The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-05-30
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LETTER FROM RICHMOND.

lauy, VINO, In the mlQst OF the reDeillon, mas
continued bravely loyal. She seized that
opportunity-the first that has occurred for
months-to write to her friends sealed let
ter. We have seen the letter, and can vouch
for its genuipeness. We have been permit
ted to copy the following extracts, which
are interesting as being the statements of
one who has had access only to Southern
accounts. This letter confirms many re-
ports which have been current, but not al
ways believed ED. News.
''And now for news. Since
Christmas we have had three foods. A
percussion cap laboratory blew up, killing
many persons. A large warehouse burnt
down, destroying immense quantities of corn,
oats, tobacco, and shipstuffs-a loss the
South can never replace. All the railroads
are wearing out, SO that nothing can be
brought into the State from other States,
and of course there are no navigable rivers.
Corn meal sells at $15 per bushel. Ham
IS per ID. One pin. one cent. One spool
cotton $3.50. Calico So per yard. White
cotton, Sc and SO per yard One quart of
beans $3.50. Shoes $50, $50 $40 per
pair A coarse straw bonnet, worth about
IS cents, $50. Nasty beef, from dead, dis
eased cattle, $1.,75 per ID. Asickly, skinny
turkey, SIS. One barrel -four, $4O@$5O.
One .shad, SIS. Potatoes, $50 per bushel.
Coffee and tea, fabulous prices. Black SUI
gar, $3.50 per ID. One tallow candle, so
cents. A few miserable pine sticks Sell at
$50. Everything else, not to be had.
when we take into consideration that
for miles and miles the whole country is
desolated, when you know that the foraging
master has been about and pressed every
bushel Of corn, every blade of fodder, every
stalk of straw you can easily imagine the
condition of affairs generally. OIL it is
jolly fun to think Of People are digging
up their front yards in Richmond, to plant
scant supply of vegetables. The world
may talk Of bleeding Kansas but this
place beats it, all hollow saI
"The other day grand tumult took place.
About two thousand women met at the
Capitol Square, armed with axes, knives. and
pistols. They appointed captains, majors,
&C., and commenced their march, crying
for Bread u Bread 2 The Mayor and
Governor came out and addressed them,
begging them 70 disperse. They listened to
no one, butooutinued their vay toward stores
for provisions and dry goods. They killed
two men who attempted to resist their prog
ress-splitting one man s head open with an
ak, and wounding several more, They got
some furniture wagons. stopped some car
riages that had ladies inside, and took away
their drivers and forced them to drive the
furniture cars, The police finally arrested
800 of the mob. and sent them to prison.
The poor, half starved women have had
their husbands, brothers and sons conscript-
ed. and have been reduced to extreme want
and poverty. - JEFF. says the
women and children must leave town.
''The poosaoldiers on the Potomac have
no meat in their rations, and only four
crackers day. Duringa heavy fall of snow
in February, Jyty poor wretehes froze to
death in one night, between Manchester aud
Petersburg.
''Show this letter to-. - and -,
[Copperheads and tell them to come over
here, for here they ought to be II will
come. I VIII get him acommission in the
army. He can live on raw wheat and corn,