Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-09-18
From the Richmond Dispatch.
The UpIifing En the VgesJ-SalC Misunderstanding
CoHfcrlpt Law,

Confcrlpt Law.
BALL KNOB, GILES Co., Va Sept. G.
must write short letter, yoar paper is scarce
and mine scarcer On my way TO t0is place yesterday
met about fifty volunteers, foot, and some bare
footed all the way from Jackson county, Va which is
on tie Ohio river, their way to Join Gen. Floyd
and you will be glad to hear that eight hundred more
thy say, coming from the same county to join
forces. Some were armed with old Virginia riRes and
some with shot guns All looked cheerful and seemed
TO breah free and stand erect like feemen released
from bondage They say the West is rising, ard thou
ands are hemmed in by the few traitors and Yankees
that nfest the country. Open the way and they will
come.
Salt, sat is all the cry hCfe. ] LIFT The Washington
country Salt Works few days since, and surpr-
sed to learn that four of the Southern States had made
contracts to manufacture salt for their people, and that
Virginia had no works, nor any prospect OF supplying
her people Georgia had erected works, and is now
furnishing to her people large quantities of salt She,
ong since, made contract at u bounty CT fifty cents
PER bushe to the owners Of the FORKS for all the salt
she may make during the war; Mt exceeding three hun
dred thousand bushels per annum. | saw hundreds OF
bags already filled, containing b1shei each, intend
ed for the wives OF the soldiers. Old Rip Van Wrinkle
North Carolina) had similar contract, Except that
she paid seventyge cents, Instead Of Fifty coe) and
also manufacturing in fine style for Ter poor citi-
zeu5 Tennessee was fast erecting works and Alabama
will commence in few days. The city of Richmond
has contracted for twelve thousand bushels one hous
we're sold for $450000, and bought by half Yankee
and half Virginia Yankee company. They profess to
sci. the salt at dollar per bushel, bat you buy
90 little that it is not worth going after. If you drive
Two horses to your wagon you buy TWO bushels or
bushe for each horse you drive, and get, by some
means you buy from prOfeSSet outsiders large
quantity, provided you will pay from $40 to $l2 per
busbel for it. | woman who had come fifty
miles, riding of the wagon horses and driving the
wagon-sne could only get two bushels of salt. Her
husband and in the army, she had to act in
their places. The question is daily asked What will
the Legislature do the salt question ?" From what
they haze DONE should say they will do nothing, ex
Cept make long speeches, read long extracts Gro
tium, ufendof Vatell, &c., to show that the Legisla
ture have right to buy salt works, or do anything
that prevents actual suffering by the people
would Close but | must tell you OF o little scene
witnessed yesterday. On my way from Bail Knob tt
the Yellow Sulpher Springs, IN Montgomery county
with three other gentlemen in the hack we met, abou
hall mile from BlacksOurg, a woman horseback
with child in her arms, aid she passed o
the gentlemen remarked that he never saw such feet t.
q woman in his life. Some one replied that women il
rocky soil always had large feet. By this time we say
three troopers riding swiftly by, and wheel in iron
Of the woman and halt. Nc stopped and waited unit
they up when at glance, discovered the bear
on her face, and saw it was a man in disguise. The
took him to BIackburg and be owned up that he wa
disguised that he might pass the guard at that place
who lave in custody some Conscripts He said he wa
bound to Giles county to see his brother AS he pass
ed through town be pretended to open his bosom an
sucke the baby His name is Adams, from the lowe
part of Montgomery county, about FIVE miles from Ali
ghany Springs, and is no doubt deserter. Eie WI
taken in custody by the guard, and will be sent
Uhristansburg.
The Oonscript law is not half executed ID this Sc
uoa. have been at the different Springs, where So
Lien from all the States, who had left home to avo
the Conscript act and unless the idea of Senator Wi
fall is carried out and all men from al the States mae
to show that they are not conscripts thousands "
eVade the law. In Richmond there are more than tv
thousand Conscripts not enrolled.
ACCOMACK