Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-10
LETTER FROM RTCHmOND.

the Of Gen. Jackson upon
ROmHey-ErPeeted Fight on the South Carolina
COast-Ths ThouSandh Report Of a Second
Battle Of MaHaSSas-Rairoad to Ceaier1iIe.
Especial Correspondence of the Appeal
RICHMOND, January 3, 1862.
By the arrival of the Persia we have later and
most interesting news from Europe. The Morn
ing Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston, declares
that the shipment of arms and movement of
troops from England to Canada, will go on
without interruption until the difficulties with
the United States have been fully settled, and it
is intimated pretty plainly that the affair of the
Trent is not the only matter for which the Lin
coin government will be brought up to answer.
When the amplest reparation has been made for
that outrage, the question of the stone blockade
viii be made a subject of complaint as in viola
ton Of all usage, and as an offense against the
commercial nations of the earth, one and all.
So that Mr.. Stewards apology for the act of Com
mOdore Wilkes may not avail after all to avert
h~ostilities with Great Britain. The Yankees may
be compelled to spend some time in raising their
sunken vessels from the channel leading into
Charleston harbor-a work for which they mani
tested considerable aptitude in the haTbor Of
Sebastopol. 1t will not be altogether as pleasant
labor, certainly, to clear out a southern channel
on compulsiOn as it was to raise Russian ships
under a fat contract with the Gar, but if Eng
land demands it, the work will be done. After
Stewards letter has been read by the monarehs Of
Europe, a demand of this sort may well be made
by any one of them with a fair chance that the
poor old degraded United States government will
accede to it.
Stewards humiliation must have a most dam
aging effect upon the cause of the Yankees both
at home and abroad. All the %satirical papers OF
Europe, Punch, the Charipari and their brethren,
viii be filed with caTicatUres at the expense OF
the brOkendown bully of America The war
party of the North, represented by such men as
John ?. Hale, mus! cry out against the disgrace
which has been brought upon their country by
the dwelling despOtism at Washington. The
long since truckled to the Illinois Baboon, would
have, indeed, a golden opportunity to break up
the Lincoln Cabinet and bring about return to
better c~Ounsels. When Napoleon came back
from his memorable expedition into Egypt and
found the affairs of France going to ruin in the
hands of the directory, he cried out to Barras
secretary" What have you done to that France
which left so splendid 1 left you at peace
and l find you at war 1 left you victory, and
find defeats I left you the spOils of Italy, ant
L find everywhere oppression and misery.
Well, truly, mightth old leaders of the north
ern Democracy eKclaim, in the language of clio
quent reproach to the tricksters in power, afte
nine months of Black Republican rule, twelve
months of Black Republican ascendency-
" Where is the Union we committed to you s.
glorious? We gave you a prosperous empire
we see a d%isunited people engaged in fratricida
strife; we gave you an unsulied fame, we fee
only the bitterness of degradationi we placed il
your keeping aradiant flag, victorious on land an,
sea; we have beheld it trailing in the dust of Eft
routs and struck down by the hand of our an
cient enemy !" But the leaders Of the mort erl
Democracy are rather dumb beneath the heel o
the tyrant, or have rushed forward, like Cushing
and Dickinson, to do that ~tyrant's bidding.
We hear from Washington to-day that Nc
Clellan is il-sick even unto displacement-an,
that it is designed to take advantage of his disa
bilty by e~levating a new favorite and a%civilial
to the command Of the great northern army
The /" coming man" is Wade-Ben. Wade
Ohio, the Senator who used to boast of hi
fighting proelivities on all occasions. Wade
the commander for the onward movement !;
3 moreover, be it known, his idea of the war
:, that of the truculent Cameron, that it is wage
for the extirpation of slavery and it is to be cal
RED on by arming the negroes against their mas
tiers. Wade's appointment would indicat
clearly enough the purpose of the administrator
: to narrow down the issue to the dictum of tn
Chicago Tribune: Either slavery or the Unto
must perish"
The arrival of the Isabel at Charleston, wit
another steamer and schooner in company,
t but another satisfactory evidence of the ineff
. cheney of the Lincoln blockade. The hope
entertained here that they same from Nassau an
brought a considerable portion of the cargo
the Gladiator, which Was lying hemmed in ther
at the last advices.
Gen. T. j. Jackson, of the Stone Wall brigade
having been reinforced by Loring's comman
from Western Virginia, left Winchester on Wet
nesday morning last fcr Romney, in Hampshir
county, where the Yankees are in eousideEabl
force and have been committing great depred'
/ tons. Gen. Jackson's design is to attack ther
|, both in front and rear, and be has sent body
Confederate troops to intercept them in case the
; should attempt to fall back and make good the
t escape across the Potomac 1 think, therefor,
there is good promise of a fight in that directio
before you can receive this letter.
We are in mOmentary expectation of hearin
something of Importance from the South Caroliu
coast. Fresh troops, under the command
Lee and Evans, had gone down to engage tt
enemy, who will be forced to give battle or retir
to their ships.
Again there is a widely circulated rumOr of
conflict ON the Potomac. Burnside's feet
designed to attack the Transport batteries, so
is said, and Gen. Wigfall, who has been in tow
B for some days, was summoned by telegraph
) last night, to join his regiment.
They are building a railroad from Manassas t
Center lille. All the horses and asses in til
z quartermaster's department. will rejoice at til
, snort of the locomotive, DIXIE.
WiHtry Heather and us Probable Consequences
D Death Of Hon. Judge HemPhiH-AHOher Sen
satiOH Telegram from Gen. Magruder-Gen,
raj DiUOrcs act By ts PierpoRt Government
, Course Of Lectures for The Patriotic Fund
, The affair Of the SsaJird and Express 1
I Hampton Roads.
RICHMOND, January 4, 1862.
The bitterest weather of the winter is upoi
us. Last night we had a hail and sleet whicI
! gave a vaneering of ice to trees, lamp-posts
fences, house-tops and paveaents and to-day til
air is all needles, with a heavy, leaden sky abov