Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-20
East Of the ChoWan.

East Of the Chowan.
d We are indebted to friend for the following sx
tract from letter. written east of the Chowan, with
in the enemys lines. It contains some information
which will be interesting especially to the Abeaarle
people who are outside the enemy's lipes:--
HEKrroRD, N G. APRIL 80, 1868.
Mr..- goes to see his son near Suffolk, where
the Army Corps of 1t Gen. Longstreet is now post
ed He has kindly consented to be the bearer of q
letter, and hasten to inform you of the situation"
here You can no doubt imagine our feelings, now
Of hope, now Of fear, when Dame Rumor brought
the first tidings Of Gen. Longs:reets approach That
IL miles from Suffolk with 10000 men, and 70
pieces of artillery. In this instance it must be ad-
united that the flying Dame gave us the truth,
though her reputation for lying is extensive This
report reached US on the 10Th. About noon of the
same day, there was reported to be- brigade at
Gatesville. At night 500 cavalry, (4lst regiment
Col. Bakery had reached IS, 10 from here
and sent off 5000 pounds of bacon, giving him the
government price, (75 cents) for it. On the 18th,
company l, Of this regiment, paid visit to Hert-
ford. Picture to yourself day without cloud
Fancy that you see the whole population out, with
an immense crowd from the country-al in their
holiday attain and, now, imagination fails you.-
One hundred cavalry ride slowly down The street,
entering the town by Col. Gs. Already you can
hear the cheering along the street 1t was like six
o'clock of an election afternoon. From every door
boquets are thrown to them, and handkerchief
waves from every window. Little Confederate flags
Autter about like leaves in the wind They halt at
= the hotel. The commanding officer rides to the
front and commands "Draw sabre! Present sabre
Three cheers for the people Of Hertford!" You
could scarcely hear 50 FOUNDER at the head Of the
street The troops are dismissed for dinner:
Tho cavalry, after taking dinner, started across
the ferry their way to Elizabeth City, but being
informed that the Yankees had left that place. (a-
king with them about 1000 negroes) they returned.
After staying = short time, they returned towards
Gainesville with full stomachs and haversacks. They
obtained everything they wanted free of charge
Each man got plug of tobacco and as much smo-
king tobacco as he wanted for nothing. So much
for the first visit.
Since then, We have had any quantity of Confede-
rates in town, among them one section of Boggs ar
tiliery under Capt; Wright We have had as many
as % companies in town at ore time, with General
Longstreets Chief CommissaIy, Maj. Moses.
Wagons pass here every day going to Har-
veys Neck after provisions. IS passed here to-day
Now and then one comes in and gets something to
eat. The commissaries are very &C.
tive buying up provisions. They have already got
of corn, &c. All the commissaries report to Major
Moses at Benning's bridge, formely Newby's bridge
Gen. Bennings "a Georgian) brigade went as far as
Oak Grove Church the other day. He has rebuilt
.Newby's bridge and called it after his own name.
The Yankees at Edenton Monday They
brought up some light artillery into the town. sta
toned pickets, &c-stayed an hour or two and left
One of our Majors was in the town gerry quiet
spectator of their proceedings Day before yester-
day they came here Ito Hertford) with old Chase
Che went off when our folks came on this sde) to get
his furniture. There was only one Confederate of.
ticer in town, a commssary, and he came out here
and spent the day with US. One hundred marines
landed and stole everything they could get to- They
visited nearly every house in town killed poultry,
&c. They broke into F. NJ. Cooks jewelry estab-
lshment and stole ~ watches, some of them gold.
He had gone home to dinner, carrying with him his
box Of watches, so they did not &c. them. They
also stole all his tools. The little bows
saved great many valuable things for him by 60
ing in.with the marines and helping them steal
Mr. Cook estimates his loss at $4,000. + The
Confederates had field piece on Nixons point, op
Pesite HEREFORD but they could not 6re becaus6 the
Yankee gunboats, (com. Perry and Valley City,
were in direct range with the town. The Yankees,
however, when they sta.ted away, sheed at oul
troops, but did them no injury. They shot hole
through one of Mr.. F. Nixon's-outhouses, and one
shell fell in the yard of J. L. Skinner, Esq.
Capt Myers, with mis- guerrillas, 60 strong, were Al
Road Landing, on Yeopine Greek, 10 miles distant
when he heard oft. He Immediately put his men
in motion and dcubled-quicked to town, where he
arrived just as the Yankees left ! had liked to
veforgotten to tell you that the Yankees have taken
away all of Mr.. Harvey's negroes. The
Buffalocs evacuated their position at billiards. hav
ing previously destroyed the block houses. They
stuck up piece of paper reading thus: "a leetl
J too late." Our folks were soon enough though, t.
catch 10 of them-among them Halsey F. Wilson, q
deserter from our army.
Provisions in here are tolerably high-hour l.
cents per pound The government price for corr
is 81 per barrel in Gates-s5 in Chowan and PEI
distance. Price OF bacon 70 cents per pound. *
We have had bad times for the crops.
is raining continually.