south) all night.

Quiet below. One of the enemy's pickets said to one of ours, last night,
that Warren's corps had voted unanimously for McClellan, and that New
York City has given a majority of 40,000 for him. This is hardly
reliable.

Mr. Foote offered a resolution, yesterday, condemning the President's
suggestion that _editors_ be put in the ranks as well as other classes.
Now I think the President's suggestion will be adopted, as Mr. Foote is
unfortunate in his resolutions. Mr. Barksdale (President's friend) had
it easily referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Hon. J. A. Gilmer, North Carolina, is applying for many passports
through the lines for people in his district. He applies to Judge
Campbell.

Coal is selling at $90 per load, twenty-five bushels.

The vote referring Foote's resolution (on the exemption of editors) was
passed unanimously, which is regarded as favoring the President's
recommendation. Mr. Foote had denounced the President as a despot.

Bought two excellent knit undershirts, to-day, of a woman who gets her
supplies from passing soldiers. Being washed, etc., they bore no
evidences of having been worn, _except two small round holes in the
body_. Such are the straits to which we are reduced. I paid $15 each;
the price for new ones, of inferior quality, is $50 a piece.

NOVEMBER 11TH.--Clear and pleasant. All quiet. No doubt, from the
indications, Lincoln has been re-elected.

Now preparations must be made for the further "conflict of opposing
forces." All our physical power must be exerted, else all is lost.

Mr. Sparrow, Louisiana, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs,
introduced a measure, yesterday, in the Senate, which, if consummated,
might put all our able-bodied men in the field. It would equalize prices
of the necessaries of life, and produce a panic among the speculators. I
append it. But, probably, the press will have to be suppressed, "as a
war measure," too, to pass it:

_"A bill to extend the assessment of prices for the army to all citizens
of the Confederate States:_

"_Whereas_, the depreciation of our currency is, in a great measure,
produced by the extortion of those who sell the necessaries of life; and
whereas, such depreciation is ruinous to our Confederacy and to the
means of prosecuting the war; therefore

"_The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, as a
necessary war measure_, That the prices assessed for the army by the
com