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THE COUNTRYMAN. 51 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.”