Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-01-14
aiogy, and otherl
'ttls clothing

or but one scant al gr
have no shoes and bat a. @1
There has bsen, and there still
deal Of suffering from inefficient 81
yet our keepers seem to be making n.
effort to remedy the evil Lord how the
Northern Rebel Copperheads would howl
If rebel prisoners were treated so bar
barously
About the ratioas.
Yet / have said nothing as TO our "a
tions. Cornmeal and sorghum, the for
mer unbOlted and the latter miserable
stuff which could find no market in the
North, are almost our sole articles OF
diet as furnished BY the azthorities.
Occasionally we get little Sad -four and
very little rice, about enough of the lat
er to roast for coffee ;" O. salt, about
she fourth of tablespoonful day per
man. Not pound of meat Of any kind,
or lard, has been given as here. Not q
single cooking utensil has been provided
US, but We have to depend npon what We
eosld bring with as on our backs from
Charleston in that line, and very little of
this ever furnished By the rsbs.
Those who have money can buy beef
st 81 so per pound Of the rebel sutler,
and sometimes mutton, at 50 so; sweet
potatoes IS per peek, Irish S9(9l0 cab
bages &5@s per head chickens the
same -four 81 per pint; lard S per
pound; butter $l2 eggs $6 per dozen,
&c But often the most Of these things
eaupot be bought at all There are hun
dreds Of officers who have no money 81
all aud are thus obliged to live on their
rations" This is next to starvation
as kn0sr man may Iire on than, but
be is hungry all the time, and tell yon
hunger is a disagresable feeling. Besides.
continued so long, it makes children Of
men both in muscle and mind. There
are numbers here whom / fear their
friends would hardly recognize to talk
with them, even If but little changed in
appearance.
Pilfring Of Letters
Letters are often kept weeks that
should be in the hands Of their anxious
owners, and boxes the same. All money
is taken from the letters, and, with the
exception Of a few cases, this money is
yet in the hands Of the rebels. If ever
given 10 US, il will be in Confederate
money" at their own ts,luation No
one from the outside is lllowed TO visit
or assist rs.
Union Men ia Ssath Carolina.
The rebs know there are plenty of
Union nen right in Columbia, as we
find them in Charleston, and as there
are all over South Carolina Many Of
our prisoners who got away from here
and were brought back again, found
Union men abroad, who are white men,
and influential men in their own ocali-
ties. That there are Union Leagues in
this State | knOw-that some, aye many
Of the soldiers themselves hereAbout be-
long TO these Leagues l am convinced.
As for the negroes, there is scarcely
return cd prisoner who did not when out
ask aud obtain assistance from the
slaves, aud not in single casa we're
they deceived. Yet all this is right in
South Carolina | tell you rebeldom
down here is planted and built on
mine
An Attempted Escape and Recaphvs
One Of the 10th week ago started
out Of the lines 10 visit the coast on
pleasure excursion, rather intending,
things being favorable, 10 visit the
North. But he aud hia companions
while reposing IN a swamp way down by
Bunkville, pleasant Sabbath moraing,
were discovered by lwo miserable little
darkies, who on their way to church
werk seduced by their innate wickedness
| iu:f the chase Of possum.
They in turn chased the miniature
representatives Of the cause Of this great
struggle, but terror lent wings or heels
to the juvenile Ethiopiaus, and they
escaped and spread abroad the news OF
white men in de swamp Consequent
| ly my friends were visited by a rebel
| delegation, and invited TO come in out
/ Of the vet Well, had sent this letter
with "the 18th" hoping thus to get it
North, bat here Il is again, bat hope il
10 be on its way northward before the
close Of another week, in the boot OF an
| exchanged officer.