Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-08
LETTER FRom mEmPHIs.

LDlIOhS APPEhL I~IeoumlIB tAdb gVN
would like to hear from Memphis, 1 have taken
the liberty of writing to you. 1 have 10 doubt
but you get correct information at all times from
here, but there are many rich incidents that are
probably overlooked, that l should like you to
know.
suppose you have heard from Northern pa
pers what a strong Union sentiment prevails in
Memphis-how business is reviving, and how
much cotton, sugar and molassss, is being
shipped. know Memphis well. 1 know the
people and their position in society and l can
safely say that there is scarcely a single respect
able man who has taken the cath. Mansfield,
the druggist Alderman Robinson, Hurlbut and
F. II. Clark, were, I believe, considered gentle
men, and they are all the names yet published
that can lay any claim to this title. Whatever
they may have been before this, they are now
disgraced. Mansfield went up early and got
his dose. He had made a fortune off the South,
and a yet greater one off the Southern Confede-
racy, and he was then ready to leave her in her
day of trial and swear allegiance to her enemies.
/ hope that there will be a day of retTibutiOn for
such men. DR.. Grundy has been quite %ofieious
he piloted a regiment out to the race track to
capture a company Of Confederate cavalry that
he had been informed (by his Wife) was forming
there. There was but one man there and he hid
SO successfully that he escaped.
The Federsls do not place any confidence in
their Union friends about Memphis, if we may
Judge by what Gen. Slack told a gentleman who
went to him to try and get a camp moved from
near his house. Gen. S. was quite abrupt, and
said that he did not see what right the people of
Memphis had to ask faVors Of him that he had
been in Memphis two weeks and not a single
gentleman had ever called on him, nor had he
or any of his officers, as far as he knew, ever
been invited out to tea or Inner; nor had he
been offered headquarters by any gentleman:
that even the negroes treated his soldiers with
scOrn. Mr.. - expressed some surprise that
such was the case, telling him that he thought
there was q strong Union element here that he
had heard OF a great many taking the oath.
Slack replied by asking who they were that were
taking the oath, saying that he could buy any
one OF them for five dollars that had taken it.
AS for the cotton, there is precious little
Thanks to Beauregard They offer twenty-five
cents in gold for it. Mrs. George Blackwell and
Col. Bartlett brought down some that thew had
concealed and sold it. Isaac Bolton hid one
hundred and ninety bales, which, | presume, he
viii sell, and l suppose that he will add another
name to the list of worthless.
We had q s unboat election last week. which
resulted as might have been expected under the
circumstances. The sheriff was out of town,
and Mayor Park held the election himself, and,
Of course, was not simple enough to get beaten.
Squire Chase ran for alderman on the Union
ticket. Gray cloth is too far South for the squire
to superintend the cutting and making.
The Yankees have behaved tolerably well
thus far. They have not done as bad as we ex-
pected, only in some instances. They went to
Waddelps and to B~eauTegard'S, and stripped
the places Of everything, broke up the furniture,
carried away bed-clothing, plate, carriages,
horses, and three negroes. I have heard of them
prowling around and plundeIing at several 9th
er places on a small scale.
They are very eager and diligent in their
search for Confederate soldiers. The most un-
manly and brutal act that l know Of is their
treatment of the two Misses COe. Levin Coe,
their brother, was at home, discharged from the
army. They surrounded the house before the
family knew they were on the place. Fortu-
nstely young COe had gone fishing, and two of
bis sisters escaped TO the garden and ran to warn
him not to come home. The Yankees saw the
way they went, end followed them, but the sis
ters OUtran them and gave their brother informa-
tion of their coming. They came up with the
ladies at a house in the vicinity of the creek,
and attempted to arrest them, but they were
both armed, and dared the six big strapping
Yankees tc lay their hands on them. One would
say to anOthe, She's got a pistol take It
away from her" And she, a weak woman. |
stood at bay and told them to touch her at their
peril. And they, craven wretches, dared not DO
1t. At last, to get them from the neighbOThOOd
of their brother, they agreed to go to headqUar-
tiers with them. 1t was then noon, and these
girls had ran two miles, and then those scoun-
drels marched them eff On foot four miles to
town. At every step they tried to get their pis-
tells from them, threatening them all the time
with instant death if they did not give them up.
times they placed their pistols at those
girls hearts, with them cooked and their finger
ON the trigger, telling them they would kill them.
Each time the girls replied, Shoot can
shoot as quick as you can" And they never did
give them up until their brother-in-law came up
with them and told them to do so, and gave him
self up in their place. Levin Gee escaped.
l can scarcely realize that they are human be-
50 much do 1 despise them. I hear moth
ing but one universal expression of contempt
and hatred for them They have buried over
six hundred over in Arkansas. We are perfect
~ willing to give them graves, but nothing else.
The ArataRche says that the town presents a
very lively appearance. 1t looks to ne as if it
were just waiting for the hesTse, to form itself
into a grand funeral procession. / don't know
what to say about the AraidRchc. / reckon Lo-
renzo Dow's definition of Presbyterianism will
suit it better than anything l can think of: q
and / wont, / can and l cant, I'll be
if l do, and I'll be damned if / don't"
Gen. u. S. Grant took Maghee's house for
headquarters, but Jackson's cavalry, l think,
-ather startled the gentleman atleast he moved
light into town to w. r. Hunts. All the pick
ITS have been taken into the corporation, and
lane guarded.
I hear that Curtis has captured Gen. Hind
nan, but l see they have sent reinforcement to
curtis, and thepresumption is that he vas strong
,nough to capture, but could not hold him.
They have a hard time getting provisions 10
heir armies.
We all long for the day when the grey coats
will march back with banners flying and drums
,eating. And it will be q most welcome sound
o hear, " here's your Morning APPEAL" Any
{ us had rather have one now than a sack of
Office, a bolt of calico, or even z new bonnet
from Paris. RE. S.
The NaVR Gfan