WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN
[JACKSON, MS]
January 3, 1860 - July 10, 1864
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 3, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
Southern Manufacturing Village.
A correspondent of the Mobile Mercury recites the interesting and
instructive history of the village of Bankston, Choctaw county, Miss., the seat
of a thriving cotton factory, the origin and source, indeed, of the village's
wealth and prosperity. Eight years
ago, when the factory was established, Bankston was but a rough place, situated
in a muddy creek bottom, and surrounded by a rough population. Beyond the factory, indeed, nothing was to be seen but the
trees of the forest, the stumps and tops of what had recently been trees, and
here and there a house of no pretension to beauty, and hardly affording the
necessary comforts of life. But
now, how changed the appearance of our town—as well as our real circumstances,
continues the writer, "we were then living almost in the woods, and our
operatives in rough board shanties; now we are living on the hills round about,
with lawns and flower gardens, and orchards, and they in neat, comfortable
houses, well arranged in nice streets and shady groves, presenting the
appearance of civilization and cultivation.
We have, moreover, the best of municipal regulations, which are generally
observed, or if violated, strictly enforced; a flourishing Sunday School, kept
up all the winter; a Baptist and a Methodist church; and last, not least, we
have a lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, a temperance order,
numbering about sixty members, all good men and true.
"And all this happiness and prosperity is the gift of one cotton
manufactory, whose own history, we are led to infer, has been an equally
prosperous one, both to the proprietors and operatives.
The former are now, doubtless, ranked among the wealthy and influential
men in that part of the State, while the latter are their equally happy
neighbors, 'Living off on the hills around, amid flower gardens and orchards and
shady groves.'"
And what is the pleasing history of Bankston, Miss., might be that of
thousands like it in other equally flourishing States of the South—Alabama,
Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and the northern portion of
our own State. All of them enjoy
the same genial and equable climate, abound in the same valuable water
privileges, and producing themselves the raw material in excellence and
abundance, they might of themselves work it up with the same advantages, and
with the same happy result.—N. O. Picayune.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 3, 1860, p. 2, c. 5
Last Concert!!
Jinck's Ethiopean Minstrels will give their fourth, and last Concert on
Thursday, the 5th of January, at Spengler's Hall.
Grateful for the liberal patronage bestowed on them, the Manager has been
induced to give one more entertainment in Jackson, prior to a tour through
Texas.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
Something Old, Yet New.
The lovers of good old-fashion music, as well as of genuine instrumental
performances, and of the sweet and simple ballad, and choral and glee, and music
of that class that is level with the universal sympathy, should avail themselves
of the opportunity now afforded them of gratifying their taste by the talented
company at Spengler's Hall to-night. These
"Old Folks," so called, though none of them are superannuated by any
means, give a most varied and attractive programme of performances.
"Sweet Jenny Twitchell," as we see the New York papers are
calling her, and pretty Annie Granger, and the rest, sing solos, duos,
quartettes, &c., while Messrs. Hall and West discourse most exquisite music
as a band. It is worth while to go
to Spengler's Hall, if only to hear the "magic echoes."
For programme see small bills which will be distributed through the city;
also, advertisement in another column.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 10, 1860,
p. 3, c. 2
A Real Wonder Coming.—M'lle. Christine Milly, the most astonishing,
wonderful and interesting freak of nature ever witnessed is about to visit our
city on Monday next, for the purpose of giving her levees.
She is a pretty and intelligent girl, nine years old, having two
well-formed heads, four arms and four legs, two hearts, one on each side of the
breast. She eats and speaks with
both mouths, is remarkably active, and beautifully formed; uses all her limbs
with equal facility in walking, dancing or sewing; and converses with two
persons on different subjects at the same time.
so wonderful a curiosity will certainly meet with success in our city.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 13, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
Fair.—The colored people connected with the Methodist Church in this
city will hold a Fair at their Church, this and to-morrow evening. The proceeds will be applied to the liquidation of the
expenses incurred last summer in the repairs and general improvements of their
Church.
Tickets for whites, $1; colored people, 50 cents.
Refreshments free.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 13, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
Ballad Concert.—An elegant entertainment, composed of the beauties of
popular operas, together with the favorite songs, ballads and duetts of England,
Ireland, Scotland and America, will be given by the accomplished American tenor,
Henry Squires, of the Academies of Music, New York, Boston, etc., and recently
of the Strakosch Opera Troupe, in this city, to-morrow evening.
He will be aided by the wonderful and talented child, "Little Mary
McVicker," who, the Cincinnati Commercial says, "is as petite a
specimen of a fair done up in crinoline as ever captivated humanity.
We don't know how old she is. We
can't guess. In stature she is
about equal to the divinities of the court of Oberon; in form as veritable a
sylph as ever tripped it, beneath heaven's silver lantern, to the music of the
nightingale. Her voice is sweet and
astonishingly powerful, and her execution artistically correct. What time may develope [sic] we know not, but if the day of
her life only equals the promise of the morn, she will become one of the
celebrities of the age.
Let there be a full house.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 17, 1860, p. 2,
c. 7
Cotton Manufactory.—Our enterprising fellow citizen, Mr. John M. West,
we learn has, in connection with the capital invested by himself, secured the
sum of about $40,000 for the purpose of building and putting in operation a
Cotton Manufactory in this neighborhood. And
from present indications the establishment of such a factory is a fixed
fact.—Lexington Advertiser.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 18, 1860, p. 3,
c. 1
At a ball which lately came off at Alexandria, Virginia, the ladies
generally appeared in handsome and fashionably cut and fitting dresses, made
entirely of Virginia linsey.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 20, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
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DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 21, 1860, p. 2,
c. 1
Theater.—Macfarland's Celebrated Dramatic Troupe will commence a series
of performances at Spengler's Hall, to-night, as our readers are informed by
advertisement in another column. We
predict a brilliant success for this Company, as it is said the artists possess
fine talents.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 24, 1860, p. 3,
c. 5
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Simpson & Co.;" "Husband at Sight"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 25, 1860, p. 2,
c. 2
Home Manufactures.—Texas seems about to take the lead in the South in
home manufactures. A large amount
of cabinet ware is produced in all the towns of that thriving State.
In Rusk county carriages are made of the best workmanship and latest
styles. In other places there are
excellent cotton and woolen factories, and flouring mills are beginning to be
numerous. For a young State, Texas
has made a handsome beginning.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 25, 1860, p. 3, c. 2
Grand Concert
at the
Bowman House,
by the
Old Fogies'
Concert Company,
On Monday and
Tuesday Evenings,
January 20th,
and 21st.
Admission $1.00.
No Half Price.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 25, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Naval Engagements;" fancy dance, comic song, dance;
"Rough Diamond"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 26, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Second Love;" fancy dance, comic song; "Lottery
Ticket"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 27, 1860, p. 3,
c.
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Lady of Lyons;" fancy dance, comic song; "Nature and
Philosophy"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 31, 1860, p. 3,
c. 6
Summary: Spengler's
Hall--Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers, to be followed by play "Charles 2nd"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 1, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Spengler's
Hall—Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers, to be followed by play "All That
Glitters Is Not Gold"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 2, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Spengler's
Hall—Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers, to be followed by play "Serious
Family"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 2, 1860, p. 3, c. 2
Grand Fancy Dress and Masquerade Ball.
To be given at the Bowman House, on Thursday evening, the 9th
of February. Mon. S. B. Theerry,
from New Orleans, will be in Jackson on Tuesday, the 7th inst., with
a large assortment of Costumes, etc.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 3, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Honey Moon;" fancy dance, comic song, "In and Out of
Place"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 4, 1860, p. 3,
c. 2
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Black Eyed Susan;" fancy dance, comic song, "Rough
Diamond"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 7, 1860, p. 2,
c. 1
Grand Mask and Fancy Ball at the "Bowman."—Maj. Hillzheim,
the generous proprietor of this princely establishment, designs throwing open
its splendid saloons on the evening of the 9th inst., for a grand
mask and fancy ball, at which will be assembled the beauty, fashion and
chivalry of this city and all the surrounding region.
We acknowledge the courtesy of a polite invitation to be present on the
occasion.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 7, 1860, p. 2,
c. 6
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Invisible Prince;" fancy dance, comic song, "Husband at
Sight"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 9, 1860, p. 2,
c. 7
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Honey Moon;" fancy dance; "Nature and Philosophy"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 10, 1860, p. 3,
c. 1
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Daughter of the Regiment;" fancy dance; "Rival
Pages"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 11, 1860, p. 2,
c. 1
The Grand Fancy and Masked Ball at the Bowman House, on Thursday evening,
was a decided success. The whole
affair passed off with marked decorum and propriety; and the generous and
popular landlord, Maj. Hillzhiem, outdid himself in the magnificence and
splendor of the entertainment.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 11, 1860, p. 3,
c. 1
Summary: Theatre—Spengler's
Hall—"Noemie;" fancy dance; "Object of Interest"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 11, 1860, p. 3,
c. 4
Summary: Orton
& Older's Circus will perform in Jackson February 14 and 15
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 14, 1860,
p. 1, c. 7
Swiss Cake.—One and a half cupfuls of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of
butter one cupful of milk, three cupfuls of flour, two eggs, one teaspoonful of
soda, and one and a half teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar.
Flavor to your liking.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 17, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
Dialogue on Newspapers.
"How does it happen, neighbor B., that your children have made so
much greater progress in learning and knowledge of the world, than mine?
They all [fold in paper] for what I know, enjoy equal advantages."
"Do you take the newspapers, neighbor A?"
"No, sir, I do not take them myself; I sometimes borrow one just to
read. Pray, sir, what have the
newspapers to do with the education of children?"
"Why, sir, they have a vast deal to do with it, I assure you.
I should as soon think of keeping them from school, as to withhold them
from the newspaper; it is a little school in itself.
Being new every week it attracts their attention, and they are sure to
peruse it. Thus, while they are
storing their minds with useful knowledge, they are at the same time acquiring
the art of reading. I have often
been surprised that men of understanding should overlook the importance of a
newspaper in a family."
"In truth, neighbor B., I often think that I should like them, but I
cannot afford the expenses?"
"Can't afford the expenses? What,
let me ask, is the value of two or three dollars a year, in comparison with the
pleasures and advantages to be derived from a well conducted newspaper?
As poor as I am, I would not for fifty dollars a year deprive myself of
the happiness I now enjoy of reading and hearing my children read, and talk
about what they have read in the newspapers.
And then, the reflection that they are growing up useful and intelligent
members of society.—Oh, don't mention the expenses—pay it in advance every
year, and you will think no more of it."
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 17, 1860,
p. 2, c. 7
A White Woman Running Away with a Negro Man.—The Chattanooga Reflector
says a white woman by the name of Mary Wilson, of Adairsville, Ga., came up to
that place on the Georgia train on the 6th, with a big buck negro
belonging to a gentleman of the former place, who she had stolen with the
intention, it is believed, of running him off to a free State.
Mary was dressed in men's clothes. They
were arrested and lodged in jail.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 21, 1860,
p. 1, c. 7
The Alexandria (Va.) Sentinel says that homespun is becoming all the
fashion with the sterner sex in that part of the State; but so far very few
ladies have appeared on the streets in their lindseys and ginghams.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 24, 1860,
p. 2, c. 6
For the Mississippian.
Begging Their
Bread in New York
And Returning to
Slavery in Arkansas.
Ed. Mississippian:--The Abolition papers, says the New York Day Book of
the 11th inst., just now contain a very affecting and melancholy
appeal from some free negroes who have left Arkansas for good, asking alms and
support from Northern people, the names of whom, at the close of the paragraph,
some dozen in number, are given, which it is barely possible, the Day Book adds,
our friends in Arkansas will find to be fictitious.
Now, whatever may have been the fate of a majority of those unfortunate
creatures driven from their homes to fail in receiving the alms and protection
sought at the hands of those who have brought upon them their present distress,
the following narrative related to me a day or two since, will at least account
for the whereabouts of some five or six of them who have sought as the last
resort save one, the blessings of liberty in a free State.
Says Mr. F., the brother of Judge F., for many years a well-known and
popular citizen of Mississippi, but now of Arkansas, on his arrival at Napoleon,
a town on the bank of the Mississippi, a few days ago, he witnessed at no great
distance a somewhat enthusiastic mingling and shaking of hands between a crowd
of citizens and some negroes which at first struck him with some surprise.
On his near approach, however, he recognized one of the men, a barber who
had just arrived with four or five other negroes from Cincinnati for the avowed
purpose of becoming slaves to Southern masters in preference to the enjoyment of
freedom, so-called, in the Northern States.
A more affecting scene, says Mr. F., than the one above mentioned, he has
rarely witnessed. With tears and sobs, they told of the cold reception,
illiberal and inhuman treatment they had received at the hands of those who make
such loud professions of love and friendship for the negro race, and declared
themselves then ready to be sold into slavery.
Now, however strange this may appear to Southern men, it is a matter of
no surprise.—Nothing is better understood in the South than the total aversion
that the more intelligent negroes of the South have to Northern men and Northern
freedom; and if there was no other evidence with which to disprove the slanders
heaped upon the institution of Southern slavery and slaveholders, and forever
stamp the dark and malignant brow of Abolition with wilfull [sic] and
unmitigated falsehood, the tenacity wit which free negroes of the South cling to
Southern men and southern institutions, would be ample and overwhelming;
preferring, as many do, as a last resort, slavery itself, to be driven out among
those whom they know are only hypocritically professing to be their friends.
It is a well-known fact that had the bill which passed the late House of
Representatives, and failed by only one vote in the Senate, become a law, our
free negroes had determined on Jackson slavery in preference to Northern
freedom.—So much for the glories of Northern freedom and the horrors of
Southern slavery.
N.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 28, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
New York Gossip for Ladies.
Fashion, for the nonce, is quiescent, apparently; yet grumblings not loud
but deep agitate the heart—nay, the very souls of much abused woman.
In fact, the approaching irrepressible, inevitable revolution in the mode
of dress, has the effect of turning all womankind into miniature volcanoes.
Can you imagine, messieurs, an animated inverted pyramid? Can you dissolve, like the baseless fabric of a vision, the
memory of woman,
"Grace in every movement,
Heaven in her eye,"—
as she was, and conjure woman as she is, the inverted
pyramid? Can you discover grace in
those limp, skimpy garments? Can
you find heaven in those eyes hidden in the cavernous depths of those hideous
bonnets? Do you wonder at the
weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth? Do
you wonder at the pouting of red lips, the corrugation of snowy brows, and the
angry flush of rosy cheeks henceforth to be overshadowed by the coal scuttle
bonnet? Gored shirts [sic], too,
are coming in looming up from a horrible perspective. The dissolution of the Union is absolutely nothing to be
compared to this raid upon our beloved hoops, our darling little bonnets.
Have we not proved our adoration of the latter in suffering for their
dear sakes neuralgia, tic-doloreaux, and rheumatism; frozen ears and noses;
shouldered and hump-backed, exposed our profiles, good or bad?
But my feelings overpower me; I can no longer proceed with this touchng
topic. Large bonnets, seriously
speaking, are no fable, no fancied evil; their advent is sure and certain, and
your correspondent has the profound mortification of confession and admitting
the fact of possessing one! Accuse
me if you will, mes amis, of inconsistency, and what not, I plead guilty.
Some few forlorn dowagers and demoiselles have been promenading minus
crinoline, but the legion of sensible women persist in their usual appearance,
excepting the circumference is somewhat less.
Dresses are set on to the belt, or corsage, in large box plaits;
also very ugly, and causing the skirt to hang badly; but modistes insist
upon it—so what can one do? Sleeves
are set in the same style at the shoulder, the plaits banded across by velvet,
or trimmed with buttons, which are oftimes [sic] of velvet set in a rosettee
[sic] of narrow black lace, simply for ornament.
Flounces are most worn in uneven numbers, from five, nine, fifteen, to
twenty-nine, generally pinked.
I have been indulged in a long and loving peep at the new Parisian
flowers, bringing sweet and spicy memories of sunny skies and warm south winds
laden with those perfumed breaths of violets and "sweet musk roses and with
eglantine," and banks
"Where the wild thyme blows,
Where ox-lips and the nodding cowslip grows."
Thus I mused over these exquisitely delicate creations, wondering at
their marvelous naturalness. Flowers
of mingled satin, straw, velvet, and both beautiful and new, and nearly all
these rare bouquets are all knotted together by Leghorn straw, which depends in
a long feathery plume from the green stems.
An entire new style is composed of lace, white lace pansies par
example, the large knees stiffened and the hearts gummed on in rose colored
blue or yellow silk. These are
rather larger than I think any botanist has ever described, and of colors any
species unknown to the most devoted follower of Linnaeus, nevertheless, they are
beautiful, and remind one of lovely large butterflies.
Black and green grasses are to be mingled in these bouquets.
The foliage is nearly all made of green stiff lace, sometimes covered
with crystals,
Like round and orient pearls,
"—Within the pretty flower's eyes,
Like tears."
These are the prevailing styles of the fashionable flowers; the creamy
tint of the straw roses when half composed of rich groseille, Marguerite,
rose de roi, or blue velvet, is indescribably beautiful; then there are
bunches of half blown roses of rose-tinted white, hidden in broad, dark green,
waxen leaves—perhaps a crimson bud nesting in the heart.
The blandest smiles and most cunning diplomacy of your correspondent had
to be forced into requisition before these newly arrived treasures were
exhibited, in advance of the season.
"If she will, she will, you may depend on't."
Like Fatima, during her exploring expedition into her lord's private
apartments, I shrank back appalled at the array of skeleton frames of embryo
bonnets to decorate feminine heads during the coming spring and summer
season—larger and more great-grandmotherly than those of the last date.—New
York correspondent of the N. O. Delta.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 28, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
The Wonders of the Arctic Regions.—At Spengler's Hall, on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Shursday [sic] nights will be exhibited the Grand Historical
Moving Painting of Dr. Kane's Arctic Expedition.
See advertisement in to-day's issue.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 28, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Spengler's Hall!
On Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday Nights,
And on Wednesday
and Thursday, at 3 o'clock,
P. M., for the
accommodation of Families
and Schools.
The Grand Moving
Painting on 30,000 feet of Canvass, illustrative of
Dr. Kanes'
Artic Expedition
in Search of
Sir John Franklin,
Vividly portraying
the sublime wonders of the
Polar World,
With a full description by W. H. Paul, Esq., Honorary Member of the Kane
Monumental Association.
Doors open each night at 7 o'clock.
Commence at 7½. Admission
50 cents. Children and Servants,
half-price.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Social Soiree, Songs and Chit-chat.
LeGrand B. Cushman.—This vocalist will be in Jackson on Thursday night
next, when he will give one of his popular entertainments.
Mr. C. is highly spoken of both by letter and in the journals of the day,
and we bespeak for him a full house.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 6, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Emigration to Texas.—The
"Houston Telegraph" of the 27th ultimo says the influx of
settlers into Texas is still very large. Every
boat from New Orleans is crowded, and it is estimated that not less than twelve
to eighteen hundred persons arrive in the State every week by way of the Gulf.
Within the week previous, fully five hundred slaves were brought in.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 9, 1860, p.
3, c. 3
Summary: Spengler's
Hall—The Nelson Sisters will give a concert and musical entertainment on March
12, to conclude with a musical bagatelle "This Very Fast Age"
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 13, 1860, p.
1, c. 7
An introduction of the Spanish custom of silver anklets for those who
choose to walk out in short petticoats, is thought of by the ladies of New York.
It is not necessary to attract attention by any such guys, for the men
will look as often as they can.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 13, 1860, p.
3, c. 1
Summary: Part
I of an article ("Matters and Things—No. 3) on book publishing North and
South.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 16, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Returned Missionary.—Mrs. Lambuth, wife of Rev. William Lambuth, (son
of the Reverend and venerable John R. Lambuth of Madison county) Missionary of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has recently arrived from Shanghai,
China, on a visit to her relations in Mississippi.
Mrs. Lambuth has brought her two children to be educated in this country.
She also brought two native (China) youths to be educated in the United
States with a view to their future usefulness to their countrymen in the
missionary cause. Mrs. L. will
return to China in April.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 16, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Banner
Presentation—Resolutions of
Jackson Fire Co.
No. 1.
At a special meeting of Jackson Fire Company No. 1, held at their hall on
Saturday, the 10th inst., the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, This Company have received from Eagle Fire Company No. 7, of New
Orleans, another manifestation of their esteem, in the beautiful, chaste and
elegant Banner which now adorns our Hall; and as we desire to express our
appreciation of the present, as well as the high regard which we individually
and collectively entertain for the members of that Company, who let no
opportunity pass of showing that hospitality and generosity which, to such an
eminent degree, characterize the Crescent City Firemen. Therefore,
Resolved, That mere words are utterly inadequate to express our high
appreciation of the beautiful present; in accepting which, we feel most sensibly
that the ties of friendship and brotherly love already existing between us, as
the result of former intercourse, are now more firmly and forever cemented; and
that time, with all its varied changes, can never obliterate the pleasant
remembrances of this occasion—this "green spot in memory's waste."
Resolved, That it shall be our constant aim to prove worthy of the
fraternal regard of Eagle Fire Company No. 7, and as brothers in a noble and
philanthropic cause, we are proud to greet them, and trust that Eagle 7, and
Jackson 1, will ever be "Pro Bono Publico"—"Always
Ready."
Resolved, That the Emblem of Eagle 7, as represented on the Banner, being
also the Seal of our own State, is a happy coincidence, which renders the
present peculiarly attractive, and taken in connection with its intrinsic value,
the occasion on which it was presented, and the well-known gallantry and
chivalry of the donors, we shall ever prize it as one of the brightest gems
awarded us in our career as Firemen.
Resolved, That the "badge" of Eagle 7, be worn by the members
of Jackson 1, at all our Company parades.
Resolved, That the Secretary immediately transmit a copy of these
resolutions to Eagle Co. No. 7, and that our city papers be requested to publish
the same.
R. A. Smith, }
C. H. Manship,}
Thos. Green, }
N. F. Hawkins,}Committee.
Joseph French,}
J. L. Power, }
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 20, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
The Bowen House, Brookhaven.—A correspondent of the N. O. Crescent, writes in a very depreciating terms of the
excellent hotel which bears this name, and which is so well and favorably known
to all travelers on the New Orleans and Jackson Road.
Maj. Bowen, the proprietor, has a reputation acquired by twenty-five
years experience, as one of the most obliging landlords in the South, whose
cuisine is always supplied with everything that contributes to the comfort of
his guests—the representations of the malicious, or probably interested,
correspondent of the Crescent to the contrary notwithstanding.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 20, 1860, p.
2, c. 5
Summary: Part
2 of an article ("Matters and Things—No. 4") on book publishing
North and South.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 20, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Stamped Embroidery.
Ladies wishing Patterns of Embroidery neatly printed, would do well to
call and see Mrs. Norritt, at the Jackson House, where she will remain for a few
days. She has on hand a variety of
stamped patterns, Bands and Sleeves, Pants, Skirt Bottoms, Skirts Stamped in
front, Childrens T[illegible], Saques and Aprons, a great variety.
Stamping done to order on all kinds of cloth.
Lessons given in the above Art.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 6, 1860, p.
1, c. 6-7
Summary: "Matters
and Things—No. 5" on Northern vs. Southern born teachers, and educating
children in the South
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 6, 1860, p.
3, c. 5
Summary: Theatre—"Ingomar,
The Barbarian; or the Greek Maiden; fancy dance; "Yankee Duellist"
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 13, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Banner Presentation.—On the return of the Mississippi Rifles from their
trial of skill on Tuesday evening, that time-honored relic of the battle of
Buena Vista, the banner formerly the property of the Hinds county Fencibles, and
subsequently adopted as the flag of the Mississippi Regiment in Mexico, was
presented to this company by Capt. McManus through Capt. Estelle, in an eloquent
and appropriate address. Ah, none
but the donor can appreciate the emotions which must have swelled the heart of
Capt. McManus on parting with this flag which had waved over the field of battle
where so many of his gallant comrades fell!
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Can Manufactories Succeed in the South?
There is much truth contained in the following communication which we
take from the Nashville Gazette. However
humiliating the acknowledgment may be, the people of the South are generally
sending North for Superintendants [sic], not only in cotton Manufacturing
establishments, but in almost every other branch of Mechanics.
This fault should be remedied, and the communication is well-timed and
sensible. The correspondent says:
["] In the March number
of Hunt's Merchant's Magazine there is an article which declares the startling
fact, that of the four million bales of cotton raised last year, only one
hundred thousand was manufactured into cloth in the South.
Of this amount, North Carolina manufactured 29,000; South Carolina
20,000; Georgia 26,000; Tennessee, 13,000; and Alabama, 10,000 bales.
There has, however, been a gradual increase of the amount.
In 1855 there was only 59,000 bales made into cloth, which amount has
gradually increased, and in 1859, 100,000 were manufactured, which shows an
increase of nearly double the amount in four years.
The reports from most of the factories shows a healthful and prosperous
condition, and gradual increase in the number of bales manufactured, proves
conclusively that the business is paying.
This writer says that "the great bug bear in the South, is the cry
that labor is too high, an assertion which is not true, as can be proven by the
history of the factories which have been successively managed in Georgia.
This kind of labor required in cotton factories, occupies persons to whom
it is almost a charity to give employment, and the compensation is established
by the employer. Women and children do most of the work, and a cotton factory
well managed, operates as a blessing to the town, by giving the poor and
helpless people employment.
It is true that all the factories do not pay good dividends in the South,
neither do they all pay in the North; if badly managed, they do not pay North or
South; and the fact that some do pay, is conclusive evidence that all
might be made to pay. The objection
is often urged in Nashville, that we must have northern men to manage our
manufacturing establishments; that we have not the men here to conduct such
establishments. Is this not a
humiliating confession? Is
Tennessee ready to make such a confession?
Are we dependent upon the north for every thing?
If we have no brains in the South, it would be well to import a
cargo. Or to save our people the
trouble of using the little they have, hire some men to do our thinking for us.
Shame on such contemptible old fogies.
No man can teach our children but a northern man and not satisfied with
that, those of riper years are to be taught to manage their own business by men
of the same sort—they must manage our factories.
If such is the general feeling and sentiment of the south, then they
ought to be made "the hewers of wood and the drawers of water," for
the north. If the northern people
are superior, they deserve to enjoy all that superiority.
But it is not so. Hear what
a Georgian says on this subject:
"When the Macon Factory was first established, it was under the
control of a man brought from New England at a high salary, but he soon
convinced his employer that he did not understand our people, and would not
answer for the place. Mr. William
S. Holt, a Georgian born and raised, was then appointed as his successor, a
position he still occupies with much credit to himself, and satisfaction to the
Company; and this is not the only case in Georgia.
Mr. Banington King manages a factory at Raswell [sic] with marked
success. The Augusta mills are,
also, prosperous."
Then, according to this testimony, we may manufacture profitably in the
south, and we are not dependent upon the North for a manager. The point is then settled as to our ability.
We have the capital, we have the material, the hands begging for
employment, and a market at our own doors.
Shall we have manufactories in Nashville?
There are many young men who would like to remain in Tennessee; who are
too proud to work; the country is over-stocked with merchants as well as all the
learned professions. What are they
to do? Do the parents of such wish
to see their sons a set of gentlemen leafers [sic] and drunkards? If not, let them have some useful employment.
"Idleness is the great fomenter of evil."
Here is a field of usefulness, in which they may be made a blessing to
the community in which they live. Let
some of the capital be employed in manufactories, and our beautiful city will
grow to be a giant in size, and make glad the hearthstones of many a poor
family.
W. R. H.["]
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 17, 1860, p.
3, c. 5
Summary: Spengler's
Hall—"Madame Marietta Gazzanga, the great dramatic prima donna"
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 20, 1860, p.
3, c. 6
Summary: Spengler's
Hall—Campbell Minstrel's coming April 27 and 28
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 20, 1860, p. 3, c. 7
Bailey Springs, Alabama.
The Waters of these Springs are recommended by more than two hundred of
the most eminent Physicians of the surrounding country for the cure of Scrofula,
Dropsy, Dyspesia, Liver Complaint, Diseases peculiar to Females, Sore Eyes,
Chronic Diarroea, Syphilis, and all Cutaneous diseases.
The best preparations are made for the invalid, Dr. Crittenden, who is in
all respects qualified to fill the station, will reside at the Springs.
The pleasure seeker can here have the advantage of the best water known;
with a determination on the part of the Proprietors to make them comfortable.
The table will be furnished with the best the country affords; a good
band of Music, Ten Pins, Billiards, Carriages, Horses, apparatus for Bathing,
hot and cold, and a bar of the purest Liquors.—The Officers and Servants
accommodating and attentive, conveyance to and from Florence twice a day.
Ellis & Co.
Bailey Springs Water neatly put up in 3 quart bottles kept always on hand
at Wiggs, Bray & Co., Memphis, Tennessee.
Bailey Springs, Ala.—April 20 '60-w2m.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 27, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
An African Church Owning Its Minister.—The African Baptist Church in
Augusta, Ga., owns its minister, the congregation having bought him from his
former master. The members of the
Church, who are mostly, if not all slaves themselves, contribute $1,000 a year
for the support o their "chattel" pastor and family.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 27, 1860, p. 2, c. 5
Labor and Wages in New York.
The New York Tribune has an article upon this subject, from which we take
the following recapitulation of the average earnings and professions during the
whole year. In many cases workmen
lose three and four months in the whole year, while the wintry weather, when
they are employed, their receipts are reduced by reason of short hours;
Average
No. of
Wages
Hours
Trades and professions.
per
week.
per day.
Bakers
$6 00
17
Barbers
8 00
11
Book binders
9 00
10
Boot and Shoe makers
5 00
15
Boot and Shoe makers by the piece
7 50
16
Brewers and Distillers, 7 days per week
6 00
12
Bricklayers and Masons
10
00
10
Cabinet makers
7
00
10
Coopers
7 00
10
Cigar-makers
7 50
10
Drug Clerks
9 00
13
Dry-Goods (retail)
10
50
14
Domestic Servants
6 00
Engineers
11 00
1 [sic?]
