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Floyd and Pillow Disgraced by JEFF
Davis.

The report of the suspension Of Floyd and
Pillow by jeff Davis, for their failure to
defend Fort DonelsoD; is confirmed. The
following is Jefis Message to the Conted-
crate Congress, accompanying the report of
Floyd:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, March ii, 1862.
To the Speaker of the House Of Representatives.:
transmit herewith copies OF such official
reports as have been received at the War DE.
partment of the defence and fall OF Fort Don.
elson.
They will be found incomplete and unsatis-
factory. Instructions have been given to fur
nish further information upon the several
points not made Ineligible by the reports. 1t
is not stated that reintorcements were at any
time asked for; nor is it demonstrated to have
been impossible to have saved the army by
eyacuating the position; nor is it known by
what means it was found practicable to with
draw part OF the garrison, leaving the re.
mainder to surrender; nor upon what author
itv or principle of action the senior Generals
abandoned responsibility by transferring the
command to Junior officer.
In a former communication to Congress, /
presented the propriety OF suspension OF
Judgment in relation to the disaster at Fort
Donelson, until official reports could be receiv-
ed. regret that the information now furnish,
ed ia 40 defective. In the meantime, hopeful
that satisfactory explanation may be made, l
have directed, upon the exhibition OF the case
a. presented by the two senior Generals, that
thav should be relieved from command, to
avsit further orders whenever reliable judg.
ment can he rendered on the merits OF the
case 0 JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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A General Reduction in Salaries.

In the bill defining the pay of officers of
the army and navy, which passed the House
on the 18th inst, there was provision in
the ninth section providing tor general
reduction of ten per cent. in the salaries
paid by Government, excepting those of the
President, Vice President, Judges, nom
commissioned officers, private soldiers and
seamen.
A motion was made to strike out the
section but it resulted in tie vote, as
follows:
YEAs-Browning, Clark, Collamer, Cowan,
Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Harris,
Howe, Kennedy, Latham, McDougall. Morrill,.
Pearce, Rice. Simmons, Sumner. Wilkinson
and WilsOn--20.
NAYs.--Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Davis,
Dixon, Doolittle, Hale, Harlan, Henderson,
King, Lane, Und.), Lane (Kansas), Pomeroy,
Powell, Sherman. Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade,
Wiley, Wilson (Mass.) and Wright--20.
The Vice President gave bis casting vote
in favor of the retention of the provision,
and it was, therefore, retained. The bill
then passed the Senate by ayes 81, nays q.
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The Military Force of the United
States.

The MILITARY Force OF the On1teu
States.
A revised edition of the official army reg
lister has just been issued. Its contents are
brought down to the latest dates. From the
tables contained in the pamphlet we collect
the following figures
REGULAR ARMY.
Commissioned officers. ................2,O0 900
Non.commssioned officers, blacksmiths.
WagonerS, &c.. .................... 1881
Privates. .............. ,361
Aggregate. ..................... 3S,273
Under the act of June II, 1850, /" to in.
crease the rank and file of the army" au.
thorizing the increase of the number of pri-
Yates to seventy-four in companies serv~
ing on the frontier, this aggregate will pro-
badly be increased to Al ,247, and may be
to 1898.
yOLUETESR ARMY.
Commissioned officers. ............... 10, S22
Non.commissioned officers, blacksmiths,
wagoners, artifcers, &c. ........... .lO2,35O
Priyates. ...................... .454,UoO
Aggregate. .................... ..ooo,zoz
Total regular and volunteer force 1896, 525
The general abstract of the militia force
of the United States, INCLUDING the rebel
States), according to the latest returns re-
ceived at the Office of the Adjutant Gener.
al, is as follows:
Commissioned officers. so, l64
Non, commissioned officers. privates,
&c. &c. ..................... LTD, 6O5
Total. ,2l4, 769
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-08
Gen. nIcDoweII,. Campnign.

