Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-04


How the People Of Gsersia Talk and Feel.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bpnsl writing from Atlantis, Ga, in his tray-
uels through that STATE, stopped at asman
drinking saloon in 1 railway village, where
be asked some Of the habitpss to drink. He
thus describes what foIloWedss % ss.1ia
Accordingly; drams ofwhisky we're served
out 70 them, and proposed 70 them as sn
spprOprists sentiment iiSodth Carolina -
The drink disappeared, Is, indeed, il would
have done no matter what the toast /; but it
was noticeable fact that no enthusiasm pre-
vailed. @fOU come from the South, along2Y
said one. Reply in the affirmative. Chow
do folks feel down there2" Reply that they
seemed in high spiFits.q iiWelf, thatlsmore \
we do here, I reckon. q That 8 SOL Silence
fora moment 5tsTyhst they goin' do fhinl?n
aWelL L think they'll go omit Gloomy
looks INTO empty tpmblers. tsTsll, PH tell
you EhatWelre ngdo-We7Te goin' starve,
that's What Feier goin' do p Chorus by the
wholes fsThatsi sou Then one, the most
respectable IN appearance among them, went
on somewhat thus, addressing himself to his
.compsnions quite as much to the stranger
presents tiNow,s here We. are, ana there's
thousands more In Georgia like US, depend
ing OF what we earn in the day, to feed us
and give US beds at night. When we have
work do we do it, and are glad to get it /;
when We can q get Il what dove do? Why,
We stage, | reckon, Now Pveg got two boys
Hands in the mill at ------i if 'tWarnlt for
them ! shouldn't have nothing 70 eat to
night, nor no bed to sleep onj 'tain't likely
they'll have work TO do much longer and
gether, reckon. fatu't likely wen starve
quietly. and Il should like to know what's
goia, TO be done about it, suggested that
probably the Wealshy citizens would take
some measures to provide work or assistance
Of some sort. Wall, somethin's got to be
done, an done right smart, too; or else
there'lI be worse times here than any Of EN-
ever dreamed Of" Then the speaker branch
ed of into general anathemas upon politicians,
mingled with hopes that South Carolina may
have enongh OF secession before she was done
with it. 7'l4 ''''t 800 --e.-
That is an instance from one rank. Oman
other day quite different sort of man said,
81 have rust sold $40, 600 worth of property
for $40, 600, and now, if was boarding out
| could not raise money enough from week
to week to pay my board" Men who began
to build, or who engaged in any extended
work before the hard times came on, are now
-on the eve Of utter bankruptcy, and are pro-
portionately downeast and irritable Every
thing is at a stand, still, and the shops cape
for the customers who do not enter, though
at almost every door appears the brief en-
treaty wafered on the glass, 'Come 10. All
about the country are to be met gloomy in
dividuals on what they, with savage irony,
call collecting tours. They do not gather
moneY. enough for their daily expenses. It
is difficult to make all these people understand
how their private treasures are to be repien-
ished and their idle hands put to work BY
secession, bringing in its train heavy taxes,
turmoil, trouble perhaps war. They cal on
the ex-Secreiary Of the Treasury TO give them
-sOuce trustworthy light, and they FsesiFe only
rhetoric and swelling oratory, At least that
IS what they say. It must not Be supposed
that their feelings soften ct az to8atd The
Northern people; the truth shows the reverse
Of this; they wax more bitter and ugly when,
ever they speak of the odd Abolitonists,"
the only name the Northerners are known by
in this part of the country, and it really
seems to give them much relief to deT0te a
chosen few by name 10 sanguinary gibbets,
the rest in crowd 10 everlasting condemna-
ton llIIlf. H-i -t ...'.la.