Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-03-25
Interesting Items from the southern Press.

Interesting Items from the Southern Press.
Southern papers captured at Milton,
Tennessee, report that General Joseph
Johnston was expected to take immediate
command at Tullahoma. Arrangements
had been made for a grand military ball
TO be given in his honor at Chattanooga.
This change of commanders, it is argued
by the Southern press, will have a most
salutary effect on the rebel soldiers, thou
sands Of whom vowed that they would
never fight under Bragg.
The Vicksburg correspondent of the
jackson Appeal says that " General Grants
designs appear to be known to no one but
himself, That the army under his com
mand are in perfect ignorance as to his
purposes, is very evident from the fact
that all deserters who arrive here know
nothing whatever about his mOvements.D
The Richmond Examiner Of the 18th con
tains a long article reviewing the situa-
ton, and calling upon the rebel Govern
ment to place every available man in the
field; to revoke all furloughs arrest sum
marily all deserters and to impress a.
army; that there can be no peace, either
from the imperious DEGREES of King Cot
ton, foreign mediation, or the Northwest.
It attacks Vallandigham severely, and de-
clares that he has voted for war appropri-
ations, and will soon stand where John
Van Buren does that, in fact, from the
Union meetings which are going on all
over the North, it gives the Federal Ad-
ministration six months more to carry on
the war The Enquirer then adds that the
Confederates must fight or submit; that
the Confederate army must be told that the
Yankee enemy has just commenced to
fight, and we (the Confederates) are but in
the middle of this war, and at the open
ing Of the spring and summer campaign
it promises to be more unrelenting and Sc
we're than at any other period of the war.
The same paper, commenting upon reso-
lutions in the Confederate Congress, says
it would be much better for that body if it
would attend to its business-that Of en-
abling the President to carry on the war,
instead of wasting time on proposals for
peace. The resolutions propose the inde- |
pendence of the COnfederacy, the with
drawsl of all troops from Missouri, Mary !
land and Kentucky, and leaving the peO-
pie free to elect to which side they will go;
a fair partition Of all Federal liabilities be- |
fore secession occurred, and restoration Of |
confscated and other private property TAX |
en- against the usage of war, including !
debts and the free navigation Of the Ches- |
apeake and Mississippi.
The Yorkville Enquirer, of South Caro-
lima, says Lieutenant Pemble, Of the cap
tured Federal gunboat Smith, has taken /
the oath Of allegiance to the Confederacy. |
John Mitchell, the Irish exile, is editor /
eff the Richmond Enquirer.
From an editorial and resolutions in the |
Savannah News, it appears that the paper /
called the Southern Union, published at
Griffin, Spaulding county, Georgia, haG /
come cut for the restoration Of the Union. |
The News says the principles and views
put forth by the editor, who was Bell |
and Everett elector during the last Presi-
dental campaign, are repudiated by the |
people of that section.
The Savannah Republican announces /
the withdrawal Of the entire Federal feet !
on the coast from of that city.
The Richmond Wing looks upon the past /
rebel campaign in the West and Southwest |
as too humiliating to be narrated at length.