Getting Weak in the Knees.
--If reports be true, all the
South has to do to establish her independence firmly, in a very brief space of time, is persevere in her present habit of whipping the
Yankees.
A Tupelo correspondent of the Mobile
Advertiser says letters have been received from
Washington, one at
Mayfield, Ky. from
Lucien Anderson, Congressman from that district, and the other at
Dresden, Tenn, from the notorious
Emerson Etheridge, saying that hostilities would cease next month; or, at all events armistice would be proposed, and begging their respective friends to use their utmost endeavor to have those States go with the
North,
Etheridge says, "We are whipped," and
Anderson that "the present Congress will recognize the
Confederacy."