these brave
men who have suffered and endured so much without a murmur, and who have thus
recently shown their determination to suffer on to the end of the contest,
appeal to Georgians in vain. They
have set a noble example to the people at home.
They do not ask for shoes. These
they are prepared to manufacture. Let
the leather be sent forward at once to the care of the Georgia Relief and
Hospital Association. Let both
individual and concerted action be at once aroused in their behalf.
General Wright says that his command heretofore has been weakened from
fifteen to twenty per cent. in a few weeks after the opening of a campaign from
a want of shoes. This should not be
the case again, and the people have it in their own hands to see that it will
not be. We are glad to close this
notice with the testimony of General Wright, to the fact, that the army of
Headqr’s Wright’s Brigade,}
Camp near Orange Court House,}
February 4th, 1864.}
I make an earnest appeal to the people of
We have established a shoe shop in camp, have made all our own tools,
including lasts, knives, awls, &c; indeed we have everything necessary for
the successful manufacture of shoes, including a large number of experienced
workmen, but leather. This the
generous people of our State we look to for.
We propose to make shoes enough within the next sixty days, if we can get
the leather, to keep the command in shoes until next winter.
By your generous and liberal aid we can easily accomplish our
undertaking. We have built a large
shoe shop, and can work fifty to seventy five hands daily, if you will let us
have the leather. If all who are
able will send us one side of leather, the brave men of this command will not
again suffer for want of shoes.
Remember while you sit by your blazing fires around your happy
hearthstones, well clad and shod, that the veterans of Chickimasom’que [?],
South Mills, King’s School House, Mechanicsville, Manassas, Harper’s Ferry,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Manassas Gap, are
standing watch and ward for your safety, barefoot and in rags in the frosts and
snows of a Virginia winter. Then let
there be no delay in this matter; send in your contributions, great and small at
once to the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association at Augusta, who will forward
to us in camp.
I appeal to the noble women of
A. R. Wright,
Brig. Gen’l Commanding Brigade.
Let the name of the donor be plainly marked on each package, so that the
proper acknowledgements may be made.
All the
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Summary: Concert
Hall: “The Artist’s Wife;”
“The Young Widow”
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New Publications.—We are indebted to Messrs. Blackmar & Bro., for a
new work entitled Lady Audley’s Secret, by the author of Aurora Floyd.
It is from the press of S. H. Goetzel & Co., of
Messrs. Evans & Cogswell, formerly of
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Honeymoon;” “The Lottery Ticket”
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—Thursday, Feb. 18, first night of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Macarthy.
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—First Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Mr. and the Misses Sloman,
Thursday, Feb. 18th. Programme
given, but some titles difficult to read.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Little Blanche;” “The Rendezvous”
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Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy’s Personation Concert
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Something for the Girls.
The Daily Mississippian, now published at
[“] You all want to marry, don’t you, girls?—at least, you are
making your calculations to do so some day, are you not?
Of course you are—you all expect to marry; and the expectations of
most, if not all of you, will doubtless be realized.
You want good husbands, too. We
hope you may get good ones, or none at all.
Better live and die old maids than to pair yourselves off with worthless
young men. Now, we think we can put
you in the right road to get good husbands.
That’s just the road you have been wanting to find for some time, but
some of you have missed it a long way. We
will now point it out to you, and if you follow, in it, ten to one you will find
just such husband as you desire.
The important thing to be done is to render yourselves worthy of good
husbands. You must put off the ways
of children. You must study to make
yourselves useful, as well as ornamental. You
must, for a time at least, lay aside the fashionable accomplishments of life,
and study those things which will be of use to you after marriage.
A young man who is worth having is not easily caught.
He must see something in a young lady to commend her besides beauty of
person or useless accomplishments. You
must set it down as a fixed fact, that a young man [who]
is willing to marry you, knowing you to be destitute of useful
accomplishments, is not worth having, and you should discard him at once.
Just take it for granted that the young man is incapable of managing and
providing for a family, as you are of assisting him.
Therefore, to secure good husbands, you must prove yourselves worthy of
them.
There are some girls who become very anxious to marry, and they put
themselves forward a little faster than prudence or modesty would dictate.
We would not accuse any of the young ladies we are now talking to of
being guilty of immodesty or forwardness, but we have seen some in our day whose
manners were anything but pleasing to a lover of modesty.
And now girls, we want to get you to talk to that class for us, as it is
not probable that an article in a newspaper would have any effect upon them.
Whenever you see a young lady who is very boisterous—who talks and
laughs very loud when in the company of young gentlemen—you ought to take her
aside and advise her to be a little more modest—for she is the estimation of
all worty [sic] young men. And if
you should ever see one so far forget herself as to talk or laugh in church, be
sure to reprove her kindly for it. A
gentle reproof may be of great advantage to her—it may cause her to reflect
and see how unbecoming her conduct is.
Remember, young ladies, that your girlish days will soon be over.
Very soon you are to become the wives and mothers of our country.
You will ere long be called to fill the stations now occupied by your
mothers. How very important then
that you get good husbands and prepare yourselves to make good wives.
Good old Paul left some excellent advice to the ladies on record.
It was to this effect—that ‘women adorn themselves in modest apparel
with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls, or
costly array, but with good works.’
Now, however anxious a girl may be to marry, she should never hang out a
sight to that effect.—We have seen—and so have you, no doubt—young ladies
whose every act bespoke as plain as tongue could speak, “You can have me, sir,
for the asking.” Or, in other
words, her actions were a continual repetition of the following line:
“O! I should like to
marry!”
Whenever it becomes known that a young lady is in the market and is
exceedingly anxious to get herself off at any price, she at once depreciates in
value, and young men who really want wives become indifferent about her.
They may flirt with her for a time, but none of them want her for a wife.
They set no value upon a prize that is so easily taken.
Therefore, girls, you can all see the necessity of putting a high price
on yourselves. When girls set the
proper value upon themselves and keep themselves in the proper sphere, they will
not have to seek husbands by exhibiting themselves with the sign “to let”
sticking out, but they will be sought out by the men who want good wives, and
who are capable of taking care of them.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Hunchback;” “The
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—“Second Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert by Mr. and the Misses
Sloman”, Tuesday, February 23d
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Summary: Concert
Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy’s Personation Concert
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Hall—“Pizarro”, Wednesday, Feb. 24.
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Sheet Music.—“I remember the hour when sadly we parted”—a
companion to “When this cruel war is over,” has been placed on our table by
Blackmar & Bro. It is neatly
arranged and the words are very good.
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Summary:
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Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy’s Personation Concert.
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A Patriotic Mother.—The annexed extract is taken from a letter written
by a lady residing in Cobb county, Georgia, to a gentleman residing in
“Yours of the 1st of April has been received, bringing to me
the heart-rending intelligence of the death of my son, which is the last one of
three, who, to serve their country, left me a disconsolate widowed mother; and I
can assure you that the greater portion of the time since they left, myself and
the little children left with me, have subsisted upon bread alone, and all this
I still feel like I could bear if, in the providence of God, our country can be
saved from the merciless grasp of the cruel tyrants who are seeking our total
ruin.”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Pizarro;” “The Happy Man”
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Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy’s Personation Concert
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[Special
Correspondence
Letter from
Matters in
Their gunboats daily shell portions of the beach below Velasco, with a
view of disturbing working parties of Confederates, as well as of keeping the
run of what our men are doing. No
serious encounter has yet taken place.
The railroad from Lavacca to
Affairs in this city are as quiet as usual.
There are several gentlemen of considerable note just now among us.
Gen. Whitfield, of
Col. Solon Borland, of
Gen. Tom Green, who by his gallantry in
Gen. Magruder is very busy in conjuction [sic] with the State authorities
in perfecting our defences.—He is at present in this city, which from its
central position it is presumed is regarded as the citadel of
I enclose you a file of the Houston Telegraph, for the last ten days, and
commend to your attention the sketches of Quantrell’s men therein.—These
sketches will strike the east of the
H. P.
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—third Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Mr. and the Misses Sloman,
Feb. 29th.
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Hall—“Robert Macaire, or the Two Murderers;” fancy dance; “The Secret”
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New Music.—We have received from Blackmar & Bro., two new songs
beautifully got up by Geo. Dunn & Co.,
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hall—Personation Concert for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy.
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For
Buncombe Cabbage
Seed,
Flat Dutch Turnip
Seed,
And Other
Assortments,
Wholesale and
Retail, by
Atkinson & Shecut.
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Particulars of the
Raid on
We are permitted to publish the following private letter from a merchant
of this city, writing at
Mobile Register.
Dear M------: the yankee
cavalry entered our village on Tuesday evening about half past three o’clock.
In half an hour afterwards all roads leading to the town were strongly
posted—then the infantry, 4,000 strong, came pouring in at double quick, and
in ten minutes after the ravaging and plundering commenced. No place or house
escaped them. Locks and bars availed
nothing. Every room, trunk,
wardrobe, and the beds and bedding, were plundered and torn up, nor did the
negroes, whom they came to set free, as they said, escape those low down
pilfering vandals. Not one negro
cabin or kitchen in the town, and for miles around escaped, even to servants’
underclothes, and as for horses, none escaped but those sent off for at least
eight miles from their encampment.
Our town would have been sacked, and many houses laid in ashes but for
those who had the presence of mind to apply for guards, and I say it, as
creditable to most of their officers, that they were very prompt in furnishing
guards to all who applied for them, but the damage was done before application
was made, or before the people knew of the remedy.
I was fortunate in procuring two of the cavalry very soon after their
arrival, who never left my house until the danger was all over, so that my house
and family escaped with comparatively little loss.
We were lavish, however, with kindness and provisions, to all who came.
Not so, however, with regard to outside affairs.
Every horse and mule (eight in number) were taken; my stock hogs killed,
wagons, harness, saddles and bridles, fodder, hay, and some corn; poultry, even
to the geese. On the plantation, my
gin house, with sixty bales of cotton, besides my little crop of this year,
which was in a shed on the lower part of the farm, together with five or six
hundred pannels [sic] of fencing, were all consumed; and last, but not least,
six of my negroes went off, and the leading cause was the women I sent to Mobile
to be sold.
I should have lost only one had it not been for her, and he (Sam) was the
betrayer of the camp where Jasper Winn, J. W. Winn, Dr. Wolverton and the bearer
of this letter, together with half a dozen negroes and some fifteen horses, were
all concealed in the woods some four miles from town.
My loss will not fall short of $28,000 or $30,000 according to the
present valuation of property. John
Cochran has lost 151 bales cotton besides his two storehouses—indeed he has
lost nearly all he had. W. E. Smith
about $35,000 in all, Doby some 8,000 perhaps 10,000; Dunlap has lost more
perhaps than any one else about here, except Mrs. Linton, who had twenty-six
negroes to go. I suppose not less
than 300 negroes left here, and had it not been that the bridge was burned so
early as Friday morning, some seventy-five more would have gone.
[Illegible] left; Judge Byrne had four [illegible].
Every storehouse and workshop in the place was laid in ashes; all
ginhouses and cotton, tanyards, and everything of a public nature, were
consumed. Some eight or ten private
buildings were fired, but only three or four burned.
Nearly every family was threatened and several attempts were made to burn
private dwellings, but from the vigilance of the guards and owners they were
frustrated in their cruel, base designs. Every
negro that was questioned about hidden property told and carried the enemy to
the spot. My boy, Bob, was true as
usual. He knew where I had valuable
articles hid, but would not betray in a single instance, nor would he go with
them had every negro in town gone. Some
half dozen white persons went with them from Quitman, which I understand was
nearly burned up—also Marion, Miss. The
number of the enemy who came here was about 4,500, not more, and if we can
believe the officers 25,000 is the outside figure who left
We have a meeting to-morrow to do something for those who have lost their
all. It is creditable to the General
that he had some 200 bushels of corn hauled off from the warehouses to an open
field for the poor before he burned the houses in which it was stored.
No private corn of consequence was taken or destroyed, but the fodder
suffered. I have five hands [?] left
on the field, which perhaps will make me corn and potatoes enough to live on.
The loss of my horses and fences is hard on me at this season.
I now say, keep out of the way of the Yankees—they are a cruel foe; ten
times worse than I had any idea. Could
I only relate individual insults, you would be shocked.
Colonel Ward was taken out of his home in the night and the rope provided
to hang him, and they would have done so, it is thought, had he not given up his
money, which he had buried; also Captain Wolverton’s house would have been
burned had he not given his watch.—One white lady, a few miles off, it is
said, was stripped naked and whipped, others cursed and every vulgar abuse that
could be though of wickedly heaped upon them, and those the most respectable in
the town.
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The Knapsack.—The Confederate Spirit, and Knapsack of Fun; a humorous
monthly, devoted to wit, humor and the Spirit of the Times, published by H. C.
Clarke, Mobile, for the month of March; has been placed on our table by Blackmar
& Bro. The publisher in the
number before us gives notice that the publication office of the Knapsack will
be removed to
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Les Miserables.—We have been favored by Blackmar & Bro., with a
copy of Jean Vageau [sic], the last number of Victor Hugo’s great work, which
has just made its appearance from the publishing house of West & Johnston,
Richmond.—Those who have read the preceeding [sic] numbers of this deeply
interesting novel will be pleased to learn that the last is now before the
public. It can be found at
Blackmar’s at $3 per copy.
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Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy.
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Another Instance of Beast Butler’s Tyranny.
A Miss Ellen Roan, step-daughter of Captain McCarrick, of the Confederate
Navy, residing with her mother, in Norfolk, where they once had considerable
property, but which is now listed for confiscation, hearing that her step father
was in Wilmington, on his way to Europe, made her escape from the enemy’s
lines, to bid him farewell. On
returning from
Two or three days afterwards, her mother on applying to see her, was
informed she was transferred to Fortress Monroe.
Thither the distracted mother went and on her arrival there all the
information the brutal official would give, was that her daughter had left the
fortress. A private soldier, with
more humanity, moved by the mother’s grief, privately informed her that Miss
Ellen had been sent to Fort
Incarcerated in the pestilential casemates of
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We invite attention to the following card of Mr. Reid to
To
In behalf of the soldiers of Adams’ Louisiana Brigade, five hundred of
whom are now suffering for shoes, I appeal to our wealthy refugees residing in
I respectfully ask, for our country’s cause, that the several
newspapers at the points above named publish this notice in their editorial
columns.
Sam. C. Reid.
