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

BETWEEN 7WO S7OOLS.

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 eupplies, 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 corn-
mends 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
20
to
eight cents per lb., are held here at 30 cents;
flour,
Of Course,
dollars per barrel ; sugar, 30 to 33 cents per lb.
our people do without anything
they
and ' There is no
work to do, they have no income,
any money. Houses bring andnorent,very few have
pay no interest—the
the servants have
generally gone. State and town
scrip
State, because we cannot sen d to Richmond to get it ; and
the town, because we are under military occupation, with
susPen
civil authority d,
and have no collection of taxes
seems no settled policy by the Federal
Government; thor income. Theree
ri
r
only course seems rule or ruin, The
people here are openly and undisguisedly with the South.
This is called disloyal ; they have no sympathy With the
disloyal,
and this absence of sympathy is conning to be down-
rightanity. All this will become
part of history,
and recorded against them. This revolution will be a am-
weWe may meet with some failures and reverses, but
shall accomplish our end, We have not taken the matter
in hand to fail in it ; it must go on to the end, and we pray
God it may soon end. The last card has been played by
Mr. Lincoln in his Emancipation Proclamation. So in-
famous and fiendish a purpose has never before been seen
among civilized nations. Already a threatened insurrec-
tion has been begun in the plantations near New Orleans.
This is the end and object of the war, disguise it as they
may. It is abolition by fire and sword, raising the negro
above the white man, and in so doing exterminating the
whites of the South. Europe may now be prepared for the
spectacle she is invited to behold. Let her be invited to Um
feast of carnage and slaughter, of blood and death, the
United States now propose, and let her behold her own kin
served up for the banquet for the negro to revel in. Bel-
shazzar's Feast was a shadow to it. As surely as the hand-
writing Was then seen on the wall, so surely shall God let
the United States know that they are weighed in the
balances and found wanting. We are full of indignation
at our threatened destruction, but are not afraid ; we are
conscious it cannot be accomplished. We trust in God,and
shall behold His salvation. We await His good time and
the means employed. We bear with patience and hope the
ills now placed upon us, and suffer with resignation, look-
ing for the end. The end must come. Let us wait for it
and do our duty until the time comes."