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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the South and West. (search)
of Robert Chisholm, Esq. This is Sherman's respect for private houses where he has been generously and hospitably entertained. Miscellaneous. The planters of the Southwest are responding nobly to the call of Gen. Beauregard for bells. On many of the sugar and cotton plantations there are bells weighing from fifty to five hundred pounds, used for calling the people together. These and all other sizes that can be spared are being rapidly sent forward. The gun factory at Holly Springs, Miss., is now turning out forty good muskets per day. It will soon be able to turn out 100 per day for the Government. Muskets are the best weapon for three- fourths of the army. It shoots strong, jar and accurate, and seldom gets out of order. Passengers from New Orleans and Mobile report the citizens of the Southwest as turning out with great enthusiasm, and arming themselves with pikes and all sorts of weapons. The Tuscumbia Constitution has been shown samples of lead are tak