The snow has nearly disappeared, and the roads are very bad.
No food is brought to the market, and such as may be found in the city is held
at famine prices.
I saw a letter to day from Bishop Lay, in Arkansas. He says
affairs in that State wear a dark and gloomy aspect. He thinks the State is
lost.
Gen. Beauregard writes the Hon. Mr. Miles that he has not
men enough, nor heavy guns enough, for the defense of Charleston. If this were
generally known, thousands would despair, being convinced that those charged
with the reins of power are incompetent, unequal to the crisis, and destined to
conduct them to destruction rather than independence.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 278-9
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