as repaid me. The tomatoes are growing apace, and seem to
endure the drought pretty well; also the lima beans. We are now eating
the last of the cherries. We began to pull them about one month ago.

Some of the members of the Tredegar Battalion have been detected
endeavoring to pass over to the enemy. It is said (maliciously) Jos. R.
Anderson's works (the Tredegar) would not be destroyed if the enemy were
to capture the city, nor Crenshaw's nor Haxall's mills, all having an
understanding that the party in _power_ shall enjoy the benefits of
them. The fall of Richmond would exhibit strange developments among men
of wealth. The poor could not get away, and would have no alternative
but submission. But Richmond will not be _taken_.

JULY 11TH.--Hot and dry, and the famine continues.

The Secretary of War intimated on Saturday that if the clerks of the
bureaus would raise a fund and send an agent South to buy provisions, he
would insure them transportation, etc. To-day he denies that he made the
promise, and refuses to aid them.

The government now proposes to increase its schedule of prices from 300
to 500 per cent., thus depreciating its own credit. _Before_ harvest the
impressing agents allowed about $40 per barrel for flour; now, that we
have a good harvest, about $130 will be paid, thus raising the price
everywhere. The transportation is the expensive item.

A dispatch from Gen. Johnston, at Atlanta, says the enemy having flanked
him with his cavalry, he has fallen back across the Chattahoochee.

Dispatches from Gen. S. D. Lee, Tupelo, state that a column of the
enemy, 20,000 strong, is about marching from New Orleans against Mobile,
and he fears he cannot spare men to resist them. _The reserve class is
not ready._ Also that 15,000 of the enemy are matching from Lagrange,
and he will have to dismount some of Forrest's cavalry. Gen. E. K. Smith
will not cross the Mississippi to assist in repelling the foe without
orders. Orders have been sent from the Secretary of War--I fear too
late!

Northern papers of the 8th inst. indicate a state of high excitement.
Some there believe we have an army of 60,000 pouring into Pennsylvania.
Gold was $2.65 for one.

There is some commotion in Grant's army, and it is believed by some that
he is about to retire down the river.

It is rumored that the prisoners heretofore confined at Point Lookout
have been removed by the Federal Government.

At 7 P.M. we had a gentle shower, l