Fancy Goods Clerks (retail)
10
00
14
Folding Girls (books)
4 50
10
Grocers' Clerks (retail) including board
9 00
17
Gunsmiths
9 00
10
Hatters
10 00
10
Hooped skirt makers
5
50
9
Iron-moulders
10 00
10
Machinists
11 00
10
Millwrights
7 00
10
Painters
7 00
10
Piano forte makers
7
00
10
Porters in stores
7
00
10
Pressmen (morning papers)
12 00
8
Printers (daily papers)
16
00
10
Printers (book)
10 00
10
Printers (job)
11 00
10
Pressmen (hand and machine)
11 00
10
Police captains
23 00
at call
Police sergeants
17 46
11
Police Patrolmen
15 28½
11
Rope spinners
6 00
10
Rail Road conductors (city) 7 days per week
10 50
12
Railroad drivers (city) 7 days per week
8 75
12
Stage drivers
6 58
18
Shirt sewers
3 00
20
Stone-cutters
7 50
10
Teachers (in private schools)
18 00
8
Waiters (saloon,) including board
6 00
10
Waitresses (saloon,) including board
4 00
10
Watch-makers
11 00
10
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 27, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Cooper's Wells,
Hinds County,
Mississippi.
The undersigned have become the purchasers of the above noted public
resort,--and are now making a thorough overhauling and repairing of the
buildings in order to make it the most pleasant and agreeable watering place in
the south. Owing to the extensive
alterations being made, they will not open until the first day of June; until
that time all persons who wish to visit the Wells for health, can do so, as they
have reserved a portion of the Hotels, especially for invalids.
R. W. Benbury, & Co.
Proprietors.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 4, 1860, p. 2,
c. 1
The Fine Arts.—Our friend and fellow-citizen, Mr. N. F. Hawkins, says
that there is yet some one who is not cognizant of the fact that he is, and has
been for some time past, taking Life Size and other Oil Colored
Photographs. We cheerfully mention
the fact that we well remember nearly a year since to have seen at his Gallery
some very fine specimens of this style of Portrait, and from time to time have
feasted our eyes on his beautiful productions, and will add that in our judgment
they very far surpass anything of the kind ever yet done in our city, and
having, as he has, made an engagement with the finest Artist and most skillful
Portrait Painter in our land, to color his Photographs, it is but reasonable to
suppose that very gems of the Art may be expected.
To our friends and readers, and all in want of perfect specimens of art
and genius, we would say go to your fellow-townsman, Mr. N. F. Hawkins.
His Gallery is at the old stand, over Mr. Langley's store, where all are
invited to call. See advertisement.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 4, 1860, p. 2,
c. 1
A Murderer Escaped.—A man by the name of Slaton, sentenced to be hung
for murder in Cass county, Texas, made his escape on Monday evening, 16th,
by the following means viz: His
wife and his brother visited him, and were admitted to audience with him, where
they remained till the dusk of the evening, when the jailor informed the
visitors that it was time to depart; it so happened that he locked up the wrong
man, who has since been admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 4, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
Artesian Springs.
This celebrated watering place, situated in Madison county, Miss., six and a half miles from Picken's Station, on Mississippi Central Railroad, is now open for the reception of visitors, seeking either health from its
Valuable Medicinal Waters,
or pleasure from its numerous sourses [sic]. After the 15th day of May,
Splendid Four Horse Coaches
will be in waiting on the arrival of New Orleans trains at
Picken's Station to convey passengers to the Springs. Those visiting the Springs before that time, will find
conveyances at the station by applying to Mr. Canterbury of that place.
Fine Band of Music will be in attendance during the entire season.
Many valuable improvements made for the comfort of visitors.
No pains will be spared to give satisfaction to my guests.
Wm. R. Lucket,
Proprietor.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 15, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
To the Ladies—Wife Wanted.
A Bachelor, not too old, good looking, whose habits are temperate,
disposition genial, education limited; owns a small estate near Nashville,
wishes to better his fortune by a union with some fair Southern lady.
Reference will be given to the first merchants of the City. Address R. T. H., Box 410, Nashville, Tennessee.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 18, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
Opening Ball.
There will be given at the Artesian Springs, Madison County, Miss., A
Grand Fancy Dress Ball, on Tuesday, June 5th, to which the Ladies of
this and adjoining States, are respectfully invited; at which all the late
Fashionable Dancing will be introduced.
W. R. Luckett,
Proprietor.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 1, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Spring Mattresses.—We take pleasure in calling attention to the
advertisement of Mr. Samuel Pool, in this morning's issue.—No one after having
used one of these spring matresses [sic] will question the superior advantages
they possess over all other patterns hitherto brought into market. The public is invited to call and examine their stock.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 1, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
Patent Folding Spring Mattress.
The undersigned would respectfully announce to the public that he is now
manufacturing "Well's Patent Folding Mattress," which is superior in
finish, durability and style, and far surpasses any other bed in comfort and
ease to the person who is so fortunate as to possess one.
The prices of this Mattress are very moderate, being afforded for less
money than they can be procured in the northern cities.
He also manufactures all kinds of Pillows, Mattresses, &c., &c.,
to order to suit his customers.
Please call and examine his stock, at the rooms over the store of Capt.
Julienne, State street, Jackson, Mississippi.
Samuel Pool.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 4, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Negroes at Key West.—There are fifteen hundred negroes on the Island of
Key West, recently captured from slavers by the vigilant officers of the
Government.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 15, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
For the Mississippian.
Cooper's Wells.
Cooper's Well, June 14, 1860.
During the first part of the present week we had the pleasure of visiting
this justly celebrated watering place, which was recently opened under the
auspices of the new proprietors, Messrs. Benbury & Co., late of New Orleans,
La.
Upon first approaching the Wells we could but notice the many outdoor
improvements which have been made since the new proprietors have taken
possession. In fact the whole place
had, like the birds, trees and flowers, put on a new and bright appearance.
On entering the office we found everything arranged in the most elegant
and systematic manner. We found Mr. Benbury behind the counter, perfectly at home,
attending to the wishes of his visitors in the most prompt and gentlemanly
manner and issuing his orders in a quiet, but positive tone, (quite in contrast
with the usual pomposity of landlords) while everything worked in perfect
clock-like regularity. The parlors
had been refurnished in fashionable style, while in the extensive dining saloon
everything presented an appearance of newness and neatness.
The tables were arranged according to the most approved method, while the
eatables to be found thereon were of the most unexceptionable character.
We have visited Cooper's Well more or less for several years past, but
the fare under the administration of Messrs. Benbury & Co., is decidedly
superior to any of which we have ever partaken at that fashionable
resort.—Then the servants are both numerous and attentive.
The dining room is under the general supervision of Mr. Montgomery, and
right well does he discharge his duties. The
bedrooms, too, have all been elegantly furnished and are kept in good order.
In a word, the whole place has been repaired and fitted up regardless of
expense or trouble; and no efforts will be spared to make the Wells the most
attractive Summer resort in the South. We
certainly think the princely liberality and untiring energy of the proprietors
should meet with encouragement at the hands of the people of this and adjacent
States.
We attended the opening Ball given on Monday night last.
The whole affair was gotten up in the most liberal and tasteful manner.
The Ball-room was arranged in fine style; a splendid band discoursed
sweetest music, while "brightest lamps shone on fair women and brave
men." While the crowd was not
as large as we expected, yet the number was sufficient to make it agreeable.
The dancing was continued till supper was announced, when we sat down to
the finest supper, we venture to say, that was ever gotten up at the Wells.
We cannot do justice to it now, though we did on that occasion.
We have not attempted to describe the Ball or the ladies present,
preferring to devote our space to letting your readers know how matters and
things in general have been arranged this Summer at the Wells.
We have not exaggerated in the least, but have spoken of everything just
as we saw it, without embellishment. We
shall attend the next Ball and give you something about geotic angels, twinkling
feet, whispered tales of love, and so on to the end of the chapter.
P.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Women and their Legal Rights.
Lord Brougham is reported to have said that "before a woman can have
any justice by the laws of England, there must be a total reconstruction of the
whole system, for any attempt to amend it would prove useless."—Lord
Braugham was right. The great
charter—the glory of his country—which has done so much for the citizen in
establishing the supremacy of law over prerogative, provides only for justice
between man and man. For woman
nothing is left but common law, accumulations and modifications of original
Gothic and Roman heathenisms, which no amount of filtration through
ecclesiastical courts could change into Christian laws.
They have been declared unworthy of a Christian people by other great
jurists—still they remained unchanged.
But that learned and humane man has done much towards ameliorating the
anomalous condition of his countrywomen, through the "Association for the
Promotion of Social Science," of which he was the first President.
As its five departments include jurisprudence and amendment of the law,
education, prevention of crime and punishment, and reformation of criminals,
public health and social economy, it is easy to see that English women of all
grades in society are likely to be indirectly benefitted by its proceedings.
Indeed its history warrants the hope that in some future age the memory
of man will run in a direction quite contrary to the common law.
The year 1860 is a memorable one for American women, despite the disgrace
of the "Woman's Rights Convention."
The New York legislature in March framed and passed a bill equalizing the
"rights and liabilities of husband and wife" in respect to property
inheritance of real estate and guardianship of children.
Not only is the wife of a worthless husband protected by having "the
earnings from the trade, business, labor or service her sole and separate
property, which she may invest as if sole; but also by having the right to
bargain, sell, assign and transfer her separate property, and (with the
permission of the county court of Common Pleas in New York city) to do the same
with her real estate. There are women—not a few—whose happiness as well as duty
it is to support families of which the head has been stricken by sickness or
misfortune and as the right to make contracts has hitherto been denied them,
every step was clogged with needless difficulties. These cruel disabilities are now removed.
And, in opposition to the common law, which still obtains in this State,
the right of personal security as well as private property has been secured to
married women. "Any married
woman may (now not only) sue and be sued in all matters having relation to her
sole and separate property, (but also) may bring and maintain an action in her
own name for damages against any person or body corporate for any injury to her
person or character, the same as if she were sole; and the money received upon
the settlement of any such action, or recovered upon a judgment, shall be her
sole and separate property. The
civil law (which in some respects is no less oppressive than the common law)
"authorizes the husband to require the society of his wife, and to exert
such control over her person as may be necessary for the attainment of that
object.—It gives him a right of action against any person who entices her from
him, and with whom she takes refuge, and process against her to compel her
return to his abode. In opposition
to this she can urge no objection, except as may be good cause of separate
maintenance, or of divorce.
There, as in Louisiana, under the civil law, "at the decease of the
husband or wife intestate, leaving minor child or children, the survivor,
whether husband or wife, continues in possession of all the real estate of which
the husband or wife died seized, and all the rents, issues and profits thereof,
during the minority of the youngest child, and one-third thereof during his or
her natural life." But in
Louisiana the wife forfeits, by marrying again, the right (which the husband
retains under the same circumstances) to the control of the minor children's
property, for never until now has the spirit of that law been repudiated in
legislation, which declares that "a widow who slights her deceased husband
by marrying again, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded
from the seat of her lord."
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 22, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Return of the Jews to Palestine.
To the student of the Bible and church history there are few current
subjects of more absorbing interest or of deeper significance than the events,
now almost daily transpiring, which point to the repossession by the Jews of
their own land. The tide of
progress, after a lapse of centuries may be said to have fairly turned in that
direction, and the prayer long offered by that chosen but now scattered people,
that Judah may be saved, and Israel dwell securely, and that the Redeemer may
come to Zion." the Philadelphia Press thinks is undoubtedly hastening to
its fulfillment.
The Sultan of Turkey is encouraging Jewish emigration to Palestine, and
is offering to sell them as much land as they choose to buy, and, it is said,
has even expressed his willingness to dispose of the Mosque of Omar to them,
which, it will be recollected, stands on the very site of the Jewish Temple of
Mount Moriah. This mosque is one of
the Mohammedan's most celebrated shrines, being scarcely inferior in national
importance to those of Mecca and Medina. Politicians
and statesmen look upon these indications as a legitimate consequence of the
liberalizing influence of Mohammedan in intercourse with Christians, and so they
may be; but, to the reader of the yet unfulfilled pages of Revelation, they also
point to what, as it respects the Jewish nation, "Prophets and kings"
have long waited for, "but died without the sight."—That the Mosque
of Omar should be in a fair way of passing into the hands of the people to whose
fathers the site on which it stands was once given as an everlasting covenant,
is what no reader of secular history fifty years ago could even have dreamed
would ever come to pass. Some of
the hills around Jerusalem have already become Jewish property, and is by no
means improbable that some of the present generation will see the entire city of
Jerusalem again in the hands of its ancient owners.
That might revolutions will follow in the wake of such an event is
probably as certain as that the Jews will return at all; at all events, affairs
in that immediate region of the East must ere long become an engrossing theme
among the nations of the earth.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 26, 1860, p.
2, c. 4
The Factory.—Work Commenced.—On last Monday the work of preparing
material for the factory actually commenced.
The contract for burning brick was taken by Mr. Irby of Grenada, who
commenced his preparations for the work on Monday.
His contract specifies that he is to burn the amount of brick required at
$6.20 per thousand, and is to deliver 300,000 the first of August; 400,000 the
first of September; 400,000 the first of October and 400,000 the first of
November, making in all one and a half million.—Carrollton Democrat.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 3, 1860, p.
3, c. 1
The Meridian mentions a rumor that there is an organized band of
Abolitionists in the corner of Clark and Wayne of this State, and Choctaw and
Washington of Ala., who are defying the people and the authorities. Considerable excitement had been created in Quitman, and
other contiguous localities, and the citizens thereof were preparing to adopt
the means required to abate the nuisance.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 3, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Celebration of the
Fourth of Jul.
At the City of
Jackson, Miss.
Programme.
The Military and Fire Companies will meet on the morning of the 4th, at 9 o'clock, at their respective places of meeting—and then rendevous [sic] in front of the Capitol at 10 A.M.
Order of Procession:
1st. Jackson
Brass Band.
2nd. Firemen
and Hose Company.
3rd. Officers
of State, and City authorities,
4th. Mississippi
Rifles.
5th. Jackson
Typographical Union.
6th. Calliopean
Debating Society.
7th. Citizens
and Strangers.
8th. Mississippi
Capital Dragoons.
On arrival at the Fair Grounds, the Companies will form into a line for
the purpose of receiving the Flags to be presented to the two Military
Companies, by the Ladies of Jackson—Mississippi Capitol Dragoons on the right;
the Mississippi Rifles on their left, and the Fire Company on the left of the
Rifles.
1st. Music
by the Band.
2d. Presentation
of Flag to the Mississippi Capitol Dragoons, by a young lady of Jackson.
3d. Music by
the Band.
4th. Presentation
of flag to the Mississippi rifles, by a young lady of Jackson.
5th. Music
by the Band.
6th. Reading
of the Declaration of Independence.
7th. Music
by the Band.
8th. Oration.
9th. Music
and fireing [sic] of cannon.
10th. Dinner.
After dinner, Evening Parade by the two Military companies, Bran Dance,
&c.
The festivities of the day will close by a ball at the Bowman House, at
night. Tickets may be had upon
application to the manager, or from the clerk at the office of the Bowman House.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
Communicated.
Editors of Mississippian.—It seems proper to call the attention of
gentlemen who are in the habit of furiously driving their horses through the
public streets of our city, to the fact, that there it [sic] great danger in so
doing.—There is usually a general turn out of the numerous children of the
place in the afternoon, and fast driving is more or less dangerous to them.
There must be a city ordinance prohibiting this, and whether or not it is
certainly only necessary to remind gentlemen of the impropriety of the act to
abate the same.
Caution.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 5
The Fourth in Jackson.
The fourth was ushered in by as bright a day as could be desired, and at
an early hour the booming of the cannon aroused the inhabitants from their
slumbers to hail the 84th anniversary of our nation's independence.
In perfect contrast with the fine company of Cavalry which were to parade
the streets at 9 o'clock, there appeared at 6 o'clock in the morning, a company
of mounted men, purporting to be the National Body Guard of Gen. Lopez de Santa
Anna dressed in national uniform of most fantastic characteristics.—The stock
on which they paraded at the sound of a tin horn was in remarkable contrast with
that afforded at McMurry's stable being composed of an alternation of mules and
horses that evidently had been warned against the deleterious effects of too
much corn during the warm season.
At the approach of the hour for forming the procession, this company
which had amused the populace during the morning hours, mysteriously disappeared
and was seen no more during the day. The
riders were in Masquerade, thus rendering the identity of the actors in this
caricature a matter of conjecture.
Agreeably with the programme the procession was formed at 10½ o'clock by
the Marshal of the day, Capt. Burt, of the Cavalry, in the following order:
Jackson Cornet Band, Mississippi Rifles under the command of the
gentlemanly and efficient officer, Maj. Griffith, Fire Company and Hose Company,
Typographical Association, Calliopean Debating Society, Jackson Guards, Ladies
with attendants mounted, bearing banners; the Cavalry bringing up the rear.
At 11 o'clock the procession proceeded to the Fair Grounds followed by a
multitude of citizens admiring the splendors of the military uniforms and the
curiosity of printing national songs for the crowd while the procession was
moving. Arrived at the Fair Grounds
the military entered the arena, and forming into line the ladies and attendants
entered bearing the banners. Halting
in front of the Cavalry Miss Willie Pettus presented in a very appropriate
address on behalf of the ladies a beautiful national standard, which was
eloquently received by Mr. Eugene Barnes, on behalf of the company.
Advancing a short distance the ladies halted in front of the Rifles, who
were also presented, in an elegant speech on behalf of the ladies, which a
splendid banner by Miss Sallie Hay, which was received in a patriotic response,
by 2d Lieutenant R. A. Smith.
These ceremonies having been performed the ladies and military retired,
when the order of the day was continued by prayer by the Rev. John Hunter.
It was then announced that the Declaration of Independence would be read
by C. A. Brougher, Esq., who, after a few patriotic remarks, proceeded to read
to an attentive audience. Mr.
Brougher having retired from the stand Capt Burt introduced to the assembly, J.
C. Campbell, Esq., who delivered a most patriotic and eloquent oration; the
multitude frequently interrupting him with enthusiastic applause.
Dinner was announced from the rostrum—the Floral Hall being assigned to
the ladies and the lower floor to the gentlemen, where an abundance of provision
were profusely spread. Dinner being
over the companies were formed in line and entered the arena when all returned
[to] their seats in order to witness the drill of the Cavalry and Rifles, which
consisted in firing by companies and sections.
Considerable excitement prevailed at this time, the horses being
spirited, and but little accustomed to the discharge of rifles in front and
dragoon pistols over head.
In the meantime the lovers of the dance had repaired to the grounds
prepared for the occasion; but the military withdrawing unexpectedly from the
Grounds, the masses took it as the closing of ceremonies and soon followed the
music to the city, thus closing at an early hour the festivities of the day.
At night the saloons of the Bowman house presented a happy scene.
The beauty and chivalry of the country were there assembled in vast
numbers, and the few hours allotted to the enjoyment of music and dancing passed
off pleasantly.
The thanks of the Typographical Society are due to the kindness of Mr.
Spencer for his very acceptable attention in conveying the printing press, and
also to Mr. Chas. Dudley for the services of his elegant grays. The generous spirit displayed by these gentlemen on this
occasion is highly commendable.
On the whole it was an occasion long to be remembered by all who shared
its festivities.
K.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 10, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Mizell's Wells.—The premises of our esteemed townsman,
Capt. Mizell, have become the favorite place of resort for our citizens who
repair thither in throngs, morning and evening, to drink the excellent mineral
and health-restoring waters with which they abound,--These waters have been
analysed and found to possess unsurpassed medicinal virtues; and to this fact
many who have reaped their benefits can bear joyful testimony.
Capt. M. with unbounded liberality permits their use without money and
without price; and to the use of the waters is added the pleasure of a walk in
his well arranged and beautiful grounds.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 10, 1860, p.
2, c. 1
Cooper's Wells.—We beg to direct special attention to this well known
and popular home resort. The
advertisement of its present proprietors, Messrs. R. W. Benbury & co., will
be found in another column. It will
be seen that the first grand dress ball of the season, will come off, on Tuesday
the 17th inst. Messrs.
B. & Co., have renovated the entire premises, and have spared no expense to
make it among the pleasant resorts in the country.
Attached to the establishment are bowling alleys, billiard tables, pistol
gallery, livery stables, &c.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 6
Cooper's Wells,
Hinds County,
Mississippi.
is now open for the reception of visitors.
The undersigned, having recently purchased this Celebrated Southern
Watering Place, and refitted and refurnished the entire premises, trusts it is
now second to no other in the country. The
citizens of Mississippi and Louisiana may rely upon it, that no expense will be
spared to make the "Wells" a "home institution" suitable for
those in search of health or pleasure. The
services of a well known physician can be obtained at all times, and connected
with the establishment, pleasure seekers may find Bowling Alleys, Billiard
Tables, and a Pistol Gallery—all under the charge of competent persons.
An excellent Band of Music has been engaged for the season; also a livery
stable is attached to the Establishment, where saddle horses and carriages may
be obtained at all hours.
Board per month,
$50
00
Board per week,
$15
00
R. W. Benbury & Co.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 17, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
From our own Sea Shore.
(Extract of a private letter, placed at our disposal.)
Mississippi City, July 6, 1860.
My Dear Friend.—According to a promise made you when we parted, I will
now give you a true picture of our summer retreat, hoping to be able to induce
you to join us here.
It is a sweet spot with a fresh breeze blowing; a green lawn, sloping to
the beach; a grove of forest pines on the shore, through which the moonbeams
steal and sweetly shine, both on shore and sea.
It is beautiful here, as Nature in her own haunts till bee.
The waves, the night-winds, and the murmuring sea, blend into beauty and
chime into melody. My own native
mountain scenes are full of Nature's wildest charms; but the silent spell of the
starlit sea has even a sweeter beauty. There
is a charm in everything. You
feel as if you were in a world of dreams, and you dream of the shell, the
flower, and the billow. The
melancholy murmur of the waves, recalls the past with all its sentiments,
romance and love—its gallant hearts and joyous smiles.
But having traced the scene, let me speak of the characters which adorn
it, or at least a few of them; for the loveliest scene nature ever
painted would be dreary if no bright spirits enlivened it.
First, I will speak of our old friend, Mrs. M-----, of Vicksburg, still,
(as in the days of yore,) as elegant and stylish as a Queen.
Time has but gently touched her with his wing, leaving her both boom and
beauty; and she is all animation and refinement throwing a charm over every
circle that she adorns, whilst her husband, by his engaging manner and agreeable
conversation, assists in giving an interest to the scene.
New Orleans and Jackson are also well represented—the one by youth and
beauty, and the other by intelligence and refinement.
There are a pair of brilliant dark Creole eyes here that might take
captive any heart—and some brave gallant spirits that would give life and
brightness to any circle.
The 4th passed off pleasantly—and surrounded by the beauty
and chivalry of the South, no wonder that the youthful Orator of the day, Mr. T.
Manlove, of Vicksburg, should have found an inspiration, and that his speech
should have been full of eloquence and beauty; or that Mr. Foute of New Orleans
should have read with unusual taste and expression the Declaration of
Independence.
The evening was celebrated by a ball where smiles were bright and hearts
gay—and a magnificent supper wound up a charming entertainment.
In recommending to you this place it is almost useless to mention the
generous obliging, gentlemanly landlord—Mr. Hilzheim, of the Bowman at
Jackson—for he is too well known to need any recommendation from me—but yet
it is a pleasure to speak of his merits. Everything
is done for the comfort of his guests. He
spares neither trouble or expense. His
table is excellent—and you would scarcely be able to realize that it was the
same house you visited some years since. Do
come, and advise all who intend visiting the Gulf Shore this season to
patronize Mr. Hilzheim. Let me hear
from you soon.
Your friend,
"Rosa."
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 3, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
The Plot in Texas.
For diabolism of intent—revolting cruelty—and savage ferocity—this
affair has no parallel in the annals of Abolition outrage.
The details present a fertility of wicked invention and an exuberance of
depravity sickening to all but the most hardened in vice, villainy, cruelty and
corruption. The scheme extended in
its ramifications throughout the Northern counties, some of them settled by
numerous, thrifty, intelligent and prosperous communities.
There is scarce anything in the dark and bloody calendar of crime, but it
contemplates—theft—murder by poison, murder by midnight assassination,
murder by fire, murder of the old, murder of the young—rape—arson—all were
to be enacted in the tragedy for which the actors were rehearsing their parts.
Fortunately the plot was revealed before the day of its consummation, and
its authors will be held to a fearful accountability.
Who thus stealthily laid this mine—who were the concoctors of this
scheme of conflagration, terror and blood—the account below fully explains.
They were the emissaries of Northern Abolition Societies, wolves in
sheep's clothing, who, for the most part had come into unsuspecting communities
under pretence of preaching the gospel, of teaching the young, &c., &c.
They had come to put into practice the theories which the Sewards and
Sumners, the Lovejoys and Sherman's are preaching in the councils of the
nation—animated by the same spirit which gives vitality to the Black
Republican organization and which seeks to place Lincoln at the head of the
Government.
Let Southern men of all parties, study these details, and learn from them
profitable lessons concerning the designs of that party which has already
obtained control of more than three-fourths of the Northern State governments
and which is filling both branches of Congress with its devotees.
But read:
["] The outhouses, granaries, oats and grain of Mr. Crill Miller
were destroyed a few days after the destruction of Dallas.
This led to the arrest of some white men, whose innocence, however, was
proved beyond a doubt. Several
negroes belonging to Mr. Miller were taken up and examined, and developments of
the most startling character elicited. A
plot to destroy the country was revealed, and every circumstance, even to the
minutiæ, detailed. Nearly, or
quite, a hundred negroes have been arrested, and upon a close examination,
separate and apart from each other, they deposed to the existence of a plot or
conspiracy to lay waste the country by fire and assassination—to impoverish
the land by the destruction of the provisions, arms and ammunition, and then,
when in a state of helplessness, a general revolt of the negroes was to begin on
the first Monday in August, the day of election for State officers.
This conspiracy is aided and abetted by Abolition emissaries from the
North, and by those in our midst.
The details of the plot and its modus operandi, are these:
Each county in Northern Texas has a supervisor in the person of a white
man, whose name is not given; each county is laid off into districts under the
sub-agents of this villain, who control the action of the negroes in the
districts, by whom the firing was to be done.
Many of our most prominent citizens were singled out for assassination
whenever they made their escape from their burning homes.
Negroes never before suspected, are implicated, and the insurrectionary
movement is widespread to an extent truly alarming.
In some places the plan was conceived in every form shocking to the mind,
and frightful in its results. Poisoning
was to be added, the old females to be slaughtered along with the men, and the
young and handsome women to be parceled out amongst these infamous scoundrels.
They had even gone so far as to designate their choice, and certain
ladies had already been selected as the victims of those misguided monsters.
Fortunately, the country has been saved from the accomplishment of these
horrors; but then, a fearful duty remains for us. The negroes have been incited to these infernal proceedings by
Abolitionists, and the emissaries of certain preachers who were expelled from
this county last year. Their
agents have been busy amongst us, and many of them have been in our midst.
Some of them have been identified, but have fled from the country; others
still remain, to receive a fearful accountability from an outraged and
infuriated people. Nearly a hundred
negroes have testified that a large reinforcement of Abolitionists are
expected on the first of August, and these to be aided by recruits from the
Indian tribes, while the Rangers are several hundred miles to the North of us.
It was desired to destroy Dallas, in order that the arms and ammunition
of the artillery company might share the same fate.
Our jail is filled with the villains, many of whom will be hung and that
very soon. A man was found hung at
our neighboring city of Fort Worth, two days ago, believed to be one of those
scoundrels who are engaged in this work. We
learn that he had stored away a number of rifles, and the day after he was hung
a load of six-shooters passed on to him, but were intercepted.
He was betrayed by one of the gang, and hence his plans were thwarted.
Many others will share his fate.
I have never witnessed such times. We
are most profoundly excited. We go
armed day and night, and know not what we shall be called upon to do.["]
The Galveston News of the 28th furnishes further particulars
as follows:
["] We learn from a gentleman, a resident of Ellis county, who left
Waxahatchie on Monday last, and arrived this morning, some further details of
the results of the discovery of the diabolical abolition plot, that was to sweep
over Northern Texas with the incendiary's torch and murderer's weapon.
In Dallas and Ellis counties, committees, composed of the coolest,
steadiest and most respectable citizens, were appointed, and were at work all
last week investigating the whole affair. No
one but those immediately interested knows who compose the committees, nor where
or when they meet, or what they are doing. Their chief object is to ascertain what whites are at the
bottom of the plot. No one else
interferes in the investigation.
In Ellis, the County Court has organized patrols on an extensive and well
managed system.
The negroes' confessions—made apart and at great distances—concur in
the leading points; and all aver [sic] white men originated the plot and
directed their movements.
They promised the negroes their liberty and their masters' goods, etc.,
and to lead them to Kansas; the negroes were told also that the next
President would be a Northern man, who would free them all.
The negroes concerned in Ellis county were principally of mature age and
those allowed by their owners a good deal of liberty. The young ones were not allowed to participate in the plot,
and many were not trusted with the secret at all.
Their idea was to burn all the stores where arms and ammunition were
kept; and on election day—the 6th August, when the citizens were away from
their farms and houses; the negroes were to rise, seize on all arms, and,
headed by their white leaders, to attack the houses here and there, murder
defenseless women, burn and destroy, and finally, it is presumed, march off in a
body towards Kansas.
Waxahatchie was to have been set fire to on the 8th—the same day Dallas
and so many other places were fired; but an accidental fire in the town, that
day, aroused the citizens, and the negro appointed to the deed became alarmed,
and left. He was to have returned
and repeated the attempt last Sunday, had not the plot been discovered.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 3, 1860, p. 3, c. 6
The Ball of the Season!
There will be a Ball given at the Artesian Springs on Thursday, August 16th,
to which the ladies are all invited. At
which time there will be several Balloon Ascensions, and other amusements for
the benefit of the guests.
William R. Luckett.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 7, 1860, p.
2, c. 7
The Abolition Plot in Texas.—The Houston Telegraph, of the 31st
ult. mentions meetings of citizens at Anderson, Hempstead, Brenham, Paris,
&c., and the appointment of Vigilance committees, in consequence of the
developments of the Abolition plot. The
Telegraph says:
["] It has been
ascertained that the negroes of Grimes county have held secret meetings, and
many of them are supplied with arms.
In Fayette county a band of runaways was thought to have been organized,
to make a break for Mexico.
The Gilmer Tribune reports the arrest of three negroes in that town on
the 10th. They had in
their possession passes, papers, and various documents, way-bills to the Indian
Nation, pistols, powder, caps and writing materials.
