Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-16
OUR SUFFOLK CORRESPONDENTS.
SUFFOLK, Va, April II, 1866.

To the Editor Of the Wing:
Permit me to congratulate you, my dear sir,
upon your recent resuscitatiOn, for the public
was afraid that giving up the ghost in these
troublous times was only to be followed by an
administration de 6ORiS non by some surviving
friend. am glad to hear that your case was
not case of death, only suspension Of the
vital functions, which yielded to skilful ap-
plcation of greenbacks. l will not now send
to any paper, for publication, the obituary
which wrote in the sadness of my heart, when
l thought you defunct. The paper upon which
it is written is covered with blister spots, pro-
duced, am assured, by the hot and taSt-fall
ing tears drawn from the eyes of friendship.
This effusion-nOt of tears, but of ink-will
probably never see the light of the world in
print. | shall fold it carefully, as " one more
unfortunate, - and stow it away among its kim
dred still-born productions Of my tragic muse.
| desire that you would understand that l do
not complain of the necessity for this DISPOSE
ton of the obituary in question; on the con-
trary rather think the pleasure experienced
in knowing that you were "nOt dead but
sleeping" has the advantage over the melan-
choly reflection that my labor of love in your
behalf was all in vain. | have no doubt you
will wish me "better luck next time"
And while you were enjoying your catalep-
tic suspension of vitality, the President declared
the war was over. There were some Of us who
thought that point had been reached about this
time last year. but it seems that we were mis-
taken in the year. 1t gives us courage and
hope however, that His Excellency should
agree with us, even though he should have con-
sumed twelve months in coming to the same
conclusion. We hope that his proclamation
means what it says, and that there will be really
peace. You know that we have in this town
only two railroads, and hence can't be expected
to know much Of what is going on in the world.
These railroad men are very accommodating,
though, troubling themselves to bring us mail
at least once or twice week. am not pre-
ciSely informed as to whom we are indebted for
these acts of courtesy, and though they some
times bring US the mail intended to be
sent by one of Commodore Vanderbilt's
steamers to Panama, and sometimes that ex-
pected in New Orleans, or Portland, Maine,
vet as "things" are not entirely reconstructed,
we are thankful for these small but benifcent
attentions upon the part of the United States
postmasters. They no doubt consider US,
equally with the Isthmus-a foreign route
But now the President has said that we must be
regarded as rehabilitated members of the
United States, we beg to call attention of all
postmasters, pOstmistresses and route agents,
to that important proclaimed fact, and we i'm
plore them to let us have the letters our friends
write to us, and the newspapers We expect at
the hands of our publishing friends, at least as
often as convenient. If it incommodes the
route agents who have the sorting of the
mails to get up in time to go along with them
on the cars, beg that they will not put them
selves to any trouble in this matter. We are
patient and can wait one, two, or three days,
for our proper mails We are accustomed to
wait: but we insist with all due propriety upon
being considered as "in," now, and that the
Panama mails and mail-matter may be put in
another bag than the one occasionally dropped
at Suffolk.
On last monday the County Court had IN
der its consideration the manifesto the Com
missioner Of the Freedmen's Bureau, for Yir-
ginia, touching the manner of trial by the civil
courts of freedmen, assisted by the subordi-
nate agents Of the Bureau. The Court, after
reflection, decided not to go into the trial of
any of these high-scented denizens of our soil,
so long as a seeming espionage is maintained by
the Bureau upon their acts; but respectfully
stated that they would be, as they had been,
always ready TO do full justice to the negro as
to the white man, according to the laws of the
land. The full bench of Magistrates had been
summoned TO take into consideration the con-
dition of the different public buildings, bridges,
SC, damaged by the war, and not yet recon-
Structed and the opinion of the Court may be
considered as a fair reflection of public opin-
ion on the subject of ''mixed commissions. -
Ahese gentlemen Justices would like to know
Wv ID" OF the land" IS, as they nave not
as yet received copies fthe acts of Assembly,
passed al the recent session, and which so ma
terialiy mOdihes the Code of Virginia, partieu-
larry with reference to negroes. They must
grOpe in the dark until they are enliobtonod
Who must be responsible for this delayf
The weather has been quite variable here for
the present month. Last week we were op-
pressed with heat, as well as with the Freed
mems Bureau, and now We have cold, damn
NASTY weather, with an easterly wind and
Scotch mist that defes thick OvercOat. 1t is
feared that the fruit of this section, though
protected somewhat by proximity to the sea, has
been fatally nipped by the late cold and frOsts.
The fruit crop is an important source OF reYe-