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Brutalities of Grierson’s Thieves.—Among the forces of Grierson,
which lately received such a signal defeat in
Everything of value that they could lay their hands on was either stolen
or destroyed; jewelry was ruthlessly torn from the persons of ladies, amid the
jeers and taunts of the savage vagabonds, and family relics of no value to any
one, but the owners, were destroyed with a fiendish delight.
As an evidence of their brutality, we are informed that a Mr. Jarman, a
highly respectable and gallant gentleman residing in the neighborhood of
Their excuse for the hellish act was that Mr. Jarman and a few others had
fired on them in their passage through the country, and was, therefore a
bushwhacker.
But they received their reward when they met Forrest.—Selma
Mississippian.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Ben Bolt;” “Dead Shot”
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Summary: List
of Federal Prisoners Interred in the
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Summary: Concert
Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macarthy
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—Fifth Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert by Mr. and the Misses Sloman.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Jacobite;” “Rendezvous”
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Straw Wanted.
Hard threshed
Apply to
Jessup & Hatch.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Jacobite;” fancy dance; “The Happy Man.”
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Fresh Blockade
Goods from
At Private Sale.
5 Bales Gunny Bagging.
20 Cases Wool Cards.
1 Trunk Hats and Hosiery.
1 Case Shirts and Undershirts.
1 Case Asst. Stationary.
1 Case Children’s Gaiters.
1 Case Ladies’ Gaiters.
2 Cases Men’s Calf Shoes.
J. H. Taylor,
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Laborers Wanted.
Twenty Negro Laborers wanted immediately for which the highest wages will
be given. Address or apply at the
office of the Bath Paper Mills.
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Coopers Wanted.
Six good and experienced Coopers can find permanent employment on
Government Work by addressing
Mann & Shaw,
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Outrages of the Yankees on Their Retreat.—The Dalton correspondent of
the Atlanta Register, says the Yankee abolition heathens, maddened in their
disappointment at being foiled in their march on Dalton, under Thomas (whose
headquarters were at Ringgold) took summary vengeance on the helpless old men,
women and children in their disgraceful retreat.
These white vampires pillaged, burnt, destroyed and murdered on their
return along both the
Let our people understand that these are the means taken by those
hireling barbarians to subjugate us. This
is the fate that awaits us all if the whole Confederacy does not rise as one
man, voluntarily, eagerly and willingly to drive back from our soil a race whose
infamy and deep damnation no words can express.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Love in Humble Life;” fancy dance; “The Two Gregories”
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New Music.—Our neighbors, Blackmar & Bro., have sent us for
inspection several new issues from their press, all of them handsomely gotten
up—some of them in a style that will compete with the finest Northern
publications. They are:
“Three Cheers for our Jack Morgan”—words by Eugene Raymond, music
by Emmett; “The God-Bye [sic] at the Door”—words by J. E. Carpenter, music
by Stephen Glover; “We met by chance,” and “Keep me awake,
Mother”—words by Mrs. M. W. Stratton, and music by Henry Schoeller.—These
pieces are all worthy the attention of the ladies.
It may be worthy of remark that two of these pieces are neatly set up and
printed by our enterprising friends Patterson & Co., and constitute the
first music ever issued from the press of this city.
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Summary: Concert
Hall: “Little Blanche;” “The
Secret”
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Summary: Concert
Hall: “Ben Bolt;” “Limerick
Boy, or Paddy’s Mischief”
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Hall—Sixth Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Mr. and the Misses Sloman.
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The Augusta Factory.
We had occasion to visit this extensive establishment a few days since.
We were agreeably surprised at the important improvements recently made,
and the order and neatness observed in the various departments.
It is, we believe, the largest manufactory of the kind in the State,
employs over eight hundred hands, and manufactures upwards of twenty thousand
yards of cloth daily, all of which is sold at Government price, which is about
one-third of its market value. The
employees are supplied by the company with goods and provisions at a much less
price than they could buy them in the market.
The whole establishment is under the supervision of Mr. F. Cogin a
courteous and affable gentleman to whom in a great measure is due the recent
improvements.
This company has sold and continues to sell to the various charitable
associations, and to the poor goods for their use, at the Government
prices.—The liberality of this company speaks well for the patriotism of the
stockholders and entitles them to the name of public benefactors.
We return our thanks to the company for the generous proposal to supply
the employees of this office with goods at Government price.
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—Sixth Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by Mr. and the Misses Sloman;
programme.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Sweethearts and Wives;” “Rough Diamond”
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From
Military movements on our coast do not appear to progress with much
spirit. The Yankees have done
nothing worth speaking of for a month past.
They hold position at Indianola, Dickerson’s Point, at the end of
The Yankees have been as conciliatory as their nature would allow.
No property has been destroyed except of one or two absent rebels, who
will get the worth of it out of the enemy, before the war is over.
Occasionally the Yankee steamers shelled our woods at the mouth of the
Cany [sic], and thence up to Evalaser, but no damage has been done so far, save
the killing of a mule and the wounding of three others.
The beach is thickly strewn with fragments of their shells for miles.
Lieut. Gen. Smith is at present here on a visit of inspection, to this
part of his Department, both he and Maj. Gen. Magruder are spending the present
week in the camp.
Brig. Gen. Slaughter has been made chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Magruder.
. .
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But here is the affecting “Pome:”
I went to the market to buy me some beef,
As I’m boarding myself at the Georgia Relief;
I look’d all about, but none could be found,
Except very poor, at Three Dollars a pound!
I bought a Shin bone, to make one some soup,
And I stepp’d to one side to get out of the group—
Ask’d the Butcher the price.
“With a kind of laugh,
Says he, “My Dear Sir, Two Dollars and a half!”
I paid him the money, and came home alone,
Thinking much of the soup I would have from my bone,
But when it was served it’s as true as there’s geese,
It was nothing but water, without any grease!
I called my boy, Felix, he came with a grin.
I asked him if that was the soup from the Shin?
He answered me: “Yes
sir,” says I “where’s the fat?”
“No fat on him,
“To be sure, I knew there was not any tallow,
But who ever heard of a Shin without mallow!”
“Dat one had none; when I saw up de bone,
It was solid all free;--just as sure as you born!”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady;” double dance; “Kiss in the
Dark”
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A Ball
Will Be Given at
Masonic Hall,
Thursday Night, 17th
inst.
The proceeds of which will be devoted to the sick and wounded soldiers in
this city. Admission $10.
Tickets to be had at Blackmar & Bro’s, and at the Globe Hotel.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Jacobite;” double dance; “The Young Widow”
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Summary: Masonic
Hall—Concert, by Mr. and the Misses Sloman, for the Benefit of the
Philharmonic Association, Saturday Evening, March 19, includes programme
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Floating Beacon;” “The Dead Shot”
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Captain Richard Fields, of the Cherokee nation, is now at the Globe Hotel
in our city. He has been to
Captain Fields comes among us with the amplest credentials.
But those who may be honored with a personal acquaintance with him, will
require no testimony in his favor. He
has been the Chief Justice of his nation, and has filled other high offices.
He now returns with a commission for raising a battalion of warriors.
He will probably call, on Monday, on many of our citizens; and will not
those whom he may not visit, send contributions to him at the Globe Hotel?
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Sweethearts and Wives;” dance; “The Two Gregories”
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Affairs in
A refugee from
A favorite occupation of these blue-uniformed wretches, of late, has
been, and still is, to march abruptly up to some quiet residence, occupied by
women and children, give them twenty-four hours notice to leave, and then send
them, under guard, across the lines, where they arrive penniless, friendless and
alone.
God only knows the sufferings that have been endured in this struggle,
but as sure as he over-[ ]
the destinies of mankind, just so certain is the hand of avenging justice to
fall with blighting weight upon these more than diabolical oppressors.
The foregoing, from the Columbia Carolinian, we are assured by a
gentleman who has been forced to leave his home in
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Sweethearts and Wives;” “The Two Gregories”
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Shot by a Woman.—A Mrs. Arlege recently killed a Yankee in
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Sweethearts and Wives;” dance; “The Two Gregories”
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Fire and Explosion at the Arsenal.
On Saturday morning, between nine and ten o’clock, an accident of an
alarming nature occurred at the Confederate States Arsenal, in this city,
creating for a time considerable excitement.
The accident originated in the driving room of the building, used as a
Pyrotechnic Laboratory, principally for the manufacture of rockets, and divided
into three departments, a Driving Room, Mixing Room and a room for the paper
work of the Laboratory. Mr. B. Kean,
a careful and experienced workman, was engaged in driving the powder in a
rocket, when it suddenly and unaccountably exploded.
The fire immediately communicated through the cracks and openings of the
door to the Mixing Room, where there was about twenty pounds of powder, causing
a terrific explosion, and instantly setting the whole building on fire.
Some sixteen or eighteen workmen were in the laboratory at the time of
the occurrence. All, with the
exception of Emanuel Hogan, the young man who lost a leg at Battery Wagner,
escaped.
Young Hogan, we regret to state, was burnt to death.
He had been employed at the Arsenal only about ten days.
There [fold in paper] doors to [fold in paper] their exit.
To this fortunate circumstance [fold in paper] is attributed the safety
of the majority of those engaged. It
is supposed that Hogan, who was sitting by a glass door, in the smoke and
confusion, lost his crutch and was unable to move.
The other persons injured were B. Kean, severely burnt about the head and
arms; Geo. P. Williams, slightly; P. C. McSheehy, slightly; J. N. Scriven,
slightly; B. Scanlan, slightly.
The first explosion was followed by two others, caused by the igniting of
a fire ball, made up for experiment, and some twenty or thirty rockets.—The
latter were piled on a table in the paper work room, ready for shipment.
When they ignited they shot off in various directions, going through the
weather boarding of houses, and making a general stampede.
In addition to the rockets there were from fifteen hundred to two
thousand fuses destroyed. The
building and shed attached were completely consumed.
Fortunately, there was but little wind at the time, and the speedy
arrival of the firemen, together with the exertions of the officers and workmen
in the Arsenal, soon put an end to all danger of the fire spreading.
Superintendent W. D. Hannifin, while the rockets were firing all about
him, went and cut away the picket fence, along which the fire was making very
rapid progress.
Mr. Welch, the foreman of the Laboratory narrowly escaped.
He had just left the mixing room when the explosion took lace.
Lieut. Calhoun, Inspector, had but a few moments previous to the
occurrence visited the room, and as usual cautioned the workmen to avoid
accidents, not to keep too much powder along side of them.
The men replied that there was no danger, that no accident had happened
for the past three years, and that none was likely to happen then.
He had got but a short distance, however, when he was turned back by the
report of the explosion.
The fact that but one life was lost, and that the damage otherwise was so
small, is regarded as a Providential interference.
The building destroyed does not interfere with the work at the Arsenal,
which will go on as usual. The rule
of the Arsenal is to keep as little ammunition and powder in store as possible,
and this accident has shown the wisdom of that policy.—Courier.
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Wood.—Our people are suffering for want of wood.
The recent seizures of horses has kept the people from bringing a
necessary supply of this article to our city.
Major Smith gives notice that those who bring wood or provisions to
market will not be disturbed. Let
them therefore take care to avail themselves of the present high prices to bring
forward supplies.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Ben Bolt; “Loan of a Lover”
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New Publications.—We have been favored by Mr. H. C. Clarke, book and
music publisher, of
Charles Dicken’s [sic] new Christmas Story, entitled Mrs. Lirriper’s
Lodging’s. [sic]
The Confederate Flag Song Book, Nos. 1 and 2, containing all the new and
favorite songs and ballads of the day.
I Remember the Hour when Sadly we Parted, Companion to When this Cruel
War is over.
Mr. Clarke has on hand a supply of all the latest book and music
publications, and will dispose of them on the most reasonable terms.
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The Press Association.—We had the pleasure of meeting Colonel Thrasher,
Superintendent of the Press Association, who is now in our city for the purpose
of making some preliminary arrangements for the Convention which takes place on
the 6th of April. As
matters of great importance will be submitted to the meeting, we trust that
there will be a general gathering of our brethren of the press.
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Art Exhibition.—Lee Mallory’s War Illustrations, portraits of the
Confederate Generals, Statesmen, and prominent men and women of the South, taken
from life by Herr Van Ness, will soon be exhibited in this city, and afford our
citizens an opportunity of enjoying an artistic feast.
The portraits are from life. Accompanying
the exhibition of each portrait will be given a short biographical sketch,
introducing the principal events by which the subject may have become
distinguished. We have been favored
by Mr. Mallory with fac similes, in photographs, of Generals Lee, Jackson,
Longstreet, Hood, Stuart, A. P. Hill and Morgan, which are excellent likenesses,
and for which we return our thanks. This
exhibition cannot fail to be interesting. Due
notice of the first entertainment will be given.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Floating Beacon;” fancy dance; “The Secret”
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Grand Artistic
Exhibition,
Lee Mallory’s
War Illustrations,
5th
Series, Comprising the
Confederate
Generals.
Illustrious
Statesmen, and prominent Men and
Women of the
South, exhib-
ited with the
Mammoth Stereoscopticon,
Or Great Mirror of
Life!
A most wonderful and complete Aparatus [sic], and the only one in the
Confederacy.
See advertisement on Monday.
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[Correspondence of
the Constitutionalist.]
Letter from
Camp near
March 23rd,
1864. }
We awoke this morning at reveille to find Mother Earth clothed in the
habiliments, that in all ages have been looked upon as emblematic of innocence,
pure white—snow—to the depth of about three inches.
The “boys” resolving to embrace the opportunity, and have a little
fun, had the “assembly” sounded in the different regiments.
The signal was understood. The
different regiments of this division, (Cheatham’s) formed to give Walker’s
division, of Georgians, battle—The men of Gist’s brigade, being apprised of
our approach, formed to receive us with colors flying, (which, by the way,
consisted of ragged handkerchiefs, while some convenient sapling was made to
take the place of a flag staff.) The
charge was sounded.
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New Music.—We have received from Blackmar & Bro. two new pieces of
music of their issue. They are the
“199 Broad street Polka”—by that popular composer Edward O. Eaton, and the
“Confederate Polka March” by Theo. Van La Hashe.
Both these pieces are easy and effective.
Price $1.50.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“His Last Legs;” “Lee Mallory’s Stereopticon, or an hour with the
Confederate Generals Jackson, Lee,
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Lee Mallory’s Stereoscopticon.
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Very Proper.—We understand that the Government is supplying the
indigent families of soldiers, in the upper Districts of South Carolina, with
corn at $3.00 per bushel. This is
very proper, and should be done wherever practicable.—There is much of the
tithing corn and wheat in the country wasting for want of transportation, which
might be sold at a low figure to the poor in the neighborhood.
