Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-01-02

Easo, !, of the RehsIlion in North Carolina
From he Raleigh STANDARD, IRE bell Nov.
"A.
A friend W.T. ting from TrAusylSA mia county,
says:
81 see evervbo,. y appears to be after the
snecDIators bnt tn. more you abuse them the
worse thew get The rssis likely to be as great
a mania for sDeculation new as there was for
! vbisI,v-n,aI,;ny ten mont, u ago. But how it
| ia to he checked il more n an the wisest hHVe
been able TO tell. II is ee,. Tally confined ta1
wide mouth Secessionists and "a PICS rom tns
war conservatives and auti.wal llen %oula
not be tolerated 10 speculation VI oouos
very much whether newspapers 90 lectures
on the subject have not greatly az, graz 1'eo 'o
evil You bave driven the consci 'entio rs ana
reasonable men out of the market as 1t were
and left the whole field of specula ion to We
monopoly Of few moDeyel sharpe, e, whose
conscience will hardly ever be rack, by an
article in the newspapers. My impres sion Is
that bad the papers and everybody else nco1,-
aged it, that the better class Of traders Vouic'
by competition and supply have kept e 'oi =
thing at much lower prices than the denim
| tory policy heretofore practiced by editors a
orators; for the sub5orUncss OF man is such
that he has an itching to do anything forbidden
him by God or man. Ind again, the condi-
tou and excess Of the currency has had
good deal to do with IT, bat the worst OF all is
The scarcity. You can have but very little
idea how our people are presed TO live even
comfortably The groand is frozen here, aud
il is You would call il. bitter esd perhaps as
cold as you have ever seen It 10 Raleigh
| Nearly all our people have more or less work
/ 10 do out Of doors-men, women and children.
Not one half Of them have the sign OF a shse
10 their feet not one-third have shsex, that
viii keep their feet dry; nor 10 kos y bow
they are to get them. They are nea By all
scarce Of wearing clothes. Cotton an, J wOol
are pretty hard to get but the worst is cot
ton and wool cards eaD scarcely be- had at all,
the old ones being about worn out We
would be glad to do something for our famish-
ipg soldiers; but how can we, when 3 have
more suffering at our doors than we cal sPOSai@
ibly relieve? II
Then we are getting scarce Of almos every
article OF necessity, from a needle to a heytho
blade. Net few are out Of knives FORKS
spoons plates, dishes, tin cups, and coffc e-POts
Then we may turn to edibles. Take GU gafeW
families, and there is not one pound Of salt =
every white inbalitant in the country w
got from Wilmington some weeks ago wlia
we call Government salt, and divided il 'oir
one pound to every white person in a 4 Ial.
but did not get qnite around 70 all. Thd
cost Us II cents per pound. A gentL ama
told me the other day he Travelled forty nilt
without grain for bis horses He says be del
ed one dollar for ten ears Of corn aud could 90
get it F.; yet we must have it, or perish forw "
of it. Very few Of us have hogs enough
make cur meat next year--I would say not ha
as much in the country as We ought to eat
nor can we spare the corn to iatten what we
have. Numbers Of people have not put I'D
hog yet, and say they win not unless they have
some surety Of getting salt. They think they
had better keep the corn, and dependon bread
and milk, than 10 loose both corn aud pork
Cor the lack Of salt. My opinion is that num-
bers must perish before another crop is made,
unless we can alarm the people to take better
care Of what they have than they have ever
done before. If the people are alarmed ia
time, they can winter on half the grain geueT-
ally used. am satisfied there was nothing
Ike half as much grain raised here this year
as there was lest, yet We scarcely had enough
to do us. see you are talking about cotton
and tobacco crops next year. We raise neith-
er here.
"But If this war is to last over another crop
season, say to next June, with all the con-
scripts in the army, our support must come
from sonewhere else. Oar rulers RnderEtps'
raising an army better than feeding and cloth
ing one. I would to the Lord the leaders had
to take the place of the soldiers"