Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-02

There are those who believe that the war IS
nesr close. I am not Of that number i
win not end hll Lincoln and bis party are de-
throned. For, however dear tho war may be to
other people in the North, it IS cheap and
handsome thing for the Gorilla and his imne-
diaie friends. The Northern Democracy may
tr.umph. and the administration Of Lincoln be
rebuked in thunder tones By the people, but he
win nsver suspect that he has abused she Pfesi-
Dental chair, until he is actuaAy kicked ont OF
IT But wha. Of al hiatt The South has
crossed the sseam and cut away the bridge.
She bss drawn the sword, aud thrown away the
scabbard. We are better provided for the CON
diet tbsn we were one year ago, and she Whole
North. then strong and deisnt, is now stsggel-
ing from her wounds. Let Us press to the
ons.t .e8 ~ viii gau4 AURELIAs.
PoRr GIBSON, February27 1853
EDrroRs APPEAns The arrival Of one hun-
drei ana twelve live Yankees in this village
has created an unususl stir among the natives
for the past few days. Laekiiy, they Che Yam
kess) ere escorted By detachment Of Wirt
Adsns cavalry, and are consequently per-
fselv harmless creatures. They srs the crew
and officers Of the Federal gunboat IneiaHo'a'
and had acquired great notoTiety in Pillaging
hen-7ooss and negro cabins on the Mississippi
On Tuesday afternoon last, tho ConfederaEe rsns
F,lB and Queen Of ihe Test, IN pursuit ct the
Js5ianola. passed Grand Cult, and about ten
o'clock. the same night ovsrhauled her near
New Carthage, La, when an engagement en-
susd. lasting an hour and forty minutes. The
Eadiaaola, hsving received severe butts trom
car rams and being in q sinking condition. hef
officers and crew surenderedi not, however,
unsil it was too late TO save any of her guns or
stores To the WsBb is given the credit Of sink
ing her, that boat having given her fatal blow
nesr the wheel-house, which csused her to sink
Immediately, and she now lies in ten feet water.
The Federal loss was one killed, two wounded
and FIVE missing. Our loss. five slightly
wounded.
i have conversed pretty freely with both eff
GERS and men, and find them generally very in
teIigent They are mostly from the Western
States, and have been in the service only few
months. The officers appear crest-fsllen, and
sndesvor to put on considerable more dignity
than is generally becoming chicken and niger
thieves. Nearly al of them say they are willing
and. anxious 10 have another pull At US, and that
they believe they viii finally bring US to our
knees. But from their manner and tone, can
not believe that they feel what they say, or thai
they really believe they viii ever succeed in sub
iagating the soath, but that their talk is mere
raseonsde, done for the purpose Of sounding the
1 country pumpkins who crowd around and stare
at them in regular menagerie style
They evidently Ike this place, for they seem
to fare very well, being placed in the court
boase, the best building in the town, and are
constantly receiving provisions from citizens
One citizen, I understend, sent to them last
evening t7o conusbsnd loads of delicacies, suci
as baked chickens, preserves, cakes, "coftee
coffee. etc Think CT that, "corn-fed' soldiers
Your brothers freezing and dying Of hunger ii
Northern csttle-pens, and well-dIessed Abolition
isss from Indiana, Illinois and Maine, are here II
| Port Gibson, in the heart of Dixie, eating youl
chicken pie" The people of this place have
long eyed the movements Ct certain lnoIVld
nal about town and they can now see what h
would do should ike detachment Of thieves
invade the place without an escort. But,
hope the authorities at jackson viii not leav'
the precious tbirgs with Us lopg, and whei
they arrive at that place, I shall feel assured
, they viii. be confined in more apPrOPrias
quarters.
Only a few escaped from the boat, and "
have sl the officers that were on board, includ
ing Lieut.. Brown, who was IN command Tw
negroes, belonging to a citizen Of this town
and who were taken from his place on the rive
by the Yankees, and four negroes, claiming t
be free, were also captured.
TIE Iadianole, it is said, cannot be raised
unless the water should fall some six or sevei
fact BH.F.