Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-03
The Females Under Arrest at wash
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The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Express, after noting the arrest Of Mrs
Greenhow and Mrs. Phillips, says:
/ Mrs. Grsenhow is a sister Of Mrs. Cuts
| the mother Of Mrs. Douglas Mrs. Phillips
is daughter of Mr.. J. c. Levy, now OF Sa-
| vaRnab, but a native, and for the greater por-
| tioa Of bis life, a resident Of Charleston: a
gentleman well known at the North, and es-
| tsemsd wherever knoHn for his literary ac-
| quirements, the courtesy of his manners, and
! his open-handed hospitality. 10 the DAYS Of
notification, Mr.. Levy was d firm Union
man, as also was hir. Phillips, then 4 Young
! lawyer at the Charles on bar. At fhe close
| OF the war OF notification Mr.. Phillips re-
moved to Mobile, where he soon acquired a
| iaTge practice. On his election to Congress,
in 1853, be removed to this city, where ho has
since resided, and where his fine legal abiIi-
ties have secured him q lucrative practice It,
the Supreme Court. He has always been re-
gsrded here as a Union man, and was sent
las. winter by Mr.. Buchanan on quasi dipIO-
matte mission 10 the South TO ASCERTAIN if it
T-~-~ ;,,yssible to get mp reactionarV move
meut in Georgia and Alabama against the Sc
cessionistg. The unsuccessfui result Of his
mission was chT0nicied at the time.
Mr.. Phillips is q most estimable man, and
enjoys the respert Of hs legal contemporaries
TO an unlimited degree. His wife, being the
mother Of nine children, one might suppose
would be too much occupied by household re-
spons,bilities TO find time for holding cores
pondsuce with the enemy, which is understood
to be the cause OF her arrest. However this
may be, it is very certain tnat she is a lady Of
great intelligence and most attractive manners,
and as competent to c0ndrct d correspondence
on any subject as the mCs- gifted female diplo-
Datists Of France OF i,ussjd.
It is little singular that Mr. Phillips occu-
pies house in a street which, for the last two
or three years, has been occupied by Jst7sraon
Davis.
THE LADIES' JAZZ.
Speaking Of the feminine "Tebels" Of Wash
ington, among whom it includes The wives Of
ex-members Of Congress, Of ex-clerks in the
departments, the wives and relatives Of officers
and soldiers in both the Federal and CoDfsde-
rate armies, boarding-house keepers, ladies Of
wealth and refinement, ladies in the humber
walks of life, and female servants Of all grades,
the Washington correspondent Of the Pdils-
deiPhia Iaqairer says:
The improperly as well as inconvenience Of
placing these female prisoners ia the common
l5il or IN the prison at the capital was at once
seen. l. wac determined, therefore to secure
some suitable building and appropriate it for
this purpose. Accordingly, the large house at
the corner Of - and Fourteenth streets was
selected and rented on Saturday for this pur-
pose. The premises consist OF the mansion it.
self, sufficiently spacious 20 contain comf0rta-
bly, all the ladies who will be arrested, ana an
extensive lawn ana flower garden, ia which
they will be allowed to walk. The whole is
surrounded bV a higG brick wall, which wilt AZ
once prevent their escape, and secure them
from the impertinent observation Of the curl
Gus. The three ladies already arrested are
confined here, and it is understood that they
will have the society of three more before to-
night.
The female members Of the families of
Mayor Berritt and Mr. Phillips are all under
strict surveillance, military guards being sta
toned in both houses