The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-30
Bogus Dispatches.

We are of the opinion land we desire
to express it as modestly as we know
how that the people have been dosed
with silly and contradictory kilograms
from Cairo and Memphis, concerning
operations in the Department of the
Mississippi, about long enough. Perhaps
we feel unusually sensitive in regard to
them. We have reason to. Forum
mindful fthe caution of Bishop Ames,
not to thank Cox on the authority of
mere telegraphic dispatch-when the
news came that Yazoo City had been
captured and that our troops were at
Haines Bluff, signals having been ex-
changed between the forces above and
below that rebel fertilization, and that
Vicksburg was TO be assaulted at once, we
not only thanked God, but made haste
down the river ito be ill.," as the hunts
men phrase it, Eat the DEATH" Ofcourse
our delusion was not oflong continuance;
but the effects ofthe journey growing out
of that delusion, still conGne us to our
E9opo u Mf5 dhteeBe rom Htlfantf Depafr-
ment, for they were the main cause of
protracted illness from which we are still
suffering.
1t certainly would be sorry compli-
ment to the intelligence of the departed
to inscribe on their tomb stones, 'Died
OF bogus telegraph dispatch" yet, were
the truth always declared, such would
not untrequently be the character of the
inscription on many tombs in different
parts of the country.
Honest thinking people can't see why
it isn't just as cheap to telegraph the
truth as falsehood, and, therefore, as
they prefer the truth, why that it is not
always sent. They forget the world ia
so given to lying, that falsehood is often
INDUCED in when the truth would answer
a much better purpose
One reason for the thousand bogus
dispatches which have been, and still
continue to be, scattered through the
country, relative to Gen. Grants opera-
tons is, that something has to be done to
amuse the people in order to divert at
tention from the miserable failure which
has hitherto attended all his efforts to
capture Vicksburg. 1t must have been
observed that the telgrams indicate the
existence of a veritable Micawber, some
where in the Army of the Mississippi,
and were we to decide as to his location,
we should say at once that he was on
Gen. Grant staff Something is always
about to turn up, but we never hear that
the rebels are turned out" Another
popularity about these dispatches is,
that whenever the failure of any one of
the many expeditions which were to re-
cult in the capture of Vicksburg could
no longer be concealed, the attention of
the public was artfully drawn from the
contemplation of the failure to some new
project which was to prove an undoubted
success. For long time, the canal OPP
posite Vicksburg was sure thing. Day
after day, dispatches flashed through the
country announcing its speedy compile
ton, and the capture of Vicksburg as
the inevitable result. When that abor-
ton could no longer be concealed, public
attention was directed to the great
Yazoo Pass and Lake Providence pro-
jects, which were pronounced successes,
almost before solitary move had been
made to secure success. These, in turn,
were pronounced failures at last, as they
were, indeed, from the outset, but Just
then the great Sunfower Expedition was
announced and we were gravely inform
ed that already Commodore Porter had
succeeded in getting into the Yazoo
above Haines' Bluff This bubble didn't
get fully expanded before it burst, but
there was still another to take its place.
A new canal had been commenced and
even then was almost finished, which
would insure success. To add interest
to the new project, it was vehemently in
sisted that the rebels were evacuating