The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-05-22
FROM MURFREEsBORO.
Especial to Missouri Democrat. ]


MURFREEsBoRo, May 20.-From the
Chattanooga Rebel of the 18th inst
select the following kilograms:
TULLAHoMA, May l6.-Everything is
quiet here There is not word Of in
terest 70 report" ssual -rs5,7
woo i; ii:ifsaptaaooR Mas lGtariy }stroyed BY
fire to-day. Loss estimated at $3.50, 600.
Insured for l,000.in Richmond, Dam
Vile, Lynchburg, Charleston, Georgia,
AIabama1a and Florida offices. The orr
gin of the fire was the friction of ma
chinery in the packing room. The dam.
age to the, Tredegar Works is serious,
but it is supposed it can be repaired in
six weeks or two months. u
An article in the Huntsville. Adoocate
makes this statement: At Forts Henry
and Donelson, in Stuart County, Tenn,
and at GAINESVILLE, Montgomery County,
Confederate MONEY is received by the
citizens from the Governments agents in
exchange for bacon, at - cents per
pound wheat at 81 90 per bushel; and
butter at 81 per pound-and this al
though the people have been in the enc
my's possession fifteen months"
The same paper states that -four is
forty dollars per hundredweight in
Huntsville
The leading article in the Rebel of
the 18th pats Vallandgham approvingly
on the back, and call him q man Of
pluck, dignity, and curage. 1t says
the result will hardly G, fatally to him !;
although the Lincoln leaers would will
ingly assassinate him, hey dare not
Blood for blood is an OF axiom, and
they would find it holding good. They
are most arrant towards pesonaily, and
in sparipg Vallandigham thy will have
prudent care for their own icon. s,
Gen. Stevens, it says, ha been con-
signed to the command ofStonewalrs
corps.
From an interesting articl, on "Mis-
sissippi affairs" ! take the flowing:
I" Col. Pettus, who was take prisoner
by the Yankees and afterwart escaped,
says the Yankee strength j between
$4,000 and $4,000 Grant ,cupies
position very favorable for tsisting an
.ts.-~i -, L. -;1lt, and f-nits. hvuv.
In that direction has fam would rest
upon the Big Black aud Bayou Pierre,
and if forced he ,an rereat upon Grand
Cult. At the sane Ame it is very
pretty line to CT in two, and if, while
the fresh troop art now arriving, we
should attack hs right, and the Vicks-
burg garrison sh,ult throw themselves
between Willow S}rigs and Grand Gulf,
Grant would be in awkward place.
The Mobile Regis takes cheerful
view of the situat;opn the Mississippi
ond says:
ave believe GeBrant has, after in
finite pains to get some vulnerable
point in Vicksburg,t himself and his
army into trap. he stays where he
is much longer, def and ruin await
him. We have the n there and going
there to do him up v brown. Grant
disposed of on one S and Banks on
the other, fine opeg will be offered
to recover valuable ions of Confede-
rate country heretre overrun by
r thieying Yankee troo We do not des-
pair of raising the Gederate flag in
$ New Orleans before hummer is over"
$ Here are some addnal items from
: the same paper:
Z" Brigadier General h. T. Walker, |
of Georgia, passed thrh this city on !
), Sunday, en- route for west. He had
r had good corps and ,od deal of it"
st "Gen. Joseph E. Jdon is, By this,
n at the theatre Of war in neighborhood
@ of vicksburg Ifthe iigence should
d prove agreeable to Geosecrans, and
" he should be induced Ike advantage
of Johnson's absence attack our