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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

The practice of refugees abandoning
the country and crowding into the large
cities is one which would be more ho>
nored in the breach than in tho obser-
vance. 1t would be wiser for many who
are now in the city to look about for
homes in the rural districts. Living is
cheaper in the country, and not few Of
them may become producers instead Of
consumers. If they can get even an
humble cabin, and a small garden, and
produce little, if it is only for their own
use, it is better than to remain here,
where their presence can only add to
their own sufferings and those Of others.
We warn refugees to keep away from
Richmond, and advise those who are
here, and can find homes in the coun-
try, to select some spot where they can
avoid the enormous expense of the ne
cessaries Of life. Our charitable citi-
zens and relief committees have their
liberality exerted to the utmost to pro-
vide for many who, if in the rural dis
tricts. might not only be more comfort
able themselves, but greatly aid the
farmers in the cultivation of the soil.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

The soldiers of the Confederacy have
won the admiration of the world, not
less by their splendid valor than their
heroic endurance. The world has no
such army as that of the Confederate
States. 1t is not composed of mercena-
ries, who fight for their monthly pay,
aad have no interest in the cause which
they support. 1t is made up of the valor,
the pith, the intellect an3the soul of the
country. 1t is fighting for home, for
wife and children, for freedom, for honor,
for religion, for all that is dear in memo
ry and precious in hope. The young
men who compose that army need not
be told that their mothers, their sisters,
their aged fathers, are looking to them
for deliverance from slavery; nor that
there is no future for themselves but
exile or bondage, il they fail. We are.
not surprised to hear that there is no
such word as fail in their hearts or their
thoughts. We wish that some of the
croakers at home could have heard the
cheers of certain division, lately, as it
confronted the enemy. 1t was heard for
miles; and no band of music that ever
played sent forth such blasts of defiance
and inspiration.
Well may the enemy concede at last
that it ID not the capture Of this or that
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

We need scarcely impress upon the
farmers the Importance of cultivating,
with the most energetic industry, every
inch of the soil. There is no questioning
the d-producing capacity of such q
territory as ours to supply our armies
and our people, if those at home will
devote their whole energies to the task.
A vast portion Of our land, once en-.
ployed in the production Of cotton, to-
bacco and other exports, is now devoted
almost exclusively to the raising of bread.
stuffs, and, Notwithstanding the devasta-
ton of raids, there will be more than
enough, if the cultivators of the soil are
diligent and Heaven blesses their labors,
to feed themselves and half a dozen such
armies as that Of General Lee. No man
should be detained from cultivation by
the possibility of raids any more than by
the possibility Of rust and chinch bugs.
1t is the duty of the farmer, in the one
case as in the other, 70 SOW his seed and
trust to God to give the increase. Let
those who arc exempt from the peril and
privation Of battle struggle to support
those who-are exposed to both. Whilst
the soldiers are fighting against the bayo-
nets Of the enemy, let the farmers fight
against the starvation tactics, which are
the main dependence Of the Federal
Government for our sutjugation.
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The NEWSPAPER PRESS IN rHs CoN-
rEDERAcY.-!The Danville Register re-
marks that the recent movements Of
Sherman and Sheridan have greatly do
creased the number Of newspapers pub
lished in the country. In Virgins, W
have daily papers issued from four
points-Richmond, Lynchburg, Danvills
and Petersburg-and one weekly at
Clarksville. The number has besn
largely curtailed in North Carolina.
Wilmington, Fayetteville, Newborn, etc.,,
are in the hands Of the enemy. The
Yankees now publish y paper at
Wilmington. Some think that Re-
Leigh, too, may 80 BY, then Golds5oro'
and Charlotte. and some smalles places
will be alone left. In South Carolina, it
is even worse. The Mercury was r.
moved from Charleston some time before
the occupation of the city by tho enemy ;
and the Courier, which remained, Was
taken in charge by the Yankees, not
withstanding it opposed Eullidcation In
1872, and is now issued % . Yankee
newspaper. All the papers in Columbia
have been discontinued.
In Georgia, the number Of public
journals has proportionally diminished,
and the same may be said Of the remain
ing Southern States.
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city which will achieve the triumph Of
their cause, but the overthrow of the
Army. It is the Army that is the sheet
anchor Of the great ship in this mighty
tempest. And nobly is itperforming
its duty. It has learned how to suffer
and endure as we'll as to do and dare. -
It indulges no vain threats, but it has
calmly and firmly resolved to choose
death rather than degradation. There
is not a high-souled pattiot in its ranks
who would not rather sleep in a hero's
grave than live to be slave. All honor
to these heroes-these hopeful, these
glorious men! Who cap doubt that,
with the aid of God, they will yet achieve
their country's independence and walk
the earth as freemen ? And what q reward
will be theirsl History and Poetry will en-
balm their names their ransomed coun.
try will clasp them to her breast as her
deliverers mothers will point them out
to their children; old men will rise up
to do them honor; women will look at
no one else; their example will blaze
up like beacon fire to encourage the
oppressed and suffering Of every cline.
No patent of nobility will convey such
distinction as the record :-"This man
was soldier of the Confederacy."
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The HAxrroN LEGION. super

