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From The South

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Day
19
Month
September
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mempihs, Sept 13. The Grenada Appeal of the lOth, says tint in tho Confedérate Oongress a reso lut:on tu adjoarn on the 30tl was adoptod. A preainbltí and resolutiun was adopted to niake a proposition to the Government of the United States to treat upoii the wanner and eonduct of tho war uud mitiga te its horrors. The now conscription bill is stil! uq der diseussion. General Joseph E. Johnston has been ordered to the Mississippi Department wlth Priee and Magruder. Holmes, under Pillow, is ordered to report at Richmond for duty. Ou Saturday last the Federal gunboats shelled u hamlet at Miilikiu's JJend. Lee telegraphed Davis on the 5th tliat lio liad paiolcd 7,000 prisoners, eaptured 30 pieces of eannon, and a number of' stand of iiinis. ïhe rebel General Armstrong's report of opurations in West Tennesreo claims that he pas.sed betwecn Jackson and Bolivar, destroying the bridges at.d trestle wo:-k. In different engagemcnta he c'ainis to have taken 213 prisoners, and killed and wounded 75. A bill has been introduced nto the Confedérate Senate to créate th ofEce of Lieutenant General. A resolutiun was also passed, recalling Ministers Mason and Slidell. General Smith's brigade returned bist niuht fiom an expedition to Hernando They destroyed a bridge across the Cagwater, eiglit miles beyond, and also burned the depot and severnl cars, thus cut ting off rail communicatiou with Hernando from the south.

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Old News
Michigan Argus