Clear and frosty.
Among the rumors, it would appear that the Senate in secret session has passed
a resolution making Lee generalissimo.
It is again said Mr.
Seddon will resign, and be followed by Messrs. Benjamin and Mallory, etc.
The following
dispatch was received by the President yesterday:
“TUPELO,
MISS., January 17th, 1865.—Roddy's brigade (cav.) is useless as at present
located by the War Department. I desire authority to dispose of it to the best
advantage, according to circumstances.—G. T. BEAUREGARD, General."
The President sends
it to the Secretary of War with this indorsement: "On each occasion, when
this officer has been sent with his command to distant service, serious
calamity to Alabama has followed. It is desirable to know what disposition Gen.
Beauregard proposes to make of this force.—J. D.”
We have nothing
further from Wilmington. Bad enough. Sherman is said to be marching on
Charleston. Bad enough, too!
Our papers have
glowing accounts of the good treatment the citizens of Savannah received from
the enemy.
Mr. Foote has
arrived in the city—and it is said he will take his seat in Congress to-day.
Gen. Whiting and
Col. Lamb were taken at Fort Fisher both wounded, it is said—and 1000 of the
garrison.
Mr. Peck paid back
to the clerks to-day the unexpended balance of their contributions for
supplies, etc. The money is not worth half its value some months ago. But Mr.
P. secured ten barrels of flour for himself and as many more for the Assistant
Secretary, Mr. Kean, etc. etc.
One o'clock P.M. The
day has grown dark and cold, indicating snow, and a dismal gloom rests upon the
faces of the increasing party of croakers. We have famine, owing to the
incapacity of the government, and the rapacity of speculators. Wood, however,
is coming in, but it is only for military officers, etc. No one can live on
wood. Gold is $70 for $1, and meal about $100 per bushel.
The House of
Representatives (in secret session) has passed the Senate joint resolution
creating the office of commander-in-chief (for Gen. Lee), and recommending that
Gen. Johnston be reinstated, etc. It passed by a vote of 62 to 14.
What will result
from this? Is it not a condemnation of the President and the administration
that displaced Gen J., etc.? Who will resign? Nous verrons!
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 391-2
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