It would thus be saved to the Government and the people.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—March 30—Lee Mallory’s Stereoscopticon; music; “A Kiss in the
Dark”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—March 31—Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, by the Queen Sisters and
Palmetto Band.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Lady of
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Encourage
The Undersigned
Agent for the
Goodwin Tack
Factory,
at
100 Gross Pressed
Tumblers,
10,000 Lbs. Wire,
from 6 to 10,
and will receive orders and contracts for all kinds of
Glass Ware, Window Glass, Iron Wire, Tacks, Brads and Shoe Nails.
My object is to supply dealers. All
orders must be accompanied with the cash.
Direct all letters to care of A. H. Jones,
H. T. Greenwood
Agent.
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A Word or Two to the Boys.—There is an Ordinance prohibiting the
shooting of bows and arrows in the streets of this city, of which Ordinance the
boys have shown a total disregard. As
His Honor the Mayor truly remarked, in alluding to the subject in the Council
yesterday afternoon, his attention having been called to it, it is unpleasant to
deprive the little fellows of the amusement they derive from these juvenile
sports, especially when they have so much trouble and so little pleasure,
comparatively, to expect in later years, but when those sports become nuisances
or dangerous, they must be stopped. And
hence, these little fellows must give up this bow and arrow shooting in the
streets, and repair to the Commons or the Parade Ground, where they will not
annoy anybody or destroy anything.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Fazio, or the Italian Wife;” “John Jones.”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Camille; or, The Fate of a Coquette”
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The Trans-Mississippi and
It appears that Texas, cut off as she has been by the exigencies of the
war, is discharging the duties of an independent empire; but this in happy
accord with the interests of the Confederacy, which is the supreme
consideration.—She has sent an agent to Europe to look after her ordnance
interests, and has also commissioned a special representative to Mexico, who
will regulate with Maximilian the interests of trade across the Rio Grande.
Great enterprise is being shown in the erection of powder mills, cotton
and wollen [sic] factories, &c. To
employ the latter there has been secured, on Government account in
There is no praise too hight [sic] for the gallant efforts of
The rumor that Brigadier-General Preston [(]formerly Minister to
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[Communicated.]
Mr. Editor:--In consequence of the difficulty of getting suitable
supplies for the sick soldiers in the hospitals of this place, voluntary
contributions have been made from time to time by the citizens, and placed in
the hands of certain benevolent ladies, who were so kind as to offer to prepare
and distribute personally to the sick, such nourishment and delicacies as their
condition might require, and the attending physician approve.
These ladies have been thus devoting their time and work of mercy, to the
great advantage and consolation of the suffering soldiers, ever since the
opening of the military hospital in our midsts, and have uniformly been treated
with becoming courtesy by the surgeon in charge, who seemed to vie with each
other in offering them every facility for their charitable ministrations.
Of late, however, all the sick have been sent to the 3rd
This change, is said to have been made by the surgeon in charge without
assigning any reason for so doing, without having heretofore intimated any
objection to the mode or manner in which these gratuities were dispensed.
Those who have any sympathy for the men who are now lying upon the hard
bed of sickness as the forfeit of their exposure in the defence of our rights,
should visit the hospital as often as they can, and judge for themselves whether
the sick are supplied with food prepared in such manner as to promote appetite
instead of exciting disgtust [sic]; whether it is wise or humane to deny these
sufferers the little privilege of receiving from the hands of the good Samaritan
such things as they may relish; whether this is the time to throw obstacles in
the way of disinterested ladies who are striving to allay the pangs of our noble
soldiers by taking the place, as far as may be of their mothers and sisters.
Citizen.
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Wanted to Hire—Two active and industrious Irish Girls and three half
grown Negro Boys for house work. Wages
liberal.
Wm. H. Doughty,
Surg’n in charge.
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Smokers, Ahoy!
10,000 lbs., of Mayo’s celebrated “Pickwick Club” in one pound
packages. This Tobacco is superior to all other brands now made, except the
“Lone Jack” and is but little inferior to that.
For sale by
H. T. Greenwood,
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Camille”
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$50 Reward.
Will be paid for the apprehension and delivery in any jail, so that I can
get her, of the following described Negro Girl:
She is about 14 years old, yellow complexion; the nail of her fore-finger
off on the right hand. She took with
her one white homespun, one red calico, and one worsted dress, and, also, a
Palmetto hat. Her name is
Address me at
E. R. Lassiter.
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To Shoemakers
and Leather
Finishers.
One Hundred good Shoemakers and Ten Leather Finishers and Curriers can
find employment in the Government Shoe Factory under my charge at this Post.
Parties who have been heretofore exempted from military duty by reasons
of their being engaged at these trades are reminded that they must now serve
their country either in the field or workshop.
None but good Mechanics need apply.
C. W. Cunningham,
Major and Quartermaster.
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Candles.
50 Boxes superior Tallow Candles, made with nitric acid, and will keep
hard during the Summer. They are
wicked line, a sperm candle require no snuffing.
They are of my own manufacture, and are warranted superior to any ever
offered in this market.
H. T. Greenwood
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Our New Dress.
The Constitutionalist appears before its readers this morning in a new
dress and an enlarged form which improvements, we sincerely hope, will
compensate in a measure, for our shortcomings in the past, and be received as an
earnest of our intentions to furnish our subscribers with a first-class daily
newspaper.
This outfit has been procured at a heavy outlay and in conjunction with
the increased expense attending the publication of a daily paper, we are
compelled to advance our terms of subscription, to which we invite the attention
of our subscribers. We shall spare
neither labor nor expense to make the Constitutionalist worthy of the liberal
patronage which it has so long enjoyed. Thankful
for past patronage we earnestly solicit a continuance of the same.
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A Capture.—While our friend M. was on guard at the Academy Hospital, a
few nights since, he discovered an individual attempting to escape in the
darkness of the night, and being determined not to allow any of the Yankee
prisoners in the Hospital to escape, of course, halted the individual, who gave
a kind of grunt in reply, which one of the Sentinels near by avers sounded very
much like “Mack!” With this
reply our military friend was not at all satisfied as the password was anything
but “Mack;” and thinking the fellow was “playing possum,” called the
Corporal of the Guard, who being Corporal of a Company de jure, had the individual attempting to escape placed under arrest in the
Grand Jury Room. He was fat
and sleek, and very defiant, showing his teeth and growling at those who came
near him.
It may be proper to add that the prisoner referred to was a young Possum,
which, by chance of some kind or other, had got into the
When our friend M. was asked how he caught the creature, he replied:
“I cannot say, like Cæsar of old, ‘Veni!
Vidi! Vici!’ but being a
modern Seizer, I can say “Possum! Posse!
Potui!—I went! I saw him!
I cotched him!” Somebody
has probably put the Possum in the Potui by this time, and, with a Posse of good
eaters, put him out of the reach of the bayonets and bullets of our lynx-eyed
sentinels.
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Mercantile Changes
on
For the information of our Augusta Soldiers in the Army, many of whom
have not been home for some time, we have taken an inventory of the changes in
and about
We will suppose that we are taking a walk up Broad Street, starting from
the Lower Market, on the South side; and observing a lot of Beef and Pork
hanging about a couple of doors just below Centre St., we are asked:
“who keeps there?” The
first is Boatwright, Beef and Pork Shop, at Togneri’s old stand; and the other
is J. V. Clark’s People’s Market, between the Grocery stores of H. T. Peay
and D. Stelling. At both of these
Shops meat can be obtained during and after market hours.
Crossing
B. H. Broadnax’s Store is closed, for it is now used as a store room
for the Government Clothing Bureau.
Meister & Meyers, Cigar Manufacturers and Dealers in tobacco are
located at Girardey’s old Exchange Bar Room, and do a thriving business in the
smoking and chewing line.
Mrs. Rigdon has taken Cohne’s store, and sells Fancy goods.
Miss M. Murphy has a Millinery Establishment at Mrs. Tweedy’s former
store, at the corner of Broad and Monument Streets; while Mrs. Tweedy has
removed her Millinery establishment further up the street, nearly opposite the
Southern States Hotel.
At E. T. Murphey’s old stand, corner of Broad and Washington Streets,
is the Augusta Purveying Association, an institution originated at the
suggestion of Hon. R. H. May, Mayor of the City, and assisted by some of our
principal Capitalists, where the poor and the families of soldiers in the County
are allowed to purchase provisions and homespun at cost prices.
Crossing
The large sign “Balzeau,” opposite our office, denotes the location
of Balzeau’s Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon, with a side gate, where ladies
and children can get their heads dressed in the “highest style of the art,
regardless of expense.” This was
formerly Mrs. O’Connor’s Millinery Establishment, but she has removed to
Henry Daly’s store; while Mr. Daly has removed to Wright & Alexander’s
store, under the Globe Hotel; and in the same store with Mr. Daly, B. H. Brodnax
has opened an Exchange Office.
Next to Balzeau’s is the “French Store” of L. Guerin & Co.,
formerly V. La Taste—the “Goober-natorial candidate,” who is always au
fait at a good joke or the cultivation of turnips and cabbage.
Messrs. Guerin &
M. Mantoue has recently opened a Cigar and Tobacco store at Sumerau’s
old stand, next to the French store and opposite Volger’s Cigar and Tobacco
store.
Next to this is P. Hansberger’s Cigar and Tobacco store, under the
Washington Hall, corner of Broad and McIntosh streets; the upper part of the
building being occupied by J. T. Paterson’s Lithographing and Job Printing
establishment.
Crossing
Next, we come to J. J. Broom’s store, above the Southern States Hotel,
where we find Messrs. C. D. Carr and E. Q. Bell, dealers in Dry Goods and other
articles.
At the store formerly occupied by H. J. Osborne, is the Jewelry Store of
Messrs. Spencer & Teague,
occupied also by C. C. Drake, as a Dry Goods and Fancy store; while Mr. Osborne
has removed next to J. Strom’s Jewelry store on
Crossing
On
Coming back to
Chamberlain, Isaacs & Co., General Commission Merchants, at
Carmichael & Bean’s, do a large business.
At Alexander & Wright’s, we notice the sign of B. Phillips, Agent
of the Georgia Salt Manufacturing Company.
At Eli Mustin’s Crockery store, R. H. Forrester has for sale a large
stock of Dry Goods and Fancy Articles.
At F. Holman’s Crockery store, E. B. Long has for sale Dry Goods,
Shoes, and Fancy Articles, in great variety.
J. Leiper sells Dry Goods, Shoes, and other Articles, at Lamback &
Cooper’s Confectionery store; while up stairs, in Clara’s Hall, is the
office of Col. Rains, Commandant of the Post.
Crossing
A short distance above this, is C. F. Heusler’s Eating Saloon and Cigar
store, where one can stop to rest, take a bite or two, if he has money to pay
for it, and smoke a cigar. Having
thus rested and refreshed himself one can look around on
Near by is the Dry Goods and Fancy store of John Greer.
The new Auction store of Messrs. Milner, Neblett & Crews, can also be
looked into.
The familiar sign of Wm. H. Tutt, Drug store, it will be seen has taken
the place of Spears & Hight.
H. A. Byrd has a Shoe store above this.
And at the corner of
Crossing here to the North side of
F. Petit’s Grocery store just above
S. A. Rains’ Grocery store at the corner of Broad and
Office of Maj. Winnemore, next to A. Stevens’ Grocery store.
Fleming & Robinson, Grocery and Commission Merchants, formerly
Fleming & Rowland. The latter,
our old friend Charlie, has gone to the wars “where the dirthy fighting’s
done,” and has our best wishes for his safety and speedy return home.
V. Richards & Bro., Dry Goods and Fancy Articles in great variety
next store below Bones & Brown’s Hardware store.
Penton & Casey, at C. A. William’s old stand, Commission Merchants,
Dealers in Tobacco, and Agents for Virginia and North Carolina Tobacco.
C. V. Walker, Pollard & Cox is the new Auction House firm at Benjamin
& Goodrich’s stand—young gentlemen who have but recently “hung out
their banners upon the outer wall,” and bid fair to do well.
T. H. Walker, Dry Goods and Fancy Articles, opposite LaFayette Hall.
At the corner of Broad and Jackson streets, is the Auction House and
Commission store of C. B. Day, well and popularly known as Charlie, of the
Clinch Rifles, and of the 5th Georgia Regiment.
Churchill & Johnston, next to Henry Moore’s Hardware store, Dealers
in Dry Goods, Shoes and Fancy Articles, doing a large business in their line.
John Kenny’s Tailoring Establishment is at Catlin’s Music store.
Blackmar, formerly Blackmar & Bros., Book and Music publishers,
between the Georgia Railroad Bank and the Bank of Augusta, formerly James
Heney’s Dry Goods and Millenery [sic] Establishment.
The latest Confederate Music and other publications can be obtained here.
Mrs. Heney’s Millinery establishment is located higher up the street on
the same side. The upper part of
Blackmar’s store is occupied by the office of Captain Parker, Provost Marshal,
and by the
Crossing
At the upper store of J. & T. A. Bones is the Depository of the
Confederate States Bible Society.
Neal & Swords, Dealers in Tobacco of all kinds and qualities, are
located at the store formerly occupied by E. Mustin & Co., just below J.
& T. A. Bones’ Hardware store.
L. Gambill’s Exchange office is at Leckie’s Umbrella stand, near
the Express Office, while Mr. Leckie has removed to the corner of Ellis &
Monument streets.
Passing the Express Office, is the Government Clothing Bureau, under the
A few doors below is the Tobacco & Commission store of George H.
Crump & Co—where Tobacco, Dry Goods, and Shoes, and other articles can be
obtained.
The Express Company have a second office in E. J. Sibley’s store,
corner of Broad and Washington streets.
On the opposite lower corner, at Edward Gallaher’s old stand, is the
office of the Commissary of the Post—Capt. Henry Cranston, a very popular
resort for hungry soldiers on the arrival of the daily trains.
Next door is the firm of Flatau & Waterman, Cap Manufactures, and
dealers in Dry Goods and other articles.
The store of Wm. V. Ker & Co., Auctioneers is located a few doors
below, at the Barber shop stand.
As we have noticed all the other Auction Stores it may be proper to
mention that Messrs. W. B.
We believe that we have thus chronicled all the principal changes in
business in our city.—If we have omitted any it is unintentional and
unavoidable on account of the large number.
Several of the new firms are refugees from other cities and States either
in the hands of or closely pressed by the Yankees, and all are doing well.
