The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-06
snn1hern Ttenas.

bile Register, in letter dated the 18th OF
May, says:
At Cabinet meeting yesterday it was
determined that the Government should
| not be removed, but that Richmond should
be defended at all hazards. The cumber-
| some, and at present useless records of the
| Provisional year alnue have been sent into
| the interior. Many of timid clerks, who
FASTENED their families and private effects
away, are thus nicely sold. The announce
ment that the Confederate authorities do
not intend to abandon the city had won
deriul influence in quieting the public
mind. ?"
Gov. Letcher called meeting Of the
people at the City Hall, to organize for To-
cal defense. He asserted, in speech. That
the city should not be surrendered to the
Yankees, and if the alternative were offered
him, to surrender or be shelled, he should
reply /" Bombard and be id" Joseph
Mayo, the Mayor, said if the citizens of
| Virginia demanded of him the surrender of
the Capital of Virginia and of the Southern
Confederacy, they must find some other
man to 6ll his place. The city was founded
by a man of his name, and it should never
be recorded in history that it was surren-
dered to the Yankees by a man named Mayo.
The President has also assured the Legisla-
ture that Richmond shall be defended to the
last.
The same correspondent says the police
court is daily filed with bad characters and
prostitutes, up for various offences. "AH
the Yankee officers, and the goorst charac-
ters in the pubic j dI were sent into the in
terror that morning." The city and county
records had also been removed.
The following paragraph shows the
great necessity for General Mcclellan to
make haste and occupy Richmond, to save
it from its pretended friends. 1t indicates
that society there has become completely
debauched:
The state of Richmond outdoor society
is not as good as it might be. Nearly every
day the papers contain most sanguinary ar
ticles, and We are RECALLED at our morning
meals with murders, brutal outrages, burgla-
ries, assaults, etc. All these are traceable
to the I" Baltimore bloodtubs," who infest
the city-heretofore under the especial pro-
lection of Gen. Winder. Night before last,
two good soldiers were murdered by them
in the house of a prostitute. The police,
detective ditto, and the provost special
guard, are nearly all composed of Baltimo-
reans.
The Mobile Register has become chroni-
cally suspicious. 1t warns the people to
beware of those vessels which run the
blockade, as it has reason to believe that
they are traitors. It says:
By the way, the shippers of cotton
through the blockade run q great MANY
risks that they "wot not off," Who knows
how often these venturesome merchants have
been sold . by the blockaders themselves?
1t would be trick neither difficult to con-
ceive nor to execute on the part of a Yam
kee man-ot-war to send in crew here, one
by one, to ship on an outward bound cotton
vessel and bargain with them to deliver it
outside at SO much the bale or cargo
1t would be very pretty speculation all
round. We have some time thought the
cotton trade ought to be stopped. There is
a monstrous incompatibility in the two acts
of burning his cotton at home by one citi-
zen and permitting another to ship it aboard
on speculation. Both cannot be right
Whoever brings arms and powder and ball
to the Confederate cause should be allowed
payment in cotton. Not bale should be
shipped on the chance of getting war ma
terial in return.
The Confederate Congress has passed an
act authorizing the organization of bands
of robbers, paying them the same as soldiers
regularly enlisted in the rebel army, and, in
addition, allowing them full compensation
for any arms or munitions of war they may
capture from the Federals.
The Augusta Constitution alist says ae-
counts from various sections of the Confed-
eracy indicate that the wheat crop will not
be a full one, owing to the rust which has
made its appearance in several localities
1t urges the planters to go to work at once
wherever the wheat is blighted, and sow
corn, peas and potatoes. The idea Of
planters "going to work." is where the
laugh comes in.
The Yankee renegade, Albert Pike, has
issued congratulatory order to the Chero-
kee, Ohoctaw and Chickasaw Indians for
their gallantry at the battle of Pea Ridge.
He says: 49,.
The Commanding General most earnestly
hopes that the Cherokee regiments, having
thus tested each others loyalty, suffered
together, and fnnght in in iha- sauna eqRsa-nn
animosities to be buried in the ground con- con.
secrated by their blood.
/ We conclude from this paragraph that
even among the indians, it is hard to pre-
serve harmony.
The Confederates seem determined to hold
on to Kentucky. The wandering I" Provis-
ional Government" has elected a man to
take George W. Johnson's place in the
farce. The Richmond Examiner gives the
following account of him. His name is H.
Hawks;
This distinguished gentleman has been
elected Provisional Governor of Ken
lucky, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Hon. George w. Johnson, who
| fell gloriously fighting in the ranks at Cor