by John Beauchamp Jones
JUNE 4TH.—To-day we have characteristic unintelligible dispatches from Mississippi. They say, up to third instant, yesterday, everything is encouraging; but the Memphis papers say Grant’s losses have not been so large as was supposed. Then it is reported that Grant has retired to GrandGulf. Yet it is expected the town will be stormed in twenty-four hours!
When Grant leaves Vicksburg, our generals will pursuer and assume the aggressive in more directions than one. Lee has some occult object in view, which must soon be manifest.
Major-Gen. D. H. Hill writes that if the enemy penetrates to the railroad, a great many men in North Carolina will welcome them, and return to their allegiance to the United States. The general wants Ranseur’s brigade sent him. He Says Mr. Warren, one of the governor’s council, in a recent speech remarked, if the enemy got the railroad, it would be a question whether they would adhere to the Confederate States or to the United States. Does the general mean to alarm the authorities here?
After a month of dry weather, we have just had a fine rain, most refreshing to the poor kitchen vegetables in my little garden, which I am cultivating with careful assiduity in hopes of saving some dollars in the items of potatoes, tomatoes, beets; etc.
The crops of wheat, etc. south of Virginia, mature and maturing, are perfect in quality and unprecedented in quantity.
