Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-07

Five Attemps ut Negro Insurrection
In GeOrgia-Seven Slaves Burned to
Death-The Bread Riots s-Women
Shot, and Children Dying of Hum
ger-The Counter Rebellion in the
South.
On Friday evening, a gentleman ar
rived at Philadelphia who has recently
travelled in many parts of the Southern
Confederacy In his tour, he passed
through considerable portion of Geor-
gia, North Carolina, and Eastern VTr-
ginia. Less than eight days ago he was
in Richmond. He passed through rebel
dom incog, which is necessary to be pre-
served. No less than FIVE attempts
at negro insurrection have been
made in Georgia since the month of July
last. AS terror to the slaves, some
were shot, others hung, and seven or
eight were burned, one of the latter pe-
ing pregnant female.
Many children have died from want of
the common necessaries of life. Old
and infrm men and women have also
departed this life, their deaths having
been hastened by the want of proper
nourishment
In Richmond, Virginia, women to the
number of five hundred or more, ap-
peared in the streets demanding bread or
blood. One house filed with stores for
the rebel army, was broken open, and
the women succeeded in obtaining some
provisions to sustain life a little longer.
The people of Richmond are in des-
perate condition. There are but few of
the wealthy class remaining. Many of
them had reached Wilmington, North
Carolina, and, running the blockade,
are now out of harms way, in Europe.
Considerable numbers of Union pris-
oners are daily starving to death; many
who yet cling to life are hopelessly, ,imbe-
cile. Massachusetts, soldiers are perse-
cuted, but all of them appear to have
died game to the last
During the second bread riot three
women were shot, one of whom died
from her wounds. In her last moments
she upheld little cross-the emblem of
her christianity, worn next to her heart
and taking therefrom a diminutive
American flag made of silk, wrapped it
on the outside of the cross, and kissed
it, when her hand fell upon her breast.
She was dead.
About the middle of October steamer
from Nassau ran the blockade, and
reached Wilmington, North Carolina.
The people seized the vessel and appro-
priated the cargo, or most of it, to their
own use. In this the women took the
lead General Whiting ordered out the
Home Guards, as the soldiers there are
called, but they refused to fire on the
women, even when ordered out to do so.
About tvonty OF hit railes From ~
bern, N. c., our informant saw an ema-
ciated mother digging little grave, in
which she buried an infant nearly two
years old. Her despair was truly heart
rending. Her husband and son were
conscripted into the rebel army. She
believed her son was killed at the battle
of Malvern Hill He belonged to the
North Carolina 7th, which, she says, was
composed of nearly all boys, some of
them not over fourteen years old. She
had understood her husband had escaped
North Our informant was touched by
the grave scene. He gave the woman
some Confederate scrip, and made little
head-board for the grave, on which he
drew the following:
Sacred to the memory of Sallie John
son, aged q months.
The mother could not read He ex-
planned what he had placed on the little
board; she expressed great gratitude
and burst into flood of tears. She no
doubt thought he was rebel soldier.
He further says that counter rebel
lion is not far distant, when the leaders
of the Southern Confederacy, if they do
not escape the country, will be made to
bite the dust-PhiLGdelphiG Press.