Nebraska advertiser., 1864-08-18

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in1he North stand realty 70 post and
there need B8 no doubt of thorough tri-
umhph ; our Natch-word should be, "UN-
1oN3,Y .sGRAET,""VIcToRY." :, v1 d,
Isl o,--~-v-h- .TsD 2G-
"a. o5 RoSSEAU's RAID ~ q RI
.coSciItD}ED FROM IAsra WEEK. / nd.
Thee country. till we reached Taladei
gals very poor, and UNDERGRADUATES Sum
merviIie, Brownsville and AshVille, are
couhtysseats' TALL small places. Talade-'
g is aptetty little village on the Selma
and home Railroad, which is onlyiCoh-
pleted twenty miles east of4hat place, it
being the last town on the read toward
Rome. Ii was a place of considerable
Importance To the-FeBelG eEernment.=
The countryCih heiaidinity IS ithickly set
tied, some large plantations. DadeSyiile
IS a rQlnty-seaT, the country very poor,
md the town old and almost deserted
Lo~ach8poka, Notasuiga. Auburn and
Opalapa are merely railroad stations,
except Auburn which is a town of about
500 inhabitants. Next came Lafayette,
th~eAprehiest town, excepting Huntsville,
Ala. Fever was in, in Dixie. 1t is stu
ated in the heart of a good farmips Sec
ton; has" been a place of considerable
importance as a country town. Caroltoh
iss a county;seat, and has been occupied
first by the rebels and next by our troops,
SO often that it looks a little the worse
for wear. All the country we passed
through is very poor soil compared with.
our Nebraska lands, some of it will do
when a man can do no better. By TAX
ing a map and tracing a line from one.
town to another as they come in this
paragraph, commencing at Decatur Ala,
and ending at Marietta, Ga, anyOfy your
many readers can tell where, and what
d~irection.we travelled. e.
~ VIZ @- -
Ca a 2 THE PEOPLE. H4s
Are generally in good spirits and be-
.lieve that their cause will yet triumph.
They are all sick and tired of the war,
but seem TO think they can never live in.
peace. with the North again. I do not
believe l saw more than a hundred men
excepting soldiers during the trip, and
they weFea old men, cripples, and small
boyseb Every ~able-bodied man is in the
army, excepting some that have been "
ing out" to- escape the c%onseriptioni but
Orion men were very scarce. Everybody
was frightened, their opinion Of US was
that A.beauty and booty" was OR motto,
and they were very much surprised to
find US treating them so well. I Private
property being respected, and. guarded
orders of our commander, to show the
people that we were indeed human.-
eStarying them out" is out of the ques.
ton, they have plenty to eat and are
raising plsnty more, excepting the poor
people along the railroad and NEAR the
armies, many of whom are actually suf-
feripg for want of provisions. we sup
plieda great many of these poor famil es
with captured ~rations. Politics DO not
bother them, their only and all absorbing
object is how to carry on thewar, and
g3ino Independence. IF the North was
half 50 well united, and you'd work with
the viii they do and not let the al,
mighty, dollar occupy So much space in
.tbeir minds. the war would 1QPbialve last.
ed this long. The ladies nearly all wear.
home.spur dresses. l see = calico or
silk dress occasionally. which is being.
kept by the owner as a res of better
days, Our Northern girls need not be
afraid Of may of Our boys getting Spliced
. these southern. girls, for If they are
all Of my opinion, tLey find beauty very
scaFce.a I8have seen none to c.pPaare
With our ahorthern lasses. l3el
THEIR REsouRcEs-Thsy are better
prepared to carry on The war than thew
we're before. They have learned the
Of home manufacture, and are now
able TO supply themselves with
everything they want.N earlyeyery acre
land they have in cultivation is in corn
or small grain, something that WIN help
to supply their army. The cultivation
Of cotton islentirely abolished. Unless
there is a great many heavy raids made
ibis season they will raise a larger sup.
ply Of proedce than any other season
4oceoths Qommeacr2snbRt the var, g
they say