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Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE NAILS
CAMP NEAR FRyDKMCKsBuls, June 4

CAMP NEAR FREDERICEsBURG, June 4.
To As Editor of de Wig:
The Inconvenience and an1ietes growing out Of tho
irregularities Of the mails great that feel
strained to ask that you will arouse tie ate ito of the
property authorities to the use of the proper remedy
believe the complaint IS torsrsdi Soldiers who have
written regularly and often have heard that Of
their letters have been received others have money LOST
others again hear that letters written at more recent
dsy were received before others written at dis
tant Some, after having written often home, both du-
ring and since the recent battles receive letters from
their friends asking their Whereabouts How many thou
sapd hearts may even now be in the deepest anxiety
because letters promptly written after the battle have
been lost This is not question Of convenience alOne
lis o which concerns all the tenderest feelings of
the heart Stall the soldier be deprived of his greatest
comfort Shall the anxious friends at home be kept in
co slant xety for the lack Of proper care on the pa
Of our postmasters ? Will you please use your in
uerce to have the fault corrected and you viii confer
great favor upon the whole Army.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
rls,sasL AID commgReIlA.

IN RICHMOND, June s, 1858
We continue to quote gold at $3.50. prem, buying
90 prev ng rate silver s55 So bank 80
IS per cent premium The business is verylxh stock
mark hsve changes % note. except fsli advare In
Virginia reg bons they have sold sEee last report
IFS ConfsdeEst, bsnlO the IS loan held 81
2c0
Ouaud after the 10th inst the banks Of this city viii
as 10 receive or psy out Consdsra Treasury Issued
PRIOR Dsenber 1862 The object u hiA gson sto pro
t,ct aeusev from the possible OF the funding act
M Of August nur which time all OF said notes then In cTei
ion cess. efurdabe 1.-THE continue
cye them until Ia they would have thrown upon
them large AMOUNT which would be 70
much unayAAbs capital unless The people voud continue to
eye them other tansble currency Ia ts e7ent the pur
OF the inn1sg act which Is 10 drive the Of rcu.a
don, far bic, would be thWsd The eject therefore
Of acEon Of the banks a promote the funding
old Treasury notes OF which there circulation
in the Confederate States, about $40 OOOoOOperhaps ag.r
l. hoped aad 5 ieved thai tie combined operation
Of the funding will tue absorption Of tbs
smoun during months Ia the meantime
old Issue should lose value lecIuss be bapIA
be-" lis not trrg TO have poron Of currency
liable for bank urpo5es ard yet tina. prtion for all -
ordinary purposes business 20 be any other The
backs beie tie ,iIo. receive pay North Carolina
notes they not rein5d In trade account Every
booy pay n, the notes rejected by
TIE banks for that purpose, they exchanged
unit the lat Of August for seyen per cent bonfs-
Tn Atlanta lnelligsncer OF the S0.h ult. reports L..
suc)n ths day Tr,yiovs, OF rice -four at ne h. soda
90 tS9 per b. dcur s2I per cvt moassss a. t5 per
black AZ 80 n. The Consderscy the date, IN
market repor quotes rice lll2 cents syrup o.
Whskey an apple s1d p'geh bandies 500 gallon; beef
dlll 81 saie, serAbl de line in no demapd,
bu. little eogi s nzns says that peealst,rI
bu Ing. becluss declining that oE'y
consumers c.aihI.
The Nilied ev. Recorder has the following remarks
| IL regard t. ai.es- ehH -p' cu'tors IN georgia
Several OF .n!s u5,s the fac; that persons hsYe
been ofhagt d. SCas for III. growing crop
with M design lee ng ~ he price o. fur prevent
81 snfk @hcA rfys been withheld from III marx.
the no II Sill h p-' II Is stated that ern go
barrels hieb %, rs ~ tsre' 1.-THE prce brought
d6wl s. Teuty on 'ii NJ vi, be the case when the
sourds' noy 4dy f.r ..I- sg all be thrown Upon
/, 'hP ssont - s''a 'HVI5 $50 p10 ] rht' IN
-
81 ! - bOOJ dsali I
5emssves irf'ss BE-; Ihe people have
by Whatever with 'p'rOrs, whose God 10 hammoD,
Jntry tact h1stt TBey uttsy
o. against al ether 'uGnenct Ne ef upon Ggdcn
RAJ f everywhere TO rstGs s Gss ofer With pat lotto
Mischief ten3e5 20 the DO o. when
hts prices proposed 90 bnaons formed
10 eolt the very highest prices AMI 81 be the aim ard
desire Of all int pr'ons t. deisa. Wis mi Jet
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

