Bright and pleasant.
An order has been
given to impress all the supplies (wheat and meat) in the
State, and Gen. Kemper has been instructed to lend military aid if necessary.
This is right, so that speculation may be suppressed. But, then,
Commissary-General Northrop says it is all for the army, and
the people—non-producers—may starve, for what he cares. If this
unfeeling and despotic policy be adopted by the government, it will strangle
the Confederacy—strangle it with red-tape.
I learned, to-day,
that Gen. Preston, Superintendent of the Bureau of Conscription, resigned upon
seeing Gen. Bragg's and the President's indorsements on the bureau papers; but
the Secretary and the President persuaded him to recall the resignation. He is very
rich.
A practical railroad
man bas sent to the Secretary a simple plan, by which twenty-five men with
crowbars can keep Sherman's communications cut.
There is a rumor
that Sherman has invited Vice-President Stephens, Senator H. V. Johnson, and
Gov. Brown to a meeting with him, to confer on terms of peace—i.e. the return
of Georgia to the Union. The government has called for a list of all the
Georgians who have sailed from our ports this summer.
A letter from Hon.
R. W. Barnwell shows that he is opposed to any conference with the enemy on
terms of peace, except unconditional independence. He thinks Hood hardly competent
to command the army, but approves the removal of Johnston. He thinks Sherman
will go on to Augusta, etc.
The raid toward
Gordonsville is now represented as a small affair, and to have returned as it
came, after burning some mills, bridges, etc.
I saw a letter,
to-day, written to the President by L. P. Walker, first Secretary of War, full
of praise. It was dated in August, before the fall of Atlanta, and warmly
congratulated him upon the removal of Gen. Johnston.
Gov. Bonham sent a
telegram to the Secretary of War, to-day, from Columbia, asking if the
President would not soon pass through that city; if such were his intentions,
he would remain there, being very anxious to see him.
Beauregard is at
Wilmington, while the whole country is calling for his appointment to the
command of the army in Georgia. Unless some great success crowns our arms
before Congress reassembles, the President will be assailed with great
bitterness, and the consequences may be fatal.
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