Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-15
BLACK REPUBLlCAN DISPATCHES
TO THE NORTHERN PRESS.

BLACK REPUBLICAN, EHSPATCHES
TO NORTHERN PRESS.
Special to the New York Commercial Advertiser.I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-There is high au-
thority for denying the statement that Prince
! Napoleon had an interview with the president
on his return from Manassas.
The Washington journals continue TO pub
lish full details Of the movements Of troops.
The president has directed the work on the
capitol extension TO be resumed Immediately.
The White House is being painted and reno
waited this week.
Letters from Richmond state that BeaUre
CARDS official returns Of the killed and wound
ed is l 40
The government has sent orders to Cincin-
natl directing that Lieut.. Col. Tyler, OF the
rebel army, who vas arrested in that city a
few days since, shall be sent to New York for
detention at Fort Lafayette. o.
The war department has been busy since the
adjournment OF congress, preparing for the
regulation Of The laws recently enacted for the
regulation Of the army. Nearly all the com
missions for the officers Of the army pro
vided for BY the late increase, have been
made out. The labor has been great
The alleged semi-oficiai announcement in the
Richmond papers that Admiral Dundas intends
to take lis feet into Charleston, regardless OF
President Ljncolr's blockade, is of DO practical
significance, even Il the statement is true, for
the war vessels OF any nation with which we
are at peace has a right to enter our ports,
notwithstanding the blockade, which 10 in
tended to operate against the Of the
dlsioYalists.
A large number Of the most distinguished
army officers Of Europe, particularly in Eng
land and France, have rendered their services
to the United States, bat it is not known that
any of them will be accepted.
New YoRK, AUGUST 12.-The United States
prize schooner Falcon, from Galveston, with
merchandise, arrived this morning. She was
captured of Galveston by the United States
steamer South Carolina.
levitt Cawden, a rascal with a large num-
Der Of aliases, was arrested on Friday night
near the Hoboken ferry, charged with forging
to the extent Of $4,000 on the banks Of Chi
cago, St. Louis, Pit.sburg, Columbus and De-
trOit. He was sem to st. Louis on Saturday
last.
Mr.. J. Lathrop Motley, the eminent histo-
Tian, has been nominated for the mission to
Austria.
A letter from Fortress Monroe TO a gentle
man in this city relates the following: awe
have made IN important discovery, and hope
this will bring about a change. A few days
ago a party Of my company went out bathing
at Mill Creek, near Fortress Monroe, and there
discovered to their great surprise An electric
telegraph wire, and on inspection found it to
connect the fort with Fox Hill, where, it is
said, the enemy is intrenched in strong num-
bers.v
In the case OF the Baltimore Police commits
s%ione-s, a writ OF attachment was issued to-
day, against col. Burke, for his appearance to
show cause why be should not be held for con-
tempt o. court, in refusing to deliver the
prisoners upon a ha5eas corpus.
Report says that at the bank meeting to-day,
4 NEST cordial feeling was manifested toward
the government, and the proposition made that
New York, PhiladelDhia and Boston should
subscribe for the whole loan OF S46, 100000
and have optional preference for an award Of
like amount in October, the secretary o. the
treasury being recommended to withhold the
issue OF small notes for the present.