y-five is now required to have a
pass, from Gen. Kemper or Gen. Barton, to walk the streets, even to
church. The militia are all out, except those hidden in the back rooms
of their shops--extortioners; and the city is very quiet. No wonder the
women and children were thrown into a panic yesterday.

The shelling did some good in the Saturday evening market, as most of
the people were eager to get home. A boy sold me apples at 75 cents per
quart, instead of $1.

The physicians have had a meeting, and agree to charge $30 per visit.

The bombardment is still in progress at Charleston, and there has never
been any intermission. The enemy's batteries now reach over two-thirds
of that devoted city.

I see by a Northern paper that Gen. Grant is having his children
educated at Burlington, N. J.; perhaps at the same institutions where
mine were educated; and I perceive that our next door neighbor, Mrs.
Kinsey, has been waving the "glorious Stars and Stripes" over Gen. G.'s
head, from her ample porch. Well, I would not injure that flag; and I
think it would never be assailed by the Southern people, if it were only
kept at home, away from our soil. We have a flag of our own we prefer.

OCTOBER 3D.--Misty and damp, but warm.

Guns heard down the river. On Friday, it seems, the enemy penetrated and
held a portion of our works below Petersburg; and although we captured
many prisoners, it does not appear that we regained the works or retook
the cannon.

So far, although the enemy's loss in men may have been greater in the
operations of the last few days, it would seem that we have _lost
ground_; that our forts, etc. have been captured and _held_, up to this
moment; and that both the right and left wings of Grant have been
_advanced_, and established in the positions taken. All this, too, under
the eye of Gen. Lee. It is enough to make one tremble for Richmond. They
do not heed his calls for _men_.

In the North, the Presidential campaign is growing _warm_. McClellan's
friends have been denounced as "traitors" in Ohio, and one of their
meetings broken up by the soldiers. This fire may spread, and relieve
us.

It is now said a corps of the enemy's infantry was really peeping from
the groves and lanes west of the city, on Saturday, when the furious
shelling took place.

Rumors--we have nothing but rumors--of fighting, said to be in progress
on the south side of the river. It is said the enemy, that were a few
days ago menacin