The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

BETWEEN 7WO 8700 LS.

The following is a copy of a letter dated Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, Oct. 13, 1862 :—" We are daily expecting to hear
from you. We are all well yet, and have enough to eat and
wear. We are blockaded on both sides, for our people can-
not send in supplies, and the United States won't 1 t any
come in from the North. How long it will last is yet to be
seen. 1 fear there will be great suffering here this winter
for food and fuel. . . If we were in our own lines we
should not want a dollar, but being in Federal lines, and
cut off from our people and supplies, and doing no business,
we shall be compelled to use some of yours. As to the con-
tinuation or duration of the war we cannot say much
'Without foreign intervention it may last some time. The
South cannot and will not submit. The North cannot sub-

jugate or conquer us, and unless Europe comes in and com•
mands a peace we shall probably go on mangling and kill-
ing each other for some time to come. If England and
France would intervene, they could command peace almost
immediately. There will be an active campaign for the next
two months. Our people are better prepared for the winter
than is supposed. We have obtained a decided triumph in
Western Virginia, and now have possession of the salt-
works there, and salt is selling for 35 cents per bushel,
while it is four and five dollars here. The prices charged
here for goods brought heretofore by the Yankees are exor-
bitant. They depreciate our State money one half, and
then charge from two to four prices for their things ; for
instance, hams in New York that are worth from seven to
eight cents per lb., are held here at 30 cents; flour, 20
dollars per barrel ; sugar, 30 to 33 cents per lb. Of course,
our people do without anything they can. There is no
work to do, they have no income, and very few have
any money. Houses bring no rent, and the servants have
n
generally gone. State and town scrip pay no interest
ania..
Sbete, because we cannot send to Richmond to get it a
the town, because we are under military occupation; with
taxes
civil authority suspended, and have no collection
or income. There seems no settled policy by the.
The
Government ; their only course seems rule
or
rahein.South.
people here are openly and undisguisedly of
This is called disloyal ; they have no sympathyo be disloyal, and this absence of sympathy is coming -0 _
witht
with the
f history,
down-
right inhumanity. All this will become
and recorded against them. This revolutiopna
but
suc-
cess. We may meet with some failures and reverses,
the matter
we shall accomplish our end. We have na
and we pray
wrrteivnerbseesa,
in hand to fail in it ; it must go on to the_ and,i.,,,,n played by
God it may soon end. The last card
Proclamation. So So in-
Mr. Lincoln in his Emancipation
ever before been seen
famous and fiendish a purpose has
an threatened insurrec-
tion civilized nations. Already.
near New Orleans.
lantatuala -
tion has been begun in the p
the war, disguise it as they
This is the end and object of
sword,
raising the negro
may. It is abolition
by
fire
and
so doing exterminating the
above the white man, anuciroinpe may now be prepared for the
whites of the South.
to behold. Let her be invited to the
she is invited
ht r of blood and death, the
spectacle
and slaug e ,
feast of carnage
propose, and let her behold her own kin
United States nonviban
quet for the negro to revel in. Bel-
served up for
far th
shazzar's ''east a shadow to it. As surely as the hand.
seen on the wall, so surely shall
was then God iet
writing - ) States know that they are weighed -
the United a the
wanting. 'We are full •
and found
balances of nadvo.nat•
ion
threatened destruction, but are not afro; . b
at our .d ; we are
• sit cannot be accomplished. We try: •
conscious st in God,and
behold His salvation. -We await ly
shall _is good time and
the means employed. We bear with r
at.
ills now placed upon us, and suer''' lence and hope the
ing for the end. The end rcu,,, With resignation, look-
come. Let
and do our duty until glib t'
_..: _
__ us wait for it

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Some little ettY,tion Was caused the day before
yesterday in *Rouen fish-market by the seizure of 28
basksbas fit conit,ining 5,600 herrings, which were not consi-
Irs,r food. The great body of the retail dealers,
I'own3r, were rather pleased than otherwise at the fact, as
tl4‘' market Was thus rid of a superabundant quantity. A
general cry arose among the people present of "throw the
fish into the river," that in fact being the plan hitherto
adopted in such cases. Such a proceeding is now however
interdicted, and stale fish when seized is employed as
manure. Another seizure of nearly a similar quantity was
made the next day.

We understand that a proposal will shortly be
made to Messrs. Kelk and Lucas to purchase the building
for a railway station.