Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-19


b, Carolina -An inside vIeNvInto the
condition OF tho People therG-DlHs
closures of actual and prospective
The Raleigh IN. c.l Standard of Nov.
gath. good rebel authority publishes sew
eral letters from persona living in various
parts Of that State, giving descriptions of
the actual and prospective destitutiOn Of
the people. We clip Two of these letters
as specimens. Que writer from Trapsyl-
yauia county, says: ~ t,.ss stsJ ~.
'.You eau have but very little idea how
our people are pressed TO live even com
fortably. The ground is frozen here. and
is, youawouIdi call il, bitter cold-perhaps
as cold as you have ever seen it iu R4.
leigh, Nearly all cur people have more
or less work TO, do out OF doors-inen., Wo-
men and children. Not 0us-half of them
have the sign of a shoe TO their feet; not
one-thiri have shoes that will keep their
feet dry, nor do / know how they are to
get them, They are nearly all scarce of
wearing clothes. Cotton and wool are
pretty hard to get; but the worst is, cotton
and wool cards can scarcely be had at nil.
the old ones being worn ont, We
would be glad to do something for
our furnishing soldiers, but how can
we when we have more suffering at our
doors than we can possibly relieve? Then
we are getting scarce ofnlmOst every article
of necessity, from a needle 80 a seylhe
blade. Not q few are out of knives, forks,
spoons, plates, dishes, tin cups, aud IeOffee
pots. Then We may turn to edibles, Take
out few. families, aud there il. not one
pound of salt to every white male inhabi-
tant in the county. We got from Whining.
aIroa hat 'rnn
ment salt, aud divided it ont, one pound
to every white person in family, but did
not get quite around to all. That cost us
fourteen, cents per pound, We have the
promise.of salt from SaltSille, Va, but can
not get Ii hauled hundred and forty or
,ffty niles-dreadfutb bad roads and no food
10 be had. A man can scarcely travel on
horseback. A gentleman told mo the other
day he travelled forty miles without grain
| for his horses. He says he offered one
dollar for ten ears of corn, but could pot
get il yet We must have it, or perish for
want of It. Very few of Us have half
hogs enough to make our meat for next
year-I would say NOT half as much in the
country as we ought to eat--noT canSwe
snare the corn to fatten what we have.
Numbers of people have not pgt,qP a
| hog yet, and say they will not unless they
have some surety of getting salt. They
| think they had better keep the corn aud
depend on bread and milk than 10 lose both
corn aud pork for the lack Of salt Ny
opinion is that numbers must perish before
another crop is made, unless We can alarm
the people in time to- take better care OF
what they have than they have ever done
before. III the people ara alarmed in time
they can winter on half the grain gen orally
used. am satisfied there was nothihg
like half as much grain raised here this
wear as there was last, yet we scarcely, bad
enough to do us.sI see you are talking
about cotton and tobacco crops next year.
/ we raise neither here But il this war is
TO last oyer another crop season. say to
next Jaue, with all the eonseFipts in thea ar
| my, our support must come from some
where else. We will not make itshere.-
i Our rulers understand faising an .sarmy
lbetter than feedipe and - clothing
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