Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-01


From gentlemen who came down on the Cen
tral cars yesterday evening We have received
some further particulars Of the Yankee foray Oh
] Beaver Dam last Sunday morning
The first intimalion that Alr. Smith, the tele
i graph operator, had of the presence Of the enc
my, man walked into his office, and, slappDe
pistol on the table, begun to break up the tel
| graphic instruments Smith was then taken
into custody.
A number 0fenegrOes from the neighborhood
belonging to CO.. Fontaine and others, were
loungiug about the depot. These the Yankees
set TO work tearing up the rsilrOad track but
the negroes making such slow progress, they
cursed them and drove them eff, and set to
! themselves. Not bsing 6xsd for the business,
The nearest approach to a crowbar that they had
1 being q pick2xe, they found the extraction Of
six inch spikes out Of white oak sils much
more difficult operation than they had expected,
and they were forced to give over the attempt
About forty Of them then tried to raise the track
up and turn it over. In this, Of course, they
! failed signally They then set fire to the cord
wood ard the depot building The amount OF
! property consumed in the depot is not exactly
/ known, but there were stored in it at the time
two hundred barrels of -four and other stores be-
! longing to the government.
/ Tho party sent to arrest Col. Fontaine were
rightened OH by the coming Of the train before
! they reached his house.
The negroes at the depot told the Yankees
that g large number of troops was expected by
the train, and hence their haste in leaving on its
/ approach. AS tIey were about to ride "a ese Of
1 them offered a negro a counterfeit Confederate
! fifty dollar note to run of with them, which
! tempting bTibo the negro refused.
| On their route from and back to FredeTieks-
| burg they bought quantities Of articles without
/ any other apparent object than TO put counter
! felt money in circulation. From maTketmsn
on his way to Richmond they bought twenty
] chickens, giving him III payment twenty dol
! lar counterfeit rote, and after they had passed
/ him short distance, turned the chickens loose
| in the woods.
| We have previously mentioned that they made
| haste TO be OF on hearing the whistle Of the
train from Richmond When they had gotten
four or five miles from the depot they were pur-
sued aud oveTtaksn BY five gentlemen living in
the neighborhood. The gestlemen were armed
with shotguns, and, on coming up with the rear
of the Yankees, fred q YOlley and charged into
them. One Yankee was killed and two others
unhoTsed. Those on ahead thinking, no doubt,
! that large body of rebels was upon them,
continued their h;ghtwit once looking back,
while our men fearing, by following them fur
ther, 10 expose the smallness Of their number,
caught the two horses from which the Yankees
/ had been thrown and returned to Beaver Dam.
We stated yesterday that the Central cars
would not in future be run until the president
received the assurance of the military authori-
| ties that the road would be protected. At nine
/ o'clock Monday night that assurance was sent
to the superintendent, and accordingly the train
was started at tho usual hour yesterday morn
| ing The train from the West arrived yesterday
evening up to the schedule time, having run
through without meeting with accident or OBJ
sructon. There were large number of pass
! engers aud seven Yankee prisoners, who were
captured by our clvaly yesterday morning little
to the west of the railroad, and about ten miles
this side of Beaver DAM where they had been
stationed, 1t was thought, as picket. When
our cavalry came upon them they showed fight
and refused TO surrender until enc of them had
been killed and several others wounded
The whole line Of this road from Richmond is
now believed to be well protected The tels-
graph wire, broken by the Yankees was repaired
yesterday, and the line is now in working Ords:
Richmond Examiner.