Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-20

Condition OF The Intsrlor OF lIISaIs-
sippI.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times, writing from Jackson, Miss, June
1, says:
"ArriviDg at Big Black on the cars from
Vicksburg, a rickety old hack bore me on
dusty road to this point. The country
through which I passed is an uubrOken
scene.of desOlatiOn. "A. few years ago 1t
was land of beauty, Of comfort, and of
joy. But thettde of;WaF has sFspt over it.
and leftit burnt aud wasted Eildernsss.
The fences are destroyed ne residences
are 10 ashes, the people hays IA sp5i has;
rem fields meetthe eye in every directi6U!
saw but four or Eve houses standing aud
Inhabited on the whole route from Vioks.
burg to Jackson. On the road met mul.
titudes OF rebel soldiers returning home.
With bronzed faces, tattered garments and
weary limbs, they dragged themselves
along
"Heayy cAlamities have fallen on Jacks
son. Once beautiful city, it is now a
mass of ruins. Piles of brick and mortar
cover the once famoua retreats of wealth
and fashion. Numerous columns, shattered
and charred, have suggested for the name
OF the place 'ChimueyVille.' The State
House, the Governors mansion, the CITY
Hall and the Asylum are the only public
buildings remaining and, in the absence
OF the trowel and the brush, old Time has
run his dingy fingers over these. Numbers
of the old Inhabitants are avay, but the
town is very we'll populated by Confederate
soldiers returned and being paroled. Gath.
eted 10 groups on the streets, or loupsin0
about the hotels, and talking in an under.
tone about the situation,' they give de.
cided character to the appearance of Jack
son. A few are clad in citizens, dress. but
the majority of them retain the Coufede.
rate gray homespuu, the product of the
card and the spinning wheel.
I'll have conversed freely with these men,
and my conviction is that they have given
up wholly. They are not yet divested of
their former prejudiees and animosities:
they will perhaps 20 down to their grave
with them. There are some mad cana
among them who still talk as irrationalIv
as ever. Bat the msjority of them are for
peace: The spirit of war has departed
from them. Slavery and state soVereigns
ty, the questious'in controversy, have been
settled ~ ct dTIais, and thereby numbered
among the things tha. were. These things
they confess. and are ready to submit 10,
not from choice but from necessity. This
think, is the GHimWS Of the paroIed sol
diers generally. Another hopeful symp-
Ion is, they all desire emplbymsnt.s They
are poor, stripped of everything, aud, like
many, they are now anxious 10 engage in
some lucrative business-Willing even to
work for UDcle Sam.
"Great scarcity prevails iu this region.
Since our forces first penetrated this state
paralysis has possessed the people. They
have planted nothing, and extreme power
ty rules in almost every household. What
will the people dor hear propouuded
every day. The libeTality of the govern.
ment and the full granRries of the North
are their only source of relief.
"The agents of the Treasury Depart
ment are here collecting the spOils of the
collapsed repel government, and, am hap
py to say, the utmost harmony prevails
between them and the military authorities.
General Maltby is sRordiug every possible
facility for saVing the cotton surrendered
by Dick Taylor. But the Generalization
OF the people is beyond all conception
Cotton stealing is the order of the day.
People say that they have fought hard four
years without pey, and row they propose
to pay themselves. Cotton seems to be an
especial object of cupidity. 1t is difficult
TO prevent it. The Confederate authority
10 not recognised-the federal has not
been established-and thus the country is
suffering all the grief of on iuterreguum,
or, more properly, of anarchy"