FROM THE SOUTH: The Food and Gold Questions; Yankees in the South; The State of Society (11/14/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/14/1863

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The Food and Gold Questions -- Yankees in the South -- The State of Society -- The Prisoners -- Gen. Butler's Operations -- Affairs in North Carolina -- General News.

THE FOOD AND GOLD QUESTION.

In its review of the markets on Nov. 4, the Examiner says:

"The price of gold is again rising, and transactions in the precious metals are growing brisk with the brokers. As long as the Legislature was in session, with a bill pending for the suppression of this abominable traffic in gold, the brokers' occupation, like that of Othello, was gone, (for the time;) but now that this danger has been dissipated by the adjournment of the Legislature, the brokers rush into the field, even more greedy than ever. Unless something is done to check this infernal trading in gold and Yankee money, our currency will continue to depreciate and the paper of the Government become a sport of circumstance. There was always an abundance of gold in the country until the brokers and "blockade-runners" struck hands; and since the day of that iniquitous league the currency of the country has gone down -- down -- down. We now have to quote, what is enough to sicken the heart of man at the stupidity and maladministration of our financial policy: Gold, selling at $12 50 -- buying, $11 50; silver selling at $10 -- buying at $9. State bank-notes unsettled, but may be quoted: Virginia, buying at $2 -- selling at $2 50@$2 75; North Carolina buying at $250 -- selling at $3; Georgia and South Carolina buying at $3 25 -- selling at $3 50@$3 75.

The question of food is becoming a serious one. There is plenty in the country, but the trouble is that the farmers will withhold their supplies

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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From the South: The Food and Gold Questions – 2-3
The United States Senate – 3
Plan for Recruiting – 3
The Armies in Virginia: The Rebels Show a Strong Front on the South Bank of the Rapidan – 5-6
Gen. Grant’s Army: Longstreet Seriously Threatening Burnside – 6
Later from New-Orleans: Probable Abandonment of the Overland Expedition – 6
From the Southwest: The Burning of the Steamer Allen Collier – 6
Counterfeit – 6
The Frustrated Conspiracy: Additional Particulars of its Scope and Design – 6-7
Our Prisoners at Libby – 7
Very Latest from the South: The Operations against Lee’s Army – 7-9
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 9
Editorial: The Stripping and Starving of our Prisoners – 9-10
Editorial: Meade’s Movement – 10
Secession – 10
Editorial: The Case of the Slaver Augusta – 10