Newbern weekly progress., 1862-05-31
Secession Rags.
PIrrsDrRG, Tenn, April "a, '62.

PITrsDrRG, Tenn, April "a, '62.
s9 saTd r Hssx as %s4s 5oi Isr! TS7s=
esting lot, bel, mostly citizens from herca-
bouts, who has ,lraYeS within the lines They
informed me, however, that the rebel cavalry
are engages here, as elsewhere, in burning all
the cotton they can lay their hands on. They
ride about the country Ike a desola,ng tenn
pest, burning and destroying al movable prop
srty that they cannst carry away. 1t is atrib.
ute which has sometimes Ethnughtisssly
rendered to SeceSh, under the influence ofsomo
casiona displays Of high neral worth, that
they won't steal what they cannot lay their
hands on hereafter, III. rare instances Of gen
crosby will be OF those who won't bura what
they ant steal. Ii is almost lGdicreus to see
he Southern CoGftderacy basiHg their bonds
On cotton, aud then destroying all the cotton
hsy have or are likely 10 have for sone time
10 comt. It's difficult th,ng to realize from
newspaper reports the truth Of such van lal-
Ism /; but when yen see men who have actually
seen their nsighbors' cotton burned, ami been
obliged to serre,c their own TO keep it, the fact
comes home with s'artiing dstinCtnesk Ar
other Inc dent lorcibly reminded my OF the er.at
straits 70 which the SecessioaiSts are reduced.
asked il they had any Southrra shnI listers,
and one an, a Methodist minss;er, pulled OFT
of his ockel the most ,ioriprn assortment OF
"tsadskins" lever beheId in my lie. TLerp
we're several Ave ssd ten dollar bills OH tbs
State cf Tennessee, all of issus since the war
c. n,menccd, and printed on common white pa
per in the poorest style Of art There we're
bills, or rather advertisements, Of lower de-
II 'nlnation, from every conceivable part Of ihs
southern ConIedsracy. What should yos think
Of u statement, printed in ordinary type, oil
} cheap thin paper, that Ryan SCo, proprietors
of rum she, in New Orleans, called the ST.
Charles Rcstaui ant would furnish tho bearer
1 with fifty cents woFth of feeding on demand,
passing ~ manry away up ia fsnDssEes, fvC
hundred miles away from The place of rsdemP
ton \ highly o5lgAg and suphonius frin
. ycl,pt Ksmbtr Gunp, also engaged 10 pay
I lhe bearer twenty i've cents in goods or M r
: clandise, on similar ticket, udsA prerdnttd u
sums o. ire dollars. Probably not half o
those v nhn have taken this money ~ sec th'
point Of the joke invested hge cents in
: promise Of the Memphis and Charleston rail
rund to pay ten cents IN freight or passage {,
lhs hsarsr. Nothing haS impressed me -
iorcbly with the desperate Ssiits To whc ih
South Is reduced AS seeing all these prisoner
:. With their pockets crammcd with this stuff
d went through tao "Stunprail war in Illinois
J. AID though that was bad enough, when coql
& ory cigar snl two dollar bill iorone dolla
d but wis.rat banks nsy now hids their dnil
4. shed heads. For rags, commend INC to N
Southern Con.sdursoy. l. lot t'lis bcAut
d iul illustration OF the fitness OF thin = : SIM
ls Cotton is Ging, what mere SpprJfiiats found
T. ton sJud Tin, throne have than rags Sece'
h j. rapidly Progressing toNAFls the ubso'n
y undiiy Of ggpuiuo baibarism. Rags, aud Po'
ones at that arc all that hide thslr nHkrdneI
H. ., s- fktss.