More unofficial dispatches from the Mississippi. It is said
Kirby Smith has defeated the enemy at Port Hudson; but how could his army get
over the river? It is also stated that Grant's losses have been 40,000, and
ours 5000. Who could have computed them? But they go on to say nothing has been
heard from Vicksburg since Sunday, four days previously; and that heavy firing
was heard still on Thursday.
Lee's army is in motion — that means something; and it is
generally believed that Stuart is out on a raid into the enemy's country.
Mr. M. A. Malsby, a Georgian, disabled by a wound in the
first battle of Manassas, has published one-half of my new “Wild Western
Scenes;” the balance to appear when he can get paper. He publishes 5000 copies of
about 130 pages. The paper costs nearly one dollar per pound, over $40 per
ream. The printing costs $2 per 1000 ems. But then he retails the pamphlet at
$1.25, and pays me 12½ cents copyright on each number sold.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 341
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