| From the Mobile Advertiser &
Register |
| March 28, 1862 |
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| Our Daily Bread |
| Messrs. Editors: |
| Our daily food has become so
dear, and the necessaries of life generally so scarce and high, as to
cause some apprehension here. Yet some of those necessaries are mere
drugs in our neighboring city of New Orleans; and I am informed that
the quantity of sugar and molasses and other produce lying at
"Meridian," awaiting transportation to Mobile, is enormous,
and most of it subject to great damage from exposure to the elements.
I am informed, too, that although the Government has control of the
railroads for military purposes, there is a daily mail train between
Mobile and "Corinth." If such be the fact, why cannot a
portion of the supplies at Meridian be brought hither daily? Something
ought speedily to be done. We have a large population to feed, and we
are hourly witnessing the arrival of troops to add to our powers of
consumption. It is assuredly the duty of the railroad company to see
that every exertion is made within its means to accomplish the
transportation of provisions hither. If the almost exclusive use of
the railroad is still necessary to the Government, there still would
appear to be intervals when the company might use it for the supply to
this large population of the necessaries of life. It is assuredly idle
to put a tariff on the price of provisions as long as the door is
barred to our receiving them. |
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