January 18th.\u2013Cloudy and cool. Cannon heard down the river.<\/p>\n
No war news. But blockade-running at Wilmington has ceased; and common calico, now at $25 per yard, will soon be $50.<\/p>\n
The stupor in official circles continues, and seems likely to continue.<\/p>\n
A secret detective told the Assistant Secretary, yesterday, that a certain member of Congress was uttering treasonable language; and, for his pains, was told that matters of that sort (pertaining to members of Congress) did not fall within his (detective’s) jurisdiction. It is the policy now not to agitate <\/i>the matter of disloyalty, but rather to wink at it, and let it die out\u2013if it will; if it won’t, <\/i>I suppose the government must take its chances, whatever they may be.<\/p>\n
Breckinridge, it is now said, will not be Secretary of War: the position which Mr. Seddon is willing to abandon, cannot be desirable. And Northrop, Commissary-General, is still held by the President, contrary to the wishes of the whole Confederacy.<\/p>\n
Flour is $1250 per barrel, to-day.<\/p>\n
A detective reports that one of the committee (Mr. Mc \u2013\u2013?) selected by Mr. Secretary Seddon to hunt up flour for Gen. Lee’s army, has a large number of barrels secreted in his own dwelling! But they must not be touched.<\/p>\n
Gen. Lee writes that he thinks the crisis (starvation in the army) past. Good.<\/p>\n
In South Carolina we hear of public meetings of submission, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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