Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-12-24

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The news from Europe, received yesterday siq
Louisville, gave, for a time, immense satisfaction
here. But there was a doubt expressed by many
whether popular meetings in Liverpool and Lon
don amounted, after all, to anything practical in
thocase of Messrs. Mason and Sidell. and tbough
it was asserted that the government had de-
manded their unconditional release. when the
dispatches came to be read this morning all saw
that they fell short of an absolute demand. The
news by the Europa, however, which we have
received to-day, reyives the dropping hopes of
such as ~despaired of English interference, and
the instructions to Lord Lyons to ask for his
passports in the event that the commissioners
are not given up, brings the matter to an issue at
once between England and the government of
Abraham Lincoln. What viii Lincoln dor
This is the question which now occupies the
public mind viii he brave a war with the first
power Of Europe, and have his blockade scat
tered to the four winds, with a fine chance Of
seeing New York and Boston fail INTO the hands
of a British army of invasion, coming down
through Canada and cooperating with a power
tul naval force outside, or viii be back out
from the stand taken by the North and surreu-
der the commissioners, apologizing for the out
rage and csshieriug Commodore Wilkes. who
has hardly yetran through the |ovations given
him for his rash actl Is the silence of the mes
sage on the subject to be the hole through which
he viii creep out of the difficulty We shall
see. In any event, the cause Of the Confederate
States must be greatly benefited by the arrest,
and whether Messrs. Mason and SHdell or my
Lord Lyons go rejoicing to Liverpool in an
English steamer, we shall be in better position
as respects foreign power than if the Trent had
never been interrupted. On this account we
may very properlt congratulate each other on
the Europa's news. though it was our duty as
well as our policy to prosecute the war without
reference TO foreign interference. We can and we
viii work out our independence for ourselves. A
party Of Virginia officers crossed the Potomsc
last week with a flag of truce, and held a con
ference with the Yankee commander, General
Stone. Inthe courseof conversation, the general
remarked that he supposed the Confederate gov
eminent looked with great anxity to the course
of England. "Sir," replied Lieutenant-C Colonel
Munford of Radford's Rangers, we expect to
accomplish our deliyerance with our own
swords"
As predicted, the Yankees claim the battle
of Allegheny Mountain as a brilliant victory.
The rebels, they say, fed in panic from the
field, while their own men retired in good order.
Why 8 retire - at all from a strong point which
they had carried 2 Why give up Immediately a
field of gloryl The fact is, they retired" in
pretty much the same order which they dis
played to the frightened and astounded Russell
on the 2ist Of July, only with a speed greatly
accelerated by the declivitous nature Of the road.
From all accounts, they did not 50 much run, Or
fy, as fall down the mountain. They retired
Ike falling bodies in space, sixteen feet the first
second, forty-eight feet the next, and so or, and
we may excuse their imperfect statements on the
ground that they Travelled 80 fast that they really
did not know what was going on at the summit.
As Sam. Weller said Of his ride to Ipswich
" Surrounding hobiects was rendered hinwisible
by the he1trelne velocity" All we can say is
that if the "battIe of Allegheny Mountain
q a o4iLioH' 'AStOIJ iu tHS AduhccsY We nope
they may have many such during the continu-
ance OF the war.
Gen. Wise is here, and l am happy to say that
his health is in Q great measure restored. He
receives visitors all day. and makes a speech to
them continuously alter his old fashion. He
says he has taken a new lease Of life, and is
good for twenty years yet. The legion was
last ordered to Norfolk, but his visit may be
connected with their removal to some other /
quarter.
4 refugee from Wheeling reached the city a
few days ago, who has been watching his oppor-
tunity for escape from Pierpont's authority for
several months. During this time he paid a
visit to Washington city as a soi-disaBi Union
man, and he reports a convers ton he heard
between Wheat, the Encouragement of the sham
Virginia government at Wheeling, and Chase,
the secretary of Lincoln's treasury. in which the
latter worthy declared that the naval expeditions
to the South had been fitted out under the
belief that there was still a strong Union senti
ment in the gulf States, which would express
itself upon the arrival of the armada on the
coast, but that if the administration found Itself
deceived upon this point, the war would soon be
brought to an end. I give you this for what
you may think it worth. The Wheeling refugee
is said to be a man of truth Chase, as you
know, is a liar, fathomless, inexplicable.
Capt, Ricketts,, who has been exchanged for
Capt. peSaguel, both having been honorably
wounded in battle, aud both being artillery off
GERS, left Richmond this morning accompanied
by his wife, who has shared his imprisonment
and watched his couch these five months with
admirably womaniy devotion. Courtesies have
been extended to hrs. Ricketts, by ladies in this
city of the highest social position, and it is
hoped the remembrance Of them will induce her
to correct the Misrepresentation OF our treatment
of the Yankee prisoners which have been so
ntly circulated at the North. Captain
Picketts is still unable to walk and viii probably
bear the marks Of Manassas to his grave.
We had a brilliant concert last night given
by amateurs-ladies and gentlemen Of Rich
mond-for the benefit of the wives and children
of the Richmond volunteers. Fine singing,
pretty women, handsome evening toilets, white
kids and lorgnettes, nothing suggestive of war
out the sprinkling Of snowy uniforms. The
viii be repeated tonight for the benefit
IF tue Maryland volunteers. DIXIE.
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~ The following is the explanation without
which the English government was not willing c
o receive the accession OF Mr.. Lincoln'5 gov
to the declaration of the Congress Of :
Paris. 1t is almost identical with that pro-
,osed by France. IIr. Seward declined in both
Instances: n
In sf6xing his signature to the convention this h
lay between her majesty, the Queen of Great 4
}sitain and Ireland, and the United Stares oftt
America, the Earl Russell declares, by order of
er majesty, that her majesty does not thereby "a
ltend 10 undertake any engagement which shall G
ave any bearing, direct or indirect, on the in h
'rnal differences now prevailing in the United n
tates.' pr
LINCOLN RAID INTO EAST TENNEssEE.-The
.nox lille Register, of the 22d, says: CT
We have positive information that tho Lin , u
,lnites made another incarsi0n into Scott coun- =
r, Tennessee, s few days ago. We are informed DC
lat they penetrated AS far as the head waters of
"a New river fork of Cumberland river, in ~,
county, near the Anderson county line. L
hoy killed Robert Patterson, David Shopman, en-
abe Gibson and a Mr. Low-aH good southern