To-day we have a dispatch from Vicksburg stating that the
enemy had re-embarked, leaving their intrenching instruments, etc., apparently
abandoning the purpose of assaulting the city. This is certainly good news.
Gen. Stuart did not cross the Potomac, as reported in the Northern
press, but, doubtless, the report produced a prodigious panic among the
Yankees. But when Stuart was within eight miles of Alexandria, he telegraphed
the government at Washington that if they did not send forward larger supplies of
stores to Burnside's army, he (Stuart) would not find it worth while to
intercept them.
Capt. Semmes, of the Alabama, has taken another prize — the
steamer Ariel — but no gold being on board, and having 800 passengers, he
released it, under bonds to pay us a quarter million dollars at the end of the
war.
A large meeting has been held in New York, passing
resolutions in favor of peace. They propose that New Jersey send a delegation
hither to induce us to meet the United States in convention at Louisville, to
adopt definitive terms of peace, on the basis of the old Union, or, that being
impracticable, separation. Too late!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 230
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