Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-15
FROM CAIRO,

We copy the following from letter to the
Cincinnati Commcrcial, dated Cairo, the 10Th
The collector os the port Yesterday detained
at this point, lot Of 372 hides. shipped from
s. Louis for R9ber, HoBsal, PadCcah, by the
RyIand.
All quiet at Cairo, Birds Point, Norfolk and
Charleston, and Eea.th Of the troops excellent,
notwithstanding the cheated teTm.7
The rebels in StoddaTd and Mississippi coun-
ties, Missouri, have levied on 400 head Of
horses and wagons, belonging to the farmers,
offering Missouri Confederate State bonds in
payment They claim to be authorized to
make the levy by Gov. Jackson.
Turchin's 18Th Illinois regiment, stationed al
Norfolk, Missouri, the extreme southern adj
nance guard Of Fremont's division, numbers
962 men.
Three privates belonging to the 10Th, ir
company G, Capt. Williams, named Bice, Ad-
ans and Rice, recruited in st. Louis, deserted
from Norfolk, on Tuesday, Adams having in
duced bis companions 10 desert with him
They gave Z fisherman seventy-Gve cents tC
take them across the river into Kentucky in
his skif They changed their hats, cast away
their coats, cut of their buttons, and did every
thing 70 prevent their being identified as col
diers A detachment detailed to seize the
| Norfolk ferry, Lucy Mcdonnell, discovered
/ recognized and arrested them while skulking
/ in the woods. They were brought here FOL
! trial, and Adams, who is charged Uith being a
| seeessiOnist, will doubtless be shot, while thC
| other two will be drummed ou' OF camp.
! Thursday night I teiegraphed you the rebel
! force, viz: At Camp Boone, three miles this
side of ClaTksville, 700 Missourisns, 2 500
| TsnnCsseesns. At New Madrid, Is 600 nen
with twenty-seven guns, part riesd. The first
! movement Of the enemy will be after the ieat
/ q 20 il-E--s
! there is 900 enemy, who are not to move
| No troops have yet gone from Grand Junction
/ Tenn. This is southern information furnished
by an old Cncinnatlsh sympsthizing with tht
! South, and who bas Just arrived from Coluu.
bus, Ky, where his rela ives reside. He states
! further, that tue South NAV possibly attack
Birds Point, but it is not probable The,
have 10 idea Of touching Cairo or marching
/ of Of their own soil. They have a ridiculous
idea of marching on St. Louis. The Missis
srppi, Alabama and Tennessee regiments thai
! have gone over TO Missouri are all well armed
and equipped.
Cincinnati is represented in Col. Turchin'.
/ 90 Bloody Niaeseenth" regiment by two Of tht
| Guthries, sons of VIM. 81. Guthrie, deceased
/ formerly local inspector. One is Capt Pres
! VI. Guthrie, of company K, and CNpt. Jas. Y
] Guthrie, commanding another company in tht
same regiment. Capt. VIM. Dezell, the for
4 mer commander Of the steamer Mary Cook
well known in Cincinnati, is a corporal in tht
! Second Iowa, stationed at Bire's Point. JOhI
] Watkins of Pomeroy, Ohio, late engineering
! the steamer Lab81on. is here engineer Of tnj
| government steamer Wilson. The steamer Hi
nois is at Cape Girardeau IN The government
service, and in charge CT one OF her owners
/ Capt. G. Wash. Graham, Of Cairo The Alecl
Scott was yesterday chartered by the govern
ment at s.. Louis, making FremOnt's transpor
feet at that point twenty steamers. Jas. Car
| roll, of Cincinnati, is piloJing the government
steamer W. H. Brown, while Capt. Jacoi
Reemelin, of Louisville, is engaged in the samt
profession on the Warsaw-both stationel
here.
Nothing definite relative 70 Ffsmont's move
ments, but knowing ones predict he will be a
Cairo shortly, making this bis headquarters
TIE STATE PRISONERS. The Baltimore Er
change Of the 8-h, has the following:
The New York Daily NeiCs, OF yesterday
contains the astounding Intelligence that on
fellow-citizens, Charles Howard Wm. II
Gatcbell and John W. Davis. Esqrs., polio
commissioners Of this city, with other gentle
men, who were removed from Fort McHenr
, to Port Lafayette with them, are not allowst
, the slightest communication with their coua
2 sci or friends. Such atrocity, praclicsd By
; people claiming TO be civilized, almost passs
human endurance.