American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-29
Life in the South,


The Buffalo Commercial AdUertiser
publishes long letter from a gentleman
in the South, whose name and address
are suppressed for prudential reasons,
addresses to his mother in Buffalo, Civ
ing glowing picture of the condition of
the place of residence, said to be an i'm
portantcity of the South. The following
are extracts.
think it would be hard for a north
ern man to realize the difficulty of living
as a Union man in the South. know
Unionist who is now Colonel in the Con
tederate service, and is likely to be pro-
NOTED to the position OF Brigidier Gen.
All alike are carried forward by the irres-
istibe wave of civil war The death
grippe is at the throat of every man and
boy between the ages of seventeen and
fifty. The teeth Of our political hyenas
will never be loosed till they are knocked
down their throats. There is no such
thing as rest for the North till it has
swept all opposition, to the legally con-
stituted authority out of existance and |
hope that no man imagines that peace
can come in any other way. How much
those are sacrafcing who have not been
driven into the army, each one knows
himself, but he does not tell his neigh
Dor
Perhaps it would be interesting for
you to know how We all live here, the
prices of things &c. will give you the
prices in Confederate Cumencv) of pro-
visions as they might have been bought
yesterday, the 30th day of April, 1864 ;
Butter 50 per pound lard, 81 00@4 so;
-four, S225@250 per barrel; rice, S45 to
$50 per hundred meal, 81 per bushel
bacon, 81 per pound fresh beef, 81 509
B per pound fresh pork, SO 50@4 90;
dried apples or peaches, So per pound
green peas, in shell, 81 so per quart
strawberries per quart with stems S5; a
cabbage head from SO to 5 and all 9TH
er things in the eating line in proportion.
Tea is said to be S65 per pound, coffee,
$40 90.
ga very common dress coat sells for
$3.50, and from that up to $1,000. A
thin summer coat will cost from $50 to
500, such as you can get in Buffalo
for 81 so. A shirt can now be obtained
for $50. | have had only two vests, a
pair of pantaloons, and two pair of shoes
now in three years. The shoes, one pair
of them, got two years ago, for s25.
Subsequently l had them menled, and
paid $40. / am wearing my last coat,
and it is getting unmendable. Mary and
the children are yet tolerably well off
but clothes win wear out, and calico is
only s12 per yard, which is called cheap,
as it has been as high as SIS. A neigh
Dor of ours sold silk dress pattern yes
terday for $500, which will buy just 15O
pounds of pork, or six pairs of ladies'
Shoes
You ask how we live The answer is,
principally on corn meal | have each
month little over $500, and YOU can
readily calculate the Injuries we are able
to buy. l give sixty cents day for a
quart of milk, but the milkmen ask one
dollar. Why don't you Lsp Ll.sep cow and
! pigsf yS,i yca say. A COW which will give
twelve quarts of milk will cost from 5000
to 81 900, and is likely to be stolen by
hungry soldiers the first night you gel
her. A dozen, at least, have been stolen
recently in our neighborhood. am go
ing to try the pigs twenty five dollar:
each when six weeks old-but expect