Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-08
YANKEE VANDALISM IN MISSISSIPPI.

Tee following, which we extract from the army cor
respondence Of the Atlanta Appeal is sufficient to in
yite any one to determination to spill his aat drop Of
blood rather than allow the hated race to become the
possessors of tho city of his home
Jackson has deplorable appearance. The block or
square in which the Appeal office used to be situated,
and the one south of 10 on the other side of Capitol and
fronting on State and Pascagout streets comprising
since the last conhagraon the main business houses IN
the city, are in ashes These two blocks include the
Episcopal Church. "a neat and comfortable edlhce ana
the buildings from there to Concert Hail. on state suee
the post Office Juans book store, sweeping round 10
Spangler Row. and down TO Mrs. McMasters, including
the Post Surgeons office, Medical Directors ONCE, ana
office of Commander of the Post On the opposite SIDE
of the street the fiery destruction began with
livery sable consuming the whole mass OF buildings 10
Straus' store, and thence TO Angeles saloon, ur1n
Banking house, and thence to Leanys store, thence
down Pascagoula rect, eating out the entire block.
The next block running along State, and south, ID
succession of the one Just named being already pie
of ruins having been burned by the Yankees dur ng
their first visit the house burners ceased their desruc
ton in that part Of the city. Mrs. Cliftons house Is
said to have been burned, but of this my informant
was not ceroil The Capitol not injured, nor was
the Governors mansion kilograms to the contrary not
withstand n.y. No act of wanton insult to ladies' IS re-
ported 10 have been comm tied by the enemy Du'
houses were freely entered aud sacked. The suourDs
of Jackson, recently so beautifully, are all scorcheo
whered and DESTROYED. The city itself, once so proud
of its neat cheerful and in some places, elegant ap
pearance is a wreck-a ruin-a blasting evidence oil
the savage brutality of our hated and despsed foe
Attia STYLED Course of God could not have visited
captured town with more ruthless verge nee Let
them burnt time will come yet! Ihe nlil5 oI the
gods grind slowly!
Another correspondent says:
DR. Bailey arrived hero yesterday from Jackson The
b,tGb hoon told tnuchUp the vandalism OF the
enemy while in occupation Of that lfated city. Every
house in the place that unoccupied and neary all OF
those whose owntr remained protect them sacked
and gut,ed. Officers high as colonies we're seen to
enter and steal articles OF value and vrtu and carry them
away. Some OF these officers were heard to say
"Wrl have never stolen ANYTHING before, but will
take th'sn Mahogany ard rose Nood bedsteads, with
mattresses musquito bars, and all the appendages of
complete and elegant couch, with bedsteads set up and
the whole standing if in bed Chamber together with
rosewood marblessbbed dressing cses bureaus chairs
SOFAS fine tables pianos ottomaCs mirrors and all the
co,y furniture OF the citizens were scattered all along
the cntrenchments from the southern bend OF the Pearl
rver to the extreme northern line of the works.
On these beds the Yankees slep, aud carried on
th,r helish debaucheries with the negro Henches OF
the town. plying cards and gambled ate and drank on
the tables and amused themselves among this stolen
plunder during their drunken carouselS in their
fined and elegant way, and at their departure broke
them into thousand pieces. One General, said ID be
General Logan carried OF two ne pAror chairs from
Mr. Holm's res denCe telling Mr.. Holm that he would
return them, but failed 10 perform his promise The
ane St te library, the Capitol building they hauled
off in wagons took what books they desired and de-
sroved the rest. THIS library one Of the most
s-lcct and costly in the Confederacy. Its destruc-
ton is not only loss to Mississippi, but to man-
kind, and cannot be replaced. In Mr.. Hobsons resi-
dence they Gu his family portrait mutilaed every
ching they could not carry off, cut large square pieces
from the centre Of his carpets and wrote vulgar and
OBJ Gene sentences upon the walls. Bat these things
seem to have been their peculiar mission in every house,
for in addition to the page, destruc ion aud muala-
ton Of private property the slime of their wretchedy
low ana lIbidinols language be traced on every
wall the witnesses at of their vugaT y barbarism
and crime she blasting and deormed, but still further
aud ample evidence that they are Yankees.