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THE DAILY INTELLIGENCER [ATLANTA, GA]
September 1863 – May 1864
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], August 28, 1863, p. 3,
c. 5
Auction Sales.
A splendid Assortment
by a
Late Arrival.
Will be sold AT AUCTION, at Galserville, on Wednesday,
September ?, 1863, the following list of articles just received by Spanish Star
Isabel 2nd:
8 dozen. undershirts
108 [?] yards black alpacas
920 yards 7/8 printed linen
[?.] dozen. ladies and misses hose
24 " gents half hose
8 packages China hankerchiefs (10 to pg)
50 dozen cotton do
100 do do (small)
12 do linen do
1200 yards brown linen
1 case English calicoes
30 packages ass't do
900 pounds shoe thread
650 yards 7/8 linen shirting
1000 pounds Spanish castile soap
12 dozen hair brushes
8 do pocket knives
55 M needles
14 dozen Buffalo combs
8 do fine do
120 packages pins
2 gross thimbles
14 kegs cut nails, assorted
10 dozen L C [?] hdkfs
10 pieces Bishop's lawn
458 yards colored cambric
1930 do black lace
10 pieces Victoria lawn
200 do bleached long cloth
8 diz ladies and misses gaiters
8 dozen hats
6 sacks coffee
16 pieces fine brown linen
19 do mourning muslin
25 cases rifle powder
[?] pounds black flax thread
10 gross shirt buttons
1 do pocket looking glasses
2 do pantaloon buttons
6 do matches
8 dozen scissors
2 do calogn [cologne] water
4 do hair oil
2 do pocket fire strikers
12 do rose soap
12 do almond soap
12 kitts salmond [sic]
14 baskets champaigne [sic]
12 cases claret
8 demijohns do
500 dozen spool cotton, 800 yards
900 pounds bi carbonate soda
52 dozen men's shoes
4 boxes salad oil
8 gross tooth brushes
50 do silk cotton buttons
12 do steel pens
1 do penholders
1 sack black pepper
4 dozen horse brushes
1 gross horse combs, and
A few cases of fine brandy.
The above will be a bona fide sale.
Y. A. Mason, Auct'r.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 11, 1863, p.
2, c. 6
Athenaeum.
Lessee and Manager, - W. H. Crisp.
(Also of the Mobile and Montgomery Theatres.)
Open Every Evening.
Great Comedy Night!
Friday even, Sept. 11th, will be performed
Sweethearts and Wives,
Or Blue Jackets in Harbor.
Eugenia, (disguised as
Fanny).............................Mrs. W. H. Crisp
Admiral Franklin.................................................Mr. C. Toler
Wolfe
Music
Singers—Burlesque.
To conclude with the Extravaganza of
Jenny Lind.
Mrs. Jesse Clarke as Jenny Lind, with Songs
In preparation, "Beauty and the Beast," and
1000 Young Milliners Wanted?
Prices—Parquette, $2. Upper tier, $1.50.
Colored Gallery, $1.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 13, 1863, p.
2, c. 1
The Marietta
Paper Mills.
We lay before our readers the
following letter just received from Mr. Edmonston, the Agent of the Marietta
Paper Mills. We trust that such action will be taken by both the State and
Confederate authorities, as to remove the difficulties in the way of the
enterprising proprietors of these Mils, so that, at an early day, they can
resume the manufacture of paper, without which the interests of both the State
and Confederate Governments, as well as those of the people, will suffer more
than even the newspaper. Mr. Edmonston's views are sensible:
Marietta, September 10th, 1863.
Editor of Intelligencer:
I have on hand a few bundles of paper, which I will ship you, and this will
be the last for some time; for when we shall resume again I cannot tell. My
hands volunteered in the Home Guard, to protect the country against raids, and
are now called out to guard stores and prepare the defenses [sic] of your city,
I understand. In the first instance, at the commencement of the war, I was
disposed to aid all in my power and encouraged two of the hands to volunteer in
Confederate service. This left hardly hands enough to get along with when all
were well. Afterwards we lost two or three hands, and this left us short of
hands, and one machine has only run when our hands have worked eighteen hours in
the day.--We applied for the detail of the hands which has not been done, though
the Government has been urgent for paper, and we have strained every nerve to
supply. Shorthanded, we have done the best we could, and now all our hands are
taken, of course we are obliged to stop. I do not exactly comprehend how it is
that Government agents insist upon the absolute necessity for the Government to
have paper, and yet refuse us our hands. You know Paper makers are not to be
had South, and are not like Shoe-Makers, and many other callings which give
exemptions to so many thousands, and cannot be learned after the Conscript
officer takes after a fellow. Well, if the Government needs our hands to dig
ditches more than the paper, patriotism and our *comfort* answers, All right! I
trust you will be able to get your supplies elsewhere, as we shall not resume,
until we get hands enough to get along with without being pressed and kicked to
death
Respectfully
A. S. Edmonston, Agent.
P.S. Call round to the ditches and see how friend Buckhalter handles the spade
and shovel.
A.S.E.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 17, 1863, p.
4, c. 1
New Millinery Store
Whitehall Street.
The undersigned have taken a part of Mr. J. M. Holbrook's
Hat Store for the purpose of carrying on a first class Millinery Establishment,
together with other Ladies' articles, viz: Ladies, Misses, and Childrens Hose,
Shawls, Scarfs, Laces, Insertings, &c.
Our Hair Jewelry business established 10 years ago, will also be connected with
it. Satisfaction as heretofore given will be our steady aim. We therefore
solicit a share of public patronage.
Mrs. H. Braumuller,
Mrs. L. Giovannini.
Writing Paper by
Wholesale!
We are now manufacturing and offer for sale on
accommodating terms, Letter, Cap and Note Paper. Apply at once.
Marietta Paper Mill Co.
Marietta, August 21—dtf
Bookkeeper Wanted
Ours going to the Wars where all ought to go that loves
Country. None need apply that is able to fight, and in other words, must fill
the bill. Come recommended as all right. If so he can trade at the Arcade.
M. C. Cayce & Co.,
A. & R., E. B.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 18, 1863, p.
1, c. 3
Charley Green.--Mrs.. Irvin, or "Charley Green," the young girl who has been
fighting, in nearly all of the big battles of the war, has at length, through
the benevolence of a lady, resumed the dress of her sex, and hereafter will, if
she is allowed, spend her time in the hospitals, nursing the soldiers.--Whatever
may have been this girl's life previous to her enlistment and during her service
as a soldier, she does not seem to have lost the finer points of her sex--and we
are glad to be able to announce her redemption from a position that sooner or
later would have demoralized her beyond all reach. Although she was in thirteen
battles, she was wounded but once. She was also a prisoner at Alton, where her
sex was never discovered.--Mobile Reg.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 22, 1863, p.
2, c. 6
Athenaeum.
Lessee and Manager, - W. H. Crisp
(Also of the Mobile and Montgomery Theatres.)
