Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-06

bis own.
In aIIuding to the position of the Hen. THos
A. r. NELSON, who recently pledged himsei
to be loval to the government under which be
lives, be is so astounded at it as to re
fuse to give crelence to the rumer. al
it were my case" adds the traitor, will
assumed courage and mock indignation
al do not hesitate to say that rather thai
make such a recantation, l wculd be screwed
down in nay iron coffin and buried in the eartt
feet foremost" ValoTous ANDY to talk 81
bravely when surrounded by your BlaCk-Re
publican comrades, and when SO far removed
from the seat of danger.
But listen still further: "My intention,'
he exclaims, ais to perish in The effort to re.
store to Tennessee her former rights unin.
paired. I intend to be with that people, anC
stand by thsm through the rain and the heat
with toll and with the sword, until, if need:
be, l have poured out the last drop of my
blood a wiling libation upon the altar Of ny
country's liberty"
This man, who is now in Kentucky, doubt
less, on a REASONABLE mission from the enc
mics of bis country, ought to be closely watch.
ed, and not even suffered to communicate witt
his co conspirators in his State.
DEATH CT Col. EGBEET j. JoEEs.-Witl
u~-feigncd grief, says The Huntsville Dem0cra
Of Wednesday, we announce that a Telegram
was received here last night from Rev. ". D
Chadick, at Gordonsville, Va, announcing th'
death Of the noble colonel of the Fourth Ala
bama regiment, at 1 O'Clock, A. M, yesterday
and the arrival of bis body at that place Ell
route Ger Huntsville. II DO delays occur, th'
BODY will reach bere between 1 and ? O'Clock
tomorrow morning. His death is a public
ca'smity.
a. The New Orleans Delta says that a
bill PASSED BY the Confederate Congress and
approved by the President, repeating the fourth
section OF the act approved on The 10Th March
last. Increasing the value Of the British soVer-
eign three cents, the French Napoleon three
cents, and Spanish and Mexican doubloons
seven cents. The standard value Of those
coins will therefore be, a sovereign 81 s5, q
Napoleon 3.S5, a doubloon $3.50.
SWEET PorAroEs.-The Shreveport South
t~5ssisrn says the largest crop Of sweet potatoes
known has been raised in North Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas, this season; so there is
no dagger Of being starved out this winter.
Several planters have already offered te deliver
any quantity required in Shreveport, after the
frst Of September, at fifty cents per bushel. 1t
Is thought that they win finally get down to
twenty-five cents per bushel.
q Our tory Senator, Andy johnson, has
-uiy and uncquivocally Unidentified himself
the ack-RepubIieans Of the North. He
las recently been speech making in Cincin-
lati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky. We also
ind The following notice in the Cincinnati
(Rspublican) OF Tuesday last:
HON. ANDREW HEso WILL SPEAK II
AYT
Tie Hon. Andrew Johnson, Of Tennessee,
having been invited to make a Union speech
n Dayton, will do so in q few days. Let the
Of Dayton prepare TO give him the
magnificent reception be ought to have.
Confederate PRIs0NERs-The following
S copy Of a dispatch sent to Major-General
Tgiggs. It will be seen by this that we are
10 have some Of the enemy's company. Why
not put him TO work on our Notifications?
RICHMOND, August %, 1861-Prisoners Of
var are to be sent to forts in the vicinity OF
New Orleans. How many can be there accom-
without crowding?
JOHN H. WINDER, Brig. Gen. c. s. A.
II The South, remarks the Louisville
Coarfe7-the fifteen Southern states-c0Dtain
low almost precisely as much population as
he whole Union contained by the census Of
1850. The South therefore is only about one
generation behind all the Uoited States by the
Of 1860. There are only about three Of
he civilized nations that exceed it in territory,
probably six in population, ana about ore in
Eealth-and none so free.
e The Washington correspondent Of the
New York World, the organ of the Lincoln
government, says that a " complete system Of
espionage has been established at the capital,
male and females, patrician and ~plebian,
EQUAL to any that was ever instituted by the
Of Bourbon OF HaPsburg,' for the
detection Of Secessionists. He adds that '1he
policy Of despotism must be adopted to pre-
serve the liberty Of the country"
%" The New York Journal Of Commerce,
being unable to stand the "bTskes" which
LincoIn's provost marshal put down on il re-
Gently, has sold out TO Mr.. DIN. Stone, its com
editor, Mr. Haliock, The former editor,
The Journal will hereafter be a cup
of the Yankee despotism, and thus
the privilege of being carried through
the mails.
e. The city Of Baltimore is still at the
mercy of the Lincoln hordes, and not a day
passes without the houses Of quiet citizens
being broken open aud searched for arms, and
suspected parties being hurried of to Fort
McHenry. Verify, "the way of the rams
is hard"
e. Two hundred more Texans arrived il
Orleans on The 81 ms ant by the overland
-oute on their way to the seat of war in Viz
yinia. The Crescent says that they look
and seem in the best spirits. The bal
incs Of two regiments will come along in a
ew days.
CT The Louisville Courier of Wednesday
Jays he Lincolnilss Yesterday did not attempt
o conceal their delight at the news Of the
Isath Of President Davis. They collected to-
in squads, and with beaming cOunte-
exulted loudly and openly.
cy-A powder mill is about to be put in op-
ration in Augusta, Georgia. We wish we
Ould hear Of a dozen similar enterprises. The
Confederate States government should have
.sd a powder factory under way before this,
nd not relied entirely on private enterprise.
e. The Washington correspondent Of the
Jew York Herald writes as follows: 81 hear
hat Gen. Butler is not particularly well pleas
d with bis experience in M~onroe-says be has
zen keeping a negro boarding house for the
-oyernment."
CT Emerson E:heridge and Andy johnson,
be renegade tories from Tennessee, are now
imposed to be in Frankfort, KY, as emissa-
les Of the Lincoln government. So says the
.ouisyille Courier.
DEATH OF JUDGE LAMAR.-The Macon
Telegraph nrouDces the death Of the above
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