We may have omitted to mention some of the firms as Commission Merchants,
but we have given the style of business in which they are engaged, and written
enough, at any rate, to keep the boys amused for an hour or so in studying out
the locations of these changes, and commenting upon the different appearance of
Broad street compared with what it was a few years since, on account of the new
signs and the new business firms. If
we have succeeded in this effort to give them a little recreation in reflecting
upon this hurriedly drawn panorama of “home, sweet home,” we shall be repaid
for the trouble which we have taken to spread it before them.
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[Communicated.]
Agusta [sic],
Mr. Editor.—I am truly gratified to have it in my power to make the
following statement. The Surgeon in
charge of the 3rd Ga. Hospital has had the kindness to call upon me
for the purpose of informing me that the order recently issued by him and of
which I complain in my communication in this mornings Constitutionalist, were
issued in conformity with his instructions from the War Department; that it is
not his desire to deprive the sick of the articles of diet brought by the
ladies; and that he will see that the ladies be not prevented in the future from
distributing nourishments in person to the sick soldiers.
I am authorized by the Surgeon to make known that he will be happy to
have the ladies continue their kind offices as heretofore, with the simple
proviso that they give the sick no other aliment than that perscribed [sic] by
the attending physician.—The diet for each patient is prescribed in writing
and fixed to the head of the bead [sic], so that there can be no difficulty in
carrying out the instructions.
It is to be hoped now that all who can contribute something to the
comfort of the sick will feel no backwardness in doing so either personally or
by proxy. Nothing is more consoling
to a poor sick soldier far away from his friends than the manifestation of
interest in his fate by the discreet and benevolent women of the community in
which he may be thrown. He feels
then that although in the midst of strangers he is not friendless, and that if
he has any favors to ask or any tears to shed, he need be neither afraid nor
ashamed, for women will be there to listen and to sympathize.
Citizen.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Camille”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Hunchback;” “Slasher and Crasher”
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Summary: Annual
meeting of the Press Association of the Confederate States; representatives of
the Columbia South Carolinian, Macon Telegraph, Augusta Constitutionalist,
Atlanta Southern Confederacy, Mobile Advertiser & Register, Augusta
Chronicle & Sentinel, Atlanta Intelligencer present; Raleigh Progress by
proxy.
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“The Soldier’s Suit of Grey.”—This is the title of a piece of
sheet music just published by Blackmar & Bro., from the Lithographic
Department of our enterprising neighbors, Patterson & Co.
The words are by Carrie B. Sinclair, and the music by E. Clarke
Ilsley—one of the most scientific musicians in the South.
The piece is neatly and tastefully executed, and will, doubtless, be
popular with the ladies.
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A monument is to be erected by the Jews to the memory of Ezra, the
scribe, the great restorer of their sacred writing.
His tomb, in which his body has now rested for nearly two thousand years,
stands in the desert near the confluence of the Tigris, and the
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Richelieu”; “John Jones”
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Cotton Yarns.
12 Bales Cotton Yarns, for sale by
Estes & Clark.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Wife;” “
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Mutual Supply Association.
The following named Stockholders are entitled to a cord of wood each upon
the payment of twenty-five dollars. Mr.
J. Scully will deliver the wood upon receipt of the money, at the Georgia
Railroad yard, on
By order of
J. W. Horton, President.
[list]
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We publish with pleasure the correspondence between Major V. J. B.
Girardey in command of the Augusta Arsenal Battalion and Dr. Paul F. Eve,
Surgeon in Charge of this Post. The
sentiments which animates both of these meritorious officers in paying tribute
and attention to such of the gallant ones as may fall victims either to disease
or wounds, reflects the highest credit on them.
And we say all honor to them for inaugurating in our midst an act of
Christian and soldierly sympathy:
Headquarters Augusta Arsenal Battalion,}
March 29, 1864.}
Dr. P. F. Eve, Surgeon in Charge of Post:
Sir—I have observed upon more than one occasion, in passing the
Hospitals of the Post, the remains of soldiers carried to the Graveyard without
a single attendant or escort except the hearseman.
I cannot resist the impulse of calling your attention to this sad fact,
and expressing my regret that the demands of the moment should impose an
unmindfulness of the courtesies and considerations due the gallant dead; and a
neglect most cruel and unnatural toward these braves who die from disease
contracted in camp or from wounds received on the field of battle.
Is it because men are strangers, far away from friends and family, that
we should allow them to be taken with so little ostentation to their last
resting place? Men who sacrifice
life in defence of country are never “strangers;” and soldiers who fight and
suffer for a common cause are brothers and should be treated accordingly.
Have not our battles been fought and won by the noble privates?
Why then should not a proper regard be shown them as well as their
officers?
I know, sir, that you, nor the surgeon in charge of hospitals, are
responsible for this condition of things, and in calling your attention to what
I consider an act of inconsiderate injustice, it is with the view of enlisting
your interests to change this callousness that has grown too habitual.
If you will direct your surgeons in charge of hospitals to give me notice
when the corpse of soldiers will be ready for interment, upon the receipt of
such notice I shall cheerfully co-operate with you, and order an appropriate
escort from my Battalion, and as long as this brotherly attention can be
extended and performed I will engage to do it.
With consideration of high regard,
I remain, very respectfully,
Your obedient serv’t,
V. J. B. Girardey,
Com’dg Bat.
Post Surgeon’s
Office, }
Sir: The Surgeon of the Post
respectfully returns to Maj. Girardey his sincere thanks for his kind offer
communicated this morning, and informs him that notice of it was promptly issued
to the Surgeons in charge of the hospitals of the city.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’dt serv’t,
Paul F. Eve,
Post Surgeon.
Maj. V. J. B. Girardey, Com’dg
Batt.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Time Tries All”; song “The Valiant Conscript;” “Crossing the
Line”
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Youthful Heroes.—The patriotic ardor with which the youth of the South
is imbued has never been equalled [sic] certainly not surpassed by the same
class in any age or country. When
the tocsin of war first resounded throughout our broad beautiful land, the
Southern youth, as if by magic, sprang forth, with willing, cheerful hearts, in
response to the call of their beloved country.
From the mountains and the vallies [sic], from the fertile broad
savannas, from the hills and sea washed shore the good, the brave, the noble,
the hightoned, the impulsive, and the chivalrous sons of the South rushed into
the bloody arena to grapple with the scum of Northern and European society—the
base hirelings of baser and more deproved [sic] masters—for the liberty, the
honor, the glory and rights which a grasping, unprincipled and tyranical [sic]
despot would trample in the dust.
Well and nobly have they performed their duty.
For three long years with heroic endurance and Spartan courage, have they
continued the conflict and bore off the palm from the overwhelming forces of the
blatant baffled enemy. The same fire
which first glowed in their youthful bosoms still burns with a more intense
ardor.
The lapse of three years of savage, brutal warfare on the part of the
Abolitionists, has but served to add fuel to a fire which now blazes with a
steady, brilliant flame, the effulgence of which shall never be extinguished,
although it may be obscured by a passing cloud, until the last armed foe is
driven from off our soil, and our country occupies that position among the
nations of the earth to which she is already justly entitled.
such is the spirit which animates all classes, old and young, rich and
poor, high and low in the armies of the South, and such a spirit is
unconquerable, no matter how superior the resources and numbers of the enemy.
The foregoing remarks were called forth upon hearing the particulars of
an expedition undertaken near this city by a party of juvenile soldiers with a
view to make their way to
The quartette who had assembled according to agreement, determined not to
be foiled in their cherished undertaking, mounted their steeds—a donkey, a
shetland poney [sic], and two horses—took a last, long, lingering look at the
scenes of their childhood, turned their backs upon their homes, and took up
their line of march. At ten
o’clock that night they halted near Berzelia, and encamped, having marched
twenty miles.
When it became known that the party had absconded, one of their relatives
took the train that night. On
arriving at Berzelia, in company with a friend, he started in pursuit, and after
searching about for some time, came suddenly upon the camp, was challenged by
the sentinel pacing his rounds, ordered to advance and give the countersign,
whereupon, without further parley, both gentlemen advanced upon the guard, took
him prisoner, surprised the entire party, capturing four prisoners, together
with all their stores, and brought them back in safety to this city, where they
all arrived at an early hour on Saturday morning, much fatigued after their
brief but romantic campaign.
When asked, by some person who met them on their march after starting
out, where they proposed going, they replied:
“Going to fight for our country, since some of those who are at home
and ought to be in the field are evading their duty under one pretext or
another.”
Whilst we cannot approve of the conduct of those lads in leaving home, we
admire and commend the noble spirit which actuated them.
They are heroes in embryo, and will one day, we hope, render valuable
service to their country. With such a spirit pervading the rising generation,
the subjugation of the South can never be accomplished until the grave closes
over the last of her children.
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A Great Cotton Factory.—The Augusta Factory, which William E. Jackson
is President, has far outstripped its rivals in the magnitude of its numerous
and princely donations. The
aggregate of what it has given to our cause would amount to many millions of
dollars. Many fortunes have been
profusely bestowed upon the poor and destitute; and its aid towards our
Government has not been equalled by any factory in the Confederate States.
The President of this company is a
They furnish to the Augusta Purveying Association 8,000 yards of cotton
cloth, weekly, since 1862; to the State Quartermaster, 10,000 yards per week; to
the C. s. Government, (of which Col. Rains is at the head,) 10,000 yards, for
cartridge;s [sic] the Georgia Relief Association, 5,000 per week, Maj. J. T.
Winemore, the C. S. Quartermaster, 70,000 per week; many bales to counties and
individuals as far west as Mississippi, and as far North as Virginia, and
thousands of pieces to the people of its own glourious [sic] State.
For the families of soldiers and the poor of
On on,
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A Patriotic Planter.—David Dickson, of Hancock county,
Messrs. Orme & Son.—Dear Sirs:
I had from eight to ten families living on my land, at the time the war
commenced, and all the families whose husbands and sons left for the war, I
placed free of rent. I will give you
an account of two ladies whose husband left for the war, both of them had been
raised to labor in the field.
Mrs. Cobb lives on a place that cost me three thousand five hundred
dollars, at $5 per acre, for the last two years.
She has done the whole farm work, ploughing, burning logs, carting,
&c. She has six small childred
[sic] unable to work. Last fall I
met Mrs. Cobb at a Cotton Factory with five hundred and forty-five dollars worth
of bacon and lard at the
Mrs. Meeks lives on a place of mine, very poor, containing one hundred
acres, which cost me $4 per acre. Last
fall she had bacon to sell to soldiers’ wives at one dollar per pound, when
the price in
Since the war, to all the families on my land, up to this fall, I sold
corn at $1 per bushel.—This year I sell bread corn at $1 per bushel, and $2
for corn to feed hogs with. These
two ladies will pay from five to seven hundred dollars in tithes to the
Government—all of their labor of 1863. That
is, if soldiers wives pay tithes.
David Dickson.
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Cotton Cards,
450 Pair No. 1 Cotton Cards for sale at reduced price, by
Geo. R. Crump & Co.,
Under
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$50 Reward.
Ranaway from the subscriber, on Monday, the 10th,
my negro man Charles. Said negro is
about 5 feet, 5 inches high, black complexion, teeth good and a little apart.
He had on a suit of purple-dyed homespun when he left, and usually wears
a slouch felt hat, considerably worn.
I will give the above reward for his apprehension and delivery in any
jail so I can get him.—
Address
H. A. Merry.
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Garden Seeds for the Soldiers of the 63d.
The friends of soldiers, and especially of all connected with the 63d
Georgia Regiment, will feel an interest in the card of Major Allen, published in
this morning’s paper. The
proposition is one of a highly laudable character, and should meet with the
encouragement which it so richly deserves. Let
all our citizens who have garden seeds to spare, see to it that the garden of
the 63d
Headq’rs 63d Georgia Regiment,}
Thunderbolt
Desirous of promoting the health of this Regiment by securing for its
use, during the approaching warm season, a supply of vegetables, it has been
determined to establish a
I therefore solicit contributions of seed from our friends, such as okara
[sic], tomattoes [sic], Irish and sweet potatoes, peas, and others in their
possession, and trust that this appeal may meet with a prompt response, as the
time for planting will soon have passed.
All contributions may be left at rooms of the Georgia Relief Association
in
J. V. H. Allen,
Major Commanding.
Chronicle & Sentinel please copy.
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A preacher made the following distinction in the definition of the two
words “coquette” and “flirt.” “A
flirt is a creature with a heart, but without brains; a coquette is a creature
with brains, but without a heart.”
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Seduction.—On Wednesday last James Mann, was found guilty, by the
It appears that this man had betrothed himself to one Miss Hamilton, a
respectable young lady of this city, and in August last succeeded in taking
advantage of her affection for him, and seduced the girl.
She shortly after became pregnant, and under pretence that he would
repair the injury he had done by marrying her, Mann commenced fitting up a house
in this city. Before he had
completed his arrangements, the unfortunate girl learned that he was betrothed
to another young lady, whom he afterwards married.
She immediately had him arrested on the charge of seduction, and he was
tried before the Superior Court, at the session held this week in
It is said that Mann displayed great feeling when the verdict was
rendered, and wept bitterly. But we
do not believe it was from remorse for what he had done.
It was for the punishment he had to receive.
No thought of the poor girl he had ruined, entered his mind.
She is now and [sic] outcast from society.
The finger of scorn is pointed at her as the seduced, and her family must
bear a stigma on their names. Her
head must forever be bowed down in shame, when other an [sic] more virtuous
woman [sic] pass her by. Her whole
life must be one of penitence for the crime he has committed against society in
yielding to the wishes of a villian [sic]. This
is the fate to which he has doomed her, and as we think of his crime, the
punishment he will receive appears inadequate.
No act of his, in after years, can remove the stain he has placed upon
her fair fame. Virtue, that jewel of
priceless value, once lost, can never be restored, but must ever leave a scar
upon all that is good and beautiful in women.
No matter how faultlessly love the form and features of a woman may be,
when her virtue is gone, she appears hideous to the eyes of all but the debased
and shameless.
This is what man has reduced her to.
But no more on the subject. On
yesterday he received his sentence, and will shortly be sent to the
penitentiary, with hard labor to expiate, although but in a small degree, the
heinous crime he has committed; while she, the victim of his unhallowed passion
will return to her home, and there weep, with sorrow and shame, over the loss of
that virtue she can never more possess.
