Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-30

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there is not more than a regiment or two at their
camp.
On the previous Thursday thirty trans
port boats were seen to pass up the Tennessee
river, loaded with troops.
We get our information from Mr.. ToMENY,
Treasurer of the Memphis and Ohio railroad,
who went to the damaged trestle work on the
train, and thence proceeded on a hand car to
Paris.
LETTER FROM THE CONFEDEEs-
| ATE CAPITAL.
Special Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal
RICHMOND. March "a, 1862.
We are in expectation of hearing very shortly
that an engagement has been fought near Colds
borough North Carolina. Satisfactory assurances
have been received by the government that this
will be the next point of attack, the object of the
enemy being to get possession of the Weldon and
Wilmington railroad and thus interrupt the line
of communication between Richmond and
! Charleston. Burnside is certainly advancing
with this purpose, and has been of late largely
reinforced. The famous brigsnd brigade of the
| infamous Dan Siczles, which has been engaged
for months past in committing all sorts of dep
relations in the lower counties of Maryland, was
sent last week, together with four five thousand
additional Yankee troops, to NewbeTn, and these
are doubtless at this moment united with Burn
side. The most active preparations have been
made on the part of the authorities here to con-
centrate a sufficient force to meet the invader,
and a lively confidence is entertained that the
result viii be decisively in our favor. The Yam
kee papers state that the late army Of the Poto-
mac, Just withdrawn from Centerville and Ma
nassas, has been sent down to meet and over
whelm Burnside's column. They are quite wei
come to this shre sd surmise, but Mcclellan is
altogether too cautious to act upon it by rapid
advance from Washington overland to Rich
mond. l shall not state from what points the
Confederate forces were drawn to strengthen the
body Of men already at GoldsboTough for the
protection of the rail oad. But this may say,
without imprudenee that Gen. Lee is the man
of all Others in the Disunited States who best
understands the rapid disposition and concentra-
ton of troops, and he has not been elevated to
the responsible position Of commanding general
one moment too soon.
The Yankee army which came down upon
LOudoUn and Frederick, occupying winchester,
and making the arrests of prominent secession
citizens, of which wrote you a few days ago,
has been withdrawn and sent off post haste to
reinforce Buell. in the West, and Gen. Stone
wall " jackson is now on his return to Winches-
ter, for what military purpose l have not been
able to learn. The falling back from the old line
Of Beauregard and Johnston, which occasioned
such iTepressible tomfoeleries all over Yankee
land, seems to have so disconnected the Yankee
leaders at Washington that they would appear
to have abandoned for the present their grand
NapOleonic scheme of a resistless movement in
this direction. A gentleman, who arrived in this
city by the underground railroad, from Balt- |
more, and who was in Washington last week.
reports that Seward had openly declared that the
strategy of Johnston was admirable, and that his
evacuation of Manassas had indefinitely pro- |
lOnged the war. From the same source, in con-
frmaton of many other reports to the same ef-
feet, and in striking correspondence with the re-
cent crushing article in the London Times, we |
hear that the belief in Baltimore is strong that, if
the Confederate States can hold their own till the
18th of April, the financial distresses of the Lin
coin government viii compel them to succumb.
Edwin DeLeOn, Esq, for many years past
consul-general of the United States at Alexan-
dria, in Egypt, has just arrived in Richmond,
having run the blockade successfully in the YES
sci from Havana which brought in large sup
ply of arms and munitions of war some two or
three weeks ago. Mr.. DeLeon received the first
intimatOn Of the secession of South Carolina
while rambling among the ruins of Thebes,
and there, upon a shattered column of what was
once the grandest city of the ancient Ptolemaic
Empire, he wrote his resignation and terminated
his official connection with the United States
he has resided for many months past il Eng
land where he has been in intimate association
with our commissioners, as well as with many
persons OF the highest social position in that !
country. Mr.. DeLeon entertains not the slight {
EST doubt Of the intervention of the Europeon !
powers in ou: behalf at no distant day, notwith-
standing the unfavorabe nature of Earl Rus /
sells dispatches and his recognition of the eff
;iency OF the blockade. 1t is only question of !
time, he says, and the period of delay is fast
running out. When the whole matter comes {
before Parliament there will be an obstinate con-
est between the friends of Southern Indepen- v
lence and its opponents, in which the ministry y
will 60 to the wall, and then the blockade will
be raised, and the Yankee war viii De at an end. a
Gen. Winder is pushing martial law to very Il
absurd lengths in this city. Four most respect e
Ible druggists were arrested on Saturday, and v
heir stores closed by military authority, upon n
.harge Of selling whisky. The facts were, that p
detective policemen, sent for the very object
With forged orders, puTporting to come from p
ractsing physicons, and setting forth that the Il
quor was wanted for medicinal purposes, pur- ?
hased each bottle from these four apothecaries
espectively, wheTeUpOn they were sent off under :
file of soldiers to the military prison. This may Re
e called sharp police work. Little boys have t,
lso been taken up for galloping through the 2
reets on horseback. While such is the severity fc
the administrators of martial law de usiRi1ais nj
he gambling houses are permitted to go on b
thout let or hindrance, their elegant sideboards d
roaming with the weight of wellflled decan- .,
rs pro bono p1tBlie9. Indeed it is so well Il
nown that liquor of all kinds can be procured i
the fashionable bells for the asking, thai u
lirsty gentlemen invite each other to visit them
ith the convenient formula d" Let us run the =
locksde." IF the authorities are resolute upon th
athng a stop to drinking in Richmond, let
lem close the faro-banls, and they will benefit n,
le morals Of the city in two ways at once. 70
The President returned to town on Saturday. m
en- Pillow arrived the same day and took n,
dgings at the Exchange Hotel. Mr. Yancey IT
expected tonight DIXIE, tu