Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-26
LETTER FROM THE CONREDER-
ATE GApFTAE.

Martial upon Confederate officers for AHoriRg
the Pensacola to Pass the Transport Batteries
The Ne,7 York Heraid's Story Of the Loss Of the
Rinaldo-McC iclan Wishes to Resign-Arri-
cal Of Lieutenant Colonel Pegrdm-T Thunder
Storm.
RICHMOND, January 20, 1862.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the body
of the late Ex-President Tyler was conveyed
the Exchange Hotel to the hall Of Congress
in the capitol, where it was left in charge of a
guard Of honor. The escort was composed of
he fine company of Virginia regulars, known as
the Public Guard, in full uniform, with cross
belts and parade caps and pompons, attended by
their excellent band playing a funeral dirge, and
the hearse was followed by a small body Of gen
on foot, the Governor and Lieutenants
Governor Of the Commonwealth, the judges Of
the Court of Appeals, the Virginia delegation in
the provisional Congress and several members OF
both houses of the Virginia Legislature. This
morning, as early as ten o'clock, the hall OF
Congress began to be filed, and long be-
fore the hour of meeting it was crowded
to its utmost capacity. At q few minutes
past q, NJ, the body was called to order by the
Hon. Howell Cobb, and, after prayer by the Rev.
DR.. Hoge, of the Presbyterian church, the Hon.
w. II. Macfarland, of Richmond, rose and offered
the resolutions appropriate to the OCCASION intro
ducing them with a eulogy of the illustrious
deceased. Eloquent and affecting tributes were
then successfully paid to bis memory by Messrs'
r. N T. Hunter, Secretary Of State, William {.
Rives, Wigfal, ofTexas, Venable, of North Car
.oina. and Rhett, of South Carolina. A commu-
nieation having been read from the Speaker of THE
House of Delegates of Virginia, asking the con-
currence Of Congress, through a committee, in
making preparations for the funeral, this commit
tee was appointed and Congress adjourned.
We have no news to-day concerning the Burn
side feet beyond their appearance to the number
of forty-two vessels off Hattsras. Their place Of
destination is yet purely coniecturaL It seems
reasonably certain, however, that they will land
either on Roanoke Island or in the neighborhood
of Beaufort with a view to an attack upon tina.
place.
Very considerable dissatisfaction having beer
expressed in consequence of the passage of the
Evansport batteries by the Federal steamer ensa
cola. three Confederate officers, who are respon.
sible for the failure to open upon her with all the
guns there in position, have been put under ar
rest, and viii be tried by a court martial for neg
lect Of duty. Battery No. , waited for battery
No. l to commence firing, and meantime the
Pensacola, with the tide in her favor, was rap,
idly moving down stream, so that when batteries
Nos. 3 and i did launch their live thunders al
the retreating vessel, it was too late effsctuslly
to put astop to her onward progress. The Pen
sacola did not escape altogether unhurt, as il
was, several shots having struck her, and we
hear upon good authority that she was seen
some distance down the river in tow Of two
steam tugs. But there is little reason to doubt
that had the bombsrdment commenced soon
enough, she would either have been captured Of
in the channel There is not much sense
in locking the stable door aft. the horse has
been stolen, but it is well to stir up the men al
the Transport guns to increased vigilance, and
a salutaTy punishment of their carelessness in
the Pensacola slide, may prove a good
corrective for the future.
The New York Herald had a paragraph Of
diabolical e1ultation the other day over the sup
posed loss of the English steamer Rinaldo, with
Mason and Slidell on board, in the severe
gale that was blowing at the time Of the en-
barkation al Cape Cod. No doubt there would
be a eowardly and vindictive rejoicing all over
the North at such a fearful calamity. The PEG
pie who clustered aud swore that they would
never surrender our commissioners and then
pusillanimously gave them up upon the first de-
mand, would naturally enough exult over the de-
s%truction of the agents of their shame and dis
grace. But the Heraid's fendish JOY was some
thing premature. The Rinaldo was expected to
go to Halifax and there to land the commission
eTs that they might take the next Cunard steamer
to Liverpool, and because of the nOn-arrival OF
the RinaldO at that port, the Heraid jumped with
~undisguised satisfaction to the conclusion that
she had been lost; whereas the probabilities are
INC AAAAa4Ayr E4tANA AOHA otANoo VI hNNeANA Va
other good cause, stood Immediately out to sea
with the intention of proceeding to Liverpool
direct, which point they probably reached several
days ago. at all events, there will be no good
cause for alarm to the friends and relatives Of
Messrs Mason, SideIl, Euste5 and mcfarland,
if there should be nothing heard from them for
some weeks to come yet.
Mcclellan, it is said, has twice rendered his
resignation to the authorities at Washington,
having grown tired of the war, and strongly
DESTROYS of shifting from his shoulders the heavy
responsibility of the chief command. But the
authorities insist upon his making a trial against
the rebels before they get a new leader for their
grand armies. Within a day or two, again, we
have been entertained with the story of a speedy
advance Of the Yankees upon our lines at Cen
@tervile. But what might have been practicable
three weeks ago, has been rendered an absolute
impossibihty since by the breaking up of the
roads, which are now Serbonian boys and feather
bed lanes.
Lieut. Col. John Pegram, recently liberated
on parol from Fort Warren, arrived here yester-
day evening.
The weather has exceeded itself to-day. A
morning, with IN Oppressively warm SUI,
has been followed by a dark afternoon, bursting
into a violent storal Of thunder, lightning and
rain. The metamorphose Of the seasons has
been so complete that we ought not to be sur
prised to find june apples or watermelons in
market tomorrow. DIXIE.
The Great Federal Fleet OF HaHeras-GeH. Van
Dora's appointment in Missouri-Gen. Hetd
Assigned to the Command in TestsrH VirgiHia
Tho Popular Sentiment Of England Concern
ing american Afairs-Blaek0oods Magazine
-' The american Bastls The United States
and he Great Industrial Exhibition Of 1862
Funeral Of Ez-President Tyler.
RICHMOND, January 81, 1862.
One hundred and twenty-five Yankee vessels
off Cape Hatteras-so says the telegraph. An
attack is to be made simultaneously at three diff
ferent points on the North Carolina coast This
is stirring news, indeed. There is a northeast
storm prevailing here, which may be-let US
hope that it is-a perfect gale at Hatteras, and
which may dispense this immense naval force or
them upon the treacherous beach there.
Winds and waves permitting, however, Burn
side viii probably effect his landing somewhere
within the next twenty-four hours. And then
the God Of battles, of justice, and Of right, ena-
bic US to smite the i~nsolent, cowardly invader,