We have intelligence to-day, derived from a New York paper of
the 18th inst., that the “insurrection” in New York had subsided, under the
menacing attitude of the military authority, and that Lincoln had ordered the
conscription law to be enforced. This gives promise of a long war.
Mr. Mallory sent a note to the Secretary of War to-day
(which of course the Secretary did not see, and will never hear of) by a young
man named Juan Boyle, asking permission for B. to pass into Maryland as an
agent of the Navy Department. Judge Campbell indorsed on the back of it (to
Brig.-Gen. Winder) that permission was “allowed” by “order.” But what is this “agent”
to procure in the United States which could not be had by our steamers plying
regularly between Wilmington and Europe?
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 384-5
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