We learn that a motion for a new trial will be made in this case, but the
guilt of Mann appears so plain, that we do not apprehend any change in the
verdict, if the new trial is even granted.—Atlanta Intelligencer.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Honeymoon;” “The Dead Shot”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Fazio;” “Slasher and Crasher”
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A Worthy Example.—A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury says that
the inhabitants of Social Hill, S. C., have received the refugees from
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A Snow Fight on a Large Scale.—A young officer in Gen. Lee’s army,
writing to his father in the city, gives the following account of the passtime
[sic] of the gallant boys of the army of Virginia:
Camp of the 1st Virginia Battalion,}
April 8th, 1864.}
Since the date of my last we have had two severe snow storms, which have
put the roads in a horrible condition. The
soldiers seem to enjoy the snow exceedingly; for, as soon as it covers the
earth, they commence snow-balling—first a company, then a regiment, and,
finally, an entire brigade. During
the last deep snow I had the pleasure of witnessing one of these sham-battles;
it came off between Gens. Johnson’s and Rhodes’ divisions, and it was really
amusing to see how they would fight for their ground.
They were led on by their officers. Gen.
Johnson commanded his division and Brig. Gen. ------- that of
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Richelieu”; “
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New Publication.—Blackmar & Bro. have placed us in possession of
copies of the “Jack Morgan Songster,” containing a number of popular songs,
and the “Washington Artillery Polka,” a piece of sheet music, arranged by A.
E. Blackmar.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Macbeth! with Locke’s Original Music”
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Brooms, Seeds, &c.
Brooms—A Fine
Snap Beans—Two Varieties.
Indigo Seed—Fresh, 1863.
Sorgho or Chinese Sugar Cane Seed, the choicest kind, in
large packages.
Also,
A general assortment of seasonable seeds.
For sale by
C. N. Frost & Co.,
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We, the Grand Jurors sworn, chosen and selected for the first week, April
term, 1864, beg leave to submit the following presentments:
. . .
The number of children returned for the
All the teachers employed in the schools of the county entitled to the
benefits of the Poor School Fund have received certificates of competency in
terms of the law. These teachers are
subjected to certain rules, which have been devised for the government of the
schools under their charge, and are held strictly accountable for every
infraction brought to the notice of the Board.
On the 26th of October, 1863, the annual report for the year
1863 was sent to the Governor, in accordance with his instructions.
The pay for teachers for the latter portion of the year 1863 was eight
cents per day for each scholar who actually attended the schools.
This rate has been increased to ten cents per day.
Taking into consideration the high prices of all articles of absolute
necessity, the extreme difficulty which persons once in comfortable
circumstances find in procuring the means of subsistence, the increased rate now
paid is still far short of what the teachers of poor schools have a right to
expect from the justice to whom is delegated the management of educational
affairs. But the demands of the
country, in its present emergency, upon the tax payers are so great, that it is
necessary that the greatest economy should be exercised in every department of
the public business. Although no
taxation would be more cheerfully submitted to than that which is designed for
the advantage of poor children, who can only look to wise legislation and
enlarged liberality for the education their immediate relatives and friends are
unable to bestow upon them, yet it is proper that the burdens to be borne by the
people should be so distributed as to make them as little onerous as possible.
The condition of the schools of the county will compare favorably with
that of any past period. The
majority of the teachers are persons of experience in their occupation; many of
them have been long engaged, and are energetic and industrious.
Some difficulty has been found in relation to books, which are extremely
scarce, and sold at enormously advanced prices, but it is hoped that this
inconvenience will not long remain without relief.
Notwithstanding the great distress existing in the country, the absorbing
anxieties in relation to the struggle now progressing, and the necessity for
employing all available means for its prosecution, the schools have been kept
steadily in operation, and every exertion has been made to enlarge their
usefulness. Recognizing, to the
fullest extent, the importance of educating to the welfare and prosperity of a
people who live under a republican form of government, and the controlling evils
which must result from the exercise of power by the ignorant, the Board have
endeavored, within the limits assigned them by the law, so to discharge the
duties incident to their responsible trust as to advance the cause of knowledge.
David L. Roath, Ordinary.
. . . The number of inmates in the Poorhouse at the present
time are twenty-eight. The number
admitted during the past year at any one time did not exceed thirty-one.
Only two deaths have occurred during the year.
The inmates are tolerably well cared for; some of them are greatly in
need of clothing, and we recommend the necessary clothing be furnished.
The buildings are in a dilapidated condition, and we request the repairs
necessary be immediately made. . .
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Don Cæsar de Bazan;” “The Spectre Bridegroom”
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Mortality Among Yankee Prisoners.—The Columbus Enquirer says that if
some arrangement for the exchange of prisoners is not speedily effected, the
Confederacy will derive but little benefit from it.
A few days ago, while the cars were at
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A
As a part of the machinery lately introduced into this town, we may
mention an apparatus for knitting, which has just been put up, and is now in
successful operation. It not being
open to general inspection, we have not had the opportunity of witnessing the
working of this machine, but we understand it is a valuable invention for saving
labor, as it will turn out several dozen pairs of stockings per hour.
It is something entirely new in this land.
The Yankees have heretofore worked the machinery for the Southern people,
and no doubt this is one of their machines brought hither to help along the
needles of our good country women of the South.
We may add that we have now in
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Wife;” “Cousin Joe”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Macbeth! with Locke’s
Original Music”
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Cotton Yarns.
20 Bales Cotton Yarns, for sale by
Estes & Clark.
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A Lawless Proceeding.—Yesterday forenoon a combination of women,
numbering from fifty to one hundred, suddenly appeared at the grocery store of
Er. [sic] A. F. Mira, on
The same party also went to the store of Mr. William McIntyre, on
The store of Mr. John Gilliland, on the same block, was also visited by
the same party. Here they entered
commenced to help themselves to a small lot of bacon, which was hanging [fold in
paper] of the women helped herself to such an article of bacon as suited her
fancy and then hastily beat a retreat. Mr.
Gilliland was determined that his property should not thus be taken, and
immediately interfered, and succeeded in recovering a portion of it.
Many of the women, however, succeeded in making their escape with their
plunder.
While this proceeding was going on a large concourse of people had
assembled in the vicinity of the stores attacked, and three of the women were
arrested and committed to the guard house. They
will be brought before the Mayor this morning.
Such are the facts of this disgraceful affair, as reported to us.
That the present high prices of provisions have produced distress no one
can doubt, and it is probable that some who participated in the riotous
proceedings of yesterday were goaded to their course by the pressure of want,
but if we are rightly informed many if not the majority of them had not even
that excuse for the commission of acts of lawlessness.
Be this as it may, there can be no necessity or justification for such
acts of outrage and robbery. It is
not generally the truly worthy, deserving poor who resort to such measures, and
those who thus set the laws and public propriety at defiance forfeits the
sympathy of the community. If there
is indeed want and suffering let the sufferers make their condition known in the
right quarter, and a community that has never turned a deaf ear to the appeals
of the helpless and needy will give them relief.
We trust that our city authorities will investigate this matter,
ascertain who they are that truly needs assistance, and take proper steps for
their relief. Such action is not
only due to the wives and children of soldiers in the service, to the helpless
poor, and to the peace and good name of our community, but also to the best
interests of the city. While the mob
spirit should be met with firmness, we should, in these times, act in accordance
with the maxim of “helf [sic] one another.”
Let the turbulent be rebuked, but let not the worthy and law abiding poor
suffer.—Savannah News 20.
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Impressions of a
First Visit to the Capital of
. . . There are many beautiful and attractive residences in
and around
In a limited visit, amidst business engagements, time was not left of
course to see all the attractions of the gay city of
All
During our visit we had the pleasure of meeting with a distinguished and
well informed citizen from
Our visit is at an an [sic] end. We
return home with our love for
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Romeo and Juliet;” “Cousin Joe”
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Suggestion.—If some of the female ladies who travel to and fro on the
Georgia railroad are determined to “chaw” tobacco anyhow, it is to be hoped
that they will do so on the sly. For
decency’s sake, if naught else, ye chewers, grant this request.
The writer hereof has frequent occasion to travel on this line of
locomotion, (in the ladies’ car,) and he does not relish the idea of being
spit all over by female masticators of the nauseous weed.
Snuff-dipping is bad enough, in all conscience; but from a woman spitting
tobacco juice—ministers and grace, defend us!—Reveille.
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More Lawlessness.—We learn from the Savannah News that some days since
a party of women, numbering from twelve to fifteen, went to the Government
warehouse at
In the same neighborhood a number of women entered a store and desired to
purchase cotton yarns. The
proprietor refused to sell for money, but was willing to exchange for bacon.
As the women had no bacon to exchange, they forcibly took all the yarns
in the store.
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The Provision Mob
in
The investigation of the disgraceful emute of Tuesday attracted a
large crowd at the Mayor’s Court yesterday morning.
The first case called was that of Mary Welsh, who was charged with taking
bacon from the store of Mr. John Gilliland, on Market square.
Police officer Meace testified that he had arrested the accused with
bacon in her possession. Several
witnesses identified her as one of the women who entered Mr. G’s store on
Tuesday, and took bacon.—She was turned over to the Magistrate for
prosecution.
Anne
McGlin and Julia McLane were charged with disorderly conduct in the streets. Both
of these women were in the crowd who entered the store and helped themselves to
their contents.
Policeman Dowd and Lieut. Reilly, and Sheriff Cole, were the witnesses
called. It was proven that Mrs.
McClane had taken no part in the proceedings, having been a mere spectator.
She was discharged. Mrs.
McGlinn, when arrested, had a small quantity of rice in her possession, which
she said had been given her by Mr. McIntire.
No one
appearing to prosecute them, and as there was no evidence that they had
committed an offence, the Mayor, in consideration that they were the wives of
soldiers in the army, and having been confined all night in the guard house,
discharged them from custody. Each
of these women had from two to three children, and as no evidence of any guilt
had been proven against them, the Mayor warned them against the illegal
proceedings of the previous day, and stated that as all of those who had
appeared before him had been receiving support from the Justices of the Inferior
Court, in food, wood, money, &c., as he was determined to punish all who
violated the laws, and their names should be stricken from the books of the
Court. The laws, he said, must be
sustained at all hazards, and at every sacrifice.
The occurrence of yesterday was disgraceful to the city.
That there was great distress among the poor of the city, as he well
knew, but no circumstances could justily [sic?] resort to riots and attempts at
robbery. Nor must the impression be
allowed to prevail that provision for the needy had not been made for the needy.
Since
his coming into office in October last, between twenty and thirty thousand
dollars had been appropriated by council to purchase provisions and fuel for
gratuitous distribution amongst the poor.
Aid has also been furnished by the State, and private charity has
contributed generously. A recourse
to such action as going about in crowds as done yesterday, was uncalled for and
unjustifiable. If persisted in, they
would lead to the most serious, and perhaps, fatal consequences, and he was
determined to put them down, if the arm of the law could reach the perpetrators.
When woman trampled upon law she forfeited those privileges as woman,
they become criminals, and as such, they should be treated, if any were brought
before him.
He called upon all good citizens within the sound of his voice to frown
down all such attempts at riot and to aid the loyal authorities in promptly
repressing them.
Mr. Welsh, the husband of the female alluded to above, has been in the
Confederate navy since the commencement of the war, and has always borne a good
character as a citizen and a soldier. In
consequence of this and other considerations, Mr. Gilliland has resolved not to
prosecute. As the matter was thus
terminated without a prosecution, we trust that we will never again be called
upon to chronicle an event so disgraceful to our city.
As the liberality of our citizens has ever been profuse and unstinted
when called upon by the really deserving, so should her fame be unblemished by
internal disorder.—Savannah News.
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[From the
Remarks of Judge
Bigham on Sentencing James Mann for Seduction.
In Superior Court at Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia.
The State }
vs.
} Seduction—sentence of the Court.
James Mann,}
You have been indicted for the crime of seduction.
After a patient and impartial trial the Jury has brought in against you,
a verdict of guilty.
Your crime is such an one that no true hearted man can contemplate it
without feelings of unutterable scorn. Society
looks upon it with alarm, and, throughout all of its home circles, trembles, and
shudders at its commission. He
who commits it is guilty of treason against all those mild affections which give
charm to and make up the sum of domestic felicity.
The seducer is worse than the robber.
The robber has the courage to encounter resistance.
He makes his cowardly attack upon unprotected female weakness.
The seducer is worse than the thief.
The thief steals perishable goods. He
steals happiness and character; yea, he steals the crown of female loveliness,
which is virtue, and then tries to conceal the turpitude of his foul act in the
more perfect ruin of his victim, by slander.
The seducer is worse than the poisoner.
The poisoner plys [sic] his black art to destroy physical life.
He puts his woful [sic] chalice to the lips of the spirit and with
fiendish atrocity; by false pretences of affection and protestations of
devotion, allures a tender and delicate, but [fold in paper]
Thus he adulterates life stream, and corrupts the cup of human joy.
Obtaining possession of one of the fair daughters of the State by false
pretences, he immolates her upon the altar of passion, and there heartlessly
abandons her to the rude blasts of contempt and misfortune.
In these general remarks, I have faintly summed up the measures of your
iniquity. The evidence in this case
discloses that when you came to
You insinuated yourself into this circle; betrayed the confidence of of
[sic] the mother, and won the affections of the poor girl whom you have
despoiled of her chastity by systematically shaping your conduct in such way as
best seemed to answer your mean purposes. At
one time you would accompany her to a public ball, at other times to parties
church, where the presence of ladies and gentlemen, engaged in honorable
attentions to each other, it would seem, ought to have rebuked your evil designs
and exercised the foul devil that prompted you to plot against this orphan.
All the time you wreathed your countenance in smiles of tenderness.
Yes, you “smiled and smiled, and still you were a villain.”
You stole the language of lovers sacredly dedicated to pure and
commendable affection, and prostituted it on the execrable altar of your lusts.
Thus did you deceive this confiding female into affection for you.
Thus did you beguile her into believing you were wooing her to the
marriage bed, while, all the time, you were wooning [sic] her to the bed of ruin
and degradation. When we consider
that your act has consigned her to a life of disgrace or of penitence, the
sentence of the law which I am now about to pronounce on you, will not appear
severe. I, at least, hope the
example may deter others from the commission of this crime.
Those who do commit it are felons at heart and I rejoice that our law so
regards them.
The old English rule left parties exclusively to seek a remedy for
seduction in suits for damages, as if virtue stolen could be compensated for in
filthy lucre; but now in Georgia the injured party may have her redress as
formerly under that law, and society has a punishment prepared for the injury
done to public peace, decorum and good morals.
