The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-06-20
Effects of the blockade.

6euhouah nHO Ddo Ttslutu Ill MAUI
ison county, Georgia. for a year past, IA
former citizen of Chicago,) places us in
possession of some important facts con-
cerning the effects of the blockade. Hav-
ing beer engaged in mercantile pursuits
there, his opportunities for observing the
sudden and appalling advance in the pri.
ces OF all necessaries ofl life, were abun-
dant. .1- t..
Our informant left Atlanta on Monday,
the Sd inst At that time the price of la
con was 2Oc. per pound at wholesale, and
last rising. The supply comes wholly
from Louisville. Flour, such as sells in
market at So % per bril-, was last quoted
there At so. OF late, however. it has
nearly disappeared from the market.
Coffee was retailing at 4Oc. per pound.
Salt was worth Sc SO per bushel, This
important article rose one dollar in sin
gle dag. Gunpowder was nominally nine
dOl'ars per keg, but our informant was
refused single keg in the Augusta mar
kct at any price. Corn. the article Of
food ior all classes. was quoted at 81 95
to S 45 per bushel. Calico prints. the
products Of those Abolition hot beds o.
Manchester and Providence. had risen
from ;2 TO 13c per yard. But perhaps
the greatest distress arose from lack o
medicines TO arrest the progress of dis.
eases and to secure the sick. Several
| physicians had Joined the army as soldiers
from inability to continue their practice
tie stock of medicines having dwindled
down to few roots and yards" of South.
ern growth. These are few samples o
the alarming rise in the articles of prime
necessity. The whole reliance OF the State
and of the South is upon the aid of En-.
gland and France. Everybody tells eve.
rybody else that those powers are send
ing across the Atlantic prodigious fleets
TO break the blockade, when ofcourse the
land will flow with milk and honey
Some of the wiser ones, Ex. Gov. Foo,e O.
Mississippi, for instance, admit that there
is bare possibility that England auC
France may stay at home and mind thei
own business, in which case, it is conce
dcd, the Confederate States" would b.
at their wits end. Every pound of pro
visions, every article of merchandise tina
goes down from Louisville has TO be pa;C
for in gold and silver and thus the coun
try is being rapidly drained of its specie
Georgia currency is nominally at 10 pc
cent. discount, but the banks will not par
with their coin at all except where it i
imperatively required to procure the ne
cessares Of life, or imperatively demand
ed by jeff. Davis Secretary Of Treasury
The scarcity Of money has in a grca
degree dem oralized the army. The Ney
| Orleans Xouaves who were withdraw
from Pensacola and sent 10 Virginia pas
sed through Montgomery and Atlanta
At the former pla they demanded thei
pay in such mulinous language that tn
citizens became terrified. Their officer
assured them that they would be paid i
, full at Richmond. Some of them &c
clared that if not paid at Richmond, i'm
mediately on their arrival, they woul
4 burn the town The majority, howeye
would not be pui off any longer with prom
: ises. They would not bulge an inc
from Montgomery until they should r,
celve their arresi sges in full, in unmisl'
. kabe specie. They thus carried The
point and got their money, Before the
moved on, six Of them were shot by ci
izens of Montgomery for breaking int
u their houses. The lame of these Zouavt
u eclipses that Of Billy Wilson's regimen
SO great was the terror inspired by plul
deripg and ruflianism. that the citizer
of Atlanta would not allow their train
stop in the town. The Home Guards an
citizens generally formed OH each side
II the railroad track and told the engine,
9 to 60 ahead Oh pain ofinstant death, II
. train accordingly sped through town at IL
8 rate oi flteeu miles an hour. Tbs Zol
aves on the other hand, declared lh
they were only fighting for bread, an
. bread they would have. ~
Our informant adds that hope Of takin
Fort Pickens has been abandoned, an
that the soldiers now declared they neyt
!, intended 10 take it unlessit could be dor
i' by. btibing the sentinels--a planin whic
!. thsy had great confidence at one tim
= The "poor birelings" on Santa Rose !
&c and would ofcoursc do anything lor pa.
\ Lalterly this idea has fallen into disr
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