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NOTICE.
The undersigned begs leave to inform the Citizens of Selma and
vicinity
that he has established a Niter Manufactory in the Suburbs.
West of the
City, for Government purpose. He respectfully requests the
Ladies and
Heads of Families to reserve for him all their Chamber-Lye.
Wagons
with barrels will proceeds around the streets, each morning, to
gather up
the same.
Signed: JOHN HARROLSON.
The above is extracted from the advertising columns of the SELMA
(Ala.) SENTINEL.
The following Ditty was composed by a Rebel Officer and Prisoner
of War on Johnson's Island: Air: John Anderson, my Jo.
John Harrolson! John Harrolson!
You are a funny creature!
You have given to this Cruel War
A new and useful feature!..
You let us know while every man
Is bound to be a fighter,
The ladies, bless them, should be put
To making lots of Nitre.
John Harrolson! John Harrolson!
Where did you get the notion
Os sending barrels 'round the street
To gather up THAT lotion!
I thought the women did enough
In sewing shirts and kissing..
But you would put the lovely dears
To patriotic pissing
John Harrolson! John Harrolson!
Can't you suggest a neater
And cleaner method for our folks
To make up their saltpeter?
Indeed the thing is very odd,
Gunpowder-like and cranky
That: when a woman lifts her shirt,
She shoots a Horrid Yankee!....
H. De Mapsan, Publisher
54 Chatham Street, New York
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