The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-12
flor the EransUiiIe Journal.
Another South-side View.
NEW ORLEANS, June 4th, 1861.

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from every newsboy you meet in the street; !,
war is the first and last topic discussed in |
every counting-room war is the topic of
discussion in every crowd around the hotels,
or on the corners, since the sensational dis
patches ola skirmish or two in Virginia have
been received, and the solemnity with
which all seem to discuss the subject, makes
it more than usually painfal.
To announce yourself from the Northern
Confederacy in the sitting-room of the no.
tells, is equivalent to being overwhelmed
with questions which las I am not a good
talker) l have found the shortest way to
answer, if not the most satisfactory, to say
l am a spy from the Government Of Abra-
ham the First. My friends have cautioned
me to be more careful in my remarks and
I shall not hazard such an expression again,
for, though jocularly said, it might be mis-
construed. True valor is, or should always
be, discreet.
The trnnns in This State ara under march
/ ing orders for Virginia, and are now NOV
| ing. A part of the forces at Pensacola, I
learn, have been shipped into Virginia, also,
! within FIVE days. The Mississippi and Ten
/ nessee troops are also moving. l am told
that over %, 900 men have been received
| from Tennessee and the Governor says over
! $4,000 more are drilling and asking to be
| accepted. | learned this in Nashville. As
stated in my last, these people imagine they
are fighting for their very liberties, and,
with fearful eyes, wives and mothers bid
their husbands and sons to go and drive the
invaders from our soil but stop then and
return to them. have witnessed such in
I Il
reflections induced.
It is said here that few wives would con-
sent to receive their husbands again to their
affectionate embraces who, if it were neces-
sary, would refuse to take up arms and
march to repel an invasion. I mention
this to show the depth which the feeling has
attained throughout this country. Old men
and young ones are drilling, and some of
the best drilled companies I have ever seen
out of actual service in the army, are boys
of to IL years old in this city, whose
young captains, 2 years old, would, as drill
officers, do credit to themselves in that ca
pacity in the regular army. The volunteers
in the army are drawing the So me wages as
when with their employers, and their pla-
ces reserved for them when they return
q. E. if all men are not bankrupt by that
time) fear this war will ruin the poor,
and place the rich in the same situation
Yet, God forbid it.
have been here at all seasons of the
year, but never saw this city so dull. |
have seen many planters who say that be-
fore their cotton shall go to or through the
Northern States (meaning New England),
they will make bonfire of it a They say
this is the fixed determination il their sec
tions, and so instruct their merchants
There seems to be no bitterness towards
the Northwest a mass. I see Hoosiers
} and Suckers here who have been here for
weeks, with fat-boats of corn unmolested
One of my customers, to-day, paid me what
we supposed to be the amount of his ac-
count having just sold his corn at saving
rates. kinman, of Petersburg is here, hold
ing his corn in store for saving prices, but
, thinks he will close out soon. Where
western men have had to sacrifice Their
produce for opinion sake, here, or on the
, coast am persuaded it has been the result
of rashness on their part. Cotton is still
5 loading for England. The foreign Consul:
here, in body, went down to the Balize,
few days since, to say their vessels must no
, be molested. l believe foreign vessels are
still admitted with their cargoes, if not con
u traband of war. There is great retrench
: ment in expenses here in every possible
: way.
Our Lyons will wear MORE CLOTHES thar
any six cotton brokers have seen. l thinl
q never saw, anywhere in my life. so Ittl,
display in dress among the ladies, as her,
: at this time. Fine dresses and Jewels,
= am told, are discarded, and it seems so from
r all can see During the heat of the day
windows and doors are thrown open and 8
western man will often hide his tyes ayith hi
hands in passing the fashionable residences
lest he see sights il the way of female COS
, tune on the balconies and in the parlors
. | which remind the initiated of the early hour.
of the morning in the west. The loose
o flowing robe (white too) so much admired
i by Moore in his song to Nora Creaner, i:
decidedly the mode here, confined only
aronnd,the neck, ''leaving every charm O
natures mould, to sink or swell as nature
: pleases" This, however, is not the stree
# costume.
! have visited the Cemeteries where The
interments are all above ground in vaults
but find none that will compare in beautYaud
interest to our Northern Cemeteries where
we bury under ground | do not like this
mode. as time and decay must destroy the
vaults, when the remains Of loved ones NAV
be exposed to the gaze Of the curious and
vulgar of future generations. Could ou
people see the Cemetry at Nashville, where
e egery lot is fenced in according to taste as il
e they were determined to be exclusive even
in death, l am persuaded another railing
would never be put up in Oak Hill. 1t ex-
cludes all thought, that rest in such place as
this might somewhat rob even death of his
terrors, that we some times feel at Mt
| Auburn, Green wood or C7t- lliil
Western produce AT good rr.ces bar sell
ing slowly. Flour SII ior SuperGn.; Pork
S25; Bacon IL 20 l6r, Tobacco not selling
at all. For ihp satisfaction Of my u.ier-
writers (as well as some friends win. guar
! anteed my safety or The trip), would sty I
apprehend 10 danger whatever Of my safe
return. J. " II.
: EPISODES OF THE BLOCKADE We heard
D ! yesterday some very agreeable minors
f (telegrapbic) from New Orleans Il vas
t that the saucy little steam privatepr Cal
houn, With a Yankee skipper. has been
playing some ugly tricks with lie {. S.
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