Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-19
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"D-H KIN a@.aNNs'E"
Special Co-e,g-al-uee Of -hs Aprell1
b Mad la-Tas Buraf Briigcs-"A Lshc
Story / ujU tell Iou-F1suoats Disgiqoa.
ment-Tds NayOr Of Richmond aud the Black.
lsgs-Priccs IN Richmond and IN flushing.
t0a-JirgintG COuUessoa-Tbe aoD Ten Gem
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RICHMOND, November 10, 1861.
It is even as 1 expected. No mail from Mem.
ph.s and 40 hope of one. On the contrary we
hear Of more 1--.I-abaTuiugs aud other works OF
tie devil m Eastern Tennessee. There must be
some Laa-.ugs for these things. OF course the
interruption Of travel and transportation between
such important points as Charleston and Mem,
plls, Sew Orleans and Richmond (for We Lear
there is also bridge destroyed between CLatta-
r9oga and Dslton) viii prove of serious mischle.
to Tie Confederate States, but / have no iuclua-
ton to dwell upon the matter. I would rather
tell you a story, as Old Abe says, OF which all
this burning of bridges reminds me.
When the Wise Legion made that melancholy
movement of falling back from Gaulay TO Lewis,
burg, there was, tn some position or other o.
command under Gen. Wise, q certain German
Col Adler (now in Jail here, / regret to say,
under s]orowrll suspicion Of being a Yankee
spy who had a m~9nomauia on the suhjec, O.
destroying bridges by FIRE. The colonel, over.
hearing a conversation between two Of his
brother officers concerning the roads leading
into Eastern Virginia, caught eagerly at a casual
mention of the Natural Bridge, the great wonder
Of nature, near Lexington. II peg your bar.
dou, SAID he, in;euuptinrly, did you gay
br-eel-e q" YES" replied the interrupted
party, Il referred to TIE Natural Bridge
Eur, said he, So. mus. be burned 81
don't know that there IS much point in my
Story, bus if va could only catch some Of thes,
traitors ia Eastern Tennessee, there would be d
universal verdict in lhe South Cha. they must b
hanged.
We get no news of consequence to-day from
any quarter. Tha, the Germans should grow
over Fsemonts removal was to have been eX
pec.al But chat the deep aamuaion OF hi.
taking Oft" wiz create any alarming ercnis il
the Yankee camp is, 1 fear, not to be hoped
Taukeed0m through all its borders is sold to
Lincoln, bought with d price, bound hand and
foot, and must DO his bidding. The foreign
Yankees are quite as much his slaves ss tn,
Conneclcu,ters OF the U.tuoisians. The only
difference is that the Irish and the Germans have
long been accustomed to oppression, though Of .
less grinding sort than that o.: the Federal gov
eumcut, while TO thr ustye-bom Yankee It is
new sensation. And they all seem to like it.
The mayor of Richmond, Joseph Mayo, Esq.
claims the exclusive credit of the move upon
tue ta7o-bauks, OF which I wrote You in ny
last two letters, so to him let il. be assigned
Only since he has commenced SO well, let u:
hope that be- viii carry ont his reforms thorough
ly and shut up all OF the establishments in tn,
city. One Of the proprietors hauled up theothol
night, claims with pleasant audacity grea
credit 20 himseIl-.hat there was not a letermin
ed and bloody resistance to the officers of the
law. Wen, indeed, was ,t that nothing of tli,
sort Was attempted.
Everything has gone up in price here most as
touisltngly. Butter ranges from 80 90 10 cent.
8 pound, eggs are 30 cents a dozen, coffee is no
20 be had at al. except in very small quantite.
st - cents to one dollar a pound. But in Wash
iagtJu !, is even worse. Flour theirs at last ac
counts was Sis q barrel aud rising every day
and It is said tbatit costs more TO keep d horse
week than 10 buy one.
The Virginia convention met this morning a
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