Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-06-04
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| Late from, vi.isburg.
The Montgomery lAla.) Advertiser, May 80, says:
! We indebted to Major Matthews for the follow
ing private dispatch from Meridian
| Meridian, Mag 27-News has been received from
Vicksburg up to Sunday evening. Fighting has taken
place every day. On Saturday tremendous assault
made by concentrating most OF the enemy's cannon
upon point. Our breastworks were broken, and
the enemy entered in considerable numbers They
terribly repulsed almost all being killed taken pris
oners We captured their banners On our works Our
loss thus far is between two and three hundred The
enemy admit loss Of from fifteen to twenty thousand.
The Selma (Ala) Reporter OF the 26th ult., says:
We learn from Col. VIM. III. Dandridge of Gaines
VILE, that dispatch received in that place from
Gen. Pemberton to Mrs Pemborton, dated Vcksburg,
Saturday evening, May %, in which he says =" We
have repulsed the enemy the sixth time, with great
slau hter. thirk the worst is over and Vcksburg is
now safe" This dispatch brought TO Jackson by
Lieute ant of Gen. P s staff, and sent By telegraph
from that city to GAINESVILLE.
| The Mobile Advertiser and Regis ,er, OF the 28h
ult says:
| Gen Grant having made seven assaults upon Gen
Pembertons entreDched lines at Vicksburg and having
been bloodiy repulsed in each has gone to digging
This means regular siege operations and attempt to
starve garrison that be cannot whip. Meanwhile be
leaves his dead Yankees unbaried under our works,
without any prefer under flag truce to give them the
decenc intel ment which they entitled to- at least Ell
his hands. Grant evidently thinks that the dead
Of the poor wreches he has sent to slaughter will
be more seryceabe to the "bes Government the world
|
stencil arising from those fostering bodies will annoy
the CoDfederaes, and that is enough for Yam
kee Government to Outweigh all the considerations OF
decency end humanity Can be starge out Vicksburg
Not in hurry, certainly. Ut is well provsiOned for
some months and half provisoned for double the num-
bsr. Grants possession Of Snyder Bluff gives him
large advantages ia bis proposed se 1t enables him
to shorten his line of communications with his base OF
supplies and avoids the danger Ct running the batteries
the river front, the expense and delay of long
transportation around Vicbsburg the louisiana
sbor Meantime the interest Of the situation depends,
and the eyes and energies Of both b.lEgerents WILL in
all proba bility be turned and concentrated upon this
point. 1t is unlikely that the great battle of the
war-perhaps, the decisive batte-wi be fought
within cannon hearing Of the Hill! City. From the
deahIike qaetude Rosecrans lines, 1T is promised
that Grant has been reinOi ced from the Tennessee
army.
Tie Yankees will need great numbers for the work
before them, and they will send them. We shall want
them, and they gone and going We should not be
much surprised to find both Roscncrans and Bragg
transferring their long expected fight in Tennessee to-
the soil of the Mississippi Valley and then may begin
the prophetic battle of AmageddOn.
Gen. ohnston is quietly masslng powerful army IN
Grants Information just received leads US to
believe that his numbers already greater than we
have supposed. In short time hundred thousand
Confederates will be ready to dispute the sovereignty
OF the lower Mississippi, and if victorious reestabish
the freedom of Louisiana. The tate of empires hangs
upon the struggle being iDaugurated the banks OF
the Mississippi. We repose in full confidence in the
genius and patriotism Of General, and the gOdke
valor and heroism of our uneqnalled soldiers
SOUTHERN SILK-We recoIlect the silk excitement
of twenty odd years ago. which under the stimulus OF
Yankeez ng speculation, turned into the mOrus
multicaulis MANIA the unlucky consequence of which
brought discredit upon the really audabe enterprise in
which it originated. We had believed that the silk
culture in the South completely broken up but
are happy learn by the following notice in the Allan
! to Commonwealth that mistaken.
We have received two skeins OF beautiful sewing silk
manufactured by Mrs. Thomas Gibson, Mayfeld,
Warren County, Ca 1t is smooth, strong and glossy,
and sufficiently fine for all practical We learn
that Mrs Gibson in 1881 procured about 10 900 eggs
and put up about forty cuts on common reel OF about
I2O yards each This she put into skeins to the
ber of 500 This year she has about $4,000 worms,
and they dc well they did last year. she will have
500 skeins of silk She disposed OF all she made
except q few skeius: She has sufficiently amount OF
mulberry to feed 200 900 worms. We take pecu
liar pleasure noticing this successful experiment 10
silk culture and trust that it may be incentive to
Others to engage in the same laudable work
THE Two ADDREssEs-A CoxrRAsr-The n. Y.
! World thus comments the addresses of Lee and
Hooker to their respective armies, after the late bat
tes which, strangely enough appeared IN toe papers
| on the same day
! Bya most unhappy coincidence the congratulatory
orders of Generals Hooker and Lee appeared together
in Yesterdays newspapers. The publication of these
two documents Simultaneous will do the north almost
as much dsCredt and the south much credit IN Eu-
rope as the result Of the battles the RappahannOck.
1t is the fate of many brave and capable nation and
army be defeated, out to be untruthtu boastu and
false when the occasion demands honesty resignation,
and loyal hopeulness in adversely will turn against
US every civilized nation earth. honest and fair
minded man can have read these orders yesterday
without grief and pain and shame. | longer De
dened-it is patent the whole word-that the supe
rior men, morally and mentally the head OF the
wrong government and the wrong army.
VIcksburg-YanI1ee Lies.
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