Patriotic work of a Georgia lady,
We understand that
Mrs. John R. Stanford, of
Clarksville, Georgia, has presented to the
President a blanket shawl woven by her from wool which she also carded and open.
The shawl is an excellent one--as fine in texture, and as heavy as any made by the most celebrated shawl manufacturers.
Mrs. Stanford has, we learn, furnished shawls of the same description, all the work of her own hands, to an entire company of Georgia volunteers now in service in
Virginia, and she is still employed in making others, with the benevolent purpose of presenting them to soldiers in the field.
As an evidence of our growing independence of foreign looms, and of the generous patriotism for which the ladies of the
Southern so distinguished,
Mrs. Stanford's work is entitled to grateful notice.