The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-02-24
THE mEMPHIs BULLETIN AND
IT'S EDTTOR.

THE MEMPHIS BULLETIN AND
ITS EDITOR.
The Memphis Bulletin IS one of the lea
ding journals of the South, and its editor,
J. B. Bingham, Esq, has applied his whole
time and attention in making it what it is.
The jealousy Of some Of his contemporaries
and tao ignorance Of others are lavishly be-
slowing abuse upon him and his paper, in
a style that is too plainly marked to fail
in attracting public attention. We. are nc.
admircr Of newspaper .sqpabbles, but on
the contrary, are ( e5irous of seeing the coar-
ticies and gentIemanIy frankness used
among all brothers of the quill, that are usu-
ally practised among mon who claim to be
and are rejecting lights Of the different
communities IN which they dwell We
have known Mr. Bingham for years, and
know that he always has been proslavery
man, yet, staunch and unfaltering Union
ist These remarks are made because we
see an evident desire on the part Of certain
newspaper men to fasten an infamous
paragraph which he, Bingham, not alone
never wrote, but had even no knowledge
Of its existence till short time ago. We
were in the Bulletin Office when the article,
headed +" 4 Chance for The aconaen," was
published, and know, from oar o10n knol1-
ledge, that Mr.. Bingham was then absent
from Memphis on business. 1t was written
by Wm NJ Connolly, at that time an at
taehe Of the editorial corps Of the Bulletin
without the knowledge Of the chief editor,
who decidedly disapproved it, as he sub
sequently expressed himself to Mr. r..
a. Thompson in whose charge he had left
the paper during his absence.
We hope the many papers which have
printed the Memphis Argus version of the
article IN question will hare the frankness
/ 10 DO as they would be done by, and say
to their readers that J. 3 Bingham mover
wrote the filthy paragraph referred to, but
that the editor of the Memphis Tribune
1 VIM. NJ Connolly, did, and that the Mem
phis Argus is fully aware Of this fact
The war between Paraguay and the allies
still continues. The latest reports were tx
the effect that the work Of concentrating
the allied naval and land forces had so ia
progressed that on the 25th of January theJ
would make a grand combined attack, with
forty-fve thousand troops and thirty war
steamers, on the Paraguayan stronghold 0
! Humaita, on the Paraguay river. This is
/ place of immense strength, mounting owe
one hundred heavy guns, rendered dificul
Of approach by chains extended across til
channel, and it is also supposed, By sub
merged torpedOes and having to back it q
Paraguayan army Of fifteen or twenty thous
and and considerable fleet The march 0
the allies in pursuit of the retreating Par
aguayans, across the province Of COrienta
to the Paraguay river, for three hundred
miles through an almost uLinhabited coun
try, is described as one Of the greatest diff
Guilty and suffering, and hundreds of tn
troops persisted on the way and many other
deserted From Panama we have full par
ticulars Of the alliance, heretofore aHude
!, to in our columns, lately entered into b,
Peru with Chile against the Spaniards Tn
alliance had not only been completed, bu
war against Spain had been formally declaI
cd by Peru, and her feet had sailed to ef'ec
q junction with that of Chile, with positiv
orders to Immediately commence hostilities
The Peruviaus were prepared for any attae
that might be made on their coast stron!
and we'll mounted batteries, said to be off
cered in part by men who participated i
our late war, having been quietly construc
ed at assailable points, and they had take
{ precautions for securing reprisals in cas-
their enemy should succeed in getting
temporary foothold in any locality. Tn
embarkation of resident Spaniards from Pc
! III for foreign ports had been prohibited
and passports were required of all person
leaving the country. The excitement of th
Peruvinns was of course great. and the wa
fever ran high. 1t was expected that Boliy
l ia and Ecuador would also soon be added I
! Spain armed antagonists A late report
q to the effect that all the vessels of the Spar
ish blockading fleet on the Chilean Goa
had been concentrated at Valparaiso an
2 an early bombardment Of that city was +
: garded as possibility.