Under any view of this beneficent law it only remains for me to say, that
in all cases that may be brought before me where the parties have been found
guilty upon fair trial, no matter what the station in life of the party may be,
be it high or low, in civil or in military life, I shall, without fear, favor or
affection, enforce judgment to the full extent and limit of the law.
The high character of my colleagues on the bench in
The Judge then proceeded to sentence the prisoner to the Penitentiary,
for the full space and term of twenty years.
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Criticism on Prayer.—The following resolution was introduced in the
Yankee Senate a few days ago by Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware:
Resolved, That the Chaplain of the Senate be respectfully requested
hereafter to pray and supplicate Almighty God in our behalf, and not to lecture
Him, informing Him, under pretense of prayer, his, said Chaplain’s, opinion in
reference to His duty, as Almighty, and that the said Chaplain be further
requested, as aforesaid, not, under the form of prayer, to lecture the Senate in
relation to questions before the body.
Mr. Howard objected to the resolution, and the Senate went into Executive
session.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Romeo and Juliet;” “Marry Our Landlady”
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New Music.—We have been favored by our neighbors, Blackmar & Bro.,
with three peices [sic] of neatly arranged sheet music, “I Cannot Forget
Thee,” a ballad as sung by Madame Ruhl composed by Albin Disher;
“Improvisatin” on the favorite melody “Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still”
by Theod Von La Lacke; and the “Washington Artillery March,” arranged by A.
E. Blackmar.
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The Prison on
Under this head the Louisville Journal, of the 28th ultimo,
publishes the following lines, written by “Asa Hartz,” the corresdondent
[sic] of the Mobile Tribune. It may
not be amiss to say that “Asa Hartz” is Major McKnight, of Gen. Loring’s
staff:
The full, round morn, in God’s blue bend,
Glides o’er her path so queenly—
Dark shadows creep, fate into light,
And stars look down serenely,
A captive looks out on the scene—
A scene so sad and dreary;
And thinks a weary captive’s thoughts
In prison on
The happy, happy days of youth
Flit by him fast and faster;
The joys which gave no warning note
Of manhood’s dire disaster;
The days when joy, and peaceful homes,
And firesides bright and cheery,
Come back to find him sad and worn,
In prison on
A passing cloud flies o’er the scene,
The light, a moment banished,
Returns again, but now, alas!
The vision bright has vanished.
The happy view of childhood’s throne
Leaves but a picture dreary,
To rest the aching eye upon,
In prison on
How many moons will rise and wane;
How many months will languish—
Ere Peace, the white-winged angel, comes
To soothe a nation’s anguish?
God speed the long’d and pray’d for day,
When lov’d ones, bright and cherry, [sic]
Shall welcome us around the hearth,
From prison on
Asa Hartz.
Johnson’s
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[Correspondence
Augusta Constitutionalist.]
Reflections after
Visiting the Chapel
of Fifth Georgia
Cavalry.
In Bivouac, near Cedar Creek,}
Although our regiment is the vanguard of the army and subject at any
moment to start from their quiet repose, or their daily routine of duty, by the
sound of “boots and saddles,” when every man is required to mount in “hot
haste” and hasten to the field of victory or death; although we are far away
from our homes and all the endearments that there belong, to check the evil and
bring forth the Christian principles of man—and far away from the sweet sound
of the church going bell that vibrates with silver music over hill and dale
throughout our Christian land, where gather together, Sabbath after Sabbath, the
loved ones that are left behind, who pour forth from agonized souls the prayer,
supplicating high heaven for the protection of those far away, and a happy close
of this cruel war; although we are far away from all these—from all that gives
live a zest, and teaches man that there is something in the present worth
cherishing, struggling, and dying for, yet we have not forgotten in whom to
trust or on whose great arm to lean, in this our struggle to break the barriers
that separate us from all we have left behind.—As the soldier stands upon his
post, his eyes search the dim vista, struggling in mental agony to pierce
through the distance that intervenes between him and those far away.
Oh vain the search! No eye
can penetrate! All is blank!
He turns in agony to heaven and supplicates the speedy ending of the war.
Whether upon duty or in the silent repose of the bivouac, he still clings
to the dream of the happy days to come, and earnestly prays to the power above
to cleave the dark veil that intervenes.
Around the bivouac fires at night may be seen, just after tatoo [sic],
the nightly circle gathered together to listen to the eloquent words and
soul-stirring appeals of our Chaplain. Oh,
it does the heart good to see those war-worn men encircled around their camp
fire, while the massive pines loom over their heads in the gloom of the night,
with here and there a bright star twinkling through their boughs, beaming with
the radiant light of heaven on the gladdening scene, to see their eyes sparkling
with the light of joys to come, and their countenances glowing with spiritual
animation, as they listen to the divine words flowing from the eloquent lips of
Rev. D. H. Porter, of Savannah, whose soul seems to be embalmed with the fervid
enthusiasm to which he has stirred his listeners.
Oh cherish, ye men of the battle field, the pure spirit that adorns the
christian brow. Oh twine ye a
wreath—a wreath of glory that will decorate the halls of eternity!
It is not alone by the camp fire that the soldier bends the knee and
pours forth his spirit in prayer; for the Sabbath, at the hour when the Southern
women, the angels of our land, meet in the house of God, [fold in paper] of
prayer, and are listening to the eloquent strains of God’s messenger, or
bending low, pouring forth their supplications in behalf of our beloved land and
its brave defenders; we too meet beneath the massive trees that wave a universal
thanksgiving to nature, and listen to the earnest appeals or kind counsel of our
beloved Chaplain.
On the Sabbath now we will bid the trees and scorching sunshine adieu,
adieu to nature’s temple, where the sunrays pour fervid with the noonday
heat—thanks to the kindness and instrumentality of Lieut. Walton, there has
been erected an extensive chapel, sufficient in area, and comfortable in seats,
to accommodate all who wish to enter within its sacred precincts; it is not
built with the magnificent granduer [sic] and superlative decorations that adorn
some of the temples of God; it is pillared from the pines of the forest, and
roofed from the rails of the field; the altar is somewhat rough in its
structure, but will be made beautiful from the delineations that will flow from
the lips of the occupant, though rough may be the footstool, yet will those
words of love and prayer ascend to the gates of Heaven, and I trust the members
of the 5th Ga. Cavalry will spend many a pleasant and joyous sabbath
within those aisles where those with “Stars” and “Bars,” as well as
those without, are taught to know that they are only mortal men and must answer
for everything done in this life to the Great General above.
He who commands all the armies, and commands upon the principles of
justice, love and mercy.
Invocation.
The horrors of war have gathered afar
Trailing their blood-stains over our land,
The track of the foe leaves misery and woe,
With the musket, the sabre, and brand;
The cry of the murdered arise from their graves,
Then crush ye the tyrant, and never be slaves!
Then kneel by this altar, swear never to falter
While a foeman is trampling the sod;
Place all your trust in a cause that is just,
Guided aright by an All-seeing God.
Strike ye my braves! strike
ye the blow!
Leave the track of your vengeance wherever you go.
Around the camp fire, each night we aspire
As suppliants to the Great Power above;
With Omnipotent Hand, to protect our loved land,
Shielding our homes and the dear ones we love;
In God be our trust; and the last drop of blood
Shall darken the soil where our heroes have stood.
We never will yield, a victorious field
To the insolent and proud vaunting foe;
Then never falter, but here ‘neath this altar,
Together, while all bending low,
In our hearts we will never despair,
But strike for our homes, the loved ones afar,
‘Till peace crown our efforts, and close the dread war.
M.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Honeymoon;” “Marry Our Landlady”
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A Rich Burlesque.
The army correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy indulges in the
following amusing satire upon the system of issuing orders indiscriminately by
many general officers. It was
written by a private soldier; a very happy hit, and will be duly appreciated by
those who, like him, have become well nigh demented trying to “keep the run of
them:”
Headquarters Reserve Brigade,}
February 20th,
1864.
}
[General Orders No. 30,217.]
In view of the numerous orders on the subject of Furloughs from the Army,
Crops and Division Headquarters, and in order the more effectually to guard
against the possibility of any soldier obtaining a furlough or leave of absence,
the following Regulations in reference thereto are published, and will be
strictly observed is [sic] this command:
1st. That “Order
is Heaven’s first law.”
2d. That none are absent or
dessire [sic] to be absent on furlough or otherwise.
3d. That every man in the
Company has re-enlisted for the war, and has signed a pledge to re-enlist for
the same length of time, under the late military law.
4th. That the
applicant has been a “gallant and meritorious soldier,” and has slain at
least seven or eight Yankees in single combat.
Scalps must be forwarded with application, or the certificate of a
Medical Board who saw the same taken in action.
5th. In order that
the above paragraph may be fully carried out and only the meritorious receive
furloughs, a certificate is required that applicant has been chosen by lot.
6th. The number of
barefooted men must be given together with the condition of the camps, and the
number of cases of camp itch.
7th. “The vulgar
fractions of each Company will be aggregated with the extra duty men,” wagon
and ambulances, the square root extracted, and nine wagons out of every ten
furloughed.
II. When a recruit is
furnished, certificate of the mother of recruit must show that he was piously
brought up, that he is not subject to desertion, inclined to cavalry, and that
he is not now, and never has been, a miner or nitre bureau (Family Bible
will in all cases be inclosed [sic] with the application.)
III. In case of officers
applying for leaves of absence, certificate must show.
1st. That
applicant is alive and well, and hope that Colonel George Wm. Brant, A. A. G. is
enjoying the same blessing.
2d. That applicant has never
been tried by General Orders or General Court Marshal.
3d. That he fully and
entirely understands all orders upon furloughs and leaves of absence, as well as
all other orders whatsoever that may have been or will be hereafter issued.
IV. No such plea as a desire
to marry, or attend to important business or to visit a dying wife father or
mother, will be considered. In the
present crisis of our affairs, no person of common patriotism will entertain the
idea of dying, neither will it be allowed. They
must quietly await their turn under General Orders.
V. No application for
furlough or leave of absence will be entertained unless folded according to
form, prescribed in G. O. No. 5, and neatly secured with 6¼ yards red tape.
VI. The following persons are
excluded from the benefits and operations of the foregoing order:
1st. All men who
have been executed under sentence of a court martial.
2d. All married men who have
either visited home or written to their wives within twelve months preceeding
[sic] the battle of Missionary Ridge.
3d. All unmarried men who
have at any time during the period of six months next preceeding [sic] the 18th
of January, 1864, entertained the idea of a matrimonial alliance.
VII. No furloughs or leaves
of absence will be granted in any case whatever.
By order of
Brig. Gen. Vidette,
Jerry Screws, Active Expectant Gen’l
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A battlefield relief association has been formed at
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From the
From the
Trans-Mississippi Department.
We are indebted to Mr. A. Wagner, of
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Marble heart, or the Sculptor’s Dream;” the piece terminating
with a Grand Tableau.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—April 28—“Metamora, The Last of the Wampanoags”
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Seeds! Seeds!! Seeds!!!
Just received at the “Southern Cultivator” Office,
C. N. Frost & Co.
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Broom Corn and Brooms.—As some planters have grown broom corn, it may
not prove amiss to give a few hints about how to make brooms.
The best way is to pull to pieces an old broom; but, as everybody may not
be able to do this, I will give the most important steps.
Procure some strong twine, or string.
Bore a hole in the end of the handle, and make one end of this twine or
string fast either in this hole or any other way; fasten the other end of any
convenient place or object, then holding the handle in the hand, put the brush
closely around the handle, turning the handle and fastening each straw tightly
with the twine. When the straw has
been thus put all around, wind the twine tightly two or three times around it,
cut off the ends or buts [sic] a little above the ring of twine, then wind the
twine obliquely and tightly around the handle, until far enough to put on the
second and last row of straw; put that on like the first or lower row, wind the
twine tightly three or four times around and fasten the end either by a tack
driven through a not [sic] in the twine or by a neat staple.
Then press the broom a few inches below the end of the handle between two
sticks or any other contrivance, pass a couple of bands of twine around it, and
fasten them in places by stitching them through the broom, and the broom will be
finished. Fastening the further end
of the twine to some object and drawing the twine tightly by holding only by the
handle will be found to save the hands from blistering, besides enabling the
twine to be drawn much more tightly.—Southern Cultivator.
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Too Many Babies.—The
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Steam Boiler Explosion.—The steam boiler of
D. Murphy’s paper mills,
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[Correspondence of
the Constitutionalist.]
Letter from
Like the way of a serpent on a rock, the plans of the Government seem
past all finding out.—Many, inclined to grumble at the secrecy enveloping its
designs before their fruition, seem to forget that this reticence, so annoying
to them, is doubly so to the enemy, and, in so far as it leaves the generation
of vipers in ignorance, is of benefit to the cause.
These reflections are suggested by the latest and most startling move of
the powers that be, an inkling of which has, no doubt, ere this, reached you.
This move is the sending away of several of the bureaux of the Government
to the inland cities of the far South. Some
of the bureaux have already almost completed their preparations for their
exodus, and it is understood that orders have been issued to others to hold
themselves in readiness to remove. On
Saturday last, the female employees in the note-signing bureau of the
Treasury, were notified that their department was to be moved to
Among the younger portion of the clerks, or clerkesses, as they
ought perhaps more properly to be called, the prospect of a move, and the
anticipated excitement of a change of scene and society were provocative of much
hilarity. Among the elders, however,
many of whom are refugees entirely dependent upon their salaries and unable,
from many reasons, to leave this city, the news did not meet with so cordial a
reception, and was even, it is said, the cause of not a few tears and not a
little grief. When the pittance now
furnished by the Government to these unfortunate ladies is thus withdrawn from
them, they must inevitably suffer much distress.
It is reported that the places of all who do not go will be filled by new
appointments—said appointments, as the Treasury Solon is said to have
determined, to be made entirely from the State of South Carolina—all
applicants from other localities to be overslaughed
in the most wholesale manner. In
addition is the removal of this bureau, the offices of the First and Second
Auditors and that of the Comptroller are, also, to be sent away.
The preparations in the Second Auditor’s are almost completed, and it
will probably start some time during the coming week for its new quarters in
What other removals are in contemplation are unknown, though the Cabinet
were in session to-day on the expediency of sending off several other bureaux,
the President and General Bragg being much in favor of the step. . . .
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The Great Barbecue.
