The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-03


agine the " sitIation" among such
mass of not over Clearly humanity,
sweating, tuning and sweltering. Sir
John Fallstaf's sufferings "when in the
Merry Wives of Windsor he was slowed
away BIZ Mrs. Page in the buck basket
amongst "greasy smocks, frocks, aud
dirty napkins, was nothing to what we
endured The prisoners having become,
while at our camps, accustomed to Sc
we're discipline, behaved remarkably well
on all the boats, and what, with plenty of
good, fat bacon, and other grub, and the
delusive hope of obtaining at least thirty
days furlough when they should get down
into Dixie, were in very good humor,
Notwithstanding tie crowded condition
of the boats. Delusive hope say? Yes,
for the first greeting from their friends
on shore connected with the business of
exchange was: Well, boys, you will be
organized at once and reported to Gen.
Tighlman, at jackson, for service. A
great many of them are tired of the war,
but did not take the oath when they had
chance Had they done SO they, of
course, would have exiled themselves
from their homes, which, however, they
will not be permitted to visit even now.
The Vicksburg Wing Of the 18th inst,
contains an order subiecting eUe1y one
between the ages of Is and IS, to con-
scription Employers in the Quarter
masters, commissary or hospital depart
ments, resigned officers, discharged sol
diers and all citizens Of states in part or
in whole, in possession of the enemy, are
commanded to report for enrolment inn
mediately The same paper contains
the following advertisement
"A substitute can be had for the war
for $1,000. Address J. Collins, Gar
landsville, Jasper Co., Mississippi.
The day upon which the paper was
published was by appointment of jeff Da-
Wis a day of prayer, for successes gained
in the east The rebels boast of having
strengthened their shore batteries at
Vicksburg so that they are unapproacha-
bic by water They would BOT let US go
below the point, and we consequently
saw nothing of the town.
The canal, as dug by Gen. Williams,
will hardly be of any profit to u.s. The
upper mouth or head of it is too high up
in the bend, close up under point
where there is an eddy Further down in
the bend, when the water is thrown hard
in against the bank; the point of the
bar opposite would certainly have been
the proper place. The canal now looks
like a little ditch, its bottom 80 or 40
feet above the surface of the water.
When it was completed, the water then
being still high enough, am told stern
! wheel boats tried to throw water into 1t
with their wheels, but the natural draft
was not there.
Vicksburg is well supplied with ice,
but everything else is scarce and dear.
| Flour $50 per barrel, bacon 70 cts per
pound, coffee 81, whisky from $40 to $50
per gallon, shoes and boots from So to
$25 per pair. People along the shore
everywhere are entirely destitute of the
most essential necessaries, such as salt,
| -four, coffee, bacon, &c A few miles be-
| low the mouth of White River, in Arkan-
sas, we wooded at old man Alexander's s.
We told him as we were under flag of
truce, we would pay him for his wood, he
said: Oh your pay; 1 have got
slathers of money; but what good does it
do me. Give me something to eat; if
Hindman did hang a man down near Ma
poleon, for buying barrel of hour for
you Yankees, | am going to risk it, as
have nothing but corn and water mel
Ions. We therefore snapped him coffee,
bacon, -four and salt for his wood, and
before the sun had sank below the hori-
zon, the old man was quite mellow, and
| ltftlo oft ,,l- ,1rra ba
long deprived tangle-foot to which the
boys treated him to make set speech,
in which he took real Kentucky armed
neutrality and non-intervention ground,
and swore against Seward, Hale, Sum-
ner, and jeff Davis-said that the Dem
ocratic party had ruined this country,
and that Henry Clay was the best man
that ever lived; and that in his opinion
Clay was even little ahead of Jesus
| Christ.
The previous evening at a wood-pile
in Shirttail Bend, where the owner had
deserted his place, number of us went
out some half mile, to gather muscatine
grapes, which grow there in great alum
dance. Scarcely had we commenced
gathering, being surrounded by thick
underbrush, when bang, bang, went some
guns close to us in the brush, and pres
emily whole volly, then you ought to
have seen us scamper One of the
guards dropped himself out Of tree
some thirty feet high, like ripe peach,
picked himself up and followed the bal
alec of us to the river. Upon arriving
on the bank, we found that the command
ing officer had sent out company Of his
men to FIRE and score the boys back to
the river, in which some succeed com
pletely
am sorry to say that we violated our
flag Of truce, and it caused us all some
apprehension Ny boat and the Adriatic
were partly laden with forage for the
army at Helena, and we should therefore
not have hoisted the white flag until af-
ter discharging said forage; and more
over l do not consider that we were
in the enemy's country until after leav
ing Helena, but instead we received or
ders from flag officer Davis, when near
/ New Madrid, to raise the white flag, and
did SO. The rebels also accused us Of
having taken on board one or two runa-
way negroes. At the head of Milleken's
bend, opposite Islands l0l and lO2, on
the Louisiana shore, we had seen bat
terry coming down, and were apprehen-
sive returning, they would fire into me
and the other boat at least. Our boilers
were unprotected, and consequently in