Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-11-06

sister, not your mistress; recollect you
are free now"
..Answer.-So is. I forget dat. Well,
sister, the women is about your height some
leetle higher. may be-
Question, by Mr.. Pearl Andrews. -
Society is in very disorganized state,
imagine p
'.Answer.--A good deal that way. Since
the war broke out the furriners has quit
comm with their organs and monkeys"
"Question By Mr.. Raymond.-Ho long
do the rebels think the war will last ?"
"Answer. About five and twenty year,
unless the -four and meal gives OUT"
ssQuestion. - suppose they hate US hear
tily 2,
Answer. They don't do nothin' else !;
and leetle boys is wosse than the grown
folks. If they catches any Of your men in
the street, trying to get back home, they
chokes 'em down, and takes them ia the
back yard Of the cullered folks Jail, and
turns bull dogs and blood hounds into 'em
tell they tears 'em to pieces. Capt. Alex
andria at the Libby, has got big hound
that has eat at least two hundred prisoners
alive But they never let this be known.
Intense indignation and excitement among
the ladies.
..Question. Money is very scarce in
Richmond, isn't it p
Answer. There is plenty Of it, but it
don't buy nothin', because the Govermint
amt got the sense to manage its business.
When I was 10 Washington, Mr.. Chaste
larfed at his brother Secretary, as he called
him, and said he could wind him around
his little finger. He had been patterting
after him, but that had just brought him
into trouble, for the two countries warnt in
the same fix at all. !"
This financial revelation Of the Rich
mond darkey was hailed as positive proof
Of the great intellectual capacity at the At
rican, and ELECTED many compliments from
Raymond. At least this is what the Yam
kee reporter says
..Question BY Gen Mcclellan, who had
Just come in.- How many troops are there
ia and around Richmond I"
ANSWER "A good many. There is the
Armony Band, and the City Battalion, and
General Browns horse company, and the
militia. and about thousand hundred mig
gers?" ~
Question. Are those negroes armed p
'tAnswer. Yes sir They make out
like they was working on the forti6cations,
but they has as many and good arms as any
body. I seen en-
..Ouestion. Who commands the whole
force p
Answer haint sartin for sure, but
I expect Captain Captain Freeman aud Gen.
Brown, the Presidents fust cuzzin. \
Here, says the Tribune reporter, the i'm
portant part Of conversation ended ard Mr..
Mcfarland opened his handkerchief and
disposed of lot Of hair trinkets, made out
of the capillary excresence Of the noted reb
els. male and female, whom he had at vari-
GUS times, attended in his capacity Of bar
Der. Most of the article brought high fig
ures
A lock Of Jeff Davis hair sold for $40
curl of Governor Letcher's for S., and
neat watch guard made of the plated tres
ses of two kinds Of beautiful hair, sweetly
harmonizing, was knocked down to Mr.
Greeley at $40. Bracelets ma d e
Of the hair Of other secesh bellies sold
at most remarkable rates, but Mr.. McFar-
land must have netted between $500 and
$500 by the nights operation, with few
more left of the same Sort" which may be
had on application to him at his lodgings,
with Miss Dix, on East Thirty fourth street.
The doxolgy was sung, the benediction pro-
nounced by clergyman from Boston,
whose name we did not catch and the meet
ing broke up harmoniously,]