Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-18

ton with the fragments and debris OF a great
army through this diminishing medium, is like
making an observation Of the universe through
an Inverted telescope. Everything has been
reduced; the splendid column, which was
the pride of the avenue, and which Gen.
Scott was accustomed to review every day
after taking the oath OF allegiance, shTiuks
into a militia muster; the great park
Of artillery on which Lincoln looked with so
much satisfaction, as he recalled the remark
Of Napoleon that Heaven was always oil the
side Of The biggest guns,0 has dwindled into a
few pieces, and, to say the truth, General r.
win Mcdowell, in his own dispatch, sinks into
a very Insignificant individual. Eighteen
th7Isand men is the largest number Of men
which he admits to have commenced the
% March to Richm0ndD under his command,
and yet we know that ffty-fre regiments
moved in a body across the Long bridge, and
he himself speaks Of fourteen different brig
AIDES as having been actively engaged o. the
feld-a confession which establishes at once
the presence and cooperation Of not less than
forty Thousand, since a brigade, composed Of
regiments whose companies were all over a
hundred strong, could hardly have fallen be-
low three thousand at the least. Humanity
must applaud the mercy Of Gen. Mcdowell in
his great reduction Of the killed and wounded,
for the amount Of suffering thereby aveTted is
almost iEca.culable. It is q little strange,
however, that we should have in the prison
hospitals os Richmond alone almost as many
wounded Yankees as he admits to have been
placed hors Ia combat ia the engagement.
The Tribure's enlistment of GaribaIdi as a
maior-general in the federal army has caused
a good deal Of merriment here. The idea that
a man who has been all his life fighting the
battles Of The oppressed against the oppressor,
Of the people against a despotic government,
Of constitutional liberty against outrage and
wrong, should come across seas TO draw his
sword for tyrant who nas ira implied the con-
|slitution Of his country in the dust, abolished
the ha5eas corpus, violated the sanctity of pri-
vate correspondence, and denied even The
unrestricted freedom Of prayer, is 50 absurd
that Pgnck or ChuTigaTi ought to represent it
in earicature. The ITi5ane's joy in making
the announcement would be natural enough il
it we're sincere, forreally our masters, TIE U. S.
Of a., are SO deplorably in need of generals to
conduct their military operations with a toler-
able knowledge OF the science of war, that
they might we'll send to italy or anywhere else
to enlist them.
You cannot but remember the quiet fun that
was had among the other States, in the days
Of the old Union, at the expense of old Viz
ginia, because she resUlutely refused to receive
her unconstitutional qxota Of the proceeds of
the public lands, under the distribution bill
No; she never would touch a cent Of it, and
there the money lay in the federal Golfers. I
don't know how many thousand dollars, for l
DON'T know bow many years. Well, Lincoln
has ordered the amount to be paid over to the
bogus Virginia government at Wheeling,
MessTs. Pie?Pont, Carlisle s. Co., to whom it
has proved a perfect godsend. PierpOnt's
Virginia is, perhaps, as seriously in want Of
funds as ever a One-horse concern Of a govern
meat was since the world began, but the prob
ability is that the money will go to the personal
use and individual benefit OF the members Of
the administration Regarded as an ~eleemosy-
nary institution for the relief Of decayed snt
bankrupt vill3ge politicians, the Wheeling
government, which governs nothing, may be
under the patronage of LiDceln and Cameron
a sort Of success. DIXIE.
G5|H was rumored in Nashville on Wed
: nesday, upon apparently reliable data, tina
Geo. W. Bridges had been arrested near rhl
Kentucky line, By the party that went in pur
, suit Of him.. Bridges was en- route FOR Wash.
. ington, claiming to be member OF the Lincoln
Congress from Tennessee. We sincerely trus
that the rumor is correct.
+, ca Tie fredericksburg (ya.) Recorder, O.
J the 18Th inst, says:
) owe learn that one Of the soldiers belong.
| ing to the Arkansas regiment shot and kilIs,
, a member Of the same regiment IN a persona
alteration on Sunday evening last at thei
camp across the river"
1.-THE city authorities Of Richmond hav,
made a lean to the Confederate government o.
500, 900, taking as security CoDfederat,
bonds, payable three years after date anc
bearing eight per cent. interest. They hav,
also appropriated an additional So GOO for thu
defense Of the city.
. ca a dispatch from Richmond to tn,
Knoxville Register says thar it is generally es
timated in Washington that the Federal los.
in the battles Of the 18Th and 21s. OF J4ly, ii
. killed, wounded aGd missing, amounted t.
twenty thousand.
D APPOINTMENT OF CHAPLAIE.-Ths Rev. Dr.
Quintard, rector Of the Church Of the Advent
/, Nashville, Tennessee, has been appointed
chaplain in the Confederate army, and as.
signed TO Col. George maury's regiment.
CO Among the recently deceased vOlun.
; teers in the hospital at Richmond, we find th'
names Of the following: Albert J.. Eatman oI
| the 11lh, J. c.. Flaror Of the 18th, and -
Goodman Of the Al Alabama regiments.
? cyTThe Richmond Enquirer understand
: that It is in contemplation to arrange, il pos
e siBle, for the use Of the Warrenton, Virginia
C Springs as a hospital for our army. 1t would
: be a most delightful spot.
s E[y@ A new military company has been
f organized at Oxford, Miss, of which Col. j
!. F. Cushman has been elected captain. 81
e SAYS a Mississippi exchange.
NJ The New York Eevs publishes a isl
OF seventy Northern papers tsat oppose Lin
cOln's war policy.
! MILITARY MATTERS IN ST.. LoUIs.-Wc
y clip the following from the St. Louis RepubIi-
o can of the 18Th:
The 4lst Illinois regiment, Colonel Pugbi
which arrived here on Tuesday, was armed
with MIME muskets at tie arsenal yesterday.
The Seventh Iowa regiment also received
= arms at the Pacific railroad depot yesterday
evening, preparatory to embarking on board
the ears for R0lia.
Thera are now almost $4,000 troops in the
city; 10 600 Icing quar5ered at the arsenal.
Alarge body of troops ieft tbe Iron Noun
q tain depot last evening, for Pilot Knob. The
r train which arrived last evening, reported that
, no attack had been made, but thatthe enemy's
force was near by.
The Dist Illinois regiment, Col. Coler, was
= armed with Mimic muskets yesterday. making
in all about 1000 MIME muskets, distributed
during The day.
Ii. Col. Burbank Of the 18Th, United States
infantry Is now in command Of the arsenal i'll
place Of Capt. Tracy.
FREwoNr's BAHK LohN.-The st. Louis
Repu5iican of the 18Th has the following IN
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