Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-07-13

From the Richmond Examiner, July I0l
The account Of the Baltimore Aulorican Of the
defeat, Decentralization and Eight OF Gen. Lees
army on Friday last Published yesterday even.
ing ia newspaper extras had, such III is fhe force
Of elaborate, brazeH lying, tho effect Of seriously
depressing The spirits Of the mass eff the people.
Vita the espitulatiOn ct VicksburT and an the
Hncontfadjcted stories Of overwhelming disas-
ter ia Pennsylvania, many believed that the
darkest hsur Of The CsRfadeFaey had come.
Those, however, wao knaw wen tho army of
Virginia, and az the same time had st1disd at.
tsntively since -the beginning Of sbe wsr, the
Yankee newspaper style Of getting uB victories
for themselves and defeats for ug, experienced
get a momsnt's upeasiness or das0ondaucy.
Like tho Datch corps ct Gettysburg. we re-
mombered ChsHeellorsv e"-w5 roeoleetad aEd
were comfortes thereby, that after Ua0ksfs
army bad barely escaped annihila-i0n upon that
field, Cocker resuufae.ursd upon paper q gloTi-
Gus victory, and had medals struck ia coTuuaamo-
ration Of the same esd presented 10 tse broken
winded soldiers who, is WAS asserted, had
achieved The imaginary triumph. Still
the newspaper "eTtrss' were abroad, and
We had nothing Wberswith 70 stapaD their CON
tents as falsshoe5a. Thus they were 6giRg, if
Hst en- the wizEs Of tho wind. what was really
equivalent, on the heels Of fifty ragged urchiHs
permsatiHg every public and private place Ia the
city, HneontYadicted. This was very aiss~geee-
bic. Azd it was salT at g late hour eff tbs eve
nisg that anything could be obtained giving the
lia 20 the meugtrous romance eff the Baliimqra
| american The Central train from sfsuntan 81
rived at 5 o'clock P. NJ, bringing several soldiers
whs wers wounded no Gettysburg. O0c Of
these, who says be left Gettysburg on Saturday
1t zssa, re7srts up to that time cur army had
met with ne defsat. There was no dsmoraizs-
ton existing Ia cur ranks, bDt On the contrary,
the Hea were SIS coafde1t as ever nor was
there any evidence Of q hastg retreat bsiug
about to DO sRde. Our tr8ias were in moi0s
! towards HaEeFstswn, bat st a leisursiy pae5. We
had taken thirteen tbeussad prisoners who were
being escorted towards Wliamsp7-..
Late in tbs evening is became publicly known
that there had bees received ct the WAX 0Gea
aH sfiajal dispatch fr0R ths eemms=dsat Of toe
pest at MsrtlassBrE, stating that Gsa. Laa YVES
at Hsssrst0wH wiJh his erny in sac order aEa
condition. This sissi3sts3 the gloom Of the
@speral public, but there we're ma7y who stH.
persisted IN believing tho worst aud 3aiag mis-
cradle. They insisted that Gsneral Leo ha8 eL-
aagsts3 bis snmEuitiOn, and the Pst5raG being
toe high to be fsrdsd. he must Inevitably be
heam9d ia end cut to piscas or captured the.
even th9arb he had ammunition and could keep
ths eaany st bay. Ae mus. perish, etc.
L=st night The President received a dispatch
from tie conanandant eff thA pest st Martins
burg, which was in the highest degree cseerug
Il stated that General Lse had heeu victerisus
is every engagement with the enemy, are Aa6
fallen back ts HsgeTss9wH sisnPty taa5 As mig0i
pat Ecrsss the Potomac his wounded and .pris
saors, beth Of wh81 were nunsrsug.
a gentleman reached here last night who Jeff
Warrington City en- Sunday rigbt. He says
the Yankees were m1eh d~ejse5ed and the sec8s-
]sionisss jubilant at Gat.ys5u-r, tho s7rm-r 80.
mitEisg that Los had beaten Lssls il every
fight.
In addition to all .aas has 5saa msu.jousi,
we nav AID that ths movements sf 5aa latsa raY
Of he Paaznzev leave M dsu5s as 10 .h5 ETa.
in which tbs Iaakae Government views th=
recent military events in Pennsylvania Ksyss
sRd eEe% rssthar's sen Of his Haur2aGers hsv;
been recalled from Eastern Virginia 10 WasF-
ington. Had Mssds been successful in Fl.
operations against General Lee, The army Of the
PsmaHkev would now be .haniering as the
gates of Richmond ia earnest.