November 14th.–Clear and cold.
Lincoln is re-elected, and has called for a million of men! This makes many of our croaking people despondent; others think it only a game of brag.
I saw the President to-day in earnest conversation with several members of Congress, standing in the street. It is not often he descends from his office to this mode of conference.
Some one of the family intimating that stains of blood were on my undershirts (second hand), I was amused to see Mrs. J. lifting them with the tongs. They have been thoroughly washed, and prove to be a first-rate article. I am proud of them, for they are truly comfortable garments.
Gen. Forrest is doing wonders in Tennessee, as the appended dispatch from Gen. Beauregard shows:
“Tuscumbia, Ala., Nov. 8th, 1804.
“Gen. S. Cooper, A. and I. General.
“Gen. Forrest reports on the 5th instant that he was then engaged fighting the enemy at Johnsonville, having already destroyed four gun boats, of eight guns each, fourteen steamers, and twenty barges, with a large quantity of quartermaster and commissary stores, on the landing and in warehouses, estimated at between seventy-five and one hundred thousand tons. Six gun-boats were then approaching, which he hoped to capture or destroy.
“G. T. Beauregard.”