Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-13

A correspondent of the Mobile Register,
writing from Atlanta, tells the following
sad story:
"Not many months ago there arrived at
a Confederate port upon one of the most
notable of our blockade runners, very un-
assuming woman-scarce such, indeed, for
she was hardly out of her teens-of an ex-
tremely handsome person. She had come
to Nassau from Paris, and sailed thence for
the South. She brought with her an abun-
dant wardrobe, and sufiiciency of means to
last her two or three years at the present
high rates of living. Her object in visiting
this country was to discover the fate OF an
only brother, colonel in our service, who
had placed her at Geneva at school when
the war began.
'.She had not heard from him during six
months, became anxious and finally set out
on her long and perilous journey. Her anx-
iety proved too well founded. Her brother
had been killed at Gettysburg, and she
found herself alone and a stranger in her
native land. She went first to Augusta,
then to Mobile; here she lost trunk con-
tanning all her gold. At this critical juno
ture of affairs she met handsome field Off
cer-fell in love-engaged first in filtration,
then in an amour-and accompanied him
as far as Atlanta, on his way to the 'front.'
He fell at Chickamauga. What her life be-
came you can guess. She died last week,
and was tumbled into the ground in the
public cemetery. There's story for you
weep over It'll" ....l
Again we have tidings of the extreme
suffering of the rebel population, and par
ticularly of the people of Georgia and Ala
bama. Sherman's march through Alabama
and Georgia has necessarily devastated a
great extent of country; and now, just at
the time for gathering in the crops, every
available man in Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida has been called to arms to drive our
troops away from Atlanta. The harvests
are, therefore, left to the women, children.
and negroes, and the consequent distress is
naturally great. The following is an ex-
tract from a letter which gives q view of
the state of affairs. 1t details the suffering
from extreme high prices and general scare
ity, and hints rather broadly the discomfort
of the people under the rule of the Rich
mond usurpers. 1t is dated Dale county,
Ca, and says:
"Times are hard here. Corn is So per
bushel, and hogs 81 per pound (fat or poor)
gross; bacon, 81 30 per pound; salt, Sl5 per
bushel; chickens, from 81 to 81 25 per head;
peas, So per bushel; ground peas, $S per
bushel. There will be a great deal of suf-
iering in this country, if there is no perish
ing. Even the yelpers are geCUlnB SICK OF
this protracted dance and tenth law, and
the swarm of impressing thieves that infest
the country with their ravages. The poor
must do all the fighting, and the Richmond
Government makes offices for all the rich
men to keep them out of the fight, and on
big pay, and the poor man in the service on
$l4 per month.
IF he has an industrious wife and two or
three children on an ordinary farm with a
blind horse, they can make kind of sup
port, if she could keep the animal; but the
cursed tenth law will take more than her
husbands wages will buy out of it to feed
those thieves to stroll over the country and
publ ely rob the people under the sanction of
the Richmond military despotism. l have
made support, and am able to nav the ra-
pacious devils tenth, hope. If the poor
soldiers got it, it would 60 free as water
ever ran down an inclined plane. But it
does not go free to pay the rich man $50
per month for negro hire to work on FORTH
fications, and if the negro gets killed, the
poor soldier must pay his proportionable
ratio out of his $l1 per month for the dead
negro; but if the poor soldier gets killed,
his life is not worth anything. according to
the Richmond dynasty's iudpment.n