Cloudy and thawing.
No war news, but it
is known Sherman's army is not quiet, and must soon be heard from in spite of
the interdict of the government.
It is said Mr.
Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury, is in the market buying gold, and that the
fall has already been from $50 to $30 for one.
Corn-meal has risen
from $50 up to $75 per bushel. Flour to $500 per barrel.
Vice-President
Stephens has not left the city, but presides in the Senate.
Messrs. B. Woolley,
Hart & Co., Nassau, N. P., write most pressing letters for the liquidation
of their claims against the Confederate States Government. Perhaps they are
becoming alarmed after making prodigious profits, etc.
Conner's brigade and
other troops are en route for South Carolina from Lee's army.
Judge Campbell,
Assistant Secretary of War, was smoked out of his room to-day, and came into
mine.
The judge, however,
does but little more just now than grant passports into the enemy's lines;
permission to speculators to bring into the city supplies for sale, often under
pretense of being intended for their own use; exemptions, details, etc. If he
were disposed, he could realize a million of dollars.
It is said the Hon.
A. R. Wright went North to get his son paroled, who is in prison there.
Judge Campbell talks
of resigning.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 378-9
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