Bright; subsequently
cloudy and warm rain.
Staunton was entered
by the enemy's cavalry on Monday afternoon.
We have no news
whatever to-day from any quarter. But the deep booming of cannon is still heard
down the river, foreboding an awful conflict soon.
I saw three 10-inch
Columbiads at the Petersburg depot to-day; they are going to move them toward
Petersburg, I believe.
Gold is thirty for
one to-day, and still rising, Forrest's exploit having done nothing to revive
confidence in Treasury notes here.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume
2, p. 294
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