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THE COUNTRYMAN.
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Cow-Hair Cloth.
“ Madison,” writing to the Chronicle &
Sentinel, from Covington, Ga., Oct. 4th,
says: “ The great scarcity of wool, compai -
ed with the wants of the Confederacy, has
been, and still continues to be, a source of
anxiety to our people, it is now selling at
a price which almost places it beyond the
reach of the poorer classes, with the pros
pect of a still further advance, as the winter
approaches. In this county, a substitute
for wool is now being made into cloth by
a great many persons, with the design of
using their wool for our soldiers in the field.
This substitute is cow-hair. The cloth
made of it is perhaps not quite so smooth as
that made of wool, but it is heavier, and
no doubt will be nearly, if not equally, as
warm, and will last fully as well. • The hair
ie washed perfectly clean,and pulled’,or beat,
so as to have no bunches. After it is well
dried, it is ready for use. Like wool for or
dinary cloth, it is used only for ‘ filling,’
and is mixed with about one-third cottou.
The common and easier way of mixing, is
by ginning it with the cotton, although it
could be, I suppose, mixed fully as well by
carding. If the same quantity, in weight,
of seed cotton and hair, be thoroughly mix
ed, and placed iu the gin, after the seed are
separated the cotton lint will be about one-
third of the hair. The breast of the gin
should be a little raised, or the hair will
make the saws choke. Cow-hair, thus
mixed with cotton, may be carded, spun,
and made into cloth, with no more trouble
than is required for wool, or cotton. The
hair can be purchased at the tanner’s at 15
or 20 cents per bushel. It is the cheapest
material that can now be had for making
cloth, and it is hoped that all who have De-
gioes to clothe, and have cards, and wheels,
and a loom, and can get the hair, will use it,
instead of their wool—keeping the latter for
our soldiers.”
Thanks.
Thanks to you, brother Sneed, for your
kind invitation. My engigemonts will
keep me away from Milledgeville at the
time you suggest, but I appreciate your in
vitation none the less on that account—
more for the genial glow of the heart which
is at the bottom of it, than for the sake of
the other glow, however highly I may ap
preciate that. Yon and other friends must
fill one bumper to the absent Countryman.
From what you say of Coolidge’s liquors,
I judge
“One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise and taBte.”
AWAY FROM YANKEE LAND.
Air:—“Dixie”
Oh! southern men, awake to'glory,
Heed no more the Union story,
Butawav!—but away!—awnv from yankeeland!
Valiant sons of the old plantation,
Bow no more to the yankee nation;
But away!—but away!—away from yankee land!
Oil ! freedom and secession,
Hurrah! hurrah!
Ccme weal or wo, my heart shall go,
For freedom and secession !
Hurrah, hurrah! forfreedom anu secession! j
Hurrah, hurrah ! for freedom and secession !
Hear the war-cry loud resounding,
Northern hordes to crush you bounding,
And away!—and away!—away from yankee land:
Southern men, arouse your section,
Arm your children for protection,
And awaj!—and away!—away from yankeeland.
Sad to think in the Old Dominion,
Freedom droops her bleeding pinion,
Not away!—not away!—away from yankee land:
And, alas! in Tennessee, boys,
Johnson swears you sha’n’t be free, boys,
Nor away!- nor away!- away from yankee land.
One long shout for South Carolina,
In our hearts we will enshrine her,
Far away!—far away!—away from yankee land:
Hail the Pleiad constellation,
Banner of the old plantation,
Far away!—far away!—away from yankee land.
March 18, 1862.
P. M., Union Springs, Ala.
John Leonard, Esq., of the Leonard Sa
loon, paid the subscription of Homer Black
mon, Esq. He paid it in money, too ; for,
as it happened, I didn’t owe “John” any
thing at the pine he subscribed for Homer.
—In paying me the money, “ John” ac
ted very unwisely, for if be had waited till
I got dry, he might have gotten The Coun
tryman for Mr. Blackmon on better terms.
—But I'say to you, Mr. P. M., what I say
to Mr. P. M. in Marietta, Ga., in another
column—that no man need be afraid to take
this journal from the office. It is paid for
in every instance. My glory is that I have
not a single dead-head on my list. The
Countryman desires it particularly under
stood, that it visits no one uninvited.
•“•Most men sufficiently expose them
selves in war to save their honor, but few
so much as is necessary even to succeed in
the designs for which they thus expose
themselves.”.
“We are unwilling to lose our lives, and
yet would fain acquire glory. Hence it is,
that the brave use more dexterity to avoid
death than men versed in the chicanery of
law do to preserve their estates.”
The Turtle Dove.
(for the children.)
Mister King had 2 sons named John and
Sam. They were going along through the
orchard, one day, with their father ; and
when they got near a peach-tree, the boys
saw a dove drop out of the tree, on the
ground, as if it had been shot.
So John and Sam rau to it, to pick it up.
And when they got near it, it began to flut
ter, off, as if it bad a broken wing. The
boys ran fast, to see which could catch
the dove first.
By and by, when it had gone a long way
from Fhe tree, it flew off as if there had
been nothing the matter with it. And there
was not anything the matter with it, either.
John and Sam asked their father what
made the dove do so.
Mister King told his boys to go back
with him to the tree that the dove dropped
out of, and they would see what made it
do so.
So the 2 boys and their father went back
to the tree. And when they got tc it, Mis
ter King said to his sons, Look in the tree,
and you will find the dove’s ne&t.
And John and Sam looked, and they
found the nest upon a limb, very near the
ground. And in the nest were 2 young
doves that did not have any feathers on
them.
Mister King told his boys that the rea-
srn the bird fell down out of the tree, and
did like it was crippled, was to get them to
run after it, and thus lead them away from
its young ones: for it was afraid that they
would hurt them. When it led them far
away from its nest, it then did not preteud
to be crippled any longer, but flew away.
The partridge, the kilIdee, the sparrow,
and the.bull bat all do like the dove did, to
get any one away trorn their nests.
Sam asked his father if he might take
the young doves home. But Mister King
told himyiot to do so, as it is very wrong
to take the eggs, or the young ones out of
a bird’s- nest.
A Base Brief Honorably Refused.
“ The Emperor Severus, when dying,
recommended his 2 sous to the protection
.of Papinianus, a lawyer equally eminent
for his integrity and eloquence. The im
pious Caracalla having embrued his hands
in the blood of his brother Geta, solicited
Papinianus to extenuate the matter to the
senate and people. ‘ No, sir,’ replied the
worthy man. ‘ It is more easy to commit
a fratricide than to justify it.’ Caracalla,
incensed at this manly denial, caused the
head of his incorruptible guardiau to be cut
off.”