Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-05-22
Correspondents Of the Journal.
Letter from the 9th o. v. I.
FoLLr ISLAND, s. O., May 6, 1863.

Letter from the 9th o. ". I.
Folly ISLAND, s. c., May 6, 1863.
FRIEND KErLER.-I had anticipated writing
you for some time, but kept waiting for some
thing interesting to turn up expected to be
able to head my letter "City of Charleston, s.
G." but circumstances have made it so that ]
am obliged 10 write from this miserable Island
of Folly. We left Hilton Head the lst of April,
and landed on Coles Island the Sd; came to this
miserable sand bank the 10Th, and are all here
yet except what the sand flies and mosquitoes
have carried off.
Folly Island is about miles long and from
100 feet to one mile wide; is formed by the sand
drifting from the beach, The Island is pretty
well timbered with pine and pal metto, and
contains one plantation. have just returned
from five days tour on out post at the north
end ofthe Island, joining Light House Inlet, and
have seen the famous Nest Egg of Rebellion and
all its aefenses. The sand banks are very high
at the north end aud from single point could
see Forts Johnson Sumter, Moultrie and all
the Batteries on Morris Island.
Several Charleston papers were sent across the
Inlet or creek, Which is about 500 yards wide at
high tide and only about 200 at low, during my
tour From one, the Mercury of April 30th.
copy the account of an auction sale held on the
29th of April. The articles sold were the car
goes of the Ella, Emma and Anna, the vessels
that had run the blockade about the middle oi
April. The terms of sale were cash, in funds
bankable in the City of Charleston. As the
| art tirla of Ill
merous, only took few of each which are as
| follows:
Horse Shoes, 20 cts. per pound; Pocket Knives,
one blade, $44 per dozen; Do, g blades, $66 per
dozen; fancy Pocket Knives, 3 and blades,
$3.50 per dozen; Gunpowder Tea SO 25, Young
Hyson Tea 81 IS, Congo Tea $5 81 per pound;
Copperas, 81 25 per pound; Sweet Oil, $50 per
dozen pints; Quinine, SOS so per o.; Turkish
Opium, $39 per pound; extract Logwood, SO %
per pound; common Prints, $40 per yard;
Cambria, 50 rs per yard Fancy Ginghams "a
per yard: Bleached Muslin, 50 80 per yard De-
baze SO O5 per yard; Brown Cotton Hose,
Sl3 10 per dozen; Suspenders, $42 per dozen;
Cotton Bandanna Haudkerchiefs, from Sl9 to
$25 so per dozen; Ladies' Kidd Gloves, $sl
per dozen; Hooks and Eyes, 81 so per gross;
solid head pins, SO 25 per pack; Ladies Kid
Heeled Bootees, $40 so per pair; Ladies Cloth
iaIters, $2l SO per pair; Ladies' Kid Caters
1923 so perpair; Misses Buttoned Cloth Caters,
$l2 SO per pair; Gents Congress Caters, 1923 per
pair; Gents Calf Boots, $24 and $36 per pair;
French soft Hats S32 each; Fine Ivory COMBS,
$lS so per dozen. In another column notice
an advertisement of 100 bbls. Savannah Flour
at $44 per bbl., and 10 bbls. of Sweet Virginia
Tobacco at 31S lbs. for 81.
With such prices they cannot hold out much
longer Bread riots will soon be of daily oc-
currence, and their friends across the water have
none to offer. l am pleased to see this thing
come home to them in the shape of starvation
Let their families, their wives and daughters be
taught that there is no hope for them but to
starve, and am sure they will use their infiu-
ence In different direction to what they have
done. l sometimes think the women of the
South are more to blame for this rebellion than
the most hot headed politicians. They are more
rampant and wild upon the Secession doctrine
than the men can be, and in my opinion have
done more 10 bring about the rebellion than any
other one thing, and are deserving of very Sc
we're punishment, even starvation. .1
But am in hopes the war will soon come to
an end, since the President has taken hold of it
in earnest. What pity the CONSUMPTION act
had not been passed the winter before, then the
war would have been ended and we at home
about our business. But better late than never
hope the President will use all the power he
has to bring out the Conscripts, and those that
refuse to fight throw them into prison and keep
them there during the war, and then would
like te see law passed alternating every one of
them, for the man that is too much of a coward
or too much of a traitor to fight for the protec.
ton OF his country has no claims to protection
as citizen OF that country, and should at once
be declared foreigner
have no doubt but there are men in your
county who declare they will resist the draft or
shoot the first man that lays hands on them
Such men should be shot or hung at once, for
they are doing us double the damage that any
man can do who is in the rebel army.
You have another class, who claim to be strong
Union men, but who would like to see the "Abo-
lition whelps hung along with jeff. Davis and
his gang Of thieves" They are for sustaining
the government at all hazards, but they don't
IKE the Emancipation Proclamation, and think
The President is making this too much of an
Abolition war, DC. What pity the President
did not ask some of their advice as to the best
course 10 be pursued. honestly believe the
name Union ia used by some men to cover up
their treason. We must suhjugate the South,
and please their northern sympathisers at the
same time-a thing that is utterly impossible.
l think it would be well enough to attack both
parties at the same time. Don't your @.
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