2nd. After issuing bread, got out Rowena and tried her at jumping. Did first rate. Charlie came over and read me Delos’ Journal. Enjoyed it well. In the evening attended class and played three games of chess. Was beaten once and beat twice.

Thursday, 2d–Weather warm and pleasant. No news.

April 2d.—We were shocked when the gentlemen returned, to hear of the riot which occurred in Richmond today. A mob, principally, of women, appeared in the streets, attacking the stores. Their object seemed to be to get any thing they could; dry-goods, shoes, brooms, meat, glassware, jewelry, were caught up by them. The military was [...]

APRIL 2d.—This morning early a few hundred women and boys met as by concert in the Capitol Square, saying they were hungry, and must have food. The number continued to swell until there were more than a thousand. But few men were among them, and these were mostly foreign residents, with exemptions in their pockets. [...]

April 2, 1863, The New York Herald The Sunflower expedition has returned to the Mississippi river. The rebels had so obstructed the channel that no progress could be made through it. An attempt was made by the enemy to hem in the fleet by obstruction front and rear, but the infantry succeeded in releasing the [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We are indebted to the courtesy of Judge Tucker for the use of the following clever letter which was intended for his paper: En Route to Arkansas, March 23d, 1863.  Dear Judge: We are now on board the good steamer “Twilight,” shoving our way through the water, wind [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)  The Eagle Mills of Columbus, Ga., last week, donated 500 yards sheeting and 400 yards cassimere, to the Soldier’s Relief Society of Ringgold. Estimating the sheeting at 80 cents per yard, and the cassimere at $4 50, (a fair valuation) the amount donated is $2,200. The people of [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We hear of this, that and the other place, Mr. Editor, where the cannon roars and reverberates, and small arms flash defiance in the faces of the gory savages who seek, like natural blood-hounds, to slake their thirst by lapping the red current of life that rises higher [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi)  We learn from the Raleigh Progress that another female riot took place in Salisbury, N. C. on the 18th ult. The women concerned in it compelled the merchants to share with them their stock of flour, and also robbed several families of the stock laid up for home [...]

April 2, 1863, The Charleston Mercury CHARLES FOX observed that ‘civil wars were the most bloody of all revolutions.’ The reasons are obvious. Restoration implies infraction. A government rent in twain, the people, once living under it together, become enemies. Nothing but some great cause – some violent oppression or abuse – can produce such [...]

April 2, 1863, New Orleans Bee  The Brownsville Flag has a long editorial with regard to the recent capture of Col. Davis and other officers on Mexican soil. It states that Captain Montgomery was hanged. The Flag says:  The extraordinary transactions of which we give the details in another column, will excite people to be [...]

April 2, 1863, Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) We are offering to pay the heavy price of eight cents a pound for white rags, delivered at this office, as will be seen by reference to a special notice in another column. If every housekeeper would keep a rag bag wherein to preserve the “scraps,” an immense [...]

April 2, 1863, The New York Herald Gold went up yesterday in Wall street to fifty-eight per cent premium. The fact may be embarrassing to Mr. Chase; but it hardly needs an explanation. The […..] expectations” of the country some weeks ago of substantial victories close at hand over the armed forces of the rebellion [...]

April 2, 1863, Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia)  The Baltimore Clipper says Antonia J. Ford was the principal spy and guide for Capt. Mosby in his recent raid on Fairfax Court House, and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. Slaughter, Wyndham and others. She was arrested and brought to the Old Capitol Prison, on Sunday [...]

April 2d, 1863.—We have had to move, and have thus lost our cave. The owner of the house suddenly returned and notified us that he intended to bring his family back; didn’t think there’d be any siege. The cost of the cave could go for the rent. That means he has got tired of the [...]