Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-28
FROM THE SOUTH.

The Charleston Courier publishes letter
from Richmond, written on the 14th inst,
from which we make the following extract -
"rhere is great deal OF sickness in our army.
1t is said that at Charlottesville and Culpepper
there are over 5000 under the care of physi-
clans. great many have been brought
sick to the city, and at Norfolk and Yorktown
there is more disease, according to the num-
bers, even than about us. The measles has
swept and is sweeping through every dlVi'
sion of the army, and the exposure to winch
the men are subjected in thelr tent lie, makes
ii in its sequences formidable disease Then
this is our fall season. and the diseases mel
dent to the climate at this period prevail to
some extent, but in my Judgment, the cause
Of all this sickness lies further back than tins;
il is to be found in detective and imperfect
system OF hygiene"
r.. W. Barnwell Jr., of South Carolina
writes from Charlottesville, Virginia, August
l2ih, to the president OF the 1ouhg men
Christian Association OF Charleston :-'Our
weekly report which will appear in day or
so in the christian papers, Will show how great
is the necessity for hospital supplies, and let
me say to you what / cannot in the papers
they are not half enough 10 meet the demand.
The restitution of our army i'll clothing and
food is terrible; many applications are made to us
by CeH men who wish to escape sickness by an
extra pair of drawers, or socks, or undershirt
a package of arrowroot or jar of pickles, 1t
will require every nerve to be strained by you
at home and ourselves here to meet the ext
gences of the TALL and winter. should the war
last so long"
The Richmond Examiner has the following
hint at family quarrel in the rebel congress:
"The Confederate congress deliberates with
closed doors, and no well advised person could
wish their sessions to be the a ena of ora:orlcal
gladiators and the spectacle OF the populace.
But general statements OF the temper and
intentions of parliamentary bodies will, despite
of every caution, find their way before the
public, and generally contain more or less
of truth. 1t is now currently believed, with
much distress by judicious men, that there rs a
small minority Of congress disposed to organise a
standing opposition TO the present erecutice Of the
COntederdcy."
The Mobile News says 1.-THE secretary
of the (contederate) treasury, under special
condition, is authorized to issue not exceeding
100000 900 in treasury notes. The act also
provides for tax of fifty cents on every hun
dred dollars worth of real estate, slaves, mer'
chandise, bank and other stock, money at in
teresl excepting confederate bonds). 1t also
taxes at the same late, cash on haud cattle,
gold watches, gold and silver plate, pianos,
pleasure-carrages, &c. Any family whose
alton. Colleges, schools, and charitable insti-
tutions, also exempt. Said notes ARE to be
funded in bonds running for twenty years, at
eight per cent interest"
The Augusta (Ga) Sentinel and Chronicle,
explaining why the southern army is not in
possession of Washington says, among other
things 1.-THE sickness from wounds and oth-
erwise, in our Virginia army, is absolutely
frightful, and the insufiiciency and inefficiency
of tie medical department more frighttul still.
Only think of our noble boys suffering twenty
four hours after battle without being seen, and
then attended perhaps by men unfit Tor their
office, and four days elapsing before the de-
partment at Richmond sent any lint or ban
dages to Manassas, when an abundance ought
to have been there month before the battle.
They [Beauregard and johnson have done
all they could, bnt they have wanted food,
transportation and medical supplies, and
! properly regulated medical staff. The killed
at Manassas are far better off than the wound
ed, and even than many who were not
wounded"