Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-07-27
THE EVENING STAR.
Petersburg Undermined.


PETERSBURG July 1910 The Editor Of the
nAp The editors Of the Richmond and
petersburg papers have been making fun OF
: me declaration Of the northern press thai
'anothsr brilliant exploit Do you suppose
Grant has kept 5oo0O me n in complete idieness
for six weeks, or fancy that his whole time has
been occupied in terrifying himself and organ
izIng raids If so, You will find yourselves
vastly mistaken, and that within very Few
days.
facts W hieh am about to relate Is not ma
terial. Suffice it to say, they are facts, as
time will prove. Perhaps rev hours may
bring the dreadful realization. tremble to
Know, then, our loved Cockade City will
soon be, if it is not at this very moment, thor
content to blow up the "Rebel Notifications"
has determined TO destroy the entire city as by
tremendous blast from the Internal regions.
In Ina, single instant every building in the Prin-
clpai streets OF Petersburg will be lifted on
hlgh and scattered to the four winds Of heaven.
You may laugh at this, but 1t is so. My in
1ormant mas seen diagram OF the mines,
winch, when completed will extend the length
OF Bolngbrook, Bank, Sycamore, and Old
streets. and perhaps as far as the old Fair
Grounds on the south of the city. ''This is
incredible and impossible on the face OF it,
you will say. Very well; you are welcome to
your opinion. But you will be good enough to
tell me what feat ever attempted with the pick
and spade the Yankees have failed to execute;
and will you explain to me the meaning of
Grants long inactonl 1 tell you this is no
eGnard-would that 1t were-but plain state
reliable source.
why do not make my statement to Gen
Lee or print it in the Express ?" you will natu-
rally inquire. l answer frankly, because Gen.
Lee would rebuff me lat least think SOY, and
because the Express refuses positively TO admit
me to its columns. Many of your readers will
fancy that have been dreaming; but can
assure them that am in my waking senses,
never more so in my life, and sincerely desir-
GUS, by this timely warning, OF averting one of
the most awful catastrophes that ever befell an
afflicted people. You can publish this or not,
CHAs I. BROWNE.
SHARP "CoNvICr"-The Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser tells story about one of the
aldermen OF that city, VINO was drafted, but
was averse to army service. 1t appears that
the common council OF Buffalo possess the
power to pardon conyicts in the penitentiary.
some Time since noted scoundrel was SEN
fenced TO term of imprisonment, and upon
this individual the 'conscript father fixed
his attention. He visited the prisoner, and
found him ready to go in the army as a substi.
tute. The next thing was to get the rogue par
doned out. This was accomplished through
the favor of the Board; but when the culprit
was released he utterly declined to enter the
service, and is now ready to undertake any
little Job OF schief that may present itself
- The Augusta, Ga, Constitutionalist saws
"the magnificent army Of Sherman has, with
out loss and without battle, forced back one OF
our best armies, under favOrite general; and
II be only had intended q raid, the destruction
OF the vast agricultural interest of the granary
OF our State is q loss which we are not pre-
pared to endure, and totally unprepared to re-
rleye. The evil is, first, the withdrawal from
market OF the essential food; second, the in
crease OF population caused by refugees, which
MAKES an increased demand on the producing
capacity or the State; third, the increased pri-
ees, winch tend TO depreciate the CURRENCY,
which cannot bear another one-third repudi.
alton. Then if it be more than raid, and Sner.
man holds his front by fertilization and his
rear by guards, 1t is an actual loss of empire
~ On Tuesday, August I'd, the people Of
Pennsylvania will vote upon the question of
allowing soldiers in the field the right of suf-
frage.
~ New York lady has hired three men
TO go to the war for her since hostiities COM
menced.