The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-07-11
Report of a Refugee from the South.
From tie Cincinnati Gazette I

An old gentleman, named John 4
Farrier, just one week from bis residence
thirty miles from Mobile, Alabama, Of
the Bigbee River, called upon us, yester
day, for the purpose of relating som
facts in regard to tho present condition
of affairs in that State. MIR. Farrier is
member of the Baptist Church, and ha
been protesting Christian for over twen
ty years. Aside from this, his gray
hairs, honest face and earnest manner
are sufficient guarantee OF the truth Of BIZ
statements, in presenting which We de
sire to state that We attach perhaps les
importance to anonymous statement.
than is generally done, but those falling
from this old mans lips carried with
them the irresistible weight of truth it
self
Mr.. Farrier was raised near Big Eagle
Bridge, Scott county. KY, and emigrated
to Alabama over thirty-six years ago
where he has raised family, whom be
left on his farm upon coming thither.-
He is in independent circumstances, yet
his crops of corn, cotton, tobacco, &c.,
have always been raised by white labor.
be holding slavery to be curse. For
this belief, and bis practical adherence
to it, he has been prosecuted in divers
ways for length of time, but with dc.
termined will and steadiness of purpose,
be has succeeded, even in bis unpopular
course, to place himself beyond pecuniary
want of any kind.
The old gentleman states that in Mo-
bile. which is swarming with soldiers, the
greatest excitement prevails, and the very
dir is turgid with profanity.
The EXTREMIST hate rankles in every
breast toward the North, which. with a
braggart air. the chivalry feel confident
they can easily whip. As Mr.. Farrier
left Mobile the soldiers had received or
ders from Jeff. Davis to be in readiness
for an attack on Fort Pickeus on the
Fourth Of July, after which, in the event
Of success. it is their avowed intention to
push for Washington. This, of course. is
given as the belief entertained in Mobile.
Disorder and noise are the chief charac.
teristics of the Confederate forces SO far
as seen by our Informant.
He says that the condition Of the poor
whites, and great majority of the blacks,
is terrible. Both are starving. The SOL
diers, notwithstanding their hatred of the
North, begin to chafe under the Southern
rule, and in many instances they have de-
manded their pay at the muzzle of the
revovers. AS general thing they are
poorly provisioned and very badly cared
for, but extrayagantly "promise cram.
med"
A Confederate officer told Mr.. F., 90
the cars at Mobile, that fully six hundred
soldiers are now on the list in Fort Nor
gan, at Mobile Point, and he believed
that unless something was done TO i'm.
prove its hyglenic condition, fully thou
sand would be taken down during the
week. The whole country is in arms up
to the Kentucky line, and JEFF. Davis
spies, at $40 per month, are literally
distributed all over. One was on bis
way to Louisville with Mr.. F., and it was
his intention to visit Cincinnati, Pitts
burgb, and other eastern points to New
York, and to rerurn home through Fir.
ginia.
AS Mr. Ferricr passed through Missis
sippi, the utmost CONSERVATION and ter
ror prevailed among the Union people,
If a man dared to declare Union opin
ion or sentiment, it was the signal for bis
sum mary death. Numerous instances of
this kind occur daily, as We have heard
from other sources. 1t is a common
practice to hunt down Union men with
dogs, and kill them as such, at present in
lower Mississippi.
Rev. Mr.. Mobler, Baptist Minister,
was driven out Of bis parish there, few
days before our inform ant left, and pur-
sued by dogs, and only escaped being
torn to pieces By flying to the swamps.-
This barbarity, unprecedented in Chris
tion annals, is popularity regarded in Sc
cessia as capital sport.
Thousands of Shareholders, to say moth
iug Of the thousands of poor whites, are
tbirstipg for the glad hour when the
mighty arm of this glorious Government
shall be stretched out to their aid
Their constant hope and prayer is that
the time of their deliVerance may specdi-
ly coue.