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238 * the countryman. ■■ ' TURN WOLD, GA„ MAY 3, 1864; Increased Price. We are again reluctantly compelled to raise the price of our paper, on ac count of.the increased cost of pub lishing. That price is now $5 for four months, and we will not receive sub scriptions for a lpngei term than that time. Our subscription price is still less than that of. other papers of the .same .class, published Ml the Confed eracy.—We wish to have another thing understood, also. Should we, pt any time.be compelled, on account .of the impossibility of procuring pa per, to issue, occasionally, only a half sheet (which we hope may not be the case) our subscribers must not consider themselves entitled to complain* when * we do our best. This is the bargain. Tobacco. Last week we re published an ar ticle from the Macon Confederate, on the cultivation of tobacco, in which the author sets out by saying to the editor, “ there are few of your readers, of either sex, who do not use tobacco in one way or another, either by chew ing, smoking, or ‘ dipping.’ ” We in tended to accompany the aiticle with a short note, condoling with the editor •of the Confederate on having such a s^t of readers—particularly those who ‘dip:’ but it escaped us to ,do so.— But the editor of the Confederate, in publishing the tobacco essay, denied the ‘soft impeachment.’ He denied that his lady readers ‘dip:’ and as we have circulated ,the slander of his correspondent without the denial, we give that denial publicity now. Had we been in brother Flash’s place, we would have stricken out the slander, before publishing the artifcle—sure. “ Miscegenation.” We observe that a Rev. Mr. Har rison has been lecturing in Columbus, Geo., on the above subject. Of cOuise it was to condemn the thing. -But is it proper to lecture on such a subject, even to condemn, to a Southern au dience? We would sooner think of lecturing to a promiscuous assemblage, on the ingredients that compose the compost heap, or the cess-pool. We agree with a cotemporavy—we forget which one, now—in condemning even the too frequent use, in Southern pa pers, of the word which heads this article. We believe, with that ootem- porary tliat the yankees should be al lowed to have the word, and the insti tution, all to themselves. Certainly they alone should be left to lecture on the subject. Bread Riot in Savannah. Some women in Savannah latety entered certain houses in the city, and seized provisions, in order to appease their own hunger, and that of - their children. Thereupon the press and the authorities are dowra upon the un lucky women. One-of them, signing herself “A Sufferer,”' comes out in a card, defend ing her conduct. She says in the opening of that card-— “The great amount of distress which now prevails among the pooler class es of this city, and particularly in the families of soldiers, induces the writer to make some remarks on the sub ject.” She says that-the soldiers’ families, in Savannah—some of them, at least —are frequently without anything to eat: that they have applied again and again to the proper authorities to re lieve their distress, but in vain : they are dependent upon their husbands’ pay of $11 a month for a support, &c., &c. She winds tip as fol lows : “ ‘ Necessity lias no law, and pov erty is tiie mother of invention,’ re marks the old proverb : and these shall he the principles on which we shall, in future, stand. If fair words and fair means will not do, we will try what virtue there is in stones. We want food, and must have it, by one way or the other, and if not contribu ted peaceably, we will have it forci bly, at the risk of our lives.” The editor of the Republican, in reply to “A Sufferer’s ” card, reasons the case with her in a deliberate and appropriate manner, and calls upon the people of Savannah to come to the rescue of all the sufferers. We notice, in the proceedings of the police court of Savannah, the follow ing paragraph : “ His Honor, in discharging these women, remarked, that such acts of violence were an t/iiifirgG cm all lavs' and decency, and that tvfieh wonrer? became rioters, they cease to b$ ttieb men ; and that the affair on tuesday, was but the entering wedge to riot and murder, and, if tolerated, must end in bloodshed. He said he intend ed to keep a record of the names of all engaged in such violation of the law, and use his influence with the In ferior Court to have their names stricken from the roll of women who obtaiu their supplies from the Court- House.” A correspondent, “ S.,” of the Sa vannah Republican, has the following paragraph, in an article with refer ence to the bread riot in Savan nah : “As a lover of law and order, I was mortified to see it [the riot] vet I could not but pity these poor wretch es while I condemned their action. ****** It is an incontrovertible fact that there exists in this community, a class of persons (females and children) who are battling with Poverty. Many havesuffered foi months; but recent ly all suffer alihe—the Conscript Bu reau having called upon them todeliv.- er up every arm on which they have been leaning for support, and left them to themselves. The Inferior Court, and the city charities have been unable to meet their wants, the fearful price of produce rendering the small amounts doled out to them cf but little comfort. They cannot obtain work, or if they do, the prices paid are too. small to meet their necessary expenses. Last year many poor women were laboring for a fraction over 75 cents per day— that being the price paid for making a pair of soldiers’ pants, and a wo man not being able to make more than one pair per day, and do the work justice. Among the lower. classes, I grant you, there are many who impose up* on charitable persons and societies : but this does not apply to them all. Only yesterday, I saw a very worthy woman, whose husband and only son are with Gen. Johnstoa’s army beg ging from door to door for a pint of corn meal, to keep herself and two little girls from starving f The fact exists that we have many very poor peple in our midst—poor, in its literal acceptation.” We call particular .attention to one passage in the foregoing paragraph. One of the citizens of Savannah, while condemning the “ poor wxetchi s,” who eng god in the riot, and while admit-