A Jew store, in Main Street, was robbed of $8000 worth of goods
on Saturday night. They were carted away. This is significant. The prejudice is
very strong against the extortionists, and I apprehend there will be many
scenes of violence this winter. And our own people, who ask four prices for
wood and coal, may contribute to produce a new Reign of Terror. The supplies
necessary for existence should not be withheld from a suffering people. It is
dangerous.
There is great diversity of opinion yet as to the locality of
McClellan's army and Lee's intentions.
A dispatch from Gen. Van Dorn, in West Tennessee, indicates
that we are gaining a victory over Rosecrans. The battle was in progress,
not completed.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 164
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