Lincoln's proclamation was the subject of discussion in the
Senate yesterday. Some of the gravest of our senators favor the raising of the black
flag, asking and giving no quarter hereafter.
The yellow fever is raging at Wilmington, North Carolina.
The President, in response to a resolution of inquiry
concerning Hyde, the agent who procured a substitute and was arrested for it,
sent Congress a letter from the Secretary of War, stating that the action of Gen.
Winder had not been approved, and that Mr. Hyde had been discharged. The
Secretary closes his letter with a sarcasm, which, I think, is not his
own composition. He asks, as martial law is still existing, though the writ of habeas
corpus is not suspended, for instructions as to the power of the military
commander, Winder, to suppress tippling shops! Several members declared that martial law existed in
this city without any constitutional warrant. There is much bad feeling between
many members and the Executive.
No fighting has occurred on the Peninsula, and I believe
Gen. Wise has returned with his forces to Chaffin's Bluff.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 159
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