Bright, and cool,
and dry.
It is reported that
a battle has occurred at Atlanta; but I have seen no official confirmation of
it.
It is rumored that
Gen. McClellan has been nominated by the Chicago Convention for President, and
Fernando Wood for Vice-President. There is some interest felt by our people in
the proceedings of this convention, and there is a hope that peace candidates
may be nominated and elected.
Senator Johnson
(Missouri) told me to-day that he had seen Mrs. Vaughan (wife of our Gen. V.),
just from the United States, where she had been two months; and she declares it
as her belief that Gen. McClellan will be elected, if nominated, and that he is
decidedly for peace. She says the peace party would take up arms to put an end
to Lincoln's sanguinary career, but that it is thought peace can be soonest
restored by the ballot-box.
The President to-day
arrested the rush of staff appointments. To-day an old gentleman, after an
interview with Mr. Secretary ——, said he might be a good man, an honest man;
but he certainly had a “most villainous face."
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 276
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