American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-08-22
Northern News from the south.

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MEMPHIS. TEsS., Aug. 9-Continued
rumors reach Us regarding the movement
OF Bragg into East Tennessee. / DO not
know whether toregard it as ruse 70
deceive our commanders. or a real mil
ltary expedition. There are unquestion-
ably a large number Of rebel troops in
that direction, and the whole talk of the
inhabitants through North Mississippi is
that Bragg has gone there himself. Ii
so he has left force enough to look after
his interests here, and that force is in
command OF a man who knows well how
to WELD It. t0-wit General Price
Under these circumstances we are safe
from serious molestation Just at present.
Buell. must first be conquered.
+ Arkansas is being oyerrun BIZ strong
guerrilla bands. Hindman has a col
lectcd force Of twenty-five or thirty thou
sand. and Il ere are almost as many more
RAGING the country for spoilS There
have been q number Of skirmishes. of
which nobody seems to have the rights.
and nothing IS known except that strong
Federal expeditions have been attacked
and overpowered. and that large num-
Der of prisoners and valuable stores have
been taken from Us. There will prob
ably be some important movements in
that locality before long.
A good deal has heeu said in cOnnec-
ton with the Vicksburg affair. about
sending troops there. and reducing the
place BY a seige. This Is all very vel
for those who know nothing of the eli
mate and the country, but they who
save been there are keenly alive 10 the
perils of that campaign. None have
ventured it and come off unscathed
Our tlotila is full Of wan cOuutenances, +
and death has been among its brave men
to an alarming extent. Officers and
men have both suffered. The former
have been seriously i'll. and the latter
have died like rotten sheep. The sol I
der Jared no better, and some of the
regiments went back with almost deci- /
mated ranks. This is the true history of
the siege of Vicksburg.
The Yazoo river is fifty named by the
red-skinned hunters who traversed It's
tortuous channel in days gone by
Yazoo-Death river What could be
more significant Their symbolical Lam
guage never failed them, and in this in
stance it was we'll applied. for. if it be
not a river of death, then none exist
Old settlers tell me that no man can
drink its water in the hot season and
live longer than few months. 1t is
inpregnated with such rank vegetable
matter, gathered from the tropical lux
Ia E,rI,-- -, 10. l. ! Il.
of its tributaries, that It's water is con
veyed into slow poison. which is sure 10
destroy human life. If you would find
a counterpart to its sombre shades ard
its stained, murky waters, you must 20
into the depth of swamps. which it drains,
and look upon the green scum and crawl
ing reptiles who shun the sunlight and
breed pestilence and death alone The
simple substance of it is, that an army Of
twenty-five thousand men would find
their graves between now and the first
Of October. without ever facing an enemy.
The flotilIa has already accomplished its
destiny in that line, and, If an army is to {
be maintained anywhere in that locality. q
t must be removed from the river, and G
provided with pure water-and YOU q
night dig until YOU lost daylight. in that 6
ed-hot soil, and not find enough TO wet f
be palm of the hand.
| suppose by this time you have under n
zone various surmises in regard to the n
ortheru trip which Com. Davis and y
zen. Curtis are making. The precise .
easons for their pilgrimage to the seat d
f authority are not known, but the ma v
IRE Of their dereIictions is public enough. 4
,ays proved himself an infant IN concep- n
on, and an imbecile in execution. from h
he moment he left Memphis to besiege a,
-icksburg until he came away with the II
.dellib!e disgrace of having been whip v
ed and bulIied by the Arkansas into "a
beet submission. The fear of losing
essel was strong enough to overcome q
lie hope of glory. and there was moths l.
g but folding Of hands aud crossing Of fe
ms. The results of thee expedition were "
ese: Gained-nothing. Lost-,he Ca Al
ndelet shot to pieces, the Louisville T