Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-13

nents for the enemy. Strange as it may apj
near he positivelv asserts thattbe best drilled
| organiZation at New Madrid, is sRegro cav
| alry company He also AYERS thaaa Jhe plan of
/ the rebels is for JEFF Thompson t. attack Cape
Girardeau with his force OF 600, in order to
attract The attention Of Gen. Prenties in that
direction, while Gen. Pillow, $4,000 strong, is
to advance on BIRDS Point, both attacks to be
made simultaneously. A scout, who left Pill
lows camp at New Madrid, on Sunday says
he estimates his force at u 600 while our scout
is confident it does not exceed 5000. Gen. Pill
low is throwing up entrenchments there, and
has actually made the ditch on the wrong sdel
New Madrid viii doubtless be the chief north
ern rendezvous for the rebels for the present.
Col Ketcaum, with one Thousand rebels, is
eDcamped six miles west Of Charleston, Mis-
souri, evidently moving toward Birds Point or
Cape Girardeau. The border counties in
Missouri are overrun with marauding parties,
who are committing depredations and murder
ing UBionis 3. They are particularly brutal
to the German population. Oue entire family
in the vicinity of Charleston, including the
husband, wife and three children, were cruelty
murdered Monday night, and their stock and
household goods appropriated.
Col. Cooks Seventh Illinois regiment arrived
at Cairo from Mound City, to-day, on The
steamer Wisconsin No. 2, aud will occupy the
quarters recently vacated by Col. Morgan's
Tenth Illinois. The steamer Warsaw ls to be
temporarily usea for hospital purposes for the
troops at Camp Lyon (Btrd's Point) DR..
Burke is in charge.
Capt. Latt'mef, of the B. P. Cheney, the
Caro- and Columbus mail packet, captured at
Columbus on Thursday last, arrived here from
that point TO-DAY. He claims that she was
seized by piratical parties, who claim her as
S35 COO prize, and that the seizure was made
without the consent Of toe Confederate author
tiles. She new lies at Memphis with the "saTs
and bars' flying from her j2ck-staf over the
star spangled banner. The leading citizens OF
Columbus have petitioued Gen. Pillow to re-
lease the boat, and the captain anticipates sue
cess in the enterprise.
Lattimer says be was not permitted to pass
the rebel lines, but was informed by officers
that 1t was the intention Of Pillow to have at
tackled Birds Point Yesterday morning. BE
saws his force is %. 600 streng, doubtful and
moving toward Cape Grardeau (sixty miles by
lanc) and to St. Louis. Once at the Cape,
they will cross the Mississippi and rush over
to JonesaorO, Illinois, only twenty miles dis
tSnce, take the Illinois Central railroad thlr-
ty-fve miles from Cairo, cutting of railway
communication, and haTrassing Cairo.
CAIRO, August S.-Fremont's headquarters
it is expected, will be removed here on Satur
day.
A formidable army is concentrating along
here. There are four thousand men at Cape
Girardssu.
There are heavy guns, able to resist any pos
sible force, at BIRDS Point. Picket guards are
extended beyond Charleston and Norfolk.
C.D.M
CAIRo, August Cairo is quiet. Cape
Girsrdesu is fortified and can repel superior
rebel forces. Thompson is twenty miles back
on the Charleston road. Steamer Empress ar
rived at Cape Girsrdeau from st. Louis with
the Ninth Missouri and McArthur's Illinois
regiments. she returned to Cairo. BIRDS
Point is being extensively fortified. The Sec
Ond Missouri regiment is hourly eXpected,there
from s.. Louis, TO be followed by two more
Missouri regiments tomorrow, swelling the
force to ten thousand. Fremont is expected
forthwith. The steamer Pocanontas, with
sixty hogsheads Of tobacco, for Louisville, was
seized BY the rebels IN Tennessee river at the
State line.
influential parties are openly recruiting for
the rebels at Paducah, KY.
Henderson county, KY, gave fifteen hundred
Union majority.
The river counties, except the river towns,
gave small secession msjorities.
The steamer LiberIan passed Cairo for s..
Louis.
Six feet water at Scnflletown.
lhe Following proclamation IS circulated IN
Missouri rebel districts:
"Ar0use, MissouTiansl S riks for your
hFssides and homel Having been elected TO
command the gallant sons Of the First military
district Of Missouri, in the second war for in
dependence, [ appeal to all whose hearts are
with us 70 Immediately take toe field. By
speedy and simultaneous march upon our foes
we can, like hurricane, scatter them TO the
winds. TaTdy action, like the gentle South
wind, will only meet with northern fFos.s, and
advance and recede like he seasons will be
toe history of the war, and it will last forever.
Come now and strike while the iron is hot.
Our enemy have been whipped in Virginia.
They have been whipped in Missouri. Gen.
Hardee advances on Tue center, Cen F5ti0y7 On
TIA right, and Gen. McCuloch on the left,
with twenty thousand brave southern hearts
to our aid. So leave your plow and furrOw,
and your OK in bis yoke, end let Us rush like
tornado upon our invaders and foes, to sweep
them fEom the face Of the earth, or force them
from ths soil OF our State. Brave sons Of the
Ninth district, come Join Us. We have plenty
sf ammunition, and the cattle on 4 Thousand
bills are olrs. We have forty thousand Bel
gium muskets coming, but bring your guns and
blankets with you, il you can-if you have
them-if not, come without. Come, turn out,
fall ir. CSigned1 NJ JEFF. THOMPSON,
BugadieT General Commanding.