The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-04-01
OBLINGER l. CHAPLIN
Terrible Condition of the Poor in
Louisiana.


Louisiana.
The New Orleans Era of March 18th
publishes II narrative of rebel barbarity III
the parish of It. Tammamy, Louisiana, which
II ore than confirms all previous statements
of the suffering among the people OF the
South, and the tyranny of the Confederate
rule. The FRA derives its information
from refugee who with his wife and two
children. one of whom he carried in his
arms, by long and weary marches succeeded
in reaching Peal river, and thence escaped
10y u canoe to the seacoast, and so reached
New Orleans. We quote:
THE WAY TrIh PEOPLE LIVE.
"Thc people OF st. Tammany have been
living from hand to mouth for about year
The Conscription law has driven all the
males to scel. refuge in the woods, while
their poor women and children are left at
home on the very verge of~starvaton.
Rebel officers scour the country continually
with boodhounds. enter houses without
ceremony search every nook and corner,
and if the terrified women protest against
/ their rudcuess they are kicked out of their
own houses and cUarscly assailed ard
! cursed hy these brutal miniunS of left Davis
"'rhc people subsist entirely on cracked
| corn which is parched and eaten dry for
/ bread, and soaked in hot water for coffee
/ Occasionally they get hold OF little fresh
meat; but as there is not a particle of salt
to he had short of dollar spoonful, this
meat cannot bc kept, and is very unpalata
/ hlr without salt.
EEFU-lNu CONFEDERATE MONEY.
! "lm this stronghold of the Contrderacy
| the notes issued 10y that so.called Govlrn
j / l;,,,
/ ton the rich men to pay their debts to the
/ poor. The latter cannot use this money
/ for anything One dealer in all sorts o
. little nutions refused to give FIVE cents
worth of tobacco for a ten dollar bill say,
| ing the whole bill was not worth five cents
/ The whole country is bare of salt sugar mo
lasses -four, butter, vegetahles--in fact
| everything except cracked corn.
BURNT BEEF"
There being no salt, the rowing bands OF
guerrillaS and other armed parties, whose
+ chict business seems 10 be To move about
from place to place in search OF conScripts
/ and chickens, are compelled to resort tC
/ burning beet to cure it. This is done il
/ this way: The fresh meat is cut into thin
slices and pi, ed ON hot Goals, where it re
mains until II quite burnt. 1t is thel
/ packed IN knapS.,y,s, and carried with then
ON their marches When the stock is ex
haustcd they levy on another animal
/ wherever one is to bv found. This food
with corn coarsely ground AMI uusitted, i,
said to be what the rebel soldiers mostly
subSiSt on,
. rUE FAMILIES Of VOLUNTEERS AND CuNSCRIPrS
These are represented rs being eutirel,
destitute, They 90 wandering about iron
one plantation to another, begging from
the lordly eNemptS little cornmeal t
keep soul and body together, They Ar,
frequently rudeiy driven away withou
assistance, being told that il is wrong Il
encourage begging. For few months
sort of bounty was paid these unfortunate
people but that has been discontinued, an,
now they are left entirely destitute
The women and children are aImos
without clothes. Cotton cards cannot b.
had atauy price. While the women ha,
these they mado cotton yarn, which the,
spun into coarse cloth, which Wuswers,
very WE'LL That sCource OF supply, lik
almost everything else, has been cut of
These poor, hungry, hali-clothed women an,
childron, having been deprived OF thci
natural protectors by the mexurable con
script,ou law, now wander about from plIc
20 place, subject to all the iecls and insult
of the rich, who ne known 10 entortai
great contempt for poor white trash