Open Every Evening
First appearance of Mr. Sam Hubbard.
Mrs. Jessie Clarke as Pocahontas; Mr. Wolfe, Mr.
Anderson, Miss Cecilla Crisp, and all the members of the
Star Company appear.
Monday Evening, 21st, will be presented the
Comic Drama of
Po-ca-hon-tas;
-or-
Ye Gentle Savage
and the
Maid of Croissy
Or the Cross of Gold.!
A guard will be placed in the Theatre to
preserve order. Seats reserved for Ladies until end of First Act.
Prices—Parquette, $2. Upper Tier, $1.50
Colored Gallery, $1
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 23, 1863, p.
3, c. 1
Ladies! Ladies!--All those who are willing to roll bandages and make lint to
dress the wounds of the brave and noble men who have been wounded in the recent
battle near Ringgold, are requested to meet at our "Store Room" on Peachtree
street, near Wesley Chapel at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning.
Please bring with you a basket of provisions, as they are greatly needed by
them.--Our soldiers have fought nobly under the leadership of the gallant
Bragg. Surely none will fail to come!
By order of the President.
Sue. H. Goode,
Secretary.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 23, 1863, p.
1, c. 5
Wool! Wool!
Wool carded into rolls at Hat Factory of J. M. Holbrook.
Atlanta, Sept. 17.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p.
1, c. 2
Ladies vs. Gentlemen.--Three things a lady cannot do:
1. She cannot pass a millinery shop without stopping.
2. She cannot see a piece of lace without asking the price of it.
3. She cannot see a baby without kissing it.
A lady of our acquaintance turns the tables on the gentlemen as follows:
1. He cannot go through the house and shut the door after him.
2. He cannot have a shirt made to suit him.
3. He can never be satisfied with the ladies' fashion.
4. He is a poor stick any way, without a good wife.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p.
1, c. 2
A substitute for leather.--Leather to a great deal is to be superseded. The
London Times indorses the claim of an invention owned by a Mr. Szerelmy, of
England, which, according to the description of the article, possesses every
quality of the real leather, and is vastly superior to it on many accounts. It
will not crack, is tougher, will wear longer, and will resist water as
effectually as rubber. The leather cloth can be made of any color, and a pair
of boot tops which cost of the calf skin $1 50, will cost of this material only
25 cents. The invention is of immense value.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p.
2
Athenaeum.
Lessee and Manager, -- W. H. Crisp.
(Also of the Mobile and Montgomery Theatres.
Open Every Evening
Benefit to the
Wounded and Sick Soldiers,
Respectfully tendered to them for their brave
defense of Our Homes.
Thursday Sept. 24th, the
Robber's Wife
and
The Maid of Munster.
A guard will be placed in the Theatre to preserve
order. Seats reserved for Ladies.
Price--Parquette, $2. Upper Tier, $1.50. Colored
Gallery, $1.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p.
3, c. 2
Correspondence.
We publish below the correspondence between Mrs. Crisp and his Honor the Mayor,
as will be seen by the letter of Mrs. Crisp. She has tendered $500 dollars for
the relief of the wounded soldiers, and proposes giving another to-night for the
same purpose. The thanks of the soldiers will, we are sure, be cordially given
to the patriotic lady who has so liberally offered her and her family's services
for the purpose. We are glad to see that his Honor the Mayor will not withhold
permission to keep the theatre open:
Hon. Jas. Calhoun, Mayor:
Dear Sir: Captain Crisp being absent on duty, the pleasure devolves on me
of presenting $500 for the benefit of the wounded soldiers daily arriving from
the battle ground.
It was my intention to close the theatre until this deeply absorbing crisis
had passed, (I have a dear son now engaged in the conflict,) but if you think
the theatre can do more good by remaining open, I will cheerfully devote
to-morrow evening's placards of myself and family to our wounded and sick
soldiers. Please favor me with a reply at your earliest convenience.
With respect, I remain yours, &c.
Eliza Crisp.
Atlanta, Sept. 23, 1863.
Mrs. Eliza Crisp:
Madam: I received your note this morning, with $500, being the proceeds for the
benefit of our wounded soldiers, and for them return sincere thanks for the
liberal donation.
Some of the citizens have urged me to withhold a license for a few days, till
the exciting crisis we are now going through would pass; but as the exhibition
you propose to give to-morrow night is for the benefit of the suffering
soldiers, no one should object to it, and considering the generosity that
prompts the offer, I give my consent to it, most cheerfully.
Truly yours,
James M. Calhoun,
Mayor.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 24, 1863, p.
3, c. 2
Atlanta Soldiers'
Executive Aid Committee.
The commissariat of the above
Committee is at the commodious Storehouse of J. E. Williams, where all offerings
for the aid and comfort of the sick and wounded of Bragg's army, in the way of
supplies, will be received and duly credited by the Committee's commissary,
James G. McLin, Esq.--This work of grateful duty--a response from the patriot
heart of Atlanta, speaking thro' her population to their compatriots of the
field--is the proud "labor of love" of all her sons and daughters. The good
work goes gloriously on, and to those who may not yet have had an opportunity of
subscribing, the Committee takes this opportunity of announcing that the
subscription books will be kept open until the emergency is past.
Robert A. Crawford, Chairman.
J. W. Duncan, Sec'y and Treasurer.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p.
2, c. 5 [Summary: Atheneum presenting "Lucretia Borgia; or The Poisoner," and
the farce of "Poor Pilligoddy."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 25, 1863, p.
2, c. 5
To Cotton Spinners!
The undersigned wishes to employ a number one Superintendent of a Cotton
Factory; also two good Machinists to do repairs. An extra price will be paid
for a competent Superintendent, and the highest wages for Machinists. Address
or apply to:
E. Steadman,
Sept. 5 Lawrenceville, Ga.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September 26, 1863, p.
2, c. 3
Report of the
Atlanta Executive Committee from the Battlefield.
To Col. R. A. Crawford, Chairman:
Dear Sir: I have to report that, as one of the Committee sent from Atlanta
to the field of battle near Ringgold, that we arrived at the depot, four miles
this side of that place, about six o'clock Wednesday morning. With some
difficulty we procured transportation, for the stores we carried. I was
fortunate enough to purchase a horse and get ahead to the field, about fourteen
miles distant, sooner than the others, and visited a large number of the field
hospitals and found the wounded suffering from want of nurses, provisions, and
medicines.
I found only two of our dead unburied, but I found a good many of the
enemy's dead still lying on the field, several being nearly burnt up, from their
proximity to some of the defences [sic] that had taken fire. All the wounded
had been carried to the field hospitals, I would think about five thousand. I
found Lieut. Pittman with a severe flesh wound through the thigh, but not
serious.--Also Col. E. M. Seage, of the 20th Ga.--not mortally wounded, as
reported, but seriously, in the side, having one or two ribs broken. There is
much need of surgeons, as our surgeons had gone forward with the army in
expectation of another battle.
