The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-01-28


IN the Shenandoah valley, and successful.
Urant Is also quite active, and has lately
cut one OF Lees important railroad COM
munications, so you see that it thunders
all around the horizon Of rebellion. More
aneSA Yours truly. .s.5r II. C. N.
old Clothes and wha, Become. of
The London Times has curious article
showing what becomes of the old clothes
picked up in London: vir1
Those that are intended to remain in
this coutry have to be- tutored and trans
formed. The '' clobbe.er,o the "reyiyer,v %
and the "translator'' lay hands upon them.
The duty of the " clobberer" is to patch.
to sew up and to restore, as far as possible,
the garments to their pristine appearance:
black cloth garments pass into the hands of
the" revivcrs," who rejuvenate seedy black
coats, and, for the moment, make them
look as good as new. The " translator's"
duty is of higher order; his Office is to
transform one garment into another-tne
skirts of a cast off coat, being the least
worn part make capital waistcoats and
tunics for children, &c. Hats are revived
in still more wonderful manner. They
are cut down to take out the grease marks,
refined, and appear like new ones. The
streets surrounding the old clothes market
are full of shops where these" clobbered -
and "revived" E" are exposed for sale, and
really stranger to the trade would not
know but they were new goods. There is
a department of the market also dedicated
to old clothes, male and female, Il" clobber-
ed and revived"
1t is touching sight to see the class of
persons who frequent the mems market and
turn over the seedy black garments that are
doing their best to Iut on a good appear
ance-the toll worn clerks. who for some
social reason are expected to apparel them
selves in black, and the equally careworn
members of the clerical profession, chiefly
curates whose meagrc stipends do not per-
init of the extravaganza of new suits of
clothes. The ladies' market is vast ward
robe of silk dresses but, if we are to be-
lieve the saleswoman, the matrons of Eng
land are more thrifty than we gave them
credit for. "Servants come to purchase,
sir No, indeed, sir; ladies worth hun
onff our indairies m as to the class of purchasers
Black cloth clothes that are too far gone to
sent abroad to be cut up to make caps
France takes the best of these old clothes for
this purpose. The Innings are stripped out,
and in this condition they are admitted
duty free as old rags.
Russia and Poland, where caps seem to
be universally worn by the working popu-
lation, are content with still more thread
bare garments to be cut for this purpose.
The great bulk of our cast-off clothes of all
kinds, however, find their way to two mar
kets-Ireland and Holland. The old clothes
bags of the collectors may, in fact, be said
to be emptied out in the land of Erin, as far
as the ordinary order of clothes 60, while
to Holland only special articles of apparel
are exported. Singularly enough, the des-
tination of the red tunics of the whole
British infantry is the chests of the sturdy
Dutchmen. The sleeves are cut off. and
they are made to button in double breast
ed fashion thus remodeled, they are worn
next to the skin like a flannel waisteoat by
all careful Dutchmen among the laboring
classes. The Irish chiefly favor corduroys,
and we suspect the Worn-out legs of Brit
ish pantaloons of this material are cut off
and made into breeches for Pat. Our read
ers will perhaps have noticed the special
avidity the dealers in old clothes erince for
all kinds of regimentals, full dress liveries,
volunteers uniforms, beadles' coats, &c.
One of the largest dealers in London ir
these snowy dresses once said to Us, seeing
a guardsman gong along the street, g
thousand to one that coat comes into my
hands," A Lord Mayors footman's full
dress livery is viewed by these gentry with
wolfsh eyes. These are the great prizes O
|. the their barbaric splendor
are destined for a special market-tn
: South Coast of Africa. We ourselves say
an assortment of we'll preserved liyeries o
the heir to the proudest throne in tn
wo-ld, just packed for expectation to tn
. grand destination of all fine liveries W
!. have just mentioned. 1t should be som
D solace to the parish beaGle that his clothes
f instead of descending in the social seal
q like those of ordinary civilians, are des
! tined to fame upon the back of some auto
t crat who holds the lives Of thousands o
e men at his disposal, instead of only bein
t the emblems of terror to poor parish boys
: The vast majority Of the scarlet coats Q
:, our officers that are a little worn find thei
Y way to the great annual fair at Leipsic.-
It There is belief in the trade that the des
tination of this bright scarlet cloth is tn
r cuffs and facings of the civil officials in til
n Russian government. However this ma
= be, the fact of secondhand regimentaI
}, finding their way to the great German fa
a is undoubted. The pepper-and-salt gre'
}, coats of our infantry 60 to our agrieultur
IS districts and to the Cape, but the heavi
it and more valuable artillery cloaks find the
3 way to Holland; and that country and lr
l. land absorb between them the caste
s. clothes of the police. There is one ot
ia item of old clothes that has a singular hi
,e tory. There are still a certain class in Il
r community addicted to the use of silk We
l. vet waistcoats. After adorning the r
M spectacle corporation of some provinci
,e grocer until be is thoroughly tired of
of what does the reader think is its ultima
of destination-the pate of some street &c
man or Polish Jew s1l &.4s .GHi A'1t
re In obedience to Rabinnical law it is n
70 considered right by some Of the more ec
= scientious Hebrews TO go uncovered. a