Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-26

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The confederates are planting batteries at
Fairfax Court House.
ca The Cincinnati Enquirer Of the 22nd,
says: " The contractors to raise up the three
gunbosts at New Albany, on hatbosts, and
pass them over the bars Of the lower Ohio,
returned yesterday, and report the depth Of
water on Scutletown bar only thirty inches
and that the sending forward Of The gunboats
is impossible. They will remain where they
are until the fall rise.
ONE OF THE WAR PARsoSs.-The Hartford
Comm Courier says that the chaplain Of the
fifth regiment Of that State has been lately
drummed out Of camp. The difficulty appears
to have been a want Of "the ready" aud an
inclination to board at hotels without settling
"that little bill" and a propensity for taking
things that iida't belong to him.
e. The apoIogists for the defeat at Manas-
sas set down the number of our army at so, 900.
To this the New Orleans Data responds that
it is not far from the truth, but not exactly in
the sense intended. Beauregard and John
ston, says our contemporary, had probably
40 1000 men under them. JEFF. Davis, however,
made up the other 10000.
e. The Washington Republican, adminis-
tration organ, charges that Gen. Wool is re-
sponsible for the steamer C1taliHe swindle
There is a mystery about the administration
and Gen. Wool, says the Cincinnati Enquirer
that is ncomprehensible, and this attack upon
him by the Washington organ makes il
more go.
CT France has perfected a most extensive
Americas and West Indian mail contract, look,
ing for a Communication by steam with every
commercial port from fifty degrees north to the
equator, and from Newfoundland to the ANA
zon. Branches to Mexico and New Orleans
are optional with the company.
"a The Charleston Mercury of the Pond
inst, says We we're shown, by Mr.. John
Commins, on Saturday, a scheme Of a subma-
rine battery, which appears simple and practi.
cable, with good management 10 the execution
of the plan. Let our maritime anAoyers look
out!
ANOTHER ABOLITION FEAT.-The PhiIa-
delphia Inquirer, a tory sheet, says the portrait
CT Ex-President Tyler has been taken down
from the rotuDda of the capital, stripped Of its
frame, and hung head downward in the rub
bish room.
c. the Richmond correspondent Of the
Montgomery bail states that the war cores
pondent Of the .4dUsrti3er, was arrested as a
conspicuous character in that city, but by the
interference of the Secretary of Wal be was
released.
u The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the
Lincoln authorities have discovered that
horses from the western part of the State, and
ammunition, etc., from the vicinity Of New
Richmond, are continually crossing the river
for the South, RIA Kentucky.
III Capt. Simpson, of The Bird Of thu
Ware, arrived at Boston from Port au Prince,
states that on the 9Th ult., in lat. 90 %, Ion.
y 81, be saw a floating island twenty feet
high, with a number Of trees on it.
R A Cincinnati paper of the 22nd inst.
says: cone hundred and seventy mules, IA
hands high, costing the government 500 each.
in Jessamine county, Kentucky, passed through
this city yesterday for the East"
n57 The New Orleans Crescent says that
the Bank Of Louisiana has declared a semi
annual dividend of FIVE per cent, and an extra
dividend Of five per cent. payable on and after
Monday, August 9th.
e. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
were received in Cincinnati on Monday to
disburse to the western military department.
1t was doubtless the last of its kind on hand.
e. Washington letters state that Abe Lin
coin has the itch, caught from Gen. Lane.
Kansas r%ufians, while they were quartered il
the east room of the presidential mansion.
n The Montgomery Mail says that The
Confederate Government now has 250,0 900
soldiers, well drilled and armed, and judlcious-
" disposed for defensive operations.
~ Butler county, in the State Of Alabama.
has subscribed over two hundred and eight
/ fbouesnd dclIsrs TO the Confederate loan,