The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-25
BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.
Especial Dispatch to the Missouri Democrat
More Highfalutin Editorials from
the Rebel Press. s


Enquirer of the 18th contains an edito-
rial urging capitalists to fit out more
privateers, TO prey on Northern COM
merce, and concluding that though our
great armies be disintegrated, and we be
compelled to carry on a. guerrilla war
fare, which we are determined on if
/ worst comes to worst, so long as spot
can be held for the Government to rest
on, or even if it lives as an itinerant,
the guerrilla warfare of the ocean can
be waged, and thus insure our final tri-
umph. Let all exert themselves, then,
to put ship to sea. Let the Govern
ment redouble its efforts. The sea is
our best element, because we have no
commerce to be harmed Every true
heart has sworn enmity like that of Han
nibal, untiring. With our prospect of
years of war, we should put ships to sea
/ to the utmost of our ability"
The same paper has money article,
reviewing the condition of the market
during the suspense about Vicksbnrg,
and concluding: Brokers refused to sell
specie or foreign funds for several days,
waiting to see more clearly ahead, but
they bought all they could at slight adj
vanced rates
General Lee went to Hagerstown and
the market made feverish opening.
The Yankees commenced an attack on
Charleston, and the market became
frmer at advanced rates. The market
is now fairly re-opened, and we are
again becoming used to critical impru-
dences, and begin to breath free, though
rates are up. The condition of affairs
/ in Virginia, however, renders it incom-
patible with the laws of trade for any adj
vance to be made in any produce what
ever, for which we have to depend upon
our own soil Any advance, therefore,
in necessaries of life, raised within the
State, would be a most heartless, I'M
blushing and impudent speculation We
present yesterdays quotations of gold;
buying, seven seventy-fve premium;
selling, nine; silver, buying, six dollars;
selling, seven dollars; sterling bills, IS
so; selling 50 %; Virginia notes 81, %
al so; North Carolina notes 81 25GI
so; South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee, 81 25@l so prem
Confederate States bonds, $780, 100000
issues, long dates, 81 09@l 10; short
: dates, 81 024@1 03; Confederate $780,
600, 900 bonds, 81 9S@2; North Carolina
State bonds, 81 so; Virginia State stock
81 80. Wheat Sc, corn SO and scarce,
hay 5000; -four, superfne, $3l@22,
extra 81, family 81.
: Meat $40 50@1l; bacon 81 45@,l so:
coffee $494 so; tea $500 for black,
$l0@l2 for green; sugar 81 5001 Is
: for brown; there are holders at 81
J Butter 81 1902 25; molasses $I1Gfa
so; salt 45c; rice 1902; soap 60Gd175c
for country made; tallow candles 81 Il
" @3; French brandy $45G5GG6O; whis
g ky $40; pure rum $45; gin S45; wines
| port and cherry, s45; ieather-soles. S:
1904; upper, S5@5 25; harness, 81 %;
calf skins, 5000 per dozen; hides, greer
, sailed 81, dry 81 500I IS.
| The above quotations reveal for the
: first time the fact that the loss of Yicks.
burg and Lees retreat have sent gold up
in Richmond from six to nine hundred
per cent premium.
The same paper contains accounts OF
arming en- masse for home defense
throughout the rebel States
We extract, "a meeting of the citi-
zens in Montgomery, Alabama, was held
, in the Court House on Monday night, to
organize the whole fighting population
for home defense"
Gen Maury has issued an address
TO the citizens of Mobile, calling on all
able bodied men, within the limits of the
city aud county, TO organize into compa-
: MES and report for duty in defense
against n threatened attack by the army
of Grant on the city.
/ The Council of Columbia, South
Carolina, on the | lth, unanimously pass.
ed resolutions that merchants and other
business men of the city close their re-
spective places ofbusiness at two o clock
each day, 10 enable all residents of the
city hearing arms, ia drill aud prepare
themselves for the defense Of their homes
and fresides
The MAYOR of Charleston, on the
10th instant, issued three proclamatons;
the first impressing all free male negroes.
mnlattoes, aud mestizoes, residing in
that city between the ages of eighteen
and sixty and all able-bodied male
slaves within the same, to finish the de-
lenses of Morris Island; and the second,
ordering all business to be suspended
within the city from that date, until the
safety at the city is assured; and the
third, that all women and children be
removed from the city, AT the earnest re-
quest Of General Reauregerd
Some of the Atlanta papers contain mn
earnest appeal 10 the people of that city
to be prepared for the invasion of Rose
Gran ) Yankees, who are said to be pre-
pairing "a raid upon North Alabama
aud Georgia, taking Atlanta on their
route, The State road will, it is said, he
the principle object of the attack Rome
is 10 he fortified at once Ample means
have been subscribed for the purpose,
and experienced engineers are on the
spot ready TO direct the work. Citizens
of FLOYD county are called upon to fur
nish hands 10 throw mp defenees.
The Montgomery Adperfissr urges the
Importance of fortifying all the princi-
pal towns in that section ofconntry with
out delay, and SAYS; "The old city of
Lynehhurgh is hestirring itself The
Mayor has issued the following prolama-
ton;
40 the Citizens Of Lynekbug:" You
are respectfully and earnestly requested
to suspend business, hereafter, on Fri
day evening at four o'clock in order that