The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-24
IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH.

The City Authorities of Memphis Re-
quired to Take tn Q Oath OF ALE ri ance-
Reported Servile Insurrectfom I'm Mis-
sissfppi-Rcp0rts from Mobile and
vicksburg, &c.. &c..
MKxsns, Juns 20 ,.1ss2
me Mobile Nous Of the 10th says nothing Of Che cap.
ture Of Fort Morgan mention OF an attack being
made, although naval angsments IN pro.
grsss New Orleans, considered TO bs aiming a the
point.
Advcss from vicksburg to the l1th by way Of Crsna
d that active had been made by
the Union feet since To retirement Several gunboats
appeared on the 18th from below. Reports say that
5000 Union troops, with gunSoas and transports, save
Baton Rouge on Friday for vieksburs.
NzxrHp, June ~, 1867.
The vicksburg WIiJos the 18th, sayss-ws hear that
General Lowell, STAFF and family have moved their head
quarters 70 Meridian and hopes be win not md nscss.
sary to visit that city again. The federal advance div
sion srrivsd at their old position on Friday evening
They fred half dozen shots at the lever battery on
Sunday. All was quis, yesterday.
Colonel Slack st retains command Of this city He has
issued order requiring the Board q Aldermen Mayor
Recorder and oil ether city scals take the oath or
allegiance within three days, and In default will 10 re-
gardsd sympathizsrs and bs arrested and treated ~
traitors.
Greensboro (lfss.) paper or the lih says that in
formation from 0ctbbshs county states that the negroes
srming themselves rapidly for the purpose OF KIN
Ing all the whites On the 18Th Of June plot was dis
covered in time 10 be frustrated.
The Mobile Ncsps Of the 1sth says Richmond iels
gram states that General Lawton, VITA Georgia br
gads 5000 strong 10 leave WEDNESDAY, 10 reinforce
Jackson
The Grenada Arp,al 0. tho 18th contains the following
dospatch;-
MONTGOMERY. Ala, June II, ls62
al rd "a t,Ho ttsvr ptol,.
mond. We hear that large portion OF the Army Of the
Mississippi will follow their General sufficient
force viii b, left with the nvncbls Bragg TO check any
siers toward the Interior by tho vandas undcr Haleck
The Grsrsda APPEAL OF tho 18Th says that Holly
Springs was occupied by considerable force Of the
enemy oight before last. They made their Appearance
suddenly, and much eonfusiSn snsued. The Provost
Marshal Is among the prisoners captured. train was
about 10 leave for the south upon which many citizens
attempted refuge fer The purpose VI sssapisg
The crowd fired on ard Iaeat Han and some others
killed. No public stores remained at Holly Springs.
II Ia believed here that the Southern statement that
Besuressrd viii take troops 10 Richmond . rsss;
that most Of his army 10 already there.
The government repairing the roads from Memphis
to Cairo The heavy force At both ends viii open through
In two three weeks
The frat through shipment Of cotton 10 Nav York
was made yesterday by weidrufn, OF the Pcnnsyivs.
mia Railroad Two hundred balss viii continue daily
CEIoAoo June 20, 1862.
Tho relieving IL q despatch from Calro:--
General H!ndnan or Arkansas 10 among the prisoners
taken At White river
Rev. Joseph Warren, Chaplain OK The Twenty. sixth
Mlssouri, captured 81 Pennington the Goth or May,
released BY order OF Bcaursgaro. lie eft Jackson
Miss On the 18Th. He reports that the stats archives
aud al pubic and private property being renewed
70 Columbus.