e looks down,
dark, and dissatisfied. Lee's army _eats_ without him. I see nothing of
Lieut.-Col. Ruffin. He always looks down and darkly. Gen. Breckinridge
seems to have his heart in the cause--not his soul in his pocket, like
most of his predecessors.

I saw Admiral Buchanan to-day, limping a little. He says the enemy tried
to shoot away his legs to keep him from dancing at his granddaughter's
wedding, but won't succeed.

Robert Tyler told me that it was feared Governor Brown, and probably
Stephens and Toombs, were sowing disaffection among the Georgia troops,
hoping to get them out of the army; but that if faction can be kept down
thirty days, our cause would assume a new phase. He thinks Breckinridge
will make a successful Secretary.

The President and Gen. Lee were out at Camp Lee to-day, urging the
returned soldiers (from captivity) to forego the usual furlough and
enter upon the spring campaign now about to begin. The other day, when
the President made a speech to them, he was often interrupted by cries
of "furlough!"

The ladies in the Treasury Department are ordered to Lynchburg, whither
the process of manufacturing Confederate States notes is to be
transferred.

A committee of the Virginia Assembly waited on the President on
Saturday, who told them it was no part of his intention to evacuate
Richmond. But some construed his words as equivocal. Tobacco, cotton,
etc. are leaving the city daily. The city _is_ in danger.

FEBRUARY 28TH.--Raining; warm. The Northern papers announce the capture
of Wilmington. No doubt the city has fallen, although the sapient
dignitaries of this government deem it a matter of policy to withhold
such intelligence from the people and the army. And wherefore, since the
enemy's papers have a circulation here--at least their items of news are
sure to be reproduced immediately.

The Governor of Mississippi has called the Legislature of the State
together, for the purpose of summoning a convention of the people.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, likewise calls for a convention. One more
State calling a convention of all the States may be the consequence--if,
indeed, rent by faction, the whole country does not fall a prey to the
Federal armies immediately. Governor Brown alleges many bitter things in
the conduct of affairs at Richmond, and stigmatizes the President most
vehemently. He denounces the President's generalship, the Provost
Marshals, the passport system, the "Bureau of Conscri