Clear and pleasant;
later cloudy.
Yesterday, Mr. Peck,
our agent, started South to buy provisions for the civil officers of the
department. He had $100 from each, and it is to be hoped he will be back soon
with supplies at comparatively low prices. He obtained transportation from the
Quartermaster-General, with the sanction of the Secretary, although that —— —— had
refused to order it himself. Gen. Lee advises that all government stores be
taken from Wilmington, as a London newspaper correspondent has given a glowing
account (republished in the New York Herald) of the
commerce of that place, and the vast amount of government property there. Gen.
Lee advises that the stores be deposited along the line of railroad between
Columbia and Danville, and be in readiness to move either way, as the roads are
“liable to be cut at any moment." Will the government act in time to save
them?
Gen. Cooper went to
the President to-day in high dudgeon, because papers were referred to him from
the Quartermaster-General's and Ordnance offices signed by subordinates,
instead of the heads of the bureaus. The President wrote an elaborate decision
in favor of the general, and ordered the Secretary to make a note of it.” Thus,
important affairs wait upon “red tape.”
I saw Secretaries
Benjamin and Mallory, and some lesser lights, riding down the river in an ambulance-wagon,
supposed to be going a fishing. They were both excessively fat and red.
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