The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-01
sCHIRIEsrox March %. 1851,

ESN ~ .CHlRIEsroy, March %, 1861.
This is 'Good Friday" Il day generally
observed here as n holiday, but rs your hum
bic servant keeps only one day holy, 1.-THE Sab
BATH he will feel no computations in drop
ping Won a line.
Letters are constantly being received here
from your State, asking what is the duty on
various articles. i give you the duty on sew
eral most used from your State, for the infor-
marion of all intereste Man ufactured to-
bacco. so per cent :; leaf tobacco, "a per cent;
liquors OF all kinds, 80 per cent. Goals of all
kinds, II per cent; smoking tobacco, mot cut
up,) % per cent. smok ng tobacco, tcut up by
machinery 50 per cent; rail iron wheels, and
ell railroad astsnine s, Is per cent; firearms,
ordnance, prolectiles, ammunition, &c, free |:
grain Of all kinds. -four, and al kinds of feed.
made OF grain, free.
Revenue stations aud officers are placed on
every road leading into the Confederacy, 10
examine trunks of all travellers and all pack
ages 10 proven. srnugEiius. Travellers wo& Id
do we'll. and prevent delay and annoyance, by
carrying little baggage as possible, and let
1t be convenient fer examination, and be sure
70 take nothing along in their trunks dutia-
BILE, and if they do, let ii be where ii can be at
once seen, and have an invoice of the same
and gold enough to pay the duty. And above
all, let them keep their te;npers. 4 Southern
trader thought, a few days ago, he Wonld be
smart, and shipped his goods from New \ ork
To Whining ton, N c.. and from thence by
railroad 10 Alabama, but they We're nabbed in
this State, and he Will have TO pay duty and
get delay also.
Ii is said positively that dis patch has been
Tecei Fed 10 day in the city for the long delayed
evacuation but / shall believe il when see
The Confederate flag flying over the battle
lnenss OF Sumter. That it will take place, /
sure but when, is not certain
| DON'T believe l have told you that the Sec
Tetsry of the gallant Col. Lamon, who hailed
from your State, but really belonging TO Iii
nois, the envoy extraordinary OF the Rail
Splitter, was arrested and jailed here
CONT of an old taior's bill, made years age
with one of our merchant tailors.
Tomorrow the Convention visits the forts
and batteries, and Will have a grand time of it.
| see that some of the most rabid Black Re-
publican papers fthe Boston 4drertiser for
one, are pitching into Lincoln already for a
TOO deXterous use of the guiilotine. ! see also
that some of the Federal Black Republican
offices are being filled in your city-bad wind
that blows nobody any good.
Who will be Postmas ter of your city7 An
Old Liner, suppose, of course. l wish you
would inlercede for your friend "FIRaIsIus
for some good fat Office in this city he nigh
be stopped IN making fire his chief diet. Dc
write abraham, and tell him this is one of his
provinces, and 'tNIRGIsIus' is one of his
children, and 10 please let him get hold of the
teat. The fear Is, however, that the old COW
has gone dry, and however hard l may draw
the milk won't come.
tow is il that all the women of your State
are secess!onists9 A lady writes to "EIR
GIsiUsn that she had rather come South anC
pick cotton than remain under Black Repub
lean rule Many such letters come to "VIR
aISIUs, correspondent OF the Richmond Dis
p1tch,' from which l judge The ladies gene
I rally read the D{spatcb. L have heard Eir
gin,a go highly extoiied FOR her gallantry anC
pttriotism, that have often thought shoulc
Hike 10 haNes been born on her soil but be
an now to think that care not so much abou
IL and content myself with my own nativity
But Virginia, think, will be right after ;
while, aud so We will wait and gee.
81 VIGsISIus