TgE WEsT-According to some theological writer's
who have undertaken uoravel the mysteries Of pro
nheey the combined hosts Of Cog and Magog are to
meet in he Great Valley Of the Mississippi time
l. tween the years 1860 and 1875 when the great bat
~ of Armageddon shall be fought At this battle the
o is to flow pntil it reaches the bride bit OF the
borsemen aud Stink is arise from the eGrcasses
of the slain that win scatter pestence and mourning
through the whole land. 1t is be the greatest and
last battle on earth the final contest between liberty
and despotsm il is to decide not only the fac, and
tinent, but is like wise 10 produce revolution in all
the great moi arches Ct Europe The cause f liberty is
10 make its final triunphs the ancentmorarches OF the
N Word ar. 10 give in before the cOnpceripg hosts
Israel is to be restored democratic theorracyis to be-
come the recognized Government not only in North
America, but throughout all Europe; Poland is TO be
restored to her ancient liberties, demagogsm is to have
il funeral obseques the Mlennia Reign Of thousand
wears is to set in and t is boped the Puritan Round
Heads aud Yankee politicians are like their great
Chief in the lower world to be put into close custody
where thew may no longer disturb the public peace by
system Of intemeddling With affairs that do no con-
Germ them.
The sangunaIy conf CT which has been prog 6
at Vicksbg during the past ten days, the disposition
the Yankee Government to hazard everything in the
contest the continued flow of reiniorcemens to both
armies for several weeks past the dreadful carnage Of
the Yankee troops aud offensive stencil arising from
their rotting carcsses; the locality OF the hostile armies
their great and increasing numbers and the period OF
time in which these events ranspiing serve TO re-
mind ms of DR. Badwn's Omitted States in Prophecy,
and his theories of the great Armageddon. IL cannot
be claimed as veriication Of his PROPHECIES" how
ever since the character and material Of both armies
lack many of the essentials specified in his prophecy
Columbus Sum-.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
DrpRrss1os IN TTADE.--The Atlanta Intellgencer
comments thus on the existing depression Of trade in this

prpRrss1os IN TTADE--The Atlanta Inte!Bgencer
comments thus on the existing depression Of trade in this
country:
Perhaps at no time since the beginning of the war
has the depression in trade been deep and 80 wide
spread AL speculation TO have been etfectualy
rooted cut of the peoples minds in very brief space OF
time The vocation OF holding up toreproach the spec
ulator and the extortouer must now be gone; for IL
Congress had framed a law whose direct object was
TO do away with all speculation whatever, it could not
have succeeded better g. an it bssa least for the time
being
This lu in trade brings ecsacy to all but the few Who
have made large Investments and anxious to realize
on them But this lu does not apply TO the retail trade
The retailers in small way reapng, as much as
ever their harves of profits. They are the men those
turn has come in the revolution of fortunes wheel and
they are busy at work gathering in their spoils.
The funding per cent goes on uninterrupted
w. and will 90 on until August Then the taxes must
be paid and will take small amount OF money 70 do
this The seizure and tie fear Of sezure has killed the
speculation in sugar. rot in tobacco the abundant crop
at hand that in wheat economy and saving are redu-
cling the expenses of families to the lowest possible
amount; and TO blockade goods, whilst they are be
coming every day, our people are learn,
ing 10 dispense with their greater and still
greater extent.
All these things make their Influence felt upol trade.
They give it that depressed character which in turn
reflects itse aud gives to traders sombre ard mean'
choly cast.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

BUTLER IN BoDILY FEAR-We trust that the follow
ing statement in the Times, about General Batler is
founded on correct in ormatiou
ellis per on safety is precarious that Ike other
great tyIants he has asers" prove the hsrme sness
of lis entrees and ragouts and the innocence OF his
wines wears bullet and dagger proof coat OF mat IN
der his uniform and sleeps with reyovers at mis- pillow
armed sentinels at his door, to prevent midnight
assassination"
How pleasing to know that the Yankee Haynau lives
in continual fear for the life which be deserves to lose
But it is TO be hoped that nobody will assassinate him
because if half OF the tales Of Lis atrocities are true
hi blood ought not to be shed by bullet or dagger or
curdCd with complimentary poison Buffers circula.
ton should be arrested by legal lgature at least if it
ia right that the law should be finished by that means
on the person of any maleactor or monster Judith
would not have cut Hoofernes head of she bad any
reasonable expectation that he would to be hang
ed So, long live General Butler, in dread of as
sassnation with the probability of the gallows looming
in the distance Buffers die many times before their
deaths so let them, and serve them right.-Lo"do"
Punch
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
TBu FrDra41 BRUTE TAl1n.-Amongst class of

