New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-02
Little Prospect OF Immediate Activity NJ
yicksburg - Excessive Ruius Rapid
Rise OF the Southern Hivers-Genor.i
Grant going Beiow-The Position as
NIiiIii1en's Rend-Anairs AT Memphis.

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HxAbouARTERs THlkTEySTn Amy CoRPs.
MEMPHIS Tenn, Mcnda! night, Jon. a. IVt3
so little prospect is afforded OF any immediate
activity in the vicinity of Vcksburg that this seems
likely for some weeks to DO the best point for tie
obtsinment Of information respecting what is now
known Az the Army of the Mississippi.
For two or three days past troops have loft
here in consequence OF the scarcity Of Transports
but learn some fifty are now on their way mp
from Mlkcn's Bend-about 80 miles above Vieks-
burg--aud will before the close OF the week return
wIts more regiments.
The excessively rainy weather for eight or ten
days and the continued and rapid rise in the lower
rivers may, aud probably will, have the effect of in.
interfering with our operations down ths Mississippi
az present appearances indicate general overflow.
Milhken's Bend ID higher than mich of the sur
rounding country, but still II ID likely 10 lie sub
merged, if the river rises during the next week as
it has done recently. AT Helena they are looking
for "a Hood, and preparing TO remove their camps
back to the bluffs In the VI the town.
Gen. Grant INTENDED TO 80 down tho river to-day
and will certainly leave, i ain informed to.norrow
morning, 10 more fully comprehend the situation
about Milken' ssljend, and determine the earliest
possible day for the resumption OF hosilitiee. is
very anxious to assume the offensive against Vicks-
burg, and has confidence apparently in his ability 10
DO SOucthluE DOuDttbs The failure OF ms
campaign in Mississippi disImbs him not little,
aud renders him very DESTROYS to replace its recoec
ton in the public mind with something more hatter-
ing to his sefloye, and creditable to his repu.
talon 10 a military commander.
May he be successful his desires aud prosnarons
In his ambitlonsl
We hear many of our troops below are suffering
from Illness, and that, as usual, poor provision 10
made for them. The late Indictment weather will
add many 70 the sick list and when tle South.
ern rivers FALL disease will De rife and death terrible
in It's frequehcy.
In Memphis there Is nothing new. The streets
are flowing with disagrecabloness aud mud. Fort
Pickering ID progressing gradually TO completion.
lsraeites are still pouring into and commercially oc
cupying the town. The hotels are as bad, and filthy
starvation at s25 to $50 per week, as abundant as
over. In wors the city is ~ abomnable and un-
endnrable, as unrensonably expensive aud as mex
prossby obnoxious US III ITS palmlest days Of cock
tails and cockades.
It's population seems to be made up of spectators
and soldiers, snd the principal articles Of
dirt and whisky. Everyone abuses it
and sahers in II, and looks forward 10 the period
when Memphis will be something more than an in-
village Of eY:ortionsts and something
less than nock-auction shop ION a large scale
whose Peter Funk IL sometimes Union officer ana
sometimes . degenerate descendant OF Malachi.
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