Smyrna times., 1866-01-03
The Trials of a Rebel Journal.

The. Memphis Appmti, once more issued
from the city OF its original location, gives the
following humorous account ofits perilOus tray
els during tho war:
" The Mentphis- GrenaId- -.JacLson- Atlanto-
4uontg0na0y -lppcnL' AS this Journal has
been pretty well advertised under the torego-
ing designation, 1t may interest some of our
readers - on this side Of the line to he inform
ed how 1T came to have so many localities as
its place Of publication. Being then what is
now called rebel sheet it left Memphis
ON the morning Of June g, lS62, while the gun
boat tight was going on hoty in front of the
city, and was, III u short while rcsSued at Gre
NADIA, Miss. On the 29th Of November, 1862
that pleasant little town having got into rather
close prOXlnlty.to Gcm Grant headquarters,
who was seeking to make the acquaintance of
Gen. Pcmbcrton, at Abbcylc the ApI,ed rc-
tired to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi
Here 1t continued until the Ith Of May, S63,
when Gems. Grant and Sherman took it into
their heads To- occupy and possess that snug
little city. They thought they We're about To
bag the -1ppeai beyond any pcradvcnture
and their scouts had furnished them with y
copy OF that morning ) issue fresh and damp
from the prcss-hut they didn't. AS they
came III one way, the .1ppedt went out the 9TH
CT way, with full forty rounds of Shot and shell
making pOther over its head, before it could
get out OF the way of those impatient military
commanders.
The Appeal then, after issuing small extras
ut Meridian, for about week, cast its lines in
the pleasant places of Atlanta, think x to be
out OF both Grant and Sherman 5 way. But
here again, on the 10Th of July, 1864, the las:
named gentleman-whOm we take to be Of u
very restless temperament-gave unmistakca
ble indications that he wanted Atlanta likewise,
aud SO the Appc1l retired to Montgomery,
Alabama, continuing, however to issue extra
Slips from proof press. until the evacuation.
As General Somebody's corps marched into
town on one side, the proof press and the few
cases of type retained to operate it, went out
on dray on the Othcr-and SO General Sher-
man and the 1ppeu parted for good. We be-
leve he went oft somewhere down i'll Georgia,
and We have since learned that he and his men
Knocked printing Offices into pi at q terrible
rate over in South Carolina. The 1ppeuf re-
sumed its regular publication at Montgomery
OH the 10Th of September, 1864, and continued
to entertain and instruct the deniZenS of I" Dix
lie s land until about the 18th of April 1858,
when another fierce gentleman Of the Federal
military pursuasiOn took it into his head to
ride furiOusly down through Alabama. lie
gobbed up Selma. using it very roughly, bur
ming foundrieS, gIn-factOrieS, and things gene
rally Of the IS. c. brand Of ownership
When it was asccrtained that this modern As
syrian with his cohorts oT scvcn-Shooting Spen-
Ger rihcmcn had fixed his voracious eye on
Montgomery-that is to say. about the 18th of
April, lS6S-the .4ppedi made room for him
by going to Columbus, Ga From this time
forward, the story is briefly told. Montgomery
was occupied without resistance, and Columbus
captured by Major General Wilson, after a
stout but Intellectual defence. The materials
of the office, with the exception of the press
and few cases that had been forwarded to
Macon, were piled in the street and destroyed
by order Of Major General Wilson, who exact
ell Of Col Dill one Of the proprietors who was
captured with the capture Of Columbus, a bond
of one hundred thousand dollars not to publish
the Appeal during the war, or in default to be
held a prisoner Luckily, the war gave
out soon thereafter, and the appeal, being now
perfectly iron-cad with paroles, alnnesties and
pardons, is on its feet again, in robust and
vigorous life.