Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-04-02
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THE POOR
IN LOUISIANA

which is about the present debt"
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THE POOR
IN LOUISIANA.
The New Orleans Era Of the 18th
instant publishes narrative Of rebel
barbarity in the parish Of st. Tammany,
Louisiana, which more than confirms
I'll previous statements OF the suffering
among the people Of the South and the
tyrrsny Of the Confederate rule. The
Era derives its information from refu-
gee, who with his wife and two chill
dren, one of whom he carried in bis
arms, by long and weary marches sue
ceeded in reaching Pearl river, and
thence escaped by canoe to the sea-
coast, and SO reached New Orleans
We quote:
TIE WAY THE PEOPLE LIVE.
"The people Of st. Tammany have
been living from hand to mouth for
about q year. The Conseription law
has driven all the males to seek refuge
in the woods, while their poor women
and children are left at home on the
very verge Of starvation. Rebel Off
GERS scou, the country continually with
bloodhounds, enter houses without GER
emony, search every nook and corner,
and If the terrified women protest
against their rudeDess, they are kicked
out of their own houses and coarsely
sssailed and cursed by these brutal
minions of JEFF. Davis.
1.-THE 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 particle Of salt to be had short
OF dollar a spoonful, this meat cannot
be kept, and is very anpalatable without
salt.
REFUSING CONFEDERATE MONEY.
"In this stronghold OF the Confede-
raey the notes issued by that so-called
Government are not current, excep
as a medium for the rich men to pay
their debts to the poor. The latter can
not use this money for anything. One
dealer in al sorts Of little notions re-
fused to give Eve cents worth OF TO-
bacco for ten dollar bill, saying the
whole bill was not worth FIVE cents
The whole country is bare Of salt, su-
gar, molasses, -four, butter, vegetables
jim fact, everything except cracked
corn.
''BURNT BEEF."
"There being no salt, the rowing
bands of guerrillas and other armed
parties, whose chief business seems to
be to move about from place to place in
search of conscripts and chickens, are
compelled to resort to burning beef to
cure il. This is done in this way
The fresh meat is cut into thin slices
and placed on hot Goals, where it re-
mains until it is quite burnt. It's then
pseked in knapsacks, and carried with
them Or their marches. When the
stock is exhausted they levy on anoth.
er animal, wherever one is TO be found.
This food, with corn closely ground
and unsifted. is said to be what the
rebel soldiers subsist on.
THE FAMILIES OF VOLUNTEERS AMP CON
"Tbese are represented as being en-
tirely destitute. They go wandering
about from one plantation to another,
begging from the lordly exempts lit
tie cornmeal to keep soul and body to-
gether. They are frequently rudely driv-
en- away without assistance, being told
that il is wrong to encourage begging.
For few months sort OF bounty was
paid these unfortunate people, but that
has been discontinued. and now they
are left entirely destitute.
DESTITUTE OF CLOTHING.
"Fhe women and children are almost
without clothes. Cotton cards cannot
, be had at any price. While the women
bad these they made Gotten yarn, which
they spun into coarse cloth, which an
swered very we'll. That source of sup
ply, like almost everything else, has
been cut of. These poor hungry half.
clothed women and children, having
been deprived of their natural protectors
by the inexorable eonscription law, now
wander about from place to place, sub.
ject to all the jeers and insults of
the rich, who are known to entertain
great contempt for poor white trash.'"
@A few days ago, two large