Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-22
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The army Of the Potomac Falls Back to Center
UiHe-AH Sorts Of Ru~m0rs-ProbGhe Feints
to Corer the March Of a Strong Column into
Kentueky-An armstrong Gun ia Richmond
New Enfield Rifles dittO-POstage Stamps
Seguestration Of the RiUss Family Property m
Albemarlc.
RICHMOND, October II, 1861.
The army of the Potomac has fallen back
from Fairfax Court House, sure enough. Inc
main body ? is now at Centerville. This Is Just
what l gave you as news, yesterday, that such
a movement had been ordered. They VIII iau
back further yet. They will keep falling back.
They will conjugate the compound verb, to fall
hack, in all its moods and lenses. Or, rather, l
might say. in every mood except the potential.
Nobody has the least idea of what it all means
that is. nobody about town. The President,
who keeps his own c~ounsels, and the bnght-eyed
little Secretary Of War, who doesn't whisper
word of the business of his office oven 10 the
partridgcs he eats FOR dinner, may know, but
all else are ignorant. That the army will retire
as far as the old lines Of their intrenchments ut
Manassas Junction, Ihaye learned upon good
authority.
Meanwhile the town is wild with rumOrs. The
Yankees, we arc told, are moving in . strong
column under Gen. Banks upon llarper's Ferry.
There was a report to-day that they were land
ing at Ufbanna, on the Rappahanuock. Also
that another heavy attack was about to be
attempted on the Eyansport battery aud that an
effort wOuld be made to put troops ashore 70 take
It in the rear. In addition 10 this, great activi-
ties are reported at Fortress Monroe. 4 large
number Of horses and sixty or seventy rihcd
cannon have been received there within a few
days. It is impossible to get at the truth Of any
one of these rumors. Probably there IS just
enough of foundation for them TO Justify rs in
believing that several feints will be made in the
east, while a powerful army viii be thrown into
Kentucky. The great struggle viii be in that
State for the present. If I might venture to
suggest the reason for the backward movement
in Fairfax, I should say it was designed to re-
lease q considerable portion Of Johnston's army
for operation in another quarter, leaving Beau
regards command to defend the border against
an advance of the Yankees, which It could sue
oessfully DO, should the odds be ten to one in
favor Of the invaders.
One of the Armstrong steel guns brought over
in the Bermuda passed through the city yester-
day. 1t is a tremendous piece of ordnance and
excited great attention as it was drawn through
the streets. Numbers of the new Enfield rifles
with the sabre bayonet made their appearance
this morning in the hands of soldiers to whom
they had been distributed. Ii is a beautiful and
very dangerous looking weapon, which the
Yankees may soon become acquainted with at
The other end.
There has been a considerable run on the
Post Office Department for stamps since the de-
livery Of them commenced and the supply has
been exhausted for the time. but they will be
abundant again in a few days. The stamp is
really quite 4 good one though somewhat de
tectipe in adhesive quality, and announcement in
sheets from not having been perforated with d-
viding lines for tearing them apart. This omis-
sion win create a demand for scissors and there
viii probably be a rise in the latter article.
Alarge amount Of real property has been en-
tered on the books of the Receiver for seques-
tration in the county Of Albemarle, belonging
to two sons and c daughter Of the Hon. VIM.
c. Riyes. Throe bodies of land OF eOOacres each,
which were settled upon them by the father, are
embraced in the list. The sons and the daugh-
Ter ali married at the North, where they reside
for the greater part Of tho year, though VIM. c.
Riyes, Jr.. has built q beautiful residence st
Gotham, on the limo Of the Central railroad
which he inhabils al stated intervals. Francis
K. Riyes, Esq, who was at one time Secretary
Of Legation, at London. aud who has risen to
some emiDencc at the bar in New York city,
has always claimed a citizenship in Virginia,
and has manifested a special interest in the ex-
hibitions of the State agricultural society. The
sequestraton is now in course Of adjudication
before the Receiver, and, under the peculiar cir
c~umstances of the case, it is hoped that the
property may be saved to its owners, upon their
removing to Virginia as a place Of permanent
abode. DIME.