The HAMPTON LEcIox.-This superb
command has given to tho Coniederaey
seven generals Hampton, ito originalor
and colonel, is now . a'lieutsnant.gen
Stephen D. Lee, formerly captain Of
its artillery, is also : lieutenant general.
Butler, captain, is now major.gsneral
The lamented Pettigrew, fir1t . Priyete
in the Washington infantry, fsll'ae tho
head Of his North Carolina beieAdA--
Gary, . saptain Of infantry, i breadisr
of cavalry, in command around Rich
mond. Counor, once captain, . als9A
brigadier, minus . leg; and A6GlA 10
started q . lieutenant. has followed ~
honorable career Of hiG coufadegt ~
received his stars sna wFsaah.-CS5sm~
1ia CarolintaM.
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had been shed, not , hundred pears ~
she peremptorily refused TIE sotrsatilA
Of the colonists to diminish ~ slovo'
trade, declaring that "ws Saanot al]sW
the colonies to check or discousaee, n
any degree, traffic 80 beneficial 70 IL
nation."
And this is the nation which is new
moving Heaven and earth % pun up b
the roots the institution which she forced
upon the American colopies. For thirty
years she has had that thing steadily in
view, and is now making the United
States cat's>paw for her infamous pur.
poses. Not that the abolition Of slavery
is the end-only the means to jar more
important object Ninety years ago
not more than the lifetime Of some
men-she would not allow the colonies
to "check," or even "discoursge," the
traffic, because it was $50 beneficial to
the nation" The same reason actuates
her in her crusade against slavery. Nov,
it is $50 beneficial to the nation" that
a commercial and manufacturing rival in
America should be destroyed; and the
anti-slavery agitation being the only
means of accomplishing thA object; she.
the great slave..rader Of the world,
turns, like bloodhound, upon her own
offspring in this country, and the United
States, her gullible and demented dups,
joins in the furious hunt. All this under
the guise of philanthropy and virtue!
Her ruling principle of action can no
longer be hidden from the most simple
and credulous. What is "bene6cial 70
the nation" that is her conscience. No
matter how others suffer; no matter
what injustice, what crime, what misery,
may be the consequence to other coun-
tries, that which is "beneficial to the
natiof" is the keystone Of British
policy. She takes no more into calculs-
tion the results other selflshness outside
those specks on the ocean called the
British isles than the inhabitants of this
planet take into account such an imagi-
nation as the influence of their actions
upon the other spheres that compose tho
universe. To Britain, the British isles
are the world, and their benefit the great
use of the rest of mankind Whether
her hard-hearted selfshness towards
America will be crowned with ultimate
success remains to be seen. At present,
it is evident enough that she has done
more to cripple her American rival, and
build up her own fortunes, than could
have been accomplished by . var Of flfty
years, with all the armies and fleets Of
Europe at her command. We are not
more horror-struck by her diabolism than
amazed by her sagacity.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

