Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-27
1890 FRo1E REommoNp.
Special Correspondence Of the Memphis Appeal
RICHMOND, October II, 1862

years mas gIlEAieOs LhAt uoue u ho Attuus Knew
him at FIRST sight. lie passed through the
United States from the st. Lawrence to the Pc.
tomac without being recognized onca, thoagh
he met many persons who were fsmiIisr with his
outward man. The Enquirer of this morning
suggests that ne may be allowed to raise al
IRISH brigade fer the Confederate service to meet
the brigade of the celebrated Corcoran who has
been received with such s flourish Of trumpets
in New York City.
General Magruder will take his departure on
Monday next, for his new command west of the
Mississippi. He will be accompanied by his
full staff, and will probably carry with him q
Geographic corps, with apparatus and instru-
ments, to establish q communication from his
headquarters to Little Rock. His present point
Of destination is San Antonio, Texas, where be
will remain for several weeks, though clrsum-
stances will determine his position hereafter.
The general is in fine health aud excellent spiT-
its, snd looks like a man " thirty. He has
profted by two or three months Of reposs, to re-
cruit his energies for his new field Of action.
We are still in doubt whether we may shout
/ II eAl ness over tut AcGoAh b4tttCb II nSALlCA1 o
The Wa Department does not receive q word
from General Bragg. What we learn through
the associated press is in the highest degree en-
eouraging, and the silence of the Northern jsur-
nails concerning all operations since the first
| days fighting, is IN excellent omen. Neverthe-
less we DO not desire to throw up our hats too
soon. The Yankees ssy we have no enthusiasm.
Hurlbut, the Englishman, who was here in all
SO long aad who has safely returned to New
York, writes to the Times that there was not as
much Qualification here over the Inauguration of
President Davis as he has seen g! G FiTeman's
parade in the Northern cities. Certainly we are
lot given to Dragging over victories that were
never Won, and Illuminating our houses for im-
aginary t~riumphs.
The question Of the constitUtionality Of tie
c~onseIipt law will probably be tested here in a
few days, By concert Of the Confederate and
State authorities. The matter is to be brought be-
fore the supreme court Of appeals Of Virginia,
which is now in session in this city, in a case
made for the purpose. The governor has for
hidden the superintendent Of the military insti-
tute to surrender any cadet to the officers ell
rolling cOnscripts for the Confederate army. A
cadet will be enrolled By agreement, and upon
a ha5eqs corpus sued out by the superintendent,
the question will be taken Immediately TO tie
Virginia court of appeals, where the e~onstitu-
t~iouaIity of the law will be argued by Attorney
General Watts on the ono side and Attorney
General Tucker on the other. The decision will
be looked forward to, Of course, with great IL
terest throughout the country.
The Richmond Theater, which was destroyed
By FIRE on the lat Of January last, has been re-
built ON a larger scale and approaches compile
tion. The management has advertised a prize
of $500, competition open to al the Confederate
States, for en- opening Poelical Address. Here
is e fine chance for the poets of the South, with
room for the rhetorical figure Of the Phoenix and
all that sort of thing, which afforded Horace and
James Smith the occasion for the fun Of the
" Rejected Addresses when the same thing
happened fifty years ago with Drury Lane. The
fifty years has gone by without producing an
other Byron, and we must be content with an
Inaugural. The Theater will be opened
about Christmas, and it is greatly to be hoped
that some stringent police regulations viii be
TO secure better order there than pre-
vailed in the cd establishment. Otherwise, it
better not been rebuilt.
JEFF Thompson still remains in town, and is
the lion of the day.
Several hundred Yankee prisoners were sent
If this morning. DIXIE.
The Cotton Burners-A Grand Euoe.
From the Memphis Bulletin, 24.h.l
Il has already been stated in the Bulletin that
D few hundred Federal csvslry made a flying
TO the neighborhOod of Germantown Oh
Wednesday.
A Confederate cavalry force from Kentucky,
stationed duriRg the previous night ON the
-oad this side Of Germantown, the object being
% prevent persons having cotton bringing it TO
market About daylight Wednesday morning,
hey broke up their camp and departed, taking
he'TOAd through Germantown. Some distance
they had given notice to have their
breakfast prepared, bat they were SO uneasy that {
hey did not wait for it, but said they would send
,ack for it. The captain, whose name is O'Eeal, ]
concluded that his men might go on, but he al :
east would stop and get his warm meal. How |
oDg he fingered we did not learn, bat it is said !
hat a son OF the family, on starting cut to school, !
aw the Federal cavalry coming, and thinking 1
was an immense. army, he turned back home :
o. safety. Thus Captain O'Nesl got wind Of l
and going to the stable he took not bis /
but bis hosts horse, a feet animal, and got
wo or three hundred yards the start, and such q
see hiss not been Witnessed by any mortal be- I
ONeal had a fresh horse and the start, g
nd it Is needless to say that he keptit. Indeed
. wideaed The gap, aad finally got away from c
is puTsuers.
The Confederates went On toward Wolf river {
o!t0m, ard the Fsderals crossed north Of Wolf !
yer in the direction Of Union depot. e
The road being opened up, we received . large c
u Of cotton yesterday. a gentleman Of our
cquaintance SAID he came in yesterday with a b
lumber Of n~eighbors who, together, brought 5
10 the city at least thirteen thousand dollars
-oFth. 4
The Consequence was, that Tennesse money c
as selling by the brokers yesterday at only FIVE ,
eT cent. under greenbacks. q
The war on The Upper Rivsr. c
. the Associated Press North a
CAIRO, October J9-On Friday morning. at I
O'Clock, the rebel Colonel Faulkner, with 300 C
attacked tie pickeis Of Major McNei's n
'rce, consisting o. four companies of the ID i
cavalry and two companies Of infantry, Il
.ationed on the Tennessee shore, opposite b
slend No. 10. Msjor Mcneil rallied his men 81
nd west out to support his pickets. The re- n
in the gray Of the morning, mistook their d