Gen. Hood had his leg amputated, but was doing well. Our provisions were
gratefully received by the soldiers, as they had nothing but ordinary fare. We
determined to establish on the field an Atlanta Hospital Depot, where we could
deposit all our supplies, and the committee directed me to return to have them
sent up. In consequence of the length of time it takes to get down here, I
recommend that our committee send some provisions for the wounded to the station
nearest Ringgold until the bridges are completed, as I found many there in great
need. Respectfully,
O. H. Jones.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], September
27, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Educating our Children.--So busily are we engaged in watching the scenes being
enacted around us, and so deeply are we absorbed in the great issue before us,
that schools are neglected everywhere, and children allowed to grow up like
weeds, many, we are sorry to say, apparently without parental attention or
supervision of any kind. Go where you will, boys are to be seen roving about in
idleness, that are hardly able to read a newspaper or sign their own name. The
education of girls is equally neglected, and they are allowed to emerge into
society, be flattered and courted, without having received the benefit of a
common school education.
This growing *illiteracy* among the rising generation should attract the
attention of the press and people everywhere. The day will soon come when it
will devolve upon those whose footsteps are soon to be heard upon the threshold
of man and womanhood, to take charge and control the affairs of the nation. The
men now in our halls of Congress--in all our public places--will fall into the
"sear and yellow leaf," finally sinking away into that far off home from whence
there is no returning, and those boys now rambling around will be called upon to
fill their places. Will they be competent? Will they be fit to supply the
places of the intellects now guiding us through this ordeal, which is so trying
to the nerve and sagacity of man? are questions that naturally suggest
themselves as you see these lads daily rambling around in sloth and idleness.
We fear they will not, unless we improve the educational prospects of the
country. We must give more time and attention to training the youthful
mind--that mind, which, when its clay tenement shall have crumbled to the dust,
will be but entering on a career that is never to terminate. Seek teachers of
qualification--those who understand the organization of the human mind, and the
means by which its powers may be most rapidly developed, regardless of *what
they will charge*--teachers that will have the moral courage to assign very
short lessons to pupils--that will insist these lessons be accurately learned,
and recited at a brisk pace without the least halting or hesitation--that will
practice a profuse questioning and cross questioning, leading the scholar just
near enough the inference they wish them to draw to enable them to take the
final steps themselves. Let them be applauded when they succeed and encouraged
when they fail; but never for an instant let the pupil lose his interest or
alacrity. The lesson being short, the strain on their faculties will be short,
also, but, recurring so often, will gradually build up the most valuable habits
a man can possess, who wishes to go into the world wide awake, with all his wits
about him. We throw out these hints upon the mode of schooling for the benefit
of those who may wish to teach their own household gods; and we have no doubt
that when school days are over, a pupil so trained will not only have better
health and better mental habits, but a greater fund of available knowledge than
if he was compelled to plod through long hours of spiritless study at the
expense of health and cheerfulness. We cannot too strongly impress on the minds
of fathers, mothers and guardians the necessity of improving the educational
condition of the country. Its indispensableness and pressing need must be
apparent to every one, as well as the social and public state of our country, in
case we fail to perform this sacred duty.--Daily Mississippian.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 7, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3
Camp in Valley of Chattanooga,
Oct. 5, 1863.
Our wounded are receiving every attention in the hospitals at Ringgold and
near the battlefield, and but few have died. Mr. Marshall, Chairman of the
Atlanta Relief Committee, has paid us a visit, and was cordially received by
Gen. Bragg. Mr. Marshall is superintending the delivery of comforts for the
wounded and sick Georgians and is deserving of great credit for his energetic
exertions. Hon. A. S. Colfar of Tenn., M. C., is also working in the good
cause. Hon. Mr. Hilton, Judge Baker, Rev. Messrs. Ellis and Debose, Robert W.
Williams, and Mr. Maxwell, composing the relief committee from Florida, have
also arrived with supplies. Surgeon C. P. Gamble, under the supervision of Dr.
Ford, Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee, has charge of the Ringgold
hospital, and has rendered eminent services.
A number of ladies are also in attendance on the wounded, among whom is Mrs.
Lucy Welsh, of St. Louis, who was escorted by a guard out of that city for her
patriotic devotion to our wounded prisoners. Mrs. Dr. Reeves, Mrs. Williams,
Mrs. Barbour, Mrs. Lowe, and several other administering angels, are rendering
every service in their power to our wounded braves, who feel an imperishable
gratitude for the attentions received.. . . 290.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 11, 1863, p. 2,
c. 3
A Tribute to the
Ladies of Georgia.
Quintard Hospital,
Griffin, Oct. 9, 1863.
At the earnest solicitation of the patients, in this hospital, I request a
place in your columns to give some public expression of our gratitude for the
kind attention we have receive from some of the ladies of this city. When the
first notes of preparation for war were sounded, we left all and joined the army
as volunteers.
We have passed through many scenes of trial and suffering, of danger and death
from Springfield to Gettysburg.
We have regarded it a patriotic duty to fight for the rights and liberties of
the sunny South, and against the aggressions of our barbarous foes. Some sick
and some wounded on the bloody field of Chickamauga, we are consigned to the
hospital.
In suffering and pain, and at the same time far from home and all its
endearments--from those loved voices that were want to greet us there, we are
prepared to appreciate the kindness of woman.--It is true that the physicians in
attendance and the managers of the hospital are unusually attentive and prompt
in the discharge of their duties. But the ladies of the place show an interest
in the welfare of the soldier surpassing anything of the kind we have hitherto
experienced in the Confederacy. They not only cheer us by their presence and
encourage us by their words, thus reminding us of the loved ones at home, but
they prepare for the more feeble among us those comforts in the way of food that
the commissary cannot furnish. Even articles of clothing have been procured for
those who needed them, and some able to read have been furnished with good books
to while away the tedious hours of convalescence.--In the name of the sick and
wounded soldiers, who with tears have desired me to do so, I return their thanks
to these ladies for their considerate kindness and attention.--As I write
without their knowledge or desire, I trust they will pardon me for mentioning
some of their names. We will always remember with gratitude these persons:
Mrs. Morrow, Miss Julia Morrow, Miss Lizzie Morrow, Mrs. Haire, Mrs. F. M. Ison,
Mrs. M. M. Ison, Mrs. E. McLaurin, Hon. Mrs. Eason, Mrs. Worhty, Miss Jeanie
Goodrum, Miss Clara Johnson, Miss Clara Fryer, Mrs. R. C. Jones, Mrs. Mollie
Nelson, Mrs. J. C. King, Miss Lucy King, Miss Sue Daniel, &c.