TBI FEDERAL BRUTE TANER.-Amongst class of
Americans, not so numerous select, is Mr.. Rarey.
The many welwishers of this their American Rarity,
will have been glad to meet the following satisac
tory account OF him in reading their Times:
"An Old Friend IN Nsv Plaes-Mr Rarey, the
horseamer has been appointed Commissioner of Horses
in the Federal States. His first official act to so 10
the Army of the Potomac under Burnside. There he
enau red fully into the health of the horses and has
adopted new system to check the mortality amO &
them"
We rejoice in the assurance, dervable from the above
statement that Mr.. Rsrey is pumpkins say, alive
and kicking whilst he is teaching wild horses not to
kick. When he has succeeded in putting the horses OF
the Army of the Potomac to rights, perhaps Abraham
Lincoln will commission him to try his hand at tanning
Butler and the other savage brute, Mcneil if still un-
hanged and the rest of the vicious beasts, of whom
there are too many in the shape OF Federal officers II
must, however, be feared that no means ". ich Mr..
Rarey can employ to gentle" such rufans will be eff
fec.us in rendering them anything like gentlemen
London PHneh.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

Tx SToRM-Thc past week a week OF disasters.
l. rained more or less every day. and at times very
bard So severe gale at this season is no: within the
memory of our oldest citizens Ga Wednesday night
the rain literally pouring down, accompanied by
.eyere wind from the n (which shifted around in
the course of the night TO the s. W., with increased VI
oence-proving very injurious to the crops and literal
ly deluging the coast and sweeping away the Salt
Work. IL Is estimated that the crops in this immed
ate vicinity damaged 20 per ent, and the amount
of property destroyed on the coast is put down, at
Low estimate az not less than 100000. or course this
is somewhat conectural but large number of nuIea
horses, oxen carts, wagons, &c, we're lost and de-
stroyed which will be difficult replace 10 say 10
thing of the Injury the works and the destruction of
some 40 or 80 900 bushels of SALT but unfortunately
this is ot the worst feature of this unprecedented and
unreasonable storm. IL ascertained that between 20
and 30 human lives were lost. On Dckerson's Bay
alone some 10 peTsons-6 whites and IL blacks we're
drowned. At Goose Creek some or negroes per-
ished and or 3 elsewhere. We conversed with one
gentleman who estimates his los at SO 600. He lost
everything only escaping the deluge-he and his people
by climbing up some live cak trees by means OF
ropes and remaining there some ten hours. We hear
OF another gentleman who climbed tree with his little
sou-hoding on to limb with one hand and his boy
with the oheT-remsiniDg there until he was well nigh
exhausted On East River as it is called, there were
10 lives lost but their works and property were seri
ousy iriured and destroyed. 1t will require at least
fortnight 10 repair damages indeed, it will require
months labor with considerable expenditure of money
to get fully ON the Roadway Of making sat ogoio.-
III ridd Sentinel, June =.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

SIaEs BRIGHTESING.-We have the best aus ority for
saving that General Johnston will have ormy in
Mississippi which will be able not only to cope with the
Federal forces but under the management of that &C
compished sraegst, quite sufficient to annhilate he
foe utterly With loss already Of $4,000 men around
the eptrenchm nts of Vicksburg. should think that
the ardor and valor of the Yankee thieves plum
derers will he soon happened and when Gen. Johnston
hus his veteran legons upon their rear, be TO the
base hirengs OF LincOln who have been plIaging and
ransackiug our homes stealing the clothes Of our very
babes They will be scattered TO the four wnds-they
will vanish into thin air. FreebOOters are brave only
when their victims powerless. Let force approach
ing equality face them and they will cover like rogues
and towards The depredatiOns, outrages and theits
committed upon our people are such sins against high
Heaven which cannot be practiced with impunity.
day of reckoning is comings near at hand. And ter
rble will be the retributon which will fall upon that
body Of organized and licensed thieves, who set the
laws of war, of God and humanity at defiance. Let
the people of Mississippi respond with aacrity to the
call of General Johnston and Governor Petus, and a
few weeks will suffice drive the vandals from soil
We are passing through ordeal of fire and blood,
but the star Of promseof redemptionis seen in the
distance We are very hopeful Of results and our hope
is based upon n solid foundation. We know the Gene
raj who is to head our armes-we know the character
and strength OF the troops who fight battles. and
have 10 fears for the MiSSiSSippldn, 2Sh Nay
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09


