Pins, needles, and thread, and a thousand such articles, which seem indispensable to housekeeping, are very scarce.

Even in weaving on the looms, corncobs have been substituted for spindles.
Few have pocketknives.

In fact, everything that has heretofore been an article of sale in the South is wanting now.

At the tables of those who were once esteemed luxurious providers you will find neither tea, coffee, sugar, nor spices of any kind.

Even candles, in some cases, have been replaced by a cup of grease in which a piece of cloth is plunged for a wick." This poverty was prolonged and rendered more acute by the lack of transportation.