Dark and raining.
Cannon heard down the river.
To-day our Congress
assembles. Senator Johnson, of Missouri (who relinquished six years in United
States Senate and $200,000 for the cause), called to see me. He is hopeful of
success in the West.
By the Northern
papers we see that Mr. Seward has discovered a “conspiracy” to burn all the
Northern cities on election day. It may be so—by Northern incendiaries.
Our citizens are
still asking permits to bring flour and meal to the city (free from liability
to impressment) for "family use." The speculators divide and
subdivide their lots, and get them in, to sell at extortionate prices.
Rumors of fighting
toward Petersburg—nothing reliable.
Gen. Lee writes that
he sent in the Tredegar Battalion to the foundry a few days ago (desertions
being frequent from it); and now he learns it is ordered out to report to
Lieut.-Col. Pemberton. He requests that it be ordered back to the foundry,
where it is absolutely necessary for the supply of munitions, etc.
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