, 1865-06-24
MISSISSIPPI.
Vlcksburg and Its Surroundings
ProEresa Of Loynl.Sentlment-A Badly
Se1rsd Rebea-Cotton-ComIn rec
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Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribunal

Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribunal
vIcKsBuna. Mlee., June II, 1855.
yickbbu.g is daily becoming more changed
from military to civil city. Under recent
otders creating the capital the military head-
quarters, all troops, with tha exception Of
heavy and light artillery, have been moYsd
to jackson, most OF the fort:1cations arc
being dismantled, and the armament turned
over 70 tho Ordnance Department. This
will reduce the line from 6, 200 to about 2 600
yards. Citizens come and go without paases,
and social intercourse is pretty generally re.
stored. lne most oimcuit ul1n.. TO md {ue1t
t0GTsEnDacka,) Is man who WAS an original
s.ceseonist, OF even voted 1ha ticket. Peo.
rle who mover approached Uniontsm any
eloaer than to curse the flag and Censtitu-
TIN, now state that they knew how 1t would
be, and II their advice had been taken Mmsis-
tippt would neTer have gone out Of the
Union.
one Of these, = founa1yn.n. rho CON.
even before the State went out, now lives IN
luxury, on Ills Unionlsm, his property being
al restored and tho navy at New Orleans
paying lin large Rmeunt In rent for store
houses there.
/ short time since the Rey. c. z :Massha1l,
of1elig!ous secession pfoclivities, presented
himself as the headqusrters Of Gen. Morgan
l.. Smith to prove his Unionism. but was &C
costed By printed sheet, for public reading,
posted on the door, the caption OF which
was: 'Spe,ch OF the Rev. q. e. Marshall! ~
This speech, delivered before large assem-
blage Of 1cbela about one year and half ago.
contains the most wiltut, premeditated tAise-
hoods that ever were perpetrated, or, in nct,
| devoid Of one word Of truth, aud aa The ora
tor il highly educated gentleman, It is fair
| 10 presume that he exerted himself to tho
| GrnfS kne =.
speech, assigning as reason. that he wanted
to show the public how c. 4. Narshall could
lie-
A fellow by the mama Of fCowan, Captain Of
"Cowan'e vieksburg Battery recently cap
tu1ed at Mobile, returned to his home, bat
| Il und that the rrlative Of a man he bad for
| mer]y murdered Was In waiting for him, and
on hearing the information Mr, Cowan did
eome falE walking ont OF the City Of Hills.
| Tie mxn Who WAS murdered Was poor Nor
theInez Who in 1860 came here to seek his for
tune, and ADVERTISE d TO cure cosns, sell patent
| rented him part Of his store. In conversa-
| ton with Cowan. socially, he stated that be
believed slavery Was morally wrong. For
This grave offense CoWan beat him On the
head w.lh club htmeslf, and his clerks car
lied the old msa down to the river, tarred
feet and put him into z "uuH out" aud sent
him aarlit down the Mississippi. The boat
pp1tt of Warrenton, and he was drowned.
Pitnty Of such eases ate turning up, but the
"Yapks'' will hare chance Of expressing
their opinion in future.
Cotton is coming in slowly. In fact the
csnntH was drained by the Underground
Rnilfos1 long before the surrender OF what
dot come In,you generally find the end Of the
| bales torn of ut the place where NC. 8. A.
was masked-and Of conr5e the party who
| claims it grew It last year. The most adroli
thief you have In Chicago would atsrEe here
for something 10 do: Cotton ahsrks and
t returned chfyalry are getting their baud In
ard in my next will be able to report pro
g1ese.
plant.d With cotton, but at the present price
and high wages, zhe producer will hardly
sweet potatoes have Also been plhnt&d d all o
which are doing well. The people IS 4 rule
aEc very poor, and owe heavily. Those who
do not owe In the North. are heavily indgbt
ed to their commission merchants at New
Orleans. As a general thing you fnd thai
mer aunu al income, viz. II his cotton sold
say for $20, ,000, he is sure to use from $50 0o(
to s4o, 600. Mississippi now owes nj 1azEt
amount Of ma'ured bonds, interest upon al
debt.
We have two good banks here, one tts
"Ci,y Bank Of vieSebn' G." owned by Messrs
DufJ, Green & Co.. and the other the t'Firs!
National Bank" Of which hon. A1s1: E
Arthur, is Cashier. This Bank has $50. .oot
circulation, but intends increasing It to soc,
CO. It does large business with all loya
people, being the first bank Of the kind, es
tablished in Mississippi. The Cashier
Nf. Arthur, WAS formerly .Btate Senator
IRON this district, but refused to, tax.
"ihe OATH" to the Confederate govern
ment, as required by Governor Pettus
stating as reason that he Was unpreparei
for any such oath. Having cowed down tn
immortal ''s JeT:" while editor Of the vlcks
burg T1ig) and two Of his satellites viii
"buckEhot at twenty paces,," none Of th
Since the war Macarthur has remained qu!etl
al home in Vicksburc attending to his bonse
hold, commanding thsrespect and confdenc
of our army.
The railroad Is being rebuilt TO Jackson
The coloIed troops arc now at work on it !. i
viii be In running order by the first Of Jul{
exc. ut the bridge ACROSS the Big Black. Thl
for the present will not bs rebuilt.
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