The committee on the conduct of the war are
inquiring into the campaign of Gen. Mcdowell
to and from fredericksburg. Their attention
hiss been particularly given to the charges that
he has unwarrantably afforded protection to the
rebels in person and property. Several officers
of the army have been examined. Gen. Nc
D0well, as we are informed, claimed before the
committee, and undertook to prove, that some
Of his most obnoxious orders were issued in
strict compliance with directions from the War
Department, and that Others-among them that
quoted by Senator Wade in the course of his
speech on Wednesdsy-were justified by the
peculiar circumstance Of the case. Evidence
was also adduced tending to show that so far
from refusing to subsist his troops upon the en-
envy Gen. Mcdowell has pursued a course which
leaves the country through which his army has
marched a desert without grain, cattle, chick
ems, or fences, a few houses with their kitchen
gardens only remaining unmolested, and orders
to Gen. Shields setting out on his recent march
were produced directing him to forage upon the
enemy, and scrape the country clean if neees-
sary. We learn from other sources, entitled to
credit, that Gen. Mcdowell has appropriated to
the use Of his army large quantities of grain,
giving the rebels and semi-rebel owners a receipt
in peDcil-NelC York Tribune.
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DIME.
NORTHERN ITEMS.

Gen. Sigel has been appointed to, and accept
ed, the command Of the Fremont division Of
the Federal army.
The expulsion of Senator Simmons, for bribe-
ry, though well deserved, is not regarded pro-
bable, The Republicans are lacking in back
bone; but if they dom disown and expel Sim
mons, they viii deserve the reputation of shield
ing as rank a cOruptiOnist as has ever been
developed.
The Evansville (Ind) Journal says the wheat
crop in that region is pretty much harvested,
and the result is extremely gratifying to the
farmers. A better crop was, perhaps, never
voUchsafed to the tillers of the soil in that part
Of the State. The grass crop is also very fine.
The st. Louis Republican admits the defeat of
the Federal troops on James Island, near
Charleston, on the 10th ult, and says that it
q turns out to be far more serious, in the matter
of killed and wounded, than even the Southern
account represented"
The Federal War Department has been COM
PEELED to raise its bid for volunteers. A late or
der directs that out Of the appropriation for col
lecting, organizing and drilling volunteers, there
shall be paid in advance to each recruit for three
years, or during the war, the sum of twenty-five
dollars, being one-fourth of the amount of the
bounty allowed by law. Men who have to be
hired to fight need not be feared.
A Washington dispatch says that as many
questions are asked as to how the appointment
Of collectors and assessors under the Federal
tax bill viii be made. from what can be learned,
it is understood that the President will adopt
the principle pursued in the case Of postmssters
in the cities and large towns-generally, but
not in every instance, on the recommendation
Of members of Congress. The appointment Of
this swarm of new Office holders viii cause some
trouble.
1t is one of the singulsrities of history that
Johu Pope, who is now in command of the army
of Virginia, having overstepped three senior
major-generals at the age of forty years, was for
a long while a pupil of Gen. Shields, the latter
then a schoolmaster at Kaskaskia, Illinois.
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TIA

Died, Juy 4th, 1862 al her fathers residence. in Pa
nola county, Mississippi. Miss KATE LOVE- DICKIys.
agsl seventeen sears ard eleven months.
Another Ct earils fairslt flowers, in all the beauty
and freshn 81 Of its bloom, al this early age, has paid
the last sad dsbt o, Ea.Urs. A jewel among many
gems. she has gone to add new lus,er TO the celestial
throng above. When all Is darkness and gloon. a fez
Treasure has been torn from the tender embraces Of a
devoted father AID moth !, brothers and sisters, and
now rests in a premature grave.
Little did the writer think a short month $40. when
visited on a couch Of sick -ess, that this soon be would
be called upon to Pay tbs last houoz to her sacred
memory. But, slasi soft il. Ga g bright summers
eve ny own ears havs heard lie SOD rattle On her
grave, and ny own eyes have bsheld. with a heart fun
Of gloom and sorrow, her last resting place. Thou Oh
her sade.ing Wsg great and Eer death hard i2dssd. vet
the happy smile that played around her lips after her
spirit had taken its fight, gives comfort md assurance
Of her acceptance to s happier sphere. where the pure
and love'y sink gently to rest. The cod rssts lightly
upon her and peace Isigas with her usm5ry. While
tears Of anguish s1fel and heal the wounds her pres
saee no longer can save.
Farewell, dsar Kate I drop ihess hasiy words Co.
thy departed worth, while returning to ny post a. -
seat Of war bat I shall kEoE even MD battles 6sr ss;
array that Thy fair brow is garlSndsd with Brss. b Of
heavenly a5wers, szd thy soul bsskng in tie 50 aIeh
Of hszven. AFRF4ND
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MORE MEN,,

