The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-05

chArTAsoos1- Thursday Evening. p NJ
Everywhere the lines are down this evening
except tile irrepressible "grapevine-R That
portion Of the world who didn't appreciate its
|ekcelIehce before. are now afforded an opppr-
trnity TO % the entente eordiaEe and des ant
largely upeh its excellence now. You see nov
that tie lines are down, what useful thing il
y to havela grapevinel Every welI-regulated
Family ougIt to have grapevine. have a
grapevine. And grapevine is a good thing
Empires nay fall aud monarchies be subvert1
fd-batiIes be fought and the earth swept Will
tprnhdoes-FeIopements be. medisatei and mar
riagh licenses be sold Wholesale at an alarming
sacrifice, and toutdings innumeralle and mn
known, be left at the door stills Of lonely bacll-
elork-siI,k or sviln-+liye or d5e-snrvive or
perish ii9 matter what happens--Nh whenever
it does happen, the grapevine win be certain 10
let hold 5fit. Ills useless for any of You to
attempt 10 keep secrets You can't keep ii
and live qnietIyin the same town with the
Tsu bsoriBersy battery.
III ily the way spsakiis Of secrets,
There Us report current on the streets this
evening That see,-ei Prososts lave been ap-
pointed to repair immediately to Knoxville
and to This place 10 report The names OF -
Sinking ofIicers OF the army In the firfi
Place, don't know what a Sinking officer IS.
Tor what constitutes the ..shirkiag Depart
shelst.r ] onIsr give what l hear. 'ieYtr
'-conmentate." n 10 common t>tsf.' >
] hear q rnmor TINT more cavalry men haYe
been arrested up about Murfreesboro lol
pressing, horses without authority. ] wish
it distinctly understood that Nese '-nembers
Of the press" arc in no way allied Il our pro-
fession. Nevertheless, since they 90 about
pressing everything they want except the la
dies, have no objection TO their being de-
nominated the Associated Press, Speaking
Of presses-I went to buy power Press 10
ptcseut 10 tie Rebel office. The one tlsey
have now can't begin 10 sapply The demand
forftiie gral.e vine articles which appear in
The papers. | doit exactly mean articles
EeitI,er I should have written ii particles.
4 slispaseh las ti.ss inomcnt reaclsed nc that
can sec = Powerful press on lookout s,nopa-
tain. No doubt Tho pre- pies' tiIa ha.
you doi,'i srf this grapeviiIs, with such a
stale ioisq a. that Fl
An On sfa about tlHriFeesboFo, HAT tel thou
sand Yaillsees are at Gallaiia. and an advance
guard ef tx taoasllrl even as FAR As Boards
Mills. betueesl. Murfre,sborp and LvbaEoi,.
sointl,osy esiSIii to 20 down there and flpel
the lion ia his den.
Majorl'aul Nynheer, with late dspstelies
from The Tycoon Of .l,ra5, arrived here las;
night lie has i.ssf receive The Apprenticeship
of Brigaiier. aud -took Tie fed last night.
but am not arl,risel wAo hs has pat on his
staff -
a runlor WAS gossincl in Ny enr last night
that Gen. Bragg had been assigned to duty
II. tue department. Of the Mississippi Al
vicksbarag. but l DO not cred IL
Fam told BY a gentleman who is directly
through from Memphis, that there are 700Op
Fedcrais there. and hey are daily arriving lai
the rate Of 5000 per day III
called on Young lady this morning. and
IN the course Of pleasant little, confab. ovdr
ono Of waiersons essays on Aiatrim6ny,
asked her what calling she wished her sweet
heart 70 follow. She blushingly replied. that
she wished him to be a husband man.
K.