Major-Gen. Jones telegraphs from Knoxville, Tenn., that a wounded
officer arrived from Kentucky, reports a victory for Bragg, and that he has
taken over 10,000 prisoners. We shall soon have positive news.
A letter from Admiral Buchanan states that he has inspected
the defenses of Mobile, and finds them satisfactory.
I traversed the markets this morning, and was gratified to
find the greatest profusion of all kinds of meats, vegetables, fruits, poultry,
butter, eggs, etc. But the prices are enormously high. If the army be kept
away, it seems the supply must soon be greater than the demand. Potatoes at $5
per bushel, and a large crop! Halfgrown chickens at $1 each! Butter at $1.25
per pound! And other things in the same proportion.
Here is a most startling matter. Gov. Baylor, appointed
Governor of Arizona, sent an order some time since to a military commander to
assemble the Apaches, under pretense of a treaty — and when they came, to
kill every man of them, and sell their children to pay for the whisky. This
order was sent to the Secretary, who referred it to Gen. Sibley, of that
Territory, to ascertain if it were genuine. To-day it came back from Gen. S.
indorsed a true bill. Now it will go to the President — and we shall see
what will follow. He cannot sanction such a perfidious crime. I predict he will
make Capt. Josselyn, his former private Secretary, and the present Secretary of
the Territory, Governor in place of Baylor.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 172-3
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