The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-06-12
ktlpArRicx's CAVALRY RAID.
Sig hts and Scenes Aisag the Route-In
side View Of the south, Sc.
Mr.. W. YoUE0's LETTER.


scERRs II AND uRRAxnA.
In Urbanna, the south side OF the Rappahannock
where fitzpatrick cavalry took steam transports for thu
opposite shore the river there 70 sadder
theart deeper regrets that war was carrying
every household One citizen, Mr. Street, had
twenty thirty house and field servants 70 whom free
dom may prove doubtful blessing. He had thrown wide
open his docrs cavalry officers and had extended
his Lospitaes TO them with limit but his means and
resources. He had granddaughter an estimable youna
lady ,.lth infant 10 her arms. Her husband rebel
soldier at home furough, secreted in the forest
and sho trembling lost he should be captured She
was kind and courteous to the guests who assembled al
the breakfast table.
Eo1 AUNT NARY HAS CONN, fooI
It became a military necessity 10 announce to the
slaves that their destiny their handsto ~
free people remain property. Most Of them chose
the ioror lot and there sunderng Of the ties O.
affection which had bound servants to the household In
which they had been lifetime members Tears expressed
the grief OF both mist and maid and when an old
ooorsd woman eighty sears advanced in her plgr mage
resolved enter upon life Of experimental freedom
leaving the homo where she received kind treatment and
tender perhaps be neglected and to suffer the s
OF poverty and want, in tho agony Of her grief the rebel
soldiers youthful wife exclaimed Aunt Mary has gone,
toolo a ~ LtF tNi fg stH
s,..T s3er ..r A Nx1HFuL PICTURE. r, $50 sete
merry laugh and the cheerful face OF another vito,
whose yet seventeen out Of the rebel
riding BY She was amused at the sport the cavalry boys
A,oying while In the pursuit Of poultry IN hot
sun and under difficulties and wooden buildings. They
Yhlos,hicay exclaimed that she might as well laugh as
cry about t. and long as Henry was not IN tho army
and In danger she had right 70 bo happy. ,r. .f
oRICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE.
Tho Post once and Custom House In Urbanna were not
interest therein centred 10 the documents OF long time
ago. The late Custom House officer, Mr. Palmer, pre-
scented 20 the HERALD maness OF the car
Ply mouth MTpahannOk, dated January g. 1906 the
schooner Delight, from Antigua for Fredericksburg, with
forty eight puncheons OF rum, &c. dated August 10.
1909 Of tho ship Commerce Quilt a. Bath Massa
chusetts) from Liverpool for TAppahannock dated o.
- REIlolous CONDITION ov THE PEOPLE.
Tho neat little brick church for Episcopal worship AZ
Urhanns atess that tho RELIGIOUS condition Of the people
OF course, desecrated by our chivarc soldiery.
wa TRADE ooMMrRcK.
There had three stores in Urbanna but there are
goods In thcm now, and II Is presumed that they
have nothing to SELL all the ladies united In the decla
ration that they bad nothng to wear but dresses TWO
THE TOWN ANCIENT AND SMALL. -,
The town Of Urbanna Is ancient and small dotted Win
thirty forty houses which present an Dir OF com
fort, II not elegance
There wero no men Urbanna capable OF bearing arms
il half dozen excepted who appeared as though they
might make very indifferent soldiers, hardly worth con
scripting.
The court house Of iddesex county at saluda three
miles distant from Urbanna the road to which leads
through productive, pleasant and hOsptable region.
rtorrSs HRRps-wHEAT AND CORN.
The reported destation Of the South was not strikngy
of casts fields or wheat and corn and numerous
vegetable gardens and fruitful orchards, were seen here
"''' ''''' ~ LABOR prconrse SCARCE.
raid after raid il made through the South by our
cavalry and field hands leave for cooler skies u Will fol-
low that labor must become scarce, and the time may
come when the rebel solder must convert the sword
the ploughehare learn that his wife and chill
dren c'amor for Bread Inhumanity to the negroes IN
transferring them from Southern homes to contraband
camps may prove humanity TO the men In arms against
the authority Of the Union by compelling them to ahan
don the cruel arts Of and pursue the occupation OF
raE uxoS AZ II WAS NOT pEsrrsKp
The most decided advocate OF Southern rights among
the ladies and the old men, who alone occupy that part OF
Virginia which this correspondence sketches and those
date the Union as il was but admit that the best
goverument the world ever knew This admission s one
stop y the path Of its restoration 81
9N Army or rTm PsroxAc, June 10, 1888.
SOLDIERS APrsscrArs ANCIENT DOCUMENTS.
Al Mddlesex Court House the cavalry boys obtaine<
documcntsone dated October IL, 176l,
the year The reign OF George the Third under the
huge seal OF the colony In which "Georse the Third by
the grace Co.. OF Great Britain, France and Ireland
King Defender OF the Faith" constituted Edmund Berke
ley and others Justices Of the peace in the county Of
tenant 6overuee and Commsnder-in-Chisf Of the
colony and dominica Of Virginia; another dated
October 20, 1874. being bend 70 pay four hundred
pounds good sound understandable tobacco, signed by
John Fitz Randolph cfrWE !
~ AN AGED IADy's GREAT GRIEF
An aged woman In tears at all times makes one sad
and when venerable lady, who had lost the horse which
had carried her husband grave weepngy besouht
Colonel Fitzpatrick TO make effort to procure Its return
her. cloud Of sadness passed over bis face was
the value Of the horse but the associations with the
memory OF her husband that mpelod her TO make this
request. When among the multitude Of animals il be
evident that her horse could not DO found sister
with more rmness and less excitement almost STORMY
reproached her for asking fsvors Of an enemy.
DAuoWER's LAMkNrArroN
while riding along through wcslmoreIand county f.
male heard crying bitterly, though her smenta
tions were caused by deepest grief Approaching met
little girl some twelve years old and Gin agony she
mother was expressing both and indignation and
giving TO tho sentiment that she did not believe
Ss
cessi.y which imperative 70 impress that par.
tcuar horse Into the Union service. Poor little girl,
even your would be heightened were your only
brother fall the battle ned before ths cruel war Is
over"
IN TRYING RECOVER MS "Boyn HE LOST A HORSE.
A citizen Of lancaster or westmoreland drove up
Ia an open buggy, Win MS large umbrella smell
tering him from the sun, to recover his only negro
boy, who had avowcd his determination to become q
Yankee and had gone into the train which "onward
bound The citizen Intercepted by the question,
"wcre you In the rebel armyt' lie answered that
he had been. why, then, are you not IN II Dowf''
s'Becsusc procured substitute" followed that the
unharncssod from the buggy by the cavarymen he
was Left 70 walk home ge there any manner that he
could
% sHn HORSE mPREsexrr. n,
Instances might be enumerated 70 almost endless
tent OF serious nco nvenences resulting from the horse i'm
pressment One young widow lady who had old horse
UNFIT for army service rode eight miles 10 the
animal BY and the assurance that she had
relatives n the rebel army she accomplished her
nose Another lady, the wife Of . comfnissary In the
rebel army, wis not successful. Another and old
LADY, who had In the Northern army and another
IN the rebel service, went home without her horse.
n the horse imprcssment BY Kpatricks raiders has
been nconvenent and unpleasant 10 the citizens Of that
part OF the oonederacy through which passed. they
can derive some consolation from looking upon this pic
M, al IN fha pa sko