Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-06

three Quartere or a mileJ ana entered the car.
The unfortunate Davis was in charge of
but tive soldiers, a feeble escort against
the attacking party heavily armed with
revolvers and bowie knives. He was
instantly dragged from the car, conveyed
a short distance from the track, where the
avengers Of Axiom shot him and stabbed
bin and left him for dead. Davis, in this hor-
rible condition, was taken to the house of DR..
Luckett, of Manchester, where be now lies, it
is thought, beyond all hope Of recovery. The
outrage is deeply to be regretted and severely
to be condemned on many accounts. Nothing
can be worse in an army than a spirit of law
~lessness and a disposition to wreak private
vengeance. To the ''pet lambs and wolver-
ines Of the brutal and disorganizsd army Of
Abe Lincoln should be left the exhibitions Of
such a spirit and disposition. The murder Of
Axon was a crime calling for severe military
discipline, bat the attack on Davis is an atroci-
ty of a vet darker character. The effect Of it
will probably be to e~ngender bad blood be-
tween the Georgians and South Carolinians,
who should, of all sur forces, be the most
closely Joined 10 each other, because of their
near neighborhood at home, Of their almost
Simultaneous movement in resistance to Lin
coin, and Of the recent affecting community of
sorrow AMI glory between them in the herOism
and death of Barlow, Bse and Johnson. |
have not heard that any Of the participants in
the stabbiDg and shooting Of Davis have been
arrested, but it is u TO be hoped that an example
will be made in this case, in order that the
discipline Of the Southern army may be pre-
served.
Perhaps there could be no truer revelation
of the moral aud social character Of a people
than would be afforded at any time By an ex-
animation Of its mail bags. The side-lights
thrown upon history by correspondence writ
ten expressly for publication, aid US very ma
terially in forming a proper judgment of peo-
pies and generations long gone by, but the ex-
posture of letters from all sorts Of persons,
thTowa Oft in the unreserve and unguardedness
Of friendship and familiarity, expressing their
real thoughts, feelings and sentiments, set
forth in unmistakabie lines and c%olors, what
The tone of that nation is Of which the writers
are citizens. A large budget CT letters has
been sent to The Post Office Department in this
city, found on the persons Of federal soldiers,
killed in the late battle of Manassas, or among
the baggage left upon the field by the fugitive
army. 1t may be that If the postal service
betw cen the pleasant cities Of Sodom and Co.
morrah bad been Intercepted some day, and its
contents handed down to us, or if we had a
mail bag from Rome during the profigate
--.-I - IT.-..s- - IT, q Al. r.E4z-.
written from the court of England on some
hne day Just after the restoration Of Charles
7, could be reproduced, we might possibly fud
a parallel in indecency to SON. Of these black
republican epistIss. Many Of them apparently
written by women, supposed to be ladies'
abound in suggestions too pure to be mentioned.
Oilers again from the pens of the soldiers
themselves, the men who the very next day
were to 90 to Hsdes through the red gate Of
slaughter, are brutal in insensibiIity. I have
seen one taken from the pocket of a dead man.
and bearing the marks OF discoloTation from
being saturated with the rain Of MonSay
which was not lees devIlish in its spirit thai
shocking in lis language, and which might
furnish as good a passport TO the inferno
regions, one would think, as could be made
ont on earth. And vet these were the people
who were to teach US morality and civilization
at the point of the bayOnet, who we're TO carry
on Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves "Ieligiou'
war; and spread Dr.. Tyug's Bibles to the
Gulf OF Mexico!
From western Virginia we learn that To,
forces under Brigadier- General Henry A. Wis.,
had been compelled to fall back upon Lewis
burg, in the county Of Greenbrier, in conse
qusHce Of the advance Of a federal column
5000 strorg. L,wisburg is but nine miles
beysnd the White Sulphur Springs. The fed
~erllists were moving forward with great eau
ton, and declined to offer battle, except in
such manner az that their vastly superior
Numbers would fully avail them. Wise vii
: soon be reinforced by the Floyd brigade anc
By fresh regiments from The cast, when the al
vance Of tue enemy from trans-AIlsghany
! will be effsctually checked. Gen. Lee, when
last heard from, was at Monterey, in th'
; county of Highland, where be was actively
! engaged in it fu5ing order in that quarter
There will be an opportunity, Terchance, o
his coming to the relief Of Wise, bat when h'
Z strikes a blow nobody will know of it unit
the "thiDs's did, and it is useless TO sPccalat,
? about his plans while 1t is yet doubtful wheth
l er not be will q. in'o the field at all.
, We hear today that a small Bkirmish tool
place yesterday al Falls Church. in which 1906
= more federal prisoners have fallen into GU
hands. What 20 DO With them will be a puz
cling question, indeed.
The President has Just moved into the housr
= purchased for him on Clay street. No an
y nOuncenens has yet been made OF special even
b ings set apart for l%evees, and | trust there wil
be none. While the war lasts, his pOmp AM
d ceremony may be left to bis apesbiP in to
White house at Washington. Dixie.