Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-30

! rom the Louisville journal. O.f6Har g-
4 GREENsBUHe.-Aher Gen. Ward fell
back uYeiye miles from Greensburg TO Camp
bellsyllle, he dispatched one hundred and ffv
cavalry about two o'clock on Saturday to recon-
hotter the abandoned position. explore as ftr as
possible and ascertain the numbers and location
OF the Coutederates, intending to attempt to re-
turn yesterday, but the cavalry had not returned
M the morning when cur informant left. Gen.
Ward has about 200O regulars and 1000 Home
Guards at LIS disposal, under command Of Coils.
Grider, Harlan, Anderson and Hobson. The
Home Guards ore principally from Marion and
Washington counties.
Col Order, with three companies. visited
Greensburg on Saturday, night. They entered
b0ldly-the colonel telling the citizens to pre-
pare accommodation FOR three thousand Federal
troops, who were Just outside the town. BY
this Iuse ne hoped 10 gain some valuable in
formation, but was disappointed, So he started
Sunday morning on preteuse of meeting his ex-
pected friends, aud OF course did not return
The rebel force or tho south bank Of Green river
Is umatsd al Homtlfse 20 i've thousand, but
tie stream is very high, and will remain inpas-
sable by fording for several days.
Deputy T.. S. Marshal J. W. Neville. started
from Lebanon yesterday for this city with two.
prisoners, who hud been arrested on suspicion
of being of the Secessi0uists who piilaced
Albany, lincoln county. When near ihe city.
one Of them, named }. II. Burnett. iumped
from the train, aud made for the woods gbout
Oakland, the marshal in full pursuit and dis
charging two shots az him. Favored by the an
preaching darkness, the prisoner contrved 4.
make bis escape, while the other one was lodged
safely in jail.
REBELS on "a MoyE-By letter from
CarrolrOH, by, under date OF Saturday. We
learn that about one hundred rebels were about
10 leave Owenton. OWes COUNTY, Ky. for Cum
berland Gap They viii most likely cross the
Kentucky river at Cedar Lock. l-avine Frank
tort eight or nine miles to the right. and travel
ing mainly through a secession region. Their
designs should be eireumyented.
The government steamer Col Mcneil. astern-
wheeler Of little value, struck a snap at How
ards Bend, on her way FROM Jefferson CITY 10
st. Louis, broker two, sunk, and Is q total loss.
TIE SKmMSH NEAR BACON CRREK-It was
% lrtachmCnt OF forty men from the thirfv-ninth
Indiana regiment which had the skinmish with
the rebel cavalry near Bacon creek, on the Lou
isville and Nashville railroad, on Saturday. the
18Th INST, and not o portion Of Col. Crittenden's
advance. lt was said that Capt Herring. ia
command OF the detachment. had been killed..
lie was fired upon hylca az 4 distance Of thirty
yards, but did not receive so much a. a scratch.
nor was q single member Of Capt. Heuing's
command injured.
Brutal ASSATLT.-Thero was some excite
lnent in the vicinity Of Clark's drinking saloon. (
on Iourfh street, this morning, owing to an as
sault upon 2 private IN the 2d Minnesota by a
citizen named Henry BAILEY. Bailey struck the
soldier in the iace with bottle, inhicfing a terri !
bic wound. Bailey was arrested and protected
by officer Robert Seay, else he would have been