They said they were from Henderson county.
The house of Dr. W. W. Stell, of Lamar county, was fired by a negro on
the 16th, and completely burned.
A letter in the Waco Democrat, written from Waxahachie, by Judge Buford,
of Dallas, confirms the accounts of the troubles in Ellis and Dallas.
It says: "Since you
left this place the investigations of the vigilance Committee of Dallas has led
to very important discoveries, implacating [sic] nearly all the negroes of Ellis
and adjoining counties. to-day a
committee was organized in this county, who have ascertained the existence of a
most perfect and thorough organization, having for its object an indiscriminate
massacre of the white population. Under
the lash the negroes have admitted that they had in their possession deadly
poisons, to be administered to their masters' families in food; and when
demanded of them, they have gone to the kitchen and produced the poison."
In every part of the State the people seem to be on the alert, and we
have no fear of any further outbreak. The
troubles in Ellis, Dallas, Denton and Terrant [sic] counties will be settled by
the citizens. The committees at
work there are composed of the best men in the several counties, and seem
determined to make a clean thing of the matter.
They are receiving the support of the whole population.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 10, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
A Grand Fancy Dress Ball will be given at Cooper's Well on Monday
evening, August 20th, by the enterprising proprietors of that
watering place. Masks, dominoes,
and fancy dresses can be obtained at the Wells, from Madame Groux.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 14, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Cooper's Well.
A friend who has been sojourning at the Well for a few days, writes us
over date of July 28th:
"What has become of the people?
Have they gone North after so much talk and hard feeling? How much better to patronize our own watering place!
I'll venture to say there is no place North where they can have as much
comfort as at Cooper's Well. Everything
is in perfect order; the table cannot be excelled; amusements of every kind, and
a delightful band of music, and nightly dancing.
It has been very warm for some time past, but is becoming pleasant, the
nights are cool enough, no mosquitoes to annoy, and the company on the
increase."
We learn personally from another friend, just returned from the Well,
that neither in New Orleans, nor at any watering place on the Gulf Shore, is
there such a table spread as at the Well, nor so many attentions shown by the
proprietors and manager, to make guests feel at home and comfortable. There is certainly no place South, where to the medicinal
advantages of most excellent water are united so many pleasures and delights of
a gay and fashionable watering place.—Natchez Courier.
These reports are confirmed by the accounts which we have received from
this excellent home watering place. By
the way, it must not be forgotten that a grand masque Ball will come off on the
20th inst.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 17, 1860, p. 3, c. 1
Later From Texas.
The Excitement in Texas.—By our Texas exchanges we receive further
particulars in regard to the excitement growing out of the suspected abolition
conspiracy.
The Nacogdoches Chronicle, of the 7th inst., has the following
items on this subject:
Ellis County.—A young man who had employed in a store at Waxahatchie,
was hung a few days since for giving strychnine to slaves to put in wells.
Smith County.—The man who was shot in the attempt to set fire to Tyler,
has been found dead.
Cherokee Nation.—The Paris Press speaks of a rumor that a bloody fight
had taken place in the Nation, between abolitionists and pro-slavery men, in
which 159 of the former were killed, and 7 of the latter.
The story is most probably a fabrication.
Wood County.—On the 29th ult., an armed committee escorted
the notorious J. E. Lemon out of
Wood county. Just before which, he
signed a document binding himself under penalty of his life not to return to
Wood county, nor publish nor circulate abolition documents in the State.
Cherokee County.—The citizens of Cherokee have organized for their
protection.
More Incendiarism.—Another attempt has been made to fire buildings near
Tyler, also in Brenham, and at Georgetown.
Another Great Fire.—The Houston Telegraph, of the 11th,
says:
We learn from a gentleman who passed through Henderson, in Rusk county,
on last Monday morning, that the town of Henderson was set on fire last Sunday
night, the 5th inst., and was almost entirely consumed.—Every house
on the square, except one, including all the business houses in the place, was
destroyed.
The people of Henderson, our informant says, put no faith in the reported
conspiracy, and neglected to appoint a patrol or keep watch.
The fire was discovered on Sunday night about 9 o'clock.
No clue had been discovered to the perpetrators of the deed.
Preacher Hung at Veal's Station.—The Fort Worth Chief, of the 1st
inst., has the following brief notice of the execution of an Abolitionist
conspirator:
We learn that a preacher by the name of Buley was hung at Veal's Station
last week, for being an active abolitionists [sic].
A majority of three hundred men condemned him.
A Discovery in Brenham.—The Brenham Ranger, of the 10th
inst., says:
A few days since, several negroes were arrested on Mill Creek, in this
county, who acknowledged to their having poison given them by white men, for the
purpose of poisoning their owners and families, and that the day of election was
the time fixed for general insurrection. They
also implicated some negroes about town as being concerned in the murderous
plot.
Trouble in Tennessee Colony.—The Fairfield Pioneer, of the 9th
inst., has the following:
Mr. Teague, a printer in our office, has just arrived from Tennessee
Colony, Anderson county, and brings the news that he witnessed the hanging of
two white men in that place on Sunday, the 5th inst., who were proven
to be guilty of inciting insurrection among the slaves of that neighborhood.
Their names were Antoney Wyrick and his cousin, Alford Cable. They
were engaged near the Conoly at their trades of wagon making and blacksmithing,
where they have been living for three or four years.
Wyrick had been previously taken up for harboring and selling liquor to
negroes. Negroes were found in the
possession of firearms and strychnine, furnished by these men.
Another Emissary.—The Houston Telegraph, of the 11th inst.,
says:
On Monday last, a white man rode up to Mr. Dick Breeding's, near Round
Top, at noon, and finding nobody but a negro girl at home, questioned her about
runaway horses, &c., and finally asked her how she and the negroes were
satisfied. He then went off, and
fifteen minutes after returned with three negroes, demanding something to eat.
The woman gave them food. After
eating, they broke open a trunk, in search of money.
They then put a shovel full of fire in the bed, and left.
After they were gone, the negro woman extinguished the fire, and then ran
to the overseer's house, to tell him what had happened.
the affair caused a good deal of excitement.
Evidence seems to be accumulating, to show some concert among a set of
desperadoes, in deeds of outrageous villiany [sic].
The Choctaws.—We learn from the Fort Worth Chief:
That the Choctaws are about to call upon the General Government for
assistance to procure provisions for the people of the Nation, as their crops
have almost entirely been destroyed by the drouth.
We learn from good authority that there will not be corn enough raised in
the whole Nation to last them until Christmas, and as the appropriation of the
money due the Nation failed in Congress last session, they are going to appeal
to the Government for assistance in some shape, to keep them from starving.
Drouth.—In many quarters of Texas the long continued drouth has at last
been broken, though it is believed too late for much benefit to the crops.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 21, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
The Texas Excitement.
Dr. Pryor writes to the State Gazette, under date of Dallas, July 23 and
24, the following additional particulars of the progress of the Vigilance
Committee in their work of ferreting out the guilty parties in the late outrages
in that county:
["] The Vigilance Committee have been in session all day, and this
evening they announced that there of the ring leaders of the insurrection are to
be hanged tomorrow. These hardened
scoundrels were amongst the number. The
decision seems to give general satisfaction.
The crowd dispersed after this announcement, and a strong guard was
detailed to watch the jail in which are confined six or eight of the criminals.
The police are active and unremitting in their efforts, and it would be
impossible for the whole abolition fraternity to surprise us now, although we
might be easily overpowered. They
would have to fight for it, however.
Tuesday, July 24. This
evening at 4 o'clock the three ringleaders, Sam, Cato, and Patrick, were
escorted from the jail under a strong guard to the place of execution.
An immense concourse of citizens and negroes assembled to witness their
exit from the scene of their wickedness. As
they passed through the town they surveyed with composure the ruins of the once
flourishing town, that now lays in a blackened mass before them.
Patrick Jennings (so called) remained calm and collected during the whole
day, and betrayed no remorse or feeling whatever in view of his approaching
doom. He it was who fired the town,
and that night after its destruction glorified himself for the deed, and
pronounced it only a commencement of the good work.
These facts were obtained from many witnesses, who testified to the same
facts without any hesitations or contradiction of each others' statements.—Sam
Smith, so called from the name of his master, was an old negro preacher who had
imbibed most of his villainous principles from two abolition preachers, Blunt
and McKinney, who lived in the country a year before, and had had much
intercourse with said negro; this old negro was a deep dyed villain.
Cato had always enjoyed a bad reputation.
They met their fate with a composure worthy of a better cause.
Patrick Jenning with unparalleled nonchalance died with a chew of
tobacco in his mouth, and refused to make any statement whatever.
They were hung on the bank of the river above town, and are buried
beneath the gallows.
Investigations are still going on throughout the country, all of which
tend to confirm the facts elicited at this place. The evidence obtained before the committee will be published
in due time. More anon.
The Quitman incendiary, who was fired upon and escaped, leaving his
shavings and matches in front of Sparks' law office, had not been discovered. The Herald extra says:
Since our paper yesterday, [giving an account of the attempted
incendiarism,] made its appearance, we learn that Mr. Ed. Pollit, residing some
fifteen or eighteen miles south of this place, saw a stranger, on Thursday last
of suspicious appearance. He came
to Mr. Pollit through the woods, and inquired if he could get through to
Quitman, and came on in this direction. On
the day after the attempt to fire the town, about noon, a man, answering fully
the description, came through the woods to Mr. Gilbreath's, about fourteen miles
southeast of this place. He said he
was lost. What a stranger can mean
to be straggling through the woods is a question which very naturally excites
suspicion. Some of the citizens are
inclined to the opinion, from a combination of circumstances, that this is the
identical man shot at on last Friday night.
We will give these circumstances as we hear them, thinking, perhaps, they
may lead to some light upon the subject.
The Herald says:
Our streets are now nightly guarded with eight men, who will require a
strict account from all who may be seen lurking in suspicious places, white or
black; and slaves will not be permitted to straggle through the town at a late
hour, even with the written permission of masters, unless on urgent business,
and then not without the company of a guard.
We believe (says the Houston Telegraph), every city and town in the
State, or nearly every one, is now guarded by a vigilant volunteer night police.
There are no evidences amounting to anything of there having been any
plot in the Southern half of the State.—Still, these vigilant guards have done
much good in arresting vagabond white men, and runaway negroes.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 28, 1860, p. 3, c. 7
Fifty Negroes for
Sale.
Slave Depot,
Crystal Springs.
We have established a Depot at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, for the sale
of Negroes, and as our facilities for buying cheap and desirable Negroes are
unsurpassed, we can say to purchasers, that we will make it to their interest to
call on us before purchasing elsewhere, and purchasers who are visiting New
Orleans, would find it convenient and to their interest to examine our stock.
Relying entirely on making large and quick sales to sustain us in
offering such liberal inducements, and any Negro sold by us, that does not come
up to our representation, as per bill of sale, will be taken in exchange with as
little trouble as possible to the purchaser.
Being permanently located here, we can be found at all times to make our
guarantee good. We4 have just
received a large lot of young and likely Negroes and will continue to receive,
as may be required, No. 1 Men, Boys, Women, Girls and Families; also, extra
Cooks, Washers and Ironers, Blacksmiths, &c.
M. N. Robertson & Co.
Crystal Springs, Miss.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 31, 1860, p. 2, c. 5
Later From Texas.
New events almost daily occur in some parts of Texas to keep alive the
excitement that exists. We glean
again the most important from our exchanges.
The Jefferson (Cass county) Herald has the following paragraph:
["] A guard of twenty-four men is nightly stationed around the lace,
and not an individual passes through the streets after dark without being hailed
and made to give an account of himself. Several
suspicious individuals have recently been arrested, and some are now in
custody.["]
A man named Pearce has been arrested at Clarksville charged with burning
Henderson:
["]The proof against him is almost positive.—He hired a negro
woman at the hotel to do the work. His
brother, also implicated, has fled.["]
The Jefferson Herald says:
["] The citizens of Lamar and Fannin counties have ordered a certain
James R. Brown to leave the State in less than 24 hours.
The evidence against him was sufficient to justify more severity.
They are now driving from all the upper counties every individual upon
whom rests the least suspicion of abolitionism.
It will, no doubt, fall pretty hard on some parties, but the peace and
safety of the country demand it.
We learn that the flourishing little town of Mount Vernon, Titus county,
was burned down a few days since. It
was the work of incendiaries, one of whom, we are informed, has been caught and
hung.["]
A letter from Sulphur Springs, dated the 10th inst., says:
["] Last Saturday a plan to burn this place was discovered.
A negro preacher belonging to Mr. Goodson, acknowledged that he and
others had set apart last Tuesday night as the time to burn all the stores and
dwellings, commit all other depredations they could, and then take horses, in
case they could not whip out the white men, and fly for the Indian nation.
One Taylor, who has been loafing about here for the past sixteen months,
was partially implicated as a confederate.
He has made the negro his only companion and associate during the whole
time he has been here. But as
several negroes were implicated and the prospects good Taylor and two negro men
to hang, a "self-constituted" committee of six (the owners of said
slaves) held a second investigation and the negroes being permitted to talk
together the result was contradiction and confusion, and the whole posse were
let off! But this has not satisfied
the citizens, and yesterday we organized a regular vigilance committee, to exist
as long as any fears of burning are entertained.
Mr. Taylor will get his traveling card to-day, or be hung; and if the
negroes suspected are not taken from our midst, they will be dealt with
according to justice.["]
The 13th inst., an attempt to burn Indianola is said to have
been discovered in time to prevent serious loss.
A suspicious looking young man, a loafing stranger, named Edward King,
who was seen about the premises a few moments before, was arrested and given to
understand that a change of locality might be better for his health.
He went to New Orleans on the first steamer.
The citizens of Indianola have since formed a vigilance committee.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 7, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
["]The struggle in Texas is between slavery and freedom—slavery
that killeth, and freedom that maketh alive.—New York Tribune.["]
The struggle in Texas is that of the most demoniac passions against law,
civilization and humanity. Houses
are burned, men murdered, children massacred, women outraged and then consigned
to death—and all in the mere wantonness of cruelty and crime.—As well say
that the outrages of the Druses are the struggles of pure religion, as ascribe
the horrors of the Texas border to the love of liberty!
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 5
More of the Abolition work in Texas.
Late advices from Texas show that the incendiaries are still at their
fiendish work of murder and revolution. The
Austin State Gazette publishes a copy of a letter signed W. H. Bailey, who
appears to be one of the leaders of the abolition gang in Northern Texas.
If real, it affords a clue to the late outrages there, and will enable
the citizens to thwart and punish the conspirators:
Denton Creek,
July 3, 1860.
Dear Sir:--A painful abscess on my
right thumb is my apology for not writing at Anderson.
Our glorious cause is progressing finely, as far South as Brenham.
I there parted with Bro. Wempler; he went still further south; he will do
good wherever he goes. I traveled
up through the frontier counties, part of the time under a fictitious name.
I found many who had been initiated, and understand the Mystic Red.
I met with a good number of our friends near Georgetown; we held a
consultation, and were unanimously of opinion that we should be cautious of our
new associates; most of them are desperate characters, and may betray us, as
there are slave holders among them, and value poor negro much higher than a
horse. The only good they will do
us will be destroying towns, mills, etc. which is our only hope in Texas at
present. If we can break Southern
merchants and millers, and have their places filled by honest Republicans, Texas
will be an easy prey, if we only do our duty.
All wanted for the time being, is control of trade. Trade, assisted by preaching and teaching, will soon control
public opinion. Public opinion is
mighty, and will prevail. Lincoln
will certainly be elected; we will then have the Indian Nation, cost what it
will. Squatter sovereignty will
prevail there as it has in Kansas; that accomplished, have at least one more
step to take—but one more struggle to make—that is, free Texas.
We will then have a connected link from the Lakes to the Gulf.
Slavery will then be surrounded by land and by water, and soon sting
itself to death. I repeat, Texas we
must have, and our only chance is to break up the present inhabitants, in
whatever way we can, and it must be done. some
of us will most assuredly suffer in accomplishing our object, but our Heavenly
Father will reward us for assisting Him in blotting out the greatest curse on
earth. It would be impossible for us to do an act that is as
blasphemous in the sight of God as holding slaves.
We must have frequent consultations with our colored friends. (Let your
meetings be in the night.) Impress
upon their clouded intellects the blessings of freedom, induce all to leave you
can; our arrangements for their accommodation to go North are better than they
have been, but not so good as I would like.
We need more agents, both local and traveling. I will send out traveling agents when I get home.
You must appoint a local agent in every neighborhood in your district.
I will recommend a few I think will do to rely upon, viz: Bro's Leake, Wood, Ives, Evans, Mr. Daniel Viery, Cole,
Nugent, Shaw, White, Gilford, Ashley, Drake, Meeks, Shultz, and Newman.
Brother Leake, the bearer o this, will take a circuitous route, and see
as many of our colored friends as he can; he also recommends a different
material to be used about town, etc. Our
friends sent a very inferior article: they
emit too much smoke, and do not contain enough camphene.
They are calculated to get some of our friends hurt. I will send a supply when I get home. I will have to reprove you and your co-workers for your
negligence in sending funds for our agents; but few have been compensated for
their trouble. Our faithful
correspondent and industrious agent, Bro. Webber, has received but a trifle, not
so much as apprentice's wages, neither have Bro. Willet, Mangun and others.
You must call upon our colored friends for more money; they must not
expect us to do all; they certainly will give every cent, if they knew how soon
their shackles will be broken. My
hand is very painful, and I close.
Yours
truly,
W. H. Bailey.
N. B.—Brother Leake will give you what few numbers of "Impending
Crisis" I have; also Bro. Sumner's speech, and Bro. Beecher's letter, etc.
Farewell.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 21, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Texas Correspondence.
Austin, September 3, 1860.
Editor Mississippian: Our
State has achieved a great victory over the Opposition, and the Democracy are
wide awake and hard at work for a more important and more glorious triumph in
November next. Our ticket, as far
as heard from, is seventeen thousand ahead.
The Opposition are busy in getting up a fusion ticket, with Bell and
Douglas. A petition to that end is
circulating to-day. Numbers who
have heretofore voted with them, refuse to sign it.
They can home for nothing in Texas.
We will beat them at the very lowest twenty thousand votes.
All their work and zeal will only mount to a bid for office under Bell or
Douglas, should either of them by any possibility be elected.
We have ever confidence in the success of Breckinridge and Lane.
Our electors are canvassing the State.
Besides, in the Western District, Oldham, Potter, Scurrey, Neal, and a
host of others, are doing good work on the stump.
We will dry them up worse in November than our corn and cotton was dried
up in June and July by the drouth. The
South will never rebuke Tennessee for rebuking a man with such a record as John
Bell. Move on the ball.
Very truly,
Texas.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 21,
1860, p. 2, c. 7
A Clergyman of the Methodist persuasion writes the following, among other
things, to the Journal of Commerce, from Vicksburg:
Our papers are teeming with accounts of the havoc of another John Brown
raid on the border counties of Texas. Abolitionists
have been there in the character of Methodist Preachers, Teachers, &c., and
instigated a general insurrection among several hundred negroes
They had planned matters for a most bloody and fatal catastrophe.
Firearms of all sorts; arsenic, to be put in wells for poisoning the
people, and means for setting fire to the whole town at once, were detected, but
not until five towns had been burned, and great mischief done.
One woman has been hung for distributing arsenic, to be put in cisterns
and wells. And one or two preachers
have been hung for aiding and inciting to revolt. If things go on at this rate, a man suspected of anti-slavery
proclivities will be hung or shot like a dog; a fate they court, it would seem.
Dissolution of the Union is inevitable, with abolitionism in the
ascendant, at Washington. Here we
are trying to lead the negroes to Christ and Heaven, while those incendiaries
lead them to the gallows.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 25,
1860, p. 2, c. 4
Abolition Outrages in Texas.—Extract from a private letter, Houston,
Texas, to a friend in Hartford, Ct.:
Tell your abolition friends to go on, and soon they will have the
pleasure of seeing the negro reduced to such a state of hopeless bondage that
they may well pity them. I solemnly
declare that to-day the negro is not as free as he was two or five years ago;
and why?—Simply because his master has been goaded on to desperation by
incendiary acts and speeches.
One year ago all was peace and quietness here.
The negro was allowed to go out to have dances and frolics; to-day one
dare not show his head after 9 o'clock in the evening.
Seven companies of patrol are organized and guard the city each night.
Sixteen horse patrol scour the county around.—Forty-eight vigilance men
say live, banish or die, as the proof may go to show.
And so it is all over the country. Men
are hung every day by the decision of planters, lawyers, judges and ministers.
It is no hot, impetuous act, but cool, stern justice.
It is the saving of wife and daughter, mother and sister from the hand of
desecration. it is the stopping of
scenes that would make the Druses and Turks blush for shame.
*
*
We had one more fire."
Yours truly. ***
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 25,
1860, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Sen.
Wigfall of Texas delivers speech in support of Breckinridge and Lane
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 12, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
The Campbells.—The Campbells have favored us the past two evenings with
something rich and racy. The
Company is the best we have ever had in our city; much better even than the last
party that visited us. They will
perform again to-night with an entire change of Programme throughout.
On Saturday they open the season at the St. Charles, New Orleans.
Give them a bumper at parting.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
A Female Emissary.
An examination was held at Charleston, S. C., on Friday morning, by Mayor
Macbeth, of one Mrs. Catherine Bottsford, a female or rather prepossessing
appearance, charged by several respectable citizens with uttering and
disseminating among the slave population seditious sentiments.
During the investigation she admitted entertaining the Abolition
sentiments attributed to her and of being an admirer of John Brown.
She denied, however, any attempt to circulate her opinions.
The evidence and affidavits submitted showed to the contrary, and she was
required to give bail in the sum of $300 for her good behavior.
Failing in this she was turned over to Magistrate Kampaux who committed
her to jail.
We learn from the Courier that the accused states that she has resided in
the city about nine months, during which time she has followed the occupation of
a seamstress. She also states that
she hoped to obtain the situation of a teacher.
Officer Schoubee, who arrested her, had been watching her movements for
some time past. The case will
probably undergo investigation at the January term of the Court of General
Sessions.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 9, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Fruit and
Ornamental Trees.
Evergreens, Roses,
Green House Plants.
As the season is advancing for the transplanting of trees, &c., we
beg to call the attention of the public and those interested in beautifying
their grounds to our extensive stock of Fruit Trees of every description,
comprising in part—
Pears,
Nectarines,
Apples,
Figs,
Peaches,
Cherries,
Plums,
Quinces,
Apricots,
Grape Vines,
Almonds,
Strawberries,
Chestnuts,
Currants,
Filberts,
Raspberries,
Gooseberries, &c.
A fine collection of new and rare Evergreens; among them will be found
the following:
Pyramidal Cypress,
Norway Spruce,
Weeping Cypress,
Balsam Fir,
Cedrus Deodoro,
Scotch Pine,
Magnolia Grandifloral Japan
Cedar,
Irish Juniper,
Long
leaf Pine,
Swedish Juniper,
Cupressus Encavidese,
Carpet or Creeping do,
do Torulossa,
And a great variety of Arborvitaes, Euonemus, Mahoncas, Yews, Hollies,
Moagnolias, Box's, Olives, Laurels, Vibernums, Jassamines, Firs, Spruces,
Pittisporum, Privits, Thorns, &c., &c., together with a splendid
collection of Deciduous, Trees and Shrubs, Splendid Roses, Bulbous and tuberous
rooted Plants, Superb Dahlias and Pæonies.
A fine collection of Green House Plants—
Camelias,
Lantamas, [sic?]
Pelagonemus,
Begoneas,
Salvias,
Plumbago,
Abutilons,
Geraniums,
Oleanders,
Heliotropes,
Azaleas,
Hibuscus,
Fuschias,
Justiceas,
Russelias, &c.
And many rare or new Green House Plants.
Also a collection of the choicest
Verbenas,
Phloxes,
Chrysanthemums.
A general collection of Hardy Herbaceous Plants, Weeping Trees, Vines and
Creepers, with everything desirable for Orchard, Garden, Pleasure Ground or
Green House.
For full, descriptive, and wholesale Catalogues, apply to
Hatch & Co.,
Central Nurseries, Jackson, Miss.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 13, 1860,
p. 2, c. 4
The Central District Fair Ball.—One of the most interesting features of
our Fair, which passed off last week quite successfully, notwithstanding the
inclemency of the weather, was the brilliant Ball given on Thursday night at the
Bowman House, by H. Hilzheim, Proprietor. The
arrangements were upon the most extensive and elegant scale, all of which were
carried out in a most successful manner. The
large dining room of the Bowman House was brilliantly lighted, and the sweetest
and most artistic of music was provided so as to please the devotees of the
Terpsichorean art. The room was
filled with fair women and brave men, from all parts of this and adjacent
States. The "Hilled city"
sent the fairest of her daughters, Madison was represented by the most angelic
of geotic creatures, while the delegation from Rankin vied in beauty with them
all. Old Hinds was well represented
in numbers, beauty, elegance and grace. But
we cannot speak of all the "ladies fair" who had gathered there to
"trip lightly through the mazes of the dance."
The men were all gallant, and swore "by all the gods of Hellespont
and Greece" true and brave knights to be.—All seemed to enjoy themselves,
pleasure sparkled in every bright eye, smiles played around each rosy lip, for
the Goddess of joy was there enthroned.
The supper was all that could be required by the most critical epicurean.
There was a bountiful supply of the substantials of life and the
delicacies of the season, while the cakes and jellies, the fruits and wines were
rich and rare. In fact, the Ball in all its arrangements showed the master
skill of a master hand.—We, in common with all who attended, are indebted to
Mr. Hilzheim, the gentlemanly and accomplished proprietor of the Bowman House,
for the enjoyment of that brilliant occasion.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 16, 1860,
p. 2, c. 7
The Flag of Alabama.—We are glad to know that the "maids and
matrons" of Montgomery, enthused with the spirit that actuated the women of
'76, are making a splendid flag to be presented to the Southern Rights Men of
this city. It is the Flag of
Alabama.
As it has been described to us, the banner is to have a blue ground, and
on its face the representation of a cotton plant.
The lower portion of the stalk bears open bolls, the middle half open,
and the upper green bolls. Interspersed
among the branches of the plants are the cotton blooms white and red as in
nature. At the root of the stalk
lies, a representation of a rattlesnake with head erect, and fifteen rattles.
The motto is, Noli me tangere.
On the reverse of the banner is the map of the State, with the word
Alabama across it.
All hail to the flag of Alabama.—Montgomery Mail.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 20, 1860,
p. 2, c. 1
We call special attention to the Card of our friend A. Miazza in this
Morning's issue.
A correspondent of the Natchez Free Trader speaks of his newly completed
magnificent establishment as follows:
Pre-eminent, still amongst the "institutions" of
Jackson—nearly in front of the State House—and close by his old
stand—Angelo Miazza has, within the past three months, erected at an expense
of upwards of 10,000 dollars a magnificent establishment.
It is built of brick, chastely but elegantly decorated.
On the basement story below, is a bar room well supplied with excellent
liquors—in the rear a resturat [sic], far and away the best we know of (and we
speak by the book;) there during the season, (aye, at the present
writing) you can see the oysters in the shell—and hear the
oysters frying—and eat the oysters (as we do) stewed—Venison
rules the roast.—Every luxury can be had—Trout from Michigan—Prairie
chickens from the great North West—Red fish from New Orleans—and sheephead
from the same. The facilities of
railroad travel have brought all those things if not to your door, or mine, at
least, to the door of the building on State street—and better still inside
the door. Miazza, or Angelo,
(for by the latter name he is exclusively known to the "habitues" of
Jackson for years past) deserves much credit, (and more cash;) he is a native of
Sardinia—(the natal place of Italian liberty in our day) has been living here
for eighteen years—has bought property and is in every respect identified with
Mississippi, her interest and prosperity. And
whilst I know, that in some instances, he and his family have not been
unmindful of the injunction to 'clothe the naked'—and 'visit the afflicted.'
You will not fail to bear witness that he never fails to
"feed the hungry" and that to repletion.
If any visitors from your counties below doubt my taste or are not
satisfied with my judgment—please direct them to call on Angelo and satisfy
themselves.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 20, 1860,
p. 2, c. 7
The Blue Cockade.—This emblem of State Rights, or the Southern Roll of
Honor, has made its appearance upon our streets.
In a few days we expect to see them as plentiful "as leaves in
valambrosa"—Oxford Mercury.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 23, 1860,
p. 3, c. 4
The Charleston Mercury has the following:
Sturdy Patriots.—A number of charcoal dealers, from the interior of
this district, were yesterday here on business, wearing—not the blue silk
cockade—but plain strips of brown paper, bearing such mottoes as
"Resistance," "Remember Harper's Ferry," etc.
We could not but admire the stern simplicity of this unpretending badge
of devotion to South Carolina:--
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king of men for a' that.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 23, 1860,
p. 3, c. 4
The blue cockade—"the South must be protected in her
rights"—have made their appearance in large numbers on our streets.
Nearly every man in town has one, and doubtless if it becomes necessary
to protect our rights at the price of blood, the citizens of Magnolia will not
be found wanting in the strife. Three
cheers for the blue cockade.—Magnolian.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 23, 1860, p. 3, c. 6
Heller
In Second Sight
and
Wonderful Magic,
On Friday Night,
and
Saturday Afternoon
and Night,
November 23d and
24th.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 27, 1860, p. 3, c. 5
Robert Heller
The Great
Seer,
Will Appear at
Spengler's Hall,
on
Wednesday and
Thursday
Evenings,
November 28th
& 29th, 1860.
In addition to the mystery of Second Sight, and other interesting
Wonders, the sensational feat, representing An Execution, or "Death by
Hanging," will conclude the performance.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Grand Rally of the "Minute Men."
The Minute Men will have a Grand Torch Light procession to-night.
An address will be delivered at the Capitol after the procession by the
Hon. W. L. Harris.
A general attendance is invited.
Programme.
1st—Jackson Brass Band.
2d—Rocket Corps.
3d—Mississippi Rifles.
4th—Minute Men.
5th—Knights G. C.
6th—Citizens and Strangers.
7th—Jackson Fire Company.
8th—Jackson Guards.
9th—Mississippi Capital Dragoons.
10th—Quitman Light Artillery.
Procession will be formed on State Street in front of the Armory of Miss.
Rifles.
Strangers who are with us in this move for Southern rights, are most
cordially invited to join Procession.
