The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-30
Southern News 80 Condition Of the
States in Rebellion.

The Richmond Examiner of March Is,
speaking of jeff. Davis fast day (to-mor-
ROW., says:
1t acOuld no1c seen, probable that the
Presidents proclamation for day Of
fasting and prayer might haze been ap-
prOpriately dated little earlier. On
the 9th Of March an appendix may be
necessary for humiliation oUer a defeat,
or thanksgiving over victory"
The Examiner of the 18th also says
they have, from all their armies, "grati-
flying accounts Of their condition, but
"The only point upon which there is
room for apprehension is, that our forces
may be forced by rant Of food for men
and horses to relinquish the strongholds
from which the enemy could never dis
lodge them, and that this is a grave and
pressing danger we have many reasons
for believing.
at is fact well known to the enemy,
as to ourselves, that all the country an
the UiUinity Of our armies has long been
stripped of its provisions and forage,
and that these armies depend for their
existence and maintenance Of their pres
ent positions upon the railroads"
And further:
/" The railroads Of this State are on
the point Of giring out They have de-
creased their speed to ten miles an hour
as a maximum rate, and are carrying
twenty-five to fifty per cent less tonnage
than formerly. This change in their
rate of speed and quantity of freight has
1oo, rooJo Tho
work of the roads has rotted and the ma
chinery has worn out, and owing to the
stringent enforcement of the conscrip-
ton law as to railroad employees, the
companies have not been able, with all
their efforts, to supply either the one or
the other We are not informed of the
actual condition of the railroads in the
more southern States, but conceive that
they are little better off than our own,
except, perhaps, in the matter of negro
labor The slaves along their routes
may not have had the same facilities for
escaping to the enemy as in this State. u
The Jackson (Miss.) Appeal says:
From all accounts that reach US, we
are led to the conclusion that ere a great
while Gen. Bragg will be forced either to
engage Rosecrans in battle, or fall back
upon Chattanooga. The country would
deplore the necessity which may force
him to the adoption of the latter alterna-
tive. 1t is all-important that we con-
tinUe to hold Middle Tennessee and
North Alabama. otherDise tre shall find
ousetres IN Strengthened circumstances
for army Supplies another gear hence
1.-The Federals are devastating the
country as they advance, rendering it
impossible for the farmers to raise crop
this season; and to blot out Middle Ten
nessee, Kentucky, North Alabama, and
North Mississippi from the producing
sections of the Confederacy would be
more seriously felt than the loss of Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, or Vicks
burg. II acould prooe tong step IN thc
direction Of oar SuIJugation by starUa
ton"
The Richmond correspondent of the
Mobile Advertiser, writing February D
says:
"Liquor is sold openly in the city now
ard is productive of vast amount oil
crime. At every bar hangs a paper
upon which is printed, Blockade, seven
| l1-HNe CeuJS u oiidlt ldSS 1ul
is measured out for one BLOCKADE
The number OF dens where the vilest o
apple-brandy is sold is astonishing.
have heard of no repeal of the Liquor
Law, and presume the police, by tacit
consent, have slackened their vigilance
Drunken men are daily seen in the
streets, many of them dressed in the uni
form of Confederate officers; and The
Mayors Court shows a sad record Of the
increased number of whisky shops The
new Richmond theater is infested will
drunken officers"
The Richmond Whig publishes th'
following, from farmer in Nelson coun
ty, Virginia, dated March 10:
All impressment systems, the worlC
round, now and heretofore, amount Il
little more than the plundering of tn,
agriculturist, for the benefit of all othe
classes, and it must be so in all time, a
they are ordained to he the "hewers o
wood and drawers of water" for man
kind! Yet, to crush them right away
to cut open the goose for the egg, is c,t
bono! The consumers, Government AM
others, may, in their might, take what
! have now for nothing, but id if the
can make me make more-rip as the
may. NJ.
; A local item in the Richmond Whi
says hot coffee is sold in the restaurant