Mast head contains the seal of the Confederate States  of America –“Deo Vindice.” Volume 14 [Number 11].  8pp. [93-100]. Exhibits fold-marks, light water staining, & light chipping at the extremes. Else good plus & entirely legible.

This high quality weekly appeared in 26 issues between June 18 and December 10, 1863. It featured a mix of literary sketches and poems with commentary on the war and other public issues. For example, the front page a humorous poem treating the “Shaw of Norshirwan, King of Persia.“ Followed by public announcement and explanation of a new Confederate tax called a “Tax in Kind.” To wit:

“The bill imposing a tax in kind, in its purpose to feed the army and to relieve the treasury, was by far the most important law passed at the late session of Congress; and in order familiarize the people with its provisions and to facilitate its collection, we publish the instructions of the quartermaster General regarding it. We append rules for the measurement of different articles taxed in kind….

The articles taxed in kind are: Sweet potatoes, corn, oats, buckwheat,, cured hay and fodder, molasses made of cane (not of sorghum), cotton, tobacco, beans Irish potatoes,  wheat, rye, rice, sugar, wool, peas, ground peas—and after the first of March, one-tenth of all hogs slaughtered between the date of the passage of the act (24^th April 1863) and March 1^st 1864), payable in bacon at the rate of 60 pound of Bacon to 100 pounds of pork.”

Also contains a fascinating chart comparing prices “in the Northern States and Confederate States—June 1863 (at the time of Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania). Excepting whiskey, costing $25 per gallon Richmond, compared to $45 in New York, southern prices were considerably higher  —hams costing $1.55 in Richmond as against ten cents a pound in New York—Oats at  $5.50  to 70 cents  per bushel—salt at $126 to $2.50 per barrel—flour $31.50 to $5.40 per barrel.

Also includes a “Summary of the News,” containing dispatches of from Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory and Navy Lieutenant John Taylor Wood, the latter reporting on an expedition which the capture of two U.S. gunboats—“Satellite” & “Reliance”--(each carrying two guns and forty men) on the Rappahannock river.

All in all, an unusually fascinating 1863 Richmond newspaper collectible. In protective sleeve, w/white card backing.    [jp][ph:L]

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