Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-05-20
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JEFF Davis, despairing Of aid from any other
quarter, has resolved, By day Of fasting, hu-
initiation. and prayer, to sue for the interposi-
ton Of Heaven. A contemporary thinks that
JEFF expects a miracle to aid him BY a flank
movement.
Gen. Beauregard announces that the U. S.
G6YerDment has control Of the Mississippi
river throughout It's whole extent. What an
announcement for the rebel Contederacy.
It doesn't look ss if the rebels, late of ork-
town, could run fast enough to escape their
pursusrs. The hare is Geet, but he has grey
hound after him.
There are Southern rebels, and there are
Northern rebels-the former are the more res
Pectable by far.
Com. Foote is Yankee. How did the reb-
ols at Donelson and No. 10 like his nutmegs!
Our troops run the troops Of the rebels, and
cur sunbOats even run their forts.
The New York World says, that ooh God
Il is all over" was the exclamation of Lord
North, when he received the news of the cap
ture Of yorktown by Washington. Can some
body tell Us what was the exclamation of JEFF
Davis when he heard of the capture of York
town by Gen. Mcclellan
The rebel Conf ederacy is not at this day a
living thing.
We guess the weather is at last so dry tina,
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Beauregard;s army is n1 doubt nearly stsry-
c.. The question is what is the effect Of hun
ger upon mems fighting qualities. We suppose
that it makes fellow savage but diminishes
his strsngth-infiames his desire to fyht but
takes away the power Of performing.
We aim not to disparsgs the rebel armies,
but our brave troops are everywhere running
them down.
The rebels have repeatedly run without
taking away with them their cannon, their
small arms, or their character as fighting
men
BlaGdsrs and rebel war steamers are made
20 be blown up.
The Sun of the Rebellion is no longer in the
sigu IF t5e Ram.
The great rebel army ran away from York
toWa ard then from Williamsburg but not till
after the great rebel Congress had run away
from Richmond.
matter of sincere regret is, that old Hol-
Inns wasn't moanted on the back Of his ram
when that rlTer-sheep went under.
TIE flowers that bloom most abundantIy in
the Southern COnfederaey at this time are the
''pinks Of chivalry."
As We go on beating the Confederates
IN naval fights, they become more and more
i2olishly boastfCl. The more Farrsgut we
give them, the more tsr-ago they give Us.
M: Roman, New Orleans rebel, pre-
dl1ted II late speech that the Federal armies
you'd De driven out OF the South in six months
Perhaps by this time Roman knows.
The papers say that Gen. Mcclellan, though
struck Dy piece Of a shell at williamsburg
escaped uainiured. We are net surprised al
IT, An oficer who could stand as many at
tseks from politicians as be has done, must be
bOmb-prOof
Our anaconda is still doing an immense busi-
ness lie travels at prodigious rate and
cOmpresses with ten thousand cotton press
power. The rebels think that all the army
worms of the world are nothing to cur army
Enake.
There is no reason in the world why the
people in the rebel cities Of the Mississippi
should be 50 a6fully scared at the approach of
cur gun and mortar boats. Let them be quiet,
and nobody will harm them. Why need they
make fools Of themselves?
Memphi, talks Of burning herself up. Hadn't
che better bite herself to death!
The hearts Of our rebels are evidently great
deal too close to their gall bladdsrs.
There is much.of majesty and glory and ter
Tor Ia the march Of the great Union army to-
ward the rebel Capital
We have Put lock on Charleston harbor.
and she can't find key to ft.
A Memphis paper alleges in behalf of Floyd
that at Fort Dsnelson his hands were tied
There was good reason why they were: there
was danger that he might steal something.
Richard the Third offered his kingdom for
horse" What would JEFF. Davis give? A
coEfederacy?
Ihe Mobile Register says " II seems to be a
truth that, the scarcer an article OF provisions
Is, the more man wants TO consume of IL -
1es and the sesrcer shoe leather is In the re bel
Confederaey, the faster the rebels seem dig.
posed to wear il out sy fast travel.
Little Rock paper, in evident alarm, calls
attention 10 the fact that Commodore Farragut
.'oan 90 up the two principal Arkansas rivers
into the very body OF the State" If Arkansas
continue rsbellious little longer, she will not
be worth enteriDg-she will have in her body
neither Commodore Farrsgut nor any other
gut.