The Federal monitors, gun-boats, and transports no more
menace the City of Charleston! The fleet has sailed away, several of the
iron-clads towed out of the harbor being badly damaged. But before leaving that
part of the coast, the Yankees succeeded in intercepting and sinking the
merchant steamer Leopard, having 40,000 pairs of shoes, etc. on board for our
soldiers. It is supposed they will reappear before Wilmington; our batteries
there are ready for them.
Gen. Wise assailed the enemy on Saturday, at Williamsburg,
captured the town, and drove the Federals into their fort — Magruder.
The President was ill and nervous on Saturday. His wife, who
lost her parent at Montgomery, Ala., a month ago, and who repaired thither, is
still absent.
Congress still refuses to clothe the President with
dictatorial powers.
Senator Oldham, of Texas, made a furious assault on the
Secretary of War, last Saturday. He says Senators, on the most urgent public
business, are subjected to the necessity of writing their names on a slate, and
then awaiting the pleasure of some lackey for permission to enter the
Secretary's office. He was quite severe in his remarks, and moved a call on the
President for certain information he desired.
The Sentinel abuses Congress for differing with the President
in regard to the retention of diplomatic agents in London, etc. And the Enquirer,
edited by John Mitchcl, the fugitive Irishman, opens its batteries on the Sentinel.
So we go.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 291-2
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