Although we have suffered much we feel that we are engaged in a noble
cause and are proud to fight in defence [sic] of such as have been so kind to
us. We doubt not that they will be rewarded by the consciousness of having done
good and heaven will smile upon their deeds. When the history of this war is
written the heroic actions of the women of this Confederacy will be brought
prominently to view. They have exemplified the sentiment of Burns, where he
says:
"The brave poor soldier ne'er despise
Nor count him for a stranger
Remember he's his country's prize,
In day and hour of danger, Bunk.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 11, 1863, p. 2,
c. 2
To the Women of
Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9, 1863.
You responded nobly to my first appeal to you for socks. But few
anticipated the measure of our success. From *my heart* I thank you for what
you have so cheerfully and so promptly done. You have enabled me to make many a
war worn soldier bless the dear women at home, as he placed your love tokens on
his weary feet.
Women of Georgia, and such others as contributed to my suck fund, in the
name of over 10,000 soldiers, do I most cordially thank you. But you must
enlarge the circle of your benefactions. God loves the cheerful giver and also
the liberal soul. Let us devise and execute liberal things. It will take,
besides what I have on hand, nearly 50,000 pair of socks to carry our Georgia
*heroes* comfortably through the coming winter. Send in those already knit
under my late call. Ship to me at this place as before directed. Organize *at
once*, throughout Georgia, into Societies, and let your Secretaries, with the
approval of your Presidents make requisitions on me for the number of bunches of
yarn which each Society will undertake to work into socks. I hope to make
arrangements for an ample supply of yarns for the purpose contemplated. Notify
me of your nearest railroad point, and I will forward the yarn required.
Continue to place the name upon each pair of socks knit and sent. I am keeping
a *faithful* record of the names of my fair colleagues in this good work, with
an account of the amount of work done by each one. May I not hope to put upon
every Georgian in the army needing them a good pair of socks before spring.
Methinks I hear a hundred thousand women, answering, Yes, send on your yarns; we
will soon fill your the [sic] bill.--By the bloom which has lately been over us,
let me exhort you to redoubled energies for those who are your *only
preservers*, under God, from a far deeper gloom and an intolerable destiny. By
the groans of our wounded and the deaths of our noble sons on our battlefields
all over the South, whose deeds of imperishable glory have illustrated names
that mankind will not willingly let die, let me exhort you to strain every nerve
to hold up the courage and strengthen the arms of those still surviving the
shock of battle! By the brightness of the future, opened up by the glorious and
God-given victory upon the banks of that stream of death, the now historic
Chickamauga, let us thank God, take courage and press forward, till we conquer a
peace.
Let the loss of some dear father, husband, son, brother or *loved one,*
nerve you to redoubled determination *never* to cease struggling till we are
thoroughly and totally divorced form those whose hands are red with the best
blood of the Confederate States.-- Cheer our soldiers, discourage desertions,
hurry off able bodied furloughed men to the front and stimulate them to prefer
honorable deaths in the face of the enemy, to dishon-lives [sic] prolonged by
shrinking from duty.--Women of Georgia, you have done much in our great and
bloody struggle. You can and will do much more, and your heroism will be
admired wherever and as long as true patriotism shall find a lodgment in the
human heart. Let the example of the three patriots of Switzerland, headed by
the heroic William Tell, who took a solemn vow to cease not in their efforts
until Switzerland was free from the horrid tyranny of the infamous Gasler;
*fire* our hearts to choose annihilation rather than subjugation. The one will
give us an honorable record, the other a sickly existence under the most
abhorrent of despotisms. The one is the result of a noble self-respect, the
other the fruit of a degraded self-abasement. Rather than yield when our men
fail us, let us have multiplied examples of the Maid of Orleans, who when
wounded by an arrow, drew out the arrow, exclaiming, "It is glory, not blood
which flows from the wound." But I need not write about yielding, with an
humble reliance upon the God of battles, if we, men and women, will but do our
duty before another year shall roll over us, the bloody sword will likely be
sheathed, and the bright banner of peace will gloriously waive over our ransomed
homes.
Ira R. Foster,
Q. M. Gen. of Georgia.
All papers in the State are requested to give the above one or two
insertions and much oblige our Georgia soldiers.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 13, 1863, p. 3,
c. 1
Young Ladies Patriotic Society.--A number of the young ladies of Atlanta
assembled at the City Hall last Saturday evening, and effected an organization
with the above title, intended to relieve the sufferings of the sick and wounded
soldiers passing through this city. Miss L. Rosa Wright was elected President;
Miss Ida Goldberg, Vice-President; Miss Lizzie Judson, Secretary; Miss Bettie
Morris, Treasurer.
The second meeting of the Society will be held on next Saturday evening, at
3 o'clock, at the City Hall, and it is hoped that every young lady in the city
will unite with them in their praiseworthy object.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 21, 1863, p. 3,
c. 1-2.
Our Hospitals--A
Suggestion.
Language can but imperfectly
express the gratitude felt by our sick and wounded soldiers in hospital for the
many and continued evidences of heartfelt sympathy and material aid afforded by
our patriotic ladies to them in their sufferings and distress. I may add that
all connected, intimately, with the hospitals acknowledge with pleasure their
untiring devotion to the cause and interests of our wounded soldiers.
But to many it is quite apparent that they are often discouraged and
disappointed in their efforts; find their pains-taking avails little, compared
with their desires, and often, perhaps, have the mortifying reflection that
their efforts to benefit and relieve the suffering have been misdirected, and
may possibly result detrimentally.
Having some experience in matters of this sort, and feeling anxious that
every effort of our ladies in this direction shall avail for good, I trust they
will receive the suggestion in the spirit which prompts it, with, too, the
confident opinion, that nowhere on this habitable globe are to be found ladies
better suited to administer comfort to the wounded, cater to the capricious
appetites of the sick, or smooth the pillow of anguish and distress, than the
*native* born daughters of our own sunny South.
My suggestion is this: From the societies, or at their homes, let the
ladies determine the hospital or ward to which they will give attention; confer
with the medical officer as to the proper patients for *special* diet or
attention; take entire charge of such, no one else being allowed to interfere,
and each day by conference with the sick, their wants are ascertained and
supplied easily from the common stock, or home larder, following up the cases by
daily visits, and not attempting to feed or nurse every one, but such a number
merely as can be attended without fatigue or serious inconvenience.
In this way you at once become acquainted with the wants of your patients;
mutual interest springs up, and an unlimited scope is presented for every
philanthropic impulse free from the possibility of harm, while your efforts are
recorded in the hearts of the relieved, to be developed more fully around the
firesides of their distant homes, where the wife's silent tears speak blessings
on your head, and the young ones lisp praises to their distant
benefactress.
