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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
e river may be turned from its present course, and shortened about seven miles. The military purpose of the new channel will soon be served, but the effect on the city of Vicksburg may be nothing less than a total annihilation of her commerce, and the sweeping away of her chief source of wealth. The merry negroes at work on the cut off enjoy the escape from the plantation amazingly, and say, "de boys is mighty glad to work for yous all." From Missouri — effect of the news of M'Clellan's retreat. [Special Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.] St. Louis, July 7, 1862. If a bomb-shell had fallen in the middle of town it could not have produced a greater sensation than the news which reached this city on Thursday last, that McClellan had been forced to retire 17 miles, losing his stage guns, and only saving his army from annihilation by the fortunate co-operation of the gunboats. What rendered the reception of this news worse here than elsewhere was the fact th