An expose of funds in the hands of disbursing agents shows
there are nearly seventy millions of dollars not accounted for!
The members of the legislature are fearful of an attack on
the Southern Railroad, and asks that Gen. Mahone be sent to Petersburg.
The government is impressing flour at $12 per barrel, when
it is selling at $24; and as the railroads are not allowed to transport any for
private use, it may be hoped we shall have our bread cheaper some of these
days. But will the government make itself popular with the people?
The Examiner says a clerk in the War Department is
making money in the substitute business. If this be true, it is rank
corruption! But, then, what is the cotton business?
The Chief of Ordnance Bureau, Col. J. Gorgas (Northern by
birth), recommends the Secretary of War to remove the lighter guns, some sixty
in number, from the lower tiers of Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and Morgan, for the
defense of the rivers likely to be ascended by the enemy's gun-boats.
I saw, to-day, the President's order to revoke the authority
heretofore given Gov. Baylor to raise a brigade, and in regard to his conduct
as governor (ordering the massacre of the Indians after collecting them under
pretense of forming a treaty of peace). The President suggests that nothing be
done until the Governor be heard in his own defense. It was diabolical!
If it had been consummated, it would have affixed the stigma of infamy to the
government in all future time, and might have doomed us to merited subjugation.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 182-3
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