It is desirable that all who join the Profession [sic?] should wear the
Blue Cockade.
Friday, Nov. 30th 1860.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 1, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
Grand
Ethiopian Concerts
on
Wednesday and
Thursday
Evenings,
December 12th
& 13th, 1860,
at
Spengler's Hall,
by
Messrs. Sharey,
Duprez and Green's
New Orleans, and
Metropolitan Double
Minstrel Troupe,
Numbering sixteen delineators of Ethiopian characters, and
a Brass Band of ten pieces introducing an entire change of programme, each
night.
The Brass Band will give a Serenade in front of the Hall each evening,
previous to opening of Doors. Go
early, if you wish a good seat.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 7, 1860, p. 3, c. 6
Dancing Academy,
Graves' Building.
Prof. C. H. Cleveland, respectfully announces to the citizens of Jackson
and vicinity, that he will open his Academy for imparting instructions in the
latest and most fashionable styles of dancing, including a full course of
calisthenic exercises. All the new
and fashionable dances of the day will be introduced during the session,
including the beautiful new quadrille, the Prince Imperial.
Hours of Tuition from 9 to 12, and from 3 to 5, Saturday Morning and
Evening. Gentlemen's class from 7
to 9, Friday and Saturday nights.
Terms of tuition.--$10,00 per session of twelve Lessons.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 11, 1860, p. 3, c. 1
Georgia Girls in Homespun.
The Atlanta (Ga.) American, reporting the State Fair, says:
"Not the least attractive feature of the day was the appearance on
the grounds of a party of twenty-seven ladies, teachers and pupils of the
'Spring Hill School,' attired in a substantial check homespun dress, made
fashionably full and flowing. Twenty-seven
blooming, bright-eyed Southern lasses, in cloth of Southern manufacture, of
which the staple was peculiar to their homes, was indeed a sight worth seeing on
a Southern Fair ground."
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 11, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Everett &
Maddens
Consolidated
Variety Show,
Embracing
Comicalities,
Eccentricities,
Negro
Minstrelsy, &c.
Will exhibit at
Jackson,
Friday and
Saturday,
December 14th
& 15th, 1860.
Admission Fifty-cents. Children
and Servants, Half-price.
H. J. Guion, Agent.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 11, 1860,
p. 3, c. 2
The Georgia Flag.—The "Everglade" left this port yesterday
with the Georgia flag hoisted. It
is the first one ever used in this State, and was made during the time of the
States Rights excitement in 1828.—Savannah News.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 11, 1860,
p. 3, c. 2
The Blue Cockade.—Cockades were numerous on the streets yesterday.
They are blazing out in every part of the city, are rapidly on the
increase and come out in some cases "under difficulties."
We saw a few immense rosettes of blue baize, as big as small sized
cabbages, fluttering around.—Petersburg Express 1st.
SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 14, 1860,
p. 3, c. 3
Homespun.—Many of the citizens of Texas are putting off everything of
wearing apparel that is manufactured at the North, and coming out in full suits
of homespun. The Northern
manufactures may make a note of this.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], January 16, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
A Cheering Voice from Texas!
Amid the din of warring sections, and the loud notes of feindish [sic]
hate that are borne to us upon every gale from the North, the following letter
comes from the Lone Star State as a messenger of sympathy in our struggle for
independence. I tis written by the
hand, and is the emanation of the noble heart, of a lady, formerly of
Mississippi, who illustrates the patriotism of her sex in this hour of trial,
but not of gloom, for even now we look hopefully upon the silver lining of the
cloud that shirts our horizon.
Gladly will the men of Mississippi enter the lists to prove their sheild
[sic] and spear in the championship of Southern rights and honor and the
protection of Southern women:
Vialoolah, Dec. 28th, 1860
Dear Sir:--Enclosed you will find a "rosette," it combines the
tricolor of the Texas flag with its Lone Star, and was the revolutionary badge.
It is now adopted as the distinctive badge of those Texas volunteers who
are in readiness as "Minute Men," to answer the call of South
Carolina, or any other Southern State.
I send it to you that it may be worthily worn and bravely defended as the
champion of lady's gage, challenge to chivalric and generous emulation the true
knights of Mississippi to link their shields with the volunteers of Texas,
advance their penons in the front of danger, and to him that plants his standard
in the thickest of the fight be the award of valor and the prize of patriotism.
Texas will be ready in full time to join her sister States in a Southern
Confederacy.
Yours truly and respectfully,
M. H. W.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 7, 1861, p. 3, c. 3
To Make Vinegar and Pickles.
The following timely suggestions are from a lady in Madison county, and
will prove invaluable to those who wish to make pickles or vinegar for the
volunteers:
Madison County, July 31, 1861.
Ed. Mississippian:--Permit me through your paper to make a suggestion to
the ladies of Mississippi and others who are preparing stores and provisions for
our soldiers.
To make a healthy, grateful, and cheap pickle, good to prevent scurvy in
those who live on salt provisions, take an empty whiskey or molasses cask, do
not wash it unless dirty inside, fill up with firm, hard peaches, not too ripe,
gathered with the hand without bruising, add two or three dozen pods of red
peppers and one quart of salt, then pour on vinegar until the cask is full, and
head. This pickle will keep well,
and the vinegar is finely flavored—it does well to use in cookery or at table.
For family use, any spices preferred, may be used in addition to the
pepper and salt. I have peaches
over a year old, put up in this way which are as fair and good as when put up.
I would say also to the ladies, dry all the fruit you can, to send to the
soldiers; also okra, split and dried in the shade, is as good as flesh for soups
and stews, and if boiled well is good with the addition of pepper and vinegar as
a vegetable, and will be a luxury to those in camp who are fond of it.
Every Southern housekeeper may make her own vinegar as I do, thus:
Take one head out of an empty molasses cask, put in 6 gallons of molasses
and fill the cask three-quarters full with water; add a bushel of ripe apples
cut small, or if apples are scarce, save the peelings and cores of the applies
dried or used in cookery, and as you get them, put in the vinegar cask; also add
all the skimmings of preserves and refuse of honey.
If the cask is not then full add more water.
Cover it with the head to keep out dirt.
In two or three months you will have a good cask of vinegar which is to
be strained off and bunged up in a tight cask for use.
I have every summer for thirteen years, made my own vinegar in this
manner, and have always had good vinegar both for pickling and table use.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 7, 1861, p. 4, c. 1
Grand Tableaux.
The Ladies and gentlemen of Jackson will give a grand Tableaux
interspersed with brilliant Vocal and Instrumental music on Friday evening next,
for the benefit of our brave soldiers at Manassas.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 14, 1861, p. 1,
c. 1
Ladies Sewing Society of Dry Grove.—A society was organized by the
Ladies of Dry Grove, Hinds county, for the purpose of making clothing for our
gallant boys now serving in the field.
As an evidence of the enthusiasm prevailing in the country, as well as in
the cities and towns in the laudable effort to supply our troops with
comfortable clothing, we may mention the fact that at the first meeting of the
above society, a fund of six hundred dollars was raised, of which amount six
individuals contributed the sum of three hundred dollars.
This, for a neighborhood so sparsely settled, is a most liberal
contribution, and should serve as an incentive to more populous districts to
engage zealously in the good work.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 14, 1861, p. 2,
c. 6
From the Nashville Union.
To Southern Mothers.
As our coast is blockaded, our Government has not been able to procure a
sufficient supply of blankets for our sick soldiers.
In this emergency, they have called you on to aid them.
Knowing as they do, that there are thousands of families who can spare,
without inconvenience, from one to six blankets or comforts, they feel that they
have only to make their wants known to you.
Let each neighborhood at once make up a package.
Threw into your box bed blankets, (old or new,) comforts, socks; and a
jar of jelley [sic] or preserves, or anything your good sense tells you is
needed by the sick and wounded soldier. Start
at once your box on its mission of mercy. It
will strengthen the heart, it will nerve the arm of the soldier who is fighting
our foes. Think of the fever wasted form, of the bruised and bleeding
soldier as he lies without cover on his pallet of straw!
Shall he languish in want, while his bleeding wounds are the brightest
mementoes of that immortal field of Manassas?
Think too of Manassas' glorious Dead!
They died for you and yours.
Boxes should be sent to E. W. John's, Med. Surgeon, Richmond, Va.
A Soldier's Wife.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 14, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
The Scott County
Ladies Volunteer
Aid Society.
At a meeting of the ladies of Hillsboro' and vicinity, held at the
Baptist Church, August 10th, the following persons were present:
[list]
The meeting was organized and the following ladies were elected officers:
Mrs. A. Lloyd, President; Mrs. P. Kirkland, Vice-President; Mrs. M. L.
Wofford, Treasurer; Miss M. B. Ashe, Secretary.
At 10 o'clock, the Society was called to order, and the President invited
to the Chair, and the object of the meeting was read, at the close of which, the
roll was presented.
This Society was formed for the purpose of aiding to the uttermost of its
abilities, in whatever manner their necessities may require the volunteers of
the "Forest Guard" company, who have left Scott county, to face and
repel the invading enemy, and to protect our homes.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the ladies in the country be respectfully invited to join
us.
Resolved, That the initiation fee into this Society be fifty cents.
Resolved, That this Society meet on Saturday next, 9 o'clock, A. M., at
the Baptist Church, and after, that at the same time, every two weeks.
Resolved, That each meeting shall be opened with prayer.
Resolved, That a committee of nine be appointed to solicit subscriptions
in furtherance of the object of this Society.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the
Eastern Clarion and the Mississippian.
Names of the committee appointed to solicit subscriptions—Miss E.
Barfield, Miss K. Cain, Miss L. Haralson, Mrs. Reese, Miss Lloyd, Miss Chambers,
Miss Lowry, Miss Clovers, Miss Hall.
Mrs. A. Lloyd, Pres't.
Miss M. B. Ashe, Secretary.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 21, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Aid to Volunteers.
The ladies of the Military Aid Association, have appointed agents to
visit Pensacola, New Madrid and Virginia, to take charge of Hospital stores,
clothing, &c., and look into the wants of our brave volunteers.
All boxes or packages sent to Jackson depot properly and plainly marked,
and directed to the care of Col. Wm. H. Brown will be forwarded to their
destination free of charge.
The ladies Association of Jackson have prepared boxes to receive any
clothing the friends of our soldiers may wish to send.
Col. R. M. Hobson leaves for Pensacola and Fort McRae on the 24th
inst. Agents for the other points
mentioned, will leave from the 25th to 30th inst.
Papers throughout the State will please copy.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 21, 1861, p. 3, c. 7
Wool! Wool!!
We want 10,000 pounds wool in exchange for goods.
Robinson, Windley & Co.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 21, 1861, p. 4,
c. 1
For the Mississippian.
Winter Clothing for the Volunteers.
Medical Director's Office, }
Corinth, Miss., Aug. 4, '61.}
Maj. Barksdale:--The generous sympathy you have manifested for the sick
soldiers in the service of the Confederate States, especially those under the
command of my honored chief, General Charles Clark, must be my apology for this
intrusion. The patriotism displayed
so conspicuously by the fair daughters of Mississippi, up to this period, in
providing and sending forward supplies for our brave boys, is without a parallel
in history. The articles, such as
clothing, bed furniture, &c., had a double value to us, when we knew they
were not bought and paid for in money, but were the work of their own soft
hands—the prompt offerings of pure hearts.
The ladies of your city, Heaven bless them, have been most conspicuous in
this gracious work. It may be some
repayal for their labors to know that I have seen many a manly eye flash,
smouldering as it was from the ashes of disease, when I have made them
comfortable with the timely clothing from Jackson and told them of the donors;
and I have heard prayers offered for them, and blessings such as only the
afflicted can invoke for those who relieve them. You will pardon this; I scarcely know where to stop when once
I begin on this theme.
My principal object in writing now was to ask your interference to
procure our soldiers proper covering for the winter fast approaching.
You are perhaps aware that blankets are scarce, and almost impossible to
obtain in sufficient quantities for our necessities.
Fortunately, by a timely beginning we may overcome this deficiency.
If the ladies will take the matter in hand, the thing is half
done.—Every housewife knows how to make a comfort.
Mississippi will have in the field, say in round numbers, twenty thousand
of her sons. Cannot forty thousand
comforts be made for them in the next sixty days?—These comforts should weigh
ten pounds each. Each might be lined with an old blanket (and a comfort
made to supply the place in the family.) Old calico dresses might be used for the outside, and the
comforts should be well bound around the edges. In order to make the matter of supply work well, a head
should be at Jackson to whom all throughout the State should report.
Why may not some of your noble women visit all the Court-house towns in
the State and perfect an organization of so much importance?
The women of Jackson are competent for any great work!
I beg of you, should you refer to this letter, to warn the people against
the uncharitable practice of sendings [sic] things to the Hospital for a particular
regiment or company. It
is a discrimination which, however pure the motives that prompt it, that is
unjust, and such articles need not be directed to me for they will not be used.
l I could not bear to see one soldier on a mattress with linen sheets and fine
pillows, and another by his side, his equal in every point of view, languishing
in pain and disease on his blanket. All
must fare alike in Hospital. When
well, I have nothing to say. Articles
coming for the sick of such and such companies or regiments will be turned over
to their respective commanders.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], August 21, 1861, p. 4, c. 1
Mourning.
The annexed timely and appropriate remarks, which we copy from the
Richmond Whig, are worthy the special attention of our readers:
A Suggestion:--We would respectfully suggest to our citizens, and indeed
to those of the Confederate States generally, that the usual emblems of external
mourning be dispensed with by those who have lost relations who were bravely
sustaining their country's right, and in this met with a glorious death.
Apart from the distressing and gloomy aspect it would give to our streets
and to our churches, amid the great cause for rejoicing which the Almighty has
vouchsafed to us by a victory almost unparalled there is another very strong
reason for not adopting the habiliments of mourning.
Many families who have lost a dear relative cannot well afford in these
times to incur the expense of mourning suits, at the greatly increased cost of
them, even if possible to obtain them at any price.—The heart may feel as
deeply as though it beat under a colored vestment.
Another consideration may very properly be suggested, in the fact that
the loss of a father, a son, a husband or a brother, however poignant the sorrow
it may carry to the hearts of the bereaved, is, under the circumstances of the
present war, no cause for that bitterness of mourning which attends the ordinary
dispensations of providence, because the gloom is brightened by the glory in the
discharge of the holiest obligation of duty.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p. 1, c. 4
An Appeal to the Citizens of Mississippi.
Surgeon General's Office, }
Richmond, Va., Aug. 21, 1861.}
Sir:--I respectfully solicit your co-operation in the good work which I
propose for the comfort and relief of our sick and wounded soldiers in
Virginia, and whenever afterwards they may be employed I wish to the
women of your State to aid me in this undertaking.
I feel that no stimular [sic] is necessary for the exercise of their
patriotism.
The Southern congress has allowed to this office a clerk whose duty will
be to take charge of all articles, those articles will be regularly issued and
medical officers held responsible for the same.
The following articles will be accepted, viz:
Hospital Shirts, Bed Linen, Blankets, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Bandages,
Rags, Corn Starch, Gelatine, Rice, Flour, Tapioca, Brandy, Whiskey, Port Wine,
Disinfecting agents.
Should a box be sent, a list of articles should be furnished. Please mark the name of each article on the package.
Mark the boxes "Army Medical Purveyor, Richmond, Virginia."
Very resp'y, your ob't serv't,
S. P. Moore,
Act'g Surgeon General, C. S. A.
His Excellency, Gov. Pettus, of Mississippi.
To the Patriotic Citizens of the State
of Mississippi, and especially the Ladies.
Executive Office, }
Jackson, Aug. 26, 1861.}
Our sick and wounded soldiers need comforts, which neither the
Confederate nor the State Government have the power to furnish without your
assistance. In the above letter
will be found a list of such articles most needed.
Confident that no lengthy appeal is necessary in the cause I simply
publish the letter received from the Department in relation to the matter and
ask your co-operation in relieving the sick and wounded, and I do hereby appoint
the Probate Clerk of the several counties throughout the State to receive all
such donations as may be tendered, and they are requested to cause the same to
be securely packed and shipped to the Quartermaster at Jackson, who will defray
the necessary expenses of packing and transportation.
Special attention is called to instructions in the letter as to the
packing and marking the packages.
John J. Pettus.
The papers throughout the State are requested to copy.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p.
1, c. 5
For the Mississippian.
Donations Received.
Quartermasters Department,}
Jackson, Aug. 28th, 1861. }
Editor Mississippian—Dear Sir: Please
permit me, through the medium of your columns, to tender the thanks of the
Quartermaster General, as well as my own, to the following patriotic ladies and
gentlemen, who have responded to the call made upon them, for the contribution
of blankets for the use of the soldier of Mississippi now upon the tented field.
In thus promptly responding to the call of the Quartermasters Department,
they have manifested a patriotic liberality which is honorable to themselves,
and which we trust will be imitated by the citizens generally of the State who
have this very necessary article of comfort for the soldier to spare:
[list]
Respectfully, &c.,
Jos. Bennett,
Ast. Q. M. Gen'l.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p.
1, c. 5
Starkville Volunteer Aid Society.—This society was formed in Oktibbaha
on the 10th. Mrs. S.
Critz, President; Mrs. Fryerson, Vice President; Mrs. R. Bishop, Secretary; Mrs.
E. Bardson, Treasurer.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p. 1, c. 6
To the People of Mississippi.
Richmond, Aug. 22, 1861.
Fellow citizens:--A meeting of Mississippians was held in this city on
the evening of the 19th inst., for the purpose of devising means, in
connection with the government, of contributing to the comfort and health of our
soldiers in the army of the Confederate States.
At this meeting the undersigned were appointed a committee to assist in
attaining the objects intended, by soliciting from you voluntary contributions
of such articles of clothing, food or medicine, as you may have at command.
The government is actively and energetically engaged in procuring
supplies for the usual army rations, but as you well know these will fall far
short of providing all those conveniences and comforts which are so essential to
the well-being of the volunteer. In
consequence of the blockade, many of the most necessary articles are beyond the
reach of the commissariat, or can be procured in but limited quantities and of
inferior quality. Such, for
instance, as blankets, shoes, woolen socks, and winter clothing generally. In regard to the first of these it has been proposed for each
family to contribute all or a part, and to supply their places by the
substitution of cotton comforts. This
proposition seems to meet with general favor, and if carried into effect will
ensure an abundant supply of an article so essential to the health and comfort
of the soldier. It is proposed
also, that each family shall furnish several pairs of woolen socks, the material
of which is thought can be abundantly supplied in almost every neighborhood.
We feel confident that our patriotic women who have already done so much,
will cheerfully undergo whatever inconvenience and trouble may result from the
plan suggested. To them we look—to them we appeal—knowing with pride and
with pleasure, that they will heartily respond to every effort to strengthen the
hearts and nerve the arms of those who are now striving to protect their homes
and firesides from invasion and desecration . . .
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p.
2, c. 6
For the Mississippian.
Work for the Volunteers.
Editor Mississippian—The following ladies residing in Rankin county,
promptly responding to my solicitation, made the number of garments annexed to
their names respectively, for the benefit of the volunteers; and I am instructed
by the President of the Ladies Military Aid Society of Jackson to return to them
the thanks of the Society for their generous and patriotic labors.
Alice J. Barksdale.
[list]
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p.
3, c. 1
Summary: Diagram
for an Army Blanket—making a blanket into an overcoat
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
What Shall we Send to the Soldiers.
The question is repeatedly asked by relatives and friends of our sick and wounded soldiers who are lying t the various Hospitals, "what shall we send to them to minister to their comfort?" In answer to this question a list has been made out which will supply most of their wants which cannot be otherwise met by Surgeons and nurses. If the list given below is observed as a guide, it will save friends and the Government much unnecessary expense.
List of Supplies
Black and green tea, loaf sugar, arrow root, barley, rice, rice flour,
tappioca, gelatine, farina or corn starch, flax seed, tamarinds, boiled honey,
dried fruit, sago, oat meal, race ginger, spices of all kinds, particularly
nutmegs, vinegar, mustard, dried orange and lemon peel, slippery elm, wild
cheery tree bark, red pepper, hops, sage and every kind of herb, mutton suet,
sweet oil, beeswax, old castile and turpentine soap and onions.
Wines—Port, maderia, claret, blackberry or any home made wines, ale and
porter, tomato syrup, lemon acid and brandy.
Jellies—blackberry and plum.
Pickles—of all kinds to be sent to both sick and well.
Bread—biscuit and crackers well beaten and ginger nuts sent in tin
boxes, toast also in small quantities.
Clothing—Flannel and cotton drawers, flannel undershirts, woolen socks,
long night shirts, crash and cotton towels, old cotton linen and swiss muslin or
bobinett for poultices and plasters, new and old sheets, pillow ticks and slips,
thin blankets, comforts, old flannel garments, lint, mattress ticks; also
Societies can make bandages 3 by 3½ inches wide and 3 to 10 yards long, also
pads or small pillows to support wounded limbs.
Bottles of any vessel that can be broken should be packed in separate
boxes from bread and clothing.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p.
4, c. 1
Great Southern Stocking Manufactory.
We would call the special attention of the public to the card of Mrs. H.
B. Evans, to be found in another column of this morning's issue. We had the pleasure on yesterday of visiting her store for
the purpose of seeing her Knitting Machines in operation, and must say that we
were amazed, as well as highly pleased at the facility in which the work was
performed. The public is aware that
"stern winter" is fast approaching, and it would be both wise and
prudent to send in orders immediately, as the first that come will be first
served.
To companies and Regiments we would also suggest the propriety of sending
in their orders, as we think it the most speedy manner in which they can be
furnished with this necessary and indispensible [sic] article of clothing.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p. 4, c. 7
Army Goods.
We have just received
5000 yards gray Jeans.
3000 yards brown Jeans.
2000 yards mixed Jeans.
5000 yards grey Linseys.
3000 yards red twilled Flannel.
Red, plain and grey Flannels.
2000 yards Hickory Stripes.
2000 yards brown Drilling.
Merino Shirts, Jackets.
Army Blankets.
White Blankets.
Oil Blankets.
Oil Cloaks.
Caps, Buttons, hats, Shoes, &c.
The highest price paid for wool
E. & S. Virden.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 4, 1861, p. 4, c. 7
Great Southern Stocking Manufactory!
Mrs. H. B. Evans would respectfully announce to the citizens of Jackson
and vicinity that she has several Knitting Machines in operation at her store on
State street, and can fill all orders for furnishing stockings and socks at War
prices, to the amount of 100 pair per day.
Persons, whether wishing to purchase or not, are respectfully invited to
call and witness the performance of the Machines, and also examine her fine
assortment of stockings and socks now on hand.—She would also announce that
she is still keeping up her millinery and dress-making as usual.
Jackson, sep13 61-1m
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 25, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Soldiers' Friend Society.
The ladies at Summit have formed a society and adopted the above name.
The following is a list of the officers: [list]
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 9, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
We have been requested to state that the soldiers at Enterprise are in
need of clothing. The Ladies'
Society of this place are responding to the wants of the soldiers of Mississippi
wherever situated as fast as possible, but they need the co-operation and aid of
others. While those patriotic
ladies are manifesting such self-sacrificing interest for the comfort of our
soldiers, and are doing so much for the common cause, let their example
stimulate others to good deeds and liberal donations.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 9, 1861, p. 4,
c. 1
Pearl River Mills.—we are informed that J. & T. Green, are running
their Factory night and day in the Manufacture of yarn and army goods. This step was demanded by the increasing consumption of heavy
fabrics.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 23, 1861, p. 1,
c. 1
The Ladies: Old and Young:
God Bless 'Em!—Among the many noble acts of our ladies we are pleased
to note one performed by an aged matron of this county.
Mrs. Preserved Ford, aged seventy-nine years, spun and knit with her own
hands, socks for President Davis, Generals Beauregard and Johnston.
The hearts of our blushing damsels and trembling matrons are alike
enlisted in the holy cause of independence.
This act of one of the venerated mothers of our State reminds us vividly
of her who watched with deep maternal anxiety over the illustrious Father of his
Country. We are proud of our
mothers; and while they are multiplying evidences that the fires of '76 are
still alive in their bosoms, it will be our glorious privilege to show that we,
too, have not degenerated. Our
sacred cause upheld and sustained by such holy influences as the prayers of Mrs.
Ford, and others like her, is sure to triumph.
May she live to see the independence of our country placed upon a basis
never to be shaken! and when her
final summons calls her home, may her pure spirit be wafted to its home in
Heaven!
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 23, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Troops From Texas.—Two companies from Texas passed through our city for
Kentucky on Saturday last, one followed on Sunday, and the remainder of the
regiment will follow in each successive train till all have arrived.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 23, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Helen Johnston Guards.—E. C. Postell, Captain; B. J. F. Cotten, 1st
Lieutenant; Henry C. Tupper, 2d Lieut.; A. C. Walker, 3d Lieut.
This splendid company of volunteers, from Madison, Leake and Attala
counties, passed through our city on Saturday last on their way to Marion
Station, Lauderdale county, where they join a
Regiment nearly complete for the Confederate service during the war.
The company was uniformed at the expense of Miss Helen Johnston, (whose
name they bear,) a wealthy young lady of Madison county, distinguished alike for
her generosity and her devotion to the cause of the Confederate States.
Let this good example be followed by all whom Providence has blessed with
the means, and we shall have no lack of soldiers to defend our cause.
The company is ably commanded. Among
the officers we notice the name of Henry C. Tupper, son of our distinguished
friend Col. T. P. Tupper, of Canton.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 1,
c. 3
Flag of Mississippi.—We have been asked for a description of the flag
of Mississippi. We do not know of
any distinct flag of the State. when
Mississippi seceded, and before the formation of the Southern Confederacy, her
sons rallied under the flag that bore "the single star;" but after the
meeting of the Montgomery Convention and the adoption of the Confederate flag
with the "stars and bars," Mississippi, in common with other
Confederate States hailed it as our flag—the flag of the country.
Her coat of arms remains unchanged.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 1,
c. 5
For the Mississippian.
Military Aid Society at Clinton.
Clinton, Miss., Oct. 21, 1861.
As I have not seen any notice of the doings of the Military Aid
Association of this place, in any of our newspapers, I respectfully request you
to give this an insertion in your weekly issue.
I deem it a privilege as well as a duty to let the good people of
Mississippi know, what the patriotic ladies of Clinton and vicinity have done
and are doing for the benefit of those who have gone forth from our midst, to
defend our beloved Country.
On the 14th of June last, the ladies of this place and
vicinity formed themselves into a Military Aid Association by electing Mrs. L.
F. Banks, President; Mrs. E. J. Lewis, Vice-President Miss M. Doughtry,
Secretary; Mrs. M. Abbott, Treasurer. Since
which time they have received by subscriptions four hundred and twenty-eight
dollars and seventy-five cents cash, and thirty dollars in clothing, leaving a
balance on their subscription books of fifty-two dollars and one bale of cotton
yet due.
They have completed and sent off to the Mississippi College Rifles in
Virginia [list]. They have sent to
Pensacola to members of the Mississippi (Jackson) Rifles [list].Taken out by
members and sent to soldiers in different places [list]. Remaining on hand
[list]. They have also made
subscribed and sent off Hospital stores [list].
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Wool from Texas.—The Caddo (La.) Gazette, of the 19th, says
"several wagon loads of wool have arrived from Texas during the past week,
and will be forwarded to our southern factories.
We are pleased to see this invaluable article so abundant in our country,
and trust that an ample supply may be procured to meet the urgent wants of our
volunteers." The same paper
also urges that every attention should be paid to the raising of sheep, and none
should be killed during the war. Texas
alone can produce enough wool for the Confederacy, if the planters would
cultivate less cotton, and devote more time to their flocks.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
The Ball Last Saturday Night.—The ball given by our colored people at
Concert Hall on Saturday night last, though a dark was nevertheless a
brilliant affair. It was got up on
a grand scale invitations being responded to from Canton, Brandon, Clinton and
other places. The price of
admission was $1 50, and the Hall being filled to repletion with the
"beauty and chivalry" of our colored population, a considerable sum
was cleared for the benefit of the Ladies Aid Society, or rather for the benefit
of our volunteers. As idea may be
formed of the extent of the ball when we state that at no time during the music
did we see less than from fifty to seventy-five on the floor—all enjoying
themselves hugely—the fair sex as smiling, and the other sex exhibiting
gallantry in the most refined style. The
supper, too was in good taste, and at the conclusion the gentlemen
escorted the ladies home in the best carriages our city and surrounding country
affords. The poor darkies—how
much they need the sympathy of Massa Abe! To
John Davis, of the Bowman House, much credit is due for his efforts in creating
so much amusement for his colored, and much funds for his white friends.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 3, c. 7
The Three Great
Market Peaches!
Yellow St. John,
Early Chelmsford, Chinese Honey.
These are decidedly the most profitable market peaches in cultivation, as
they are all of large size, handsome appearance and delicious in quality.
They are all free stone, and ripen, in complete
succession, from 1st June to 10th July.—The fruit
has sold at wholesale, in New Orleans and Mobile, during the last two seasons,
at from $5 to $10 per dozen.
I have never sold a tree of either
for less than $1, but now offer 20 packages, containing 6 of each variety, at
$10 per package; provided, the order and money reach me before the 1st
December.
Treasury notes taken at par in
payment.
H. A. Swazey,
Tickfaw Station, La.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 4,
c. 1
A Texas Regiment.—A regiment of East Texans under command of Col. Grey,
passed up Wednesday night last, bound for Memphis, Tenn.
Texans are the best fighters in the world, and the "Lone Star"
is doing her whole duty in the present crisis.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 4,
c. 1
Juvenile Levee.—Wednesday being the anniversary birth-day of Miss Josie
Angelo and Mrs. Miazza give her a levee which was largely attended, and a most
brilliant epoch in the history of the Juveniles of this city.—The splendid
Saloon was furnished for the occasion with a band which discoursed appropriate
music, and a more joyous scene we have never witnessed.
At the proper hour the youthful train was led to the festive hall where
everything which could please the eye or gratify the palate was spread before
them. The variety of nicknacks was amply discussed, and the children retired
apparently impressed with the conviction that Wednesday night was a great event
on the threshold of their pilgrimage.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 30, 1861, p. 4,
c. 5
A company from Mississippi reached Richmond on the 18th.
