Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-29
Prom the Cincinnati Commercial.
Information from the south.


Information from the South.
We had an interview Yesterday with an |
observant and intelligent mechanic, who
has spent several years in the interior cities |
of Georgia and Alabama, and has Just |
made his escape from that part of the |
country. We do not propose to give his |
name, or the locality in Dixie from which |
he took his departure, or to state the means |
employed to get across the military:lines of |
rebellion, for to do so would involve some
of his friends in difficulty. He is we'll |
known to gentlemen residing in Ohio. |
with whom we are acquainted, and we have
no doubt as to his truthfulness. His story
Is not sensational, but he communicated
some facts worth telling the public. He
had situation that as times go in the cot
ton States nowadays, was a good one,
but bis sympathies were not with the re-.
bellion, and he was tired of laboring for
six dollars per day in Confederate mo-
ney, and paying five dollars per day for
board. he has suffered no personal
injury at the hands of the rebels, and
brings no tales of cruelties perpetrated
by them. He has had good point of OBJ
servalionr of the public men and public
business of the rebellion, and seeing a
great many things, has had very little to
say of any thing, and has forgotten moth
ing. He bears strong testimony as to the
unity and desperate resolution of the reb-
els. There is hardly asymptom of a party
OF Reconstructions (of the Uniou,) In the
South. They all declare themselves fight
ing for "Southern independence" and
mean TO fight for it to the last There is
nothing that fres them with indignation
more quickly than suggestions of an ar
mlstIee or treaty, on any other basis than
the unconditional recognition of the South
eru Confederacy. They have no disrosi-
ton to cooperate with the Democratic
party but look upon that party in its lat
ter day Developments, simply as an element
mat VIII strengthen them in their struggle
tor independence, and enable them to con-
summate the dissolution of the Union.
The Southern armies, our informant he.
lieVes, are larger than is thought in the
North. He asserts his knowledge that
thlrty-thousand men exclusive of Breckiu-
ridges Division, have passed through At
lanta to join General jos Johnston in Mis-.
ssissiPPi:: Breokinridge's Division was de
tached from Bragg's army, and passed
through Atlanta on the way TO Jackson
but they were halted before they reached
the Mississippi line, and sent back! He saw
breckenridge as he went out and as he re-
turned. On the 1st aud I'd of June his
troops were passing through Atlanta, 90.
ing back to Bragg, or to East TENNESSEE
He saw them at the time. He has often
seen breckenridge, and reports that he
looks much as he did two years ago,
Inougn ne now shows many gray hairs =
The capacity of the railroads to carr
troops to Mississippi was equal to the
transportation of 5000 troops per dav,
which is three times as great as the esfi'
mate made by Mr.. Colburn, of the New
York World, and published all over the
country. ~
Tue roads and running stock are mucb
worn, but still serVicable, and tbey bava
the great advantage of common puspe
High rates of speed are not tolerated ov-
ing to the increased wear and tear the
danger from defective rails, and the noIicv
OF making the roads last as long as possi.
BILE. The railroad communication between
Bragg and johnson is by way of Chatauoo.
60, Atlanta, West Point, Montgomery.
oelmS ana Jackson, great circuit. The
gun tnat the rebels claimed sunk the Keo-
Nak' IN the attack upon Charleston, was a
nine-lnch rife, of British manufacture and
called the Brooke gun. After the Charles
ton affair twas sent to Vioksbure. where
tits probably the "whistling Dickn of
which the besiegers OF Yicksbnrp write
Early iu the summer, a large humber of
very heavy guns, made at Richmond and
imported from England, were sent to Woke
burg. Several Of'these fell into our hands
at Haine's Bluff, and were hastily de-.
stroyed by Commodore Porter. The reb.
els have recently received from EpqIan5
several beautiful field batteries. in Thicb
they take much pride.
There is not as much sickness in the reh-
81 army this summer as there was lsst Int
the private soldiers are EXCESSIVELY nm
cleanly, being, as general thing, lousv
Such is the extent of this pecuIiaritv. thai
the cars in which they ride become infes,-
ed with yermin. The wheat crop in +be
South Is good, and, In Georgia and AIaS
bAma, has been harvested. Tho rich NOR
and their sons, in the South, keen ont of
tue army, unless they go in as officers nv
buying substitutes, and are making noonsE
such as 1t is. The war is terribly hard ~
the poor whites. The conservation Lo.
relentlessly swept them into the rsnks
In districts chiefly inhabited by them +b.,.
Is much distress, there not being men
enough to put in crop, or to harvest 1T
Hence, IN some quarters, scarcity of fond
In tue regions where there are many sIavas
agricultural labor is uninterrupted. so ,ba
slayeholders eau raise aud eatber tba;s
crops, and live we'll, while the families ~
men not owning slaves, and being ahsaDt
IN the army, are driven to the extremit;as
OF want 1t is, in the South, emphaticsiIv
the rich mans war, and the poor mans
6ght. t''' man s
From the Point Pleasant Reet,,.rI