| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| May 2, 1864 |
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| Yankee supplies |
| The Confederate Government is indebted to
the Yankee Commissary Department of the State of North Carolina, for
an ample supply of army stores.--A heavy train of freight cars, which
tested the powers of the engine to its
utmost capacity, arrived in Richmond Friday. It contained 112 bbls
molasses, 12 bbls and 13 boxes coffee, 7 kegs of pickles, 171 bbls of
pork, 2 bbls of beef, 14 bbls of sugar, 69 bbls of beans, 22 boxes
tea, 12 boxes of dried vegetables, and 36½ bbls of vinegar, and many
other articles too numerous to inset. This is only the first installment,
other trains are on their way. The estimated value of the train at our
market prices, is but little under a million of dollars. |
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