by John Beauchamp Jones<\/p>\n
JANUARY 12th.\u2014Hundreds were skating on the ice in the basin this morning; but it thawed all day, and now looks like rain.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the President vetoed a bill appropriating a million dollars to clothe the Kentucky troops. The vote in the Senate, in an effort to pass it nevertheless, was 12 to 10, not two-thirds. The President is unyielding. If the new Conscription act before the House should become a law, the President will have nearly all power in his hands. The act suspending the writ of habeas corpus, before the Senate, if passed, will sufficiently complete the Dictatorship.<\/p>\n
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston writes in opposition to the organization of more cavalry.<\/p>\n
Mr. J. E. Murral, Mobile, Ala., writes Judge Campbell that a party there has authority from the United States authorities to trade anything but arms and ammunition for cotton.<\/p>\n
Gen. Winder being directed to send Mr. Hirsh, a rich Jew, to the conscript camp, says he gave him a passport to leave the Confederate States some days ago, on the order of Judge Campbell, A. S. W.<\/p>\n
Col. Northrop says supplies of meat have failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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