CABINET PIcTUREs."--The London Punch, for some
time past, has been publishing rhymes in good old
Mother Goose style upon the various towns in Grea
Britain. A writer II the New York World adopts tbi'
style to, funnygraph" LincolI and his satrapa. B'
verses are os follows:
There was an Attorney named Lincoln,
The last Tor s.atesm n you'd think on;
All danger was smoke,
II he had but his joke.
And could browse, aud tell stories and Tink OH.
There old pilot named Seward,
Who never believed that it blew hard
So he walked up too late,
When the Ship of the State
Was drifting on sand banks 10 leeRard.
There was purse bearer named Chase, =
Who made paperNnd gold run race,
And invented the green back
That was ne'er to be seen back
At the customs-G very hard case.
There was an old fogy named Welles,
Gu te wort Of caps and of bells,
For he thought that pirate,
Who steamed at high rate,
Would wait to be ridded with shells.
There was an Attorney named Bates,
Chief adviser at law for the SAFES;
But never word
OF his plea1ing is heard,
Who can possibly tell how be rates
There was an old pOstman named Blair,
Disposed TO do something quite fair,
But ianatical fury
Made Blair, OF Missouri,
10 the pranks of tie Cabinet share.
There was an old war ass named Stanton,
Almost an American Dauton,
Though he thinks he's designed
To astonish mankind
Round the word from Chicago to Canton.
There old poet named Bryant
On Parnassus by no means giant,
Nst he srowies like ghost
As hI GO.es ii,iu
His bummities grim and defiant.
There was que pA.soD named Beecher,
Not OF Christ, but OF blood-shed a teacher,
lt was slSays a triae
Wbether-B BILE or rifle
Wrought the aim of this blasphemous preacher.
There al old Governor Andrew,
Never worse monomanac man.drew;
He held that the niger
Is very much bigger
Than events that may make the whole lard rue.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
VIRGINIA CENTRAL RAILROAD.
| CCOMMODATION TRAIN BETWEEN

IA RICHMOND AND CHARLOTTESVILLE.
and after Monday June l5h ACCOMMODATION tram ier
an expr, freight Will leave Charouye daily
day exc pied, $50 and arrive a. Richmond a. sl2 u.
urnng VII leave Richmond at o'eio p M ana arrive ~
OharlottsVIe at 945p 70. a,
This train offers facilities ansp aton OF milk ireh me W
and yeee ables to Rchmosd OF one OF the compa
nys ware uses wi orally tr the SAFE OF tun
BY any person choose TO bring them by the
Arr IrS 10 L. D. Of the com2anys sg nsw
be sol by him 1t this place comi Son. where pesos 90 no'
wish 70 Gems 20 the city BY this arrsngemen persons hs
dtanos cal OF for articles usuy Of little vue item
mary rates Of mond The company will reuI entity buck
e tns &C. which sem Richmond with aitiels iof
ssie IT, Of charge n ID wBIrCOMB,
I'd n GenI supr't
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

TIaHr PAPERs-INcoNE TAx.-We are informed that
Brewer in this city, who gave in his investment at $50
and his income for the year at $780, being 5000 per
cent upon his investment quietly Informed by the
Receiver that under the income tax law OF the STATE he
was due 81. 225. "But mein Gott no got him. give
you all de monish I've got" Very well, says Mr.. Re-
cever will have to take your note and security for the
balance Macon Telegraph.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
bow % Repress the Barbarities Of the Enemy

