Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-23
Interview between General Ras,ro
Prisoner, General Pren.is"ta and hi

PRISONER, 1eheral PreatiSs " MS
tha a zen. have met and Overcome 70 a.,
the best troops We have oie Today
,ha osaareaara am glad to hear it. and tr,v, .
tne result Oh TINS days work NAV brine us' mat
eminent to frame of mind mora o'nls Your Gov
arensess@lhat can hardly be- sir IF WV w peace.
naa pushea on after the battle of Man,ss, s0or army
ana h S'Ne,' washington, and oyerrun tho NnF snt
a.u u'ous"t us to peace. We had an ;ns,,a a'i',
Spps vi arms then, and were not prenarsd ra
hn Eel purchased IN Belgium BY Fremont ,v.r me
th s m..le account; you could turn vour ,b OF
cnred trons 1He pore was so large We also ura
storad "um England the old arms that have b p",
tho w,r ~, 40 useless IN London Tower ever sncs
value whatever. 1t is only within ~ arg 0! no
uays snat we have become thoroughly and etc;sy
armed. Our supply is now ample. and wa osaN
De overcome. Your Government has 49, t''lnot
m'stakes-rst in not availing itself of tho s"C
Tue oattie OF Manassas; and secondly. in w.;1a VI
un. we mad become well armed and organized 's
Inc ABOVE Is copied from the correspondence 90
the Savannah Republican from Corinth, bv ur;.s'
who gives some particulars of the battle and ~
conversation between Gen. Beaurepard and r..
Prentlss the captured Yankee General The ,,s,
remarks OF Prentss about the mistakes of the con
leoera'e government, only reterat, what tbops,rd,
OF the Southern people have believed for Soma ,no
IHE NEWSPAPERS AND THE Wharf.-The Viro;n;.
papers are complaining of great difficulty IN cens"
quence OF SO many printers volunteering in the var
and those who did not volunteer are called out n;
the militia so that it is hard matter to nublsb ha
papers at al 1t is proposed to exempt the work
men on daily papers, and there is no good reason
why the werkmen on weekly and sen,i.weeklv M.
Pefs shouid not also be exempted One is as necps.
sary as the other-f anything, the importance If
the weekly and semi-weekly papers is greater than
tne aay, for the former have it not in their mower
70 make lmprudent haste in divugng the plans or
secrets OF the army or government, while at the
same time they do as much good, ana no doubt more
IN consequence OF their larger circulation and ARGUS
ing the people to action
Hls probable that editors and printers who at.
.e"u 10 their business properly harder service
'han II they were in the war. And one thing is
very certain editors are not making any money out
Vi ,ne war; out on the contrary, are losing by it.
The Richmond Examiner remarks:
lit Is almost impossible to keep the necessary
d m to write, print press and mail the papers,
ihe army contains more printers, reporters, and
Journalists in proportion to the population engaged
IN srch occupation, than any two or three other
professions. Char Democrat
Printers have been noted in all countries for their
devotion to liberty One of the great leaders of the
old revolution, Benjamin Franklin, was a printer
And in the conflict in Paris between the people and
Charles the Tenth, three hundred printers were en-.
gagged on the side of liberty, and types and quads
were freely used by the cannoneers after the CAMS
ter'shot had given out