by John Beauchamp Jones
JANUARY 24TH.—Gen. Smith writes that he deems Wilmington in a condition to resist any attacks.
The exposition of Mr. Benjamin’s dispatches has created profound mortification in the community.
Another transport has been taken from the enemy in the Cumberland River. No further news from Arkansas.
There is a white flag (small-pox) within seventy yards of our house. But it is probable we must give up the house soon, as the owner is desirous to return to it—being unable to get board in the country.
Gen. Rains, who has been making a certain sort of primer, met with an accident this morning; one of them exploded in his hand, injuring his thumb and finger. He was scarcely able to sign his name to official documents to-day.
Mr. Hunter has brought forward a measure for the funding of Treasury notes, the redundant circulation having contributed to produce the present fabulous prices in the market.
In the New Jersey Legislature petitions are flowing in denunciatory of Lincoln’s Emancipation scheme, which would cast into the free States a large excess of profitless population.
