Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-16
From the VickkbuFg Citiz IN.


In these times Of and siege and expectation Of
bloody eopfct-e conflict which, VIXEN it does take
place, will be most terrible we'll bloody Cn>,
If it does ocCur-litte occupies the minds Of the
people, civic and military, except the great question,
what will the Yankees do next That is emphaticaly
the great question of the day and sincerely wish
that could answer it. 10 the attempts to gain glory
and cotton and Rggers and provisions aud other porta
bic artices-gory portable add so are negro2s-they
seem to have exhausted their fund ofngeuty and to De
1dgelipg their brains for the convenience OF
to capture this city Of hundred hills; which most DIFF
fcult nay, extremsly auduoQs Undertaking they
menced nearly twelve months ago.
Last year. during the highest stage OF water in TIE
Mississippi thai the venerable individual called the old
est inhabitant ever knew, they summoned Vicksburg
to surrender but it did not surrender according TO or
ders and they went to work and dug canal across
the long peninsula in front Of the city, whereby to turn
the current OF the Great River tie Indians call it,
into another channel and leave the city inland
but before they had got hall through with the joO tie
river shrupk away in disgust and left their ditch VITA
out drsp Of water in it. Exasperaed no doubt with
the refusal to surrender and the refusal OF the Msss
sipp to assist them in runiRg the town. they made
grand exposition Of their chagrin by b0mbardDg ii
10 the almost of their ability, and then weighed an
Choir and lett the "gay and festive scene" All this
time Vicksburg at their mercy alncs for We had
very few troops here aud Notifications
ly commenced but the Yankees did not know this
most likely, they would have taken advantage
Of it.
TIE Le&t demonstration they made was Oh the a
zoo at Chickssaw Bayou, on the 9th of December
last and after trying three days to asonish the ma
tives, Thomas & Co., found them missing new
years day, when it expected they would favor the
Lousianians with call. Al bout the 23d of January
they reappeared at the head of tie canal and com
menced digging again, but still without success for the
canal is worthless to them up to this time. Then
another bright idea seizd on their hairy brains, and
so they gent work the Yazoo Pass thinking there
by to worm their way like eels through two three
small rivers once, and into town by the back
route.
In this however, they seem to meet with great diff
Guilty as near Greenwood they have encountered sun
dry artificial sDaqs made of iron and other hard ma
teria and are at standstil and to add to the peck
of trouble they are n the water which bore them to
the spot is running away from them, and like certain
long tailed rodents they in trap where they are
very likely to be surrounded and taken aiding there
by not little to the naval and military wealth of the
Confederate States
They remind US of jugguler, who was astonishing a
country village with tricks OF edger-derain, and Who
when he had got through with act would say "now
my friends will tell you what will do next and so
he ould go off to do it. His last trick enc in
which guupowder used, but instead of burning the
proper quantity he set fire to his whole stock and blew
the building to pieces and himself into eternity One
sailor who happened to light on grass-plo near by,
got ap looked around, rubbed his eyes, and thinking
that act was part of the programme, said wonder
what the damned critter is goin' to do next?
So be it with the Yankees and their friends