Bright and
beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such
dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not whether Branchville or
Augusta is his objective point. I suppose Sherman will be successful in cutting
our communications with the South—and in depreciating Confederate States
Treasury notes still more, in spite of Mr. Trenholm's spasmodic efforts to
depreciate gold.
Yesterday the Senate
passed a bill dropping all commissaries and quartermasters not in the field,
and not in the bureaus in Richmond, and appointing agents instead, over 45
years of age. This will make a great fluttering, but the Richmond rascals will
probably escape.
Military men here
consider Augusta in danger; of course it is! How could it be otherwise?
Information from the
United States shows that an effort to obtain "peace" will certainly
be made. President Lincoln has appointed ex-Presidents Fillmore and Pierce and
Hon. S. P. Chase, commissioners, to treat with ours. The two first are avowed
"peace men;" and may God grant that their endeavors may prove
successful! Such is the newspaper information.
A kind Providence
watches over my family. The disbursing clerk is paying us "half salaries"
to-day, as suggested in a note I wrote the Secretary yesterday. And Mr. Price
informs me that the flour (Capt. Warner's) so long held at Greensborough has
arrived! I shall get my barrel. It cost originally $150; but subsequent
expenses may make it cost me, perhaps, $300. The market price is from $800 to
$1000. I bought also of Mr. Price one-half bushel of red or
"cow-peas" for $30; the market price being $80 per bushel. And Major
Maynard says I shall have a load of government wood in a few days!
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 406-7
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