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DEATH Ok WHY D. ROBBINS, Eso.-This
gentleman, who died night before last from
the effects of coup d sOliel, leaves several little
children, who are now without father OF
mother, and are thus thrown upon the cold
charities of the world. Mr.. Robbins was an
industrious, high-minded, honorable and up
right man, and his untimely demise casts a
gloom over large circle Of friends and &C
ouaintances. He was a member of the city
police, and was walking along Causey street
when be received the fatal stroke, and died {
few minutes afterwards.
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Reading Matter on Every Page.

SELF DEsTRUCToN.-Mrs. Graham, who has
for some time past resided at Mrs. Stewards
boarding house, on Poplar street, east of Sec
ond, was frantic enough TO commit the I'M
pardonable sin Of self-destruction. Early
yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, we learn,
she administered to herself with her own
hands, seventeen grains of morphine, which
occasioned her death in a few hours thereaf-
ter. What the cause was, that prompted the
melancholy deed, we know not-most proba-
bly, will never know; yet we are sure that it
is no trifling wrong that will cause q woman,
in the prime of life, to resign all on earth, aud
even the hope of heaven. Perhaps there is
one whose guilty conscience will shake his
unmanly frame when he learns of the suici-
dal death of one whom he once promised to
cherish and protect, but who when he should
have chung to her closest, basely deserted and
left her among comparative strangers, far away
from the home of her childhood and friends.
Mrs. Graham was a native of Oswego, New
York, where she was married. Deceased was
about twenty three years Of age, highly educa-
ted, and possessed of more than ordinary beau
ty. Kind friends gave the poor unfortunate's
remains all the attention proper to decent
burial.
Esquire Richardson held an inquest, and re-
turned virdict in accordance with the above
facts.
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MEnPH1s, August 10, 1862.


The weather remains hot and dry-riyer
talling-business dull Most of the boats are
bringing in good Notwithstanding light.
The upper Miss 'ssippi is in bad condition
81 feet on the upper and feet on the lower
rapids. At st. Louis it is still declining with
6 feet northward to Keokuk and feet south
to Cairo.
The water Of the Missouri is deep enough
for steamers drawing four feet and over. 1t is
reported to be on stand.
The Illinois is falling, with IL feet water in
the channel from Lasalle to the mouth.
river, which is on a stand.
The Cumberland river continues low-less
than feet being found on the shoals.
The Missouri Democrat, of the 9th, says:
There will be found at the wharf this morn
ing the great steamer Hiawaths, one of the
most extensively improved boats ever seen
anywhere. It would not be possible to en-
nance any more the appearance of boat by
mechanical or other means. She is, in brief
parlance, "tip top" steamer. The Hiawatha
will go somewhere soon, and no doubt it will
be in the direction Of New Orleans.
The Kanawha is falling, with feet from
the Salines to the mouth.
For ST.. LoUIs.-The "huge" Belle Mem
phis, Capt. Sousley, viii depart on Monday
next, 1lth inst, at o'clock P. NJ. "1here is
room for everybody" She is differed by gen.
tlemen Of unqiestionable veracity and expert
ence. Persons desiring to go northward could
not better themselves by shipping on any
other craft afoat Messrs. r. L. McGhee &
Co, Bradley Block, are the agents of the
Memphis,
For LOUISVILLE AND CINCINNATI.-The
Lady Pike, Capt. Walker on deck, will depart
on Wednesday, 18th inst, at o'clock.
The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-10

THE army of the Potomac seems now TO be
ready to assume the offensive at least to linn
tied degree. The telegraph announces a re-
connoissaRce to Malvern Hill, New Market,
and White Oak Swamps. The reconn offering
parties were sent cut, two of which attacked
and routed the advance posts of the rebels,
drove them towards Richmond, and took q
hundred and thirty prisoners. The third
party, encountering two rebel brigades, was
compelled to fall back. The reconnaissance
carried within ten miles of Richmond, and
seems to have been in every way successful.
Malvern Hill is reoccupied, perhaps per-
manently. These dashes at the enemy will
give them something to think about, and may
serve to disconcert, in a measure, their plans
for formidable demonstration in the direc-
ton of Washington.-Csncinpati Courier,
Ann III.
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All ON Account of an Old Bachelor.

