St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
Our Other Arm of Strength.

II any man wishes TO gain an ade
quate impression Of the advantage
gained by our Government over the
rebels, he has simply to turn from the
military display on land and cast his
eye upon our force at sea. 1t is not
much we hear from the floating maya.
zines, but along the sweep of the At
Iantic coast their dark hulls are seen
silently closing port here and there,
or chasing rebel privateers or prizes
into the CULTS and bays they still fire..
quent. While comparatively little
notice has been taken of their work
from them the seeded States have re-
ceivcd the greatest injury, and the
iron grasp of authority has, through
them, crushed the hopes of treason as
a man might crush moth.
lst. Southern Commerce is destrovsd.
Literally they can neither export nor
import, and their ships lie rotting at
the wharves.
I'd. PrOr1s:0us are enormously high.
The luxuries of life are out of tue
question just now, dainty lips are ca
! ger for fare never touched before, and
coarse as it is, it is precious as gold
Bacon quoted here at ! % 9 9cents y ib.
Is there 20 cents coffee 40 cents T.
tb salt 81 80 e bushel -four $40
q bbl.; corn 81 40 = bushel. All
these are fast running out with no
prospect of supplies.
I'd lIyDru JS ppIytvr cr1rro fI'Ja ,ro
visions purchased of Kentucky have
to be paid for i'll specie and there is
no commerce to rcplenish the purse.
The Banks will not part with what
they have except under the most ex-
travagant inducements, or the imper-
atlve demands Of the modern moss
troopers.
4th. Property Of all descriptions is
dcPreaoted. This is especially true of
negro property" One third of his
value six months ago cannot now be
had for an ablc-bodied slave. He
must be fed and clothed nevertheless,
high as food and clothing are, and SO
marked is the suffering from this
source, that q proposition to send
thousands Of these cncumbranccs Off
to work on Texan railroads, the mas
tcrs TO be paid in land, is favorably
listened to-
9th. The Troops are fast becoming dis
sat1Stied. They have neither pay nor
provisions according to agreement,
and where the gold is to come from is
more than Davis knows. The Chica-
i,'o""o mas '"c 'o..o"'hS Ill reia-
ton TO TINS state OF affairs &:
1.-THE scarcity of money has in a great dc
cree drmomlizea the army The New Orleans
nmI sct cn WI" ~ yiro Were T,'"n ] from LehSIco"
gumcry and AtalantI. At the former 'I', mace
they demanded their pay in such mutinous
MnEnaEe that the citizen" became terrified. |.
m ,,I IN f,I ,t9 ~ tnr 'ht h|y should
declared that ii not paij at Ecbm"mJ VI imronI ,|o
diatcly on their arrival, they would burn the
town. HE majority: however, would not be
t p"t T, T,, 9 O,'-Ii M'', tn p,"H1SeS lhey would
they should receive their amcaIagrs in full HIN in
un,uistakable specie They thus carried their
point and got their money. Before they
III S 1i, "lA o ,Hgni Were Snot ny il'1gh' ]
Thr fme Of thcs, Z"naves ',,J rcIirsc. % thst ' "r
Billy Wilson's regiment. So great was the
terror inspired by their plundering and rutfian-
I, lIi'l snat inc sli.1ei'S %l Ataant' would not
Home Guard and citizens prprroy t o 'VE" formed nn
each side of the railroad track. and told the