Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-23

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PROM WAsHrNGToS-Reports from Wash
iDgton to Richmond, state thst the Fix months
mer, whose terms of enlistment are expiring, are
re-enTstng. Large numbers OF troops are sill
passing 70 Washington. They are preparing to
build another bridge soToss the Potomac. The
long bridge and the chain bridge have both been
broken and are out Of order and unit at present
for the passage Of any considerable body OF
uocps.
y The Petersburg Express contains The fol-
lopiag paragraph: An extra train wss sent out
to Weldon from ihis city on Sunday afternoon,
and returned about y o'clock the same night,
with a 5eanr IF dispatches to the Confederate
government and about twenty-five passengers
direct hym Europe. They ell passed immedi
ately on to Richmond. Where they ran the
blockade we viii not divulge.
FROM NIssouRI-A Federal dispatch from
81. Louis, dated the l4th, announces the follow
ing movements in Missouri: Gems. Hunter,
Pope aud Sturgis' divisions Of the army left
Springfield On Saturday last for the north, ana
Gen. SiEsrs and Asbotb's commands left for the
south o. Friday evening, with instructions 70 en-
camp ten miles below Wilson's creek.
e We learn from the Jackson H1siss5ppiaR
that Col. Richard Griffith, late commander Of
the 18th Mississippi regiment, has been appointed
BY the President, brgsdier-general in the Con
fe3eTate army, and assigned to sire charge Of the
9TH brigade al Leesburg, composed entirely Of
Mississippi -ooPs-yiz. the 18th, l6th. l7tA.
18th and 2Ist regiments
n The aIrocais states that the district court
for the northern division Of Alabama is now in
session in Huntsville, Hon. Vim. G. Jones, pre-
siding; A J.. Requier, ESQ, District Attorney F.;
Gen. Benz. Patterson, Marshal; D. 7. Moore,
Clerk Mai. Mich. Malone, Receiver. Under
tue seqpestraton Act 81 Congress, there Is a
good deal of business before the court.
ANOTHER NAVAL Observation-Disclosures
has been received at Richmond, from a reliable
source. tha. the enemy is sitting out two more ex-
petitions At Annapolis, Maryland The troops
em5aTking are to be commanded by Captains
Porter and Gibb0us-the former officer vss with
Maj Anderson AZ Fort Sumter.
ryMr. BIakey, Of the Virginia convention,
proposes some very radical changes in the Con
s%iitution, as, for example, that no one who shall
q citizen Of the Confederate States after
the war, Yankee or ogherv ise, shall ever be en-
titled TO a vote, or be- eligible TO any important
Office.
- The Ficksburg Sun rls.es upon what is
to be good authority, that the agent, or
commissionsr, OF the Confederate States, in Mex
.co, i getting along swimmingly, snd shat the
future will demonstrate that be hss been able,
and efficient, in discharge Of the onerous
and responsible trusts couhdsd TO his keeping.
r The HssissigpiaH Of the 3lst inst, says:
We learn that a dispatch was received here yes
evening from Gen. Pillow, by The military
authorities, urging thrm TO take immediate steps
the transfer Of the militia Of Mississippi,
such 2 as they had, 70 the seat 0f war
Kentucky.
z A dispatch from indianapolis, Indiana,
lated the I7,h says; From all parts Of the
State we have information that there Is consider
,bls d.saFectou at the course pursued toward
Fremont, and there is 10 mistake that the pso-
PIE aye fast losing confidence in the Admins
ration
~ The Providence (R L. Journal says that
Hon. James T. Simmons, Of Rhode Island, has
purchased a vessel, which hes been loaded with
d cargo of salt, shoes, and various other articles
needed At the South. Il is designed TO exchange
her stores with the people on the southern coast
for cotton.
y We learn that a tina Of one Of the new
Federal gun-boats was made al Cairo three or
four days since by firing thirty-two Founders
At it. It Is alleged thai those heavy missiles
made no impression on its i~ron-clad sides what
s7er. This fact, If true, is worthy Of notice by
bur military authorities.
= Commodore Dapont, the commander Of
he Federal naval expedition, in reporting to
he Secretary Of the navy, says, that in the
the Isaac smith had to throw her battery
overheard, and that the Governor and Peerless
gent dowu-the former with seven marines on
BOARD.
z The Richmond EraminsT Of the ls.h
nst, mentions tho death Of Maj Bagoy, OF
Jobb's Legion. which is stationed on the PENN
MIA Hs was killed by 9 shot from one Of our
pickets. who fred upon him through mis-
axe.
- Il "a understood At Richmond that, by
,ermissloD Of Gen. Wool, as signifed 70 Gen.
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