The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-03

an exercise of prudence, to last long
after succor reaches us. We are sat
isfied there are numerous persons
within our city who have breadstuffs
secreted, and are doing it out al
the most exorbitant figures to those
who had not the foresight or means
at their command to provide for the
IeXigency now upon us. A rumor has
reached us that parties in our city
have been ana are now selling flour
at five dollars per pound mo1asses
at ten dollars per gallon! and corn
at ten dollars per bushel. We have
not as yet proved the facts upon the
parties accused, but this aliusion to
the subject may induce some of our
citizens to ascertain whether such
prices have been paid. and to whom !;
and, if so, let band not only be
! placed upon their brow, but let it be
scared into their very brain, that
humanity may scorn and shun them
as they would the portals of hell
| itself
Good NewS-In devoting a large
portion of our space this morning
to Federal intelligence copied from
the Memphis Bulletin of the 25th.
it should be remembered that the
news, in the original truth, is white
washed by the Federal Provost Mar
shall. who desires to hOOdwink the
mer editors of the Bulletin being
rather prO-SOuthern men, were ar
rested for speaking the truth when
truth was unwelcome to Yankeedom,
and placed in the chain gang work
ing at Warrenton. where they now
are. This paper at present is in
duress, and edited by a pink-nosed,
slab-sided toad eating Yankee, who
is a lineal descendent of Judas Is
CARROT and a brother germain of the
greatest Puritanical, sycophantic,
bowling scoundrel unhung-Parson
BrOwnlow. Yet with such char
acter. this paper cannot cloak the
fact that Gen. Rob't E. Lee has
given Hooker, Milroy & Co. one of
the best and soundest whippings on
! record. and that the glorious Union
is now exceedingly weak. in the
knees
Gen. Rob't f.. Lee, Again.
! Again we have reliable news from
the gallant corps of Gen. Lee in Vir-
ginia. Elated with success. encour-
aged by a series of brilliant victories,
pahannock, defeating Hooker's right
| wing, and thence through the Shen-
andoah Valley, driving Milroy from
Winchester and capturing 5000 of his
men and a large amount of valuable
stores of all descriptions, re-enter-
| ing Maryland. holding Hagerstown,
| threatening Washington City, and
| within a few miles of BaltimOre-On-
ward and upward their war cry
our brave men under Lee are strik-
| ing terror to the hearts of all Yam
keedom. Like the Scottish chieftan' s
braves, Lees men are springing up
from moor and brake. crag and dale,
with flashing steel and sturdy arm,
| ready to do or die in the great cause
of national independence. right and
! honor. Today the mOngrel admins
| tration of Lincoln, like Japhet, are
| in search of a father-for their Abe
has departed to parts unknown. Ter
ror reigns in their halls. Lee is to
| the left of them, the right of them,
in front of them, and all around
them, and daily do we expect to hear
of his being down on them. Never
were the French in Algeria more put
| out by the raids of Alb Del Kader
than are the Federals of Maryland,
Washington City. Pennsylvania and
Ohio by the mercureal movements
of Lees cavalry. Like Paddy's flea
are they to the Federals-now they
have got them, and now they have
MT The omnipresence of our troops
and their throwing dust in the eyes
or rather On the heels of the panic.
stricken Federals in Maryland and
Pennsylvania, clearly porve that Lee
just now is the right man in the
right place.
We lay before our readers in this
issue an account of Lees brilliant
and successful onslaught upon the
abolition hordes. and show, cen
from their own record, how Oul
gallant boys of the cavalry have
f1eshed their swords to the hiit with