Since the reception of the Palmetto regiment on its return from
The place was happily chosen, the grounds of the Eastern Asylum affording
ample room for the immense assemblage. The
soldiers were escorted to the grounds by the fine corps of Arsenal Cadets, under
Captain Thomas. In the centre of the
grounds a staging, over which floated the beautiful banner presented to the
Hampton Legion by the ladies of
The speaking being now over, the ample barbecue was spread, and the
soldiers did their duty there as faithfully as they have always done on the
fields of glory and of strife. After
the substantials were dispatched, still another entertainment awaited them.
The sides of the area were flanked with booths, adorned with suitable
devices of welcome, and amply provided with delicacies to tempt even more
fastidious appetites than theirs. The
pleasure of such a feast, too, was enhanced by the presence and hospitable
offices of the ladies, who vied with each other in words and acts of substantial
welcome. Indeed we can not forbear
the expression of our wonder, where in these days of blockade and hard times, so
many good things came from. The
sentiment of the people was exhibited in an expression we heard from one of the
proprietors, full of the patriotism of the people:
“To give these brave soldiers such an entertainment we would be willing
to starve for a month to come.” God
bless the ladies and their glorious spirit in this immortal struggle.
During the whole entertainment the fine notes of the band of the Hampton
Legion floated through the air, while the battle-flag, scarred by many a hard
fought field, waved in graceful folds over head.
The scene was full of interest. The
weather-beaten soldier, the graceful maiden, with sweet words of welcome, the
balmy air of long deferred spring, all contributed to give zest to the scene.
One and one only sad thought protruded like a spectre upon the cheerful
throng. It was for the dead soldier,
who sleeps the sleep that has no waking in this world of ours.
Under the green sod he rests from his labors.
Peaceful be thy slumber, thou honored martyr, to thy country’s cause. Green
be the sod upon thy lamented grave, and greener and fresher still the memory of
thy valor, thy sacrifice of even life itself upon the altar of the liberty of
thy country.
[
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“The Marble Heart, or the Sculptor’s Dream;” the piece terminating
with a Grand Tableau.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—April 28—“Metamora, the Last of the Wampanoags”
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Southern Ingenuity.—We learn from an exchange that a new machine has
recently been invented by Mr. O. D. Pease, an employee of the Naval Iron Works
at
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The Last of “Tim Morris.”—Tim Morris, the negro minstrel, who was
forty-six in Richmond but who will not be more than 35 when he gets to
Baltimore, has run the blockade and reached the promised land.
We find the following notice, of the escape of Tim in the Examiner:
An “Iron-Clad” Runs the Blockade—Tim Morris, nee Joseph
Griffin, the irrepressible “Iron Clad,” apprehended as a conscript has run
the blockade by the way of Suffolk, paying fifteen hundred passage money.
Him has gone. We will never
more see his renditions of “John Morgan’s got your mule,” “Wood up,”
and the “Grocery store.” Tim
will make some fat contract with a Yankee manager, rattle his bones, and we
shall read of the old songs we used to hear.
Tim went through, we understand, blacked up as an original African, and
as he plays the character so well, we don’t wonder at his success.
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From the
Scenes in the
Market.
The man who claims to be a phrenologist can pass an hour very
advantageously by attending the market very early in the morning, and studying
attentively the various shades of expression seen in the faces of those around
him. In spite of the zealous
exertions of the Conscript Bureau, all sorts of conditions of men will be found
congregated there, representing the different nations of the earth, while their
disjointed conversations resembles a second Babel more than anything else.
By the time one has strolled through the market house, these fragmentary
dialogues have become so tangled together that it becomes a hard thing to answer
any proposed question definitely. We
give a specimen of the general impression produced:
“Cup of coffee, Uncle Jack; hand me one of them crackers.
I’m in a hurry.”
“That’s so; never see sich small eggs since the Lord made me;
‘spect they’ll be a dollar a piece, and then—“
“Knapp didn’t own the mare, leastways, he warn’t a going to run
her; he belongs to meetin, he does, and—“
“You’d orter seen him put out. Maxwell
had his eyes on him, and the durn fool nigger, he—“
“Hadn’t any mutton, marm, or I’d have sent it up ‘torectly.
I can let you have a piece of—“
“Such a lovely bonnet; she wore it to Church last Sunday, and Miss
Jane, she—“
“Got drunk as blazes. Somebody
hollered, out, Ap-peal! and he
just—“
“Refused five dollar bills, unless he could take off 33 1/3 per cent.,
a regular swindle, and reminds me of—“
“Whoa! mule! what er yer
tryen to do now. I’ll knock yer
inter the middle of—“
“Dunder unt Blixen; I hafe got der baper orl right.
Mein Gott, vot a peoples! Der
tuyfel! I shoost makes a leetle
monish, and dey vants to sent me to der—“
“Blingen on the
“Mother said that ten dollars a yard was more than she could give.
Such calico was only fit for—“
“The 6th
“Sold them sassingers cheaper than—“
“Oui, Monsieur; ze garcon he have been ze robbaire.
He say I ave ze cheeken, non, jamais, Monseiur.
Sacre? I tell him—“
“Them two
dogs, they kin catch more rats in ten minutes than—“
“Printers who get a dollar and a quarter a thousand, in these times,
why they can—“
“Steal shortning out ‘en a woman’s biscuit, unless it was put in
lengthways. He used to—“
“Pray without ceasing; it is the only thing to save the Confederacy; we
must have absolute reliance in—“
“That bob tailed horse, see here; he was spavined when you—“
“Went to conscript camp and staid there about a week and then—“
“The scene’s would’nt shove, half of the actors was tight, and
nobody knew anything about the play. It
was awful, and then—“
“It was the sweetest baby you ever saw, pretty blue eyes and she had on
a—“
“Barrel shirt marked in big letters “Deserted on post,”
and they
marched him up to—“
“That bar room! you’re a
fool for goin there. I tuk a drink
there Tuesday, and it made me—“
“Shout Hallelujah! yes sir,
dar was seven of ‘em converted that day, an old Aunt Phillis, she—“
“Ain’t got no shalots, sold ‘em all mor’en and hour ago I
want—“
“Great news! Great news!!
Morgan has taken lost of prisoners, Longstreet’s corps is in motion
and—“
“Get out o’ that, yer blunderin vagabone.—Great news, sir; Here’s
yer Adverthiser. Only twenty-foive
cints. Och!
my darlint, hould on till I’m afther givin yees the change.
G-r-e-a-t News!”
If amid this mimic Pandemonium, the stranger does not feel himself amply
repaid for the trouble of early rising, by the sights and sounds invariably seen
and heard at our city market, he is certainly one of those who find it hard to
appreciate a good thing, and in future ought to sleep until he finds every one
besides himself has returned from the market.
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Augusta Manufacturing Company.—In company with our associates of the
press, we were highly gratified by a visit to the immense establishment of this
company, while in attendance upon the editorial convention in
By the great improvements introduced since the present management assumed
control of the affairs of the company—about five years ago—the manufacturing
capacities of the works have been greatly increased, and the production of a No.
1 article of sheetings, shirtings and threads secured.
With these increased facilities the productive capacity of the works has
reached an average of 20,000 yards per day.
Seven hundred and fifty hands are employed, principally girls, whose
wages amount to $46,000 per month. They
run 150,000 spindels [sic] 462 looms, and consume fifteen bales of cotton daily.
The goods manufactured are not thrown upon the market, but are sold to
the Confederate and State authorities, benevolent institutions and associations,
counties, indigent persons, at what is called Government prices; and in this way
the sales from January 1st, to November 14, 1863, 4,200,384 yards
were disposed of at an average of fifty cents per yard.
If the same goods had been sold at the present prices, averaging say
$1,50 per yard, they would have paid into the treasury of the company several
millions dollars additional profit. Of
the amount sold in the time specified, the Confederate Government purchased
3,132,997 yards.
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[Correspondence
Constitutionalist.]
Letter from
Messrs. Editors—In a previous letter, mention was made of several
governmental bureaux, as being under orders to remove from this city—the note
division (which numbers, signs, and prepares generally Mr. Memminger’s money
for circulation) to go to Columbia, S. C.; the Comptroller’s and Second
Auditor’s to go to Montgomery, Ala. To-day
it seems that the movement was to be still further extended till a mere show, a simulacrum,
of a government was to be left here. It
was stated, and very reliably too, that the First and Third Auditors’ offices
were to be sent to Macon, in your State, whither also was to be removed the
entire Post-Office Department, and the Treasury was to depart for some
unrevealed locality, leaving behind it, in this bereft city, a mere depositary.
Such were the reported changes; and reported, as it would appear, from
very good authority. Later in the
day, however, the excitement among the officials was somewhat allayed by a
declaration that all these orders for removal had been countermanded, with the
exception of, in the case of the Note-signing Bureau, which is to leave for
Columbia on Tuesday next, bag and baggage. What
inducements this place can offer superior to those enjoyed here, it is hard to
say. There is hardly any species of
manufactures carried on in the whole of the Confederate States which is not
actively engaged in here, while in
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Summary: Concert Hall—“Metamora! or the Last of the
Wampanoags;” comic song “The Volunteer;” recitation “Bingen on the
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The Edgefield (S. C.) Advertiser of April 27th, says that the
Greenwood Card Factory is now in full blast, turning out about 130 pairs per
week. The price is $10 per pair, in new currency or Ten and Fives of the old
issue at 33 1/3 per cent. discount.
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From the
White Slavery in
the North.
An interesting Paper—The Poor Whites in the North—How they
Live—Fearful Picture of Destitution—The Laboring Classes in a state of
Starvation.
The working men and women at the North are moving.
Week before last they held a large demonstration in New Nork [sic],
gotten up under the auspices of the working Women’s Protective Union.
The proceedings were interesting; an address, resolutions, &c., were
adopted; speeches made, odes recited—but the most important thing that grew
out of the movement was a most thrilling picture of white slavery at the North.
A number of articles were exhibited, wrought by the hands of the poor
needle-women in New York, with the prices paid for the fabrication of each
article, and the exhibit confirms the fact—what we have always
contended—that the poor whites at the North are far worse off than the slaves
at the South; that there is a system of white slavery in the North far more
exacting and inexorable than negro slavery in the South.
The heart sickens at the picture of want and destitution revealed in this
exhibit, and human nature revolts at that “humanity” which deluges the
country with blood under the cry of “freedom” for the negro, while their own
whites at home are being ground to the earth by a system of oppression and
tyranny far worse than the bondage of the slave.
Think of a poor, aged woman, working hard, day and night, and receiving
for her whole week’s compensation thirty nine cents in a depreciated currency.
And yet this is but one of a hundred.
Read the report below. It is
official, made by the authority of the association, and is invaluable as showing
the condition of the poor whites in the North, it is so full of interest that we
are induced to give it in full. Let
those in our midst, who think they are suffering from this war read this report
and take comfort from the reflection that though suffering has been entailed
upon us, we are yet far better off in this respect than our enemies.
We wish every one to read this report through, and he will then
understand whether slavery exists only in the South:
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A large number of articles of dress, made by working women, were then
exhibited to the audience.
The following list embraces a few of them:
A pair of drawers made of white cotton drilling, 1,800 stitches, sewed on
the machine, and well made. Completely
finished with buckles, button-holes, straps and strings.
The woman who made these drawers was a operator, and could finish four
pair per day, working from 7 A. M., until 9 in the evening, receiving four and
one-sixth cents a pair, or sixteen and three-quarter cents for her day’s
labor—resting, she says, long enough to make herself a cup of tea and eat a
piece of bread.
Another very large pair of cotton flannel drawers, two thousand stitches,
done by hand, double seams felled, with eyelets, button holes, buttons, stays
and strings. The working woman to
furnish her own thread--a rule adopted by employers since the price of a spool
of cotton has risen from four to eight and ten cents.
This woman, the mother of three children, was very poor, and came to the
rooms of the Working Women's Protective Union, No. 4, New Chambers street, where
she threw down the work, saying she had been working on these drawers for seven
months and could not work any longer for the price paid.
Said she, "I may as well starve without work as to work and starve
at the same time." An inquiry
revealed the fact that the wealthy firm who employed her paid five and a half
cents per pair of these drawers, of which she could make two pair per day,
remarking, "If I get to bed about daylight and sleep two or three hours, I
feel satisfied."
A haversack pocket, made by hand, containing upwards of six hundred
stitches and three button holes--two yards of sewing.
This article was manufactured by a woman who thus tried to support her
sick husband and four little children. Each
pocket required on hour's faithful labor, and the compensation received was one
and one fourth cents, or twelve and a half cents for ten hours' work.
She furnished the thread.
A coarse flannel army shirt, large size, made by hard sewing.
Collars, wristbands and gussets put on with double rows of stitching all
round. The seams all felled, three
button holes, buttons and stays, requiring upwards of two thousand stitches.
The woman who made this garment was sixty years of age and too deaf to go
to the store for orders. She has
worked on these shirts since the war broke out, receiving seven cents each--one
of them being a good day's work for her. Younger
women might make two or perhaps three in twelve hours, furnishing their own
thread. This old lady occupied, with
another woman, a damp, dark basement, where she strained her eyes in the day,
and sewed by the light of her neighbor's lamp during the evening.
At the end of the week her net earnings, after paying for needles and
thread, amounted to thirty nine cents in currency.
A knapsack—army work—an article made of strong, coarse linen, sewed
up with two thousand five hundred coarse stitches, entirely by hand, making
eighteen felled seams. These
knapsacks are afterward painted, varnished and trimmed by male workmen, who
complete them for the soldiers.
Three of these knapsacks can be finished in one day, by an ordinarily
good seamstress, working from six o’clock in the morning, and quitting about
eleven, P. M. The operators furnish
the thread, and receive for each completed article seven and a-half cents, or
twenty-two and a-half cents for the day’s work.
A fine white cotton shirt, with a fine linen plaited bosom, nicely
stitched and well made throughout, containing eleven thousand five hundred
sewing machine stitches, six button holes, felled seams, &c, &c.
Two of these shirts are finished each day by the operator, who employs
nearly every moment of her time, finds her own thread, and receives for the
garments sixteen cents each, or thirty-two cents for more than twelve hours'
labor. These shirts sell for three
dollars to three dollars and fifty cents in the retail stores.
Their total cost to the employer may be summed up as follows:
Three yards fine muslin at 33 cents..........................99 cents.
Half yard fine linen..................................................38
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Labor and thread....................................................16
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Buttons...................................................................
6 “
Total cost...............................................$1.59
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A more common white shirt with plated muslin bosom, collar and
wristbands, containing eight thousand stitches, six button holes, &c.
The stitching is done coarsely on the sewing machine.
These shirts are chiefly worn by working men as their Sunday shirt.
