--The
Vicksburg Whig of the 10th instant, after alluding to the full of
Memphis and all other towns on the river, says:
‘
Our city must, therefore, we think, soon fall into the hands of the enemy, and consequently it behooves the people to calmly contemplate the realities around them.
Civil, political and individual liberty will not only be destroyed, but all traces of freedom obliterated.
Conquest, booty, revenge, and destruction of our institutions, are the motives which animate the miserable hordes which are now closing in around us.
’
The
Vicksburg Citizen, of the 12th, however, says:
‘
"Our preparations to meet the enemy are now assuming such a character that we feel perfectly easy of our ability to defeat the
Yankee fleet now approaching this city from above."
’
The Federal fleet below
Vicksburg pulled up anchor on the morning of the 10th and started down the river.
‘"We have thus,"’ says the
Citizen, ‘ "got rid of one great nuisance just in time to prepare for another, coming from an opposite direction."’