Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-30
LRTTER rRom REOHnoNp.
RICHMOND, August %, 1862.

Of Richardson and Louis Napoleon, was hanged
here yesterday for tho high crime Of circulating
counterfeit money of the Confederate States.
The hanged man broke into the photographic es-
Enlistment of Hoyer 81 Ludwig SEINE months
ago, and stole a quantity of blank Confederate
notes, which his accomplics and brothsr-burglar
printed from the stone while he kept watch on
the stairway. These notes the two scoundrels
distributed largely through the city. AT last
Louis Napoleon and George Elan found them
selves under arrest for one Of the gravest crimes
known TO our law. Louis was convicted and
sentenced, Elan still awaits his trial. It is
doubtful whether the poor ignorant Italisn was
aware Of the full turpitude Of his )offense, but
this is Of no Importance now, seeing that he is
very dead and the law has been indicated, as
wss right and proper, Elan, who certainly did
know what he was doing, should suffer the same
penalty, aud probably will.
The enormous number Of counterfeit bills of
the Confederate Treasury in circulation at this
moment is well calculated to annoy Mr.. Mem.
minger greatly, and unless measures are prompt
~ taken to remedy tho evil, it must seriously
gfljct all classes Of society. Last week a gem
tlemen arrived in Richmond with several hun
dsed dollars of counterfeit Confederate money,
which had been paid him in good faith by a
Georgia bank from its counter. II is remarkable
with regard to these issues that the false notes
are only to be distinguished from the true by
the superior style of their execution. So abom-
inabe has been the photography of both the es-
tasishments engaged in doing work for tho
government, that it was next to impossible 10
get up an imitation Of the plates which should
not be superior to the original, and the bad bills
accordingly show a e~learness and sharpness Of
impression and outline entirely wanting in the
genuine issues of the Treasury Department.
Even the vile Yankee copies Of Five1 and Tens,
gotten up at slight expense in the third-class
workshops of Philadelphia and New York, some
Of them mere wood engravings, were as credit
able specimens of art as our legitimate paper
money. 1t was a mistaken economy in The Sec
rotary 10 contract, in the first instance, for any
more impressions Of the Autographs than were
absolutely necessary to put the machinery Of
government into operation, and these should
have been replaced as speedily as possible by
notes struck from steel-plates, of which the
Southern Bank Note Company of New Orleans
and Msssrs. Keatinge & Ball, formerly of this
city, now OF Columbia, South Carolina, had
furnished good specimens. You will be graft
fed to learn, I I'm sure, that an order has been
issued for the prompt return of all the Litho-
graphic Twenty's, FTfy's and Hundreds, to the
end that the public may be protected against the
further currency of the false notes of those dan
gerous denominations.
The whereabouts of Mcclellan and the rem
nant Of his grand army no one here yet knows
with certainty. The latest report is that they
have gone to Washington to recruit health and
strength so terribly shaken at that fine situation
IS a base of future Decentralization Land
ing. 4 letter was received in Richmond yester-
day from one of the ladies of the family at
We8.Over, which throws soma light upon tie
recent movements Of the young Napoleon. A
day or two previous to his departure he made 4
visit to the Westover mansion, and
to know if the sickly season in tide
Virginia might not be considered as over.
reply was that the sickly season proper
lie season Of sore and deadly malaia-was
generally considered IS beginning on the first
Of September and terminating only with frost
. Great Hesyensr ~ cried the despairing general,
l have already loss one hundred thousand men
N this peninsula, and my camp is filed with
Very shortly after this Encouraging
disclosure of the September climate of Harri-
On's Landing, the entire force of 10000 men
vas removed or marched away. The letter
vent on to say that the whole neighborhood of
Berkeley and Westover was one yast Potter's
7ield, where the dead of the Yankee camp had
'een buried in such numbers, and so hurriedly,
hat It was necessary to keep the doors and wiz
Of the houses closed as a protection
gsiust the intolerable stencil which filled the
II. The families living near by will all be !
ompelled to leave the river in consequence,
OF will they be able to return till the work of S
ecOmposition has been fully accomplished and !
he sharp nights Of December have purified the
mOsphere.
Refugees continue to arrive from Maryland. i
hey give US some information Of the manner in
hieh it is proposed to manage the draft of the 0
in Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee. =
assured that if whole regiments were r
gained il those States, not one in ten of them e
'uld be trusted in the vicinity of a Confederate
imp, Lincoln does not propose to risk such
CARNATIONS, but viii order squads of ten, IF !;
en- and twenty men, as soon as drafted, to be h
owed across theNborder into Pennsylvania, g
hio and Indiana, there to be worked up into q
ge new Yankee regiments and made serviceable !.
? contact with, and under the eye Of, more a.
troops. Lincoln borrows his tactics from fl
he of the Oldest and strongest despotisms of u
urope, the empire of Austria, which has long \
zen accustomed to mix up the Greats with the n
and The rebellioUs Venetian levies with tt
e eonscripts Of the Danube. v
a caissOn exploded to-day, a few mintes before #
P NJ, on 9TH street, on its way from the Con- it
derate arsenal to the Central railroad depot, to
veTeIy wOunding the driver and ~iDjuring, with
G fragments a shell, an old lady who lived in a te
ighboring house. The noise of the explosion til
IS heard for miles. The houses on both sides al
the street bore abundant marks CT the fearful y,
of the shock, and the only wonder is Al
st such a thing could occur upon an open II
oroughfaTe at that hour Of the day, without a
ing greater damage. The cause of the acct a. q.
Mt was said to be the falling of a percussion la
ell cut of the caisson upon the pavement. So
You viii observe with satisfaction the publ "
tion Of order No. 60, from the office of the sd- -
.s%nt-general, declaring Generals Hunter and ot
lelps, and the officers of their respective com.
lnds, are to be regarded as outlaws, and. if To
Ken prisoner, will be executed as felons. So
lch for the raising of negro brigades. an
There was nothing Of special interest in either M,
Duse of Congress to-day. DIXIE. tir
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