BEFORE CORINTH, Miss., May 18. – The Macon Telegraph censures, in sever language, the conduct of the rebel troops at Bridgeport, by which the most important gateway to our State was opened to the enemy and the possession of all our rich deposits of coal, [iron] and salt petre, placed in imminent danger.
Martial law has been proclaimed over Charlestown and for ten miles around.
The Appeal says government wants and must have all [tin] roofs on cotton sheds in that city.
The Vicksburgh Citizen of the 9th, says that nothing was head of the Federal Fleet.
At Tunica yesterday, a large frigate, supposed to be the Brooklyn, passed Bayou Sara at 9 o’clock, A. M. on the 8th going down to Baton Rouge.
The Avalanche has closed doors and suspended publication on account of the approach of the Federal gunboats.
Col. Possen, commanding the post of Memphis publishes a special order from Beauregard, requiring all barks persons and corporations to take Confederate money at par, and all persons will distinctly understand that nothing in the least degree calculated to discredit the operation of the Government will be tolerated or treated as anything but disloyal.
The Richmond correspondent of the Appeal mentions, with great pain the large amount of sick confined in the hospitals at Richmond and vicinity.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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