Surgeon.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 22, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1
Fuel for the Poor.--Winter, stern winter, with its ice and snow and rain and
bleak winds, has already begun to lay his withering hands upon us and forced the
question, "how are we to resist his chilling influence?" From supplies of coal
we are and probably shall be cut off the whole, or the greater part of the
winter season. Our railroads, we fear, will have plenty of business to keep
them employed without burdening their trains with wood. Our chief if not only
means therefore for obtaining the fuel with which to warm our bodies and cook
our food will be the wood which we buy off country wagons. The price of wood
varies from twenty to forty dollars a cord, or ten to fifteen dollars for a
common two horse load. We would, if we thought it would do any good, implore
our neighbors in the country--who do not purchase this necessary of life, and
can not feel how burdensome high prices are, to moderate their demands and
suffer their hearts to glow with more genial warmth. But we had as well look
the facts sternly in the face, and accept the present prices for wood as a fixed
fact. In view of this fact, what, we ask our city Fathers, are the poor of the
city to do for fuel this winter?
In asking this question, we have not forgotten the arrangements already made
at a meeting of the council, some weeks since, to provide, at the expense of the
city, some three hundred cords of wood for distribution among the poor; and also
that other arrangements are on foot to provide, to some extent for this class of
our population both food and fuel at the lowest possible prices to cover cost;
but we have a very strong and abiding conviction that the evil apprehended from
a scarcity of that without which life, in winter, would be unendurable, is not
sufficiently guarded against.--Our City Treasury is not lacking in means, and no
better use can be made of a portion of them than to purchase large supplies of
fuel to be held for the use of those who will be unable to pay the high prices
for fuel demanded.
In addition to this source of supply, which very properly and legitimately
comes within the scope of the duties of the Council, it is to be hoped that the
benevolent in our midst who have means at their disposal, will raise a fund at
once for this purpose. We may calculate on some six weeks of pleasant weather
before the worst of winter comes; this is the best time for doing this simple
act of humanity to the poor.
And finally, we think it the duty of the military authorities to signify to
the country people who bring in wood to sell, that under no circumstances will
their wagons or the beasts that draw them be seized for Government purposes, as
it is this fear, whether groundless or not, that tends to enhance the prices of
most of the necessaries of life.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 27, 1863, p. 3,
c. 4
For the Intelligencer.
The Poor of the
City.
Mr. Editor: There is a matter
now demanding the attention of every patriot and philanthropist in this and all
other communities. In the midst of the poverty and scarcity now reigning
throughout the land, there is a call, and a loud call, for the exercise of the
fullest benevolence, and if you will allow me space in your columns, I hope to
be able to suggest a plan that may prove beneficent to suffering humanity in our
midst.
The repeated calls I have recently had for charity induce me to obtrude my
ideas and suggestions upon the public. Not one or two suffering women, with
streaming eyes, have been to me within the last few days, but scores of them,
and the tales of woe and extreme suffering that they bring are enough to start
the tear of sympathy from the most unsympathizing eye. It has been my
misfortune, Mr. Editor, to have occupied a position in this community where
poverty and want in all their most squalid forms, have arrayed themselves before
my eyes and my heart has been made to bleed over their sufferings, and often
times has the wish gone up from the deep recesses of my heart that I had the
power to relieve their distresses. Would to God that I knew the Sesame that
would insure an entrance into the sympathetic heart of every man in our
country.--I could present them with a chapter of woes that would call for tears
of blood from the most callow and hardened spectator. These are times that call
not only for valor and chivalry in the field of battle, but they call more
loudly still for charity and sympathy at home, and let us not add confirmation
to the old maxim that the
"Inhumanity of man to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn,"
but rather let us unite as a band of brothers and drive, with an Ithurial spear,
the skeleton of want from the door of poverty, and cause the lone widow, as she
bends over the grave of her buried hopes, to look up and thank Heaven that a
better day has dawned upon her. Charity is a christian virtue, and though it
may begin at home, let it not be confined there, but rather let it reach out and
pump up objects that deserve its beneficence.
The hardships of the soldier in the field are truly severe enough, but he is
better off, than the soldiers family which are left without any support. His
wife's barrel of flour is not like that of the widow's, which Elijah kept
supplied, [spot] has no helping hand to aid her, and [spot] the tidings of her
distresses and the cries of his hungry children come up to him far off on the
tented field, how can his affectionate and fatherly heart do otherwise than
bleed over the sufferings of his family, and its natural promptings lead him to
go to them, irrespective of all law, civil or military. Desertion is punishable
with death, but when the cry of ones little ones comes in opposition to the call
of his country, which shall he listen to?
Mr. Editor, there is a great responsibility resting on those who remain at
home during this war, and if these duties are not now sufficiently plain to
them, there is a day coming in which there will be a general reckoning and the
keenest remorse that will rack the delinquent in the hour of his reflection will
be that he knew his duty but did it not.
Allow me now to suggest that a meeting be called at the City Hall on Friday
next of all the citizens, male and female, who have it in their heart to assist
the needy, and let that meeting appoint a committee to report the best means
[spot] rearing for all the objects of charity in and around this city.
Let this meeting be called, Mr. Editor, and I venture the assertion that the
Hall will be thronged with patriotic souls, willing and ready to lend their
helping hand to the needy. Winter's bleak winds are coming and let us all
remember that the blessings of the widow and orphan are more valuable than
rubies and precious stones.
I am warranted in saying that the cordial cooperation of the Mayor of the
city will be extended to all who act in this matter.
Friend of the Poor.
Atlanta, October 24th, 1863.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 29, 1863, p. 2,
c. 1
Latest from Norfolk.--Information from Norfolk as late as Monday
last, states that on that day 570 women and children from Norfolk and Portsmouth
came up under flag of truce to Suffolk. They left Norfolk early on Monday
morning, arriving at Suffolk in the afternoon. After some little detention they
were set at liberty to make their way the best they could to Ivor and
Petersburg. About 100 reached that city by the train from Ivor Wednesday
afternoon, and the rest are on the road between Suffolk and Ivor, or waiting at
Suffolk for some means of conveyance. The Petersburg Express says:
The ladies who have arrived here speak in rapturous applause of the kindness
of the few remaining citizens of Suffolk, who took as many as they could to
their houses, and made them comfortable, and when no more could be provided for,
vacant houses were opened and shelter afforded when no other comfort could be
given. About one hundred occupied the spacious residence of Nathaniel Riddick,
Esq., sleeping on the floor or pallets prepared for them.
From Suffolk they had to get to Ivor in carts, wagons and such conveyances
as could be procured. We learn that a number were expected at Ivor last night,
and we hope that an extra train will go down for them today.
All represent the state of things in Norfolk and Portsmouth as deplorable
indeed. Brig. Gen. Barnes, now in command there, is said, however, to be more
humane and gentlemanly in his treatment of the citizens than any commandant that
has proceeded him. . .
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 29, 1863, p. 3,
c. 3
Cats--Affection--Volunteering.--In August, 1861, a German,
whose name we forbear mentioning at the request of our informant, left this city
as a volunteer, leaving behind him a wife and a house cat that he thought much
of. He made his wife promise that whenever his favorite cat had kittens she
would not kill them, but keep them and their increase until his return.
