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University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 [Augusta, GA] Daily Constitutionalist, August- December 1861 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, "[Augusta, GA] Daily Constitutionalist, August-December 1861" (2016). By Title. Paper 8. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/660 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]. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA] August - December, 1861 DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 2, 1861, p. 2, c. 2-3 [Special Correspondence of the Constitutionalist] Affairs in Merriwether. Merriwether, 27th July, 1861. Mr. Editor:--Believing that if the several counties of our State, would occasionally compare notes, through the medium of the public press, that much dormant patriotism would be awakened, and generous emulation excited, I have concluded to send you a line from old Merriwether. Yet this is not all. The handsome sum of fifteen hundred dollars was raised for each of these companies that have gone, and ample provision has been made by the county for the maintenance of the families of these soldiers whose circumstances required assistance. The farmers have, moreover, subscribed largely to the Confederate loan; and the ladies are now banding themselves into Relief Societies; they are spinning and weaving cloth, making all sorts of garments, and knitting socks for our brave boys. In a word, the common desire of all seems to be, to know what they should do, and then their only anxiety is to do it quickly, and to do it well. Thank God that our portion is cast with such a people. Merriwether. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 3, 1861, p. 2, c. 4 Tents! Tents!! Tents!!! Constantly on hand and made to order, Military Tents, of every description and style. Regiments, Battalions, and Companies furnished at short notice. Have on hand, for sale, a large quantity of superior 10 oz. Duck. Tents warranted to be well made, and of guaranteed material. Special contracts made for a large number. R. A. Jones. Reynolds street, in rear of City Bank. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUST, GA], August 4, 1861, p. 1, c. 3 Home Enterprise —An Oil Cloth Factory. We are gratified to learn that another branch of manufacture is to be added to the industrial resources of our city. Some of our enterprising German fellow citizens are about commencing the manufacture of oil cloth on a large scale. We have seen some specimens of the cloth, and good judges pronounce it of excellent quality. This article is quite useful for military purposes, such as cap covers, capes, knapsacks, and various other uses; and embraces several qualities, light, heavy, &c. The sample before us appears to have one very important advantage—it can be folded and rumpled up, without splitting. The factory, we understand, will be put in operation next week, and will, we hope, meet with complete success. Full particulars will be given as soon as possible, when, we venture to suggest, that our Government give the projectors of this important enterprise a contract for army supplies of the article. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 4, 1861, p. 2, c. 2 Ladies’ Dress Artistically Considered. To dress in perfect good taste a lady should thoroughly understand the philosophy of apparel. Dress is not simply an article of use; a garment which the female sex indiscriminately can wear, and in which each will appear equally well, but it is a means whereby the especial nature of the wearer is clearly displayed. That which is becoming and appropriate to one is essentially out of place if worn by another; while some costumes—the Bloomer for instance— possess no fitness for any and simply serves to render the wearers ridiculous. Many things are merely utilitarian in character and have no claim to the slightest beauty, but are stiff and unseemly. Such garments may be convenient for common use, but with us, grace and elegance of costume are the truest signs of a lady. A woman of a tall figure, dignified in her carriage and inclining to soberness of spirits, if she would preserve these characteristics, would doubtless, select such stuffs for her dresses, of neutral tints, as would increase this impression, and would have them made up in a simple, chaste style, and wear them with hoops; if the impression she desired to make were more lively, she would probably choose bright colors, and add flounces and other trimmings. The opposite of this lady, a brilliant, gay, little beauty, would select materials much higher in tone, and probably, with brighter and more contrasted trimmings. Jewelry is not obnoxious on such persons, and a brilliant head-dress adds to the general appearance of vivacity. Such a lady can wear hoops of a moderate size with great advantage. Indeed the present fashion of hoops—which we are glad to see continue unchanged, notwithstanding all the gossips say to the contrary—is becoming to more persons than any style of dress heretofore adopted. It combines gracefulness and elegance with healthfulness and comfort. Since their introduction spinal diseases, once so common, have in great measure disappeared; nor has any other complaint arisen in its place. The latest and most authentic advices, received since the first of January, from the Courts of Europe, state that hoops not only continue in much favor but their popularity is essentially increased, especially since the French Empress has, for weighty reasons, expressed a desire that they should remain in vogue. All American ladies who consult taste, comfort, health and good sense would not dispense with them on any account. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 6, 1861, p. 2, c. 4 Stocking Yarn! Belleville Factory is manufacturing cotton Stocking Yarn, for Soldiers’ Socks, unbleached, bleached, or dyed; also, Wrapping Twine and Sewing Thread. Address, George Schley, Augusta, Georgia. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 6, 1861, p. 3, c. 1 A Female Spy.—The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Western Virginia, says a female spy has been discovered in the First Kentucky Regiment. She is from Georgia, and enlisted at Cincinnati. She was detected by writing information in regard to the movements of our troops to the enemy. She is a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, says she knows the punishment of a spy is death, and is ready for her fate. She is to be sent to Columbus. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA] August 6, 1861, p. 3, c. 3 The Choctaw Register chronicles the arrival of a Texas regiment under command of Col. Greer, and says, "They are the finest body of men we have seen--well armed and mounted on the finest of horses. Capt. Good's artillery company, with twelve pieces of cannon, is also attached to the command. The entire command numbers about 1,200 men, accompanied with a train of fifty wagons." DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA] August 6, 1861, p. 3, c. 3 Special Correspondence of the Constitutionalist. A Southern Rifled Cannon Foundry. Rome, Floyd County, Ga.,} 2d August, 1861. } We have in our little mountain city an establishment which, I think, deserves not only special notice, but the liberal, fostering patronage of our State government, as well as that of the Confederate States. I refer to the Cannon Foundry of Messrs. Noble & Sons. I visited, in company with several friends, this establishment, yesterday evening, during the process of moulding [sic] the “big guns,” for which they have a large order from the General Government, and which, when completed, will doubtless be “masked” by our brave soldier boys to frighten live Yankees into a running gait. I was perfectly amazed at the extent and completeness of the machinery used in manufacturing these Yankee frighteners, by the enterprising gentlemen above named. They have a number of rifled cannon almost completed, and never having seen one of these terrible, death inflicting ordnances before, I was greatly interested and instructed by my visit. Mr. John Noble, one of the firm, is a rara avis in mechanism, and but for his extreme modesty, would long since have created a sensation in the mechanical world. All the machinery for riding the cannon are of his own invention and manufacture, and I have been informed that he is the only man in the South who has succeeded in accomplishing, by his most extraordinary ingenuity and indefatigable perseverance, an enterprise, so essential to the maintenance of our independence in the present trying emergency. He has also invented and manufactured for the Confederate Government at Richmond, bullet moulds [sic] for Minnie muskets and rifles, and was the only man in the South who would undertake the job. Such a man, not only deserves the liberal patronage of his Government, but should be handsomely rewarded for the great service he has rendered it. I assure you that what I have said about Mr. Noble, is not fulsome flattery and praise, but the sincere conviction of my head and heart as to his true merits. They are prepared to manufacture cannon of any size and description, of the very best quality, and also, anything and everything else, in the machinery line, that can be made any where, either in Europe or America. Who will dare to say now that Rome is a “one horse town. Etowah. DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], August 7, 1861, p.

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