There was firing
yesterday near Georgetown, S. C, the nature and result of which is not yet
known.
Yesterday the Senate
passed a bill allowing increased pay to civil officers in the departments; but
Senator Brown, of Miss., proposed a proviso, which was adopted, allowing
the increased compensation only to those who are not liable to perform military
duty, and unable to bear arms.
The auctions are
crowded — the people seeming anxious to get rid of their money by paying the most
extravagant prices for all articles exposed for sale. An old pair of boots,
with large holes in them, sold to-day for $1.00—it costs $125 to foot a pair of
boots.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 128
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