The President issued a proclamation to-day, calling upon all
absentees to return to the ranks without delay, etc.
Hon. D. M. Barringer writes from Raleigh, N. C, that the
State is in a ferment of rage against the administration for appointing
Marylanders and Virginians, if not Pennsylvanians, quartermasters, to collect
the war tax within its limits, instead of native citizens.
Mr. W. H. Locke, living on the James River, at the Cement
and Lime Works, writes that more than a thousand deserters from Lee's army have
crossed at that place within the last fortnight. This is awful; and they are
mainly North Carolinians.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 4
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