by John Beauchamp Jones
NOVEMBER 19TH. —Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac and NorthamptonCounties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of Baltimore.
The Medical Purveyor’s Guards have petitioned the Secretary for higher pay. They get now $1500 per annum, and say the city watchmen get $2300.
Gens. Banks and Taylor in the West are corresponding and wrangling about the exchange of prisoners—and the cartel is to be abrogated, probably.
The Governor of Mississippi (Clark) telegraphs the President that the Legislature (in session) is indignant at the military authorities for impressing slaves. The President telegraphs back that the order was to prevent them falling into the lines of the enemy, and none others were to be disturbed.
