CINCINNATI, May 12,
1861.
There are fifteen thousand troops encamped near the city
with more pouring in, provisions have risen above New York prices. The whole
city is up in arms and all business, save in the supply shops, has ceased. The
courts have virtually adjourned. The embargo upon the exportation of our great
staple, pork, has ruined thousands. The steamboat interest is at an end. God
knows what the result will be.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas
Kilby Smith, p. 169
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