The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-19

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MOBILE Ala, June g. 1862
Safe so far in our "retreat" from Corinth-or,
speaking in new military style, o,ir change Of
front'-let me give utterance to my joy and wrath,
exultation and indignation, at what my ears have
heard and my eyes have seen In the newspapers
The shout Of victory at Winchester echoed through
our hearts at COrinth. 'Stonewalls' name is truly
a tower % strength and battle cry Of victory. In
night of trial il first heralds the dawn of de-
hverance and success, and sends thrill of elec
tic life to the despondent and down hearted Thank
God, have never despaired. Hope and faith al
ways lie down with me at night and rise with me in
the morning; and when trying to cheer up doubt
ing friend. the tidings of Stonewals continued tr
umphs made it seem If the glorious end was
really approaching. This animated and sustained
through all the heat and dust, and delay and sick
ness from Corinth to Mobile. Aud here the news of
the 3lst and lat from our cannon guarded and glOri
ously defended Capital, comes over the wires, and
we feel that Richmond lives and with Richmond
lives the Confederacy. Each soldier feels, .if Rome
falls then falls the world and so they have felt and
fought at Richmond and saved the cause. Win
chester and Richmond-Jackson and Johnston
have crushed Mcclellan, and brought not only
exultation and Thanksgiving, but rest and conf
dence, and peace ere long, we hope' The wish of
the animated and impatient has been gratfe q, and
at last "so,neb0dy has done Something"
Now, for wrath and execration at Halleck's lies
Corinthiaa fnlsehoods, elaborated exaggeratons
"enlarging even the horizon OF mendacity.' He
arms nine locomotives, and million worth OF stores
while Beauregards loss was 20 COOL! The eldest
son OF the Father of Lies with the aid of the whole
family to the remotest edga of nguinity never
conceived or uttered q more monstrons fabrication
The force of f:asehood cannot further 90 The
truth s, hamay have taken few straeglers and
deserters, and found the remaius of seven locomo.
tives and million dollars worth Of stores we had
to destroy, because the bridge on the Charleston
and Memphis railroad was burned by our men at
the appointed time: butOur train had been delayed
h.,I Lxs
what Hallrck said he took. Our loss was not his
gain, although when the old boy gets him. Satan's
gain will be ours also. To give the individual his
due, however. the Yankee dash into Bonneville, 20
miles below CoriIth, Friday morning was II
daring and successful affair." for il in this
way: Beauregard's movement had been 20 sudden
quiet and successful that Halleck did not know
where his army had gone to- Ia fact, did not
know myself, although some Of the movement
saw, and part of it was The direction at the
start was toward the enemy, or to North Alabama
This squad Of Yankee cavalry, supposing army
had clean gone away valorously dashed into Boone.
vile and drove off twenty men, burned up three
corpses in the cars several ears, some two thou,
sand or three thousand stand of arms and
took the sick men prisoners. As soon as our
boys returned, they Tsn and left their sick prison
ers That is the amount Of the Bonneville affair,
and the limit and proportion of Haeck's perform
ances. With him. even truth lies in the bottom of
the well; and if it exists there at all, the Yankees
have no bucket with which to draw it up.
1t il not worth while to allude now to the posi-
tion, numbers, &c, of our army. The Kentuckians
and Tenncsseeans say, in their next fight they
intend to stop until they get to Nashville. All Isar
were in good spirits, improved by their short jour
ney from Corinth. They will yet pluck roasting
ears from the beautiful praries in corn, breast.
high and stretching, with scarcely patch of cot
ton, over this whole section of Mississippi
could fill another sheet with incidents Of fun and
Of sorrow, of which life here, else where is made
mp. The Yankees have published story OF Gen.
Price, who it is shame to keep here in harness He
Beauregard was showing him the entrenchments
when the old hero said he never had seen such things
but twice before and then his boys took them from
the Yankees 1t is also reported that StOnewall h;
but shovel in bis army and that he keeps to bake
hOe-cakes on. l waa told when the Yankees heard
our trains carrying Off the sick, they supposed they
Were recruits coming in
Heres Your mu-ei'' is said to have origin
ated at COfinth. country fellow came in
TO join the army, tied his mule TO the fence,
and went to the appointed place to be sworn
in, but when he heard the oath, declined to Join.
Meantime, the boys had hid his mule and to his re.
peatel inquiries, the answer came II Here sHyour
mule, q" but before he had gone half mile, another
shouted Here's your mule, " and SO they kept him
going. The little boys cry out at the stations
why don't you give your buttermilk to your
mule" The little boy replied, "Do you want any r
The splutter and rage of .'our own correspond.
rinth has been fierce and bitter. The "deep dam.
nation Of their taking off" has been set forth in
terms Of angry scolding and indignant wrath Per.
haps 1t was all right. have been in favor of SUP.
pressing all newspapers from the beginning of the
war. Have you heard how the New Orleans Ixin
was suppresseds Judge Walker wrote bioeraphi-
cal sketch of one b. F. Buffers political fe setting
forth his devotion to Democracy, the Constitution
and the South, illustrated with extracts from his
speeches, and with frequent parentheses: owe do
not say this IL the same B. +. Butler who now corn
mands in New Orleans.) Upon its appearance Rut
ler sent for Walker, and informed him he would
suppress the Delta. Walker replied he could not
prevent him. Butler asked him If he would CON
duct it. Walker declined. Butler said he could get
several editors In his army. Walker then said /:
"GeneraL suppose y0n piH allou the pripile1e of
reptyia1 TO them in my oaca columns ?" Butler de-
clned to permit any farther allusIOns to his bogra
ply. Hurrah for Walkeri
In conclusion, let me say that In this my first
visit to the South, in spite of sneers at "F f. VS. !"
caused by wooden nutmeg Yankees calling them
selves Vrginians and thus making the whole race
suspected, have found here, as in the North and
Ia Europe the name Of VRGINLN passport TO
consideration and regard among all intelligent men,
In public room in this city the course OF Virginia
in this war was discussed and approved, and heard
an original secession fire eater, member OF our
Convention, declare that our Governor John
Ietcher. had proved himself ono OF the truest and
wiSost OF Virginia statesmen must hold IN mere
until the war il over, and then Virginia and the
South will judge and decide who are and were her
worthiest Sons As for the war, the victory IL won
Another Manassas will soon echo tho shout OF trt
umph to another Shiloh, and the vile invader will
be driven ignOminiously from our borders. We
land of liberty But rather forty centuries OF war,
than return to the dsshpots OF Yanksetiom. L.
CoLosEf. JOHN II. MoRGAN-The Knoxville