Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-03

The Atlanta EnteIIigencer has Knoxville let
tel, dated the 26th instant, which confirms the
report that the enemies forces at the Gap are
surrounded, and that General Morgan will proba-
bly, be forced to capitulste. The writer adds;
have Just learned that one of the East Ten.
nessee renegades, by the name of Mitchell Rose,
arrived in town last night from the Gap. He
was q msjOr II one of the East Tennessee regi-
ments, has resigned his Office, and voluntarily
comes with eight or ten of his men TO make
peace with, the Confederate authorities. His
reason for Tesigning is, because he has at last
found out that this is q war of abolitiOnists
against the domestic institutions of the South
and not war for the Union. He says his colonel
insisted on his remsining a while longer, and
that if he became satisfied Lincoln was Wsging
this wsr as a tool Of the abOlihonists, he would
march his whole regiment out from the ranks OF
the enemy and disband them. He, furthermore,
says that Cfittenden is making speeches in
Kentucky against Lincoln and his sdministrG-
ton and that Kentucky is in blaze Of excite
ment. Whether all this be really true, or
whsther Rose is making the most plausible story
be can to ensure his peace, l cannot say. But
feel confident that the East Tennesseeans now
at the Gap, and who compose the larger part Of
the army of the enemy, are very much dissatis-
fed and are anxious to return homo. The very
fact Of Ross leaving them just as the crisis was
approaching proves that for some reason or other
he has become convert to secession and has no
faith in the success of the Federalists and aboli-
tionists.
On yesterday l saw twelve able able bodied
young men, East Tennessee renegades, who
had Just returned from kentucky the day before.
They come to town in body 10 take the oath to
support the Constitution OF the Confederate
had faiuad ha
tucky, but had been there four months, working
on farms, in Whitley county, at two shillings a
day. They LETT East Tennessee for fear Of the
conscribtion act, and were driven back from
Kentucky for fear of Lincoln's draft
YA correspondent of tine Cincinnati Times,
writing of the fearful retribution made by an
Ohio regiment for the shooting of Col McCOok,
in Tennessee, says:
The death of Colonel McCook was fearfully
avenged. His regiment, the 9ih Ohio, hearing
q his death, seized their muskets, and, breaking
through all discipline, dashed forth with feelings
amounting to frenzy The rebel who directed
McCook into the ambush was taken from the
guard, hung up between two ssplings and rid
died with bullets. The adjoining town and
plantation houses were leveled to the ground,
and every male rebel found shot or hung. One
hundred and thirty-6ve are known to have been
killed None escaped the frenzied Och Ohio
TIE GUNBoATs-A gentleman from Lake
Providence informs US that the gunboats Mon
arch and Bragg arrived and anchored close in
shore opposite the town about o'clock on
Thursday evening. He says the cavalry were
close about and ready for them. He also says it
was reported that a courier had arrived from
above giving informa ion that gunboat feet
was coming down, but he thinks the iRforma-
tiou not very reliable Ticksburg Phig, SOth