They bore a banner upon which was inscribed, "Victory or
Death." The Enquirer trusts
the gallant fellows may achieve the fullest share of the former, and live long
to enjoy its richest fruits.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 13, 1861, p.
2, c. 1
Patriotic Ladies of Cuba.—Late Havana news give us an account of a
presentation, by the ladies of Havana, of a splendid Confederate flag to the
Captain of the steamer Theodora. The
flag was presented through Mrs. Edna Norris, the daughter of an old citizen of
New Orleans, John M. Bach. Accounts
of the arrival at and departure from Havana of the Theodora have been previously
alluded to.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 13, 1861, p.
2, c. 5
For the Mississippian.
To Preserve Dead Bodies.
Take 2 lbs. common salt, 2 lbs. alum, 1 lb. saltpetre; dissolve in 6
gallons water and keep the shrouding wet with the solution.
I have used this preparation on all necessary occasions for the last
thirty years. It will in a great
degree prevent the offensive odor from dead bodies, and while the remains of so
many of our deceased soldiers are being transported such a distance, it may be
of service to publish it.
A Physician.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 20, 1861, p.
2, c. 6
Summary: Report
by C. K. Marshall on Mississippi Hospital affairs in Warrenton, Virginia, dated
November 1, 1861.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 4, 1861, p. 1,
c. 3
Ladie's [sic] Volunteer Aid Society.—The ladies of Covington county
have formed a Society at Santee Church under the above name.
Its object is similar to those all over the patriotic State of
Mississippi, to assist in the prosecution of the war.
[officers]
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Tableaux Vivants.
The ladies and gentlemen of Jackson will give a series of Tableaux,
interspersed with vocal and instrumental music on Wednesday evening, 4th
of December, at Concert Hall, for the benefit of our sick soldiers in the
Hospital at Warrenton, Va.
This being for a humane and truly patriotic purpose, we sincerely hope
that our citizens, may, in some degree, prove their patriotism by giving them a crowded
house.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 4, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Salt works have been established and put in operation at five different
points in Smith county, Texas, within the past few weeks.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 4, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Manufacture of Cloths in Georgia.—Georgia has paid great attention to
manufactures in years past, and the consequence is that her manufacturing
interests have become of much importance. She
will hereafter be able to supply all her own wants, and can afford to snap her
fingers at the rest of mankind, blockade or no blockade.
She has already in active operation some thirty factories, engaged in
turning out sheetings, shirtings, osnaburgs, denims, kerseys, linseys, jeans,
cassimeres, etc., besides others which only spin yarn for hand-looms.
These various factories turn out more than five hundred thousand yards of
goods per week. Gov. Brown was recently inaugurated in a complete suit of
home made cloth which was handsome. Some
of the members of Congress appear in their seats in similar suits.
Let Mississippi imitate the example of Georgia.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 11, 1861, p.
1, c. 1
Tableaux and Concert.—Agreeably with previous notice the Tableaux
Vivants and Concert came off at the Concert Hall on Wednesday night. The Hall was filled with an attentive auditory, and
everything passed off in the most satisfactory manner to all concerned.
It was a complete success, and the receipts in favor of the hospital
amounted to no inferior sum.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 18, 1861, p.
1, c. 1
The Concert and Tableaux Vivants by the young ladies of Miss Ingraham's
school at Concert Hall last evening, was a most pleasant and agreeable
entertainment. The purpose for
which the affair was gotten up was well calculated to draw upon the hearts and
purses of the people; and they showed how pleased they were at the opportunity
to contribute to the families of our brave soldiers, by turning out en masse.
The Sergeant-at-arms of the House took the door and executed the
functions of his office by arresting nearly the entire Legislature at the head
of the stairs, and detaining at least the price of one ticket from each of them.
The performances in vocal and instrumental music delighted the audience,
whilst the scenic displays were tasteful, picturesque and graceful; and sure we
are that no one in the vast throng went home without a secret joy in having thus
added his mite to the noble object, and a feeling of obligation to the fair
young friends for so charming and interesting an exhibition.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 18, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Meeting of the Ladies Aid Society.
A meeting of the Ladies Society for the aid of Volunteers of the
Confederate army will be held at the house of Dr. C. S. Knapp's tomorrow morning
at ten o'clock. A full attendance
is pressingly solicited to hear the remarks of Rev. John P. Campbell who is now
on a mission to the South in behalf of the Hospital Associations of Nashville
Tennessee.
We learn from Mr. Campbell that there are about two thousand of our noble
volunteers, now in the Hospitals at Nashville, receiving constant and tender
nursing from hundreds of the Ladies of that city, and requiring the daily
expenditure of more than two thousand dollars.
Would it not be well for Mr. Campbell to address the members of the
Legislature and our citizens at large on the objects of his mission? We ask the hearty co-operation of our citizens with Mr.
Campbell in the objects of his mission.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 18, 1861, p.
2, c. 1
Christmas Eve Entertainment.—We are gratified to learn that it is in
contemplation to give an entertainment at concert Hall on Christmas Eve, the
proceeds of which will be appropriated to charitable purposes.
It is said that there is to be a Christmas Tree, and that adults and
children will receive tickets with numbers at the door which will entitle them
to corresponding numbers which are to be attached to a multitude of prizes on
the tree.
When the arrangements shall have been fully completed our readers shall
be notified.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 18, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Concert and
Tableaux for the benefit
of the Duncan
Battalion.
An immense throng at Concert Hall last evening testified the generous
appreciation with which every effort of our noble women to contribute to the
necessities of the brave men who are to fight the battles of Southern
independence is hailed by the public. The
concert was not a success alone, but a triumph.
Beauty blazed upon the stage, and bewildered in the auditorium.
Jackson turned out in its strength to reward the efforts of the ladies,
and an evening of rare enjoyment glided happily away.
Some, we might say all of the scenes of the tableaux were exhibited in
matchless skill, elegance and beauty, winning in every instance rapturous
applause and long and loud repeated encores from the delighted audience. The children introduced in the pageant added beauty to the
exhibition, and, surrounded by all that could enhance their charms, looked like
sweet and innocent epistles of love and purity. Some of the tableaux were gorgeous beyond the power of our
pen to portray; the Harvest scene especially, and the crowning of the Hero of
Manessah. Others, too, not now
remembered by their titles, were splendid in their scenic beauty and effect, and
won the highest encomiums from the audience.
The music too, vocal and instrumental, was worthy of the finest opera.
One young lady, especially, sung in tones so sweet and mellow, that the
imagination rested upon the tender waves of her song, as if 'twere thrilling
with the low, sweet zephyrs that sigh from angel lips through the courts of
heaven. The heart was filled with
the delicious melody of her voice, and when she ceased a thrill of pleasure
lingered, holy almost as the solemn silence that follows prayer.
Never, in the gay and sparkling halls where song is wont to reign, have
we heard a voice so melodiously tender, so purely exquisite.
The songs of the gentlemen were also choice vocal efforts, and won
unmeasured commendation. The
closing act in this beautiful home entertainment—the song dedicated to the
Duncan battalion—was poetically and musically fine, and in its vocal utterance
a rare and rich finale to so delightful and charming an exhibition, as it
was destined to crown us with a garland of beauty and melody.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 18, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Nurses for our Hospitals.
["] The saddest aspect of war is met with in the hospitals.
This is what the soldier did not bargain for.
He volunteered to fight the enemy, not slowly wasting disease—to meet
death on the field, not in the hospital—to fall covered with glory at the
cannon's mouth. Yet, alas, he often
meets death at a distance from the foe and from inspiring trump and embattled
host. To this the soldier and his
friends must be resigned. It is and ever has been the fortune of war.
thus dying, he dies the death of the brave, and is as justly entitled to
his country's gratitude as though he had fallen on the ensanguined field.
Thus he fills a soldier's grave and is enshrined in the heart of
patriotism. He has done what he
could and is entered upon the immortal roll of heroes. ["]
The extract above is from a long and exceedingly interesting narrative in
the Nashville Christian Advocate, of the 12th inst., descriptive of
scenes in the hospital of that city. Had
we room, we should like to give the entire article, so full of interest, so
truly tender and sympathetic is its tone. One
great want, felt above all others, is that of kind and faithful women to nurse
our sick soldiers.—This is an office that men, however willing, can but
imperfectly fill. The throbbing
brow needs the soft touch of woman's hand—the agonized heart, feebly
fluttering between life and death, craving the voice of the loved ones at home,
leaps into life again under the melting tones of woman's holy sympathy. The mothers, wives and daughters of the land have nobly
performed their duty in the necessities which this war has created.
The cheek of roses has paled, and the bright eye of beauty grown dim in
patient, unremitting efforts to provide for the comfort of the soldier in the
tented field, and in the preparation of healing balsams for the wasted and
wounded in the hospitals. Woman, glorious woman, has indeed proven herself to be
"Heaven's best gift to man." Reverencing
her always, when we have seen her beaming as an angel of light in the dark hour
of the struggle now upon us, we have in the infidelity of our admiration,
learned also to worship her—to regard her as not only the purest but the most
perfect and beautiful type of earth's created excellence.
Man, in his strength, is noble. Woman,
in her meekness, is glorious. The
tall Archangel, burnished in the brightness of his heavenly livery, is sublime.
But Mary weeping at the tomb, brings to the mind so exquisite a scene of
love and devotion, as fills it with the melody of immortality, and wakes the
soul to a keener appreciation of the great love which throbs in the bosom of the
Father. Valor is sublime; love, the
wondrous beauty of the Throne itself, and beautiful is the distinction drawn by
the poet:
"Whilst valor's haughty champions wait
Till all their scars he shown,
Love walks unchallenged thro' the gate,
To sit beside the throne!"
The matrons of the land are needed.
Will they abandon for awhile the pleasures of home, to minister to those
who have abandoned their homes to go in defense of all that is dear to them and
to us? Will the mothers go to
soothe the sick, bind up the wounds of the battle stricken, and pour into the
expiring ear the melody that will greet it first in Heaven, and should linger
last on earth around it—the melting accents of woman's tender love. Go through the wards of the various hospitals and see the
brave men, the strong men whom no peril can dismay, no duty fatigue, lying weak
and helpless as infants. See
hovering around that pale sufferer, the noble presence of the wife of the
commanding General—that high-bred, delicate woman, performing offices the most
menial—wiping with her soft hand the death-sweat from the brow of one, and
speaking words of peace and comfort to others of the fever-racked tenants of
these rude cots. Telling them of
the fond mother they have left behind, of the sweet sister who mournfully counts
the days of their absence, or perhaps of another yet nearer and dearer who sits
in her lone apartment and fills the chambers of her mind with pictures of the
absent one. Do not angels love to
pass through that sick room, and may we not believe that Heaven is made vocal
with her praise. And she is not
alone in her devotion. All around
her fair forms glide gracefully, and sweet voices mingle in the good work of
soothing and encouraging the sick and suffering.
But the noble ladies of Nashville are not equal to all the labor before
them. They need help, and their
sisters of Mississippi should go to their assistance.
Those hospital walls are echoing to the groans of our gallant sons.
No hired hand should smooth their pillows.
It is love's own especial office, and those who shall perform it, we may
believe, will be especially interested in this passage when the Judge shall sit
upon His Throne, and the Book be opened:
"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world; for I was ahungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I
was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
ahungered, and fed the? or thirsty
and gave thee drink? when saw we
thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee? or when
saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me."
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 25, 1861, p.
1, c. 4
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 9, 1861.
. . . Raleigh is a [fold in paper] place, about the size of
your own city of Jackson. I drove
13 miles out in the country yesterday to the Forest Paper Mills.
This is a beautifully romantic spot.
The mills are situated on the rocky banks of the river Neuse, whose
limpid waters make music as they pour over the "crags and peaks" of
its rough bottom. The main building (a very large one) is constructed entirely
of rocks, one side of which is constantly lashed with the rapid current of the
river. Although the operatives are
engaged in the sloppiest sort of work, hauling wet and dirty rags, yet the whole
inside of the building is as neat as a parlor; and notices are stuck up here and
there requesting visitors not to spit on the floor.
The machinery, floor, the paper they make, everything in fact, evinces
the most perfect cleanliness throughout the entire establishment.
I am deeply indebted to the courteous and gentlemanly manager, Mr. J. J.
Furguson, for his kindness and patience in explaining the various manipulations
through which the rags went before they were turned into nice, white and smooth
paper. I dare say your readers
would thank me if I would tell them how the paper was made made [sic]; but I
shall do no such thing, for the most obvious of reasons, I can't. . . .
Managin.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 25, 1861, p.
2, c. 1
Christmas Eve.—Donations for the Tree will be received at Concert Hall
on Saturday from 9 till 5 o'clock.
Tickets for admission bearing numbers for the prizes will be sold at the
same hours on Monday and Tuesday.
This is the first Christmas under the Confederate Government, and the
object being patriotic, let there be a crowded house.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 25, 1861, p.
2, c. 1
Another Gone.—How the war is crushing the life out of the newspapers!
Daily we miss the visit of some pleasant cotemporary, which has gone down
under the pressure. The last number of the Grenada Rural Gentleman comes to us
with the sad announcement that it, too, will be discontinued at the expiration
of the year. Should the war last
one year longer, there will be perhaps but two papers left in this State to
announce its close. It is
melancholly [sic] to witness the departure of the newspapers, but it is folly
for those who are dependent alone upon a circumscribed county patronage, to
struggle for a feeble and sickly existence.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 25, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Christmas Entertainment.
We would call attention to the splendid entertainment gotten up by the
ladies of Jackson, to come off at the Concert Hall on Christmas eve.
The Christmas Tree, loaded with its rich gifts, for Christmas
presents, will be a sight well worth seeing.
Each person buying a ticket of admission will be entitled to a prize,
corresponding to the number on the ticket.—Tickets only fifty cents, half
tickets for children, twenty-five cents, all of which will draw a prize.
A raffle will also take place during the evening, for a richly
embroidered Vest, and a most beautifully embroidered Child's Dress,
both presented to the Ladies Aid Society by Mrs. Angelo Miazza.
The proceeds of the entertainment, raffle, &c., for the benefit of
our brave volunteers.
Good music has been engaged for the occasion, and we anticipate the most
delightful entertainment of the season.
Doors open at 6 o'clock. Tickets
to be had at the Post Office during the day, and at the door at night.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 16, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Nurses for our Hospitals.
["] The saddest aspect of war is met with in the hospitals.
This is what the soldier did not bargain for.
He volunteered to fight the enemy, not slowly wasting disease—to meet
death on the field, not in the hospital—to fall covered with glory at the
cannon's mouth. Yet, alas, he often
meets death at a distance from the foe and from inspiring trump and embattled
host. To this the soldier and his
friends must be resigned. It is and ever has been the fortune of war.
thus dying, he dies the death of the brave, and is as justly entitled to
his country's gratitude as though he had fallen on the ensanguined field.
Thus he fills a soldier's grave and is enshrined in the heart of
patriotism. He has done what he
could and is entered upon the immortal roll of heroes. ["]
The extract above is from a long and exceedingly interesting narrative in
the Nashville Christian Advocate, of the 12th inst., descriptive of
scenes in the hospital of that city. Had
we room, we should like to give the entire article, so full of interest, so
truly tender and sympathetic is its tone. One
great want, felt above all others, is that of kind and faithful women to nurse
our sick soldiers.—This is an office that men, however willing, can but
imperfectly fill. The throbbing
brow needs the soft touch of woman's hand—the agonized heart, feebly
fluttering between life and death, craving the voice of the loved ones at home,
leaps into life again under the melting tones of woman's holy sympathy.
The mothers, wives and daughters of the land have nobly performed their
duty in the necessities which this war has created. The cheek of roses has paled, and the bright eye of beauty
grown dim in patient, unremitting efforts to provide for the comfort of the
soldier in the tented field, and in the preparation of healing balsams for the
wasted and wounded in the hospitals. Woman,
glorious woman, has indeed proven herself to be "Heaven's best gift to
man." Reverencing her always,
when we have seen her beaming as an angel of light in the dark hour of the
struggle now upon us, we have in the infidelity of our admiration, learned also
to worship her—to regard her as not only the purest but the most perfect and
beautiful type of earth's created excellence.
Man, in his strength, is noble. Woman,
in her meekness, is glorious. The
tall Archangel, burnished in the brightness of his heavenly livery, is sublime.
But Mary weeping at the tomb, brings to the mind so exquisite a scene of
love and devotion, as fills it with the melody of immortality, and wakes the
soul to a keener appreciation of the great love which throbs in the bosom of the
Father. Valor is sublime; love, the
wondrous beauty of the Throne itself, and beautiful is the distinction drawn by
the poet:
"Whilst valor's haughty champions wait
Till all their scars he shown,
Love walks unchallenged thro' the gate,
To sit beside the throne!"
The matrons of the land are needed.
Will they abandon for awhile the pleasures of home, to minister to those
who have abandoned their homes to go in defense of all that is dear to them and
to us? Will the mothers go to
soothe the sick, bind up the wounds of the battle stricken, and pour into the
expiring ear the melody that will greet it first in Heaven, and should linger
last on earth around it—the melting accents of woman's tender love.
Go through the wards of the various hospitals and see the brave men, the
strong men whom no peril can dismay, no duty fatigue, lying weak and helpless as
infants. See hovering around that
pale sufferer, the noble presence of the wife of the commanding General—that
high-bred, delicate woman, performing offices the most menial—wiping with her
soft hand the death-sweat from the brow of one, and speaking words of peace and
comfort to others of the fever-racked tenants of these rude cots.
Telling them of the fond mother they have left behind, of the sweet
sister who mournfully counts the days of their absence, or perhaps of another
yet nearer and dearer who sits in her lone apartment and fills the chambers of
her mind with pictures of the absent one. Do
not angels love to pass through that sick room, and may we not believe that
Heaven is made vocal with her praise. And
she is not alone in her devotion. All
around her fair forms glide gracefully, and sweet voices mingle in the good work
of soothing and encouraging the sick and suffering.
But the noble ladies of Nashville are not equal to all the labor before
them. They need help, and their
sisters of Mississippi should go to their assistance.
Those hospital walls are echoing to the groans of our gallant sons.
No hired hand should smooth their pillows.
It is love's own especial office, and those who shall perform it, we may
believe, will be especially interested in this passage when the Judge shall sit
upon His Throne, and the Book be opened:
"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world; for I was ahungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I
was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
ahungered, and fed the? or thirsty
and gave thee drink? when saw we
thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee? or when
saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me."
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 16, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Concert.—The colored people of Jackson will give a Grand Concert on
Wednesday evening next. We are
assured that it will be wholly African in its features, and that the proceeds
will be contributed to charitable purposes.
We shall issue programmes to-morrow.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 20, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Christmas Tree.—The Ladies interested in the Christmas Tree, to which
we alluded yesterday, are requested to meet at Mrs. Knapp's to-morrow morning at
9 o'clock.
Christmas Eve.—Donations for the Tree will be received at Concert Hall
on Saturday from 9 till 5 o'clock.
Tickets of admission bearing numbers for the prizes will be sold at the
same hours on Monday and Tuesday.
This is the first Christmas under the Confederate Government, and the
object being patriotic, let there be a crowded house.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 26, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Paper—Paper-making,
&c—Something
For Everybody to
Read.
There is a good deal of practical sense in the following article clipped
from the Montgomery Mail:
["] We are daily reminded, by the half sheets and otherwise reduced
size of newspapers of the high price of blank papers and the great difficulty of
obtaining them, even for cash. Had
Southern publishers all resolved, years ago, as they ought to have done, to buy
no paper from Northern mills, there would be this day twice as many paper
factories as we now have; and they would not only make news and wrapping papers,
as at present, but also an abundance of the various kinds now so much in demand.
There is not a sufficiency of newspaper manufactured in the South so
supply one-half the demand which existed a year ago.—The publication of
two-thirds of the Southern journals have ceased it is true, for lack of
patronage; but had they been sustained by the usual patronage, we believe
one-half would have suspended for lack of paper to print upon.
These facts speak loudly to printers, who should forever hereafter
purchase only from home mills, thus encouraging the establishment of an
additional number of them here at home. We
hope the Editors' Convention to assemble in Atlanta on the 13th March
will act on this subject, as well as on that of the telegraph.
It is quite as important. The
press has long been urging the people to patronize home manufactures:
it is time a practical illustration or example was given to their
arguments.
One great obstacle in the way of paper manufacture, in the South, is the
difficulty of obtaining clean cotton or linen rags.
The saving, collecting and baling of rags has been considered a business
too small for most persons to engage in. We
respectfully suggest to such persons, that they give their rages to their
slaves, and allow them to wash, bale and send to market for their own account.
Sambo and Dinah will thus make a handsome little revenue annually, and at
the same time subserve a great public interest.
There are many thousand dollars worth of rags annually wasted, swept out
or otherwise destroyed, which ought to be made to aid the cause of Southern
independence in the manner indicated.
These remarks, slightly changed in expression, will apply to many other
branches of industrial economy. For
example, the soap makers find but few persons willing to offer their waste
grease and ashes for sale, although Mr. A. L. Clapp, of the city, would pay for
them in a very excellent quality of bar soap, which is in every household
equivalent to cash. We hope the
great mass of our people will speedily forget to despise anything, however
small, which may answer a useful purpose.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 26, 1862, p.
2, c. 6
Summary: Letter
from Col. Fontaine advocating Bowie knives and pikes, describing how to make
ammunition at home
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], February 26, 1862, p.
4, c. 1
For the Mississippian.
Tennessee in
Dixie.
By Capt. J. P.
Stevens.
Old Tennessee has not forgotten,
Her good old friends in the land of Cotton,
Fight away, fight away, fight away Tennessee;
It's the land of the free and the home of the brave,
And over it the Southern
Flag ever shall wave,
Fight away, fight away, fight away Tennessee.
Chorus—
I'm glad she is in Dixie, hurrah, hurrah,
In Dixie land she took her stand,
To live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down South in Dixie.
She has no doubt, she has no fears,
For lo! she swarms with volunteers,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee;
She swarms with soldiers stout and brave,
Who'll fight their glorious land to save,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad she is in Dixie, &c.
Her ladies too, with heart and hand,
Will give their aid to Dixie land,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
There's Lura, Annie, Sal and Jane,
With Bettie and Mollie in the train,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad, &c.
Our Sweethearts, Wives, and good old Mothers,
Sisters, Cousins, and a host of others,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Will give us a kiss and squeeze of the hand,
And wont we fight for Dixie land?
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad, &c.
We'll trust the might of great Jeff Davis,
Who with the help of God will save us,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee;
Brave Beauregard and gallant Lee,
Can whip the North with Tennessee,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad, &c.
We intend to fight if God will let us,
For Mississippi and Governor Pettus,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee;
We'll lay aside old Yankee Doodle,
Fan out old Abe, and the whole caboodle,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad, &c.
The traitor Andy was quite lucky,
To make his 'scape to old Kentucky,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee;
Should he return to Tennessee,
We'll put him where he ought to be,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus--
I'm glad, &c.
Come one, come all, come Doctors, Teachers,
Merchants, Lawyers, Farmers, Preachers,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee,
And let us all with sword in hand,
Join in and whip out Yankee Land,
Fight away, fight away, fight away, Tennessee.
Chorus—
I'm glad, &c.
Ever of Thee.
The Editor is not responsible for the appearance of the above effusion.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 5, 1862, p. 2, c.
6
The following noble and patriotic invocation to our brave soldiers, from
one of the fair daughters of the land, breathes through out with the spirit of
'76, the spirit of unadulterated independence.
Such a plea, coming, as it does, straight from the hearts of our glorious
women, is irresistible. We are
happy to learn that our gallant twelve months men are all, or almost all,
re-enlisting.
For the Mississippian.
To our Southern Soldiers.
Soldiers of the South! for
almost a year many of you have been nobly and gallantly defending your native
soil from the invasion of our enemies; many of you still bear upon your bodies
the scars received in the blood-stained battle fields of Manassas, Leesburg,
Bethel, &c. Your brows are
entwined with laurels fresh and green, and your names are engraven upon the
grateful hearts of your countrymen. You
have been looking forward with pleasure, to the expiration of your term of
enlistment, when others taking your places, you would be permitted to return to
your much loved homes, there to enjoy those domestic pleasures so long denied to
you. But, brave and patriotic
soldiers, the time has not yet come when you can safely sheathe your swords and
drop your muskets. The enemy is
still upon your soil, threatening to devastate your country and desolate your
beautiful homes. A large army,
splendidly equipped and well drilled, is now organized for your subjugation, and
can you, will you return to your homes, and leave only raw material to
contend with this gigantic army? Will
you who have proved yourselves equal to veterans upon the field, and have won
the confidence of your country, leave it in this hour of peril, to depend alone
upon brave but inexperienced and untried soldiers?
Your mothers and sisters are very dear to you, and sweet are the
pleasures of home; but remember, brave soldiers, that in your keeping are
the hoor and safety of those so dear to you; and to you they look to protect
them from the insults of a brutal enemy. And could you see the blush of shame mantle their cheeks
whilst you rested in ease and tranquility, and permitted the enemy to penetrate
into the heart of your country and desolate your homesteads?
No! brave and chivalric Southerners!
those who have dared to insinuate that you would pursue such a course,
have not read your brave and patriotic hearts aright, and know now all their
noble and manly impulses. Never
shall it be said that the land which gave birth to Washington and Jefferson, to
Clay, Calhoun, Jackson, and others as brilliant and patriotic, is now
lacking in heroes as brave and as true as were they; and never will you permit
their sacred dust to be trodden under the feet of a Northern foe.
But soon shall we see your names all enrolled for the war, and Gen.
McClellan shall find that when mid-summer arrives he will have the same
bold spirits to contend with that drove the Yankee hosts with rapid strides from
the glorious plains of Manassas, Leesburg, &c.
For months his large army has been lingering on the Potomac, fondly
dreaming of the suspicious hour when our well trained army shall have given
place to one composed of new and untried material—but, methinks, his men will
wait until their young heads have grown grey before they will see our Southern
army forsake its post, for our noble soldiers are not hired menials
working for their daily allowance, but brave and manly volunteers, who
are willing to sacrifice every thing to save their honor and their
country. Farewell, brave boys, and
now, one and all, gird on your armor—if for a day of rest you have
thrown it aside—and never yield until your independence is secured.
Let your motto ever be, "victory or death."
A Daughter of the South.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 5, 1862, p. 2, c.
6
For the Mississippian.
Negro Men can be
made Serviceable
to the Country.
I was much gratified to observe in the last number of your paper a very
able editorial urging upon the wealthy planters, the importance of detailing
portions of their best negro men for military use.
I am happy to record one example of this character in the person of a
patriotic planter of Madison county, whose name I am not at liberty to publish,
who has generously tendered to the command of Gen. E. L. Acee, twelve likely
negro men for such use and service as may be required of them.
This noble example should be followed by others and as many thousands
tendered to the Executive of the State as may be deemed politic for use, in this
momentous period in our history. We
must put twenty thousand men in the field within the next thirty days, and not
less than three thousand negroes should be added to this force.
It must be obvious to a reflecting mind that this element would
constitute a sanetary [sic] reform much needed, and if jodiciously [sic]
selected and governed, would be of much service as an equal number of whites.
These negroes could be employed as cooks, wagoners, nurses, etc., and if
properly armed with knives, could be relied on in an emergency.
They would soon learn to detest the enemy with the fervor of true
patriots, and in their communications with their servants would popularize a
sentiment of resistance, which would give security to thousands of unprotected
firesides in the darkest hour of the revolution.
The struggling patriotism of the masses now appeals to the wealthy for
assistance to aid in throwing off the hated shackles put forth for our
enslavement. Civilization itself is
awaiting the response. Will not the
wealthy promptly come forward and tender, not only the use of some of their
negro men to the commonwealth but such means as they possess for the support and
maintenance of the families of those who may require aid to enable the head to
give our country legions?
J. D. E.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 5, 1862, p. 2, c.
7
For the Mississippian.
Clinton, Miss., March 3d, 1862.
It is cheering in these times of gloom and despondency of some of our
countrymen, to be permitted to chronicle the never failing efforts of our
devoted and patriotic ladies of Clinton and vicinity, to aid and assist in the
great and glorious undertaking of freeing our beloved country from our Northern
aggressors. The Ladies, God bless
them! never think for a moment of
giving up the ship of State on account of the few rough blasts we have received
from the North, but with every reverse they redouble their efforts to fit and
prepare our brave soldiers to withstand the rigors of the campaign.
Our last report. . . Sent to Pensacola. . . Sent to Bowling Green. . .
Sent to Nashville Hospital. . . Donated to Gen. Jeff. Thompson's command. . .
J. B. G.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], June 9, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Summary: Far
left column "The Women of Baltimore", but the left side is hidden in
the binding
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 15, 1862, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Poem,
"The Dying Soldier, or the Charge of the Texas Brigade," by Margarita
J. Canedo, for the Mississippian
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], July 19, 1862, p. 2, c.
1
Giving Up the Cushions.—Many of the churches in Richmond have sent to
the Medical Purveyor of that city the cushioned seats used therein to be applied
in rendering the wounded soldiers comfortable.
The ladies of the different churches are now engaged in fabricating
mattresses for the use of the wounded. Two
cushions tacked together make an excellent mattress.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 12, 1862, p.
2, c. 5
Briarsfield Arsenal.—This celebrated armory is rapidly approaching
completion in all its branches, and bids fair to compete with any similar
establishment in the Confederacy. The
late commander, Maj. W. R. Hunt, must feel justly proud of these immense shops,
raised, as they were, under his immediate supervision, and in the face of
difficulties at times disheartening.
Although we have to deplore the necessity that caused the resignation of
Maj. Hunt, yet we congratulate the government at Richmond, and citizens of
Columbus, upon the appointment of Capt. J. T. Trezevant, as his successor.
Capt. Trezevant has, ever since the evacuation of Memphis, been
associated with Maj. Hunt in the Arsenal, and has not only the good will of the
numerous employees, but enjoys an enlarged experience of the multifarious duties
of the ordnance department.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 12, 1862, p.
3, c. 1
McAllister & Hughes, at the Jackson Axe Manufactory, or McAllister's
Store, wish to purchase for the benefit of the Government, all the old worn-out
Axes, for which they will pay in cash from 50 cents to $1 each. Those having old axes will confer a favor upon the
Government, themselves and us, by bringing them in immediately to the above, or
H. Penn, Hazlehurst, or G. Penn, Brookhaven.
We will also upset and grind axes on the shares for the accommodation of
the Planter.
