Weekly national intelligencer., 1864-03-17
SOUTH ERN NEWS
From hiehp oad J0~aeis TO III. 9Th Of March.

The Raleigh Confederate states that Jud ge Battle has
lately refus b. .sne wrs Of haheas erpus ia number
of hep ap9ied fsr by fers,s who had placed sub
stitutes The army the gnund Tint the Grit
pended in al sucn by late act Of congsss 1t
also learns that such ls ihs "pnlon Of Judge Manly.
Judges Pearson Battle aud Manly constitute the Supreme
Court of North Carolina and two of the three judges
sustain the Government in the suspension OF the writ Of
habeas corpus the final decson of tho matter against the
substitute men is only question of time.
RAIDERS TAKEN PRISONERS.
Lieut. Pollard brought in ninetyfy Yankee prisoners
on Saturday night, captured in the encounter in King
William, OF which notice has been taken. According to
count these make three hundred and four prisoners
captured from the raders besides the killed. aud also the
wounded who were not captured. Fitzpatrick has been
we'll hacked and will trust himself another such
expedition. Richmond has seen the last Of the raids
ExoRBiTANT PRICE OF FLOUR.
The Danve Appeal mentions fact worthy OF record
that while merchants in Danvile seing -four At two
hundred and twenty ge dollars per barrel, Mr. s. Lea
brought to that place few days since aud sold ten barrels
Of flour at seventy five dollars per barrel Truly hiss
example well worthy Of imitation.
PRESIDENT LNcoLN's PRocLAMATIoN
Among the appliances which Fitzpatrick brought with
him to help in taking Richmond" was bountiful supply
Of the amnesty procamations of Abraham Lncpln-ong
live His Most Serene Hghness! We do not know how
many Of these messages of love Fitzpatrick was loaded
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flying to sweet friends to be Informed that these nsc
Tomato missves have not been burnt or buried or hid
away in CONSERVATION from people, but have been
broadcast 10 our streets We have copy lying be-
fore that picked up from about hundred that
had been scattered at of the public corners of
Main street Itmay meet the curiosity Of the reader to
state that the "procamation' done up little tract
Of four pages 1t begins with whereas and invites MS
to hang the President and Lee and Beaureeard and
Governors Congressman, Judges, and other small men,
and to support Abraham in all that he has done
IN hnd aur uYnn arfv
and liberty, to receive his benedicon Let Fitzpatrick
scatter the documents. 1t is one Of Lncolns little
jokes" ab ttu VI tG ir 3teag s.t At ,t4#
NEGRO SOLDIERS AS PRISONERS OF WAR. 3
Yesterday the first vertabe negro soners of war were
received at the Libby They genuine sure members
Of the original Corps dc Asss ranging in from gin,
encased ia blue uniforms close buttoned up the chin
They were captured on the I'd instant within few miles
OF Williamsburg, with in their hands having been
pushed forward by Massa Butler with negro command
on foragng and theviDg expedition. Their and
military c0nnexon are recorded follows James w.
Corn and p +. LOUIS 5th United States volunteers r.
Armi:tesd and John Thomss, 9th United states voun
teers As they claimed to be Buffers pets" aud it be-
ing understood that great affection and fondness for each
other existed between them and the officers captured from
the recent ackng and punderng expedition Major Turner
very CONSIDERABLY ordered that they be placed the cells
occupied BY their white copatrots, each being sccommo-
dated with sable boon companion We glad that
ocials are inclined to carry out Greeegs idea ~ the
OF the races 80 far as Affects the Yankee
prisoners in 1t will result 10 mutual good The
only party likely to be seriously affected either in status
or morals, IL the negro"
THE PRISONERS THREATENED. s
The Richmond Wing has the following in reference to
the prisoners captured by the Confsderaes from the in
vading force Of Gen. Fitzpatrick: s44l
What shall we do with thsmf How will the Con-
federae authorities treat prisoners captured an attempt
to take Richmond for the purpose of burning it, and muir
derng the high officials Of the G0vernment-who have
orders to burn say and lay waste along the line Of their
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and tho intention was Immediately to apply the torch
They were already provided with 6re-bals turpentine
and oakum to make the incendansm speedy and sure
Had they succeeded 10 entering the city aud fred it az
they would have done in thousand different places how
many OF s inhabitants would have escaped What chance
would there have been for the and the children
the old the in6rm and the sck Or if they had escaped
the hames how many would have survived the Indictment
night, thrown out into the storm they would been
without the protection, of them, of ordinary
cothnsf Or If they had survived this how many would
have sunk under the slow torture Of starvatioBf
Shoot horses and cattle burn barns and mills destroy
every thing that sustains life, wrap in flames city Of
hundred thousand souls murder the President and his
Cabinet-this was the errand on which these demons
came! The proof ia incontestable The pockets OF one
of their dead officers furnirh the official documents How
repeat, will the Confederate authorities deal with mis-
creants taken in the execution Of this sort of work Will
they treat them prisoners of war; We ashamed
ask the question Now or never we must show the enemy
and the world that we know rights and kno wing
d,re maintain This days sun should not 90 down before
every scoundrel taken this assassn work 10 blown to
atoms from the mouths Of cannon and every should
be employed to get the of many as possible
those who have escaped that if taken hereafter they
may be treated in the same way"
THE COST OF THE RAID
In pleading for cavalry brigade to protect the capital
Of the Soutern Confederacy, the Richmond Examiner OF
Saturday audes follows to the coat OF Kipatrich's
raid to the Confeierates:
Throw out Of the account the valuable lives of our
citizen solders lost by the late raid throw out too the
negroes, borses mues and cattle stolen mills aud iron
works burnt the bridges destroyed railroads torn up
all these aside aud look the matter from an
othsr point Of view.
For three four days all the Departments and all the
workshops have been clnsed We may be sure that the
clerks and employees tagged out by marches exposure
and prvat0n will be n condition towork to-day The
Day of Rest comes 10 good time to them On Monday
next, then, the public business will be resumed-un-
ess indeed mschevous scout takes t into bis head
to give the people OF Richmond another shaking up.
Nearly week VIII thus have been lost and Lost time
when every moment is Of priceless value. Thirty days
in which to fund hundred millions Of dolars and
the Treafu ury closed during seven of those days.
we turn from the Treasury to the great workshops
where the munitions of are made, the bad
worse for the time ost cannot be- made up in either
these places. But count the Each clerk and each
artisan is paid fve ten fifteen or twenty dolars day.
Ills pay goes on while the Government s furnishing him
ratcns 10 the field and losing his skilled laborthe only
thing which saves him from regular military service
Taken suddenly from room and exposed to rain
but fair to infer that the larger number Of these clerks
and handicratsmen will be made more or less sick and
rendered incapable Of official labor for weeks to come
The chances that Of them will die And sked