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A. Lincoln
Printed in The Weekly Courier, Natchez, Mississippi,
on January 27, 1863Fron the Jackson Appeal, January 24 Rodney, Miss., Jan. 22....A courier arrived at St. Joseph, La., at 2 o'clock this evening, from Major Harrison's headquarters, six miles above Carthage, reports that two hundred Yankee cavalry surprised the Tensas cavalry this morning. The Yankees were repulsed, with the loss of their Colonel, who was mortally wounded and captured by our men before he expired. He said his command started out with the avowed intention of capturing Major Harrison and his battalion. No one was hurt on our side. Major Harrison was sent down for reinforcements, and expects the attack to be renewed. Our men were taken wholly by surprise, being dismounted, but fought them on foot. Fredericksburg, Jan. 21....The Yankees are building an immense warehouse at Acquia Creek, and repairing the railroad, putting batteries in position in front, and giving other evidences of intention to make this a permanent base of operations for winter quarters. A large building, formerly belonging to Gen. Bankhead, was burnt yesterday morning. The conflagration caused the explosion of some shell in the building, which produced great excitement, and both armies were drawn up in line of battle. Wilmington, Jan. 22....Scouts officially report that the enemy has burnt the bridge at Jacksonville, Onslow Court House, and retired toward Newbern. All quiet here. Tullahoma, Jan. 22....Lieut. Col. Hutchinson, with one hundred men of Morgan's cavalry, made a dash yesterday upon the enemy's camp at Murfreesboro' and captured and brought off safely one hundred and fifty prisoners and thirty wagons. Major Holeman of Wheeler's cavalry, since my last report, has captured and destroyed another large transport on the Cumberland, loaded with subsistence. The enemy has made no show of an advance upon Bragg from Murfreesboro'. RICHMOND, Jan. 23....The revelations of the letters to Mason and Slidell published in the Northern papers, strengthens the conviction that our embassadors [sic] abroad should be recalled. It appears that two French consuls in Texas have been intriguing to separate that State from the Confederacy, and induce it to place itself under the protection of France, in consequence of which both were expelled from the country. It is believed, however, that the French Emperor had no part in the plot. Lord Russell, it seems, scarcely treats Mason with the courtesy due to a private gentleman, and while Slidell is making calls at the Tuilleries, intrigues are set on foot by French subjects to detach one portion of the Confederacy from the other. It is advised in influential quarters to annul every consular exequator in the Confederate States, and not allow any foreign consuls to remain here, and plot at leisure our destruction. RICHMOND, Jan. 23....The Enquirer predicts it will turn out that the Yankee gunboat Hatteras was sunk by the Florida. Captain Maffitt, who being near Galveston, and learning of the probability of the capture of the Harriet Lane, determined to aid her in sailing from Galveston. THE PROSPECT OF PEACE. The Richmond Examiner, referring to the success of our brave soldiers, truly says "we are now on the high road to peace. The road does not lie by Europe, and no where pursues a course of indirection. We pursue it when, relying upon thorough organization and hard fighting, we march straight upon the enemy; and we lose it whenever we look beyond our own exertions for the means of ending the war. The North may be vindictive enough to pursue a way of hatred and spite indefinitely; but it is not in human nature, much less in Yankee nature, to resist in the end the logic of the sober, second thought, which teaches that peace is cheap and war expensive, that peace is a mine of wealth, and war the grave of all prosperity." According to the Alexandria Democrat, Payne, the counterfeiter, escaped from jail as follows: "On last Thursday night John A. Payne, the counterfeiter, and I.N. Huddleston, charged with driving beeves to New Orleans for the Abolition army, walked out of our Parish Jail, and left for parts unknown. We must be permitted to say, in justice to the public and in deference to their often expressed opinion, that no one is surprised at this--it was looked for, it was expected, it was predicted. The mode pursued to fulfill these public prophesies is told in a few words. The doors, three in number, with five locks, were opened nicely, snugly and quietly, not even disturbing the slumbers of the adjoining inmates, with the keys of the Jail, by some one used to such work, and the kind permission of the obliging performer given to Payne and Huddleston to walk out. En passant we will remark, that the keys were taken from under the pillow of the Jailor and very kindly replaced there. There is a diversity of opinion with the public, at this part of the performance; some speaking in glowing terms of such accomodating coutesy, while others speak harshly of such verdancy. We have our opinion on the point, but reserve an expression for the present. |
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