The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-01
The Vicksburg Campaign.

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d A Memphis correspondent of the World
sums mp the results Of the Vicksburg cam
paign as follows: ars 81. iuIa ..aunY4
q Norwonder you of the farEast are puz.
zled with the mystery attending the siege
of Vicksburg. We who are so much
nearer the scene of action, and into whose
hands the various reports are pouring, are
anything but clear in our convictions on
the point. One thing seems to be grow
ing more certain, that the side expeditions
and canals are among the exploded failures
The Mississippi resolutely refuses to be
turned out of his bed at the bidding of the
engineers, and the rebels with an unpardon-
able discourtsey persists in moving their
bodies of men 80 us to confront US at every
point where we make an attempt to crawl
behind them. We have had something
too much. of this hydraulics. Aqueducts
and canals have been tried abundantly,
and at the last accounts the canal in front
of Vicksburg was filled up with mud at
it's very mouth. l.s tl
N The Lake Providence canal has been
rendered useless, even if it we're feasible,
by the manly action of Admiral Farragut
in, coming up to Vioksburg. The Yazoo
Pass and Tallahatchie route is, if not i'm
practicable, INSTRUCTED by a fertilization so
formidable as to have repulsed one of our
best agunboats and considerable army
The Steele's Bayou and Sunfower expedi-
ton, after having trayersed nearly hun
dred miles and reached within ten miles
Of the Sunfower, came to an inglorious
end, and beat u precipitate retreat by the
way of Cypress Bayou back to Young's
Point. This experience should be sufi-
eientiitol satisfy even the ever sanguine
General Grant that, if this method of at
tack is practicable, he has intrusted it to
very poor hands. There is we fear, too
much reason to credit little of this inculn-
potency, in at least two of these attempts.
The Grstrepulsetat Fort Pemberton is,
Northwestern, due inca great part to the
timorous conduct of General Ross, COM
manding the land forces, and the naval
captain, who, it is reported, lay ain front
Of the,rebel forti6eatiop until it grew for
midable under their eyes, and then MAIN
tanned the assault in, so feeble manner as
to quit when sue. ess was almost certaina7-
A retregade ,demoFaliaing, as strange COM
pleted the idemoyilization which the fall
ue had begun. H. his selection of the
commander of the other most important
expedition be seems to have pursued the
same fatal policy notwithstanding tia
FIRST sorrowful failure of General Shermany
hslinKusted him withyapother inportant
command The result has been ail6ng,oa
lettering passage. up, the inland channels,
two days bivouac on the plantation .of
H. R.sW. Hill, a destruction of theiprop-
erty'and provisions as -Nanton as waste
full. and an ihglorious encounter With the
rebel skirmishcrs, ending in an unpslata-
bic return.i General Grant, as hellwoald
have claimed the credit for these schemes
had they been. successful must be held
responsible, must be shown, that his orders
have been disobeyed.! soi 6 jgoda 4ot o1fi
The ,ABoIITIoNe PLATFORM. The
following passage occurs in a discourse re-
Gently delivered in Philadelphia, by ian