No news. It turns out that Gen. Taylor got only 500
prisoners at Donaldsonville, La., instead of 4000.
A writer in the New York Tribune says the Northern
troops burnt Jackson, Miss.
Lincoln has marked for close confinement and hostages three
of our men for three free negroes taken on Morris Island.
The government here has, at last, indicated blockade-goods
(U. S.) which are to be seized; also sent circular letters to the generals at
Wilmington, Charleston, and Mobile to impose restrictions on blockade-running
steamers belonging to private parties. The government must first have such
articles as its necessities require, at fair prices, before the merchandise can
be offered to the public, and the vessels must be freighted out partly with
government cotton. This is a good arrangement, even if it is “locking the stable
after the horse is stolen.”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
13-4
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