Faithfully the woman kept her word, and this forenoon we saw ourselves about her
house in the third ward, in which she lives, in a shed adjoining, and racing
about the premises, the old cat and her children, grand children, great
grandchildren, etc., etc., to the number of two hundred and nine cats, catiets,
and kittens.--Lagrange Democrat.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 3, 1863, p. 2,
c. 5 [Summary: At the Athenaum--"The Sergeant's Wife" and "Shandy Maguire; or,
The Bold Boy of the Mountain."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 4, 1863, p. 1,
c. 2
Griffin, Ga., All
Right!
If there is anything on earth I
love, it is an industrious, grateful, benevolent, and patriotic people.
Industry, gratitude, benevolence and patriotism, make a truly great and good
people.
Knowing this to be true, I cannot forbear expressing my sentiments to the
ladies of Griffin. Ever true and patriotic to our cause, they are acting nobly
their part in the great struggle for Southern independence. When we come to
make up the history of our country, then those bright deeds of the ladies of
Griffin will be registered on its pages, and will there stand as everlasting
memorials of their gratitude and kindness.
These kind ladies visit the hospitals every day, and by their soft words and
bewitching smiles, cheer the drooping min of the sick and wounded soldier. They
also bring along with them niceties of every kind and description, such as are
best adapted to the nature and cases of the sick and wounded. This is not a now
and then occurrence, but every day they come to see the sick and wounded, and
furnish such things and nourishments as they may need. to speak all in a few
words, they have done much and are still doing all in their power to render the
sick and wounded comfortable, and to ensure, if possible, a speedy recovery.
Many of the sick and wounded soldiers are far away from home and kindred, where
they cannot even hear from them. O! how dear these kind and affectionate
ladies must feel to them! True, there is no kind mother of affectionate sister
to wipe the tears from their eyes; to soothe them in their sorrows, to comfort
and console them in their pains and distresses; but yet these kind ladies are
ever ready and willing to administer to their wants and necessities. Language
fails me to express my sentiments to these kind and endearing ladies, and of
their noble, patriotic and generous deeds. Suffice it to say they are all
right, and have done, and are still doing all in their power for the comfort and
improvement of the sick and wounded soldiers. Heaven will smile upon them for
these generous deeds, and though, at times, their sorrows may be great and many,
yet they will, in due season, reap the reward which they so nobly merit.
It gives me great pleasure to know that when I write home to my dear
companions and friends, I can tell them of the noble, patriotic and kind deeds
of the ladies of Griffin, Ga.
Ladies, believing that you will receive the reward which you so nobly and
justly merit, I now return you, not only my thanks, but the thanks of all who
have been inmates of any of the hospitals in the city, for your kindness and
attention. I speak for all, and I know they will say amen to all I have said.
You have acted the part of mothers and sisters to us, and we shall ever feel
grateful for it. When we leave you and are far away on the tented field of
battle, then will we cherish the fond recollection of you and your noble deeds.
In the hour of battle the recollection of you and your kindness will nerve and
buoy us up to acts of more noble daring. Your acts of kindness will never be
forgotten by us. Flowers may bloom and fade away, but these acts of kindness,
like the bright morning star, shall still continue to burnish forth till the
last day. Soon you will all be lying in the silent slumbers of death, but these
acts of kindness will remain on the pages of history, and succeeding generations
will boast of you, and point their children to your great and illustrious deeds
with much pleasure and joy.
May the blessings of heaven rest on you and all who, like you, are true to
our cause! May you live a long and prosperous life! Then, when you come to
die, may you shout triumphantly over both sin and the devil--in heaven may you
find a home at last!
Quintard Hospital, Bunk 122, Oct. 29, '63.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 4, 1863, 2, c.
2
Another Appeal to
the Women of Georgia.
Quartermaster's Department,
LaGrange, Ga., Nov. 1, 1863.
Editor Intelligencer:
Numerous appeals have already been made and responded to. The Quartermaster
General of the State of Georgia has appealed for "socks." Gen. Beauregard for
"bells," Nitre Bureau for "potash," the Doctors for "poppy seed," and the
country for "patriotism."
A few appeals may have required sacrifices. This one can be met without
that, at any rate, by a sacrifice too trifling to deter any from responding.
Have the people at home done everything in their power to advance a cause so
sacred and dear to us all? Have they exhausted every facility to promote the
comfort and health of the defenders of the land? Do they fully realize the
destitute condition of our torn and shattered armies? The noble
self-sacrificing soldier who walks his post on the watch tower of liberty? Do
they realize it? Does the chilling winds of winter, the pelting rains, the
miasma of Chickamauga swamps effect only the soldier who suffers under it?
Surely not. Then only withhold from him, from the only truly patriotic, the
patient, the weary, the suffering yet watchful Bulwark of your safety those
things which certainly are not necessities?
Can a humane and christian people withhold that which would shield him from
disease and death? Ought they not to suffer a little, a very little
inconvenience, if by so doing they furnish absolute necessities to the
soldiers? Will you do your duty when made aware of the necessity? I believe
you will.
Then I tell you the necessity exists. Thousands of our soldiers are without
tents, and worse than that, without *blankets*. Many of the Georgia troops are
supplied by their friends at home. Think of the thousands who have no homes!
Yet they have been fighting the enemy for over two long years. They have met
him and contested his approach to our borders upon many a hard fought
battlefield. They are still proudly and degantly [sic?] defending our "homes
and our fires, the green graves of our sires."
Under such circumstances, in this dark hour of trial, ought there to be a
blanket in the house of any citizen of the "Empire State?" Ought not the
churches, the parlors and the bed rooms to be stript [sic] of every carpet, if
necessary, and hurried to the army? I think so, and think, besides, that any
true-hearted Southern woman will be ashamed to let such articles remain about
her premises when she is aware of the necessity to give them up. I believe
there are carpets enough in Georgia to supply the Confederate army with
blankets. They cannot be procured by purchase. Can I say for you, ladies of
Georgia, "They shall be given?"
Then have them cut, lined with cotton cloth, and hemmed. Forward to any of
the following named officers, who will furnish the lining upon application, and
receive the hearty "Three cheers!" from the gallant soldiers, and the sincere
thanks of a grateful nation. . . .
Let them come, and come quickly, and then let the Atlanta Confederacy, and
"such cattle," prate about the incapacity of Gen. Bragg and the President--let
them join hand in hand with "croakers" and the "Home Generals."