LINCOLN, we are told, is aboutto issue a call
tor 10000 more troops, a movement (which nstu-
rally eliciss the inquiry " what does it mean 2''
1t means that MCCLELLAN has been defeated
badly in The bsttle of Richmond; that LINCOLN
and his cabinet know it, and that they again
tremble with apprehension for the safety Of
Washington. 1t means that foreign mediation
IN this war, liable at any moment to result in
armed intervention, is imminent, and the silly
idea is entertained that q bogus and bullying ex-
hibidon Of national strength and resources on
the part Of the United States government viii
deter England and France from their firm resolve
upon interference.
Itmeans that the North is respondent of their
ability to succeed in this war, and that their
waning hopes and falling fortunes must needs be
bolstersd up BY mere pOmpous displays similar
10 the original proclamation calling for 5000
three months men 10 crush the rebellion.
It means that the Washington despotism is in
the very desperation Of despair, and, ike the
reckless black leg, plays its last card in a game
where nothing confronts It but bankruptcy, de-
feat and utter ruin. This is what LNCOLN's
Gail for more men means.
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THE NORTH AND MExICO.

CoRwIN's new treaty with Mexico, proposing
TO lend the JuAREz government 81 100000
out of the treasury Of the United States, has
been laid before the Senate by the President.
The only argument in its favor is, that by the
credit Of this government Mexico can pay her
debts to European nations, and thus do away
with any pretext for them to continue their in
reference in her domestic affairs. The St
Louis Republican thinks thst if the provisions Of
the treaty were carried out, it would prevent
dangerous combinations against the Monroe
doctrine This it adds, " in ordinary times
would deserve serious consideration but nOi7,
when 81, 600, 900 might break the camels back,
the Senate viii hardly ratify so expensive an
arrangement"
Another Northern writer from Washington, is
afraid Of the alliance, and doubts the good faith
Of the Mexican rulers. Mexico is a tough
customer, and, though he treaty offers her i'm
port duties as security for assistance, it might
hsppen We would have to thrash her into repay
Jag us-iust as France is now doing. Another
objection is that JUAREz might change his mind
in regard to tie use Of the money after he gets
hold Of it-as he has done repeatedly on other
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left him and are hiding in the recesses Of the
swamp. Squads of men, worn down with
fatigue and hunger, are coming forth hourly and
giving themselves up.
While the pursuit of the Yankee army has
been afoot between the James and the Chicka-
hominy, Gen. Stuart has gone as far as the
White House, on the Pamunkey, where he has
burnt seventeen of the enemy's transports and
taken immense plumber. Ordnance, quarter
master and commissary stores, small arms and
siege-guns, locomotive engines, newly arrived
from Massachusetts factories, and passenger
cars, a balloon and its apparatus for imitation, all
manner of Yankee goods for the Richmond
market, fruits of the tropics, and spices of the
orient, he has found aad captured in immense
abundance.
Whatever may be the result of to-day's and
to-monow's operations, we know enough now
to feel certain that it will be necessary for Lin
coin and Seward to organize a fresh grand army
for the reduction of Richmond. The former
parsonage made one of his characteristic speeches
the other day at jersey City, on his return from
West Point, Con the Hudson, not on the York;
in which he said that when animals and birds
are viewed through a fog, they cannot be seen
tc advantage" When Seward looks through
the fog of his brandy and water Through a glass
darkly) at the Gorilla, after hearing the news o
McClellan's discontinue, how viii that ANNA
then sppeaIl
Oar Richmond papers, which you receive
r II = ii 81 I'll ~ r IL
that 1 have not deemed it necessary to continue
my inquiries at the hospitals for your benefit.
The country will deplore the loss Of the gallant
Wheat, of Gnfiths, ever foremost in the fray
of Ruhin, so much esteemed in the old Congress
of the United States, and others conspicuous
for talent and herOism. Their memories viii be
kept green by a grateful pOsterity.
nVNrTTT
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LETTER FROM COLUuRUs.-wEm.
PHES MERCHANTS.
COLUMBUS, Miss Univ /

