lare up_, and charge Gen. B.
with interference, etc.;--but no, he must see that Gen. B. is acting
with the concurrence of the President.

But the Assistant Secretary, Col. August, Lieut.-Col. Lay, etc. will be
like so many hornets stirred up with a pole, and no doubt they are rich
enough to defy the emoluments of office.

SEPTEMBER 7TH.--Clear and cool; rained in the night.

Gen. J. H. Morgan is dead,--surprised and killed in Tennessee,--and his
staff captured.

Gen. Hood telegraphs that the enemy is still _retreating_--toward
Atlanta, I suppose.

The cruiser Tallahassee having run into Wilmington, that port is now
pretty effectually closed by an accumulation of blockaders.

It is said Gen. Forrest has blown up Tunnel Hill; if so, Sherman must be
embarrassed in getting supplies of ordnance stores.

Sir Wm. Armstrong has sent from England one or two splendid guns (a
present) to our government, with equipments, etc. And the manufacturers
have presented us with a battery of Whitworth guns, six in number, but
they have not arrived yet.

SEPTEMBER 8TH.--Bright and cool; subsequently cloudy and warm.

Dispatches from Gen. Hood (Sept. 7th) state--1st dispatch: that Sherman
still holds his works one and a half miles from Jonesborough. 2d
dispatch, same date: "Sherman continues his retreat!" He says, in a 3d
dispatch, that Sherman visited the hospitals, and said he would rest
awhile at Atlanta, and then march away to Andersonville, where we keep
the Federal prisoners. Although Hood attaches no importance to
declarations from such a source, yet he deems it a matter of first
importance to remove the prisoners, which suggestion Gen. Bragg refers
to the Secretary of War without remark. Gen. Hood also urges the
reinforcing of his army from the trans-Mississippi Department. He is
sending a brigade to Opelika, to await a raid.

Gen. Forrest has been ordered, the President approving, to Middle
Tennessee; but, contrary to his desire, he is not allowed to proclaim
amnesty to the thousands of deserters expected to join him, so firmly do
the President and Gen. Bragg adhere to Gen. Lee's advice never to
proclaim pardon in advance to deserters, even at this critical epoch in
our affairs.

All of us have been made sick by eating red peas, or rather
_over_eating.

Our cause is in danger of being lost for want of horses and mules, and
yet I discovered to-day that the government has been _lending_ horses to
men who have but recent