How 10 RepreSs the Barbarities Of the Enemy.
The gentleman 70 whom We are indebted for an ac-
count Of the late Yankee Raid in the Northern Neck
accompanies this communication with the following
sureestions which We detach from his letter for the
purpose Of bringing them more conspicuOusly before
the authorities of the Government and the public. To
IA they appear worthy Of consideration and adoption.
The last remedy he proposes "the black Dag is
shat the persstence Of the enemy in the mode of
fare they have adopted viii leave rs no privilege of re-
iscting. Says oar correspondent;
Nv principal object in addressing you this letter is
20 offer some resecdOns, which these repeated raids
aha Yankees suggest. What should be the course OF
our Government and Of people, to ares and punish
these inhuman barbaritesg That they not justified
nv the rights Of war must be admitted We have been
recognr ID oy foreign powers as belgerentsand even
nv the Yankee Government itself-and properly so re,
oovuized. BY the laws Of nations. As belligerents,
are upouestionabT, entitled 70 have all the rights Of
civiIiDsi warfare observed towards Us by the ma
ton waRng war against d. Among these rights are
hat private property shall be respected private and
citizens Be unmolested in their persons
and estates and al be exempted from capture and spo-
HatiOn Our enemy has chosen TO ignore these rights
and 70 commit upon private persons and property the
most asgtOus Outrages, Plunder and deVassation--
Il Is evident that the enemy, bAed in his gigantic eff
Eors 20 snbjrgle BY his formidable arni in fair
and equal conflict Of battle 10 employ, and has
avowed bis purpose to employ the hendsh instrument
,alisy Of raids and forsys-inprsOnnent and plumber
His armies pause on the margin Of rivers under ,he
cover Of his gunbOats fearing to advance, whilst his
cavalry plays the part Of bgands and robbers
ulants,ious and our hOuesteads
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09


JEsrY's CoSsUL It.
JEFFERSON DAvIS,
President Of the Confederate States OF An4eries,
To all schODa may concern:
Whereas, MooRE, Esquire, Her Britannia hsJestsb
Consul pc o. Richmond Virginia. (iuly re-
gnized such BY he Exequor ssuti b. fmer Govern.
which was, lie o. tn Is ~, The duly a1thoriz
SgrLt for that purpose he stt4 Of isgna did 'eceuy
TO Consrl er O D shan the city ~
RchnnnA, and tate oje- hsl the 81 " gins and was.
nrrenprn the 20 6ty rrary l 1885, requested fy
cfery ae 70 submit The ngJaT hsnt 81 s,te his
Consular Conmissf vel ~ oh- auth ritz hemsyhs
jey b. fusth-r correspondence be held with hin
Her nj at The port 81 bch nond, sud whereas the
sid Gao Son has 81 ~ accenins 10 ssid reque
inp slTresr-uie tr jenys Consul IN
et'y II War - he % T. q te, thereby disregaf
the legitimate suttu j'y oi tii Government
Thee there ~ longer recr cnLs
the sad GEORGs 50 aunic Asjssys Consul In
part OF these Confederate stts pen H exercise
any OF the 'ur Ell privileges allowed
Of eat B-itsH And DO wholly revoke and annu
exeqiatur heretofore ne said GEORGE MOORE
which forn y h1rzed such
agent tie STATE Of vrn. and d. dersre ts said exequ
ur 20 absolutely NIL and r0d rom Ia dsy forward
testimony whereof caused these letters TO he mads
emf an The Sal o. the Ccnfsde ate States Of Am ca 10 be
ereu @ affixed
- Given pnder ny hand this hih day Of Jure In the
Iyear Lord thou and eli ut hundred sixty
= three.
"a nsdl JEFFERSON DAVIS.
By The President
[slg-edJ J. p BENJAMIN.
JED Ct Sc eiary a. Safe.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

FURIoUsH GRAxTED.-Gen. Rosecra1s, few days age,
received the following pertinent letter from indignant
private
general: havebeen in the service eighteen months
and have never received cent. desire furlough for
fifteen days, in order to re urn home and remove my
family to the poor house.
The General granted the Ugh.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09

u ANAWAY.-Ra away from Mr.. Benz:
III Loyd near Chariot Court House, The IN May,
gro (eTEPhEN between 20 and Is years OF age of dali
Ginger cake co.or, 20 hes hi h. ard vel se
weighing $50 pounds. will pay reward OF forty dollars
for bis delivery Mr. Lloyd twenty dollars for lis aptreher
don THAI he can be had. WIN. q. FRIEND,
leo 6tt Guard'n for Jo 4 A. SleppeTsop.