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Memphis Appeal [Memphis], January 1862-June 6, 1862 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, Vbetts@Uttyler.Edu University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 Memphis Appeal [Memphis], January 1862-June 6, 1862 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cw_newstitles Recommended Citation Betts, ickV i, "Memphis Appeal [Memphis], January 1862-June 6, 1862" (2016). By Title. Paper 82. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/727 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil War Newspapers at Scholar Works at UT Tyler. It has been accepted for inclusion in By Title by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at UT Tyler. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL January, 1862 – June 6, 1862 MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 1 New Year's Day. Another year has rolled back into the dark sea of the past, to sink like its predecessors in the distance behind us, which every moment becomes more dim. For a generation it will be a memory, and then subside into a paragraph in the book of universal history. Fruitful in events as it has been—the era in which a new nation burst into life and claimed an individuality among the governments of the world—what a few lines will tell its history to future generations! To us, who will soon listen to the clock striking the hour that dismisses it from existence, it is yet a reality; a fountain throwing out troubled waters, which still seethe, and bubble, and roar around us, carrying us on to new and strange events—awaking lofty hopes—arousing mighty energies. As a young traveler on leaving a home to which he will never return, pauses on the ridge of the hill which will soon hide from him forever the house of his childhood, the scenes of early trials and youthful pleasures, pains, and efforts, so we look back, at this midnight moment, on eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Much we have loved, much we have gloried in, lies in the spot we have left; but before us spreads a larger career, a nobler domain. From the summit of the full grown year we survey the valley of bygone time we have parted with, and drop a tear to its sacred memories. Turning we gaze on the prospect before us, the new, the untried, the future. O'er fair valleys and glittering streams, up among lofty mountains, whose purple tops glow with the light of promise, we gaze with joy, and yet with awe. Our eye kindles—our heart pants—our souls bound within us as anticipation lights the coming future. Yet a hush comes to calm the wild emotion, as we think what must be suffered, dared, and done, before those streams are crossed, those rugged summits scaled. But the calm brings no faltering—the brow is knit with strong resolve—the arm is stiff with stern determination—the soul heaves with all the might of the indomitable will, to suffer, dare, and do, so that the end in view may be accomplished! And thus we welcome eighteen sixty-two. Hope beams upon its birth; bright aspirations gem its face with smiles; coming success glitters like a jeweled tiara round its infant head. We welcome it with the thunder of victorious guns, the shouts of armed men, the clangor of the battle, and the shrieks of dying and retreating foes. Big with fate, the new year now is with us— powerless itself for good or ill, bears within its womb the coming days which, one by one, our own strong will and firm right hand may crown with fortune. Come on new year! dauntless we meet you, for we do not wait but make success; we will not feebly wish for triumph, but by bold deeds command it. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8 J. C. McAllister, Manufacturer of Shirts and Military Clothing, Ayres' Block—Court Square, Memphis, Tennessee. Shirts cut by measurement—Fits guaranteed. I am also prepared to cut and make Military Uniforms to Order. Mrs. Beeman, Shirt Cutter. Orders solicited and filled with dispatch. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 2 A New Gun.—The Plaqemine Sentinel has the following: We had the pleasure of examining during this week a new rifled gun, invented by and made for Chas. A. Desobry, of this place, who has already been successful with the late United States government in obtaining a patent for an improved bagesse furnace. This gun appears simple and effective. The cartridge is of tin or some white mal [sic? metal?], the diameter of which is about half an inch. It can be discharged and loaded again at will. In a groove in the stock this cartridge is shoved into the barrel. By pressing a spring, a curved piece of mechanism springs back, exposing this entrance. After the cartridge is inserted, this semi-circular piece of iron, on which is the tube, is pressed back into the spring, and the gun is ready for firing. After being fired, the discharged cartridge is easily pulled out again and another inserted. It appears, to our poor judgment upon such matters, that this gun is the simplest, and will be the most effective weapon in the gun line ever invented. It is so made that the French bayonet can be applied to it. The barrel, which is rifled and about an inch in diameter, is made to unscrew, and the shot gun barrel applied. In the butt end of the metal cartridge is a minute hole which admits the fire from the cap. It could be fired nine or ten times a minute, we should judge, though it should be pouring down rain all the time! Such is a hasty and feeble description of what we conceive to be a magnificent gun. Mr. Desobry, we learn, intends to apply early for a patent, and also to exhibit his gun to the members of our present Legislature. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 6 Suspended.—The German paper published in this city, the Anzeiger des Sudens, is suspended for the present, owing to the difficulty of procuring paper. A new German paper, we are informed, will make its appearance here in two or three weeks. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 7 Aid to the Soldiers. Senatobia, Miss., December 28, 1861. Editors Appeal: Will you permit us through the columns of your valuable paper, to give a summary of the proceedings of our society since its organization on the 7th day of September last. The officers of our society are, Mrs. Jane Matthews, President; Mrs. Mary Steele, Vice- President; Miss Laura Rankin, Secretary; Miss Mat. Miller, Assistant Secretary; Mrs. Bettie Feeney, Treasurer. Since our organization we have made up eighty-eight suits of winter clothing, three hundred and forty-one pair cotton drawers, and thirty-six flannel shirts. We have obtained by donation, twenty pair blankets, one hundred and two pair socks, twelve pair gloves, and several quilts, comforts and coverlids. All of these se sent off some time since. We have had one concert, and realized about fifty dollars. Our entire cash receipts amount now to one hundred and fifteen dollars. We are still busily engaged, and have on hand 288 yards of calico purchased by the society of our own home merchants, who (be it said to their praise) put down their goods fifty per cent. below the old selling price for the benefit of the soldiers. The calico we are now making up into comforts for the Columbus hospital; they will all be ready in the course of a week. We still have some money at our disposal which we wish to use to the best advantage for the relief of the brave men who are, as it were, forming a living fortification to defend the fair temple of American liberty from the polluted tread of a Vandal host. By order of the Society. Mrs. Jane Matthews, President. Miss Laura Rankin, Secretary. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 2 Woman's Invention.—The Eutaw (Alabama) Observer states that a lady of that place, being desirous of obtaining a military scarf for a relative, and not being able to buy one to suit her, cut up and carded a silk dress, spun it into thread and crocheted it into a most beautiful and elegant scarf, such as Jeff. Davis himself might be proud to wear. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 7 Manufactures. On Tuesday afternoon we paid a visit to the "Confederate Arms Factory" of Messrs. Froelich & Estvan, in the lower part of town. It is comparatively but yesterday—the time can hardly be counted by months—since, on the site of the factory (Mr. Dudley's Mills,) there was only the usual fixtures of a saw mill and planing machinery. Now there are facilities for turning out nine hundred cavalry saber blades per week, or will be by next week. We would have said, cavalry sabers, but that the difficulty in making the scabbards has not yet been fully overcome, but it soon will be, and then the factory will be able to put swords in the hands of a whole cavalry regiment every week. We saw the operations of forging the blades—grinding and polishing them—tempering and fitting them with handles, involving sundry operations, and requiring the services of men of many trades.
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