Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-30

Especial Correspondence Of the Appeal


No mail from Memphis for five days. have
r~.rolra5 in INV mind several explanations 81
the failure. moi one Of which is satisfactory
We can hardly suppose that Nh. Reagan has
ordered a total d-iseoutinuance Of the postal ser
,ies with Tennessee. We are not aware that
tbe Yankees have interrupted the line between
Nempbis and Richmond II is rather improba-
BILE that the postmasters stop the bags en- route
TO read the Memphis newspapers. Nor, since a
large additional force has been employed in the
Richmond post Office, can it be imagined that the
mails are living here undstibuted. What can
the matter be Only one thing is clear-no-
| BODY Is TO blame. OF course not. We begin 10
hear from distant parts OF the Confederscy
/ complaints that they have no supply OF
The new postage stamps. An official card
appeared IN the Richmond papers Of ycster-
day explaining the reason of this omission
Tie p. NJ. General says that IN cchsequencc
OF the very large number OF stamps that are
demanded by the numerous encampments, the
/ quantity furnished by the contractors has moi
been sufficient TO admit ofsonding stamps to the
large cities, the natural points Of distribution.
New Orleans, Memphis, Charleston, Nashville,
| Mobile must wait until Manassas, Yorktown and
Norfolk have been served. But the camps don't
want the stamps at all, having no sort Of use
for them. The entire body of our troops in the
field. from the generals down TO the drummer
boys and the powder-nonkeys is exempted from
the necessity of pyepaying postage. The writer
has only to indorse his name on the hack to in
sure the transmission Of the letter, the postage
being collected Of the party to whom it is ad-
/ dressed. The explanation. therefore, does NOT
| satisfy the public. The stamps do not satisfy
the public without the perforated lines for really
tearing them apart. Scissors, as l predicted,
/ some days AFRO, have risen in price, ike every
thing else in Richmond, where a gentleman finds
it almost necessary to draw check on the bank
/ for a box Of matches.
The prisoners taken at L@eesburg, declare that
not more than thirteen hundred Yankees, all
told. crossed the Potomac and they claim that
Gen. Evans force was therefore more than two
70 one Of their own. 1t is singular. if this
should be so, that among these same prisoners
there should be members Of five different regi-
ments, and still more singular that three full
colonies should be sent with thirteen hundred
men. Baker, we know Was killed, and Coils.
Cogsven and Lee are here in the tobacco fac
tory. It Is certain that we did not bag Oh the
field officers, for their Northumberland and
majors are not accounted for, and the probabli-
y is that some. of the full colonies made their
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the Yankee force is our side of the northern
lying that viii be done about the fight. The
New York side viii represent that this small
force whipped Gen. Evans back to the town.
The prisoners still continue defiant and rebel
fous. They declare That they viii be liberated
BY Mcclellan OF Wool in lese than a fortnight.
M. BreekiuriJge stu remains in town lie
Is a good deal called upon and dned out as be
deserves. There was a uImor yesterday, that
lie was about to go into the Cabinet as Secretary
Of War; but SO far as l can learn, there is 10
foundation for it. There is a question Of com
I potency, whether a resident ora State not in the
southern Confederacy can become a member Of
fhe Confederate government. and, if there were
40 doubt on this point, there would be a grave
question Of Justice and fair dealing, whether a
State yet distracted in her councils and given
over to Ljncoln's despotism, should b. thus hon
ored, whflo Tennessee, a State heart and soul
with us, and instinct with the true spirit OF
patriotism throughout her borders, should yet
remain without a voice in the cabinet
The Wise legion, we hear, has been ordered
to North Carolina. Gen. Wise himself, whose
vitality is wonderful, has 50 far recovered as to
be able 10 walk about his room, and declares his
intention to resume his command at an cry
day. The entire restoration to healthW the
general could crafty no one more than your
correspondent, but I eannot consider it a de-
sirable thing that the legion should again go
iato The field under his leadership. There is a
prospect Of a fight in North Carolina, We are
told, and two regiments have gone to Colds
boro' since last wrote you.
The Yankees have withdrawn altogether from
Western Virginia, and we learn that Gen. Floyd
IS on his way to Kentucky.
The weather to-day is warm and cloudy-the
streets very crowded and disagreeable.
DIXIE.