The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-26

spec al correspoadcnec of Tie cneianeI Gaz 10.
Importnnt from Vicksburg
CoRINTH, Miss, June 10.
have reliable news from Nicksburg |
and vicinity as late as the I'LL, aud Mo-
bile papers as late 90 the 18Th inst.
The news, though not startling, is inn
partant. a
In Vicksburg here is no LQpe If relief
The commanders there have given up the
hope of receiving any assistance from
Johnston The verwhelming reinforce
ments received by Grant and Banks at
once render all hopes of contending
against them futile. It is but . question
of days, which may be solved before this
reaches the eyes Of your readers On
the llth inst. Grant had mined TO within
forty yards of their main line, and
would soon be prepared TO "move on
their works" in a dangerous underground
style.
Our shells were doing much damage
in the city. Houses were burned and
torn to pieces. AT one time one of our
batteries accidentally fell to Smelling
the rebel beef corral, and my informant
says there was, for a while, slaughter
ing on grand style, much TO the dis
tress of the starving besieged. The
heavy water battery which sunk the
Mississippi was abandoned by the reb
els under the following circumstances
II was mined so that a party of men
could approach ii unframed At an
anspicious moment forty men suddenly
jumped into the battery and in a trice
spiked the guns, upon which the rebels
made q mastery evacuation of the posi-
ton.
ARE THEY STARVING?
This was very difficult question to
ascertain. The indications are that their
provisions are not so scarce as could be
wished. Yet deserters insist that they
are living on quarter rations. A writer
to the Mobile News from jackson, says
that dispatch bearer got through from
PembertOn TO Johnston with impoI tant
dispatches. He also brought number
of notes from the officers and others of
the beleaguered city, TO their anxious
friends without, which were published in
the News. They disclose no confidence
in their ability TO hold out. "All right
yet" "safe yet" 81 am WELL" "God
bless you," and similar short sentences
were all these notes contained. The
writer says that the messenger got thro
with great difficulty, having lost his
horse and got wound at Biz Black
Negroes have been detected coming ou
OF the city with notes TO friends anC
others carefully secreted in the conye
nient depths of Cuilees wool. Thesl
disclose more Of the real condition thar
any other source. Nicksburg is doomed
FAINT HoPE.
To show the desperation of the situa
ton il is only necessary TO see how wild
ly they catch at tho straw Of the hope o
great things from Kirby Smith. Tn
story If his crossing into Port Hudso
with his whole force except the two hun
dred who were drowned in the sunke
transport, is now pronounced by them {
have been a magnificent Southern fable
related for the edilication of the Yankees
and now they declare that on that dough
ty chieftain and his forces, all true South
eTn eyes are turned with the intenses
l
fate Of Vicksburg and Port Hudson
Johnston is overlooked. He is admitte
to be powerless, but Kirby Smith, wit
10000 men and few field batteries,
expected TO do wonders He is TO hol
Milliken's Bend, which their papers dc
clare he has captured, aud thus cut o
} Grants supplies. What an acknowI
. edgment of their utter want of hop,
That there is no faith in JohnstOn's eff
cheney is shown in the fact that he hl
9 received no reinforcements whatever
the last ten days. Although their p,
pers are whistling TO keep their coural
up by saying that Johnston had no nee
J, of Breckenridge and his corps, and thi
Q they had returned TO Tennessee y
they know better. Disadvantages corr
has not gone back to Tennessee il
8 with Johnston, and Breckenridge is the
also, commanding it,
WHAT THEY SAY OF vICKsBURG
n The jackson correspondent of 4
' Nel0s says that the citizens of Wick
\ burg are becoming accustomed to Z
:. fight of our shells among them. He sa
~ the brave and heroic ladies now sc
themselves with commendable compo
ure Of an evening, to amuse Intensely
by watching the sublime pyrOtschny
the Yankee shells, as they fly throu
the darkness like meteors over The
y heads. What heroism can equal thi
sr Considering that every other shell, who
n brilliant flight they watch with so mu
:, delight, kills some of the inhabitants
their city, the sublimitY Of their feelin
Is can only find parallel in the case of {
~ renowned Nero.
"A The writer adds that the loss Of i
- in Vicksburg is only little over SOC
v among whom is Col. Marks of Louisiai
I'd He says he refrains from giving all /
is information he has, because he does 4
T want TO alarm the people, or give inf
, nation and encouragement to the enen
= PembertOn, he says, was rapidly growi
~ in favor at Jackson.
TO WHERE Is JOHNSTON 2
III The papers complain of the reticencs
he Johnston, and pretend not TO know VIII,
at he is. They publish private note OF
D soldier, dated the 9Th, which said Il
>, on the next day he would rejoin his n