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Vicksburg.

The fate of this place is still suspended in the balance. Our own telegrams have been encouraging but they lacked the definiteness essential in such a case to bring entire relief to the public mind. The Yankee bulletins in the interim are unpleasantly detailed and specific — well calculated to unsettle conclusions and inferences based upon the cheering but vague accounts from our own side. The suspense, however, cannot long be continued. It will be interrupted no doubt by some decisive event in a few days — may be, hours. The hopes and opinions of those who know the locality are strongly in favor of the impregnability of Vicksburg. The general feeling, after what it has stood, is that, it will not be carried by Grant. The resistance has been, from all accounts, determined, and let us continue to hope and believe will be successful.

The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 30, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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