Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-06
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/ 4 vast amount Of tobacco has been received
| in Richmond during the present season. The
warehouses are full to overhOwing, and thou
sands of hOgsheads are stored in other places
about the city.
At a convention IN Massachusetts,, last week, 1t
was resolved unanimously that the South should
not leave them, come veal or woe, peace OF war,
| they would never separate their fortunes from
the hated rebels.
Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish exile, who
has cspOused tue cause of tyranny at the North,
was recently invited to attend Union meeting
in Hartford, Connecticut He replied: ''I go 10
the war. Talking is over Fight the word y"
That white haired old renegade, Daniel S.
Dickinson, who is a candidate for attorney gen
eral in the State Of New York is disgracing HIM
self by going about the country making furious
war speeches.
The New York Journal Of Commerce of the
DIST September, gives extracts from late
southern papers" and gives prominent place
and the heading, Significant southern Comics
sions TO an extract from a southern journal
devoted 10 complaints against the Confederate
Congress.
Old Wool Acknowledges that hs has upward
Of two thnuSand negroes at FORTRESS Monroe,
and as.s the authorities al Washington what
hc shall do with them. Some are 10 be sent ia
Washington to work Qualifications, and 9th
crs win probably hc shipped to the West indies.
CROPS IN RAPDES PRISH-Thc Alexandria
Democrat, of thc 25th ult., says: " Cotton pirk-
ing Is progressing finely and rapidly, and with
such splendid weather, our planters arc straininr
every Poiut 70 take advantage oI il, and make
up for losi time. The cane is ripening fast, and
We could almost insure an enormous sugar crop
in our parish.
4 Republican member Of the Iowa Legislature
made S.2,000 ont of his contract 20 clotho the
State volunteers
In The JEFF Davis Sharp Shooters there are
shiry-siv mon who are over siv feet high, and
there are twelve pairs ofhroihers in Che company.
The Sharp shooters are from Marion county, Mis-
sissippi,
Lead ore, of very rich quality, has been found
on the farm OF Mr. VIM Smith, on the Etowa
river, near Rome, Georgia.
ARzONA-The san Antonia Herald states
that Adit-Gen. Wythe Baylor, brother OF Col.
John r. Baylor, from Arizona, reports everything
now quiet in Arizona, without the prospect Of
amy more fights at present
Gen. Houston. in one ofhis political speeches,
gave the following description Of the editor Of
the New York Tribune, to whom this continent is
indebted as much as TO any other man IN it for
the present convulSions and bloodshed:
Horace is a most remarkable man; he Is the
whitest man in the world. His skin is millS-white,
His hairs white, aud these are scattering. He
wears a white lat and white coat, and 1 must
be permitted to give ii to You as my candid opiR-
ion, that his liver Is Of the same color"
The Mobile Register and ddcertiser says a sol
der at Fort Morgan, enlisted some months ago
from the ship Danube rs a drummer, was sus-
pected of disloyalty and put in close confne-
inent. He managed atclyto elude the vigilance
OF his guards and escaped TO a hiding place near
the fort. He was found ON Tuesday, and as the
guard approached to arrest him be drew a pistol,
placed the nIuzze to his mouth aud drew the
trigger. We understand that his purpose was
10 desert, and there was found on his person a
complete drawing OF the fort, with the position
and calibeT of every gum and all the detailed in
tonnation that would be msefIl 10 the ennny