Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-14

lqhsn the "cOrPse" elasped his aTns GROUND b.
and exclaimed: Never mind tha Old lady
Mss. 70 K on your own account I bsvn't ih
slightest objection.
Hatehez.
There IS no point on the Mississippi mora f.
voIel By nature for offensive and defansiT
operations against the enemy that have passed
and do pass VieksbUrg, and may Tun The Eaunt
let Of Port Hnds0a, than the metropolitan city q
Mississippi, Nstchez and its immediate country
above and below. 4 high feeg3 of bits, pIe-
eipitoUs banks, rolling back country, h-n, de-
-ermiued and pstTiOtie people, wi.e ether eds
Vantsgss pertinent, yet not material to specify
commend it most strongly to highest considers
ton. Drury's biuf, if not COMMON sense,
teaches rs what artillery, planted n ths locality
I Of Natehez, mighs accomplish. Besides .h9
range Of bluffs there commands The Louisiana
/ valley opposite at lss5. as far ss the gDusaos
range Of the enemg's gunboatE, say bacE co.
wsrd and beyond Lsks Coneordia a1d the low
lands above and below that old bed Of the Ms
sissippi
Na.chez. too, now, is become the great depot.
! entrep0t etc Of cur citizens sat soldiers the
/ trade and army road Of the people Of Louisiana,
Arkansas. Texas and Missouri, coming east s7d
| going west. we learn from ons Hho speaks
I from the record, that an average qf twenty-five
sol1iers per day have passed through thss poiHt
during the last thirty days, and thai as mary az
three TO four hundred Of these soldiers have
been seen IS ono time IN tTansitH st that Poius.
There are no railroads east or west from Natchez
It i8 seventy miles on the east 70 Brookhavan.
the nearest point on the New O-laaus, Jsrksou
and great Northern rai7osd-an0th neglected
point-and twenfY-eight miles O. the west to
Trinity, on the Tsnsas river
There are good wagon Tos1s (sn things coB-
sf6errd IN h1fh ~ tfara r07-rss fr-rr ffar-rr
and seg1s, vase ls sR3 obsr teams, plg iher8
daily Yet theIe Is ~ clmmanda0t Of he post
at Natehez. no quaTtermaster, paymastsf AMI
transportation egeHt. aud 10 comm ssary there.
The provost marshal there IS q iTiizu and wa
have hundreds Of efficient army officers. de-
taehed by reason Of copsoids.ioH of rsginents,
now unemployed, and their pay Is ruHninz on
The soldiers az and passing through Nstcb-z
need transportation ana sebsis euos, and not
unfrsquentlT pay. Naichez is Of such imp3r-
tance. grown so miliisry Of late, that provision
should b. made 10 meet the imperative demands
daily made there By our soldiers. As q miEtsTy
necessity it should st once BE- made an amply
provided for and msth0dicaliy arranged general
and special army post.
Nalehez and its county (Adams) polls less
than eight hundred votes, s1d yet it has saut
into the fald twelve companies, WIKI an sggrs-
gate Of over eleven hundred soldiers, each and
al of whom have done good ssrvcs. Her pop
ulatioa stil enables her to furnish 80 fui mili-
Ha (Stats) companies. Up to this period, We
learn, the soldiers iR fraasifu have Dzeu pro-
visioned and lodged there through the patriotic
philanthropy Of her citizens Tbs IS g heavy
snd unreasonable end unnecessary tax AID
while stating these facts we do so only for the
full and proper Information Of the powers thas
be, who, we a-e sure, win apply en- slequais
remedy without delay, being tdus pagted
~ f1h So ~ -H. re
being devoid Of rslroads and cenEeu;enee Of
inland communication, bat they DO devsstats 10
i-s Eaighb0Th0od solely because there IS no suf
Gcient check on them there TINS reminds rs
that sufficient publicity has not 5aen given, nsr
proper record made, Of the isa1 at arms at
Nateliez On the ID Of September lass On shat
day Yankee Porter, with bis iron-clsd gunboss
Essex and tender Auglo-Ameriaau, after pill
lagiug the plantations Ia Mississippi and LOUISE
ana, opposite snd near Nalchez resolved 20 rob
the ice-hOlse at Natchez, and 10 fbst end sent
on shore in longboat, a heutanant and thirteen
men Twenty i've ras0iut3 spirits, officers Of
he army On leave of absence, offers 0f the
court aud others, residents Of the cisy. armed
with l0ube-bsrrel sE0tzuns- swore she enemy
should not land and polIute their shoss wish inl-
punity.
AS soon IS Portsl's force LANDED snl had be-
gun carting the ice TO their boat these brave.
be gumbost and lis scarcely less formidable
tender EARNED with three heavy guns J, made q
dash under the bin, fred on ths ios IS thry w0sa
rushing into their boat. and killed two aud
wounded seven others, By aheh time Pa im-
petus given the b0at as they Jumped sboard and
the ediying current earned rhe enemy beyond
cur fire. OnT first voley (0uT men loaded ssd
fred three rounds was responded 90 By shot
and shall, grape and canister, from the d EsssL
and Anglo American. both, the shsliiag lasting
or continuing from ( I'LL o'clock = 81, ri3-
ding (making holes iR) sixty h7ns7s, aai ki.l-
ing ons poor little child, t6ougatlessly taken
into An exposed street, aud doing no ether dam
ags. Not one of tie brave twenty LIVE. nor 0lhsr
ssrson was touched The damage % ths ely
did not exceed 5000.
al uightfall the Essex and tsnder steamed up
ihs river, and 10 two or three days after returned
and demanded an unconditional Surrender Of
the city. The hsroie reply, given without hssi-
taiion was, " Give Us four hours TO removs oHr
women aud children and then take rs if you
can" Porter psTleyed and left, BE- said 10 re-
turn. He never TetHTnedt hatchez since then
has never been mOiestsd, save and except IN her
water cTsft BY the VsHdsl5 whose one or TWO
boats have stolen By Y.cksburg only TO be cap
tured By the Red river fset
There is bone and sinew, Material cirouul-
staHcs and plse8 as Natchez FOR record bright
among the brightest Of out young Confe1era-
cy's brilliant history. Mobile Rssss
A BAFFLE- WORN FLAe-Aa iatsnt John
Orr, Of the Oh Louisiana Iegimsui, has let as
this cfiee the battle flag Of thas gallant corps.
It is truly en- eloquent memorial Of glory Its
f,l5z ara In katfere rinna7 ard horn 40 ! tA,rl-