After a fine rain all night, it cleared away beautifully
this morning, cool, but not unseasonable. There is no news of importance. The
Governor of Georgia recommends, in his message, that the Legislature instruct
their representatives in Congress to vote for a repeal of the law allowing
substitutes, and also to put the enrolling officers in the ranks, leaving the
States to send conscripts to the army. The Georgia Legislature have passed a
resolution, unanimously, asking the Secretary of War to revoke the appointments
of all impressing agents in that State, and appoint none but civilians and
citizens. I hope the Secretary will act upon this hint. But will he?
The papers contain the following:
“Arrived
in Richmond, — Mrs. Todd, of Kentucky, the mother of Mrs. Lincoln,
arrived in this city on the steamer Schultz, Thursday night, having come to
City Point on a flag of truce boat. She goes South to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Helm, widow of Surgeon-General Helm, who fell at Chickamauga. Mrs. Todd is
about to take up her residence in the South, all her daughters being here,
except the wife of Lincoln, who is in Washington, and Mrs. Kellogg, who is at
present in Paris.”
“To The Poor. — C, Baumhard, 259 Main
Street, between Seventh and Eighth, has received a large quantity of freshly-ground
corn-meal, which he will sell to poor families at the following rates: one
bushel, $16; half bushel, $8; one peck, $4; half peck, $2."
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
98-9