Jackson, Miss, Sept. 3d, d1w.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 12, 1862, p.
3, c. 2
For the Mississippian.
Timely Voice of a Southern Woman.
Again the [fold in paper] of victory is borne on every breeze. Another
fierce and bloody battle and the stars and stripes are trailing in dust.
The insolent invader, with their glittering bayonets proudly and
defiantly aimed at freedom's heart, have been [fold in paper], smitten and
driven from the boasted triumph by the heroic valor of our brave sons.
The God of battles and of justice has again strengthened our arms and
given us a glorious victory. But
ah! at what a fearful cost!!
How many [fold in paper] hearts will give the mournful echo, "What
a fearful cost!!"
Thousands of noble spirits, like pure and brilliant stars, have been
suddenly transferred to another sphere to receive from bright winged angels the
laurels [fold in paper] richly won, glittering crowns that earth could never
give.
While the welkin rings with shouts of victory, and all Southern hearts
seem filled with joy and gladness, for the cheering news from Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee, and hearts leap with joy that the infamous Pope and his piratical
minions have been welcomed to gory beds upon the soil they sought to scourge and
devastate, yet, list! rejoicings
and thanksgiving for our brilliant success have scarce died away when a low and
mournful voice comes wafted upon the soft night zephyr [fold in paper] ulous
eagerness, for a list of the fallen brave.—Bright eyes are dim with tears for
the loved and cherished ones were on that battlefield.
Where are they now? Have
they not given their heart's blood, a noble sacrifice upon the altar of liberty?
freedom for their wives and children from the ingrate tyrant's iron rule?
The lovely Panthea, the devoted wife of Arbradates, when she presented
her husband with his coat-armor, helmet, bracelets and plume, of her own
handiwork, for the great battle of the Perdeans and Babalonians, could not
restrain her tears, and embracing him, even hissing his garments in her
fondness, she exhorted him to die with sword in hand, rather than not
signalize himself for his gallantry and worth.
How many fair hands in our oppressed land have thus choked back the
falling tear and rising sob, until they have decked their loved ones for the
deadly strife? Those hands may be
pressed upon the loving heart, to still its wild and fearful pulse, ere the
fatal news brings woe and agony too deep for utterance.
Thus sorrow and joy are mingled in a breath, but the recording angel
notes it all, and the black-hearted demons are fast bringing upon their own
heads the destruction they sought to inflict upon those who are nobly contending
for their rights. The storm cloud
is moving in the right direction at last; God's voice will be heard, and our
sweet sunny land will be purged from the tread of the base usurper.
Onward, onward, brave Southerners!
Let the fearful clash of arms and the loud cannon roar, startle the base
ingrates from the quiet of their own home.
Women of Mississippi! there
is work to do. The wounded from our
recent battle fields are not in our midst, yet we can vie with each other in
contributing to their comforts. Boxes
of cordials and wholesome jellies, with warm suitable clothing for the invalid,
old linen and lint, can be neatly and without delay, put up and entrusted to a
faithful bearer—one who will see them safely deposited where mostly needed.
Let us emulate the generous and patriotic ladies of East Tennessee, after
the former battle of Richmond, when the wounded and convalescent soldiers were
returning to their homes, at every depot as soon as the cars would stop, the
weak and exhausted soldiers were greeted by the entrance of ladies with their
servants bearing baskets and waiters filled with refreshing drinks, cakes and
every delicacy.
Those wishing to leave the cars were provided with carriages, without
charge. For once let pleasure
excursions, balls and levees, with their expensive fixtures, be forgotten, while
we devote our energies and means in providing comforts for the self-sacrificing,
noble spirits, who have so valiantly aided in freeing the Capitol of our
Southern Confederacy from the presence of the insolent foe.
Ettienne.
Jackson, Mississippi, Sept. 12, 1862.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Socks for the Army.
I want to purchase for the army all the woollen socks that can be
furnished in the State of Mississippi, for which I will pay 75 cents per pair.
L. Mims,
Major & Q. M.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Army Clothing to Make.
Tailors and Seamstresses are wanted immediately at the Armory Hall in
Jackson, Miss. The work will be
given out, if desired, and good wages paid.
J. L. McAlenny & Co.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Wool! Wool!!
I want to buy for the Confederate States 100,000 lbs. Wool, for which the
highest market price will be paid in cash.
Persons from a distance sending wool, will have proceeds sent them in
cash, or such articles as they may want.
John W. Robinson.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], September 29, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Attention, Shoemakers!
I want Thirty Shoemakers at Canton, Miss., to assist in making 50,000
pairs shoes for our army.
S. Hillyer,
Captain and A. Q. M.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 2, 1862, p. 1,
c. 1
Summary: Poems—"Farewell
to Louisiana!" and "Prisoner's Fare at Camp Douglas"
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 10, 1862, p. 1,
c. 2-3
Summary: Speech
of the Traitor, Jack Hamilton of Texas, from Butler's Delta.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 10, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Dixie Works,
Canton,
Mississippi.
Manufacture Dress, Artillery and Cavalry Swords, Bayonets, Bowie Knives,
Cavalry Spurs and Bitts, Cannon Carriages, Caisons, Transportation Wagons,
Transportation Harness, Infantry and Artillery Leather Equipment, Knapsacks,
Haversacks, Ambulances, Litters, Camp Cots and Stools, Tarpaulins, Cartridges
for Maynard Rifles, Wooden Canteens, Army Belts and Buckles, Sword Mountings,
etc.
Several hundred Cavalry Sabres now ready.
Will have three full Batteries of Wagons completed in a few days.
W. Werner & Co.
Canton, Aug. 2, 1862-d.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 11, 1862, p. 1,
c. 3-4
Summary: Hospital
Report of C. K. Marshall to Gov. J. J. Pettus, showing a statement of receipts
and expenditures at the Richmond and Lynchburg Depots, for Mississippi soldiers,
and also Hospital expenses for sick and wounded of our State.
We use at Richmond, chiefly for our hospital necessities, two Confederate
establishments—the Bailey Factory and the Wynder Camp.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], October 11, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Socks for the Million
Mrs. H. B. Evans would announce to the public that she is prepared to
knit any quantity for those that will bring their yarn for 20 cents per yard.
Societies would do well to make early application.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
A Dark Day for Jackson.
Yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, a terrific explosion took place
at the Arsenal in this city, blowing up the Magazine and producing a fearful
shock throughout the city and its suburbs, killing all the hands engaged in
making cartridges and completely destroying all the vast army stores that had
been gathered there. The scene
after the explosion is described as heart-rending.
Mangled bodies of men, women and girls who had been employed in making
cartridges, were scattered in every direction!
Many bodies were so terribly lacerated as to render recognition wholly
impossible. We are not able to day
to give the names of that ill-fated band—about thirty-four—who were so
hurriedly ushered into eternity, or the extent of the loss sustained in the
munitions of war, but will do so tomorrow.
The sight was dreadful in the highest degree, and the loss of ammunition
heavy. Jackson will long remember
and mourn the sad occurrence.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Fire.
Before our city recovered from the dreadful shock caused by the explosion
of the magazine, a fire broke out in the building on Main street, occupied by
Mr. Goodman as a Jewelry and Dry Goods establishment.
This occurred about 10½ P. M. The
wind blew in a north-western direction, and owing to the extremely dry weather
and the difficulty of getting water, it was seriously feared that the whole city
would be swept in a general conflagration.
The fire raged northward from the building occupied by Mr. Goodman,
(where the fire commenced), and destroyed the house occupied by Mrs. Evans, as a
Millinery establishment, and continued its ravages to Mr. Weir's, next to John
Martz, next Mr. John W. Robinson, where the progress of the flames was arrested.
The Depot of the Southern Railroad was also destroyed with several
surrounding buildings. Several
bales of cotton and a considerable quantity of goods were destroyed—the exact
extent of which we are not yet advised.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
An Old Editor Gone.—We regret to learn, says the Huntsville (Texas)
Item, that Senator E. Scarborough, for many years owner of the Brownsville Flag,
was recently assassinated in the streets of Brownsville.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
Kentucky Spoils.—A call appears in the Augusta papers for 1,000 women
to convert the Kentucky jeans, brought out of Kentucky by General Bragg's army,
into soldiers' clothing.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
The Selma Reporter states
that the salt works in Clarke
county, under the direction of the State authorities, are now turning out one
thousand bushels per day. Colonel
A. G. McGehee, the commissioner in charge, is complimented for his efficiency
[fold in paper] operating these works.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Shoemakers Wanted!
Twenty-five or fifty shoemakers can find steady employment on
application, at my shop in Clinton, Mississippi.
The best of wages paid.
Charles Schweigel.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
Wanted.
Four Cloth Cutters to cut Clothing in C. S. Clothing Manufactory, at this
place. Experienced men preferred.
Apply at the store of
J. W. Robinson,
State street.
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 4-tf.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 7, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
Loss of Ammunition.—We are happy to learn that the statement made by us
yesterday, that a large amount of ammunition was destroyed in the explosion on
Wednesday evening, is incorrect. We
are informed by Col. Stockton, the Superintendent of the Arsenal, that the loss
in ammunition was very light.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The Disaster.
About half past three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, (the day before
yesterday) our city was the scene of one of the most appalling disasters that it
was ever our misfortune to witness, the results of which are heart-rending.
At the above hour one of the buildings, about thee squares back of the
Bowman House, used by the Ordnance officers for the manufacture of ammunition,
exploded with an awful crash that shook every house in the city, and caused the
greatest alarm and excitement—in an instant astonishment and horror was
depicted in every face, and soon hundreds were running with breathless haste to
the locality of the sad occurrence. A
scene here met the eye that caused the stoutest heart to quail!
The two story brick building used as the laboratory was blown to the
smallest atoms, and the debris were scattered for several hundred yards
around. All the men and women employed in the building at the time,
had been hurled to instantaneous destruction.
Shockingly mangled bodies of both sexes lay around in the most frightful
and horrible positions, besides blackened and disfigured so as to almost defy
identity as human beings! One man
had a leg torn off and his brains literally blown out.
The body of a poor girl was hanging by one foot to the limb of a tree,
she was evidently dead, but her clothes were still burning.
Other bodies were blown to the distance of from fifty to one hundred and
fifty yards, and presented a mutilated and most shocking appearance.
The packages of powder and the shells were yet continually exploding as
the fire of the burning ruins reached them, and many who attempted to go nearer,
in order to render assistance, it needed, were thus warned to desist until the
danger was over.
The fire engine was promptly on the ground, but could not do much owing
to the want of water.
In a short time many of the friends and relatives of the unfortunate
victims were on the spot, and scenes of the most affecting and heart-rending
character took place as the awful fatality was known.
Several surgeons and humane gentlemen endeavored to find some who had not
been killed outright, but the only one we saw who seemed to have any chance or
recovery was a sentinel—his thigh was broken and he was otherwise wounded, he
was carefully placed on a cot and borne off by friends.
Another sentinel, about one hundred yards or more from the explosion, was
hit in the back by a flying brick, and but slightly injured.
James Carnes, a carpenter was also slightly hurt in the side.
These three were the only ones outside the building who were hurt.
The officers in charge of the Arsenal, are we learn, Colonel P. Stockton,
Captain W. Tams, Lieutenant R. S. Kinney, and Capt. H. Fisher.
Col. Stockton had fortunately just been called away.
Captain Tames and Captain Fisher were not in the immediate vicinity of
the explosion luckily, and Lieutenant Kinney was providentially absent, sick in
his room. At the time of the
explosion, the laboratory held only a few hundred rounds of fixed ammunition,
and about two hundred pounds of powder, so that the pecuniary loss is quite
inconsiderable. The cause that led
to this tragical occurrence, must like others of a similar nature, remain a
mystery. It is most positively
known that there was no fire within several hundred feet of the laboratory, and
no satisfactory account can ever be given of the cause of this direful calamity.
The officers mentioned, are well known to be skilful, experienced and
cautious, and the employees had often been warned of the dangerous character of
the material they worked with—only two out of twenty-one young women
are known to be saved—twenty-nine bodies through the humane exertions
of the Mayor and his attendants, have been gathered together for burial.
Some of them have not been recognized, so severeily [sic] have their
features and bodies been distorted. The
other buildings of the Arsenal were comparatively injured, but some of the
dwellings in the immediate vicinity, were considerably damaged.
Their occupants had a wonderful escape, and were terrorstricken for hours
after the occurrence. While our
community mourns over the sad reality of the frightful destruction of life, we
are all seriously reminded of the great uncertainty of human affairs.
We trust that we may never again have to relate such agonizing details of
the loss of human beings.—The unparalelled [sic] fact, of the greater portion
of the victims being helpless women is dreadful indeed, and serves to
make this the most truly melancholy record we ever penned.—Owing to the
confusion and excitement in the city, we were unable sooner to give our readers
anything like a definite statement of this sad and lamentable affair.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Capt. Henry Fisher, military store
keeper, for the following lists of the killed, those who are known to be safe
and those not heard from—the latter we have hope will yet report themselves
safe. [list]
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 7, 1862, p. 3, c. 2
One Hundred Navy Repeaters!
We have on hand and ready for delivery, 100 Navy Repeaters, (Colt's
patent) and are manufacturing them at the rate of thirty per week. Price for a single Pistol, $75, or when for companies of not
less than forty $65.
We have also on hand a few very fine Staff Swords, and some extra fine
Spurs.
All orders accompanied by the cash, will be promptly attended to.
Leech & Rigdon,
Novelty Works, Columbus, Miss.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Wanted!
By the Selma
Foundry,
At Selma, Ala.:
Fifteen or Twenty Good Moulders. Those
acquainted with the casting of heavy ordnance and shot and shell would be
preferred. Also ten or fifteen good
Machinists, and as many good Blacksmiths, and half a dozen good Pattern makers,
to all of whom full wages and permanent employment will be given.
Selma is a beautiful and healthy place, and has all the conveniences of a
city of six thousand inhabitants. The
Foundry Works exclusively for the Government, and all the hands employed are
exempt from the conscript law and military duty.
C. J. McRae & Co.,
Selma, Ala.
Refer to Col. James A. Horne, Jackson, Miss.
Natchez Courier copy 1 month, and send bill to this office immediately.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 8, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
Blankets for the Soldiers.—Maj. Mims, Chief quartermaster of this
Department, calls upon all persons to furnish him with blankets for the use of
our soldiers who are suffering for the want of them.
Let each person feel that it is his especial duty to furnish one, and we
feel confident there will be but little suffering for the want of blankets.
See his call in another column.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Diana Smith, the
Heroine of the
Northwest.
From the Wytheville Dispatch.
A friend has kindly furnished us with some interesting particulars in the
history of this young heroine.
She was born and raised in the county of Jackson.
Her father is a consistent and pious member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and was leading a quiet, peaceful and useful life, until his country was
invaded, when he called his countrymen to arms, and raised the first company of
guerrillas, which he commanded until this fall, when, by fraud and treachery he
was captured, and ever since has been confined in a loathsome dungeon at Camp
Chase, Ohio, without hope of delivery, unless our Government should interpose
and procure his release.
Diana, his only daughter, is a beautiful girl, and has been tenderly
raised, and well educated. She is
also a member of the M. E. Church, and has always been regarded as very pious
and exemplary. She is descended
from a race of unflinching nerve, and satisfied with nothing less than freedom
as unrestrained as the pure air of their mountain home.
Her devotion to the cause of Southern rights, in which her father had
nobly engaged, has caused her, too, to feel the oppressor's power.
Although a tender and delicate flower, upon whose cheek the bloom of
sixteen summers yet lingers, she has been five times captured by the Yankees,
and marched sometimes on foot, in manacles, a prisoner, once a considerable
distance to Ohio, at which time she made her escape.
She was never released, but in each instance managed to escape from her
guard. She, too, has been in service; she was in several battles in
which her father engaged the enemy. She
has seen blood flow like water. Her
trusty rifle has made more than one of the vile Yankees bite the dust.
She left her home in company with the Moccasin Rangers, (Captain Kelser,)
and came through the enemy's line in safety, and is now at the Blue Sulphur
Springs.
She was accompanied by Miss Duskie,
who has earned the proud distinction of a heroine. On one occasion this fearless girl was surrounded by fifty
Yankees and Union men, when she went rushing through their ranks with a daring
that struck terror to their craven hearts.
With her rifle lashed across her shoulders, she swam the west fork of the
Kanhawa river, and made her way to the Mountain Rangers; preferring to trust her
safety to those brave spirits, well knowing that her sex would entitle her to
protections from those brave mountaineers.
These young ladies have lain in the mountains for months, with no bed but
the earth, and no covering but the canopy of heaven.
They have shared the soldier's rough fare, and its dangers, his hopes,
and his joys.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
A Valuable Discovery.
A most valuable discovery has lately been made of the usefulness of Sour
Lake water, as supplied to the arts. For
the information of our distant readers, we will state that Sour Lake is a small
lake or pond of water, situated in what was formerly Jefferson county, but we
believe is now embraced within the boundaries of Hardin county, a few miles from
the New Orleans and Texas Railroad, and about eighty miles from this city.
The waters are quite acid to the taste; those of the surrounding springs
bearing a close resemblance to tartaric water.
Indeed, they have been successfully used in all the branches of cooking
when tartaric acid is required. The
difficulty of procuring acid since the blockade has been a serious trouble to
the telegraph lines. Telegraphers
have tried blue vitriol and copper batteries, etc.
A day or since, it occurred to Col. Gentry and Mr. Clute—the President
and Superintendent of the Texas Telegraph Company—to try Sour Lake water
instead of sulphuric acid. A
battery was rigged up, giving a large surface of zinc to the result has proved
entirely satisfactory; the lines of the Texas Telegraph Company being now worked
by a battery of Sour Lake water.
Hitherto the water has been chiefly resorted to for its health giving
qualities. It now bids fair to
command attention to its valuable uses in the arts of life.
Indeed it is believed that for telegraphing purposes it may be
transported in barrels to the most distant parts of the Confederacy, and used
more economically than sulphuric acid. Thanks
to Mr. Lincoln's blockade. If he
will keep it up long enough, we shall find all we want in our own territory yet.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
War to the Knife
and the Knife to the
Hilt!
The memorable seige of Saragossa is an illustrious example of what
determined valor can accomplish. Flushed
with pride and insolence, the French commander sat down in front of the heroic
city. He thought it would fall an
easy prey to his veteran legions, and so confidently wrote:
"Headquarters, near Saragossa—surrender."
Palafox defiantly replied: "Headquarters,
Saragossa: War to the knife and the
knife to the hilt!" This was
the battle-cry which rang through the city while shot and shell burst upon it,
and flames devoured it. Soldiers,
civilians, priests, women, vied with each other in defending their altars and
their homes. Starvation could not
quench the fever of their patriotic souls, flames only made their zeal more
fiery and consuming. Palafox and
Saragossa are immortal.
In the defense of our seaports the coming winter, let us imitate this
proud example.—There is no telling what a heroic people may not do if they
only make up their minds in advance to prepare for danger, and then defy it.
In a case so righteous as that of the South against invaders so
unscrupulous and vindictive, the mere citizen may perform prodigies of valor.
If there is anything in all this broad world that should nerve the hand
and fire the heart, the tyranny with which such men as Butler trample in the
dust all that men hold sacred, is enough to do it.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p.
4, c. 3
Jackson, Nov. 1862
Editor Mississippian:--The "order 28," which has stigmatised
the brutal author throughout christendom, was at firs refused publication by all
the newspapers in New Orleans—it was then copied on sheets of paper and
surreptitiously posted on many of the principal corners of the streets in the
immediate neighborhood of the St. Charles Hotel.
The next day all of the newspaper offices were ordered to be closed for
disobedience of orders, on this becoming known, the True Delta paper published
the order, and the other newspapers timidly submitted to the force of
circumstances, and published it also. The
natural excitement and indignation that followed throughout the community is
indescribable. To their credit be
it said, nearly all of Butler's officers expressed themselves ashamed of
the indecent order, and even now, they would rather not have the subject brought
up. . . .
. . . A child of Mr. Thomas, a citizen of New Orleans, was walking the
streets in charge of a negress, when a negro boy stepped up and impudently took
off a red white and red "secesh" ribbon that was tied around the
child's waist—on learning this outrage, Mr. Thomas hunted up the nigger and
very properly gave him a severe thrashing.
The darkey threatened vengeance, and the next day Mr. Thomas was arrested
and sent to the parish prison for thirty days, for whipping the negro. . .
Crescent.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p. 4, c. 7
A "Skedaddler's" Story—An Escape to Canada.
The Liverpool Mercury publishes a letter from a resident of New York,
addressed to his brother in Liverpool, and dated at Montreal on the 15th
of August, in which the writer gives an account of h is flight to Canada to
avoid the draft. His adventures
seem to have been of a lively character. He
says he "got home as soon as possible," after reading the telegram
announcing the order for a draft, "gave his wife one hour's notice, kissed
her and the children, and started in the middle of the night for Canada."
He continues:
["] The whole cunning scheme had been planned out beforehand, and
all the military and police of the nation were on the alert, under instruction,
and with a bounty or reward for every poor devil they could catch, to stop all
travelers, and lock up all his chickens in their roost.
In anticipation of drafting, I had filed an exemption plea, with a
Doctor's certificate, on the score of ill health, (the Doctor had been attending
me for above one year for liver complaint,) but Uncle, being hard up, gave it
out just before the order appeared that he could not release sick people.
He might ease up a little when they had lost a leg or an arm, or were
incurables in a hospital; but otherwise they must come along and help catch a
rebel ball or an odd piece of shell or so, and there was therefore no
alternative but to go a soldiering or quarrel with old Whittlesticks.
There was some hard crying and scrambling even on Friday night at the
different railroads and means of exit from the city, the police picking up their
victims, so that I had to move mighty cautious.
I got to Albany, the capital of New York State, on important State
business, and my first plan was to strike boldly for the suspension bridge,
Niagara Falls, the easiest, nearest and best guarded point of the Canada
frontier, and with a through ticket for Detroit across Lower Canada East,
demanding a pass boldly as a foreigner, and if denied I then knew two hazardous
ferries—one between the Large Fall and the American Fall, and the other about
a mile above the Rapids—by which I though I could slip across.
I had not gone far on the road to Buffalo before things looked very
suspicious on the train, and studying my map, I concluded to skip unperceived by
the conductor at a junction, entirely change my plans, and strike off into
Northern New York, to a small port on the St. Lawrence, two hundred miles away,
which I thought would not be, as yet, so sufficiently guarded as to prevent my
getting over the St. Lawrence in a boat. I
soon found I was spotted, and for hours expected every minute to be laid hold
of, although, I had a planned out scheme to meet such an emergency. I luckily, however, slipped out of that train again, before
it got to its destination, at another junction, by which I was left at an inland
village during Sunday. ["]
He finally made his way to Rouse's Point, and underwent several
additional expenses:
["] Having gained the good will of the landlady, during an argument
on Sunday in support of her Church, and through her somewhat won upon the
shrewd, cunning but stubborn husband, I concluded, during Sunday night, to make
a confidant of the "old boss," with a stately reserve, and, if
possible, get him to help me. He
turned out a true friend, and, on Monday, I left as quietly as possible for some
Sulphur Springs, for the benefit of my liver complaint, near to the border line,
(eight miles.) Just as the stage
was starting, in jumped a United States soldier, on his way to the same place to
catch stragglers, and sat with his back to mine, while opposite to me sat a
cunning, impertinent Methodist preacher, who set to work immediately to quiz me,
and, if possible, to catch we [sic] tripping, so as to nab me, and a precious
hard time I had to checkmate him. At
the hotel at the springs I had to undergo the harshest examination yet from a
six foot Vermont Yankee, but I got him off the track by making arrangements for
the boarding by the week for wife, two children and nurse, and in the middle of
the night made arrangements for footing it along the bed of Racket river (my
only guide) across the border line.
A violent storm detained me, so next morning I followed a previously
connected plan of hiring a carriage, and driving to an Indian village, a special
object of curiosity to the spring visitors.
Just before starting down there came a company of soldier, intending to
sweep all before them, but there being no other chance, I drove boldly up to the
hotel, (for I had to cross a most exposed bridge in front,) and asked several of
the loitering visitors to take a morning ride with me, and coolly started off
before them all; but I had no sooner got across the bridge and on the right
road, than the carriage broke down. I
Yankeed it together again, and in due time got across the border line.
I then made friends with an old Canadian to take back my carriage, and
finding an Indian, I started across the St. Lawrence in a leaky canoe, Indian
fashion, followed by three men, for several attempts had been made on the border
line, which was on one side of the road, to pull victims over for the reward.
I threatened to shoot the first man that touched me, and the Indian, if
he played false, and I should have killed them all in two minutes if they had
tried it on.
With great labor and difficulty we got to one of the middle islands of
the river, when the Indian was used up, and the worst had to come, for the wind
was very high and contrary. After
bailing out the canoe, we struck out again into the current, and after about
four hours' battling with wind and waves, I got to Cornwall, Canada East, and at
once telegraphed to my wife, having had about a seven hundred mile race with
Brother Jonathan.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 19, 1862, p.
4, c. 7
Hanging to Come Off.—Several husbands in this city, who are too lazy to
work, being painfully of the opinion that their wives and children would be
better off without them, and wishing to dispose of themselves to the best
advantage, propose to allow themselves to be hung as soon as a purse can be made
up to defray the expenses of the hanging, and to leave a fund for the support of
their families. And a number of
single gentlemen, who are not mad enough to go to the wars, being impelled by
purely philanthropic motives, offer themselves, in the absence of other means of
doing good, to be hung for the benefit of the families of these unhappy
creatures.
We would suggest to those concerned the propriety of having frequent
hangings, instead of swinging them all at once, as this arrangement would give
more general satisfaction and pay much better.
It would be well, however, to dispose of all the big eaters at
once.—Selma (Ala.) Reporter.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Blankets and Quilts for the Army.
To the Ministers of every Denomination:
We have been informed by Major L. Mims, Chief Quartermaster, C. S. A., at
Jackson, Mississippi, that our army is suffering for the want of covering from
the frosts which have passed, and will suffer far more from those approaching,
if not speedily supplied. The
people are willing to deny themselves still further, but need some one in every
community to direct them. I have
ventured to pledge our authorities that there is not a more energetic body than
the ministry as a class, and by the approval of Maj. Mims, I hereby appoint you,
individually, as volunteer agents in this cause.
Presuming that you will act in the premises, permit me to suggest to you
a course that will give system and point to your efforts.
1st. State the
case and make an appeal to the people on every favorable occasion and if none
presents itself soon, make one.
2d. Request several
prominent and active men to aid you in each neighborhood, to go from house to
house and purchase such as the people will sell at such prices as may be deemed
fair under all the circumstances. I
am purchasing at from $8 to $12 each. Where
citizens, from diffidence, refuse to name a price, call in one or two judicious
neighbors to aid you.
3d. Have a house in the
neighborhood, or at the nearest depot, fixed as a place of reception and
deposit, where you can meet them, and fix the name of the person, with the
price, on the article, and keep a register of the same in a book.
4th. Then report
to me, or to some Quartermaster, C. S. A., when your collection is safely
arranged for transportation, when you will receive the aggregate amount, which
you can disburse in return amongst the citizens.
By thus doing, we can, in twenty days, comfortably cover our gallant but
suffering protectors. I can promise
no pecuniary reward, yet I know your spirit and experience so well, that I will
venture to say you will cheerfully act, and that promptly, and feel rewarded in
the consciousness of having served your struggling country in this its day and
hour of need.
Let us hear from you at the earliest practicable day.
Respectfully yours,
In Christian and patriotic fraternity,
J. T. Freeman.
I approve the above plan, and sincerely hope that it may procure us the
articles so much in need.
L. Mims,
Maj. & Chief Quartermaster,
Dep't Miss. & East Louisiana.
All the papers in the State who favor this plan will contribute to its
success by one or two publications.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
The Soldier's Gratitude.
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 21, 1862.
Mr. Editor:--While many returned soldiers, paroled prisoners, &c.,
are giving utterance to feelings of dissatisfaction at the apparent want of
sympathy for them—and the very high prices they have to pay for every article
of food, clothing, &c., please allow me on behalf of many, to return our
thanks and express our gratitude to Mr. John S. Rhea, a refugee from New
Orleans, now a resident of Canton, Miss., for his many acts of kindness and
charity toward them.
We have seen him, ourselves, purchase tickets by the handful, and go
round and distribute them to the wounded and hungry soldier. Long may he live in the memory of the recipients of his
kindness.
A Soldier.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c, 8
An Appeal from a
Christian Virginia Lady
to the Ladies of
the Confederacy.
To the Editors
of the Enquirer:
Gentlemen:
I wish to make public through your columns, and those of various other
influential journals, a suggestion to the women of the Confederate South.
It is that a day be appointed, on which, at a certain hour, they, with
one consent, shall unitedly beg for PEACE from Him in Whose hands are the hearts
of men and the destinies of nations. Prayer
is being made continually for the success of our arms in battle, and these
prayers have been answered—in many instances beyond our hopes.
Every prayer doubtless breathes an earnest petition for Peace, but it is
suggested now that our faithful women shall unite to pray in an especial
manner for it. That God would
forgive our enemies and turn their hearts, and that He would forgive us our
debts, and would speedily deliver us from the evil hands of bloody men.
Let Monday, the 1st day of December, be appointed, and on that
day at 12 M., let the heart of every wife, mother, sister and daughter in every
State of our Confederacy, go out in solemn, fervent prayer to God for PEACE.
In places and churches where female prayer meetings are usual, let the
women themselves order the matter. Where
such meetings are not usual, or are considered unadvisable, or are
impracticable, let every woman in her own house stop all work at the hour
named—suspend the carding, and spinning, and knitting, and weaving, and
sewing, and teaching, if for only one half hour, and let every woman's heart be
lifted then in prayer for her country. Let
the sick woman on her bed remember the day and hour—let the busy forego her
business—and, I was going to say, let the gay suspend her gaiety, but I trust
there are not many gay women in the South now.
But let the young, and beautiful, and hopeful, equally with those who can
lay no claim to such titles, think of the dead, and the dying, and the
mangled—think of the broken hearted, the homeless and the destitute—think of
the widows, and fatherless, and childless, of this awful war—and let every
woman's heart be stirred to pray as with one voice on that day to God for help,
and for PEACE—an honorable PEACE.
