Gen. D. H. Hill writes from North Carolina that the business
of conscription is miserably mismanaged in that State. The whole business, it
seems, has resolved itself into a machine for making money and putting pets in
office.
No account of yesterday's riot appeared in the papers
to-dry, for obvious reasons. The mob visited most of the shops, and the pillage
was pretty extensive.
Crowds of women, Marylanders and foreigners, were standing
at the street corners to-day, still demanding food; which, it is said, the
government issued to them. About midday the City Battalion was marched down
Main Street to disperse the crowd.
Congress has resolved to adjourn on the 20th April. The tax
bill has not passed both Houses yet.
Gen. Blanchard has been relieved of his command in
Louisiana. He was another general from Massachusetts.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 286
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