, 1862-09-04
FROM MEMPHIS.

Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago T1bune.1
MEMPHIS, August %.
The steamer Fairplay, with the arms cap
tnred at Millikin's Bend, arrived here last eve
ming In charge of the gunboat Tyler. 1send
you a lew particulars not before published,
The Fairplay had made the port Of Vicksbnrg
from Yazoo River. There she was loaded with
1900 Enfield rifles, $3.50 English muskets,
twepty-one boxes accoutrements, 1873 boxes
English musket accoutrements, 81 900 rounds
English cartridges, $1,000 rounds mu.kes car.
tridges, $500 rounds howitzer ammunition.
AL were marked to Generals Holmes, Hind
man and Van Dorm. The property is valued at
about S100, ,000. The steamer left Vicks5urg
Monday night and reached Milliken's Bend at
12 O'Clock on the 18th, when the Benton,
Capt. 8. S. Phelps, WIS about to anchor there,
seeing Light, the captain sent tug in charge
of Lieut.. John ". Atkinson, Of Chicago, with
twelve meu, to zee what it was. They found
it vas steamer, and the men On the steamer
discovered escaping in haste. When the
commander Of the tug got on board, they wers
all eff the boat but Quartermaster Anthony,
captured. OF course the boat, arms and all
were an easy prey to the Benton's boat crew.
All passed up to Cairo last evening.
1 he Falrpl9y reports gueril1as all along the
river. Scarcely day PASSES that they do not
have some sort Of fights. There was q bril-
liant little engagement at Bolivar, Miss, last
Tuesday, in which twelve guerilIas were killed.
1t Greenyille there was another. Capt.
Woods Of the 5Ssh Ohio regiment, a short dis
tarce back of Milliken's Bend, on the rail-
road, last week. burnt confederate depot,
DESTROYING large amount OF military stores,
and captured 200 shot-guns and sixty mules.
| The latter they could not bring away.
The battery captured up the Yazoo Riyer,
! alluded to in the report sent the other day,
| bY the Benton and Mound City, consisted oi
]! six 32-pounders, one 42-pounder and two
brass pieces, together with 10000 pounds ol
| powder.
makes the following statement to the BaAe:
| til: The Union sentiment is increasing il
| Gibson, Carroll and Weakley counties. 4
regiment OF unfon troops has been raised
| there, of which Rogers is colonel It is sup.
posed another reg iment might easily be raised
The railroad is il good order from Co1umbut
AL the citizens have taken the oath aud tt
| sun1ed their allegiance to the government. o
their fathers. There is a vast amount Of cot
| ton in West Tennessee. Not ten per cent. Q
it is destroyed. Business should be resumed
On the Memphis and Ohio railroad under mill
tary surveillance. 1.-The ,1s6ble can then shil
their cotton heres:9=-s~s = vade the extorlions 0
erfedv epecu1ato.$
= Thsgentlen1ah alluded to thinks West Ter
ncEsee I&making rapid strides in favor of til
constitution and the national government.
Startling but groundless rumors were ia ci,
culation here yesterday, mostly in rebel eli
c1es. One had it that federal regiment ha
| been captured at GGrmantO WI on "Wednesday
! Another. that Forests brigade and purtio
Of Gen. Price's troops we're moving to o pos
ton above here on the river. The militar
authorities have no such news, and they 81
supposed to originate in brains where "tE
wish is father to the thought"