All papers friendly to this suggestion are requested to copy, that it may
be as widely diffused as possible by the day above named.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c, 9
The Recent Execution in Texas.
A week or two ago we gave a brief account of the troubles in Cook county,
growing out of the discovery of a treasonable plot to surrender that portion of
the State to Federal authority. Cook
county is a border county, contiguous to the Indian territory, and is thickly
inhabited, a great portion of the settlers being originally from Ohio and
Indiana. It seems there was a
secret organization formed, having signs, grips, and passwords.
The members were sworn to secrecy, and those found worthy were entrusted
with three degrees. The first
degree bound the member to secrecy, and to avenge a brother member's blood.
The second degree was confined to robbing, jayhawking, &c.
The third contemplated the re-establishing of the old Union. By some means the whole plot was discovered, and created
intense excitement. The Marshall
(Texas) Republican says"
About seventy men were arrested, the most of them, as we understand low
characters, with here and there a man of limited influence. About thirty-four of these were tried and executed, when the
community was freshly excited by the intelligence that the son of the hotel
keeper at Gainesville, (whose name we do not recollect,) had been waylaid and
assassinated several miles from town. Col.
Wm. C. Young and several others went out to get the body, but had not reached
the spot when some one in ambush shot Young through the head, killing him
instantly. Such was the
exasperation caused by these assassinations that the community hung several
others. The number executed in Cook
county, at last accounts, reached forty-two, and two others were shot for
attempting to make their escape. The
extent of the plot was not known, but was not supposed to be very extensive.
How could it be, when there are probably not a thousand Union men (if so
many) in the whole State? It was traced, however to Grayson county.
Some few arrests had been made at Sherman, and one man was condemned to
be hung. Others, it was supposed,
would be summarily dealt with. Altogether,
it is a strange affair, that a body of men not numbering two hundred, should
concoct a plan of this kind, inviting invasion when they were not living in a
country which an invading foe would be likely to run the hazard of entering, and
when they must have known that the discovery of their plans would be visited
with condign punishment. We must
infer that thieving and robbing was at the bottom of the affair.
Since writing the foregoing, it is rumored that several persons have been
hung in Grayson county, and among them a Dr. Lively.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 3, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The Conspiracy.—The Clarksville (Texas) Standard, of the 1st
instant, says the plot lately developed in Cooke and Grayson has much more
importance at a distance than at home. The
association is said never to have comprised more than one man of any standing,
being mostly made up of refugees and suspected persons.
The head man was Leander Locke. The
object of the association appears not to have been well defined, some thinking
it was a peace association, and others saying that it was to evade conscription.
At a meeting of some five or six hundred people in Sherman, it was
determined by a vote to turn over the accused to the Confederate
or State Courts. The whole
association is west of Fannin county, except two or three in Fannin. The killing of Col. Wm. C. Young, and Jas. Dickson, by these
scoundrels, was in consequence of their efforts to ferret out their plot; and
their death is the occasion of deep regret in the whole community.—But the
hanging of some forty or fifty conspirators, it is believed, has had a salutary
effect, besides ridding the country of a class of men who owe a debt to the
gallows independent of their treasonable designs. The Standard pays a handsome tribute to the memory of Col.
Young, who stood high among the people of Texas.
He had been United States Marshal for the Western District, and was Col.
of a cavalry regiment at the commencement of the present war, and had been a
Colonel in the Mexican War.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 3, 1862, p. 2,
c. 5
Speaking of the disgraceful surrender of Galveston, the Tyler Reporter
says:
The press of other States are already denouncing the surrender of
Galveston as another instance of incompetency, imbecility or cowardice. The heart sickens at the contemplation of our disgrace.
But we do not despair—are not discouraged.
Our people are brave, and will yet retrieve their lost honors.
All they want is a leader. The
country and the people are equal to the emergency, if they only have some one at
the head of affairs able to direct them.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 3, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
Supplies for the Army in the Military Department.
For successful war, the clothing of an army is a consideration scarcely
secondary to arming it. Men cannot
fight barefooted on the frozen ground; and when the day's toil is over, they
must have blankets to protect them from the wintry blast and enable them to
enjoy the sweet repose of body so essential to health.
In the interest of humanity, therefore, and of the mighty stake which is
involved in this struggle, we are more than pleased to note the success which
has attended the labors of the chief Quartermaster, Maj. Mims, and his
assistants and agents in this military department, to obtain supplies of shoes,
clothing, blankets (or their equivalent) for the soldiers on duty within its
bounds.
In two or three weeks the large army for whom it is incumbent upon them
to make provision, will be made comparatively comfortable, and it is a note
worthy fact, that the result will have been accomplished with what were
considered the barren resources of the State of Mississippi.
We have within the limits of the State, the largest and most completely
equipped tannery in the Confederacy, not to mention scores of others, capable of
furnishing leather enough for the uses of the army. Shoes are made at the large factories, and by the numberless
small contractors throughout the department, with leather tanned at home, in
quantities sufficiently large to furnish within a short time enough for the
present necessities of the troops; and this work, we are assured, will still be
vigorously prosecuted.
An excellent quality of woollen hats is now being made at Jackson and
Vicksburg, and the appointments of the factories are such as to make us state
that they will furnish enough to meet the wants of the army.
In the article of blankets, the Messrs. Lemman are making fifty per day,
and by the addition of machinery now being purchased, they will, in a short
time, increase the number to two hundred per day.
Active agents are employed canvassing the State for the purchase of
blankets, comforts, carpets, &c., and if supplies continue to come in for a
few weeks longer as at present, every soldier in the department will be
supplied.
The clothing heretofore furnished has been manufactured almost entirely
by Mississippi establishments. Three
large factories now turn out 300 complete suits of warm, comfortable clothing
per week; and the best of tents made from Mississippi osnabergs, have been
supplied to nearly all the troops.
Wagons, ambulances and harness sufficient almost for the entire army, are
being manufactured and purchased, in the department.
In short, the necessaries of this Department are being supplied, under
its present efficient administration, with quartermasters stores, provided
within its limits, amply for the uses of the army engaged in its defense.
but to continue these supplies, the people must not forget that they
should heartily co-operate with the officers of the government and afford them
every facility within their power. A
virtuous self-sacrifice and unremitting industry are demanded.
We must deprive ourselves of home comforts, that the brave troops may be
supplied with what they need. Their
wants demand attention first. Every
pound of wool—and yard of cloth—every raw-hide—should be taken care of, so
that they can be appropriated to the uses of the army.
If there are persons not able to contribute such articles, as a free-will
offering to the common cause, they should dispose of them at a reasonable price
to the government.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 3, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
An Appeal from the Ladies of Mississippi.
The following eloquent appeal is from a young lady, 17 years old.
It is brimful of earnest patriotism, and must prove a stinging rebuke to
those for whom it is especially intended, if it does not arouse them to action.
We dare say it speaks the real sentiments of the noble women of our
State:
["] Mississippians: We have hitherto remained silent during the course of the
war. Our hearts have been with
those in the field; our prayers have been raised for them; and our hands have
labored for them. We were told to
trust in the justness of our cause, the sagacity of our rulers, and the valiance
of our soldiers. We have done so.
But now, two years have nearly passed away, and the Northern hordes still
steadily advance. They come over the dead bodies of those heroes who have
opposed them, and who, like the Spartan band at Thermopylæ, have perished in
the unequal conflict.
When we view these results, and consider that our army is composed of the
best material an army ever contained, of men who are soldiers by nature as well
as by art, and whose whole soul is in their cause, we can see but one way to
account for failure, and that is, our armies have been reinforced too tardily;
the men have, as it were, perished by handfulls.
Mississippians! Another
great crisis has arrived. The North
is making giant efforts, and is at the same time lulling the energies of the
South by the flattering hopes of "intervention."
Can any be so blind as to catch at such a bait?
We must expect to fight our battles single-handed, nor should a proud
nation trust to foreign aid. The
very hopes indulged of such an event, would effectually prevent it; for they
would serve to relax our efforts, and what nation will aid a people too weak to
aid themselves!
The North has formed its plans and is now making its preparations to
possess itself of our entire State; let us not wait until our army is beaten
before we arouse ourselves. Reinforcements
should be sent now; let us look around and see from whence they can come.
Why are so many men, young and vigorous, allowed to fill offices which
our maimed soldiers, who need some recompense at the hands of their country, or
our old men, who are physically unable to become soldiers, could fill so
efficiently? Why are so many men
left in our cities, who, like vultures, feed on the vitals of the country, and
can take the pay a poor soldier received for months of hard service, for a
single pair of shoes, or a garment to clothe his shivering limbs?
Such men, be it said to the honor of the country, are mostly foreigners;
but shall this mercenary, refuse population of other countries, reap the
hard-earned fruits of our native soldier's toil?
It is inhuman that it should be so.
How many women are ready to fill these places, now occupied by hardy able
bodied men, and for which their sex does not unfit them.
The women of this age have reached a state of culture which no other age
has seen.—Their moral and intellectual faculties are highly developed; and in
a cause like this, in which their whole heart and soul is plunged, cannot their
energies be made of some service to their country? Cannot they be the means of sending fresh recruits to the
army, while they add their names in a halo of glory to those of our heroes on
the page of history. Oh, it would
be a glorious contrast to the part taken by the women of the French revolution,
in which they sank even below the men in moral degradation, and formed the
leaders of the vilest and most savage mobs.
Let all the strong and able men go to the war to fill the ranks; we who
have sent our husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, can surely part with those
who fill the side walks of our streets, and discuss with eloquent tongue, the
skill of a General, the face of a lady, or the details of the last battle. Their gaze is insulting to us as we pass, and we feel like
the lady of Nashville, who gathered up her skirt as she passed the Yankee
ruffian, for fear of contamination. We
appeal to the true sons of the gallant State to rally to her standard.
Let the Northern armies who come to plunder and destroy, be scattered
like the winter leaves. Let them be trampled in the dust of the State they would
desecrate with their foul presence. Then
will the daughters of the South like Miriam, rejoice with "timbrels and the
dance," they will welcome home the brave warriors who have been their
deliverers, and weep for those who have fallen, as martyrs to their country, and
the dear price which for liberty they paid.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], December 3, 1862, p. 3,
c. 6
Especially Scribbled for the Chattanooga Rebel.
I Dodge the Demon "Conscript."
"Tell me ye winged winds
That round my pathway roar—
Know ye not some favored spot
Where 'Dodgers doge no more?'
The wild winds snickered in my face,
And whispered hoarsely "nairy place!"
Silversmith.
"Ye gods and little wiggletails!"
What a race the undersigned has had of it!
Here I am at length, oh gentle Chattanooga; run down like a stag at bay,
out of breath, tattered in habiliment, generally demoralized and disorganized in
personnel, and suddenly brought up standing in Chattanooga, after many
moon's absence from the great literary world!
Here, somebody—hold the hat of J. H.; fetch the subscriber a flagon of ardiente,
square yourselves all round for a long story; open your auriculars but close all
your other vents—and listen to me.
Since I last martially appeared in the great arena of war, I have been
deposed of my official position as a leader of the "hosts of Israel;"
and having been dishonorably discharged from the army, have floated over the
earth, an unpiloted waif upon the great surface of the revolution, and have
consequently been incontinently jostled like a d___n!
(Which profane digression the reader will please omit when reading to a
female audience.)
My adventures since that event have been transcendently sublime and
exhilaratingly exciting. Disgusted
with the "service," and the possibility of having to remain in it, in
uncomfortably close companionship with a large musket, I journeyed
homeward—only there to discover that "Morgan's men" had already been
in the neighborhood of the paternal roof, and that Felicia Ann, (heretofore the
idol of my idle existence,) had engaged herself to be married to three of them,
and had jilted the undersigned on account of his advanced age and consequent
inability to do "familiarity duty!"
Broken-hearted, I plunged into the "Partisan-Ranger,-Take-care-of-yourself-and-Sponge-on-your-neighbor
cavalry," and, being mounted on a mule, soon learned to stampede on the
approach of the enemy and to tell as whopping a lie, in a full gallop, as any of
'em. In a lover's anguish of
despari, I endeavored to commit suicide, by throwing myself violently from my
saddle in order to break all my legs but one, so that some beautiful maiden,
with a superannuated but wealthy only father, should—
"Take me up tenderly,
Nurse me up slenderly."
and marry me for love—or, rather, because I belonged to
the gizzard-footed and cucumber-shinned dragoons.
I succeeded in falling off my mule, but being exceedingly drunk at the
time, sustained no serious damage, except a twenty-four hours limited furlough
to the guardhouse, from which I effected my escape, and in conjunction with my
old friend, the Hon. Mr. Kwort Keg, proceeded rapidly to the far-away South to
avoid being confiscated by the advancing Federal authorities as condemned
government plunder.
Stopped at Murfreesboro' en route.
Put up at the "Bull-beef Retreat," where, at the table, heard
Gerry Pearl, of the Antilles, tell a diabolical "Goat Story," which by
the way, the ladies should demand of him to repeat, for it caused the
undersigned to choke himself with laughter and piece of beef-grizzle in
attempting to swallow about the climax of the story, and which unfortunate
accident caused the violent ejectment of Keg and self from the midst of the
company by repeated applications of bootleather.
Keg, more than myself, regretted the suddenness of our removal at a
moment so inopportune and out of tune—from the fact that he had but just
passed up his plate for "a leetle more of that galled ox" evidently
determining to eat himself as full as a swelled frog, becaue of the one dollar
tariff at the door.
We concluded to resume our travels.—Crowding into a box car, full of
sick soldiers, we moaned as loud as the balance of them, and in that way worked
our passage for nothing. Passing
Tullahoma, both of us were recognized by Gen. Bragg, Governor Harris and Gen.
Cheatham, an others in authority, who simultaneously waved us constant welcomes
with their hats off, and shouted to us as we passed (much to our mortification) that
Conscript officers were thick along the line
"as leaves in Valambrosia."
"Look out happy—they'll get you," shouted General C.
"Take care of your head, Keg, they'll tag you sure,"
shouted Governor H.
"You'd better swallow yourselves, you old rips," fairly
screamed General B., in a fit of uncontrollable laughter—and the jolly trio
moved off arm in arm to their apartments, while Keg and the subscriber were
"whistled down the road" at the velocity of two miles an hour, and
left to our own moody reflections as how we should escape this confounded
"conscript" arrangement—a dilemma I must confess, that we little
anticipated when we first started.
However, we managed successfully to dodge the shoals until we got to
Georgia—the entire population of which delectable Empire, having organized
themselves into an army of enrolling officers, the better, I presume, to avoid
going to war themselves. We changed
cars and took the down train South. Horror
of horrible horrors, we had no sooner done that thing when I saw one of these
fellows approaching us. Immediately,
with the vague hope of a drowning rat trying to use a straw or a life preserver,
thought of Brown of Georgia.
Oh! Gurbenatorial
Phenomenon, I mentally exclaimed "where art thou now?"
It was a dark night, but the carriage lamp revealed us to the enrolling
demon, and I saw that his lynx eye fell upon the unfortunate Keg and myself.
"Approach then take the r-r-rugged
R-r-russian Bear—"
I spouted in an almost inarticulate whisper—
"Take any shape but that of a cruel Georgian
And my firm legs will never
Weaken!"
But my mind was made up in an instant.
I slipped out the door and climbed to the top of the carriage, where I
succeeded in getting my hat knocked into a six cornered [fold in paper] by a
bridge beam as we dashed beneath it. I
lay at full length along the roof of the car and peeped over. Keg had made a ridiculous failure in his attempt to
follow me out the door—was caught by the coat collar as he was in the act of
effecting his exit, and he and the man of enrollment were engaged in a spirited
harangue outside, in which I overheard my friend remark in a piteous tone, that
"he did recon he was nigh about the best scribe you ever seed."
The incorrigible trickster! He
was trying as a last resort, to negotiate for the position of Secretary to the
conscription office, by way of a compromise.
But it was no go. His name must
go down. Frantic with despair, Keg
jerked the bell rope fiercely. The
train stopped so suddenly that the bore conscriptor, in the act
encompassing my friend in his coils, was just then precipitated violently across
the platform. Keg, who had taken
the precaution to hold tight when the "stop" came, mounted the cars
beside me and we rode in safety [until?] we dismounted at Atlanta and dived into
the darkest of alleys. Here we
procured each of us the garments of a female and [fold in paper] ourselves in
the inconvenient habiliments of the sex, and proceeded, with a grace, undulating
swing to peregrinate the thoroughfares in defiance of the conscript, and without
"benefit of the clergy."
It is needless to pursue this part of the adventure farther.
The reader can readily imagine the forlorn condition of two lone females
in a burg as fast as Atlanta and so full as that burg was at that time with
soldiers, who, from their devoted attentions and repeated importunities to
"treats," proved conclusively that they must have procured their sick
furloughs for the express purpose of displaying their gallantry to the
ladies.—The disguises, however, might have succeeded admirably, had it not
have been for the Hon. Kwort Keg, who, unmindful of the absence of his
unmentionable [fold in paper] Mike Paddy Miles in the play, endeavored [fold]
draw a plug of tobacco from his breeches [fold] cket in the street, resulting in
a grand [fold] of this tragic chapter, and a tableau [fold] the public as
uninteresting as it was ridiculous and mal apropros.
The officers, too, [fold] wind of it, nearly took the wind out of our
sails, in a long chase after us, over [fold] ties from Atlanta to this point,
where we have succeeded in dmiciling ourselves in a place of concealment—and where we
intend to remain until the day after to-morrow night, or until driven from our
position, compelled, like the military savans of the North:
"to change our base of operation."
As every, I remain, however, Oh! Conscript
Fathers, Your true friend, but artful Dodger,
Jo. Happy.
Lookout Mountain, Nov. 1862
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 11, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1
The ladies of Carrolton, Alabama, at a recent prayer-meeting resolved to
set apart a half-hour of the first Monday in each month, for special prayer for
peace.
WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], March 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
From Middle Tennessee.
An army correspondent of the Chattanooga Rebel writes as follows:
Our army is again in a good fighting trim, and the ranks rapidly filling
up by the influx of absentees. I
suppose it is better clothed, equipped and fed than ever before.
The country is bountifully supplied with game, but the boys are forbidden
to shoot, for fear of hitting some General's aid.
These sweet-smelling, kid-glovey, bandboxy, tea-cakey, ottar of rose
exquisites are as plentiful as gnats around a vinegar jug.
But you must not construe my expression as any reflection upon the
usefulness of this necessary appendage of our Gipsey life.
It is true they dangle a dress sword gracefully, run handsome horses in
dashing style, and smile most daintily at the ladies, yet it is no less true,
they can tell the ragged, weather beaten fellow that foots it with his gun and
heavy knapsack, exactly what he ought to be.—You can thus very readily
appreciate the field and scope of their usefulness, and the necessity of taking
every precaution to protect them from the weather and disagreeable inconvenience
of camp life, and to guard against the rudeness of bringing them in contact with
unmannerly soldiers, and everything calculated to grate harshly upon their
tender sensibilities.
I have conversed with several intelligent and creditable gentlemen from
Williamson county in the last few days, and they bring melancholy tidings of the
fate of her gallant people. The
country is being desolated.—The abolitionists are burning and destroying
houses razing fences, stealing horses, shooting cattle and hauling off all the
provision in the country, not even leaving many families meat or bread enough
for a single meal. They have broken
up the wagons, hoes, and plows, destroyed the harness and every thing that can
be employed in cultivating the earth. The
officers boldly proclaim that the people shall not raise another
crop.—Citizens are robbed of their money, and their houses pillaged of every
article of wearing apparel, and bed clothing, and their furniture and table ware
broken and ruined by heartless scoundrels.
I was informed of three instances of my acquaintance, of fair, modest,
virtuous young women, being ruthlessly violated by the hellish ruffians.
These are not pictures woven by fancy, nor the creation of vague rumors,
but facts attested by authorities that cannot be questioned.
If retributive justice is no myth of fancy, it surely is time now for an
exhibition of its power. When the men of the country are torn from their homes to
fight for the Government, that Government
should take some retaliatory steps to protect their helpless families from the
hands of the incendiary and the ravisher.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
To the Ladies.
We are offering to pay the heavy price of eight cents a pound for white
rags, delivered at this office, as will be seen by reference to a special notice
in another column. If every
housekeeper would keep a rag bag wherein to preserve the "scraps," an
immense benefit would secure to the country.
The rag bag should become an institution in every household.
Paper, for Government printing, business and private purposes, is not
only in great demand, but bears an exorbitant price.
Nothing would tend more to increase its quantity and cheapen its price
than the general institution of the rag bag.
Let every scrap of cloth, rope and thread, refuse cotton, and all waste
material of which either cotton, flax, or hemp forms the fibre, be diligently
saved, so that the material may be sold to the paper mills, and paper will
become abundant and be furnished at reduced rates.
Let the rag bag, then, be the order or the day.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
A Mechanics Society has been formed in Columbus, Ga., to purchase
provisions and produce of all kinds, and sell the same to stockholders or
soldiers families, at prices that will cover cost.
A large fund has been raised, and the affairs of the society will be
conducted by responsible business men.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
The Eagle Mills of Columbus, Ga., last week, donated 500 yards sheeting
and 400 yards cassimere, to the Soldier's Relief Society of Ringgold.
Estimating the sheeting at 80 cents per yard, and the cassimere at $4 50,
(a fair valuation) the amount donated is $2,200.
The people of Columbus never do anything by halves.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
We learn from the Raleigh Progress that another female riot took place in
Salisbury, N. C. on the 18th ult.
The women concerned in it compelled the merchants to share with them
their stock of flour, and also robbed several families of the stock laid up for
home use. Salt, snuff and molasses
were also taken by the mob.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Report of
Soldiers' Lunch House, during
the Month of
March, 1863.
We have fed in this month, two thousand one hundred and seventy-six
(2176) traveling soldiers. Lodged
one thousand three hundred and ten (1310) and cooked Government rations, to be
carried away for seven hundred and eighty-three (783) men.
Whole account of contributions ($2250)—Expenses $670.
The following is a list of contributions during the month:
[list]
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Letter from the West.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Judge Tucker for the use of the
following clever letter which was intended for his paper:
En Route to Arkansas,}
March 23d, 1863. }
Dear Judge: We are now on
board the good steamer "Twilight," shoving our way through the water,
wind and rain up the Ouachita (is that the way to spell it?) river. It seems several weeks ago since the officer, soldiers,
wagons, horses, mules and deadheads belonging to General Price's headquarters
left Jackson, on their way to the trans-Mississippi department.
Many of us (the soldiers I mean, not the mules or deadheads,) left with
feelings of much regret, for during our stay in Jackson our lines had fallen to
us in pleasant places; kind friends had shown unto us those hospitalities which
are appreciated by none so highly as the soldier, and associations of the most
pleasant nature had been formed—and these had to be severed.
But the command was given, we were compelled to leave, and there was no
help for it. Just before leaving
some five or six of us went down the street to procure something stronger than
water in which to toast the health and happiness of our fair acquaintances in
and around Jackson, but the "shebang" being closed we failed in our
endeavors. We knew not what to do,
when just then a contraband came along with pies for sale.
The relief so opportunely offered was accepted, and instead of drinking
a toast we each ate a whole pie to the happiness of the fair ones
aforesaid. This was the best would
could do, and it showed at least a will if not a way.
And O, what roads we had on that road from Jackson to Natchez! Some correspondents would attempt to tell you what sort of a
country we came through; I remember nothing about it except that it was mud
all the way until within twenty-five or thirty miles of Natchez, and the reason
the mud failed then was that there was not enough dir tin those sand hills, for
ten miles along, to make a respectable mud hole, no matter how well mixed.
Our first day out from your city was principally spent in trying to find
the road, which for several days back had been lost in the mud. We found several roads, but each of them ran either up a
tree, or into a swamp impenetrable to anything but bullfrogs and water
moccasins, or over the bank of a creek ten feet high (the bank, I mean.)
At last we sent out scouts on horses and deployed the infantry (pars
magna fui) on stilts to find a road, and at last the road was found.
After much fussing and cussing the teams were all put into it, and just
as we had got fairly started and were congratulating ourselves at finding any
road at all in such a country, we were brought to a full stop by finding that a
bridge across some big creek had most unmercifully smashed all to pieces by a
big tree falling across it. Well,
we didn't exactly contract for such work, but we did the only thing plausible in
the dilemma, which was to set to work and make a new one.
So Hinds county can put herself down as debtor to us for one new bridge,
which I am very certain did not last long enough to get old.
While we were at work on this concern, a friend of mine was the
perpetrator, of a most horrible conundrum.
"L," said he, "what's the difference between this road and
the McAdamized roads of St. Louis county?"
L. immediately commenced enumerating a good many very perceptible
contrasts between the two roads. "The
peculiar difference," said he, "is, that in the one case you rode
over a bridge, while here you bridge over a road!!!" The uncertainty of justice these war times was all that saved
him from instant arrest.
But at last, in spite of mud, and sand, and broken-down wagons, and lame
mules, and sore back horses, and dead heads (worst and most intolerable
evil of all) we arrived before sun up one Saturday morning, at the beautiful and
hospitable city of Natchez. Hospitable
I say, for so it most truly appeared to us.
We remained there, many of us, until the next Sunday afternoon, and
during that time all that the kindness and attention of the soldier's best
earthly friend, the ladies, could do to make the time pass pleasantly, was most
cheerfully done; and though we came there as strangers, yet we found many
friends, and every house whose portals we entered proved a home to us.
In the afternoon "Hickman's Missouri Cornet Band" discussed
some of their soul stirring music to a "large and appreciative
audience" assembled at the promenade on the bluff.
Such an assemblage of beauty was there as your correspondent has not
before seen since entering upon his career as a rebel.
And there were so many of them, the whole city seemed to have sent forth
its fair ones. Imagine my surprise,
then, when I was told by a very charming young lady, after having bestowed
compliments upon the performance of the band, which would have made the ears of
Capt. Hickman tingle, had he heard them, that she regretted very much that there
were "so few ladies out; had it only have been generally known that Gen.
Price's band had been going to play at that time, quite a number of ladies would
have been present!" Natchez
must be rich in regard to ladies (and what greater treasure can a Southern
city have?) as are the heavens above us of the starry jewels of the night.
How we regretted it when the time came for us to leave!
I can only wonder that we got away at all!
Many a poor fellow amongst us has left his heart back there; he didn't
intend to, but, in truth, he couldn't help himself.
"Yours ever" in all probability, would have been in the same
fix, had he not been in the condition of the Irishman who was asked if he had
not lost his hat—"the devil a one had I to loose."
Natchez! we will ever
remember thee. Refreshing oasis in
the weary desert of our solider life, even now our brief stay among thy
hospitable people seems but the ideal pleasure of a dream.
Thy sunny smiles, and beauty, and music, and sweet flowers are embalmed
in memory; and when it is our good fortune to return to our homes, we shall tell
among the pleasant incidents of our soldier life the times we spent in Natchez.
Many blessings and much prosperity be upon thy good people!
And now, good bye to the ladies, and all the pleasures attendant upon
their society. War is ahead of us,
with all of its stern realities; and its concomitants, long marches, short
rations and weary days and sleepless nights, and sore feet and tired and aching
bones, and hills where there are nine rocks to one dirt, and heavy streams, like
White river, to ford sixteen times in one day, and Arkansas.
That last word is significant enough to one who was there with us one
year ago.
We camped for some time on the banks of the Tensas river, about twenty
five miles north west of Natchez, waiting to see if a boat wouldn't come along
and take us before the high water would. Fortunately
the boat got to us just in time to save us from the river.
While in camp we had a fine time riding in boats, fishing, bathing,
trying to catch musquotoes, and killing alligators.
The last named were plentiful in the bayous around us, and all one had to
do to kill them was to hit them in the right place; a thing which, like putting
salt on a bird's tail, was quite easily done.
Speaking of musquitoes reminds me that they are "purrty tol'ble
thick" down on the Tensas, even at this time of the year.
I was sitting one evening about dark in front of my tent, making
propellers of my arms in my efforts to protect myself from the attacks of the
blood thirsty insects of the tent, when an aged contraband came along, and I
questioned him thus: "Uncle,
musquitoes are awful plenty down here with you, aint they?"
With a look of intelligence which was indicative of a full knowledge of
the subject under discussion, he replied—"Well, massa, dey aint many ov 'em
'round here 'jis now, but wait about a month or two and den we'll show you
what skeeters is!" It is
necessary for me to say that I hadn't time to wait, and that I was willing to
take his word for it!
I never hear of the extortion practiced upon the unoffending public by
these steamboat captains. Why is
this? Is any one so simple as to
think they are not guilty. Let me
tell an incident or two, which I "do know."
The steamer Dr. Batey, lying at Trinity, and doing nothing except
receiving pay from the government, asked the
Captain of Gen. Price's escort six hundred dollars to take his company
twenty miles up the river to Hansborough; and passengers on the boat are paying
twenty-five dollars to go to Monroe, a distance of one hundred and seventy-five
miles, and this, too, with the poorest of fare, and no bars to keep the
musquitoes (I suppose they call them so, but they are nearer the size of a
sand-hill crane) from eating you up. We
were in Mississippi for nearly a year, and heard and knew much of extortion
while there, but I think one's knowledge on the subject is incomplete until he
shall have traveled on one of these Southwestern steamboats.
But I must say that we have found the officers of the
"Twilight" to be clever and accommodating gentlemen.
Do you wish to have the news from this side of the river?
Well, Judge, I wish from my heart I could tell it to you.
But just now we are as destitute of news as a Mississippi Jew of that
commodity yclept conscience. All we
know is that Gen. Price has gone on ahead of us to Little Rock.
Gen. Hindman is said to have been on a boat which we met to-day, going
down the river.
All accounts which we have of our army in Arkansas represent it in a bad
condition. There has been sad
mismanagement somewhere, and it will require all the popularity, energy and
military talent of Gen. Price to bring order out of the existing confusion. All with whom I have conversed seem to believe that he is the
man for the task before him. It
will take some time to reorganize the army, and then look out, for somebody
will be sure to get hurt! We'll be
in for anything from a fight to a foot-race.
We hope to see, once in a while, the familiar face of the
"Crisis" when we are on our way to Missouri.
Au revoir.
Lon.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
"Way-Side Home for Soldiers" at Union Point.
We hear of this, that and the other place, Mr. Editor, where the cannon
roars and reverberates, and small arms flash defiance in the faces of the gory
savages who seek, like natural blood-hounds, to slake their thirst by lapping
the red current of life that rises higher and higher as the murderers go deeper
in to the heart of our youthful but already glorious Confederacy.