Let them speak insolently of the President as "serene upon the frigid
heights of imperturbable egotism." Let them discover the "astonishing spectacle
of one wing of our army" at one place and the other at another place. Let them
try to create discontent and sow the seeds of discord by referring sneeringly at
the "art of war" with Napoleon, and the "art of war" with Bragg and Frederick
the Great. Let them do all this and more besides. They will find that neither
Gen. Bragg nor the President are "toadies" to cater to the whims of "warriors at
home." Give the soldiers the blankets since they have got the "poppy seed" and
the "socks," and the "bells," and the "potash," and the "Patriotism," and they
will turn a deaf ear to the croakes [sic?], and strive and fight on, and suffer
on, until our bleeding country worthy of such heroic patriots is forever freed
from the tyranny of so contemptible and so despised a foe. Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
B. F. Jones,
Major and Quartermaster.
Papers favorable to the cause please copy and pay charges themselves.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 5, 1863, p. 2,
c. 4 [note: header may differ, but article is the same]
A Romantic Incident.
We have just been put in possession of the
facts of a sad case of monomania, which had a terrible termination. A young
lady residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. about 19 years of age, about a year since
became inspired with the idea that she was a second and modern Joan of Arc,
called by Providence to lead our armies to certain victory in this contest. The
hallucination was a strong one and a change of scene being suggested by her
physician, she was brought to Ann Arbor, in this State. Her mania, however,
increased until it was found necessary to confine her to her apartment. She,
however, succeeded in making her escape, came to this city and joined the drum
corps of a Michigan regiment, her sex known only to herself, and succeeded in
getting with her regiment to the Army of the Cumberland. How the poor girl
survived the hardships of the Kentucky campaign, where strong men fell in
numbers, must forever remain a mystery. The regiment to which she was attached
had a place in the division of the gallant Van Cleve, and during the bloody
battle of Lookout Mountain, the fair girl fell, pierced in the left side by a
Minie ball, and when borne to the surgeon's tent her sex was discovered. She
was told by the surgeon that her wound was mortal, and he advised her to give
her name that her family might be informed of her fate. This she finally,
though reluctantly, consented to do, and the colonel of the regiment, although
suffering himself from a painful wound, became interested in her behalf, and
prevailed upon her to let him send a dispatch to her father. This she dictated
in the following manner:
Mr. -------, No. --, Willoughby st. Brooklyn:
Forgive your dying
daughter. I have but a few moments to live. My native soil drinks my blood. I
expected to deliver my country, but the fates would not have it so. I am
content to die. Pray, Pa, forgive me. Tell ma to kiss my
daguerreotype.
EMILY.
P. S.--Give my gold watch to little Eph. (The youngest brother of the dying
girl)
The poor girl was buried on the field on
which she fell in the service of her country, which she fondly hoped to
save. Detroit Tribune.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 5, 1863, p. 2,
c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--"Don Caeser de Bazan" and the farce of "Paddy Miles'
Boy."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 7, 1863, p. 2,
c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--"Fair Heart Never Won Fair Lady" and the drama of "Shandy
Maguire; or, the Bold Boy of the Mountain."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 8, 1683, p. 3,
c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--"Marble Heart"]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 8, 1863, p. 4,
c. 2
Recipe for
Persimmon Brandy.
Editors Charleston Courier:
Put the persimmons in common tubs, mash them well with your hands, or small
pestles, then empty into the stand till you have it half full, then add enough
of warm water to fill it, then stir or churn it well.--Fermentation will begin
at once in temperate weather, and they should be distilled in five or six days.
They will make about half a gallon to the bushel. I have made three
runs--distilling in seven to ten days after putting up, and they did well. Many
others waited two or three weeks, and made nothing but sour, disagreeable
water. I am thus convinced that they should be distilled even sooner than I
did. The distillation is the same as for other brandies or whiskey. But
another important item is, to save the seeds of the persimmons after they have
boiled, and you let out the slop, for they are excellent for coffee, rather
stronger or rougher than the genuine Rio; hence I mix two parts of dried sweet
potatoes to one of persimmon seed. Dr. Buck says this coffee is equal to Java
coffee. By the boiling the seeds are rid of all mucilaginous substances, and
are just right for coffee or button. If you use them for buttons the washer
woman will hardly break them with her battling stick. For coffee they should be
parched twice as long as any other substitute; so as to make them tender to the
center.
Alabama.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 10, 1863, p.
1, c.
Milledgeville Correspondence.
Thursday, Oct. 5, 1863.
On Wednesday afternoon I visited the Lunatic Asylum of the State, in Midway,
about two miles from the capitol. The building, or rather we should say,
edifice, occupied by the unfortunate class of our population known as Lunatics,
is an immense structure, the largest in the State its length is over 100 yards,
while its wings run back to nearly the same distance. It contains upwards of
300 rooms, every one of which at present has an occupant. The cost to the State
for the building was $380,000, and cheap at that.
This institution has long been under the management of Dr. Greene; a gentleman
we are proud to say, who duly appreciates the responsibility of the position in
which he has already won undying honors. Every thing about the premises and
throughout the institution itself, is kept in the neatest possible order.
The floors which are not carpeted, except the parlor for visitors, are as clean
as wood can be made, and has a glossy appearance, the result, we suppose, of
using wax in rubbing them. The walls are hung with every variety of painting,
bearing testimony to the good hearts of some friends to the afflicted and
unfortunate, who we are informed made the Institution a present of them.
Georgia has no public work to which she can point with such pride as the Lunatic
Asylum. We trust the reason with which God has endowed us may be the last to
forsake us; but should such a calamity occur, we could ask no greater privilege
than that of spending our remnant of days within the hospital walls of this
Institution. ...
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 11, 1863, p.
1, c. 3
Pipes and Collars.--Among the latter day comforts, the pipe is one of the most
essential to man. Next to his wife or his sweetheart, it is uppermost in his
affections. Even his daily meals, by which his life is supported, are secondary
to the pipe, if we may judge by the almost constant attention bestowed upon it.
Segars [sic] have become obsolete, and only the privileged few can sport them.
With a spruce linen collar, a good pair of boots, and a briarroot pipe, a man
can make his appearance on the street with commendable satisfaction. The
balance of his outfit is wonderfully adorned and improved by these. To show the
demand for the two articles that head this piece, we may state that they
constitute no considerable [sic?] portion of each cargo that slips through the
blockade, and never go begging at the huge sales. At a recent sale in
Wilmington, a large Southern firm made a purchase of briar root pipes, to the
value of $75,000. And more recently, a firm in this city purchased a lot of
linen [sic] collars, the bill for which was $27,000. In connection with the
pipes, we should like to be able to compute the quantity and value of the
tobacco smoked in the Confederacy during the year. A man does not present a
decent appearance without a collar, and hence no one is startled at the
extensive trade in this article, but the wonderful trade in briar roots. [sic?]
--Charleston Mercury.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 13, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--"Who Speaks First", "My Neighbor's Wife" and the
farce of "Robert Macaire."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 14, 1863, p.
