Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-05-07
From the Richmond Examiner
How the Reverse at Charleston
was received in New York
Gloomy FurebOdiags Of the War.

/ tune OF tue attack on C0aFleSt0D,
tells us of the way the Yankees re-
celyed the news from Charleston. =
The first report that reached the
North was that Oh ,rleston was taken
and the city taken by the Federa!s.
! Phe effect of this news was trench
Idous. The telegraph wires flashed
liti 10 az instant 10 every town and
village. In an bali hour thousands OF
newsboys were out with their EEK.
tras,' screaming themselves hoarse
with the cry, Charleston taksc -
Beauregard played out. For a
while the YANKEES were wild With jly
land delight. New York was in &c
stacies. Business was for the time
suspended, and the streets We're
crammed with persons exchanging
congraiula ions, aldiog With cor
dial shake OF the hand, ''isu't it
glorious n4vs." All the newspaper
offices we're besieged, crowds Of men
and boys yeliiog aud hurrahing, aud
even Greedy, 10 his /" white coal, III
his exceeding great joy, Was visible
at the window of bis Olilca. The
scenes Ia The streets were indescriba-
hle-oue wild, surging mass OF hn-
man beings, frantic with jay and eex-
element, and jsbbering away With a
lhuosand discordant tongues. The
scene, our informant thinks, can be
Ilkened to nothing but what We might
3 imagine would be the effect if the
e news of declaration Of peace, and
e threw into he shade anything evel
. witnessed in New York, not except
ing the furore over the visit OF the
Japanese embassy. La this ecs,ac5
: OF delight New York fell to repost
! that night, but on The following morn
t ing about Ii o'clock, came very
different tale. The news came tha
they had been repulSed at Charles
ton! 1t fell like IA death kneil OF
: the city. AT first it vas not believed
: bu: gradually it became confirms
S by later dispatches tina: morning.
a The tide of joy changed, and New
York looked as serious and gloom,
as grave yard. Every one wore
a detected look and passed along 81
J., leutly, biting their lips with a kint
of feeling Alternating between disap
pointmeGt and anger.
" IS cesh " gaw triumphant, aud
e BY side glance and smile, reminded
% the "Yauks of their civilizations Of
d the day before, when they ha'
. Charleston taken. This recollsclio
made the disappointment more keen
," aud the humiliation more crushing
The Yankees were fairly blue. The
we're as mute as a milestone. Th
very name of Charleston was hor
y ror in their ears. The whole sill,
IL was paraly zed under the depression
" Every department of trade was 1li
~. and the markets fairly wilted unde
!, the e(ec. of The news Disappoini
menl aud gloOm hung like a pa
&c over the city, and the change OF Ne'
= York from the day before was a
great as from the marriage feast t
the death bed. Que day all joy an
delight-another all grief aud sol
IN row. To hide the humiliation tn
OF papers got up the story thai the al
4 tack was but Reconnaissance, bu
this WAS so ridiculous that it WI
openly confessed The next day tha
nc the attack was failure and til
n movement against Charleston indef
re nitely postponed.
or The Eject OF the reverse al Charlie!
ton has been TO greatly dlscourag
the Northern people. They locke
to its capture next to that OF Ricl
Is moad. Now that it has shown th.
h it caunot be taken, and the exped
tlon, that was fitted out at the e,
peuse OF millions of dollars, tur,
81 out an utter failure. they despair
b. the result of the coming campaig'
In fact, with their armies and he,1
held in check at the most vital poin,
they know not what TO do, or again:
Dr what place TO move. Oar illolmar
1T thinks that they have settled upo
he the policy of inac'ion, in hope o.
T. starving US out. The accounts tb,
have been taken Moth OF the "brea
= riots" have caused them to believ
that we were on the verge Of starry,
tim, and that il they will keep d
blockaded and cut off from all fol
70 eign resources for six, months longer
"a our people will be compelled to CAP