Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-30
and q special MESSENGER from Europe, arrived a a Coz
federate port this morning.
Late Northern Issealisence.

Ao0eAA7 pr s1 N1f
lOgr Latest Dtspatehes.1
Late Northern IhtesIiEenee.
PETERsBrRe. December 29-Northern dates to the
seth inst, have been received.
. Christmas was a dbl day with she army CT the Rap
pshannoek. The depletion Of suffers stores rendered
the time dreary.
No movements, whatever. have taken place OF sithor
side OF the river, nor Is there s1y Indication Of &c imms-
date renewed Of h~ostihties.
The Harald says the eanpasgu IN Mississippi is as
Iuming an important shape, and il may not be long be-
for, two several battles will HAYS to be recorded in that
resiOn-One at Yieksburg and the other at Jackson.
Porter's grand naval expedition will surpass all 9th
ers in magnitude.
According to the register, Just published, the AboH-
zion army embraces ever one million men.
FIRE, involving a losI Of $4,000, Occered on Wash
layton street, New York on Thursday.
The Baltimore Americans Suffolk correspondent Is
satisfied that the array in that vicinity Il capable Of
marching into Richmond, and says the roads leading to
the rebel capital are less protected than by any other
route, and The soldiers are all snxioas to undertake the
job.
Atsorney-Gener Bates regards the admission Of
Western Virginia, az unconstitutional. Lincoln, 1t is
thought, will not rign the bin. The Herald says the
rebels in West Tennessee and North Mississippi appear
to have involved all our combinations against them in
serious difficulties and drawbacks. We shall be sgresa-
bly, disappointed If great victories instead Of dishearten-
ing reverse4 shall be the result Of the winters esmpsisn
in tbs s~Outhwsss, as now conducted
The Herald says Fosters operations in North Carolina
amount to 1, thin particularly. The expedition should
never have been attempted unless it was intended to
held the railroad Junction at doLdsboroi which com
mandB The Atlantic seaboard line and constitutes the
channel through which Riehmond recslTes supplies
from the Southern rebel States. The only result OF the
late effort will be to arouse the attention Of the rebels to
me importazcs IF the concentration OF such a force as
viii defy other attempts on our part to cut this impoT-
tant link in their lines OF communication
Tbs attempt and The failure are Of q piece with all
other DrnH~-s @Ear1lof Washingtsn Reneralship. What
a pity 50 utuch dsult and heroiEm, on tbs part VI bosl
oaicsrs and msn, should have been th-oua away IN an
enterprise which, like the assault on the anemYs lines
at fredericksburg, vas destined from the first to be
h~uilsss.
The Tribuas's SsfoIk correspondents, December ,
nyS: Yesterday political speaking was duh and bua
few votes Tsre cast in Suffolk. No returns viii be re
osived from the Isle Of Wight, Winsor or smithfetd
The rebels from the Other side Of the Blackwater come
ovor to PCT a quIetuH upon the Union men who might
try to vote.
Northumberland Z. Undertook, Of ,he New York
Mounted Rifles, was sent with : detachment 70 carry
the ballot boxes out to the robeIlious sections named. and
had proceeded as FAR as s~mithfeld, and was about visit
ing the other places, when he was set upon by an over
whelmiag rebel force, and had e hard race for Suffolk.
Trials fer Trensea ia Eass Tennessee.
Knoxville, December 29-The Confederate States
esmmissioners court Is trying for treason Butler. a men,
Der of The Tennessee Legislature, and a. D. Smith.
G. eat feeling manifested.
The New York Herald says JEFF. Thompson is re-
ported moving On New Madrid with two thousaad men.
from Pocahontas, Ark and was within fcrty miles Of
that place.
The rebel 0res operating in Northwestern Tennss-
see burned Union City, and the bridge over the ObiOn
river.
From Charleston.
CHARLESTON, December q. On Friday fourteen
msn Of defends South Carolina rangers, made a recon
noIssance to Hutchinsou's islard. They fouud the
island evacuated. AL the crops had been gathered aed
carried off by the enemy
From the RspPaha1nOck.
FREDERICKSBURG, December 29.-Ths Yankee en-
campment baS moved in Eight since last night and some
firing was hard A flag Of truce came over to-day
result not trsnspired. The rumor Is that a portion Of
the Yankees are moving Army trsins are constantly
running. Nothing Of interest from the lines toni ght.