FROM THE SOUTH: Richmond Comments on the Great Raid; FURY OF THE REBEL PRESS (3/12/1864)

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

The following additional extracts from our late Southern files will be found interesting and amusing:

THE PRESS ON THE RAID.

THE LAST RAID OF THE INFERNALS THEIR PLANS UNVEILED.

From the Richmond Dispatch, March 5.

The reader will be startled this morning by the diabolical plans of the Yankee raiders who have just been driven in disappointment and disgrace from the very gates of Richmond. A lucky shot has sent to his long account one of the three leaders of the three bands into which KILPATRICK's command was divided, and upon his person were found the papers making the important development of their whole plan. It was quite complete in itself, involving the MASSACRE OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ENTIRE CABINET, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF RICHMOND -- "the hated city," as one of the orders styles it. All this was to have followed the releasing of all the Federal prisoners, which was the first achievement cut out for the expedition upon its arrival here. Besides these events, which were to form the finale of the grand expedition, it was especially enjoined that "all mills must be burned," and "also everything which can be used by the rebels must be destroyed." Of course that means everything that is to be eaten or worn! It will be seen that it was further ordered that all "horses and cattle we (they) do not need immediately must be shot rather than left." The men were required to "keep together and well in hand, and once in the city, it must be destroyed, and Jeff. Davis and Cabinet killed."

The "address" setting forth these objects, and signed by Col. DAHLGREN, on whose body it was found, appeals to the men under his command to engage heartily in the enterprise and taunts contemptuously any who would

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From the South: Richmond Comments on the Great Raid – 2-3
Amusements this Evening – 3
News of the Day: The Rebellion – 3
Seven Persons Drowned by the Upsetting of a Boat – Four Others Rescued – 3
Newspaper Restrictions Removed – 3
Our Exchanged Prisoners: Arrival of Six Hundred and Sixty-four at Annapolis – 5-6
Important from Arizona: Depredations of the Indian Savages – 6-7
From New-Mexico and the Indian Country: A Rebel Invasion of New-Mexico Feared – 7
From California, &c. – 7-8
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 8
Proceedings of Congress – 8-9
Editorial: The Declination of Mr. Chase – 9-10
Editorial: The Exchange of Prisoners Resumed – What are the Terms? – 10-11
The News from Arizona – 11
A Slight Mistake – 11
The Havana Consulate – 11
A Point of Some Importance – 11
Our City Expenditures – 11
A Chinaman from Rebeldom – 11
The Wreck of the Bohemian – 11

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Fascinating!