Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-29
THE MEMPHIS
PaOn RICHMOND.

Carolina Regiment Gf Caratry-dTTtrat Of the
Prisoners TaEen at Leesburg-TheiT Conduct
and Erterior-Bekavio5 Of the CroUd TO1ard
Tlsn-Separd's Circular Observation-Disclosures
Of Far Betlseen Lincoln and John BuH-CaH
Ssrsmu-fre Homon Keep a Secrct2
RICHMOND, October, q, 1861.
Our streets have presented to-day an appear
ance of unusual animation. The morning was
magnificent, sohening, as the day advanced
from the sharp temperature accompanying a
white frost, TO the genial balminess otthe richest
October sunshine. At an early hour, the fine
cavalry regiment Of Col. Ransom, from North
Carolina, nine hundred strong, with one hundred
and fifty led horses, passed from their recent en-
campm4nt through the town, on their way to
Manassas. They filed through the Capitol
Square, saluting the equestrian statue Of Wash
ington as they wound around It's base, and talk
ING the Governors mansion and the Presidents
house in their way, made their departure by the
northern suburb amid the cheers Of the multi
tude. Beautiful Steeds, one company entirely of
black horse, another OF iron grey, a third oflight
grey, q fourth Of Souel, and so on; excellent
riders, well armed and equipped, in fine drill
the show they made, with their gay guidons
huttering in the air and the line stretching al
most as far as the eye could reach along the
street, was, indeed, splendid.
Soon after The dragons had gone, there was
IN arrival by the Central railroad of a long train
hearing he prisoner cspturaa in the recent bal
tie Of Leesburg. 4 very large crowd had gath
cred around the station. and a guard Of two
hundred soldiers was in attendance to convey
the Yankees to the military jail A new tobacco
factory had been procured for their reception, in
the neighborhood Of the buildings Of a similar
character occupied by the prisoners from Man
sssas. There was just 532 of The new corners.
lTThere viii be I59 more brought down to-mor-
row, making the aggregate number of Yankees
taken at Lee5burg, Col. They were generally
well clothed, though 8 dozen or more were bare
foot. having Invested themselves of their shoes in
the retreat preparatory to crossing the Potomac.
As body, they wore q hang-dog look, though
some bore themselves with propriety; and others
assumed an insolent air of defiance, frequently
giving utterance TO impudent remarks as they
passed through the crowd. There were two full
| colonies, Cogswell, of New York, Il think and
Lee, of Massachusetts, and twenty-five other
commissioned officers, many of them fne-look-
ing men. al of much dignity of bearing. Col.
Lee, apparently sbout60 years ofage, small well
knit, with grizzled whiskers and moustache, was
perhaps the most striking in his appearance Of
them al. There were two fulL-blooded Africans
lin the lot" niggess in the wood pile '-Tepre-
sentatives Of what Stale l did not learn. As the
train stood waiting at the station for the guard
10 form, a running fire Of compliments was kept
up by two or three fools in the crowd with half
a dozen saucy prisoners in the car-thls apaTt,
no insults were offered to the Yankees as far as
nv observation extended. A considerable num-
Der of people, inspired by a curiosity not per
haps, unnatural, Gllei the sideWalEs IS the line
Of march was taken up for the tobacco factory,
hut they did not jeer OF hiss the interesting cap
tives, far less bad they the disposition 10 offer
them personal injury. From one Of the officers
Of the guard which attended the prisoners from
Manassas 10 Richmond, 1 heard that the fight
hsd been renewed at Lcesburg, and there are
rlmors on the street to-day that a fresh body Of
Hessisus had crossed the river and taken the
town, but this is not believed.
There would appear TO be a strong probability
that Lincoln viii be at war with John Bull before
the Christmas holidays. The recent circular
letter of Seward, calling upon the Stale govern
ments at the North to provide a system of coast
defenses on the line Of the lakes, and along the
sea-bosrd. gives us great reason to believe that
affairs are not on g good footing between the
State Department 81 Washington and Downing
street. the more particularly because he opens
with a disclaimer that there is any greater dan
ger of a rupture with a foreign power now than
ST any former time. Indeed, the fact that he
goes further than this. and declares that there is
less danger at this moment than there was a few
weeks ago, Is sufficient TO convince any one
familiar with the double dealing Of the Auburn
trickster. that a war with England is imminent.
Should il come, it Is easy 10 see that the totter-
ing abolition despotism at Washington win soon
fall in ruin the most utter and iuemediable. So
far rs the Southern Confcderacy i concerned,
though h]osGities between the Yankees and John
Bull would undoubtedly hasten the day OF our
triumph, we really need care very little about it,
since we are abundantly able to establish our
independence without foreign aid, and mean DO ii.
Unjust tell you a good joke. An order was
received here, 9 few days ago, from the army OF
the Potomac, for saventy-fve regimental flags
Of an entirely new and "strango device Ilty
were to be made and forwarded 10 Manassas in
furty-oight hours. The iohOlC matter t7aS 10 BE-
kfpt q profound scrTct. So the making Of the
flags was entrusted 10 seventy-fve ladies, who
were expected to hold their seventy-fve little
Tongues for the space of two days and nights at
the least. need not tell you that the fact, and
the pattern Of he banner, and the short time in
which the order was 10 Dr. flled-in short, all
about il, was known 70 everybody the next morn
ing. The ladies of Richmond are jealous and
patriotic, but docs Gen. Johnston expect them
to perform iinpossibiiities2 DIXIE.
WESTERN YRGISIA-A gentleman who left
/, Gen, F1Oyd's camp on tAe Doth, arriving at
Lynchburg on the 18th, reports that the Federals
have evacuated the entire Kauawha valley, aud
f that Floyd is en- rogtc for Kentucky. When he
left, Floyd was encamped in Boone county, and
70 reach Kentucky had only about thirty miles
to march. Gen. Loring, after sending a detach-
ment down the Kauavha valley, returned with
his forces to his old position near Valley Noun
tain.
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