The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-14
ooNDiTION JF AFFAIRS IN ALABAMA.

Mr. tFiOM the Chicago Journal
r. savage, formerly Of Delevan, Waworth county
~ioo0sin, who has just returned from Mobile, Ala,
whittier 10 went a. IN agent for the sale Of shingie
has just returned and from him We gather the following
budget Of facts-He it is utterly impossible for
a 10 away from the South nortiward unless he
succeed in getting permit from the Governor of the
State which IL no easy matter Mr. savage succeeded
getting away carter receiving two bullet shots from Off
for refusing 10 bind himself for three years
the rebel army by being on board boat whose
captain felt Interested in him. The passengers on the
but he "sowed away so that they did not discover
him. At Mobile meeting held recently at which
about 1900 present Speeches in favor of
the war we're made by several clustering iawyers Among
them w. Spear, j. H. Taylor, f. Sprague and Kel.
sew wealthy merchant, brother OF j. II. Taylor who
nas war srecc. ON this OCCASION mad been shot dead
behnd his own counter on account Of his unoa senti
ments and nothing done abou. It, At the meeting
above referred TO- hree gray headed men spoke against
The secession movement One Of these ga gentlemen sad
he from IOuisiana--was opposed 20 the movement
from the first He said the South can never Conquer The
North "You fighting your bread out Of your own
MONTHS" he said "you seeing har times already
"a pack Of hot headed lawyers and politicians have
Wen nigh ruined the country, More than half Of the
cotton States cannot lie three months aness they
get provisions from the north. Already bands Of
poor men, OF seTernl hundreds in each party, are
browning about fAe country, taking everything they
lay their hands To prevent and families from
starving, There power stop them have not
got prov enough 10 last me hundred negroes
month and toll where am 70 get more?' The other
two I'D mon spoke with equal eanestness and in similar
stain, and tho audience looked crestfaen after the Old
men spoke, Had such speech been made by Northern
born man. ne would have been sho: the spot Mr.. Sa
says, only few days before he left Mobile he
company Of from six 10 egh, hundred mon, many of
whom he well knew paradng the streets with banner
ON which printed, " Bread Blood |" and they
emptied the bakers shops Of the city and none mofeed
them. Afterwards meeting Of citizens was held the
subject OF providing for the suffering poor The meeting
quarrellcG nearly all night and finally broke up in row
without accomplishing Anything On the boat on which
he came up the river he saw thirty Germans with their
families, from Texas, emigrating northward The
men having no passes compelled to 20 on
shore they then furnished with guns and impressed
into the rebel army. Their families merciessy
scit up the river to shift for themselves best they
could Mr. Savage says the general impression in Mobile
III that they beat the North, bat they say,
1--WE mus. make the best show can and the
North into submission" Others, who OF French
descent OF whom there many, encourage themselves
Nth the belief that France viii come 10 their help Ac.
corling to Mr.. savagts account the condition Of affairs
10 rapidly becoming desperate III those States The ter
ror!sn which has been nauGdrated by the demigogues
who got tho secession movement has unsettled
thing in the way Of business, Neither life property
is safe, and famine is beginning to stalk all the land