The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-02-06
CaMp NEAR RIcHNoND.
Jan. 18th, 1868 ]


CAMP NEAR. RICHMoND.
JAN 18th, 1868
Ar. Meshaeh Loraacg:: s
Dear BrotherI take the opportunity Ct
sriting you d few lines, to let you know how
I'm doing away down here, where never ex5
pected to be: butt body don know one day
where they'll be the next. these war tn mes.
.I've bin ffin Ike q bulldog, or like daddy
used to fte in the old wars. The old man.
YOU know, couldn't be whipped, and bro
ther, If hold ont faithful a little longer
.I,ll come home with the fame OF victory over
our enemies. I've bin saEerin for clothln all
winter, and you mant aswell try to draw
blood outen turnip a. to git anything here
Isonly as we whip the Iankees aud take 7
from EN-. There is SO many speck ilators
aud extortitners down here, that you can see
Fem every. day by hundreds that -, when
there no eX pectatlon ut, y lte-and they all
have something to sell. But only az TIE.
price If you wantto be made as mad rs San
E old hen after you've sucked her eggs. They
az $40 for britches. 40 for boots. 70 Tor shoes,
10 for shirts. and from. 90 t. Is for coats. l
Etcll them they can go ne YER mind
! where, with their things-for sometime or
Anther they'll git paid back for their me:anness;
!, Yau knew, brother, when / left home, \ sold
/ all nv things down atsthe 9pld honest price. to
| that Old whelp that's axin daddy SO tor corn n
| and so cents a pound for meat, when u he, q
! bin a gentleman he'd a sent me some clothes,
] for / reckon lie made 3 or S400 on the things
ii sold him beforeI started. But the. time Is
] comm. Ihope, when I'll gift, see him, and
isthen I'll make him smell frost even It II
should be in dog. days 4.
| locked a. good while for you to send me
/ some clothes, but you ritsyou3had bin 70 Alb
lingdnns two Of three Tines, and couldn't git
/ any ihiag Without payinSabont dozen prices.
and wouldn'f be skinned. You was right
about that. / am fat and sassy as usual, and
can fite awhile longer yit, if am harefooted
and ragged, though the weather IS mighty
! cold. But was raised in acold climate, and
lit DON { go much hard with me. Some OF the
I boys is compiainin. and say they won't lite
Ito do.much good, if things amt put down
agreeable to what they are gittin for Their
H services. They say they knowtit wogidn,t ds
i for the Government to raise the wages OF the
soldiers in proportion to- the prices that sex-
tortioners, AK, because il would bust 1t up N
i a month. But soldier can't work. Tor 81 q
| month and give $40 for bale OF cotton. a.
s They think, and Ithink too il would be just
4 as easy for Congress to say that cotton i
i worth one dollar bale, and domestic nine
pencea yard. as TO say that a soldier shall lite
4 for eleven dollars month.
II see Gov McMullin professeses to be the
friend of the soldiers, and suppose he IS, but
4 hes rong in Que thing that IS, IN lowering
s 100 per cent on all leadin articles. Thai
won't do, if know what per centage is, and
q YOU know we both. larnt in Pike. One hun
I t.
8 things, but on others it won't do at al Fol
Il instance M .ss Il. s4sS
Il FIRST cost Of cotton per bale 81, so, for 500
bales clear gain Of s. so: First cost Of cotIor
Is cents per yard, IN 2, 900 clear gain Of $500
Il First cost Of tobacco % cents per ~, cleal
! rain On s, 900 lbs. $500. First cost If sngal
4 20 cents per lb., on 10000 lbs: clear gain 9
$1,000 Coffee, rice, shoes, boots, hats, sad
I.dIes,. iron, salt and So on5sin prepnrtlo
:, These are what / call standard articles, ant
YOU see 100 per cent. 3won,t do Of all on these
8 things--IO per cent would do very we'll
! may be that Gov. McMullin calls ribons, but
tons, needles. pins, hooks and eyes, lonse
q trans. and so-ferth, standard articles, and j
q he does, 100 per cent wuuld do, if they didn'
& haYe t. 90 through the hands Of the teller
THAT sold Jeans, and crooks, and louse-trap
& in Abingdon.
& Brother, was in hopes ,yon would be a
good as your word. a saw two yof your letter
Il n our friends Coaie & Barr paper. though
them letters. would give the extartioners
!, hint: Of what would become Of them; but yo'
! say some Of them got niad--if 50, the Made
3 they git the harder and oftener you ought =
Z rite. i know you aitIt afraid to DO u. SIC
men ought to he rit about, and put ~ ever,