The Northern journals do not seem
disposed to patronize His Excellency,
Andy johnson, Vice-President of the
United States. The exhibition he made
of himself on the Inauguration Day was
not worthy of the wisest and most vir>
tuous people in the world and the best
government under the sun. The Ame-
rican Eagle was much chagrined by the
lowering of the dignity, on that occasion,
of the greatest and most powerful nation
on the face of the earth. The New York
Tribune deals the Hon. Andy some awful
licks, and the Army and Nucy Gazette
dissccts lim with sharp instrument,
and with evident loathing, as if it were
dissecting something very disagreeable
to its white hands. Our readers recol.
lect Hon. Andy's speech to the assembled
wisdom and virtue of the nation on the
occasion oil. his being sworn in. We do
not recollect any speech that seems to
have created like sensation except taat
of the red-nosed apostle of temperance,
Rev. Mr.. Stiggins, when he attended the
"Ebenezer Branch" in high state of
inebriation, and invited several of the
prominent frienHs of temperance to en-
gage with hi m in single combat.
The Army and Macy Gazettes says that
Mr.. Johnson's bearing at the capitol,
trembling little, probably, with ex-
citement,' and his rather incoherent
speech, which was scarcely audible on
account of the noise in the galleries,
have not escaped the reporters. And
what is meant when, in public, man
utters platitudes, and makes those pla~
tftudes personal, and cannot help repeat
ing those personal platitudes great
number of times, as if there were some
magnetic attraction in the words-is
very we'll known. We do not intend, of
course, to intimate that high officials do
not often confine themselves to plati.
tudes, even in their most sober and in.
tellectual efforts. But we do mean to
say that the assertion that, in this coun.
try, Office. holders drive their power
from the people is too obvious truism
to require two minutes and half on
that point
"On that fatal occasion, the promi.
nent idea in Mr.. Johnson's mind seems
to have been that he was a 'plebeian'
and that he was proud of the title.'-
In the strict sense Of the term, how.
ever, the claim he makes at distinction
on that ground cannot be conceded. lie
must show some other reason than that
why he should fill the second Office in
this country. Here, every man is sup
posed to be plebeian."
And then the Gazette goes on to ex.
press the hope that "the peril of assas-
sination w4th which, according to rumor,
Mr.. Lincoln was threatened week since,
may be averted for the sake of the
country"
We cannot. express our own shame
and detection that the free and enlipht>
ened country should elect such a Vice.
President and, what is worse, that he
should compromise the supefior gentility
thereof before those benighted, iusolent
foreigners, the European Ministers, who
were looking on and listening all the
while, and no doubt drawing the most
unfavorable conclusions against the virtue
and intelligence of the people who could
select such = man for such > place
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

A bold thief the othse day. m eof q
Q iewelry store In Boston with . ~
full Of Diamonds and sscapsA 49,
/. There are now, IN the vast pin -
the upper Nissisdppl nee IL ~ y
HUNDRED and 6ey mllllcA r. r ~. T. i
out and ssedy - ~ -
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
CoSPEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
RICHMOND, March Is, 1865.

NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF
II Certificates of Four Per Cent. Bonds, issued
BY the Depository at Wytheville, Va.-The Deposi-
taIy at Wytheville having resigned, and the office
discontinued notice is hereby given to holders Of
certificates for four Bonds under ACT OF l7th
February 1864 issued at that office, that the same
viii be satisfied with Bonds upon application to the
Register of the Treasury at Richmond.
fSinged} G. A. TRENIIOLM,
NH l7-3taw2w Secretary Treasury.
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We trust that the appeal of Major
Pegram and Major Turner for persons of
color, free and slave, who are willing to
volunteer under the recent acts Of Con-
gress and the Virginia Legislature, will
meet prompt and cordial response. Let
the people of Virginia come up to the
crisis like men. Those who have given
their own sons and brothers cannot hesi-
tate to give their servants also to the
glorious cause We say, with our gallant
officers: "Let every man in the State
consider himself as recruiting officer,
and enter at once upon the duty of aid
ing in the organization of this force by
sending forward recruits to our rendez-
vous." We learn, with pleasure, that
quite an enthusiasm has been kindled
among the negroes themselves here, and
that they are eager to aid in the deliver
ance of the country. We are not SUR
prised at it, for of all who must suffer
from Yankee subjugation they would be
the most hopeless of the miserable. II
is, in realty, their determination that is
the inevitable effect of Yankee triumph
in this war.
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Those proud and bigoted aristocrats will,
no doubt, write home satirical and scorn-
full accounts OF this lamentabls transac-
ton, calculated to impair the high re-
Pute of the great and glorious nation of
the United States for being the best bred,
as well as the most humane and pious,
population Of the universe. Why did
not his Excellency Andy; before he went
to Washington, familiarize himself with
the counsels of Mr.. Sam Slick when ap.
pointed attache at the Court of "St.
Jimses, Buckin'ham," and instructed
"to sustain the honor Of the
nation on all occasions, demand~
ing and enforcing your true. place
in society, at the top of the pot, and our
exalted rank at foreign courts as the
greatest, freest, and most enlightened
nation now existin'." Mr.. Slick, now,
was man who could realize that it
would not do to carry the clockmaker to
court. I" An ATTACHED" says he. "Well,
it's station of great dignity, too, aint
it? 1t makes me feel kinder narvous
and whimble- cropped, for 1 have got to
sustain q new character (Which Andy
forgets) and act new part in the play
of life. To dine at the palace with kings,
queens and princes what a pretty how
d. ye-do that is, aint it? Won't it be
tall feedin' at. the queens table that's
all; and 1 am rael whale at ducks and
green peas. But I'm afeerd shall feel
monstrous onconvenient, and as if l
want jist made to measure. Carryin' a
sword so as to keep it from stickin'
atween your legs and throwin' you
down aint no easy matter, mother; but
practice makes perfect, do suppose
Well, VOW, our noble institutions do
open avenues to ambition and merit to
the humblest citizens, too, don't they?"
It's pity that Andy hadn't practiced
a III tile at playing Vice-President, and
making inauguration speeches, before
disgracing the great and growing Re-
public in foreign eyes. 1t isn't his
ignorance, or clownishness, or drunken
ness,-but letting himself be found out,
that hurts US SO. And, moreover, what
did he mean Ly saying and repeating,
and calling tho particular attention of
the foreign plenipotentiaries to the fact,
that he was a plobeian; rushing IN
among the blooded stock, and Devons,
and Durhams, and Kicking up his heels
and shouting out that he was scrub,
and was proud of its We are entirely
mortified; sunk in the depths of hu-
initiation, not on Andy's account alone,
but of the great and glorious Union, and
the popular principle Of self govern
ment, which may be brought to grief by
such an illustration of its infallibility.
We trust that the appeal of Major
Pegram and Major Turner for persons Of
color, free and slave, who are willing to
voluntoar urder the recent acts Of Con.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-23

YINREASURY NOTICE IN RELATION
TO RECEIPT OF SIX PER CENT. GER
TfFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS FOR TAXES
IMPOSED BY ACT OF CONGRESS, APPROVED
MARCH IL, ls65.-Notice is hereby given that ac
ding to the provisions Of the third section Of act
Of Congress Of March IL, 1862. copy Of which is
her, attached, mOiety OF the taxes levied by
slil act te1cepting the tax for the incnased pay
oi soliiers may paid in six per cent titcatcs
Indebtedness issued under fourteenth section OF
act Of Eth February, 1865. .
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-24