They are well made and servicable [sic] articles.
Three are completed in one day by the operator, who buys the thread, and
receives from her employer eight cents for each shirt.
These garments generally sell for one dollar and twenty-five cents,
costing as follows:
Three yards of muslin at 24 cents..............................72
Labor and thread.....................................................
8
Buttons...................................................................
3
Total cost.................................................$
83
A large size linen duster, beautifully made on a sewing machine.
Ten yards of seams felled and neatly sewed with 3,390 stitches, four
button holes, three pockets, etc.
These linen coats are manufactured in the best manner for a first class
gentleman’s clothing store. The
operator receives twenty-five cents for her labor, which sum also pays for
thread and pressing. Two cannot be
finished in one day. They sell for
three dollars and fifty cents, and probably cost the dealer less than two
dollars.
Ladies' collars and cuffs, containing 1700 fine sewing machine stitches,
the outer edge being ornamented with an insertion of various colored trimmings.
These articles of ladies' wearing apparel are made for twenty one cents
per dozen sets--a set consisting of the collar and two cuffs.
Three dozen sets are made per day by a good operator, working early and
late. The thread is paid for by the
woman who takes out the work.
A dozen sets will cost:
One yard of linen…………………….......……….$
.90
One
yard of muslin………………………..........…
.25
Fourteen
yards of trimming at 8c. per yard…........…1.12
Labor
and thread……………………………........
.21
Total………………….......................…..$
2.58
This retail price per set in the Broadway and Bowery stores is
seventy-five cents. The wholesale
prices are not less than five dollars per dozen sets.
Ladies’ collars and cuffs, with lace work upon them, but equally fine
linen, upon which the operator can earn thirty-nine cents per day, receiving ten
cents per dozen sets, and completing five sets in fourteen hours.
The thread costing her eleven cents.
An army blouse, well made on the sewing machine, with over six thousand
stitches, four button holes two pockets, &c.
These blouses are short, jacket-like coats made of blue flannel, lined
throughout, pressed and finished, for which the working woman receives
twenty-three cents, out of which she pays for the thread.
A good operator can make two in one day.
Some can complete three with the assistance of a baister.
Fancy flannel Zouave shirt with vest front very beautifully made,
containing about fifteen hundred stitches, and eight button-holes, &c.
The woman who made this shirt is the wife of a soldier in the army, who
was never obliged to do anything for her own or children’s support until the
last few months. She stated that her
husband had been a sea captain for many years, but had enlisted in the army with
the expectation of being transferred to the navy, where he would receive better
pay, but being disappointed in this, she had been compelled to seek employment
to assist in maintaining herself and four children.
The price she received for making this shirt is twelve cents.
She stated that with some assistance in baisting, she could complete
three in a day with a machine. By
hand she she [sic] could not complete more than one.
A ladies’ robe skirt, front containing seventy-two yards of machine
stitched tucks, upwards of twenty-six thousand fine stitches, evenly done.
The working woman stated that she received for this work one cent per
yard, and that by constant application she was able to earn thirty-five cents
per day. The work is troublesome,
requiring baisting and marking of the tucks.
The work was very neatly done.
An army blouse for officers, and a sack coat made of blue flannel, on a
machine. The seams all double,
sleeves lined, has three pockets, double-stitched, exceedingly well made, seven
thousand stitches three button-holes and nine buttons.
Requires double-baisting before being sewed.
It takes a woman ten hours of hard labor to complete and press this
garment, for which she receives thirty-five cents.
The woman who made it stated that she could not earn more than two
dollars and fifty cents per week, on account of ill-health.
She thought a healthy woman might earn one dollar per week more.
A fancy flannel shirt, well made on a machine, fifteen hundred stitches,
six button holes, and seven buttons, double stitched wristbands, bands and
gussets.
This article was made for eight cents, and is sold in the gentlemen's
furnishing stores for two dollars and fifty cents..
The cost of material is:
Two and a half yards of flannel at 40
cents.................. $1 00
Labor and
thread...........................................................
8
Buttons,
&c...................................................................
4
Total.................................................................$1
12
According to the prices paid last November the
Cents
Clockmakers earned........................30 per day.
Shirtmakers......................................40 per
day.
Boy’s clothing................................. 68
14 hours per day.
Tasselmakers...................................70 do
do
Umbrella sewers..............................50 do
do
Hoop-skirt slides.............................12 do
do
Hoop-skirts.....................................50
do
do
Photograph mounters.......................67
do
do
Burnishers........................................50
do
do
Tentmakers......................................36
do
do
Sack coats.......................................84
do
do
Cavalry pantaloons baisters..............32
do
do
Linen coats......................................40
do
do
Blouses (baisting).............................64
do
do
Corsetmakers..................................50
do
do
Button hole makers..........................67
do
do
Military work...................................67
do
do
Book sewers...................................75
do
do
Press feeders...................................67
do
do
Wool sorters...................................50
do
do
Dressmakers...................................50
do
do
Capmakers......................................35
do
do
Bobbin winders...............................50
do
do
Machine operators...........................80
do
do
Vestmakers.....................................40
do
do
Fur quilters......................................60
do
do
Preserve packers.............................50
do
do
Milliners..........................................60
do
do
Artificial flowers...............................60
do
do
Cigarmakers...................................80
do
do
Board, which was formerly $1 50 per week, is now $2 30 to $3.
While the articles were being shown to the audience a number of persons
called for the names of the employers. The
Chairman stated that the names of all employers for whom the above enumerated
articles were made, were registered on the books of the association, and that it
would not be wise to announce their names in public at present.
At the conclusion of the proceedings, Miss Teresa Esmonde, the well known
dramatic reader, read the song of the “Song of the Working-women,” which had
been written for the occasion, by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens.
Song of the
Working Women.
By Mrs. Ann S.
Stephens.
The war shout that rings up from battle
Thrills through the answering crowd,
When you free the slave as a chattle,
The joy of freedom is loud.
But the prayer that comes from woman,
When she asketh bread for toil,
Is met with a clamor inhuman,
‘Mid an eager rush for spoil.
Work! Work!
Work! This is the answering
cry,
“Our wives are fond of jewels, and widows were made to
sigh.”
We plead that our hands are a-weary,
That our hearts are sad with care—
That our hearts are desolate, dreary,
Our spirits sunk in despair.
We plead that our children are crying
For the food we cannot earn—
That hope in our bosoms is dying,
As a fire forgets to burn.
Work! Work! Work!
Thus the answer rushes by,
“Our sons must have fast horses, and children were born
to cry.”
We say that our homes are darkened,
For the loved who gave them light
To the first war trumpet hearkened,
And went away to the fight.
Some have fallen low in the ditches,
And some lie stark on the plain;
We mingle sad tears with our stitches,
But when we dare to complain—
Work! Work!
Work! This is the answering
cry,
“We must make wealth by contracts, and soldiers enlist to
die.”
Then we plead that as gold goes higher
Our fuel is rising too—
That our hearths lack warmth and fire;
And the sewing that we can do,
With all our weary, toilsome stitching,
With all our tears and pain,
With our desolate midnight watching,
Is worse, oh worse than in vain,
Work! Work!
Work! is still the answering
cry,
“Heap coal and wine in our cellars—poor women were born
to die.”
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Metamora! or the Last of the Wampanoags;” comic song “The
Volunteer;” recitation “Bengon on the
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Summary: Concert
Hall, April 30—“Othello”
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Affairs in
While waiting for “new news” from
We have escaped from the closest place that a small army was ever caught
in by an overwhelming force. Fort
Gen. Walker having been apprised of all this, ordered Gen. Scurry to fall
back in the direction of
We all felt that they were doomed, and the knowledge of this fact excited
a feeling among our officers and men bordering on ferocity, and they were
clamorous to be precipitated at once upon the enemy’s masses, but the cool
judgment of
The loud booming of the artillery continues; our outposts have all come
in; the long wagon train has disappeared; the field batteries are limbered up,
and we commence our retreat. The
enemy pour in like an inundation and speedily occupy our places and, spreading
over the country, cut off all communication with our comrades in the fort.
We have no cavalry, with the exception of a small squad of Louisianians,
and the impudence of the Federal horsemen is provoking.
Oh! for Carter, or Parsons,
or Green; but the men call in vain for them.
Nobly would they respond if they could but hear the summons.
We moved rapidly, but in order, towards the bridge over Bayou De Lae,
which we reached about 1 P. M. Here
we faced about, formed line and waited to dispute the passage with the
enemy.—He declined making the attempt, and about dark we started again, to
reach a point where a road from the river intersected our line of route, near
Bayou Haffpower, at which place we fully expected to be cut off by the enemy.
Our column was preceded by the battalion of sharp-shooters, under Major
Parks. I stuck closely to them as
silently and secretly they advanced towards the menaced point.
The deep gloom of the forest, with the imminent danger of our situation,
excited feelings closely bordering on the religious, and I will long remember
the spectral illusions which haunted me on that occasion.
Occasionally the stalwart form of Major Parks would emerge from the
darkness, and his order given in a deep undertone, would startle us into action
and make him appear the “ghostly cavalier,” suited to the time and
circumstances.
We reached the place and found that the foresight of our General had
provided for the danger, and it was already occupied by a brigade of General
Morton, who had a shorter distance to march than ourselves.
We filed past and pushed for Cheneyville, on Bayou Boeuf; marching
rapidly, we reached this position about eight o’clock in the morning.
We rested an hour and started again, to make the circuit of the enemy’s
army. We marched about five miles
and halted to rest and cook. At four
in the evening we marched again and gained the hills behind
Your friend,
Geo. A. Ferris.
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Summary: Concert
Hall—“Othello;” “Perfection”
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Courtship Extraordinary.
A married friend of ours who has a peculiar fancy for anything good,
called our attention to the following rich morceau in the Petersburg
Register which we are assured will be read with pleasure by all who can
appreciate a good, partial joke. The
blooming widow was cleverly taken in by the young damsel who played her role
in such a capital manner:
[“] A most remarkable and romantic courtship occurred in this city last
week, the parties to which were both ladies of respectability—the one a
blooming and fascinating widow, and the other a lovely damsel yet in her teens.
The latter acted the part of a gay Lothario for the occasion, and so
completely deceived and won the affection of the former, that but for the secret
being divulged, almost on the eve of the nuptials, the couple would have
undergone the ceremony of a mock marriage. Without
mentioning names, we may be permitted to give a brief account of this
extraordinary and original affair, which blasted the hopes of an expectant wife,
and almost made a “married man” of a lady.
The whole affair was intended as a jest on the part of the
originators—a bevy of girls, mischievous, wild and fond of excitement.
Having heard that the widow avowed her intention not to enter the
matrimonial state again, they determined to test the sincerity of her vows.
They held several consultations on the important matter, and at last
decided that one of their number should assume man’s apparel, and in every
respect feign the appearance of a man, and after being formally introduced to
the “lady” in question, should be assiduous in his attentions, in due
course of time “fall in love,” and eventually court and, to carry the joke
to an extreme, marry her. The
programme was well planned and most brilliantly executed.—A young lady
possessed of much personal beauty, fine conversational powers, dancing eyes,
healthy complexion, handsome form, and peculiarly charming manner, was selected
for the emergency.
A handsome uniform was procured, which exhibited her form to marked
advantage; cap, cravet [sic], collar, boots and all the paraphernalia that make
up a gentleman’s wardrobe, even down to a fancy cane.
In order that a more manly appearance might be imparted to the face, a
charming “moustach” [sic] and “imperial” were obtained.
Being fully equiped [sic], this young lady stood forth a perfect adonis,
whose power weak woman could scarce resist.
A lady friend to both parties, who participated in the secret, by special
appointment, introduced the newly fledged gentleman to the widow.—A pleasant
evening passed, the gentleman engrossing the attention of his victim, and vice
versa. At its conclusion, a
modest request was made that a repetition of the visit might be allowed which
was as modestly granted. Visit
followed visit, mere acquaintance ripened into friendship, and friendship into
love. An interesting correspondence
ensued, the letters passing through the hands of a mutual friend, the last of
which may be found below. Time
brought matter to a point. So many
pleasant evenings, such charming society, such mutual friendship, could not
continue between man and woman, without a closer association.
Marriage was proposed, the offer accepted, and supreme happiness on both
sides was the result. Every hour
they were separated seemed like a year, and every hour they were present with
each other seemed but a second. All
things else were forgotten, and wraped [sic] up in each other’s affection,
they seemed indeed
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.”
The important day was fixed.
The bridal arrangements were being made, when just on the eve of the
ceremony which was to unite them—a false minister having been secured for the
occasion—the widow was made aware of the plot which had been so successfuly
[sic] wrought about her. The finale
is quickly reached. The match of
course was broken off, and the false gentleman discontinued his visits.
We shall not attempt to picture the chagrin of the lady who was made the
innocent victim of these tricksome girls. Nor
how her hopes of a happy marriage were rudely dashed to the ground.
We drop the curtain upon the scene, leaving the imagination of those who
have been disappointed in love to paint her sorrows.
The following are the letters of proposal and acceptance which passed
between the lovers. It is proper to
state that both ladies were well know [sic] in the city, and enjoy good standing
in society. During the courtship the
false gentlemen [sic] represented himself as a soldier stationed at Drewry’s
Bluff. The whole affair points a moral:
The Proposal.
Drewry’s Bluff, April 18th, 1864.
My Dear ----------: You will
pardon the liberty I take in calling you by this endearing name, for I assure
you that there is none other so dear to me.
I must confess that I love you. In
all my wanderings since the commencement of this war, I have not met with one
who, like you, could so engage my affections.
You cannot imagine [sic] how pleasantly the hours pass when in your sweet
presence, or how lonely I am when separated from you.
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My heart prompts me to say that I can never be happy without you; and
therefore, I offer you my hand and heart, praying your acceptance.
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I shall not be over until Sunday night, and then I shall be accompanied
by a young gentleman. In the
meantime, be assured that the time will pass heavily until I again see you.
Ever your devoted lover,
Benjamin.
The Acceptance.
My Dear Bennie: I seat myself
with great pleasure to answer your most welcome letter, which came to hand this
morning. I am truly glad to hear
from you, and to learn you are well.
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You ask me, Bennie, if I would accept your hand.
I will not refuse it, for, if such is your wish, it shall be my pleasure
to give my hand and heart in return for yours.
If I afford you any happiness by giving you my hand, Bennie, I do it with
pleasure.
Be sure to come, and bring the young gentleman you speak of in your
letter.
Good by, my dear, and believe me,
Your true friend.