1, c. 1
Where Does it Come From?--There is not a factory within a day's travel of
this or any other city where a person can get more than an occasional bunch of
thread, while nearly every retail dealer in the city has his shelves piled up
with it. Hence the query, where does it come from? The only way in which we
can solve it is that these dealers pay the factory prices, with the promise to
say nothing about it; and this enables the manufacturer to evade the law, which
allows him hands to carry on his establishment on condition that he does not
charge over 75 per cen. profit. We do not know that this is the cause, but
suspicion strongly points to the culpability of these parties in the matter.
The Upson Factory allows every head of a family in that and the adjoining
counties two bunches every 2 months, which greatly aids the people in that
vicinity to get along in these hard times tolerably well. If other
manufacturing companies would do the same thing there would be much suffering,
to say nothing of complaints, obviated.
If retail dealers can get thread to sell, why cannot others get it to weave
into cloth for their own use? The per cent., we apprehend, is not enough; and
the fear that some will *peach* [sic?] prevents a more liberal policy on the
part of manufacturers.--Col. Enq.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 14, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Atheneum--"Drunkard; or the Fallen Saved", the song "Battle
of Chickamauga by Mr. Huntley, the farce of "The Lady and the D---l."
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 19, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Atheneum--"Day After the Wedding", the farce of "Box and Cox"
and the farce of "Good for Nothing."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 20, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Atheneum--"Naval Engagement", song "Mary of Argyle,"
interlude of Swiss Swains, the farce of "Good for Nothing."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 20, 1863, p.
3, c. 1
Young Ladies Patriotic Society.--Miss L. R.
Wright, President, and Miss Lizzie Judson, Secretary, have published a return of
their labors from the 1st of October, which speaks in flattering terms for the
patriotism of the young ladies composing their society, they having returned to
the St. Phillips Aid Society, fifty-three pieces of work. They very modestly
call upon the young ladies of Atlanta to aid them in their noble undertaking,
and to make themselves "useful as well as ornamental," and not to allow a parcel
of little children to perform what they should do. Our brave soldiers, while
they appreciate the beauty and fascinating charms of the ladies of Atlanta, will
think them doubly dear if they will assist in rendering them more comfortable
than they are at present. By all means, let the young ladies of our good city
turn out and go work with a will, otherwise the *few* who are now laboring, will
carry off the palm for patriotism, and receive the greatest number of smiles
form our heroes after this "cruel war is over."
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 21, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--Raffelle the Reprobate; or the Secret Mission and
Signet Ring;" farce of the "Swiss Cottage."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 21, 1863, p.
3, c. 1
Young Ladies' Patriotic Society.--This Society was organized Oct. 1st, 1863,
and having been only six weeks in operation, have returned to the St. Philips
Aid Society fifty three pieces of work. Thread has been given us by General
Foster for knitting. As we have very few members who know how to knit, the
thread is being used very slowly. As yet, the society is composed of very young
members, which has caused a great many to call it a juvenile affair, but the
young Ladies of Atlanta are invited to join it. Surely, some of the Ladies who
have *so much* patriotism, will not refuse to join a society that will require
*one* garment a week from them. The Society meets every Saturday afternoon at
*three* o'clock, at the City Hall.
L. R. Wright, Pres't.
Lizzie Judson, Sec'y.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 22, 1863, p.
2, c. 6 [Summary: Athenaeum--"The Jacobite" and the farce of "Swiss Swains."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 22, 1863, p.
3, c. 1
Just received from Wilmington, N. C.--The following goods bought there at
prices far below goods at last auction, and which will be sold accordingly:
18 cases Bleached Goods
4 cases Pillow Case Sheeting
20 cases Calicos
5 cases Calicos, yard wide
2 cases Hoop Skirts
600 dozen Pocket Handkerchiefs
300 dozen Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs
3 cases new style Worsted Dress Goods
1000 pair Cotton Cards
10 cases Clarks Thread, 200 yards
100 great gross Agate Buttons
300 great gross Pant Buttons
1000 gross "Gillott's" celebrated Steel Pens
500 gross "Faber's" Lead Pencils.
Together with a large stock of other goods to which we invite the attention of
our friends and customers.
A. Gunst & Bro.
Whitehall street.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA],
November 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
[Summary: Athenaeum. "The Noble Soldier; or Love in Humble Life;"
"Perfection", farce of "Two Gregories."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 26, 1863, p.
3, c. 6
New Dress Goods. 100 yards fancy plaid saxoneys; 1200
yards plain Mohair Lusters, 2000 yards check and plain Cassimeres; 2300 yards
black and white prints, best quality; 500 yards superior scarlet Saxony Flannel;
500 yards extra fine white silk Flannel; 40 dozenen ladies linen collars, just
received and for sale, on consignment at P. G. Bessents, Whitehall Street.
Ladies' Shoes. 200 pairs ladies Congress Gaiters; 250 pairs ladies English Kid
Gaiters; 280 pairs ladies Morocco boots, at P. G. Bessent, Commission Merchants,
Whitehall Street.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 28, 1863, p.
1, c. 3
A Badge of Female Disloyalty.--We find the following paragraph in the news
columns of the New Orleans Era:
Not to wear crinoline has become a badge of secesh principle in the
Southwest. Although hoop skirts are plentiful at Memphis the Rebel women have
agreed among themselves not to wear them. It is their secret sign--their
badge--their rebel flag. No longer allowed to flaunt past our brave fellows
with their emblems of treason pinned to their dresses and bonnets, they have hit
upon this plan. They will wear no more hoops. That is their rebel mark now;
and one, the other day, when asked if such was the reason, tossed up her head
and said:--"Yes, it is, and you Yankees can't make us wear hoops neither."
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], November 28, 1863, p.
3, c. 3
[Summary: Atheneum--"Michael Earle" and the farce of "Slasher
and Crasher."]
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], May 11, 1864, p. 2, c.
5
Hickory Stripes--3,700 yards Hickory Stripes for sale by P. P. Pease, Com.
Merchant.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], May 11, 1864, p. 2, c.
6
Third Anniversary
of the Atlanta Amateurs.
Grand Celebration of the Same at the Athenaeum
The manager takes pleasure in announcing that the Amateures
[sic], assisted [sic] by the Brass Band, will celebrate their Third anniversary
by giving two of their popular Grand Medley Soirees. The first will be given on
Thursday Evening, May 12th, 1864, for the benefit of the Atlanta Hospital
Association, Mrs. Isaac Winship President. The second on Friday evening, May
13th, 1864, for the benefit of the Ladies Society of the Tennessee Relief
Society, Mrs. W. D. Hays President. These entertainments will be given at the
Anthenaeum [sic]; Mrs. Litton & Co., having kindly tendered the use of the same
on that occasion. We would state for the information of our patrons that our
efforts for the past three years have realized the sum of thirty-two thousand
dollars, and we feel confident that the friends of the soldier and his family
will fill the house on the 12th and 13th, and afford us the pleasure of adding
largely to the fund of these Societies.
Tickets $5--Can be procured at the principal Book and Drug Stores of the City.
Wm. H. Barnes, Manager.
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