| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| August 20, 1863 |
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| Too Late |
| We infer from the tenor of the
dispatches from Morton, published today, that the efforts now making
to so repair the railroads in the vicinity of Jackson, Miss. as to
render it passable to save the machinery above Canton, have been put
forth too late. We understand all the track destroyed was about
repaired a few days ago, and workmen were engaged in erecting a
temporary bridge over the Pearl river. The enemy has, it seems, tapped
the road higher up, and some machinery has been destroyed, and, of
course his operations will embrace now injuries to the track and
bridges on his route. Among the losses sustained by mismanagement in
Mississippi, the last will not be that of the railroad stock above
Canton. This now seems inevitable. Who is to blame? |
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