The BriAaI Cham Der, an Esssy of Warn
Ing and Instruction for Young Men. Also, new and
for Diseases Urinary
eystsms-eentfree, in sealed envelopes. Address, Dr.
J sKILLIE HoUaHroN. Howard Association. phil..
ielphia, Pa. aprS-dsvlv
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Eel
has proposed n Important nitasy cAanoe.
He wia6es tat the dead shosld, previous y
interment, be placed in mortaaly chaps,ng
where the survivors may pay the - honor
without risk of infection. Al prevent, the
body is left in the family roe1s fox days
Alex. H. 0aepAsns, II his dseIinaaioa
Of Congressional eanGdsc4 suggested The
selectioA Sas Congsssmen, Of psauonssn not
identified nth the defnnct eonfedsfacy. 81
The ScotchmSA ID Chicago organized .
Caledonian club on Wednesday evening, for
the fostering and encouragement of Scottish
games and other social amusements in Chi.
Gen. Butler proposes to write history
Of Gen. Grant from the time he entered West
Point to the period of his appointment as
Lieut. General re- ~
Commodore Hull has been succeeded in
command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard by
Commodore Selfridge
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Am erican Ice and Indian SUI
DerstittOu

Yankee enterprise reaches everywhere, car
rying our products to the ends of the world.
A letter from Gala, Island of Ceylon, to the
New York Herald. says there are several
Americans there engaged in business. Amer
lean ice, brought in ships from Boston, is
considered the greatest of luxuries. The ice
trade has been carried on for some years,
both with Ceylon and India. The writer
adds:
a ship laden with American ice arriving in
ANY of the Eastern ports is a cause of great
rejoicing, and the cargo meets with a rapid
consumption. This branch Of commerce
might be developed to much greater extent,
with profitable rewards. There is no other
country but America which can conveniently
send ice to the East, and natural ice. except
It IS imported, is thing unknown in oil the
countries Of Southern Asia. An amusing in
cident is mentioned Of the arrival of the first
rec ship. The skipper, shrewd, waggish
mar, touched q. one of the principal ports on
the Malabar coast, Southern India.
Haillng native on shore, he took large
block of ice and wrapped it in blanket, tell
ing the innocent Malabar TO carry it to his
master. The native efated at being the bear
er Of such q treasure, as he supposed i: to be
an enormous jewel, stopped at every house on
the way to show the people what a Yankee
sailor had brought for his master. The Euro
peans, as soon as they saw what it was the
native had at once started for the ship, and
immediately the old skipper found himself
head over ears in business. The native near
while kept showing his ice around, and, to
his surprise, foand it rapidly dissolviug. His
superstition being alarmed he now FASTENED
directly to his master to present him what was
lett Dut to MS alarm. when he unfolded the
blanket he found nothing in it. The limo
cent native construed this into some interfe-
renee OF the devil and an incarnation of the
god of the neither world. Without further
ceremony he bolted for the temple, and per
formed a variety of propritiatory exercises
and laid gifts before its idols The mater
however, soon discovered to his satisfaction
the secret of the mysterious conduct of his
of his servant but the native for some time
after always thought of the Yankee and his
ship with feeling of awe.
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A decided difference of opinion exists in
relation to certain affairs in Texas, between
General SHERIDAN and Gov. HAMILTON. The
former is justly in favor of paying due re-.
gard to civil law, while the latter, singularly
enough, desires the punishment of civil of
fences by the military arm. A late Texas
paper says:
- A difficulty exists between Gov. Hamil
ton and Gen. Sheridan. 1t seems that the
Governor has arrested several citizens 1--WE
supposed for political offences, and desires to
have them arraigned for trial before military
commission, to which Gen. Sheridan objects.
We never had much confidence in Gov. Ham
ilton, and now that he is Furnishing men for
acting in conformity with the dictates of their
own consciences during the late war, we still
think less of him. While Gen. Sheridan seems
to desire to eonciliate and restore fraternal
relations between the people of the two wings
OF the Republic, Gov. Hamilton exhibits his
new born zeal by prosecuting those whooncs
disagreed with him in relation to the proprie.
ty of the war.
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