Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
TERMS OF ADvERTIsING,

,issnn ones aho haii the rates Of ordinary sdvsr
Terrible Condition Of Affairs in Ala.
DDama-, ,Dissatisfaction Among the
confederate Forces--- Union Men
Hunted Down with Dogs in Missis.
sippi. " '''
tffom The Cincinnati Gazette, June I'll
An old gentleman named John r. Farrier,
just one week from his residence. thirty miles
from Mobile, Alabama, on the Biebee riv.
er, called upon US yesterday for the pttrrJose
OF relating some facts in regard to the present
condition OF affairs in that state. Mr.. Far
rier is a member of the Baptist church. and
has been protesting Christian for over
twenty. years. Aside from this. his erav
hairs, honest face and earnest manner ara
sufhclent guaranty Of the truth of his state.
ments, In presenting which we desire to state
that we attach perhaps less Importance TO
anonymous statements than is Renerally
done, but those falling from this Old mans
hps, carried with them the irresistible weight
Of truth itself e'
UT. Farrier was raised near Big Earle
briddge, Scott county, KY, and emierated to
Alabama over thirty-six years ago. where be
has raised family whom he left on his farm
upon coming hther. He is in independent
circumstances, yet his crops of corn cotton,
tobacco, &c, have always been raised by
white labor, he holding slavery to be a curse.
For this belief, and his practical adherence
70 1t, he has been prosecuted in divers WAYS
lot length of time, but with determined
Will and steadiness of purpose he has sue
ceeded, even In his unpopular course, to
kind "A' u A"'
The old gentleman states that in Mobile,
which Is swarming with soldiers, the greatest
ekelIenePt exc @lan prJlaniy Rsegpils. and thH ""
The EXTREMIST hate rankles in every breast
toward the North, which with brageart air
the chivalry feel confident they can easily
whip. As Mr. I. left Mobile. the soldiers
had received orders from JEFF. Davis to be in
readiness for an attack on Fl. Pickens on
the 4th of July, after which, in the event of
success, it is their avowed intention to push
for Washington. This, of course, is given
as the belief entertained in Mobile. Disor-
der and noise are the chief characteristics of
the Confederate forces, so far as seen by our
informant.
He says that the condition of the Door
whites and great majority of the blacks,
is terrible. Both are starving The soldiers,
notwithstanding their hatred of the North,
begin to chafe under the Southern rule. and
in many instances they have demanded their
pay at the muzzle of the revolver. As
general thing they are poorly proyisioned
and very badly cared for. but extrayapantly
''promise-crammed." Their desire Is To-
ravish the North, and booty and beauty"
their motto.
A Confederate officer told Mr.. F. on the
cars at Mobile, that fully six hundred SOL
diers are now on the sick list in Fort Morgan.
atMobile Point, and he believed that unless
something was done to improve its hygienic
condition, fully thousand would be taken
down during the week The whole country
is in arms up to the Kentucky line. and JEFF.
Davis spies hired at $40 per month, are lib
orally distributed all over. One was on his
way to Louisville with Mr.. +. and it was his
intention to visit Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and
other Eastern points to New York, and to
return home through Virginia.
As Mr. Farrier passed through Mississip
pi, the utmost CONSERVATION and terror pre-
vailed among the Union people. Ifa man
dared to declare Union opinion or senti.
ment, it was the signal for his summary
death. Numerous instances of this kind
occur daily, as we have heard from other
sources: 1t Is q common practice to hunt
do'en onion men scifh dogs and kali them az
such, at present: in lower Mississippi.
Rev. Mr.. Mobler, Baptist minister, was
driven out of his parish there, few days
before our informant left and pursued BY
dogs, and only escaped being torn to piece.
by flying, to the swamps. This barbarity,
unprecedented in Christian annals, is pop1.
larry regarded in Secessa as capital sport
we might dwell on particulars, as given
by MIR. Farrier, of the almost innunerable
instances of the cruelty and barbarity inflict-
| ed upon Union men in the South, but lack
of space, and the cheering consolation which
we feel happy to impart to their sym PATH.
zers at the North, that their slight Affections
which are but for moment, are working out
for them far more exceeding and greater
weight of glory Thous ands of slavehold.
ers, to say nothing of the thousands of poor
whites, are thirsting for the gled hour when
the mighty arm of this glorious Government
shall be stretched out to their aid... Thei,
constant hope and prayer is that the timc
OF their deliverance may speedily come.
| The forced loans, Frustrated business, un
certain condition of the present. and NOR,
uncertain future, alike admonish the think.
! ing people at the South of the utter folly Of
the revolutionary vortex into which they
have been unwillingly drawn by the unseru.
pulous leaders of this rebellion. The happi,
ness and prosperity of the past. under the
benign and too gentle rule Of this Christian
Government, offers such pleasing and en-.
yiable contrast to that promised by a success
ful issue of secession, rule, that all those ou
of whose souls the dead weight Of human
slavery has not crushed every lingering senss
ofiustice, grow ''thought-sick" at the pros
pect, and shrink from its bare contcmpla
tion. - tt-.'f o.. ca'.I :