Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-13


g they wanted. The militia were ordered ON
d to- check the riot, but failed to do SO, mt,
= JET. Davis and other high officials 8 mad,
# speeches and promised the rioters that
], should have what they wanted. All the
i. other Union officers confirm this statement
The Richmond papers suppressed accounts
of this matter at frat, but after a. day or
. two could not refrain from noticihetit and
: they confirm the statemement made by
Col. Stewart and his companions. The
news leaks through the lines that there was
!. similar riot at Petersburg, Virginia. We
: rpublished, the other day, letter written
4 lby Mrs. Henry s. Foote, dated at Rich
:. mond on the 9th of February, directed to
{ friend at Nashville. Mrs. Foote is the
! wife of the famous Henry S. Foote, form
Y erly United States Senator from Mjssissip.
. Pt, and now member of the Richmond
Congress, representing the Nashville Dis.
trict. Mrs. Foote was resident of Nash
vile, and a lady of wealth and high social
position. a Mrs. Fulgum, who attempted
to smuggle a rebelmail through Rosecrans'
lines, but,was captured in the enterprise,
was the bearer of Mrs. Foote's letter. We
quote from. it the following, which gives a
vivid picture of "high life" in the rebel
capital:
.RIoHMoND, VA.r Friday. Feb. 6, 1868.
my DEAR ANNA-I have an opportunity
offered this morning for conveying a letter
70 you, and embrace it gladly
I'VE are boarding at Mrs. Johnson's, on
governor street, just opposite Governor
Letcners mansion. 1t is large boarding.
house, high prices and starvation svitk;n
Such living was never known before on
earth. 1ett grandma the poorest hut in me
Western District Of Tennessee is palace
compared to this, so fur as fare goes. We
haYegt to cook almost everything we eat in
our own room. In our Hlarder' the stock
on hand is a boiled bacon ham. which we
gave only $1l 90 for; three pounds ofl
pure Rio coffee, which we gave 81 90 per |
pound ID. for and one pound Of green tea, at |
Sl7 OOtper pound; two pounds of brown |
sugar, at S2 70 per pound one bushel of
J1ne5 apples, about the size of good com.
mon marble, which were presented to me |
by a member of Congress from Missouri
ono pound of butter, about six months ola |
at % OO per pound, and six sweet potatoes. |
at fifty cents. We have to give dollar
for a very small slice of pound-cake, at
the contectioneries. forgot to say I had |
a present of a fine jar of pickles and a niece
OF cheese from a member also Well. so |
much for the way We live. You see the |
board IS three dollars, each, per day for |
Mr. . and I, and half price for the servant.
and then we get nothing on earth to eat.
I Yes stettay for dinner, we had nothing on
Ht9s lte ole but two eggs and slice of cold
se4 i1feadl and a glass of water. i
Ei@qn one see this, but you may
stk except t-42a5 -4Sla; : H ltnsk JyaFt
l4er what I say,
Nowfslt this is the style in which q Con.
gressman's wife, and one ,of.ithe Southern
aristooracy, has to live at Richmond, what
is the condition of the poor women? There
is certainly no occasion forlsurprise at the
Bread Riots. The Richmond Government
itself has taken to riotous living, seizing |
provisions wherever they can be found, for
the army, and if the people are thus robbed
they may be expected to empress sproyi-
sions" in their turn. We have before us |
a copy of the Richmond Examiner of the
14th of March, from which we copy.the
following words, heretofore published, but
specially interesting in this connection:
I s
'sThe question of food comes before shat
of money and impressments affect the sup,
ply Of food more than any other action of
1.-THE Government. Ifthey (the peo-
lple) are properly compensated and equally.
dealt with, they will give all their labor
land savings to the Government, and give
them cheerfully; butif these are exacted
arbitrarily and with insolence and insult,
they will not only give nothing at all but
they tcitt take efectuak measures to prevent
the mtatons Of Government from obtaining
.toh0t they pro'OL through The country TO seize
IJor a mOckery Of payment. Men who,
lin, a romantic and pious enthusiasm fol.
their country, have cheerfully given up
their cons to the battle, and have assisted
lin sort of mournful pride in the burial
lot their offspring slain on the field, have 4
1 had their feelings aud temper toward the
| Government suddenly changed by the rude
i rapacious action Of the Government press
gangs" S
II is curious that this article stands side
by side with one asserting that the North
eru people ''are now fully aware that their
liberties are completely gone" and point
ing the moral of the spectacle afforded bJ
the North and South thus: /" Let the South
be warned by the spectacle the North has
presented during these years. What has
happened there has not happened here, but
it might have done so.n AT the beginning
of the. war, it will be remembered, the,
il Richmond editors declared many times
4 Northern society, being founded upon mn,
stable free institutions, would speedily go
to pieces if not protected aby Southern
conservatism, the institutions of the South
being solid on the sacred rock of sIav5
cry; The very journals that are now be-
lmEoaning the impFessmsnt Of food, and sup
pressing the particulars of bread riots in
the Confederate Capital pEgphesied that