Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-25
From the New York Leader.
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Private Ad=ices frcm CharIestOn---Dissar-
isfaetiOn of the Military.

Private Ad=ices frcm CharIcstOn---Dissar-
isfactiOn of the Military.
We yesterday saw a friend who had just
come up from Charleston, and whose report
OF the condition of things there differs widely
from the versions most popular il the Repub-
lican press. he says that food is thus far
both cheap and plentiful in Charleston, for
those who have money to buy it; but that
industry has been almost abandoned, and
that every second or third store is closed
with a notice on the shutters that the propri-
etor is gone to Europe or to the North.
He states further, that tn, Germans, Irish
and Northern men in the Charleston militia,
largely out-number the native Palmett ans,
and the former exhibit but little enthusiasm .
in the course they find themselves embarked
on. One day, while three hundred of these
militia men were on parade, the Colonel
formed them into single line, and asked those
who wished to volunteer into the regular
army of South Carolina to step three PAGES
forward. On this, ffty-eight men advanced,
6fty-two of these being South Carolinians,
two Irishmen and four Germans. At seeing
so poor result where he had expected unan-
imous acceptance, the Colonel became highly
incensed, riding between the men who had
stepped forward and those who remained in
their places, shaking his sword in the faces of
the latter, and threatening to have them all
drafted by conscription into the regular
line before they were four-and-twenty hours
older" He also threatened that when he
had them SO drafted, he would punish them
for their recusancy on tLis occaslon-his ex-
act words being, am treat you worse than
the soldiers are treated in the army Of the
United States"
Our Informant also tells US that all the
planters within twenty-five or thirty miles of
the city are obliged to lend half their male
slaves for periods Of six days at a time, TO
work on the earth batteries now in process of
completion at Point Morris, and other points
along the ship channel. Ex-Governor Aiken,
| he tells Us, has been obliged to send more
than two hundred and fifty black laborers,
and to contribute largely to the support Of his
own and other negroes on the works this
/ being the penalty exacted OF him for having
opposed secession in its earlier stages. He
| is held as man suspected of not being sound
on the goose, one of the most unpardona-
bic crimes in the eyes of the parties now in
power.
We further learn that two of the COM
! phnlE9 eAdblOuGu db OtlohAG AuCAAAN bAiN
Meagher Guards and the Montgomery Cadets,
both mainly composed of young Irishmen-
complain terribly of the wretched supplies
sent to them by the Commissarint Depart
ment, their allowance while on duty being
three biscuits day and two gills Of whisky
If they wanted meat they were ordered to
buy it for themselves, but could not do ST al
such a distance from the city. Once dral ted
into the regular army of the Palmetto State
as these men have been, they would become
liable as deserlers should they now attempt
to escape. Most of them felt no desire tC
volunteer, but were persuaded to do so by
their employers, who threatened to dismiss
them if they refused. Terrible stories wer
also in circulation at Charleston, of the dis
tress, misery and rioting at the North, anC
especially IN the City of New York-the OBJ
iect doubtless being to deter the Irish ant
German laborers from seeking to get out 0
the State