beat us in bargaining.--Gen. Lee anxious for
new supplies.--The President appeals to the people to raise food for
man and beast.--Federal and Confederate troops serenading each other
on the Rappahannock.--Cobbler's wages $3000 per annum.--Wrangling in
the Indian country.--Only 700 conscripts per month from Virginia.--
Longstreet at Suffolk.--The President's well eye said to be
failing.--A "reconnoissance!"--We are planting much grain.--Picking
up pins.--Beautiful season.--Gen. Johnston in Tennessee.--
Longstreet's successes in that State.--Lee complains that his army is
not fed.--We fear for Vicksburg now.--Enemy giving up plunder in
Mississippi.--Beauregard is busy at Charleston.--Gen. Marshall, of
Kentucky, fails to get stock and hogs.--Gen. Lee calls for
Longstreet's corps.--The enemy demonstrating on the Rappahannock.

APRIL 1ST.--It is said we have taken Washington, a village in North
Carolina. And it is represented that large supplies of meat, etc. can be
taken from thence and the adjacent counties.

Every day we look for important intelligence from Charleston, and from
the West.

Mr. Seddon, the Secretary of War, has receded from his position in
regard to resident aliens.

APRIL 2D.--This morning early a few hundred women and boys met as by
concert in the Capitol Square, saying they were hungry, and must have
food. The number continued to swell until there were more than a
thousand. But few men were among them, and these were mostly foreign
residents, with exemptions in their pockets. About nine A.M. the mob
emerged from the western gates of the square, and proceeded down Ninth
Street, passing the War Department, and crossing Main Street, increasing
in magnitude at every step, but preserving silence and (so far) good
order. Not knowing the meaning of such a procession, I asked a pale boy
where they were going. A young woman, seemingly emaciated, but yet with
a smile, answered that they were going to find something to eat. I could
not, for the life of me, refrain from expressing the hope that they
might be successful; and I remarked they were going in the right
direction to find plenty in the hands of the extortioners. I did not
follow, to see what they did; but I learned an hour after that they
marched through Cary Street, and entered diverse stores of the
speculators, which they proceeded to empty of their contents. They
impressed all the carts an