| Show EFFECTS OF THE WAR the war bai ba ha i been in progress only a little averone over oven one year and a half balf ilas lias cawed caged much destruction desolation mourning mo arning and woe no inconsiderable portion ot of which has beten len visited upon the people of 0 the bonier border states I 1 as they have suffered buffered severely from the effects j of 0 the fratricidal strife not only his hia the lan ian lani iani 1 been laid waste but ruin and desolation his has been I 1 spread tar and wide wild by the armies which bave bare been slat stat ionel lonel in and marched to 0 o and fro through those states stales generally taking whatever was needed for their sub vis tence tonce and the prosecution of the war j virginia has been the principal theatre of strife and has bag suffered almost beyond measure from its ita direful effects effect i blit but the desolation alid and destruction which bich has been meted out to the old dominion has not been as uni uin vergal over the entire area of that state as in missouri and kentucky maryland penn py vanla yanta 0 olo ajio io indiana and illinois have suffered suit erad ered more or less from the presence of h tiie tile and each of the seceded states we hie been teen visited b hire fire and aivord but frimm the tha many have bae been published kentucky has been more effectually used up and the people thereof mora ghe generally raily ralty kie kle despoiled 9 of 0 their substance within the last three months than any other of the north american sates S ates there are but few counties if apy in the state which have not beun bem by both fed ral rat rai and confederate armies alternately the latter fatter are represented to hive taken from the people wherever trev tho vent went sent all the cattle horses nules aules sheep swi awl c e provisions and clothing that cand caud be foun ans and carried orf off their booty regardless 11 less leas of ownership caring not whether it bei bet ng aged oed wed to friends or foes and arid it if recent reports be true the federal troops have too often done the same but that the curit de rates took the lead in the w ork OIK of despoliation herb berb ura ure can bs be no doubt tile effects effen etre ria cia cis ts of brether kather warring against brother tather father with hon bon on and child children ren fen with their pa parent reit relt ha hae e be been in such thit the scene of horion thu far en voted cannot well ivell be described and the end eni is pot yet the the ahe following in relation to the state stale ot of hugs huga existing which have been en engendered eldered by hy tui tug tua war ii r from the nashville dent deat d at of the tha na naw aw york harald marald of recent date due not half tule the horrors arid and hardships of this terrible terrial ter ribe e war will wilt ever reach mortal eye or ear baar eara A full recital of the enormities committed on both sides woud would appal any heart noi nol already soured or pe petrified trifled by the inhuman excesses it has engendered all ties of bood and kindred seem to have been sundered and in their places there are arc loathing and hate late might be bi lemed diabolical were it not slandering the th devil to use the term I 1 hare bare knoian gaithers ino lai to curse their eb children chi ildren idren wives their tius lius husbands bands and children to crave crale the blood of their parents in this unholy ariee oar our once happy people seem to llave a lost their reason and to dwell on noth ng buit but a mode in which they best can wreak their vengeance on one and another ther the sanctity of the L e domestic household is no security 21 41 against t violence property is wan wantonly tonly tooly wasi wash wasted the bread is taken from the mouths of bf famis famishing hinc hinz and crying chil chii children dreb and quinin life is held beld in in so slight concern that it it iq con eldered no crime to shoot down riun ril m n and women in the public streets two menbere men were in nashville the other di doand and the malefactor oes unpunished A woman shot dead dedd and no rio anore than a pa pas e ng remark was made about it pickets are shot every night i and no one has the curiosity to aak ask gieir names nor even to inquire to what regiment ment they thes belonged Ab A hospital in which there are two or three three hundred patient is required at midnight to bs be surrendered to soldiery boi Bol diery tiers a d deaths cold finger finger already touching to achins the brow ot 0 the s sick bick i iek tek arid atal woun WOUD wounded ded surely god an ani all bla bia good angels must have deserted des dea arted us in thia ibia extremity and should we not all pray foran toran eaty eary attoa attoa to divine favor and krotec dit con div I 1 injured serio SEBio usrY on friday last Os s carson earson of prest B young was thrown from liliI kl horse borse orse and badly hurt ot or th cir clr ce caa i attending the sad aurence ou rence we WO have lot been peen len 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