We have nothing further from Charleston, except that
Beauregard threatened retaliation (how ?) if Gilmore repeated the offense,
against humanity and the rules of civilized war, of shelling the city before
notice should be given the women and children to leave it. To-day, at 11 A.m., it
is supposed the shelling was renewed.
This day week, I learn by a letter from Gen. Whiting, two
700pounder Blakely guns arrived in the Gladiator. If these could only be
transported to Charleston, what a sensation they would make among the
turreted monitors! But I fear the railroad cannot transport them.
The Secretary of the Treasury asks transportation for 1000
bales of cotton to Wilmington. What for?
To-day I saw a copy of a dispatch from Gen. Johnston to the
President, dated at Morton, Miss., 22d August, stating that he would send
forward, the next day, two divisions to reinforce Gen. Bragg in Tennessee. This
signifies battle.
The Secretary of the Treasury notified the Secretary of War,
to-day, that the appropriation of fifty millions per month, for the expenditure
of the War Department, was greatly exceeded; that already this month (August)
the requisitions on hand amounted to over $70,000,000, and they could not be met
— some must lie over; and large sums for contracts, pay of troops, etc. will
not be paid, immediately.
Exchange on London, I learn by a letter written by Mr. Endus
to his agent in London, detained by Gen. Whiting and sent to the Secretary of
War, is selling in Richmond at a premium of fifteen hundred per cent.
The post-office clerks have returned to duty, the Postmaster-General
promising to recommend to Congress increased compensation.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
23-4
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