Nothing from the
army. We hear that the pirate Alabama is at Cherbourg. Is she to remain there
to be repaired? Seward tells me he knows one of the French armed vessels
recently sold is for Sweden, and he has little doubt both are; that the French
government is not deceitful in this matter.
Congress is getting
restive and discontented with the financial management. The papers speak of the
appointment of Field, Assistant Secretary, to be Assistant Treasurer at New
York, in the place of Cisco. I doubt if any one but Chase would think of him
for the place, and Chase, as usual, does not know the reason. But Field has
talents, and Chase takes him from association. Morgan prefers Hillhouse, and
Seward wants Blatchford.
The closing hours of
Congress are crowded, as usual, but I believe matters are about as square as
usual. Our naval bills have mostly been disposed of.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 62
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