Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.
state OF Affairs In the Con-
federRte Capital.
PrOm the Richmond Daily Examiner, Oct sOth

Prom the RiChmond Daily Examiner, Oct. 3Oth.
The police government of this city seems,
of late, to bave entirely gone to pieces
The open displays of rOwdyism aud villaiuy
in day light and the common nocturnal in !.
| cidents ofgarrotiug and highway robbery
have already obtained tor Richmond re.
putationinot second to any in urban annals.
Rowdies, gamblers and prostitutes seem
to have made this city their peculiar pre-
! serve, and every nights hideous with their
disorders aud crimes. A citizen can not
walk the streets at night without encoun-
tering perils to his lite or purse !; thieves
and murderers skuik on the street corners
and recent instances have occurred of the
daring feats of the garroters and thugs in
falling upon their prey iu the most frequent.
ed thOroughfares, even ut the early hours oi
the evening.
1t appears, however, that there are some
| circumstances stranger than Incidents of
highway robbery and pocket picking in
Richmond, which suggest an extraordinary
and alarming iner;ness in the police, and
threaten the worst consequences. An ac-
count of an exploit of burglers was given
some days ago in the local columns OF this
paper, from which it appears that they rob-
bed large warehouse 10 Que of the most
public places in :his city, ascending to the
main part of the building, letting down and
rolling out number of barrels of -four,
and then hauling them away. Such feat
of bold and vigorous shouse.Grenking is un-
paralleled, we believe almost unintelligi-
bic. The -four could only have been driven
away in several drRys or carts, and the
iden that these could be driven to n large
warehouse on Carey street, and after hny-
ing been laden there with their plunder,
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without beipg overbauled or challenged by
the police, or attracting their attention, is
almost, if not incredible. Yet we are told
that such are the facts, that the police were
not alarmed, and that the first discovery
that n robbery had been committed was
when the -four was missing the uQxt morn
ing.
Such successes of robbery in this city
are truly alarming. All property must be
insecure here if such feAts can be perform
ed with snfety, as that related above. U We
shall have tue thieves of Richmond not
satisfied with the precarious profits of gar
rotiug, and the small scale of adventures
ordinary to footpads, aspiring to large
prey, cutting warehouses of wheat and to-
hacco, and perhaps next trying their hands
at heavy ordnance.
We believe that this subject is ono of
should be taken, not only to increase our
night patrols, but to put our whole police
system on n new foundation. At present,
the whole police force at Richmond con.
sists of eight policemen and thirty.six
night-watchmen. 1t is absurd to attempt
to govern great metropolis, as RiChmold
now is, by handful Of men with locust
clubs. We must have in this CT y, and
that speedily, new police organization,
in which may be introduced those reforms
and improvements which have been found
snlutary in other cities. Some years ago,
Richmond might have got on very well
with it's village system Of constables and
watchmen; but it now requires what every
metropolis in this CO untry has found nee
cessary for good order-a distinct police
organization, the men to be governed ny
commissioners, 10 be disciplined after the
military fashion, and TO be uniformed so MS
to secure not only their responsibility, but
to promote their efficiency.
TIE trial of a uniformed police Ia our
cities, and in those of the United States,
has been attended with the happiest con-
sequences. The uniform distinguishes the
policeman and puts him under the surVeil.
lance of every person in the community TO
see that he does his duty that he is not in
bar room when he should be on his beat,
and that be does not dive out of the way
just when he is most wanted. 1t has, too,
Il moral effect upon the man draws obser-
vatiou upon him, excites his pride, and
gives him an esprit du corps, which is an
invaluable aid TO efficiency. The city OF
Richmond is well able to multiply its po-
licemen, pay them better, and put them in
comfortable uniforms. fany improvement
is attempted, it will be found that the more
the system of metropolitan police Dartakes
of the features of military Equalization,
iu its discipline, reports to snperiors, uni
form, &c, tue more efficient aud the moro
respectable it becomes. s.alss
tFrom the Richmond Examiner, Oct. SOL
RICHMOND MARKETS.
We have NO change to notice in Wheat.
The price at the mills Is still 50 90 to 81
for prime White and Red. There was re
port yesterday of sale having been made
at higher figures, but we are, not justified
in advancing quotations. The arrivals OF
Flour are very large, aud prices are not
well sustained. We may quote this article
fat at $2l for superfine to S25 for best fam
lily. Bacon sells at wholesale at SO to TOc,
and retails at T5c, Butter has been ad-
yauced to 81 25 for large lots, aud we can
not place the retail price at less than 81 so;
for best quality in the city markets, the ex-
traVagaut price of 50 has been demanded.
Salt SO to 3T2c per pound. Apples are
lower in consequence of the large supply
We quote So to Sis by the barrel, aud Sur,
~ County, in boxes, at So per busheI. Su.
gar, by the barrel, 65 to CSC, and 75c at re-
tail. Molasses, last sales at auction, So 20
per gallon. The supply of Coffee is limited: