Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-05-19
East of tha,Cknlran.

We are indebted to friend for the following exS
tract from letter written east OF the ChoHan, with
in the enemys lines. It contains some information
which will be interesting especially tothe Albemarle
people who are outside the epemy's lines - -, -.
HERTFoRD, N c. APRIL 80, 1858,
Mr.. - goes to see his son near Suffolk, where
the Army Corps Of 1t Gen. Longstreetis is now post
ed. He has kindly consented TO be the bearer Of
letter. and hasten to inform you Of the situation
here! You can TO doubt imagine our feelings, now
Of hope now Of fear, when. Dame Rumor brought
the rst tidings Of Gen; Lohgsreets approach That
report was that he ason the Somerton road, about
IL piles IRON Suffolk with 10000 men, and 70
pieces of artillery. In this instance it must be ad
united that the flying Dame gave US the truth,
though her reputation for lying is extensive This
report reached us on the 10Th. About noon OF the
same day, thsre was reported to be brigade at
Gatesyille At night 800 cavalry, (4lst regiment
Col. Bakery had reached IS, 10 miles from here,
and sent off 10000 pounds of bacon, giving him the
government price, (75 cents) for it On the 18th,
company l, of this regiment, paid visit TO Hert-
ford. Picture to yourself day without cloud
Fancy that you see tho whole population out, with
an immense crowd from the country all in their
holiday attain and, no$, Imagination fails you
One hundred cavalry ride slowly down the street,
entering the town by Col G'sl Already you can
hear the cheering along the street 1t was like six
o'clock of an election afternoon. From every door
boquets are thrown to them, and q haRkerehfef
waves from every window. Little Confederate flags
hutter about like leaves in the wind. They halt at
the hotel. The commanding officer rides TO the
front and commands "Braw sabre Present sabre
Three cheers for the people of Hertford" You
could scarcely hear 80 FOUNDER at the headof the
street The troops are dismissed for dinner --
N . =. - ".it* af. ~ -
. The cavalry after taking dinner, started across
the ferry on their way to Elizabeth City, but being
informed that the Yankees had left that place, (ta
king with them about 1000 negrOes) they returned
After staying q short time they returned towards
Gatesville with fall s.omachs and haversacks They
obtained everything they wanted free of charge
Each man got plug of tobacco and as much smo-
king tobacco as he wanted for nothing. So much
for the first visit ~
Since then, VIC have had any quantity Of Confede-
rates in town. among them one section of BOgg's ar
tiliery under Capt Wright We Nave had as many
as % companies in town at ore time, with General
Longstreet's Chief COmmissaIy, Maj Moses. ~
Wagons pass here every day going to Har
veys Neck after provisions. 75 passed here to day.
Now and then one comes in and gets something 10
eat The commisSaries are very &C
tive buying up provisions. They have already got
about 300 900 pounds Of bacon and large quantities
of corn, &C all the commissaries report to Major
Moses at Bennng's bridge, formely Newby's bridge.
Gen. BenningS "a GeOrgan) brigade went as far as
Oak Grove Churlh the other day. He has rebuilt
Newbys brdS and called it after his own name.
The Yankees were at Edenton Monday. They
brought up some light artillery into the town. sta
toned pckeS, &c stayed an hour or two and left
One of our MA56rs was in the town a gerry quiet
spectator oftheir proceedings. Day before yester-
day they came here Ito HertfordD with old Chase
Che vent off when our folks came this sde) to get
his furniture. There was only one Confederate Of.
hcer in town, a commssary, and he came out here
and spent the day with us. One hundred marines
landed and stole everything they could get to- They
visited nearly every house in town killed poultry,
&c. They broke into F. A. Cooks jewelry estab-
lishment and stole % watches, some of them gold.
He had gone home to dinner, carrying with him his
box OF watches, SO they did not &c. them They
also stole all his tools The little boys
. saved great many valuable things for him by GO
ing in with the marines and helping them steal
Mr.. Cook estimates his loss at s., 500. The
Confederates h.d field piece Nixon's point op-
poSite Hertford but they could not fire, because the
Yankee gunboats, (Com Perry and Valley City)
were in direct range with the town. The Yankees
however, when they started away, shelled at our
troops, but did them no injury. They shot hole
through one Of Mr.. F. Nixons outhouses, and one
she'll fell IN the yard of j. L. Skinner, ESQ.
Capt. Myers, with his guerrilas 90 strong were at
Road Landing, on Yeopine Creek, 10 miles distant
when he heard Of it lie Immediately put his men
in motion and doubledquicked to town, where he
arrived just as the Yankees left. had liked 10
haveorgotten to tell you that the Yankees have taken
away all of Mr.. Harvey's negroes The
BufaloeS evacuated their position at billiards., hav
ing previously destroyed the block houses. They
stuck up piece of paper reading thus: "A leettc
too late" Our foIks were soon enough though, to
catch 10 of them among them Halsey F. Wilson,
deserter from our army
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Provisions in here are tolerably high-Aour IA
cents per pound The government price for corn
is 81 per barrel in GateS-$5 in ChOwan and Per-
quimans-Sl in Pasquotank-proportioned to the
distance. Price Of bacon 75 cents per pound .
= - We have had bad times for the crops. 1t
il raining continually