Miss, July l..
EDITORS APPEAL: As a Memphian. I respeet-
fully ask that you will, from time to time. pub.
Hsh the list of such merchants in Memphis AZ
have taken the oath Of allegiance to the. abol-
ton Lincoln government. In your issue of the
25th June, you allude to the list of such name,
published in the AUaLqRcke, and very properly
call it the q" black list" If the A5aIaurhs can
afford to blszOn these names to the world. and
enroll them as infamous, (though not meaning
this, J surely you should have no scruples about
giving such a list of traitors to your readers.
Your readers are Mississippisns, A~labamians.
Tennesseeans and Arkansians and although
your paper, st this junelure, may reach few AK
cept Mississippians, it is due to them that they
should know what merchants Of Memphis have
foresworn thereto. But little more than a year
ago, nearly every merchant there seemed DESTROYS
of manitssting his devotion to the South in the
most open name and when it was questioned
by some whether this or that firm had "ilumi-
mated on this or that occasion, the result was
the publication Of a card in the papers to show
that they were "al right"
Rumor here says that many Of our Msmphi-
ans have taken the cath in order to 60 into bus
ness again and that some started North fr
goods within a week after the Yankees got there.
The public need information upon this head.
The planters Of North Mississippi nave made
these traitOTOus wretches wealthy. They have
dealt with them for years and if thsse Tumors
about their taking the oath Of allegiance be true,
It should be known.
1 would suggest that the citizens Of each e0ur-
ty in North Mississippi should meet at their sew
eral pOstOfices, or, if deemed better, at their
county seats, and adopt resolutions that they
viii never trade with a Memphis merchant who
has taken the cath Of allegiance to the Lincoln
dynasty, and then appoint a committee to as
certain what merchants have done this.
Money being their god, as It was that Of Ju-
dss, this will be the most terrible blow that can
be struck at them. Let Us once get back 10
Memphis, and we shall settle with all such il a
most summary manner.
The Memphians here are elsted stthe success
Of our friends in Virginia, and they turn along-
ing eye to Memphis and Tennessee-saying to
escho other in the words Of the old song-"There'S
a good time coming, boys; wait a little longer
Do you think such traitors TO their own eOun-
try, home, kindred, and friends, would be suf-
fered to dwell in Yenkeedom if they were Tan
KEGS by BIRTH Motor an hour. Shall We su
fer them to flourish, and trade, and grow veal
thy again in the South, when peace returns
For myself, l frankly proclaim my wish to see
every such misery brute presented with a cost
Of tar and feathers, and q pass to Plymouth
Rock. HA1IDEE.
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The Next step.

The curtain has fallen tragically upon the sec
ond presentation of the Yankee drama, On to
Richmond The soil of the Peninsula has
drunk more deeply of the blood of the actors
than that Of Manassas. The loss of material oil
war, of life and military prestige on the battle
field, is augmented by the large risk and supe-
rior stake. The one was a fitting prelude-tbe
other a grand and disastrous deROWIRcRt. How
true and sound was the advice of the London
Times to the Yankee government, after its Sc.
ries of successes in the early Spring-that it
would never find a more fitting opportunity to
offer to treat for peace. That golden opportu-
nifty has passed, and the pride and chivalry of
the North flies before the svenging steel Of the
Southern men they dared to believe they could
make slaves of. Heaven what a battle-cry
was that with whicA the LIST Louisiana began
this great fight, Remember Orleans, boys,
and Butler and the beast" The memory of
Butler cost many a Hessian life on that long
field of rOut and slaughter.
Bat what next? Is the Confederate sword,
red with victory, to be shesthed nowl Is wait
ing and watching, in " mastery inactivity"
to be again the policy We hope Motive be-
lieve not. Now is the chance for President
Davis to break and vindicste the wisdom of his
mysterious reticence, and to pronounce the tails
manic word, " Onward We have strong hope
that he viii utter it, to the joy Of the COnfede-
rate people, and to his own honor aud fame.
Mobile EDeHiH0 Ne1cs.
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LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.


