stationed here say that the people are nearly all secesh, & are only kept in order by the big 100 pounders in the fort nearby.  The Park is a verry nice affair, with its old trees & evergreens, & all kinds of shrubery., flowers &c.  There are a number of grey squirels, skiping around over the short cut grass.  There is quite a lot of cotton on the wharf & I saw considerable ariving from the country.  All confiscated, as to who will get the money for it, Our venerable "uncle sam" or some shark I will not pretend to say.  In these times the larger the shark the deepr he swims.  We are yet on board the steamr White Cloud & crowded so & so much foolish talk going on that I can hardly write any thing I wish to.  There are some men among us that are so very verdant & silly that I can hardly immagine what could have been the object of their mothers in raising them.  Well without Joking, there are so many ignorant fellows
