Clear, bright, and
cool.
The intelligence
from the North indicates that Gen. McClellan will be nominated for the
Presidency. Judge Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War, shakes his head, and
says he is not the right man. Our people take a lively interest in the
proceedings of the Chicago Convention, hoping for a speedy termination of the
war.
Senator Johnson, of
Missouri, has a project of taxation for the extinguishment of the public debt—a
sweeping taxation, amounting to one-half the value of the real and personal
estate of the Confederate States. He got me to commit his ideas to writing,
which I did, and they will be published.
Gen. Kemper told me
to-day that there were 40,000 able-bodied men in Virginia now detailed.
There is a project
on the tapis of introducing lady clerks into this bureau—all of them otherwise
able to subsist themselves while the poor refugees, who have suffered most, are
denied places. Even the President named one to-day, Mrs. Ford, who, of course,
will be appointed.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 275-6
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