BEFORE CORINTH, May 18.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
condemns in severe language the conduct of the rebel troops at Bridgeport, “by
which the most important gateway to our State was opened to the enemy, and
possession of all our rich mines and deposits of coal, iron and saltpetre
placed in imminent danger.”
Martial law has been proclaimed over Charleston and ten
miles surrounding.
The Memphis Appeal
says that the Government wants and must have all tin roofs on cotton sheds in
that city.
The Vicksburg Citizen
of the 9th says nothing was heard 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.
The Baton Rouge Advocate
has closed doors and suspended publication, on account of the approach of the
Federal gunboats.
Col. Posser, commanding the post at Memphis, publishes a
special order, by order of Beauregard, requiring all banks, 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
operations of the Government will be tolerated, as anything but disloyalty.
One 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 Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1
