The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-10-03
Interesting "reminiscences
Riehna end Under the Come deracy.


When four years of wear and tear hay
exhausted ladys wardrobe with no good
iu the country except a few, running at Ion
It intervals the blockade, and at prices too ex
!. lhorbitant, what can woman do Who ha
the wish, the iaudible WISH to look wei
: through everything, without the materia
> for its fulfillInent Well, take two dresse
}. of different material and coIor--one minus
a skirt, the other body-insert quartz
OF a yard of one into the skirt of the other
= make puffings Of the lighter color at tn,
top OF the sleeves, and Of the darker form
l. the tight fitting part, and notice the effect
j This we did, and though mingled and mot
: tied, it was srill picturesque
y Wonen's bonnets will wear out and a,
: hats were much more easily got, hats be
, came the style. Every woman learnt t.
plait straw, and TO make her own hat, which
che decked with rich plume from some
old stock, or with a guinea fowls bright
: wing
! Shoes we learned to manufacture and
every rag bag was brought into requisition
to furnish thick popln pieces for lasting
Stockings we knit; gloves we made-ir
] which art myself became so expert that
could easily get thirty dollars for each pair
could furnish the merchants.
Crlnollue was harder to substitute; but
We got all right there, for the old steel
bands We could cover with strips of cotton
cloth, and re-shape and hang together with
cord Nothing was lost.
The greatest tax upon US was the cloth
ing for the servants, which was sometimes
supplied by cutting up couuterpanes and
blankets Shoes with wooden soles were
found to answer.
Invention was the order of the dav. and
Confederate buildings and pastries, with
sorghum moasses personatlng white sugar,
were pronounced delicious
Coffee made from everything under the
sun, from acorns to rye, gave zest to trade
and emulation to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dealt in
4 pure coffee mixed with rye
Rye coffee is good substitute when war
and blockade shut out every available re-
source. l have made and drank it on
cold winter evening, clear and strong, when
| enjoyed it with relish, and thanked God
for it,
1t was curious sight in those DAYS to
look into drug store, and in place of the
usual parsphernalia of bottles, to see a sec
ond hand bridal dress of white satin, stretch
cd at foil length in the show case, with a
label bearing, "For sale, $4,000" In the
windows Of extensive auction houses, whose
business had been brisk in other DAVIS
dresses DOW hung, mingled with all articles
OF lady's second hand wardrobe | depos-
tied Dress white counterpart and one
hundred and iifty old novels in one of these
houses for sale
| Books were in great demand, aud an in
teresting novel would sell for from SI2 To
$26
knew lovely young woman, married
for six months only, who received a letter
from her husband lin the trenches telling
her that he would be at home on certain
day to stay twenty -four hours She got I'D
little gala for him, and each neiphbor
furnished from some boarded store a few
grains of real coffee; one sent her a sugar
dish Of real sugar. She fixed the little par
lor; had everything arranged; the sugar os
tentatiously displayed in the silver sugar
bowl, when 10! in her hand was placed
letter, saying, "iow grieved l am, cannot
tell you, but Mr.. Moore's head was struck
off yesterday as be raised himself from be-
hind the trenches to reconnoitre
Winter found ME many time without
J coal; the canal had been cut and the locks
I destroyed; therefore it could not be brought,
as the Danvilie railroad was also DESTROYED,
the trains not having run for two weeks.
Once had lain in bed all day to keep warm,
Judy had exhausted her ingenuity in devils
ing some mode of obtaining fuel; she had
burned the last box and barrel and was
fairly nonplussed | got up and dressed
myself as expeditiously as my cold fingers
could dispatch tape and buttons, deternin.
ing to go to the coal yard myself It was
long way, and met many disconsolate
women who begged me to return, as my err
rand would prove fruitess; but persevered
and at last, on reaching the office of Mr..
Burke, looked sppealingly at him and asked
for coal
Haven't any; have refused FIVE hundred
people.
sat down, fororn. Upon raising my
eyes found that he was looking At me,
upon which took heart to say: ''Do YOU
not think that little fine coal might posi-
bly, be scraped up, just to keep me from
Ifreezing-oply that?'
His quick reply was, 81 had saved half
load you can have it.
| felt like crying, but | didn't l paid
him ninety dollars, and in an hours time
was crying IN my faithful Judy arms, in
gratitude to cheerful blaze; but tears soon
turued to smiles at her queer mode of com
forting. Good Lord, missis while Won
was freezing you didn't cry; now you is
warm you let your tears run. For de Lord S
sake, hold up your head; thar's somebodies
is at de door begging to get dere hands
warm" So | admitted the tenants--only
too glad to extend the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lending them half bushel of coal apiece.
| frequently went to the legislative halls;
and was sometimes pleased, and sometimes
disguised.
heard Ex-Governor Wise lecture one
night-just month, think, before the ca.
pitulation. The crowd was dense to snffo-
cation. His eloquence chained my mind,
riveted my ears and cheered my heart, for
he, with all his native power, inornate and
lcopious language, pronounced emphaticaIIy,
that our day of delivery was at hand.
Starvation seemed to ensue as winter
waned into spring. Meat was SO scarce as
to be rarity to epicurians. Flour brought
from two to TIRES Thousand dollars.
Oae morning in March went to market,
and as | was slowly saunteriDg towards the
oyster stalls espied chicken, which al
most deafened me with it's lusty growing.
asked of the black man who was standing
by:
"Uncle, what do you ask for your chick
lens ~
'Ah, missus, dat rooster ak one hun
bred and fifty dollars for"
Elbow old is he, uncle ?''
81 carnt say, zactly, but it pears to me
that coming this summer he will be in his
six year"
''And you still ask so large a sum for
him? Why, be will be as tough as leath-
err"
'Yawl yaw! Desc Confedrit times peo-
pie don't stand on tough,' said be.
i General Grant has Endorsed General Sic
zles' application to the President for a court
of inquiry to investigate his official acts
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