The President is reported to be very ill to-day —
dangerously ill — with inflammation of the throat, etc. While this is a source of
grief to nearly all, it is the subject of secret joy to others. I am sure I have
seen some officers of rank to-day, not fighting officers, who sincerely
hope the President will not recover. He has his faults, but upon the whole is
no doubt well qualified for the position he occupies. I trust he will recover.
The destruction of the Queen of the West, and of another of our
steamers, is confirmed. Is not Pemberton and Blanchard responsible?
The loss of two guns and forty men the other day, on the
Nansemond, is laid at the door of Major-Gen. French, a Northern man! Can it be
Gen. Cooper (Northern) who procures the appointment of so many Northern
generals in our army? I cut the following from the Dispatch of yesterday:
Produce, etc, — Bacon has further declined, and we
now quote $1.25 to $1.30 for hog-round; butter, $2.25 to $3 per pound; beans in
demand at $20 per bushel. Corn is lower — we quote at $6 to $6.50 per bushel;
corn meal, $7 to $9 per bushel — the latter figure for a limited quantity;
candles, $3.50 to $3.75 per pound; fruit — dried apples, $10 to $12; dried
peaches, $15 to $18 per bushel; flour — superfine, $31 to $32; extra, $34;
family, $36; hay is in very small supply — sales at $15 per cwt.; lard, $1.05
to $1.70 per pound; potatoes — Irish, $3 to $10; sweet, $10 to $11 per bushel;
rice, 25 to 33 cents per pound; wheat, $6.50 to $7 per bushel.
Groceries. — Sugars have a declining tendency: we
quote brown at $1.15 to $1.25; molasses, $9 to $10 per gallon; coffee, $1 to
$4.50; salt, 45 cents per pound; whisky, $28 to $35; apple brandy, $24 to $25;
French brandy, $65 per gallon.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 297-8
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