The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-08
FROM THE SOUTH.
[From the New York Tribune. ]

latives at the North and elsewhere. The
were smuggled through the rebel lines
and it was thought by the writers OF then
that they would reach their destination
without coming under the censorship o
the military authorities here. Severa
are from we'll known persons in the Con
federacy. The first is from the widow O
the late Com. Tatuall The second il
from the principal Of fashionable semi
nary, formerly and for many years located
in Charleston, to chemist doing busines,
on Broadway. 1t will be seen that they
all corroborste each other as to the condi.
ton of things in the rebellions States.
am indebted to Brigadier Generel L. Sey-
mour for the privilege of making these
extracts. N. G. S.
FROM MRS. TATEALL.
Il hope you have received my letters,
in which begged you to have some un-
dergarments made up for Mary, and il
you have, and if you are able TO come out
to US, please stock your trunk well, for
we all need our wardrobes replenished.
II. F. TArNALL.
FROM A sCHooLMAsTIR IN COLUMBIA.
81 have removed my school. for safety 8
sake, from Charleston to Columbia. I
have been doing the most prosperous
business, but the expense of living is such
that can barely make the two ends meet,
and have lost all my hard earned resour.
ces. If | could carry the opinion my pa
irons have with me ! would be sure to do
in New York as / have done here. Ex-
penses are 30 fabulous that | have given
up my carriage and horses, tea, sugar,
coffee, and / wear home-spun, and make
my own gloves-these latter cost SIS a
pair meat is Sc per pound, and -four $50
barrel; corn 81 bushel. So you can
fancy with servants wages at s25 to $40
month, how my income can support
family. My friend, Governor Aiken.
thrice millionaire three years ago, is as
poor as am now, and we are certainly
in good company-but as my sole motive
for remaining Was Ellen, and it has pleased
God to take her home to Him, | will not
remain to witness the last miseries of this
dear country. My ali is gone, and / am
willing to begin again. People hold en-
to Charleston as ii it were the heart of
the body Of the Confederacy, aud fall it
will. | dare not express my belief, but
it is grounded on more than fears'
FROM A GENTLEMAN N SAVANNAH TO
FRIEND In NEW YORK.
II sincerely hope that the revolution
will not continue much longer, for / feel
like one in prison, aud | am getting old
aud rusty. May God, in His Infinite
mercy, send relief to Us soon, and show
us way of escape. Savannah is dull
very little business here. Rice i. 92 cts.
-four si20 per barrel, soap sc so per
pound. candles s4. whisky S75 to sl2o
for common to fair, butter s5 per pound.
meat 81 per pound, turkeys, $50 per
pair, broadcloth coat and pantaloons $500.
My sons indulge nov and then in boots
at $3.50, but cannot. These are reali-
ties now; what it will end in, we shall
see. If you anticipated such state of
things, you were wiser than |. / dared
never realize that such madness could
exist on earth in this Christian age. We
must wait patiently for the end but we
both can regret the patriotic and innocent
blood that is being shed on both sides for
our country"
FROM THE SAME TO ANOTHER.
81 feel that l am growing old during
these sad and uninteresting times hopes
of a speedy end of the war alone keep me
alive. Savannah gets more and more
gloomy every day, and l do really fear
real starvation and suffering in sixty or
ninety days. Everything appears to be
conducting against us-universal distrust
is beginning to prevail little did antic-
ipate SO long continuance of the strug-
GLE"
FROM A DAUGHTER IN SOUTH CAROLINA TO
HER. MOTHER IN CANADA.
hAh, mother you little know what sad
sights / witness daily in consequence OF
this cruel war; not family here but is
suffering the very depths of bitterness,
save the Adger family; they have not yet
been called upon to bury their nearest and
dearest in this terrible strife. Pray that
peace may once more dawn upon this
once beautiful land"
FROM A LADY IN GEORGIA TO HER BROTHER
IN CALIFORNIA.
"Our poor country is in sad state ol
anarchy and confusion; distress and ap-
prshension are in every family, and we
all sigh for the good old times when Law
and order and good will prevailed"
FEoMA SISTER IN AUGUSTA TO HER BROTH.
ER IN NEW YORK.
"There seems now little hope OF diff
cu.ties being settled for many years, which
is most lamentable, and being only wo
man, ! think it right and proper for me
to cross the ocean. God grant we may
all meet in that spirit world where We
shall find better land. ~
FROM sIsTER IN AUGUSTA TO HER BROTH
ER In IRELAND.
"Colden Ketchum has grown to be
good boy; he is now in the army-wa'
drill-master of battalion for short time
the battalion was formed principally o
elderly men,
FROM A LADY NEAR COLUMBIA, 8. O.. Z,
i HER COUSIN IN NEW YORK.