Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-19
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boats in order to prevent her from also falling
into our hands, must be regarded as an suspt-
cicus beginning of the career of the new com
mander in the far South. The news has been
received here with the liveliest satisfaction, ihe
more SO because the last four or five days hsve
been filed with rumors of disaster and the town
has been in g estate of uausual detection.
The fate of Yicksburg has been the chief
topic of discussion. Again and again have we
been assured that vicksburg was ia the enemy' S
possession. The Northern pspers with great
unsnimity declared that after five days fighting
the town mad undoubtedly been surrendered to
Gen. Grant. One account protested to rely on
an admission to this effect in the columns of
your own paper, and the statements Of The
APPEAL ere uniformly received with such
implicit faith that you may well suppose
we were inspired with no ordinary anxiety on
the subject. Still the firm confidence we felt in
the dafenses and the defenders Of the heroic lit
tie aisy, and the consciousness that tho word
" surrender" was not in the vocabulary of The
Misgissippians, made Us refuse to accept lbe
Yankee elsim as fact. Then csme later dates
from Washington and New York, and we found
all Yankeedom rejoicing over the triumphsl
entry of General Sherman into Yicksburg on the
Sd of January. Has YIcksburg fallen, or has
it not7 This was the all-engrossing question of
yesterday. This morning we have a telegram
from General Pemberton, dated the 9Th, which
sets at rest all fears. The Yankees, he says,
have gone up the river, the place is growing
stronger daily, and he intends to hold it. Gen.
Pemberton's words of cheer have produced in
Richmond a universal smile of hope and grstp-
lation.
We have other intelligence from the North
Burnside has returned from Washington to the
command of his troops on the Rappahannosk,
with carte blanche to do as he pleases, and Will
very soon make another offensive movement.
Credat Jpdaas Apela, non ego. No doubt the
government at Washington would be glad to
make us believe this, to divert attention from
the serious work they are preparing to begin in
North Carolina. It is now considered certain
that they viii attempt, in a very few days, to OBJ
tain & permanent Judgment on the line of The
Southern railroad, most probably at Weldon,
and a battle may therefore be expected at any
momen They have concentrated eighty th5u-
sand troops at Eewbern, or its vicinity a force
large enough, they think, to accomplish their
purposes without fail. Bat numbers did not
serve them at Manassas, or the Chickshomiay,
or at Fredericksburg, and we need entertain no
fears of the result Of a fair fight in North Caro-
lima. |
A flag of truce boat arrived at City Point
yesterday, bringing two hundred and thirty
ladies and two HUNDRED and twenty-six children,
nearly aIl of whom have come to this city.
They are mostly The families Of loyal citizens
of the State or the Confederaey, who have been
long awaiting the opportunity Of crossing :he
The ladies bear tidings of the utter pros
trstion of the North, beneath the recent reYerses
to their arms, and give it as their opinion tina! it
viii be fouod utterly impossible to bring another
army into the field when tue two years
8 listments shall have expired in the months of
May and June mex. They say that the policy
Of Governor Saygaour is believed BY everybody
At the North to be a peace policy. Papers
brought BY this flag Of truce boat give US The
information that the Emperor Napoleon has
renewed his ofsr to the Cabinets of England
and Russia for a mediation in American eftirs,
and an srmistics with 3 view to negotiations.
This looks like being in earnest, and
tAe probability IS that if this offer is
yalu declined, he viii proceed to net
in the mstser alone, England, it Is Thought
by many, viii not refuse . second time, but there
is no knowing what folly may be eommired
the pig-hsaded obstinacy of Lord john
Gallons to the sufarings Of the manu-
featuring districts be persists in maintaining 3
which degrsdes his country and to which
s large majority of the English people are heart
ly opposed. Louis Napoleon is not deaf otbe
cries Of distress which reach him from his own
classes. The cotton famine in France
to threaten millions with starvation, bat
Louis viii teke care that they shall net starve
the FIRST time since the affair of the Trent,
there seem to be a reasonable prospect of
be termination of the war through foreign in
erventiOn. The news Of the battle of Feeder
win not delay the action Of the French
government, should it have been fixed for the
of J%snuary.
The Legislature. Of Virginia discussed the
msl-poK question yesterday, in connection
q proposition to adjourn the sessions Of The
bodies to Staunton, Lexington, or some
healthy town of the interior. In the house.
Was g tie vote on the question of removal. !
The real motive for leaving ths city is not tie
Of The malady, but the consideration of ex-
'anse. Board at the hotels s FIVE dollars a day,
.nd the members Of the Legislature receive a
diem of only four dollars. Q E D. Not L
outstanding Ibis fact, however, they will not Z
Richmond. p
We hear from Washington that Seward has +
rdered the arrest of Capt wyuue, a captain in y
British regiment Of the GronAdier Guards, }
tow stationedin Canada. on the charge of being :
spy Of Jefferson Dsvs. Captain Wynne vas il
q Richmond during the Presidents absence nc {
he South, and although he did not eoreesl the :
set that he wished well for the southern cause. .
could be more ridiculous than to accu.e :
i'm Of being in the secret service Of ths Con \
sdersle government. lis ofTsnse was having
be i~nsolenee to enter the rebel" States, and
ir Sewerd might just as well arrest Lord Hart
lgton when he goes back to take steamer 1t il