Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-02
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Fars. Eicketts.
TIE New York Tribune ssys. Captain and
Mrs. Ricketts,, whose arrival from Richmond
was announced yesterday, are still at Mayor
Palmer's in this city, and have to-day received 3
laTge number Of visitors. The captains health
is improving rapidly, and thers IS q prospect OF
bis entire recovery At an early day. His prn-
cipal wound was in the leg, though he was shot
in the arm and otherwise INFUSED. lie was not
taken until 6isysight OF his company were dead
on the field, and bis wounds had oveTpowered
him. lie was joined at Manassas By Hrs.
Ricketts, three days after the battle, and she had
been with hin ever since. administering to his
comfort With a noble devotion.
Held as a prisoner, she has suffered great pr
v%atjons, and tells a SONY tale Of rebel treatment
Nine thousand rebel patients are ia the public
hospitals Of Richmond and under private care.
Indeed, nearly every house has its sick or
wounded soldier There is q great lack Of med
lcinas, and IN many Of the secession regimsnts a
disease called the " camp fever" prevails 10 An
alarming extent. The soldiers are sadly destitita
Of shoes. Coed boots selin Richmond at S25 8
pair ladies' ditto $40; and ladies shoes at from
- 70 -. Provisions Of all kinds ars scare an
command exoTbitant prices. Army stores Of ce-
tain kinds are much needed, and ssupply Is coz
6ds1tly expected from Washington bv way Jf
eHN 4 Juno us AsAAhbtl1 LulLh8 klcLE hEU F-
tive agents OF secession and correspondents OF
President Davis still in Washington.
% Sunday evening q messenger arrived IN
Richmond with intelligence from England re-
CARING the Mason and Siidell affair. President
Davis was reused out OF bed at an unreasonable
hour, and delighted with the news. On Monday
morning it appeared in the papers Of the cry.
The rebels do not talk Of an attack On Washing
ton, but are eager for 8 movement into Maryland
By the upper Potomac. Lectures have been de-
iyered advising such a step, and strenuous efforts
are made to create secession sympathy in that
State.
A large force is gathered near Coosswabhis,
between Charleston and Savannah, ready 20 10
pei Yankee invasion. Gen. Pember0n is in
command, and Gen. Evans, lately at Leesburg.
has gone ihitheT, and a humber Of wounded Or
GERS, West Point graduates, are also there. The
system Of drafting begun in Richmond Is exceed
ngly unpopular. Il calls into active service the
entire militia. Boys Of fifteen are often enrolled
Those who desire TO remain st hCms have 20 pro
vide substitutes, who can only be had with great
difficulty.
Nj. Ely is in good health and spirits, and il
is understood that he is 70 be released the mo-
meut Mr.. Faulkner arrives in Richmond. The
rebel soldiers are very abusive Of the Yankees.
The heads Of two Of our men killed at the Skin
mish at POhick Church were severed from the
bodies, carried On bsyonets 10 the camp, and
there exposed, until some officers objected fer the
reason that, if known, it might cause remark in
Europe.
Capt. R. and Mrs. Ricketts, left Richmond on
Wednesday morning, at i've O'Clock, and were
taken by train TO Norfolk, wlere they wers
kindly treated By Gen. Huger, and at once sent
by boat TO meet our steamer near Sewel's Point.
They viii proceed in a few dsys to Elizabeth.
New Jersey, and thence to SsS York. Of which
city the captsin IS a native.