To the Editor of the Daily Southern C>ot,s Sin, — I have befoie infoimed you, that as settle 14 of this Piovmce, we aie all engaged eithei as I\lihli.i 01 Volunteeis, and in all lospects doing soldieis dut}'. It is quite tine that .1 voiy line snimnui his passul .away when we have had but veiy little to do, and when wo might have boon piofilnbly ein]>l lyed. Dining the last fine summer, if piopei action hid been tlnken, tliue might have been some hundicds of tons of wood In ought up fiom the bush to town, to meet Hie piemen t emeigency 111 this icpecfc now existing As \\i am at pieseiit situated, many Invuhild woik to get e\en .a sc mty supply foi then f iinilv "^ But 111 the tune oi our past suspense, the natives have had ilio cluet business of tlie wood inmUt in then own hands. Foi the wood they hive biouaht into the town, they ha\e chafed as. much as f 10111 lifteen to seventeen shillings pei load , and, wh-n I have icuionsti.ited with them foi then imposition, they have told me that if they could not make that puce, they could take it to Mi Puns In this cold and inclement season, (howood is much 'wanted, and wo c.innot g. t a sufficient supply with the mono} we weio allowed foi it list month Tins is not nil. I tor one, mid there aio many otheis, who aie lenting oiu pi vceb of .abode for winch wo pay in some cases high paces. I pay ten pounds per \c.ii, and to do Una with the piosent Militia allowance is almost impossible It his been long talked of, that the families of peisonsseivnic; in the Militia, woietoiecuve rations It is now hiuji tune that the authonties took this subject 111 consideiation, and if we aie to do sohheis' duty, let us have soldieis' piivilosjos The soldieis of the line, if uiaiiiod, and hue families, hn\o an allowance for them, if I mistake not Then, families have food, schooling, and bedding, which must be a great boon. And should our wants be the less owed for than theirs t I can truly state that our

•** Oui cout^poiMoiH c columns being lmpailiilly open, no aio not to ho idculillcil with my opinions cvpi insert therein.
