Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-15
800 FRom RlgHMoNp.
Special Cerrssponaence Of the Appeel1
RICHMOND, September 8, 1862.

test, is a very pious msu, and avoids Sunda
travelling as a matter Of religious. principle
That he should go of, therefore, on The hol
Sabbath, implies that something had occurre
since Friday, calling fer his immediate persona
attention in another quarter. What was thi
something No one pretends to know, but h
went toward Manassas, and this has given rs
to numberIess speculations concerning the OBJ
ject Of his journey.
The President was accompanied by ex-Gover
nor Lowe Of Maryland, and. the motive of TIT
latter g~entlemAn's departure seems to be pretty
well understood. Our armies having either &C
tuslIy entered Maryland according to the pre-
vailing report that the columns Of jackson
Longstreet and A. P. Hill crossed the Potom2i
On Thursday last at Edwards Ferry or being
about to do SO, its the purpose Of the secession.
lists of that State to organize, under their protec
ton, a provisional government, with Governo
Lowe as its head, and tbus to conclude a con
Yention for the admission Of Maryland into the
Confederate States, whereupon cur generals
shall proceed to drive the Yankees beyond the
Susquehannah. If this expulsion successfully
accomplished shall necessitate the abandonment
of Washington by Lincoln and his Cabinet, verJ
well but should the tyrants dare 20 remain il
the Federal capital after Maryland has been re
deemed, they win be holder men than they are
generally considered.
This purpose of placing Maryland within the
political association of the Confederate States is
believed here to be the reason for Gov. loves
visit n~orthwards, but it does not account for the
sudden excursion of the President in that direc-
ton. He must nave been advised Of it in ad-
vance, and could have gone on Saturday, if, in
deed, it was desired, as is improbable, that he
should be present while the organization Of the
new State government of Maryland was going
on. We shall probably know the why and
wherefore in a few days.
A question has arisen upon the lines at Ma
nsssas, Of a very interesting sort as regards the
negro. Permission having been asked by Pope
and granted by General Lee, for a force to en-
ter our lines to bury the numerous dead of the
Yankee army upon the field of Manassas, the
Yankee general sent a thousand blacks under a
white fag-these blacks being the stolen pro-
pMty of Virginia owners. As such they were
detained By General Lee, to be returned to their
original masters or sent back to Pope, sS our
government should decide to be the proper
course. On the one hand, there is to be con
sidered the inviOlable nature Of a flag Of truce,
which, however often and shamefully disregard
ed by the enemy, we must hold sacred as a mat
ter of self-respect. On the other, there is the
well settled rule of law and society that a man
has a right to reclaim his stolen property where
ever he can lay his hands upon Il, and the addi-
tional consideration that the ssnctity Of the Gag
of truce was violated by the Yankee general him
self in using it to insult the Confederate States.
There is an implied obligation on the part Of
a ~beIigeTent employing a white flag that he viii
not give It's protection to any mean srtiice, or
continuance Of harm or outrage to the beligerent
receiving it. BY doing SO, he foIfsits any claim
upon the courtesy OF the other party, and is
estopped from complaining that the conduct Of
the other party is not concerned to the strict
usage Of enlightened nations concerning flags
Of truce. The sending negro slaves, who had
been enticed away or carried of by force from
their masters, to bury the Yankee dead in the
battle of the 3Oth august, was at once an insult
to the Southern people, and ~sningeniOUs method
Of attack upon slavery, as holding out 10 the
negroes still remaining upon Southern
the assurance that once within the
lines, the authority of the slave owner
could not touch them further. 1t would seem,
therefore, clear enough that the negroes arrested
by General Lee should be at once sent South,
and the Yankee generals advised that such dis
position shall be made in future Of all slaves
similarly introduced into our encampments IN
der the white Tag.
General Lee has met with an accident, slight
n itself but important in its depriving him for
some days of the command of his horse. The
of bis bridl5-hand were sprained, two of
hem, causing the general some pain, bat giving
to no uneasiness concerning the recovery of
the use of the hand in 2 week or ten days
General Joseph E. Johnston was at church
yesterday, looking marvellously well. There is
rumor that he viii be sent to take command of
army in a few days. merely give you
he rumOr without comment as to its probability.
Since the fight Of McClellan's forces from
James river, the Yankees in the Peninsula have
given loose to the full ~malignity and fendish-
Of their natures. In Williamsburg, where
hey had been restrained by the forbesrsnce and
ysatlemanly conduct Of the military governor,
Colonel Campbell, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
hey have broken out into numberless acts of
and rufianism. Among orher atroci-
they fired the record Office of James City
county court, thus laying in ashes the docu-
nentsry history of the county for more than two
years, contained in manuscripts which
,aa never be replaced Such vandalism is
worthy of a people who boast their many seats
# lesrning aud their respect for antiquity.
earn that a large mass Of inedited papers Of the
ases J udge Beverly Tucker, of Williamsburg,
Of the Partisan Leader which had
,een sent to the clerks Office for preservation,
we're destroyed by this incediarism.
The first number OF the Southern illustrated
Ve,os, a new weekly journal of literature and
AiAAAD AG nHRCNAGAAAO va 0N-AAAAy 4A1 |
,aper is'good, the printing veryfair, the literary
respectable and promising, but the
ingle illustration, a portrait Of S.Onewal jack
on, is ridiculous in the extreme. As an engrav
ny it is wretched enough, aud it looks about as
much Ike General Jackson as it does like Pope
'io Mono or Lord Pslmerston. The proprietors
re men of means and energy, however, aud
nay yet make the journal wOrthy'of the larges!
patronage.
The weather is hot and dry, and SO is Con-
yress. DIXIE.
GENERAL LEES INJURIEs-The enemy
published a statement that General Lee was
.mong the wounded in the late battles. The
.ccident occurred several days subsequent to
he conflict. He was holding his horse, when
10 became frightened and jerking suddenly,
brew him to the ground, breaking one of the
zones in his left hand, and sPraining the right
vrist. His injuries are painful, though not Sc