Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-01
Beautiful state of Society at the south.

Beautiful State Of Society Mt the South.
The continued fight Of temporary resi-
dents, and in many instances of those who
have long resided in the South, gives a strfk.
ing picture of the state Of society at che
South. The columns of a paper might be
filled every day with the narratives of such
persons as have been driven from thai sec
ton, The Worcester (Mass.) Spy has the
following; q
Mr.. J.. @. Howard, formerly employed in
this city, but for six years past a resident of
Montgomery, Ala, where he was doing bust
ness as a jeweler, has been Obliged to leave
that place and his business, and sacrifice his
property, to escape being forced into the
service Of the Southern rebellion. He left
Montgomery April 80, having been on that
day visited by a COMMITTEES, who gave him
only two hours to prepare for leaving the
place, with his family, a wife and two small
children, and no time or opportunity to look
after bis property. He lost all, including
household furniture and other personal
effects. sU-r.t I
Everything there is in a state of the ut.
most confusion, a perfect reign Of terror pre-
yailing. A vigilance committee followed
him as far as Chattanooga. April 20, the
day before Mr.. Howard left Montgomery,
Jefferson Davis, with General Besuregard
(the latter having Just arrived there from
Charlestonl came into his store. Mr.. How
ard cut the first seal for the "Confederate
States" and afterward, six others, fer the
various departments. He got $25 apiece for
them, but this did not secure him against tina
menaces of the vigilance committee, nor
save him from being banished and plum
dered.
The Providence Journal makes this state
ment: z
A gentleman has just arrived here from
Alabama, where he has been in business for
the last seven years. Not a few Northern
men who have been residing in Alabama are
in the Southern army. They Joined the
Home Guard for the defense Of their own
neighborhood, and when the Guard was
called into active service and ordered away
they had to 60. Our informant foresaw that
he would in all probability be Obliged to en-
ter the Southern army before long, aud pre-
ferred to choose his side, if he must fight, He
intends to enlist here.
He thinks that the movements Of the
Tennesseeans have been mostly TO the
northwest of Nashville to some point below
Cairo. He says that the stories about q
large cannon foundery in Nashville are alto
gether exaggerated. he knows the founder
well, and was at his shop last Friday. He
had psrtly finished two six. Founders, but
his prospects of success were not very
brilliant. A Northern man named Romans
is making per~cussion-eaps at Nashville.
Our friend knows him, and saw him last
week. He was thinking Of leaving Nash
vile, a few weeks ago, but was induced to
s~tay-doubtless by very substantial persua-
sioDs. Our informant saw no signs of Seces-
sion feeling in Kentucky.
He was amazed, on reaching Indiana, to
see the military demonstrations The people
in his county know little of the feeling at
the North. A great many of them can not
read. But he is convinced that these South
ern troops will fight desperately. They
always boast that one of them is equal to
five Of US. The whisky, which they drink
with no conscientious scruples as to guam
tity, and not a great deal as to quality, does
not diminish their ideas Of their own power
and valor. 500
A letter in the Greenfield Gdzetts, from a
young man on board a vessel at Savannah,
says:
There is great excitement South; | fear
more than most men at the North imagine.
1t was the avowed intention Of Southern
men to take the Capital at Washington, sub.
due the AbOlitionists, and tcut old Abegs
throat" When we left it was 10 be done In
ten days. Do not think they will find It as
easily done as said. ! tell you, the South is
making great preparations for the war, and
mo mistake Soldiers are parading the
streets night and day, and they will accom-
plish something if the North do not rise and
do their duty. They call all men who voted
the Republican ticket Abolitionists,- aud
would like to see their throats cut. But I
think they will laugh out Of the other corner
Of the mouth by-and by.