The New York herald., 1862-12-14
Rebel Newspaper Accounts. .
THE SUFFERING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

Prom the Raleigh St1ndard Nov. "a
We publish below extracts from letters from
rIous parts Of the state showing the condition our
people with respect 70 supplies for the ensuing
s the part Of wisdom TO let the truth be known crisis
like the present. especially when II ouehes not only the
comfort but the lives OF our people That Governor
Vance and the Legislature VIII all in their power 10 re-.
lieve the wants OF those who suffering and TO pro-
vide especially for the families Of our soldiers, enter
tain no doubt.
see every body appears ~ be after the specuatore
but the you ab1se them the they get There
Is likely to be great mania for speculation now
there was for whskey making ten months ago But how
II 10 10 be checked s more than the wisest have been
able 70 tell i generally confined 70 wide mouth Sc.
antiwar would not be tolerated in speculation
doubt very much whether newspapers and lectures on
the subject have not greatly aggravated the evil You
have driven the conscientious and reasonable men out OF
the market IL and left the whole fold Of specua-
whose conscisncss Win hardly ever 70 racsed ~
article IN the newspapers. Ny impression
is that had he papers and everybody else encouraged IT,
tho better class Of traders would by compel ion and
supply, have kept everything at much lower pricps
than the dcnuRoaory policy heretofore practiced By cd
chat he has itching do anything forbidden him by
God And again the condten and excess OF the
currency has had good deal 70 do with ~ but the worst
Of all s the scarcity You can have but very little dea
how our people are pressed to live even comfortably
The ground frozen here, and w. you would call bitter
cod-perhaps cold az you have II 10 Raleigh
Nearly an people have less to DO out OF
doors-men, women and children. Not onehdH Of them
ss Sss a roe, s" a G I p a,1 @'J s s h., not 10, o'd y
kno,c ho,o hey are 20 ea Mem They are nearly
all scarce OF wearing clothes. Cotton and wool
are pretty hard 10 get but the worst is cotton
and wool cards scarcely be had at all the old ones
being about out We uouid be pdd % do son,thin0
fy or fd,aihisg soldiers; but how can we when wo
have more suffering at our doors than we Gao
possibly reevey Then we getting scarce Of
almost every article Of necessity, from needle 10
scytbe blade Not fe,o cut Of knips, forks spooss
plates, dishes I'm cups ana co6ee pots Then we may
turn 10 edibles. Take out very few familios ana
there is not oe oaand Of son 20 every whVe inhaoi,ni IN
he county. We got from Wilmington some weeks ago
what we call government salt and divided IL out one
pound every white person n family but did pot get
quite around 90 all. That cost us fourteen cents per
pound. We haze Me frcmiN Of salt from Salt
p,Ile, Va, bm cannot oct hauled a hundrod and
forty on ffty miief-dreodfvJ bad roads ana no
food 20 be had man can scarcely travel on horse.
back gentleman told me the other day he travelled
forty miles without grain for his horses He SAYS he
offered one dollar f ten Of corn, and could not oa
T yet we must haveit, or perish for Of IT, Very
few OF us have bah hogs enough 70 make our meat Tor
next yearI would say not half much 10 the country m
we ought 70 eat-nor can spare the corn 70 fatep
vhas We hsyN Numbers u people hsys nps pps no &