Bright and
beautiful.
Still all quiet
below, the occasional bombarding near Petersburg being beyond our hearing.
Yesterday, Gen.
Preston, a millionaire, who can stalk stifly anywhere, had an interview with
the President, who admitted that he had dictated the General Orders—“76,” “77,” “78,”—rushing almost everybody into
the army, but that it was not his meaning to take the whole business of
conscription from “the Bureau.” et Gen. P., the superintendent, thinks
the reading of the orders will admit of that construction, and
he has written to the President asking another order, defining his position,
etc., else his occupation is gone.
The President cannot
afford to lose Gen. P. From Gen. Early's army we learn that the detailed men
and reserves are joining in great numbers, and the general asks 1000 muskets.
Col. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, says he has but 300 available, his shops being
closed, the workmen in the trenches, etc.
All the ordnance,
quartermaster, and commissary stores of Hood's army were ordered to Columbus,
Ga. We expect stirring news from Georgia daily, and the opinion prevails that
Sherman will “come to grief.”
The militia,
furloughed by Gov. Brown so inopportunely, are returning to the front, the time
having expired. A Mr. B. is making Lincoln speeches in New York.
It seems to me he
had a passport from Mr. Benjamin, Secretary of State.
Gen. Lee writes to
day that negroes taken from the enemy, penitentiary convicts, and recaptured
deserters ought not to be sent by the Secretary to work on the fortifications.
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