Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-25
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Special Correspondence Of the Memphis Appeal
RIcHNoNB, November Is, 1883.
The day is chill and cloudy, with signs Of
another snow-storm. The wind blows from the
north, and people wrap their oyercoass more
closely around them when they face 1t, as is
usual under such meteorological circumstances
The political hsayens are as drear as the natural
heavens, bat there is an ominous quiet all
around US which may betoken important events
near at hand. We shall see.
When the war is over as Burton used TO
say, in one of the drollest of bis farces, Eve
shall have peace" This is about the sum and
Substance Of the opinions freely given on every
hand of q speedy termination Of hostilities. The
peace prophets, however, are as sAnguine and as
~oracular as ever. Lord Lyons is coming, Lord
Lyons is coming, Ohio, Ohio, and he will bring US
proposals for an armistics and mediation there
viii be no more fighting and we shall have S
I" merry Christmas after ali. Pleasant song
this, when the lsfgess army of modern timas is
gathering upon our northern border when i'm
mense naval Armaments are fitting out, some of
them actually with steam up for immediate
work; when the hammer rings night and day in
the foundries and ship yards Of New York and
Philadelphia, and the Northern press declares
that Richmond must be taken before the 1st of
January. The fact is that the Black Republi-
cans, enrsged and made desperate by their
overwhelming defeat in the recent elections,
have determined on 8 tremendous effort to
whip us if they can, and all the power Of
the government will be exerted to effect this re-
suit. If Burnside does not now Immediately
advance, it will be because of disafection among
his troops, in consequence Of the removal Of
Mcclellan land we have rumors that the beloved
" Army of the Potomac" are mutinous at the
deep dsmnstion of his taking Of" or else that
the real demonstration will be attempted, as 1
limited a few days ago, from the south side of
James River. In any event we may look for
serious business before December.
There was sreport yesterday from Winchester
via Staunton that A. P. Hills division had en-
countered and repulsed the enemy on Wednes-
day last, capturing a large number of prisoners
and an immense wagon train, but SO far IS I
can learn, il has not been confirmed by any
lstsr intelligence.
I mentioned some weeks since that the Con
Esderste and State governments were about to
agree upon a case for trial before the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia by which the Con-
stitutionality of the c~onscript act should be
tested. A proposal was made beyond = doubt to
this effect by the Confederate authorities, but
the matter remains t. statH quo, and there viii
-..A.Ll- h - oone.;on vou 20 ks.t tbs oua,t;oo
further since the recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Georgia sustaining the CONSUMPTION.
This decision was unsnimous, and the opinion of
ibs Court was given by the Hon. Judge Jenkins,
who is not only one Of the sblest lawyers, but
one of the purest men in the Southern Confede-
raey. Il was in Georgia that the first and most
obstinate cavil was raised against the c%onstitu-
t~ionality of the measure, and the recent special
message Of Governor Brown to the Georgia leg
~islature on the subject, sttests the pertinacity
with which he is disposed to resist If. The sd-
verse dictum of the highest legal tribunal in the
State ought to set at rest his complaints.
There was a very large auction sale yesterday
OF shoes and other articles of clothing, all Of
which brought enormous prices. The shoes
were purchased in bulk by the committee of tie
citizens of Richmond for the Confederate army,
at prices ranging from nine to ten dollars the
pair. They will bring the aggregate of shoes
procured by them within a single week to nearly
eight thousand pairs. The army must and shall
be shod.
The business of counterfsiting treasury money
has been taken up by the negroes. "Massa
JEFF Davis nigger" was caught night before
Last in the act Of stealing blank sheets of notes
from the building of the Treasury Department,
to which he bad access to clean up and set in
order the Presidents Office. 1t turned out upon
investigating the matter, that he was acting ia
concert with other darkies, one Of whom, an ex-
pert, signed the names of the clerks to the stolen
blanks. The expert viii probably swing for his
dsxterty.
Folly and sxtravsgAnce have not ceased with
the war. I heard of a young Richmond belle,
yesterday, just about to be married, who paid
$95 for one bonnet, $50 for. a second, and $45
for a third, for her n~uptials. This is none Of
business, but the young bride had far
better have given two-thirds of the money TO
cover the feet of the soldiers than her own pretty
head. DIXIE.