We have nothing further from Charleston, to-day, except that the enemy
is not yet in possession of Sumter.
Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War, said to Mr. Lyons, M. C, yesterday, that
he had heard nothing of Gen. Lee's orders to march a portion of his army to
Tennessee. That may be very true; but, nevertheless, 18,000 of Lee's troops (a
corps) is already marching thitherward.
A report on the condition of the military prisons, sent in to-day,
shows that there is no typhoid fever, or many cases of other diseases, among
the prisoners of war. Everything is kept in cleanliness about them, and they
have abundance of food, wholesome and palatable. The prisoners themselves admit
these facts, and denounce their own government for the treatment alleged to be
inflicted on our men confined at Fort Delaware and other places.
An extra session of the legislature is now sitting. The Governor's
message is defiant, as no terms are offered; but he denounces as unjust the
apportionment of slaves, in several of the counties, to be impressed to work on
the defenses, etc.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 36-7
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