The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-09
DRu1n.n-Wa cony the subioined from

DRUID."-ws copy the subjoined from
the Baltimore American, as taken from
the Pittsburg Commercial. 1t is quite anus
lug, and as accurate, perhaps, as the statements
in the radical press of the prosecutions of the
" loyal whites in the South c. c. Flint,
" u valuable ally to the Coufederacy," is de-
cidedly rich--as rich as the walIowins ain the
worst kind of Copperhead slime" "Druid,"
the Washington Correspondent Of the Daily
News was hardly c. C. Flint, we imagine
However, here Is the moroccan :
1t will be remembered that, throughout a
portion of the period the war lasted, the
columns Of the New York World were used to
iniure the cause for which the army fought,
by Baltimore correspondent, who sigued to
his communications the name Of "Druid."
When the Rebel sympathies of this writer be-
came slightly too emphatic for the World to
stand-or rather when the Democratic party
received the severe rebuke administered to it
by the loyal spirit Of the Empire State in
in l8e4--"Druid" had to transfer the emana-
tons of his venomous pen to the more con-
genial medium of the Daily Nes0s. Druid
was a man named G.. c. Flint and when,
with the surrender of Lee, bis occupation as
correspondent was gone, he established, in
Norfolk, Va, a newspaper that wallowed in
the worst kind of Copperhead slime, called
the Old Dominion. This valuable ally to the
"Confederacy" somehow or other obtained the
situation Of Chief Accountant to the Paymas-
ter of the Portsmouth Navy Yard. His ap-
pointment was remarkable though scarcely
unexp ected case, by those who knew him, Of
misplaced confidence. A few weeks ago he
quietly absconded taking with him some
$4,000 or $4,000. and somebody else's
wife. He covered his tracks so well as to
escape discovery and capture up to the pre-
sent time ',Dtnidi ~ fiiat, is evidently o
hard case
These extracts ue have given tn show the
universally oi the iawless and oppressive spi-
rit of the Red Cap party.
They are straws showing whence the wind
cometh but whit her it goeth, aud with what
force it shall yet blow, who can tell us
"HrAa Bora s1Drs.'-We clip from the
New York Herald the following, which the
public will take lor what it is worth
Referring to the atrpciolls dispatch con-
corning me which was telegraphed from For
tress Monroe on the 25th inst. have to say
that have not perpe,rated forgeries-that
have not decamped- have not deserted
the wife of another man. l have given up
my property, (ample to pay my creditors,)
and I anl incapable of leaving my wife, whom
love and cherish as the one dearest on
earth. &C. FLINT,
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 27. 1866.
Letter from Superintendent Charles G. Jor
.dan-corrects statement relative to character
of employees of Contractors and their loca-
ty-Representatives from Petersburg, Coal
Harbor, Fort Fisher, &c. Nine-hurdreths
of the men born and raised in Norfolk Coun-
Nine tbs of them Confederates--Men
wanted to go North at better wages.
Correspondence of the Day Book.
NAVY YARD, GospoRT, VA.
Oct. eth, 1866.
To The Edtt,rs Of the Day Book.
GENTLEMIN-There appeared in Monday
mornings Virgnian, an article casting re-
Elections upon the Contractors in the Yard,
which were entirely unca He'd for and salts
fy the workmen that the Local Editor and
the source from which he obtained his infor-
nation, certainly have not jnurneycd here
but little while
If they will come in the Yard and walk
through the buildings now being erected by
the Contractors, Grant & Co., Gibbons / Co,
Teemyer IL Co.-and if their acquaintance is
not very limited in the Confederate army,
they may see many familiar faces. They
will find those who carry wounds received at
Petersburg, Coal tiarb,r, Fort Fisher, and
in sundry othsf battles too numerous to men
ton. Ninety-nine hundredthF Of the men
employed by the Contractors Were born and
raised within the liues of Norfolk county, and
nine-tentls of them have been Confederate
soldiers.
And instead of men being brought here
North at better wages than they receive here
Yours respectfy,
CHARLES g. JORDAN,
Superintendent for Contractors,