We have reliable intelligence of the sinking of the U. S.
gun-boat Hatteras, in the Gulf, by the Alabama. She was iron-clad, and all the
officers and crew, with the exception of five, went down.
Gen. Whiting telegraphs to-day for the use of conscripts
near Wilmington, in the event of an emergency. Several ships have just
come in safely from abroad, and it is said a large number are on the way.
Mr. Miles yesterday reported, from the Military Committee, a
bill repealing the existing exemption law, and embracing all male residents
between the ages of 18 and 45 years. The President, or Secretary of War, to
have authority to grant exemptions in certain cases, if deemed expedient. This ought
to give us 200,000 more men. And they will be required.
A resolution was passed demanding of the Commissary and
Quartermaster-General the number of their employees capable of performing
military duty. It would be well to extend the inquiry to the War Deparment
itself.
A letter from Norfolk states that at a grand ball, in
celebration of the emancipation of the negroes, Gen. Vieille opened the dance
with a mulatto woman of bad character as his partner; and Mrs.V. had for her
partner a negro barber.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 243-4
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