Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-06
FHOm RAJ SEAT OF WAR IN VIA.

Recognition Of Southern irSepeEacHce BY the Euro
peaa PowssS-Visit Of Prince NaPoisos and he
Princes CioihHde to AE4triea-Rum0red 0vertRres
Of Peace at WasaHgton-Carren Comment There
upOH-Tbe Descent Of the NJ sSissippi-Depariure
and Return Of McDODslrs Column.
Special Correspondence Of the Alp,al1
RICHMOND, August /, 1861.
Mr.. w. T. Richie, formerly Of the Rich
mond Enquirer, returned to town few days
ago from a hurried visit to Europe, having left
Virginia Immediately after the ordinance of
secession. He came by steamer to Quebec, and
across the country to Detroit, Louisville and
Nashville. Mr. Richie reports favoTably of
the chances for a speedy recognition Of the in
dependence of the Southern Confederacy by
the great European powers. He bore a mes
sage to the President from MIR. Yancey, to the
effect that q great battle, in which the Southern
forces should maintain their ground would Prob
ably do more fer our cause at court than any
thing else, and upon the delivery Of this message
The President quietly remarked that in his
opinion he victory at Manassas ought to be
efficient. Mr.. Richie said the sole reason
why the Emperor and the Frecch people, as
well as the government and people Of England,
had not long since become convinced Of the
utter hopelessness of Lincoln's subjlgating the
Southern States, was to be found in the fact
that their only knowledge of what was hap
pening in America was gathered from the New
York newspapers. All they had heard on the
o.ber side Of the waters of the progress Of the
struggle was unfaverable to the secession
cause, with tie single exception of the tidings
Of Bethel, and this engagement was represent
ed to tave been a very insignificant affair,
hardly worth mentioning in the History OF
the New Rebellion, as even the nest lying and
audscIous presses Of New York city, from the
Freniug Post up Cor down. to the Tribune,
admit that the rout at the Stone bridge was
complete, the people of England and France
! will at length be convinced Of the ability OF the
| Southern Cohfederacy to maintain itself, and
recognition by their respective governments
| will not be much longer withheld.
ApTopcs Of To s, it is surmised that the I'M
expected and i'll timed visit Of the Prince
Napoleon and hi9 Sandman bride, the Princess
Clothilde, 10 this continent, has something to
do with tie Intervention OF the French en-
peror in our quarrel. Atour more irrsdeema5ly
! lrisie could not be devised for a royal couple
than summer travel through the dis united
States in this year Of cur Lord, 1861. To go
| from one sullsn and silent city to another, So
burning at deserted hotels, to yswn with enHHi
at dismal watering places, With no balls, no
! fries, no opera, we should think was the last
thing a prince and bis %consort would care to
do. As for a visit to Washington, filed as it is
/ with a demoral.zel and GisordeIly army, and
likely enough at any tins to be attacked by a
Formidable force, the idea Of going thither for
pleasure is something simply preposterous.
The presidential mansion may, perhaps, be a
dslighlful place whereat % spend a fortnight,
when the temple Of Janus is shut up tight,
especially with so refined and courtly a person
as Abraham Lincoln to play the host but with
the reasonable prospect cf having d rain OF
SHELLS through the roof some fine morning, it is
rather a place to avoid, unless, indeed, The
bl1ss Prince Napoleon should, like Sir Charles
Coldstrsau, be DESTROYS Of feeling a Few cen.
sation. It seems, therefore, no IRA ional con-
lecture that be has coras to this war distracted
country under the Instructions of his imperia.
cousin to make propositions for a settlement
Of the d!ficG ty.
We have q runar on the street to-day,
which every body is Discussing, that President
Davis has himself made propositions for peace
to the reigning aesPotism a: Washington. 1t
came TO vour correspondent from a source ell
titled TO great respect, but be does rot state il
IS anything more than a general report, fur
nishing Ire present topic Of conversation,
The President, So goes lie Tu:aor, aPProacEe;
the federal executive with the uaieGiabl'
statement thatkjs great amy wdsra.her badly
whipped the other day at Manassas; that th'
Washington cabinet must be convince thereby
that he idea of subj eating the sOu.herI
people is absurI ard that humanity sbudder'
az tbs eTlsion Of blood, the immense amount d
woe and suffering, dat must ensue from fur
/ tser prosecution Of THIS needless wdT need.
lsaa, because tie Observation-Disclosures Of iht
Confederate Government is q "feTegone con
]c'usion p therefore, be goes on to say, The in
te-ests OF mankind demand that an enc
should be put to The strife, and, as the hour o.
victory is the hour Of magnanimity, he offer
the olive branch. need not, surely, tell yol
that the prevailing sentiment is overwhelming
~ against this Supposed offer, and hat every
cody prefers that Beauregsvd should be To
groas pacifcatorof the time. through the per
s~uasiors (Which the North itself employed t.
incuce us 10 come back int. the UDion,) @
bulIits and steel. l. is maintained, however
that The President has put forth this PROPOSE
tion, with very little hope that i. will b
accepted, designing, in the event OF its rejec
ton bv the infatuated administration OF Lin
coin, to make The attack on Washington with
ous delay and with all possible determination
and vigor. Irepsat that I give you this no
as a Trustworthy fact, bat as the current tall
! of the daT.
o It has surely not escaped your notice that oil
f Scot, is seeking TO avoid the odium Of the re
e cent disaster, declared that be had advised
= far different military policy, which embrace
the descent OF the Mississippi, and a transfe
OF the seat Of war from tue Virginia border
t the great valley Of the father Of waters. Il
not impossible, therefore, provided The secrc
. tary Of the treasury can ges money enough t
continue the prosecution Of hostilities, that h
t winter campaign may be conducted in you
. Immediate neishborhood, with the purpose {
p getting possession Of Memphis as q point d'aJ
! pul for future operations. The rising greatnes
of your fine city, and the patriotic spirit vii
{ which its people have gone into this struggle f,
, independence, mark it out as a Place greatly
be desired By the federal authorities, ard il
Immense Importance as a key to he countr
lying along tie lower Mississippi, cannot I
oyerlooked By any one. Tie Northern arm
viii fad, however, that the descent OF the Mi
g s%issippi, with hostile intent, is even less cas-
Of accomplish ent than getting to Richmor
} ria the Orange and Alexandra railroad. Ii
e brave men that dwell upoa its shores nay /
, safely left TO defend heir noble region again
u The lsrges: fotilla that ever launched upO
wave CT stre8m.
A prominent citizsn Of Richmond has ju
reached here after an sbse7ce Of three month
On a visit to Brazil lie was accompanied b
a son Of Gov. Lstcher, a boy of fifteen or ST.
teen. They were in Washington ineoy. fro
lbs 19.h to the 23d Of July, and witnesse
both the splendid departure Of Mcdowell
co-unn (ffty-fye regiments,) across the Lon
4 B7idge for the advance TO Richmond, and i
dismal, dreary, dirty, disgraceful, demoralizc
and drasgIe tailed return. They describe th