The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-27
Special Correspondence Of the Day Book.
Richmond, March "a, &c.


twenty-four hours behind tine, was welcomed
this morning by due course of mail. could
not account for its early reception, unless our
lazy P. o. clerks, many of whom, by the way,
are Massachusetts importations, have had
word of warning from their chief. The shame
full negligence which has controlled in the p
o. department, unnoticed for several months,
has at last, we are glad to see, provoked the
thunder of that powerful reforming agent, the
press, and its protests have not passed unheed-
ed. Let it thunder on, and the trouble will not
long exist. "& He
Your spirited leader, in Thursdays paper,
protesting against what you properly term
The Suicidal Policy" deserves much consid-
GRAFTON; the subject has been too little touched
upon, involving, as it does. the welfare of
Southern enterprise. ta
This great evil, of which you justly complain,
exists to very limited extent in Richmond.
Our people, cut off longer than yours from COM
munication with the North, have obtained
habit Of patrousing home manufactures and
now see that it is all important to the prosper
ity of our section. Continue to exert your in
fuence to teach NorftlS the same.
The Examiner, of this morning, devotes some
of its mighty energies to the lashing of fellow
named Hunnicut, who defles our city with his
presence, and poisons our healthy literature
with miscegenatiou sheet called :" The New
Nation, otherwise the Niger Expositor."
Dan Castello's great show will leave here
this evening, and Richmond will he minus at
least ten thousand dollars from its presence
I see by the advertisement in your paper that
they will perform 10 Norfolk on Monday
night 1t is first class entertainment can
assure your citizens, and exactly what it pur-
ports to be, "a moral exhibition" Your ladies
therefore need not fear to go; nothing is said
or done which eau shock the utmost refine
| ment.
| The last case within the jurisdiction Of the
| Provost Court was disposed of yesterday, and
that Court is now thing of the past. The
people regret its extinction very much, for no
other tribunal in this city, has proved SO eff
Gent in Furnishing crime.
The burnt district of our city, is being re-
built very fast The greatest industry is visi-
| BILE everywhere. Architects, bricklayers and
carpenters are still coming here from the
North and elsewhere, and they find ready and
remunerative employment The new build
ings on Main and Cary Streets are univer-
sally larger and more elegant in appearance
than those which formerly stood there, though
in several instances they do not appear SO
substantial Among other rapidly progress
ing improvements is the Petersburg Railroad
Bridge; il is about one fourth completed, but
the Contractor, Mr.. Strong, has been so indus
trous of late that he has worked hlmsel. COM
pletely out of his supply Of lumber, and will
be compelled, to wait several weeks, perhaps,
before he can resume the work. 1t will be a
happy day for us when the Bridge is compile
ted, for the people are now subjected to the
great Inconvenience of having to cross the
river and walk or ride two miles before they
reach the Depot.
A financial crash is impending, SO everybody
thinks. The warehouses and stoi es are clogged
with goods that find no sale. The merchants
have purchased extensively with false
anticipatons of brisk spring trade conse-
queutly the receipts are not sufficient to cover
expenses. ii this stagnation continues, num-
erous failures must follow. The first was an
nounced several days since. A Northern firm,
in this city closed business, being indebted to
several Richmond houses for more than twenty
thousand dollars. This stagnation III COM
merce is general. The New York Herald
thus speaks of the effect of the ''crash" in that
city, which it says is soon to come. Presently
the manufactures will have to stop work
Then we shall see thousands Of people thrown
ont of employment, starvation staring them
in the face, aud their children crying for food.
Riots will follow, ard perhaps revolution. -
That's al highly colored humbug, it is true
whatever may happen in New York will
hardly effect the interests of the country, So
lar as to lead 20 revolution but still seriou.
consequences are sure to follow, unless some
unexpected fortune should avert the event it.
self.
will state here, for the benefit of those who
lost re atives or friends in front of Petersburg
during the campaign of 1864, that Mr.. w. H
Griffith, the proprietor of the iar,a on which
the battle of the crater was fought, is prepared
to give information concerning the burial place
of many Confederate soldiers who died or were
killed in that vicinity He begs that those who
nave been anxious to find the bodies Of theli
relatives and friends will address him, in care
Of E. l.. Lunsford, Petersburg, aud their letters
will receive sympathetic attention. JIM