28th June
Received a letter from Papa in which he says Mr G. Lowndes & Mr Heyward have sold their Combahee places very well & advises Mr Grimball to sell his plantations he goes down on Friday the 3d to arrange matters if possible.—
The prices of articles of food are very high. Bacon $1.25 per lb Corn $3.50 per bushel & in Charleston cows sell for 3 hundred & 50 dollars. Mrs Wilkins writes she has one but did not buy it & sold her calf for $60 was told afterwards she ought to have got more her son Berkley paid $6 for a breast of veal.
Arnoldus Vanderhorst who is now Major on Whiting’s staff was married to Miss Adele Allston with 10 groomsmen, and all things in the usual style, a fine supper & two receptions with cake and wine, in these war times quite appreciated.
John has been ordered to sea and ran the blocade with a party of officers in charge, 8, he was delighted & wrote to us from Bermuda that every roll of the Ocean seemed the welcome of a friend, he thinks he is to go to France. Charles also went out with a party & got to Nauso, after a boisterous voyage, and being shot at by the Yankees.—