The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-30
IND MONDAY MORNING,

~ W. HCA OuIl Sl AZ Sudrl6SIOD
the -halt-pound loaf is retailed at twenty
five centsl At Montgomery, Alabama,
bacon is quoted at from Is cents to 81
per pound, and -four at from $50 to S65
per barrel
" The Atalanta Mtellgencer saws a
commission merchant in that city few
days since sold eleven barrels of whisky
for S, 900, being more than S70O per
| barrel.
" The hucksters demand So 25 per
pound for good butter in Richmoud."
The Atlanta, (Georgia) Contederacy,
of March 6, says:
a poor country woman can't get
bunch of threat for less than ten dollars.
(lhink of thatl two dollars a pound;
and cotton at the highest, not more than
eighteen to twenty cents a poundD and
it sells at eight dollars and half per
bunch by the bale"
The same paper speaking of impress
ments of food by the rebel Government,
says:
The farmers bacon, corn, shucks,
fodder, pork-hogs, and beeyes ares
The Kfcnmond EramineT, 81 the Tfftff,
says the people twill take effectual neas-
ures to prevent the Government from OBJ
taing what they prowl through the coun-
try to seize for a mockery of payment"
The following description of the con-
dition of affairs discovered by our troops
at Fernandina, Florida, which was re-
Gently occupied, correspondent Of the
New York World writes to that paper:
Every few male inhabitants were
found in the town, every body capable of
bearing arms being conscripted into the
rebel army. The women and children
proved to be in wretched state of des-
titution, their clothes mostly in rags, and
corn, eked cut by pretty plentiful sup
ply of rice. When it was known that the
Yankees had returned to Jacksonville,
and that the town was surrounded with
negro pickets, several ladies came on
board the Boston, and, of course, were
we'll received by the Captain and officers.
One of the ladies in qnestinn proved to
be the daughter of Governor Floyd, and
her condition was type of the rest.
Her husband, an officer in the Confeder-
ate army, had returned home on sick
leave; he must hare been horrifed at the
state in achich he found his tomily, for
the uRirersaI deStitatiOn aodS such as
Rerer before aoas seen IN this once happy
country The lady and her compaH-
ions, ,oho ,rere inrited to the table Of the
Boston, declared they could eat nothing
lchiJe their taDtiteS aoeTe almost starring
at home; and an examination of the
houses, which but few months ago
were the abode of plenty and wealth,
proved that the statement was in no
sense exaggerated. Beautiful little chill
dren crawled in rags about the rooms,
and the only larder seemed to be a box
of uncooked rice from which they vainly
endeavored to allay their hunger. Eve
rything else eatable had been carried off
by the rebel soldiery, or, to call them by
the name which they really merit, guer-
rillas, whose solitary occupation in Flor
ida seems to. be stealing hogs and poul-
try, and carrying off every able-bodied
male to swell the ranks of the army. A
farmer had just managed to effect his
escape into our lines at Fernandina. He
told our troops there that, few weeks
previous, he possessed thriving farm
near Jacksonville, but band of guerril-
las at nighttime stole half his hogs and
seriously diminished the number of his
chickens. A few days elapsed and a
second body of marauders came round
and seized the remainder, giving him in
exchange an order for the value of the
animals upon the departmental quarter.
master His troubles were only COM
mencing When it was found that he
had nothing else to lose, Confederate
officer charged with edforcing the con-
scription act, coolly informed him that
his place was in the ranks of the army,
and knowing full well that the opinion
would be followed up by coercive meas
ures, he lost no time in taking to his heels
and reaching Fernandina under cover oil
the woods"
NORTHERN CONSERVATISM DO NOT APPEAF
; TO BE FAvoRITEs OF THE "CHIvALRY."
Between the two classes of our NOR.
tai foemen at the North there is little tc
chose One is commercial and the other
crazy If the latter are more cruel anC
devilish in their 10th, the former are more
persistent and systematic in action.
''If we were called upon to say which
is the worse man, Wendell Phillips, who
is the the embodiment of Massachusetts
ianaticism, Edward Everett, who repre-
sents it's conservatism, or Caleb Cush-
, ing, its politician, we should find no diff
ficulty in a reply. We hare infniteL,
more respect for We1tdeH Phillips, On
f any other honest fanatic, than eithe,
Of The Others. The fanatic. has princi
: pleS-Such as they ore-a0hile the com
| mercial class has nc. O.principle phateue,
but selfshness. If it is opposed to abo-
litionism, it is because the success OF
[ abolitionism would be fatal to the trade
: Could conservatism be convinced thai
freeing the slaves would increase the
production of cotton, it would be con
verted in an hour into the very genius
of universal emancipation. We dread
Z and detest such an enemy as this more
2 than honest abolitionism. We despise
Z and execrate Edward Everett and Calel
1 Gushing more than Phillips or Garrison
No man of honor could take Everett OF
e Gushing by the hand-the latter espe
: cially. If there be negro in the Soutl
as degraded as Gushing, lie ought in
stantly to be freed and sent to Massa
0 chusetts."
e The Mobile Tribune publishes com
r munication about Vallandigha s "grea
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