It is my pleasing duty to speak of a place where a federal foe has never
yet polluted the soil, except as a prisoner of war.
It is Union Point. It
stands, nearly equi-distant from Augusta and Atlanta, on the Georgia Railroad,
about 85 miles from either. It is
an humble place, and has but one sign, I think, in it, (i. e.) "Wayside
house for our sick and wounded soldiers."
Since the war commenced, the dear daughters of the South, clothed in
humility and actuated by the spirit that burnt in the bosom of a persecuted
Gallilean nearly two thousand years ago, have bound up the wounds and bent over
the prostrate forms of "our sick and wounded soldiers."
The iron limbs of the locomotive may tire, but the hearts and minds of
these Georgia women shall never fail. They
do more than the sign signifies,--they feed all who pass that way, and only ask
you to register your name. Wine,
cordial and cold water carried to those who cannot go to the table; and
nourishing and good food placed before the hungry soldiery, who are urged to
"eat and welcome." They
often send out limping and sick soldiers to encourage "the boys" to
"come in and eat" for fear they may feel backward about it.
For my part, Mr. Editor, I must acknowledge to a little weakness.
I can bear a load of darkness that would crush a Chineese [sic] grampus,
I can face a field full of good Southern people who charge upon the
trains with baskets of biscuit, and two bits a piece, and sometimes I strengthen
my natural inclination to piety by cursing the soulless wretches who have given
up the Confederacy and gone to money-making; but when I came upon "Union
Point," and began to breathe the atmosphere of Heaven-born patriotism and
purity, completely broken down and "cried like a child."
These ladies are the pride of all Confederate soldiers, who look upon the
"Wayside Home." Eager for
war news, they try to look into the future to foretell the end of the war.
They know all the great Generals of our invincible armies; told me I
would be sure to be pleased with General Pemberton; that his management of
affairs in Georgia an South Carolina had won the confidence of the Chief
Magistrate, and caused his promotion; and when I asked them if they had ever
heard of the great "Citizen Warrior," a score of musical voices
pronounced the name of Sterling Price in the tone and manner with which children
speak of a father.
If ever a majestic column shall be raised to commemorate the virtues and
untiring patriotism of Southern women, sink its base in the hills of the
"Wayside House." Let it
"rise till it meet the sun in his coming, and let the last rays of
departing day linter and play upon its summit."
A Missourian.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 2, 1863, p. 2, c.
6
The "Mississippi Springs," situated some four miles from this
place, have been, like all things else, strangely metamorphosed within the last
year or two. For nearly a quarter
of a century the place was one of the most fashionable resorts for pleasure
seekers in the southwest. It often
boasted of hundreds of visitors, consisting of the most fashionable and
prominent personages of the south. Its
balls and parties, dinners and suppers, were of transcendent magnificent, and to
the young and fashionable furnished food for conversation and dreams from season
to season. But all things change in
time—and especially is this the day of extraordinary change.
A year or two since, the Springs, from its former high estimate, became
an Infirmary, under the charge of our skillful friend, Dr. Holmes; then
for a few months, it flung to the breeze the yellow flag, having been converted
into a Confederate hospital. And
now, under the proprietorship of our indefatigable friend, Capt. Inman Williams,
of Cooper's Wells, it has quietly settled down as the seat of a Steam Saw and
Grist Mill. Lumber will now be
made there, and corn will there now speedily be converted into meal for the
subsistence of men. How great the
change.—Raymond Gazette.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Crisis.
This paper has been discontinued. The
proprietors of the Mississippian having become its publishers previous to its
suspension, are responsible to its patrons for their subscriptions to it.
In all cases, where direction is not given to the contrary, the advance
payments for subscription to the Crisis will be credited on the books of
the Daily Mississippian; and the latter paper continued.
Persons ordering the Crisis, under the impression that it is still
published, will be furnished with the Daily Mississippian, until further
orders from the parties.
Persons having ordered the Crisis either before or since its
discontinuance, can have the money returned if not satisfied with the above
arrangement.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Woman's Mission and Ministrations.
There is no country in the civilized world where quite the same devotion
is paid to woman as in our own sunny domain.
There is no land where woman, occupying in society her own appropriate
place, deserves and receives a more unqualified homage, or exerts a more general
and potent influence. Our present
struggle for civil liberty and the heroism of Southern women were not necessary
to our high appreciation of the sex. We
were taught to love and to honor glorious womanhood as one of the attributes,
and one of the evidences of true nobility in man.
but never did woman furnish such illustrious proofs of worth, goodness
and greatness, to demonstrate how much she merited our devotion, as in this
glorious struggle for home and country the women of the South have shown!
As if to inspire us with a new creation of virtue—as if to exhibit new
phases of loveliness—to enthrone the sex in the holy laces of our
affections—to impress the public mind with a new sense of their worth—to
exhibit to the world the highest attributes of character—to cheer the
brave—to soothe the sick—to minister to the wounded—to endure labor—to
incur danger—to despise ease and luxury—to make unwonted sacrifices—to
surrender, at the altar of liberty, those dearer than life—still to utter the
words sacred to patriotism, "let us defend the country, or
perish!"—to ply all human agencies, and to call on God for help—to
astonish our enemies, and interest the gazing world with a devotion as holy, a
courage as sublime, as ever marked the great characters of history, the women of
the South have gone forth to cheer, to save, to comfort, and to bless!
It is not affirming more than simple truth to say, without their aid, our
struggle could not have been maintained! Their
influence and their ministrations have saved the country! By their efforts, in large part, the troops have been clothed
and warmed. They have blessed the
sick, and restored the sinking in the hospitals.
They have nerved the arm and inspired the courage of the soldier in the
shock of battle. For them, we feel,
we are enacting the deeds of glorious manhood. To them the dust-stained,
toil-worn veteran looks for the laurel wreath when the battle is won.
To the sanctity of home, and the purity of the domestic circle, the
patriot looks for the safety, glory and strength of his country.
With the help of God, they must save the country, if it is saved; they
must purify it, if it is pure; they must elevate the standard of virtue; they
must frown vice into the hidden recesses of its own shame; they must banish the
extortioner, or mark him for infamy; they must, and they will improve and bless
the world. They are heaven's
messengers. Ever true, kind,
merciful, pitying, sympathizing women! Last
to leave the victim on the cross; first at the tomb of the risen God-man; last
to give over the offices of compassion and mercy; first to crown triumphant
virtue, and to hail the conquering heroes who dre4w the sword for truth.
Next to our worship and our supreme reverence for God, is our worship and
our devotion for noble, self-sacrificing woman!
With the aid of such a power, and God's approval, we shall triumph
gloriously, and our country shall yet be free as the eagle that cleaves the sky.
These reflections have been suggested by reading the proceedings of a
convention of some of the matrons of Mississippi, held at Meridian on the 4th
of March, 1863, to organize a "Confederate soldiers' Aid Society," for
the better accomplishment of the objects suggested by the style of the
association. They army will bless
these ladies, and all those associated with them; and the country will record
their names, and preserve their memory, as among the treasurers of its
inheritance.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 8, 1863, p. 1, c.
2
Poetical Direction.—A letter bearing the following direction reached
the post office of our neighboring village of Clinton, where it was copied, and
the letter bearing it again started for its proper destination in Louisiana:
Go wing thy flight where e'er thou may,
I'd have thee do so, without delay,
Yet stay; go not too far, I'd have thee stop,
And in the Clinton Post Office drop.
But of Clintons there are many,
To stop at Clinton, Louisiana.
Tell the P.M. to keep you in his stalls,
Until for you Miss Sallie Ripley calls.
Go straight ahead—don't be delayed,
For don't you se you're postage paid?
If on the road you should be left,
I'll make complaint to "Uncle Jeff."
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Tableaux,
Charades, and
Concert!
On the evenings of the 15th and 16th instant, the
Ladies of Canton propose giving an entertainment for the purpose of establishing
a Lunch House, for invalid soldiers, in the Hospitals at Canton.
The entertainment consisting of Tableaux, Charades, and a Concert.
Tickets can be procured at Morey's Drug Store, and at the drug stores in
Canton. Captain T. S. Williams has
kindly consented to furnish a special train for the accommodation of those
wishing to return to Jackson the same evening.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 7, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
Summary: Letter
on the burning and evacuation of Pensacola
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Immorality in Richmond.
The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register says:
The evils incident to revolution are in this city developed in their
worst aspect. Citizens of Richmond
are not affected by them, but the crowds which congregate in the Capital, of
both sexes, give abundant evidence of the rapid progress of social
demoralization growing out of the unhappy condition of our country.
I cannot say more, without saying too much, and can give you no adequate
conception of the looseness of morals that is becoming prevalent among those
whose necessities open the gateway to all vices. Gambling, such as would startle habitues of European
watering places, is not the worst of the moral calamities that has befallen
Richmond.
Not only do the Faro banks attract "despositors" [sic] from
civil and military classes of society, but men who stand high, at least
officially, above Congressmen and Major Generals, nightly resort to the
magnificent gambling hells of Richmond. I
have visited such establishments in Eastern and Southern cities, but have
entered none in which the spirit of utter recklessness was so strongly betrayed
as in those of this city. The vice
of gaming contracted in the army over an "innocent game of old
sledge," becomes the absorbing passion of the gamester in the Faro banks of
Richmond. The hope of sudden
wealth, the insatiable love of excitement, the desperation resulting from the
loss of fortune by the calamities of war, and the absence of those which wives
and children throw about men, have all combined to fill this city with reckless
gamblers.
Women from all the States and cities of the South visit Richmond.
They would reach the army, and often find it impossible.
They have not anticipated the vastness of the expenditures to which they
would be subjected. Their very
necessities suggest a course of conduct which it is needless to portray.
Penniless, helpless, unadvised, unrestrained by the presence of those to
whom they are known, they resort to means of securing assistance of which at
home they would never have dreamed. Religion
is a stranger among the floating population of Richmond.
Sunday, in this city, is the day of high carnival for all vices.
Patriotism might well weep when beholding this aspect of the moral
condition of the Capital of the Confederacy.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 8, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
Another Feminine Raid.—The Macon (Ga.) Confederate says that last
Tuesday a crowd of women, some of them armed with revolvers and bowie-knives,
entered the store of Rosenwald & Bro., on Triangular block, and took
forcible possession of several pieces of calico.
The proprietor demurred to this seizure, and rushed upon the woman
who had the bowie-knife, and took it from her—also re-captured two bolts of
calico in the possession of the invaders. The
scene was quite exciting while it was in progress—but the women shortly
dispersed and the usual quiet of the neighborhood prevailed.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 9, 1863, p. 1, c.
2
Paper Mill Burnt.—The Bath paper mill, six miles from Augusta, Ga., was
destroyed by fire on the 2d inst. This
is a severe loss, and in the present scarcity of paper will most seriously
interfere with the publication of the journals that are dependent on the Mill
for a supply of paper.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Just Received,
at
The Misses Hays,
2,000 Yards Good Bleached Domestic'
1,500 do assorted Calico Prints;
Brown Domestic—Canton Flannel;
Ginghams and Brilliantes;
Kid Gloves, Hosiery, &c., &c.
ap9
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 11, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
The Jackson Lunch House.
The institution of a place in Jackson where the soldier, weary with
travel and needing a temporary supply of food, may, without charge or
inconvenience, be served with a substantial repast, is due to the kindness and
thoughtful care of the noble matrons of Mississippi.
Every one at all familiar with the exigencies of military movements must
know that troops often suffer from want of food in the progress of
transportation. An accident on the
railroad, or inadequate transportation, often crowd troops together at a point
unprovided with supplies of food. And
then, the convalescent returning to his command, or the paroled prisoner of war,
are frequently compelled to lie over at the depot awaiting transportation. Such establishments ought to be founded at all the principal
points of travel for the exclusive benefit of the soldier, who will thus be made
to feel that he is kindly remembered.
We have before us a letter from a lady of distinguished social position,
intelligence and wealth, in relation to the soldier's Lunch house in Jackson.
Our lady friend is pleased to speak in terms of high eulogy of the
efficient services of Mrs. Knapp, of this city; of the liberality of Maj. Mims;
of the courtesy of the Mississippian, in the publication of notices; and of the
enlightened liberality of the ladies of Jackson and its vicinity.
This is most praiseworthy and commendable in all the parties referred to.
Let the lunch-house be kept well supplied.
This is one of the many evidences of the patriotism and worth of Southern
ladies.
T.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
About Home
Matters.
Jackson—Its
Public Streets—The Negroes,
Bond and
Free—Nuisances—a Suggestion.
To Editor Mississippian: Jackson,
like all other cities, has its public and private evils, that require the waters
of purification, the hand of correction, and the pruning hook of reformation.
While there are portions of this, the Metropolis of our State, evincing
the presence of refined and elegant taste, homes of neatness and of comfort
surrounded with the silent evidence of intelligent cultivation,
"shrubberies that Shenstone might have envied," and—
"Flowers rich in hue, and many of their class;"
while her citizens are courteous, and upon all occasions
evince a proper and strongly developed local pride, yet he whose business or
pleasure calls him at any hour of the day along either of the two great
thoroughfares leading from the Capitol to the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad
Depot, must, if a Mississippian, blush for shame of the chief city of his proud
State, and if a stranger, pity and execrate the miserable meanness of the
authorities of a really pleasant city, who quietly permit these two streets to
remain in a condition not only next to impassable, but dangerous to the
existence of any thing on wheels, and imminently threatening the safety of the
necks of those who attempt to pass through them in any vehicle.
We have seen, the public have seen, every body has seen, poor, badly
conditioned horses, oxen and mules, vainly laboring under the ruthless lash of
unfeeling drivers, to pass through the almost "bottomless pits" that
abound at the lower end of these streets. We
have seen these animals, and even fine young horses, fall down utterly
exhausted, in the vain attempt to pass these "Stygian pools, these
"Sloughs of Despond." We
have seen them lying prone bleeding at the nose, and we believe rendered
comparatively useless ever after by their struggles and throes through the deep
mud and mire of these streets. And
while our feelings for the poor dumb servants of ungrateful man were keenly
aroused, these uncomplaining creatures, ever ready to do his bidding, and lashed
even in their attempt to do it, we have been greeted by the smiling face of some
respectable "city father," who quietly looked on, seeming even to
enjoy the disgusting scene; while, at the same time, our ears were saluted with deserved
slurs from stranger lips on "Mississippi and Mississippians," and the
want of public spirit in Jackson, a city that permits the existence of a
nuisance which the meanest little Mugginsville in their own State would not
tolerate for a day. These things
are unpleasant and humiliating, but they are sadly too true, and if the caustic
of public opinion will not burn out the lethargy that allows this state of
things to remain, and demand from the authorities the application of the city
funds to city improvements, Jackson will become a byword and reproach to every
man, woman and child that live in it.
State and city pride, wisdom, respectability, safety of the life and
limbs of those who ride, humanity, ALL demand that the disgraceful
condition of these two streets be improved, and the highway made passable. If these influences are impotent with the city "powers
that be," for God's sake let the improvement be made; and if our
respected city fathers are a Godless set, then let them be compelled to
drive in weak springed hacks three times a day from the capitol to the
Confederate House and back. If they
don't act, after that experiment, "Ephraim is joined to his idols,
let him alone"—elect new men who will do their duty.
"The negroes have taken Jackson—horse, foot, and dragoons,"
was remarked by a friend of our[s] as we walked along one of the fashionable
promenades of Jackson a day or two ago. He
was a South Carolinian, accustomed to the respectful deportment and
subordination of the slave population of that excellent State.
His remark was elicited by a group of well dressed negroes, who, arm in
arm, were striding along the pavement, smoking cigars, talking and swearing,
loud and deep, and perfectly oblivious of the proximity of Caucasian blood.
Several times during our walk we saw those civilized descendants of Ham
mimicing the air of foppish whites, and carelessly indifferent to the presence
of any but "colored gemmen." Indeed
no man can be in Jackson twenty-four hours without censuring the insolence of
our negro population. Everybody
remarks it. Servants swell along
our streets, giving the sidewalk to no one, hardly touching the hat when
addressed, and scarcely yielding the way even to ladies.
It is becoming as gerat a nuisance as any of the city has to endure, and
if not corrected will lead to the demoralization of the slave himself, and call
out from the white man the exercise of that personal chastisement always to be
deprecated. The best servants are
those kept under proper restraint. Remove
that restraint and leave the negro to himself and he becomes a nuisance, and it
would redound as much to the well being of the slave as to the good of the city
to not only prescribe a line of conduct for him at home and abroad, but to
designate a style of dress suited to his condition. Jackson should learn a lesson on this head from her ancient
and honorable sister, Charleston, of South Carolina. The streets and the negroes—these two, let them be
corrected.
Observer.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 15, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
"The Pretty Rebel."—We have had the pleasure of a hasty
perusal, in manuscript, of a play, in three acts, bearing the above title, by
the talented author of "Roscoe, the Hermit," "Retribution,"
etc. the composition is chaste, the
sentiment is eminently patriotic, the plot admirably adapted to the exciting
scenes which surround us in our struggle for liberty.
In a future number we shall perhaps essay a more extended notice of this
literary effort. We are glad that
we have in our Confederacy promising gems of dramatic genius which, with proper
care cultivation and encouragement, bid fair to yield substantial fruit.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
From Texas.—We learn from Gen. Pearce, who has just arrived here, that
Fox Hart (nephew of Martin D. Hart, who was hung at Fort Smith), with thirty o
his men, have been captured near Greenville, Hunt county. The refugees were found in the Journigan Thicket, from whence
they had sent out some negroes, which they had stolen in Arkansas, on a foraging
expedition, and were captured; and after the negroes were whipped, they gave
information of the hiding place of Hart and party.
Two boxes of Enfield rifles were also captured, and a large quantity of
ammunition. Fox Hart was shot, and
the remainder of this notorious party were sent to Little Rock, where we hope
they will receive that justice due deserters and traitors to their
country.—Austin Gazette.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 19, 1863, p. 1, c.
1
Peanuts.—No one who raised peanuts last year will deny that they return
more profit for less labor than any other crop that can be produced. Let there be plenty of them next year. Almost every person is fond of them, and their sale is a sure
thing. We have seen soldiers fill
their haversacks to their utmost capacity with peanuts at forty cents a quart.
They are very nutritious and nobody has ever been known to get sick from
eating two [sic] many "goobers."—Let every farmer have a patch.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Let Us Provide for the Poor.
Editor Mississippian.—What is our duty toward the poor and dependent
families of the poor men of our country in the army?
Let every man who reads this question, propound it to himself and to his
neighbors.—Let all seriously and carefully reflect upon it and then do what
duty and a clear conscience tells them. If
they will dot his there will be but little suffering in our land, while any are
able to help. Remember that amidst
sickness, hunger, famine, sorrow and death at home, the poor soldier is standing
or dying in battle far away. The present and future of that poor soldier is one of deepest
gloom, while the condition of his family at home is truly sad and horrifying.
He is fighting and making all the sacrifices possible for him to make for
our liberties, our homes and our property.
He is making common cause with and for the rich, comfortable and
poor.—Should not the rich, comfortable and poor make common cause for and with
him and his family for their support? Let
us reflect for a moment, and we will see that in view of the high prices of
salt, meat, meal, cards, wool, shoes, clothing, medicines, &c., the State
and county taxes for their relief cannot half supply their absolute wants, and
that the deficiency must be made up by private charity from those who can and
should bestow it.
Let us recollect that in a large number of our counties, the poor largely
exceeds the rich, while in many counties the rich largely exceed the poor, and
hence these charities, confined to counties must fall most unequally and in many
cases beyond their ability to meet and supply, while in others it must be small
and trifling. Take the counties of
Yazoo, Madison, Hinds, Holmes, Carroll, Monroe, Lowndes, Noxubee and many others
and the revenue being large in these counties and the poor but few compared to
the wealth and wealthy, and you will find the poor already well provided for;
but take Leake, Attala, Winston, Choctaw, Neshoba, Scott, Newton, &c., where
the revenue is small, and where the poor very largely exceed the rich, and you
will find a destitution and distress that cannot be supplied by taxation or
private charity in those counties. Shall they not be relieved, and who shall do
it? Men of Yazoo, Holmes, Carroll,
Hinds, Madison, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, &c., will you not respond promptly
and liberally to the necessities of the poor of Leake, Attala, Winston, Choctaw,
Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Hancock, Harrison, Wayne, &c., &c.
Recollect that thousands of poor men have let their families, little
fields, stock, and every thing behind them unprotected, undefended, dependant
and in grief and distress, with but few in their midst able to help them, to
stand as barriers between the destroying enemy, and you and your homes and
prosperity, and all they ask is that you keep their families from suffering. It is a reasonable demand, and is due to them beyond all
question. If you don't do it, can
you be surprised to see the poor soldier desert the army, or can you look upon
his absence from the army in the light of desertion under such circumstances?
Sickness, death, famine, and cries
of entreaty for help in the poor family of the soldier, however brave and loyal
in our cause he may be, are far more terrible to him than all the bayonets,
powder, steel and bullets of the enemy, and he is more than human, patriot
soldier and citizen who can, under such circumstances, remain in the service, a
true and steadfast soldier.
Let us inquire into the true
condition of our poor, and know why they are so poor and dependent—and devise
ways and means for their relief. Let
us send them money, salt, corn, cotton cards, wood, medicine, &c., and make
the poor soldier and his family alike rejoice to know that we appreciate his
service and their sacrifices, and are indeed his and their friends in need and a
common cause. Let us send out a few
of our negroes and distribute them among these poor families as a loan to
cultivate their little farms under the guidance of some male neighbor.
Let us thus strengthen our army, nerve our poor soldiers and aid and
console the poor families. Let each county organize into an aid society—send delegates
to Jackson and form a State Aid
Society, and through the latter, properly distribute the contributions of the
former, where they are most needed. I
know of no people who are better qualified for these purposes than our ministers
of the Gospel—and appeal to them to take the matter in hand, and mould it into
form, substance and relief. I would
suggest Rev. J. T. Freeman as the
man of mind, heart and energy, to lead in this matter. Let the work begin at once.
I will give both labor and money freely.
Truly, &c.,
Robert.
April 14, 1863.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 22, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Highly Commendable.
We have lately published the fact that several societies have been
inaugurated in Georgia, and, also we think in Alabama, for the purpose of
supplying provisions to families at as low a cost as possible—the only profit
on what is sold being made just sufficient to pay the expenses of those employed
to do the business.
It is gratifying to us to state that an organization of this kind has
been got up in Jackson. The work
was only commenced on Monday, and the subscription yesterday amounted to
fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Those who wish to aid in the matter may do so by attending the meeting of
the stockholders, to-morrow, which will be held at Stewart & co's., banking
house at 11 o'clock.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 23, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Millinery Notice.
Mrs. J. S. Clark, would respectfully announce to the ladies of Clinton,
and vicinity, that she is prepared to enlarge and re-trim bonnets. Orders must be left at her residence, one square from the
Methodist Church.
Clinton, Miss., April 29.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 24, 1863, p. 1, c.
1
Home Industry.—The Greensboro (Miss.) Motive, says we can scarcely pass
a house when traveling but that we hear the hum of a wheel and the noise of a
loom—worked by some fair hand, which is busily engaged in making clothes for
some dear ones in the army. Go to
church and there you can tell where home industry is—see the fair ones with
bright eyes and glowing cheeks, dressed in their beautiful homespun.
It is not with them who can sport the finest silks, but who can make the
prettiest homespun.—How beautiful and comely they look in these dresses!
God bless these fair ladies who are doing such a noble part by our
soldiers. Can such a people be
subjugated?
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 29, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
An Appeal to the Ladies of Mississippi.
For the Mississippian.]
Beautiful daughters of our old Magnolia State, come from the festive
halls with me.—the wide spreading banyan tree of mourning, now overshadows our
once sunny South, in gloom; the dark cypress wreathes her brow in sorrow.
Do you not hear the wild shrieks of our bleeding country—do you not
hear the heart piercing groans of her wounded and dying men—do you not see the
toil-worn, battle-scarred soldier, walking daily in our streets?
Then why this gaiety, is it meet in such times as these?
Look at Carthage, when besieged for three long years, by the Romans.
"The temples and other sacred places were turned into work shops;
men and women, labored day and night, in the manufacture of arms; and the
beautiful females cut off their long hair and twisted it into bowstrings."
Thus says history. Now look
at Vicksburg—the key stone of our Confederacy—the Gibraltar of the South.
What a contrast! When she is threatened on every side by a powerful and
vigilant foe, and her people should be humbled in "sack cloth and
ashes," a correspondent of the "Memphis Appeal" writes:
"Ti has now become a "military necessity," to have a ball,
dance or party, once every two or three days."
Shall that proud "hill city," which has for so long resisted
the combined fleets of the enemy, now be laid low in the dust of humiliation?
No, if her noble-hearted, self-sacrificing daughters, will only continue
true to themselves, their country and their God, [scratch in microfilm] ever
stand a grand living monument of Southern valor.
However, this is not the only place of amusement in our State, as the
"concerts, tableaus," &c., given for the "benefit of the
soldiers," will testify. In
the "piping times of peace," such things would be really pleasant, but
when "grim visaged war" frowns upon us, they do not harmonize well.
Another consideration is, they are not necessary to procure money for the
soldiers. Just last week, in
Jackson, a "Supply Association for the Poor," was formed, and in two
days, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars was subscribed.
This proves what a little energy can do; let the ladies say money is
needed, and means will not be refused. If
we cannot work willingly and cheerfully for our brave defenders, without
requiring "value received" in pleasure, we do not deserve the
proud name of our State. These
concerts, &c., have a wrong tendency, and when they occupy the ladies' time,
the private soldier feels neglected and forgotten.
Their influence is to draw our minds from the stern duties of war to the
syren [sic] allurements of pleasure. Woman's
unseen power over a nation's destiny is too great to be lightly dealt with.
Our men legislature in the halls of Congress and wield the sword upon the
battle-field, but woman, seated around the domestic hearth, engaged only in
those industrial pursuits becoming her sphere, exerts an influence as potent as
it is universal.
If time hangs so heavily during these "long, long weary days,"
and we must need have some amusement, better organize into companies and learn
to use a pistol or fire a rifle, as we know not how soon every man may be called
to arms and we left to defend our homes.
Oh! that our women, capable
of such noble deeds, would lay aside all vanity, and determine to faithfully
perform their sacred mission. We
have not lost our patriotism; then let us firmly resolve to wait until
"after the war, and then we will all join heart and hand in a glorious
jubilee.
A Daughter of Mississippi.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], April 30, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
Wool Wanted!
10,000 pounds of wool wanted to make Hats and Blankets for the army, at
our factory in Jackson, Miss.
D. R. Lemman & Bro.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
From Texas.—The Fort Brown Flag of March 20th gives a
detailed account of the capture and release of the renegade Judge Davis. A party of Texas Rangers crossed the Rio Grande, surrounded
the house in which Davis and Montgomery were lodged in company with a number of
renegades, which at first showed fight, but they soon ran over the sandhills
losing three men killed and some wounded.—Montgomery and Davis were brought
over to the Texas side. Montgomery
is said to have been hung immediately after he was landed.
The Mexican authorities acted very promptly and very calmly.
Governor Lopez simply made a demand for the surrender of the captured
individuals, and as soon as General Bee could obtain possession of Davis he
returned him to the Mexican authorities.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [JACKSON, MS], May 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
We infer that something of a panic exists south of us.
Droves of negroes, mules &c., have been pressing through our village,
northward and eastward bound, for some days. The stampede seems to have frightened many of our own
citizens, and we hear of a number who have already started for distant parts
with their slave property and every thing else they could carry. Georgia and East Mississippi appears to be favorite regions
at present.—Raymond Gazette, 6th.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [MERIDIAN, MS], October 10, 1863, p. 1,
c. 4
Receipt for Dyeing.
Take red oak bark, sufficient to make four gallons of very strong dye,
boil very strong, then strain it, and add two table spoons' full of blue stone,
then dry [sic--dip?] your thread in the dye, then in strong ley, repeat it for
four times, then hang out and let it get half dry, and rinse in clear water.
Blue Dye.—Take one quarter of a pound of extract of logwood, put into
four gallons of water, boil one half an hour, add two table spoons' full of blue
stone, put in your thread or cloth, boil one half hour more, take it out and let
it air fifteen minutes longer, take out and wash out in warm soap suds, then
rinse in clear water.
Black Dye.—Put a quarter of a pound of extract of logwood in three
gallons of water, boil it thirty minutes, add two table spoons' full of
copperas, put in your thread, boil fifteen minutes, take out, wash in strong
soap suds, then air and rinse in clear water.
Yellow Dye.—Take of each a lot of sassafras, swamp bay, and butterfly
root, put in four gallons of water, boil until strong, then strain and put in
your thread or cloth and boil thirty minutes, take out and air fifteen minutes
then rinse in clear water and let it dry.
Five pounds of thread can be dyed in any of these.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [MERIDIAN, MS], October 10, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1
Mr. A. D. Baily sends to the surgeon of the Shelby Springs Hospital one
hundred dollars, the net proceeds of a concert lately given by a few of the
young ladies of Montevallo, Alabama, and states that the success of the
entertainment is mainly attributable to the patronage of refugees from other
States.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [MERIDIAN, MS], October 10, 1863, p. 3,
c. 1
Long May It Wave.—The new Confederate flag, which is very beautiful,
was hoisted at the Selma Arsenal yesterday forenoon, on which occasion a
national salute was fired.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [MERIDIAN, MS], October 10, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1
Wayside Home.—The patriotic ladies of Selma, who are always active in
the performance of good works, have determined to establish a Wayside Home for
sick and wounded soldiers from time to time sojourning in the city.
DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN [MERIDIAN, MS], October 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Wanted.
Fifteen white men, or well grown boys, are wanted to work
in the Pyrotechnic Branch of the Laboratory at Selma Arsenal.
Good wages paid. Apply immediately to
J. L. White,
Lieut. Col. comd'g Selma Arsenal.
SUNDAY MISSISSIPPIAN [SELMA, AL], July 10, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Sick and Wounded Soldiers.—We learn than one hundred and seventy-five
sick and wounded soldiers will be sent to-day to the Marion Hospital. They are from Mississippi, and probably consist of the sick
in the Jackson Hospital and the wounded in the late fight near Clinton.