Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-12
Knoxville, Saturday, March u, 1854.
JOhnsiOn's Attempt 10 Relieve VIckS.
neutrality-suspicious. Between Gen.
eral Johnston and Jetr DAY ls...ChOiCe
Rebel Official History.
IN the Richmond Examiner, llth.

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Rebel Official History.
From the Richmond Examiner, llth.l
is hoped that the season Of recklc',
Srivolty that has made Richmond, during
this winter, carnival Of unhallowed pleas.
nrc, will cease with the opening Of the Len.
ten season This winter has witnessed
many shameful displays Of indifference to
national calamity, in occasions Of partic,
and balls where the dance was sometime
interrupted with the intelligence Of the
death Of II brother or relative Of some gay
and frivolous persons.
In the midst of the sorrow and woe that
rrrvades the country, with mourning for
the gallant dead, these nights Of pleasure
| and iroc have seemed a mOckoiy of the
misery and desolation that covers the land.
While Gen. Lees army was on short IA
,ior-, a~tt oNen without mcat--whilo the
doors Of Col Muniords Office were daily
crowded with starving women, there have
been those in Richmond who were spread
ing sumptuous suppcrs before their already
well fed neighbors, and dancing with JOY
ana delight Us though no want and misery
were IN the Land consuming the meat SO
much needed by tho soldiers. aud dcpriving
| the furnishing poor of the li,ue that came
% the city "Richmond was never so gay
as during this winter is the true and
wicked remark often heard. And what la,
made Richmond gay? Is 1t the prospect OF
national prosperity that 50 'nIivens the
Capital? Is the nation in peace and hap
piness 80 great that joy and pleasure can
| not and ought not to be restrained
There will be mona so foolhardy as to as
scrt Indifference to the condition Of public
affairs The gambling hclls Of Richmond
were closed because their eXtrayaGant sup
pers were cXhausting the supplies Of pro
visions. Men who should have irownod
down such unreasonable hlarity were the
very persons to encourage and support it.
But we hope the sin has run its course and
II that there will be no more Of them.
INTERIOR HISTORY OF THE FALL OF yIcKs-
BURG -- THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
PRESIDENT DAVIS AND GENERAL JOSEPH F,
JOHNSTON.
From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. l3.l
On Wednesday last pamphlet copies Of
the correspondence between the President
and General Joseph f. Johnston together
with that Of ,he Secretary of War and the
Adiutant and Inspector General, during the
months of May, June and July. 1868, which
was submitted, in response to resolution
Of the House adopted on the llth of Jan
nary wcrc distributed among the members.
This correspondence is quite volhminous,
embracing. as il does over sixty pages, and
covering all the letters and tclegramS which
al l,t t,o Ey,outi,.a ~ ,,l l,nnapuI |
Johnston, from the time the latter was as
signed to the command of the army in
Mississippi, until the 3lst of July, nearly
one month after the fall Of NickSburg,
in the early part Of the correspondence,
the President urged upon General Johnston
the necessity Of making an e+4ort for the
relief of the garrison at Niclishurg. and Of
the 9th of may he sent him the annexed
dispatch, which was in response to one
from General Johnston, expressing conf
dencc in General Pemterton tcnacity:
10 General J. T. Johns'op. Canton. Miss.
I concur in your reliance on the tehaci;t r,N
which Gen Penlcrion viii defend hi, position, hut
The disparity of numbers renders prolonged defense
dangerous. hope you viii soon he able to break
the Investment mike a juncture and carry in nu-
nitions General Rains, who ha- made valuable
inventions j. ordered to You for special scrcic" and
will. think be useful both on lInl anil river
Gen Bragg hns probably communicated to yoU. il
my @rensth permitted, would n to you.
lSignclJ JErrERsoN DAVIS.
Again. on the 2Sth, the President tola-
crsphed tha, he had withhold nothing from
him which il was practicable Ia give, that
numerical equality WIS net be hoped for
and tha, time would probably increase the