The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
A Wandering Journal.

The Memphis Appeal, whose wanderinga anr
vicisstudes during the ciTil war occasioncd 80
much amusement, has finally settled down at lie
original starting place at Memphis, and appears
as huge ten column folio sheet. The address c:
the editor is lengthy, forid and somewhlt re-
pentant. 1t has no "unmanly excuses to offer TO-
his former sentiments,' but admits that !:s
stern logic of events las practically comle'Ic0
their renuncation." 1t says:
We frankly and truly accept the interpret --iiail
which has been stamped with the red verd:ct c
war upon the Constitution, Of the indestructi2:'.
Of that Union OF States and people which niaEas
us, for all time, one mighty end lndlysiDie lie,
sequence Of the late nnlapp7 civil war, in tba du-
struction, now and forever, Of the institution of
African slavery. The red men of the land, tbs
true fighting soldiers OK both sections, have Gc-
creed that there shall be c real peace and n.
genuine Union in the great American family. Be-
| tween the veteran Federal soldier, and tho I;T.-
tinehing Confederate soldier, who have so often
met each other in the raging conflict Of battle.
there is feeling Of respect that affords the sure
foundation on which the restored Union will rcs:.
While ''0ld Joe" Johnston was bothering the
Federal advance, OIL press made its clean escape
down the Southern Railroad to Meridian, and SO
on to Atlanta at it's leisure. 1t is the same press
which yibratod to the thu,,der-shock of the siege
of Atlanta retiring therefrom little while before
Sllcrmans victorious legiOns entered that l-fa:ed
city. 1t il the same press from whence, at Mont
goElery, the Appeal continued to cheer and en-
| courage those whose qnarrel it had espoused, to
quit themselves like men, Until the advance OF
that dashing tcllow, Major General Wilson, With
his nine thousand Spencer rifles, in the hsnds Of
picked men, who know how to ride and to fstt,
ndrnonishcl as OF the policy Of evacuatinG tbc
'cradle of the rebellion" And so this same vc.e-
ran campaigner Of the press-corps took to itself
wheels and steam, anu sought refuge east OF the
Chattahoochie.
The appeal gives the following humorous &C.
count Of its peregrinations:
| The press upon which this number Of the Appeal
is printed, and which WILL We trust, yet issue many
thousands to be scattered broadcast Throughout:
the Mississippi Valley is the identical press whci'
left here in 1862 ttle willie before the occrfa-
ton Of Memphis by Federal troops. It is -:
same press from which was issued the APpea. 81
Granada, and which retired from that town as ~.
Federal cavalry were approaching the north b;d1l.
of the Tallahatchic, after Grant had driven Ptsa-
berton from Abbeyville. It is The same pri,sa.
with the same pressman ANDY Harnan, may yh.s
days DO long and his shadow mover grow less}, tat
was shecd out Of Jackson, when Grant mado !lis
fano;;s move from DrursburS, 10y which he l,o'-
lated pembcrton aud shut him up in Vicksburg, @
b, hagged thereafter on the Fourth OF July. ~
irst .,ie shells haj the best of it, o number
tlle,n intcrccpting The line Of march over Pc:
River: but Andy HarTan and the faithful o.
prcss, rom which had j!ist been printed the NOR
inS's Appeal, won the race IL the end.
The bulk OF tho Office .lpla' at Cc1n1bli-.
and WAS there destroyed -. 6ra,r ~ ase Gem
raj WILSON. but the press i.;..i.., noer s1f#ardtt'
IT, Macon, vas saved fr1l destruction = .epos:t
III sGfo place, and was .', '..s1"Nerc.5 Il after
the :.rrlisticc and tha 'i.iU'gf: oi orders
from General Sherman L -tcr :he d:s::;"iion uF
either public or private Prop. IT.. - has h3-
ma:ly : narrow escape: .c Il = he!"2li ;oart1
md ~ 1n;1u ,..tiI