The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-13
suffrage radicals. All honor to Old Warren
| -Oquarka Spectator.
"Ths Memphis-Grenada- al &C kson- Atlanta.
Montgomery Appeal

montgomery appeal"
| As this journal has been pretty we'll ad.
vertsed under the foregoing designation. il
| may interest some of our readers ION this
side OF the line, 60 be informed how il came
70 have so many localities as its place of pub
location. Being then what is now called a
| rebel" sheet, it left Memphis on the mern
| ing of June 9th, 1862, while the gun boat
| fight was going on hotly In front of the city,
| and was in a short time, re issued at Grena
| da, Miss. On the 29th of Novemb Der, 1862,
| that pleasant little town having got in rather
| close proximity to Gen. Grants headquarters,
| who was seeking to make the acquaintance
| of Gen. Pemberton at Abbeville, the Appeal
| retired to Jackson, the capitol OF Mississippi.
Here it continued until the 18th of May,
1868, when Gems Grant and Sherman took
| it into their heads to occupy and possess"
that snug little city. They thought they
| were about to bag" the Appeal, beyond any
peradventure, as their scouts had furnished
them with copy of that MORNINGS issue
fresh and damp from the press-but they
didn't. As they came in one way, the Ap-
peal went out the other way, with full forty
rounds OF shot and she'll making pother
over It's head, before it could get out of the
way of those impatient military commanders.
The Appeal then, after issuing small extras,
at Meridian, for about a week, cast its lines
in the pleasant place of Atlanta, thinking to
be out of both Grants and Sherman's way.
But here, again, on the Goth of July, 1864,
the last named gentleman-whom we take to
be OF very restless temperament gave uu.
mistakable indications that he wanted At.
lsnta likewise, and so the Appeal retired to
Montgomery, Ala, continuing, however, to
issue extra slips from a proof press, until the
evacuation. As Gen. Some body's corps
marched into town. one side, the proof press,
and the few cases o! type retained TO operate
1t, went out on dray on the other-and 50
Gen. Sherman and the Appeal parted tor
good. We believe he went off somewhere
down in Georgia, and we have since learned
that he and his men knocked printing offices
into pt at a terrible rate, over in South Caro-
lima. The Appeal resumed its regular pub
LEGATION at Montgomery on the 10Th of Sep
TENDER, 1864. and continued to entertain and
instruct the denizens of"Dixie's Land" until
about the 18th of April, 1865, when another
fierce gentleman of the federal military per-
suasiou took it into his head 10 ride furiously
down through Alabama. He gobbled up
Selma, using 1t very roughly, burning fouu.
dries, gun factories, and things generally of
the &c. s." brand of ownership. When it
was definitely aScertaiued that this modern
Assyrian with his cohorts of segeu-shooting
Spencer rItienen had fixed his vOracious eye
on MOntSon ery-that IS to say, about the
18th of April, 1865, the Appeal made room
for him by going TO Columbia, Ga. From
this time forward, the story il briefly told
Montgomery was occupied without resistance.
aud Columbus captured by Maj Gen. Wilson
after stout bat Intellectual defense. The
materials of the Office. with the exception of
the press and q few cases that had been for
warded TO Macon. were piled Sin the street
and destroyed by order of Maj. Gen. Wilson,
who exacted of Col. Dill. one OF the proprie-
tors who was captured with the capture of
Columbus, bond of one hundred thousand
dollars not TO publish the Appeal during the
war, or In default to be held u prisoner.
Luckily 1.-The war" gaUe out soon thereaf
ter, and the appeal, being now perfectly iron
clad with paroles. amnesties and pardOns, is
on its feet again in robust and vigorous life.
We make our cordial acknowledgements TO
the brethren of the city press for their
kind and Courteous notices Of it's revived pub
LEGATION, and would thank our friends for the
patience they have exercised while we were
overcoming the innumerable vexatious causes
Of delay which have hndered its earlier ap-
pearance.