Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-18
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THE NEWS.

We have eonversed with a gentleman Of high
social position IN this city, who arrived from the
front yesterday evening. BE returned more
buoyant than when he went up. He says be
expected 50 lnd.the people in the neghborhood
Of JOHEsToN's army despOndent and alarmed,
but Wss sgrsesbly disappointed in finding them
chesriut and sauguine. The army, hedeserlbes
ss being in excellent condition, both as regards
heslth and clothing The men never were in
better spirits Monday evening there WAS severe
sEirmishing on the Oostanauls river, in which
lhe enemy were severely punished. Indications
point to the Oothcaloga valley, west of Csssville'
as tie pTobsbls battle Geld. We hold Rome
and JOHNSTON, with his army undiminishsd in
numbers, and the entire confidence, of tie sol
dies snd people, was endssvOring to coax the
ensmy to tight Another gentleman of high
standing in society, and who Is Government
Official, returned yesterday eysning from the
'front.' he informed us that JOHNSTON hss
been skirmishing with the enemy for eleven
days, always fighting behind bis entertainments,
except in one instance where STEWART made =
charge Oar loss Is estimated ct shout 5000
wounded and 500 killed. Twenty-one hundred
.ani Fifty Of tue wounded have been sent to this
city The Federal loss is. estimated at from
Is 600 to D, 600 They lost 5000 in the ight on
Sunday. a surgeon who was left to take csrs
Of the wounded unable 70 be carried OF, found
himself, after our retreat, il the rear Of the ane-
my's lines. He remained there for over two
hOurB. Our forces making sn attack st nine
o'clock a. night, enabled him 10 escape With the
wounded. From what he observed Of the Fede.
ralg, he states as his deliberate opinion that
. 600 Of ths enemy have been placed h0rs dE
combat
The quidnunc5 on the street say shat sHER-
HAN will retreat to Dalton and lortify, and not
attack JOHNSTON. But it is a regular "on 10
Atlanta" movement. and after draining Tennes,
see and the West to fiji the army OF the Cum
beIlsnd, be viii hardly retreat To retreat, to
hin is dishonor-to advance, defeat.
From the blood-stsinad soil Of the "old Do
minion" the wire elsesrifies Us with the intelli-
gence Of victories voachEafed to our arms by an
omBipotens God. The enemy were on both
sides Of the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, 81
BenGsld, forty miles from Petersburg. They
wero' repulsed at Drswry's Bluff, and driven
back FOX miles near Petersburg, with loss Of
one Thousand dead on the field. Many prison
ers have been taken. The report of the Fede
raj repulse at Spotieylvsnia Courthouse, on
Thursday, the I2!h, by MAHoEE's and LANES
brgades, with = less of 10000 Is cheering We
do not imagine shat their loss Was 50 heavy as
that, still they were whipped badly Tbs New
York Herald of the I1sh admits that up to thE
l0sh. GRANTS leases in ViIginia footed uT
p, 600 men. This eoTobOraies the statement O
the Chieago Times. This list has been fsATfully
increased BY LEES and BEAUREGARDs subse
qusnt operations. The news crested great ex
citement in New York city, and on the 9th golt
went up to 30 1t is no doubt at q higher fig
urs to-day.