Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-08-07
FROM TIE SOUTHwEsr


Pierre Scule from Eurepe-He Sees No
Further heFe for French Interventien-
Reports Of the Bombardment of Fer,
WagneP-Severe Denunciatioa Of Penn
berten by a Rebel Journal.
MEMPHIS, August G.-The steamer Hone has
arrived, bringing prisoners from Port Hudson,
NIcKsourg Snd Jackson. Everything is quiet
on the river below.
Col. Hatch reports that Forrest, Bifses and
Wilson are retreatiDg. Their force Is entirely
broken ur, and their men deserving in every
direction.
Hatch has divided his forces and is scourinp
the country, picking up Rll small equals of
rebels he can find. A scout that LEFT Meridian
Saturday and Oakalopa Sunday, reports that
Johnston Jon army are a. Enterprise and Brad
don, under direct command OF Hardee. Most
OF the 1orce III The iormer place are ready TO
move at any moment; cars are standing on a
side 1etrs,6, track ready .aI to 'ransRprt them.
scout thinks the rebels will remain where they
are, unless Mobile is attacked, and says John
SION mas lost ten thousand men by deserton
since the fall of EicksbUrs, and the remainder
OF his force is terribly deInoralized. They are
poorly fed, and officers and men greatly dis
neaTfeneu. The rebels il Official circles a..
knowledge that Morris Island will be taken
great many secret societies have been or
ganiZed IN Mississippi with the intention of
bringing the State back into the Union, aud
ohcers are arresting citizen soldiers for being
connected with them.
The rebel Ruggles is at Columbus, Nissis
sippi, Chalmers is at West Point, and Llppah
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad The late
coIscription act Will not be of much avail in
The Southwest
The Mobile News OF July 3Oth has a leader
On dependents and crOakerS, and tells citizens
10 avoid them as they would a. pesulence. 1t
state that Grants army has mostly gone to
Virginia, where the great final struggle is to
take place, and calls upon the citizens of Ala
halia, mississippi and Georgia to join Bragg
and Johnston, and all viii be well we are nj
point when this Confederscy should throw
every ything into the scales, and turn the tide of
Ibis iatal campaign. That Lincoln can put no
more men into the field now that he Is used
up, ana the revolution III the North is At an
end.
Thr article closes up very bitterly as fol,
lows" We have 10 choose the whip OF the
slave or the whip Q. The master. Therefore
choose ye.'
Among the recent arrivals from Europe is
Pierre soulf, who says he i not sanguine OF
mediation by the Emperor OF France.
The bombar6Inent of Charleston was more
spirited on the 29th.
I he kederals are erecting their new batteries
within six hundred yards of Port Wagner and
new batteries on James Island cause them
much annoyance. Two thousand m ore FEEDER
ais have been landed on Folly Island
The Yankees captured three blockade run
Lers lately.
Parties from the middle of Tennessee repre-
sent the condition CT the people as horrible,
havlng nothing 10 eat, &c.
A Richmond telegram Of the 2Stb ult. saws:
:. In The light at Manassas Gap we lost $3.50
IL Killed and wounded, when we retired, over
powered by superior numbers
The Mobile News CT the 3lst says, editorially.
that Pemberton's conduct, in allowing his men
10 be paroled st Nicksburg, is being in,esti-
gated and hopes his head will be cut of. Tor
he could not have struck a heavier blow 10
the confeGeracy.
Pemberton's army is dispersed, and the
Texas and Alabama troops who crossed the
Mississippi river are lost beyond recall.
The whole mass OF them were precipitated
upon Johnston's camp to eat his stores aid dis
courage and decimate his ranks. Now they
are ordered to report to the same officers as
fast as they are exchanged, which they will not
DO, as they hate them. We put it in record if
Pemberton is assigned to the command OF that
army again it will bN- equivalent to its annihI.
lationi not tithe OF twill ever be gathered 10.
gether again.
1t is stated that Johnston has returned to
Mississippi again after a thorough examina-
ton OF the defenseS and resources of Mobile
and says he would like to speak about some
things discovered by him, but cannot; that he
examined strong works and points, and made
maps. 1t will take time to strengthen so Tonga
line and such extensive works. They must
commence Immediately.
All late papers denounce the spirit of the
people for crying for peace and return to the
Union, and appeal to them to stand by the con.
federacy, with occasionally a bitter article ON
the misnanagement Of the war.