Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-10-14

pror,,sing and reliable firm Of Burr5ss, Powers i
Yanc-y who haze commenced business at IL
Main street up stairs, with well selected stock
of rhifs goods, hosiery. fancy goods end non0''S'
Read the advertisement and be glad.
BATTERY No Son the MAE mile road was
b It cry No 6-a devil Of place in vet weather
10. mad in dry weather for dust, and in both
We tie for bad whiskeg, short rations imper-
fsct armament aud ragged but heroic Coiederstes.
Ne sutol ultra Cycpidam, says Horace that is, a
cobber should not go teyond his LAST, but mere Is
an Individual with the ext sordinary nime OF
hnau0Sc, which We suppose IS Dutch Tor no nose
Who has actually taken possession of Battery No.
; and turned it into 4 skoe shop. There's no'h-
inc like leath T" said come one. So thinss
Knauoss, aud who knows bnt it is true. Read
advertisement and judge for yourself.
W.
DEaD....In d church erd in tie Athens. OF Anne
RIGA, The hub OF the Universe and Plymouth Rock
knows not what beside IL the folloa ing classical
epitaph
The wedding day appointed was,
And wedding clothes provided
But ere that day did come a'as
He sickened and he die did.
We don't know now many have died III Boston
Tor the last four years. but we do know that
there's many green grave in Old Virginia in
which lies Wondering many heroic heart and
around which gather, IL gloom and grief, oui
most beautiful and our bess. Some there be who
desire that the soldier should sleep the scene Of
his glory. Some there be who desire that he
should BE exhumed and consigned to another rest.
ing pl zee. W. say let him sleep where he is and
eject monument Jver him there if not, one DR..
Mcclure, who hiGself has been dead to us for some
time past Will exhume, &c Read what lie slys'
"oBAccO.--We have recently, more than once,
in our commercial report, drawn attention to the
fact that thu Tobacco INSPECTORS, outside of the
city of Richmond, have failed to make reports
which should have been In the First Auditors
ofice-lt the iatest--Dy III, 10th Instant. Now,
we visit the tobabco market every day, and 81
l.ntly tfor, 10 our sorrow be it said, We have no
money wherewith TO bdJ observe Mr.. Csskie,
like 1. monument If Old, Gated IN his hair, and
william 7. Sheppard like q careful shepherd
feeding Lis flock but we cannot answer the in
oLriaS made of us as to the inspections in variouG
parts of tae St .ts and therefore we most respect
'nllv in futlre, Iefcr all such inter-. gators 10
Governor Pe.rpoint. THIS, however, We eau say,
that yesterday We received the following note
Commercial Reporter Cttte Whig:
The former charges that is before the war; Tor
Inspecting tobacco were fifty cents per hid,
and twenty-five cents for delivering each HID.
TO plIties sending for same. That ~a$ the ta@
The inspectors ROW charge at SeabroOks ware.
house for inspecting esch hid, two dollars, and
for turning over or delivering each hid, sixty
cents
AT Myers, Anlerson's, Robinson's, Hargroyes,
GlaZebrook's and Words warehouses three dol
lars per hhJ., snd the same price for turning
over OF delivering each hid, as al S7abrooks. /
think tho charge to- ing al this time
should be enc dollar ald n half and for turning
ont OF delivering, Fifty cents.
The price OF everything Is ever one hundred
per cent higher now than before the war, the E.
lore the inspectors should have over double the
aGO mt before the war. | forgot 10 state that
Shockoe fgarehouSe having been recently opened,
nave no. az yet learned what the Inspectors are
charging there.
Yours, &c.
kooT you now, all manner Of persons, that the
sbO:e Il genuine correspondence, but II you
want 10 fnd GU. the author you may ask us-and
We wont tell JOu.
TaE Burnt DISTRICT.-With tho blessing OF
G d, Lbe hard work of good mechanics, the aid of
octside friends, and the enterprise of our people,
the words burnt district" will ere long becc nue.
obsolete, and Richmond will be itself again.
Calmly and steadily, and with manly determine
ton, orr coed old Merchants are rebuilding
rC-bui ding, too, TO some extent, with The aid OF
Northern friends Who, whatever they may think
Of our lelple politically at least nd that there Is
here an honest purpose TO act up to all obliga.
tiohs in word, TO pay all debss. TheIe is zeal
guhimity In this Here are men whose whole
property became in twenty four hours, the prey
OF devUUring flames. For time they stood with
folded arms and sad hearts gazing in stnpetaction
st the ruins, but they awoke from this, and listen
ing to the calls Of their families, tie promptings
u enterprise, and the plide which they felt in the
prosperity of their native home, they went To
work: aad now We hear. on every hand, the clank
of the hammer and the RAG of the tr0wei, and
uprising fast into imposing buildings is cur ia.
al of q uniu Miln the work in
D edged to the payment OF what these mercl ants
honestly owe. This il a gOodly thing, much to
he rei5ced at, and ere long We will have more
reio eng for we = i'll be rehahilitated, and Old
Virgins viii. make Ter mark yet.
la order 10 rebuild, We must have glass, oils
paints, &c, therefore Try, among Others, Samel-
8 II, jacobson II Co., II Maia street.
Ut
MlCzY FBEE.--NIicky was sn Irishman (rest
his soul, he IS dead,) An Irishman full Of fun
irolic and potheen in fact, broth OF boy, who
wasn't ashamed Of his county, Tor we never saw
an Iri. Imam who was ashamed OF the Emerald
island that the Emerald Island had not tOme
cause TO be ashamed Of him. Do, reader, lei US
say ne word about tai poor old home OF ours
nov do.
" Lives there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native Land"
Let rs say il it won't 40 you any harm at sill, al
all.
The Great and Good Being who made US, placed
the I'D islnd in the broad Atlantic where the
SOFT ai-S oc the gulf stream could pJur over 1t
and make IT
First flower Of the earth, first gem OF the sea
And he placed on it an old Celdc race who still
take to their hearts the grand words Of Byron
Hereditary bondsmen know We not
" Who would be free themselves must strike the
blow
Alas alas that old Celt race is paupersed by
y0ttless rule. In ancient days "ere tyranny
grew strong" they were great and rich, and even
nov they throw a lay OF intellect all over the
wnrid for It il rot true that the light of other
days is faded" notwithstanding that Moore, pen
,iuuer OF the British Crown, hes said il.
We poOr We, who lest our boots at Bent Greek
and whose horse eGtCrpr!sing Yankees took from
Dr.. Meggnson's house'in Nelson county wish
General Terry would return it, remember, with
an ever.abiding memory, the sky.lark soaring
from tie Ire dow in old Ireland Sheey's lark,
OF which he said
Like cloud OF fire the blaze way thou wing
est
And singing thou dost soar, aud soaring ever
aingest."
We remember the little church yard wherein
our poor father and mother have laid themselves
down 10 seep, since we an Irish rebel like Mitchell
eros ed tie Atlantic ocean. We remember the
play fellows of our youth, the hopes OF our early
bOyhood, the immortal green Of our shamt0ck'
clad and dsisy.adorned valleys-but this won't do,
it would break our heart to go further. So lei,
Us tuin your attention to something else, and that
is to tie fac; that George Gwathmey, sn old
friend Of ours, has resumed the commission bust
uess. Read his advertisement.
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THE TRIAL OF CoLONEL JACQUEs.A profound
interest IL appa emily felt in this cause. Since It's
presentation the courtroom has been filled with
SPECTATORS and the professional gentlemen en-
cared on either siddbave conducted the exami.
nation with a great-deal OF warmth. Among the