The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-06-16
HILLsDALE, MICH, TUESDAY, JUNE Is, 1868.


ed interest. Morning aud evening. for the
days, we passed a regiment of infantry en-
|, camped at the termini. About six thousan,
in all may have passed. These were The rein
foreemenis for Vicksburg which have sine
been collected by Joe Johnson north of Jack
son. They hailed from Savannah and Edisc,
Inlet. On the train we noticed large rilet
English siege piece. On the nth we passed
: Gen. johnson and staff at Montgomery.
The impression prevails with some that th,
railroads 10 the South are all Of one guage
and that the rolling stock taken below is al
available throughout the length and bredll
OF the Confederacy. This is not the case; q
break Of gauge occurs between West Point
and Montgomery. Changes arc inevitable
between the latter place and Selma, hundred
and fifty miles, which is performed by boats
on the Alabama River Another break OF
five miles occurs at the Tonbigbee below
Deuopolis. Atlanta is a large railroad GEN.
tre, Toward this point Colonel Streight was
marching when he was arrested by Forrest !;
and the alarm which it caused through the
Central section shows how much danger the
rebsls have to appreheud from these raida.
The country through which We passed is
not thickly settled. The towns, when we
core to them, are quite neat. The vegeta.
ton luxurious, the pine, magnolia and other
tropical vegetation icing common. There
viii be no positive starvation in the South 30
long as they have 80 much corn, but there
will be shortness of many things painful to
bear. .g,a~.r,.r -
- he following schedule Of prices tells the
story of The blockade on The one hand and the
state OF financial bankruptcy on the other:
Board in Vicksburg, $40 pc, day; Rich.
mond, $40; cheapest, 800 a month. Sugar.
retail, $l,75; -four, $35 per bbl.; rice 2oc:
moIasses, Sl2; eggs Sc; Rio coffee, $5; slioes,
common army, s25; hats, $,5; dried apples,
SOC; bacon, 81 60 per lb.
THE FEELINGS OF THE PEOPLE.
L have been asked many times as TO wbeth.
er there be any "Union sentiment at the |
south. 1t Is only the truth 10 say that |
great MAORI of the higher class Of The peo.
pie OF the South are unanimous in their be. |
lief In the virtue, wisdom, and Justice of their
cause. They profess to be eve in Southern |
" independence" Southern wealth, aud even.
,ual prosperity and greatness. There may be
U"ion sentiment " at the South, but il has,
ns like other sentiments, very little expression.
The South has all the unison il needs to carry
90 the war. In a military sense the South
Is united.
iot there are Union men and Union women
% the South. They are confined to no sec.
Ion, but abound most in the region described
n circuit of perhaps hundred and 6ty
niles around Atlanta. Northern Alabama.
Northern Georgia, East Tennessee, and West.
I'm Virginia contain them;. Richmond itself
ioes IN numbers. We have discovered the
'est evidences of il in many instances. When
ravellnng along the route and the proprietors
eating houses secretly thrust back our
money lnto our hands; when men come up
md shake us warmly by the hand and intreat
IS to represent TO the North tie need of pres. ,
ing on; when they send US boqaets aod 9th.
Z friendly assuraLces, We feel in special {
ense the profoundness Of this sentiment.-- {
'nt our experience is tame beside that of IL @
,alant officers and men Of the Indanola and 8
he " raiders" f" under Col. Straight. These
'eople had boquets, with money concealed in
hem, thrown TO them; the tars had plugs f ,
ooScco offerings of food, and other subs,an. /
ials !