| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| April 27, 1863 |
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| Government corn |
| The fact has been noticed in the papers
that the Confederate Government has in store at Albany about 100,000
bushels of corn {about 350 car loads} in a damaged condition, and which if not soon removed
will be in a measure worthless. The reason signed for the delay is the
difficulty of obtaining transportation, there not being sufficient rolling
stock to remove as large a quantity of freight to its proper
destination. The Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder says: |
| The lot of corn at Albany is perhaps the
largest collected at any one place in Georgia by the agents of the
Government; but we have reasons to believe that other points afford
storage to a very considerable quantity perhaps act less than 250,010
bushels in Southwestern and Middle Georgia. One of the editor of the
Recorder saw at Marshallville last week a large building with sacks of
Government corn, said to contain 12,000 bushels a great part of which
was rotting. Any person acquainted with shelled corn in large bulk
knows that when from heat or moisture, dense, once be glue. It is like
leaves which permeates the whole lamp of this waste of the staff of
life is positively a crime at this June are, when the counties in
upper Georgia are also darings of breadstuffs from the failure of the
drops last year. The army needs the corn and without it our battles
cannot be fought and won. When so much is at stake, we are surprised
that more activity in the Quartermaster's department does not prevail. |
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