APRIL 3d.\u2014Gen. D. H. Hill writes from North Carolina that the business of conscription is miserably mismanaged in that State. The whole business, it seems, has resolved itself into a machine for making money and putting pets in office.<\/p>\n
No account of yesterday’s riot appeared in the papers to-day, for obvious reasons. The mob visited most of the shops, and the pillage was pretty extensive.<\/p>\n
Crowds of women, Marylanders and foreigners, were standing at the street corners to-day, still demanding food; which, it is said, the government issued to them. About midday the City Battalion was marched down Main Street to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n
Congress has resolved to adjourn on the 20th April. The tax bill has not passed both Houses yet.<\/p>\n
Gen. Blanchard has been relieved of his command in Louisiana. He was another general from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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