RICHMOND, July 7.-Nothing of interest has
transpired here to-day.
1t is reported that there was fighting to-day
between the Confederates and Yankees IN
Charles City county but nothing is known Of
the engagement, if any took place, at the Wa
Department.
The weather is extremely hot to-day.
Serious Railroad Accident.
ATLANTA, July An upward and a down
ward bound train collided, on yesterday, near
Johnscn's Station, on the Western and Atlantic
railroad. By the accident the engineer and fire
man, several other persons, and a number of sol
diers, were killed.
Later Particulars.
ATLANTA, July 7.-Psssengers report that the
casualties by the collision on the State road
were the engineer, fireman, and eight soldiers
killed, and thirty persons wounded.
Address of Presidents Davis TO the Army.
RICHMOND, July 8.-President Davis has is
sued the following cong1atulatory address to oul
victorious army in Eastern Virginia:
RICHMOND, July 5, 1862.
SOLDIERS 1 congratulate you On the series
of brilliant victories which, under the favor o.
Divine Providence, you have lately won, and as
the President of the Confederate States, 1 dc
heartily tender you the thanks of the country
whose just cause you have so skiIlfully and he
roicaIly saved.
Ten days ago an invading army, vastly supe
Tior TO you in numbers and materials of war
closely beleaguered your capital and w%antonly
proclaimed its speedy conquest. You marched
to attack the enemy in his intrenchments with
well directed movement and death daring valor
you charged upon him in his strong positions
drove him from field to field, over a distance o
more than thirty-fve miles, and despite his rein
f%orcements, compelled him to seek safety undel
cover of his gunbosts, where he now lies cover.
ing before the army he SC lately derided and
threatened with entire subiugation.
The fOrtitude with which you have borne the
tolls and privations-the gallantry with which
you have entered into each successive battle
must have been witnessed to be fully apprecia-
ted. But a grateful people will not fail to
recognize your deeds and bear you in loved re-
membrance.
Well may it be said of you, that you have
done enough for glory, but duty to a suffering
country, and to the cause of constitutional lib
erty, claims from yen yet further efforts. Let it
be your pride to relax in nothing which can pre-
mote your future efficiency, your one great OBJ
ject being to drive the invader from your soil,
carrying your standards beyond the outer bound
aries Of the Cenfederacy to wiring from an I'M
serupulous foe the recognition which is the birth
right of every independent community.
[Signedl JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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News from James island.

The Charleston Courier says that a Georgia
negro, who ran away from bis master and made
his way to the enemy at Hilton Head, having
experienced enough Yankee discipline, deserted
their camp on Monday evening, and came over
into our lines and delivered himself up to our
pickets, bringing with him a very fine horse be
longing to a colonel, and which he had been d.
rected to take to water.
lie represents the enemy as being very muck
dispiIited and disheartened since the fight of the
10Th. They represented that their loss, as known
among themselves, and brought off the field,
was $50 killed and wounded. This, with the
number buried by ourselves, and prisoners, well
and wounded, brings their loss fully up to nine
hundred and fifty killed, wounded and missing.
The pickets are 80 near to each other that they
can hold a conversation very easily. One of the
enemy'S pickets yesterday called out TO one of
our own: We are no abolitiOnists. 1t is a
shame that we should be killing one another. p"
Our picket made no reply, and the other took
himself away.
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PARTTSANS /,
To the Truly Brave and Gallant
Hississippiansl

VII receive thirty or forty more men into nv
4 compsny. promise you active and important ser
vice. This company has already caused ths snamv To
feel Its power, and what has been Done is but the be-
ginning Of ihs end Now that your own soil hss bssn
polluted by the presence Of tie enemy, viii YOU. can
you stay your hand from dealing the avenEinE stroke p
As an 3 stranger to you there can be no in proDriefy
IN ny calling your attentions to sn extract from an or
der ia { received from the Gersrsl commanding tba5
Army Of the Mississippi at Tupslo:
Your letter has been read with great satisfaction y.
the General commanding who instTucts me 70 say ma
ne entirely approves what yOu have done. q .
All your movements appear to have been CO.. iducteI
with energy and Judgment
IGls0 refer TO Morning Sun, snd the officers nod sol
diers OF the 57th Ohio regiment
Brigsd5erG Generals YillspigUe aud Thompson. the
C1mmsndsr Of the Pos AZ Grenada. CT tie Editors or
the Appeal, viii inform you Of my Whereabouts
Bring horse, saddle and bride, gun, blFnket and your-
self. What you do. do quickly.
ED, z. PORTER.
Captain Commanding. sac.
GrensdA Mississippi July 9th, 1862.
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