To-day, at 12 M., I saw a common leather-wing bat flying
over the War Department. What this portends I do not pretend to say, perhaps
nothing. It may have been dislodged by the workmen building chimneys to the
offices of the department.
The order of the government conscribing all foreign
residents who have acquired homes in this country, and the expulsion of the
British consuls, will immediately be followed by another exodus of that class
of residents. Already passports are daily applied for, and invariably granted
by Mr. Assistant Secretary Campbell. The enemy, of course, will reap great
benefit from the information conveyed by these people, and the innumerable
brood of blockade-runners.
Gen. Lee has sent down between 600 and 700 prisoners
captured in recent cavalry engagements. He took their horses and equipments
also. And there is an account of an engagement in the West, near Memphis, in
which the Confederate troops inflicted injury on the enemy, besides destroying
the railroad in several places.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
71
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