The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-02

~ eaA1s III No eeW one driving
psdlar cart, and that he did not make hin An
psarancs till the region 10 visitsd had bsoom'
thoroughly reclaimed from the eayases an.
had little surplus cash. Where the carcs,,
10 there the eagles are gathered toeethsr. AM
where the money 10, there the psdlars, with a,
30 ksensr than tho eagles, discovered thei,
prey. The introduction Of railrosds onl,
transferred the psdlan ftom wagons % cars
ana never till the present war did they let &c
thsir hold Of their victims. They are now
betaking themselves 70 horses again, for th,
same old object Of rascality and plunder, only
carried ON In q sdiffsrsnt form. They are sim
ply coming now a. open and Acknowledged
banditsi, whereas Mey stole from N before
under tho guiss Of peaceful traders and ftieudf
We honestly believe that We hsSs less 70 fsa,
from them now than formerly, for the horse
except meek, gentle, and hitshsd to psdla,
cart, is not the animal which can be used bv q
Yankee with any probability of military re-
nown. Yet, strange to say, the announcement,
that the Yankees intend to pat hundred thou
nd - ON horssaeek, md sayays chs whoie
South with IRE and sword, has created q presi
sensation a. did the gunboats, which at one
time were regarded ~ xmphibious monsters
and capable of subjugating the whole South.
ern Confsdsrsny.
We do not desire to undsrrats the real dam.
age which may be done by extensive cav
airy raids, and feel quite sure that whenever
they can ascertain beforehand, as they did in
the late raid near this city, that they will meet
with no resist ance, they will pounce down
upon US like 60 many lions. II, for example,
the people of this city should forget the warn
ing of the Stoneman raid and neglect to or
ganizs the large number of men here capable
Of bearing arms, the Yankees would readily
ascertain the fact, and come swooping down
upon Richmond, burn the bridges, and per-
haps carry of some important prisoners. A
contemporary suggests that they might even
rush far to the interior, and that even the in
land town Of Danville-considered the ssfest
place in the Commonwealth-migh be reached
by the invading hordes. When we bear in
mind the long procession of pedlar wagons
which in days gone by passed through Dan
vile on their way to North Carolina, we are
not without misgiving that the pedlars on
horseback may take the same route with the
ancestral pedlars in wagons. But to be fore
warned ID, or ought TO be, to bs forearmsd'
The Yankee horsemen are never coming when
the people are prepared for their reception,
and in q taickly wooded country it is easy,
with email body Of resolute men, to keep off
a large body Of cavalry, and make their enter
prise disastrous failure. There are, besides
modes of obstrucling the progress of cav.
airy as we'll as of gunboab, and torpe-
does for the land as we'll as the eea. The
country authorities should at once put
themselves in communication with our
military leaders, and they will doubtless re.
ceive some information which will satisfy
them that the projected raid of the pedlars ON
horseback can be made the most ruinOus spec
ulation that ever Yankees engaged in. But
they should not delay their action for me-
ment, if they wish to save their property and
10 bag good many Yankee horses. The ped
lara thazn nas,uaa . thau pentzxe ssss in the in
terror, can all be made prisoners, but we have
more than enough of such cattle. What We
want is their horses, and every Virginia
farmer, instead Of permitting his own horses
to be taken. should make his plans to add to
his own stables by the addition Of Yankee
horses, the only inhabitants of Yankeedom
who are desirable addition to Southern terri
tory. Let it never be forgotten that the horse,
except in pedlar cart, is never to be dreaded
by the descendants Of the Cavaliers. They
owe it to their own reputation, not less than
their security, and to the wrongs which their
fathers suffered at the hands of the pedlars,
that every Yankee horse engaged in South.
ern raid shall be made prisoner, and 60 to
liquidate as fer az possible the damages which
the country has suffered, from fret to last, from
the cheating, thieving, and robbing soma Of the
Pilgrims.