Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-21
9ailg Appeal.
RIncL FsepubIicnn Dispatches 60 the
NorrhPru Papers.

| WASHINGTON, May I0.-The Senate, yoster-
day, rejected a long list Of naval nominations,
restoring officers resigned before the war 10 tneir
| former relative positions, on the ground that II
would work injustice to those always remaining
in the service.
Returned prisoners from Richmond say that's
week ago a large meeting was held % decide
whether or not to burn their property. Holders
and business men against rif-raff for destroying
the city.
Prisoners think the artillery, after being ship
ped south, was suddenly sent north, with the
intention of attacking Mcdowell
Rebels are hauling stones 10 James river to
sink, for the purpose OF preventing gunhoats
coming up.
They represent Wnl Churchill, deserter from
the First Ohio cavalry, as one of the prison
guards, and most cruel in treatment ofpris0ners
A council of war was held at Norfolk, attended
by the rebel Secretaries of War and Navy, Gen.
Huger, and other officers, and its evacuation de-
termiued upon.
GoldsboIough reports as the result of a recon
nossauce, Thursday, fewer troops and fewer
guus-only seventeen guns being there.
Up to this time, one hundred and torty-ive
petitions for five hundred and thirty-eight slaves,
valued at three hundred thousand dollars have
been filed
Slidell & Co are turning Catholic to win
French sympathy, and representing the war as
an effort by hereto Yankees 10 sublugate men of
the true faith.
WASHINGTON. May lI.-Msj Scott, Of The
Post Office Department, carries TO New Orleans
six thousand foreign letters, accumulated within
the last two or three months.
Dispatches from Fredericksburg say Mrs. and
Miss Smuc5 were arrested to-day for giving
information to the T, bells. The guard who made
the arrest was fired upon twice, but were un-
harmed
Deserters from Letchers artillery complain Of
hard treatment, and writers from the Richmond
army say they have been whipped sgain and
again. and wish themselves out of the damned
scrape.
Prince Napoleon writes that the cause OF free /
dom and progress Is represented by the North,
and is closely allied with the same cause in
Europe, hence be takes a lively interest in the
triumph over the South
Lieutenant Commanding Phelps, 10 q letter
from the Mississippi fotilla, says the risk Of
pursuing the same tactics at Fort Wright as at
Island No. 10, Is too great. We would have to |
cope with parthwOTks and the rebel dotiilR at |
once, and If our boats were disabled, Cincinnati, |
s.. Louis aud other river cities would be at the
mercy Of the rebel hOhlla.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE proposed taxes |
on raw cotton and slaves gain favor, and viii be |
strongly pressed in the Senate.
It is understood that the Senate military com |
mittee, who have returned from Yorktown, after |
full examination, ex0neTate Gen. Smith fIom the |
charges Of intOxicatiOn.
An American sugar planter now IN Cuba
writes to a friend here that he discovers leading /
and intelligent planters in favor OF gradual |
she ground that Spain will be
DUllied into It, sooner OF later, and bad better
control the policy herself a committee pre-
iented a memorial to this effect to the queen
A lieutenant and thirteen South Carolina pTi-
rates and nine Virginia cavalry were captured
n a reconnaissance near Fredericksburg, this
morning.
A special prayer meeting for the success Of
he rebel arms, is to be held in Fredericksburg
his week.