Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-07-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
FROM VICKSBURG.

MEMPHIS, via CAIRO, July i3.-On the I'd
inst. the medical director of the Confederate
hospitals sent word to Pemberton that the
men were dying for something to eat. Penn.
ber:on Immediately called a council Of war,
and then the negotiations for capituation
commenced. The number Of guns captured is
900 pieces light, and u siege guns, beside arms
for every man in Ficksburg, and l5,eOa Enfield
rifles for Kirby Smiths army. Smiths army
got to the other side of Vicksburg, and was
seen on the Louisiana shore, but seeing the
nag u The Tree waving o,er its ramparts, he
reiTed in good order for parts unknown.
Guhooats ply up and down the river, and he
is unable to cross.
Gen. Pemberton admitted in a recent CONVEX
saIion that an army of $1,000 men had been nssd
up in the effort to hold Vlcksbarp. He also
aomitnd that his loss since the sic ge COM
larger than Grant lost in all his operations be-
fore the captured city. The feeling among the
captured is yariously manifested. Gen Bow.
en-, for instance, swears that he has been sold;
DINER officers attribute their misfortune to tbs
worst of eeneralship in Pemberton; others
swore that Pemberton sold out to Grant, but
all the priyates appear delighted and are quite
tree in expression of their determination not To
follow the Confedera cy, but to return to their
homes. The soldiers from Louisiana are con-
stanfiy deserving across the river, and all others
their example. To such an extent has this
6een carried that General Pemberton has been
force to complain to General Grant and to ask
the use OF force to prevent the troops from
leaving. The latter is said to have declined to
Interfere. He assured General Pemberton that
ne consldered 1t no part of his duty TO use arms
10 force men TO fight for the Confederacy
according TO tie cartel, General Pemberton
and hls army were to be paroled and placed
outside the Federal lines. Thus far it has been
impossible for that to be done; and in the mean.
time he BAD no interest in compelling men to
60 when they do not want to 20; consequently
notlce mas been given, that all who wish to take
the oath and 60 home can do SO. Some of the
officers refuse to take the parole end will not be
sent North as prisoners.
Hon. Albert Gallatin Brown, the colleague
OF Jef Davis in the United States Senate, came
to nydef's Bluff on the 9th and took the oath
He said he had never believed in secession
had Lever been a secessionist, and had never
been IN favor of the rebellion. His wife, who
was present, said his course had ruined her.
and there need be no fears that he would act
dis!oyally in future. Brown has since been ill
with bloody fiuZ, of which he was suffering at
that time. He was permitted to return to his
home.
The condition of General Pemberten is pitt
able in the extreme. His officers falsely and
meanly ascrlbe the result to all sorts of base
ness and lmbecility, while the poor man is
nearly crazy, and evinces in an unmistakable-
manner the humiliation and anguish he feels.
He keeps confined to his rooms, walks franti-
cally all the time, tearing his hair, and giving
all sorts of evidence that he is an undone man.
He was one OF the few, as we learn from an
eyewitness, who gave unmistakable mani
1estatlons OF repugnanee to taking the parole
His condition excites the commiseration of all
unbiased persons at Vicksburg