Gen. Smith writes that he deems Wilmington in a condition to
resist any attacks.
The exposition of Mr. Benjamin's dispatches has created
profound mortification in the community.
Another transport has been taken from the enemy in the
Cumberland River. No further news from Arkansas.
There is a white flag (small-pox) within seventy yards of
our house. But it is probable we must give up the house soon, as the owner is
desirous to return to it — being unable to get board in the country.
Gen. Rains, who has been making a certain sort of primer,
met with an accident this morning; one of them exploded in his hand, injuring
his thumb and finger. He was scarcely able to sign his name to official
documents to-day.
Mr. Hunter has brought forward a measure for the funding of
Treasury notes, the redundant circulation having contributed to produce the present
fabulous prices in the market.
In the New Jersey Legislature petitions are flowing in
denunciatory of Lincoln's Emancipation scheme, which would cast into the free
States a large excess of profitless population.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 245
