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

ENEElaA
RICHMOND, July g 1868.
The navs Of the fall Of vyeksourg has cast a geners
.a,n ovsr The city. which not even the assurance Of
n. ,onnlass success Of General Lee esR mitigate. The
.,yfst blow Of The war has fallen upon Us. Some few
ssnguipe persons doubt the authenticity of the nfor.
nation. They say that she dispatch which bears tho
signature or General Johnston to the Secretary Of War
may possibly be a forgery, gotten up for speculations ii
sugar. The significant fact that the teIegrsph'o opers-
t,r misspeIt the name o. General Johnston BY emittiRl
he In the dispatch, Is regarded by these skspues a1
conclusive of The fsIsity Of The information. 1t g also
suggested that The ooiacideHcs OF the cspitHlstan will
the 4th Of July, the very day oa which The 4aekesi
boosted they would be IN possession Of Vicksburg st ''
latest. furnishes Haitsr FER doubt. The news mas ssei'
discussed over ard eyer since morning. the uspa'on h@'
been turu.d this way aud that aud ma1e tbe s0oJ7ot o
ne most careful exegssis. but the general conviction re-
mains that We have los. eur stronghold on the hissss'F
nj ans t5at uBlssz GsH. les oas Gospel Ia peaceby fol'ew'
fpr up hfs recent Victory With TAO capture Of Washing
tan "a, war has tskena ne v lease, sud we have n'i
oven seen the beginning OF the end. Il Yicksburg haH
f.r,r wsst tbeni il lest BY no means. 'Ths nav.
i-strop of the Mss Esippiis not even opened beyond all
5f-t-rb,nee. We shat lbs called upsR TO make grsate.
ssrriscss. 20 enter With renewed zeal int the struggle,
n rather fresh resolution frsm defsst, aud thea It ma!
be. in tie providsnce Of God that IBIS very disaster viii
ba tie agency BY waIch we shall establish oar indepen.
aancs. Through infinite rorrew aRd tribulat0n are all
crest and glorious ends sftained, and the veg troubles
and salctons which attesd or Efforts in this wead-
come struggle for uaional existence SD tie sovereignty
at lie sta,ss, viii tszeh US to value the boon al thl
more precisasEy whom it shslhave bees stained
Nsthi-r official has bsen maEe known s. yet Of tba
f-sr battle at Gauyg5urgabut ue knew through ether
means ofintsIHEenes that the enemy was completely
rsBulasd with tb. heaviest loss tass they have ever sus-
t.fnsd. An officer en- the Gag Of truce boat which came
uo % City PoIn: yesterday, was heard TO esdmato,tAei'
es~suz'ttes st sixty thoussud. The Yankess on the beat
/ g~asi,iveIv refused 10 anew q siEgis NortherH paper 70
be brought ssbora, sud were disizc,iaed to say = weri
sbozt tie battle. From MErtRsbrrg We hesr ~thatfor.T
/ tbsvsszd prisoners were taken, and, refusing to b
parslsd, are on their march 70 Richmond under
gusra. Tas Martiusburg correspondent ef tie
Associated Pre- g also says that tbs papers ei
/ New York ana PhIadslpAia gave 1t up as a w0tsrlo'
defeat. and spoke cat clearly fer peace which may
furnish US the rsssoR why they were withheld by the
Federal officers at City Peint, though it ID more Proba.
he that these papers contained intelligence Of The move
vents Of troops to reinforce Meade, and were, thsrt-
fore. declared coatrabaud. It is known that SVfoik has
been entirely evacuated by The enemy, and report alsa
states hat their whole force has been Withdrawn from
Norfolk and Portsmouth,. The stery Of the forty thoU-
sand prisoners IS considsreds IS iust q lit ls sxtszvsgani,
I sshsurb supBosing such a number to have fallen int'
Cur hands, it is plain ezsugh why the Yankee generals
refazed TO allow them t. accept tbsir parole. Gsttys-
5urz is a long distance from Richmond Fory ikousani
men would require q g1srd Of not less tAsn len thsu'
sszd. an entire division Of our army to which
extent Gen. Lees force weuId be weakened for the
tme-besides which there v7sHld be s dRs chance Of
rscapturs on The read by Federal cayRlry-sud lastly,
should we get them securely to Riehmond, why, Va
she'll have forty thousand mouths 10 feed for several
weeks, which is no aidiug consideration. All, these
Yankees are sly-"ioviiah sly" as little Isaac said Of
himself in the play.
oar victory at Gettysburg has been dearly purchased,
n less than thirteen generals have been placed hors DIT
combat. AS usasl, Virginia IS the chief mournsr over
the geld Of blood. Armistead aud BemPsr ard Gsrnstt.
her brave sons. have bssu entered on the shining roll @,
martyrdom with The first Garrett and Ashby and Jack.
son. But all maurn with her and with Mississippi
soreIy stricken by the desiA Of the heroic BArksdale.
Posing ever these sad losses, it is q g%rievous misfortune
that at this critical moment We must lose for atime
the services Of Hood, Pstdgrew, Hgth. Jones Pickett
Andersen s1d others q our leaders who were among
the wounded.
Captain henry W. Sawyer, Of the it New Jersy
regiment, au5 Capt Jro. Flynn, Of the 5Jst Indiana reei.
mont, we're drawn by lot day before yesterday n the
Libby prison, as the unfortunate men who are to suEsF
5eath as d necessary retaliation for the murder Of two
Confederate officers by Ger. Burnside, at SsndHsky
Ohio, on bs 18th May LAST
There was a slstressing soei5snt on ,he Petersburg
rair5az night before last, In tie explosion Of o locsmo.
tive o1gaae. by which five men were killed and eight
others wounded.
We are in the dsInge. Monday Fl poured, Tuesday &c
poured, to-day It pourA James river is again in inun-