AAA On account OF An OAa . &C ne1Ors
Allow me here to make a remark that do
not think las been touched upon by anybody.
think this war was all brought about because
old Jimmy Buchanan was bachelor. If he
had been a married man, and the head of a
family, it would not have occurred. He would
never have let any of his boys come on and
steal his fowling-piece, his powder-horn and
hshlng-tackle and then 60 down to the creek
and steal his boat, then come back and steal
the old mans boots, and say nothing about it..
No, as the head of wel-regulated family, he
would have taken his walking stick in his hand
and cudgelled all the rascals until he broug ht
them into submission. But Jimmy did not
know anything about the responsibilities Of a
family, and so he let South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi, and Alabama, and Virginia, and the
rest, and Maryland as much as she could, come
in and carry off everything, until at last they
took his boots, and left the old fellow barefoot.
Laughter and cheers. But, thank God, the
head of the family was changed, and old Alb
raham, who was husband and father, got
in. He understood that he was the head Of a
large family, and that some of the boys wanted
thrashing very bad, and he has gone to work
in right good earnest. You will see, before
long, some of the sorest backs you ever did
see in the world. They have to be whipped
into submission to the rule of Uncle Sam, re-
presented just now by Abraham Lincoln
[CoI. Wna. F. Small, at the great PhstGgeLphia
acdr meeting.
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No PREACHING AT ODD FELLOWS HALL.
Rev. DR.. Grundy, instead of occupying Odd
Fellows hall, for preaching to-day by the
sanction Of Gen. Sherman, will fill the pulpit
of the Second Presbyterian church at 1o1
o'clock this morning. Many thanks are due
the committee appointed last Sabbath and es-
pecially to Mr. Ferguson, for the earnest, char
liable and unwearying spirit, in which lie en-
tered upon the duties before him. Should all
old differences be harmonized and the church
be firmly united again in the bonds of a holy
brotherhood, DR.. Grundy will have noble
career before him and reap an enduring re-
ward. He will have a full audience to hear
him to-day doubtless at 1O4 o'clock.
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TRADE OF NEW ORLEANs.-Duringl two
weeks of July the shipment of domestic sugars
from New Orleans to Northern ports of the
United States were over twelve thousand hogs
heads. This supply viii serve, in part, to
meet the wants of sugar consumers in our
cities. The trade between New Orleans and
foreign ports is beginning to revive. There
have been several clearances during the past
month from that city to Turks Island, and
Nassau, and other foreign ports.
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MONEY MAKING EXTRAORDINARY

MONEY MAKING EXTRAORDINARY.
EDITOR UNION APPEAL: Wall Street is
not proverbial for the honesty of its denizens,
nor is any commercial locality in metropolis
the best place to find men distinguished for the
purity Of their monetary morals. The present
banking institutions of Memphis are engaging
in certain pecuniary transactions that throw
the bulls and bears of New York far into the
shade. Sight drafts on the East, with proper
indorsers, are accepted at the desk of the
Union Bank, and credit given therefor, but
the payment to the holder is made, for the
face of the draft IN Tennessee funds only.
When we remember that the difference be-
tween Tennessee money and sight exchange is
upward of twenty-five per cent, it will readily
be seen that the banker has good margin
left for profit. Any small swindle on the part
of brokers might be temporarily borne with,
but twenty-five per cent is little too large
for human endurance. Cannot this evil be-
corrected. A VICTIM.
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Imnnrtnnt to sntIsrs.

Matthews machines for making pure Spark
ling Soda Water, for bottling or retailing
from the counter, are the most simple, make
the best article and cost less than any other
Plain printed instructions, for making the
Soda Water and delicious Syrups, go with the
machines. Send for illustrated catalogue, 1t
contains much that every Sutler should know.
Address "JoHN MATHEWS, Maker OF Sooa
Water Apparatus, Nos. 437 aAd 43s First
Avenue, New York. oheod.l
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EXCITEMENT ON THE PIGEON RoosT ROAD
vidual who drank to the success of inebriation,
and then scampered out on the Pigeon Boost
road, and fred pistol near somebody's resi-
donee, which had the effect of creating consid-
cradle alarm and confusion among the inmates,
was apprehended in his wild, sporting career,
conveyed to the halls of justice and fined in the
sum Of $40 for his amusement.
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A shrewd old rebel in New Orleans thus
excused himself for taking the oath of allegi-
ance "The oath af allegiance is like a con-
tract of marriage-it is binding only while
both parties live. Now, the Confederate gov
eminent, SO far as the city is concerned, is
stone dead, and therefore our contract with it is
at az end"
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ANOTHER New PAPER.-The Nelo Times
is the title of a German paper just started in
our city. We wish it much success. 1t is
published by our press, and is issued from this
Office. The first edition was not large enough
TO meet the demand. 1t bids fair to be a good
Union organ, and will doubtless be a great aid
TO our German population in this trying
crisis in our countrys history.
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HARPER's WEEKLY has picture of q cap
tain in the army, absent on furlough, calling
at the door of his adored" The negro SER
want replies to his question " Is Miss Eliza at
homer" in this peremptory manner: "No,
sar Miss ELIAS not to home, and, sar, she say
she won't be at home TO you till Richmond is
took. Mornin', sar'
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STEEP RHEToRIC.-George Francis Train,
who trundles the Londoners over his railways,
aud electriies them by his speeches, hits once
in while upon rhetoric, whose extravaganza
can be pardoned for the sake of its brilliancy.
In his 4th of July speech in London, speaking
of the readiness with which the first call to
arms was responded TO By the United States
he says: "The call was answered. The sOorld
rested moment upo1 its eSnter to gaze at the
multitude of bdyOnets that glistened in the sun
shine
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CooPER's restaurant, on Madison street, be-
tween Main and Second, still invites its old
patrons and gathers in new friends. The
tables are we'll loaded with almost every va
riety of food that can tempt or satiate the ap-
petite, and whether the Grahamite or Gour-
mond call, his palate can be suited, and at
moderate rates.
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Important Movements Ahead.

New YqeK, August Ga Washington
special to the New York Tribune says: 1t is
believed here that very important movements
are about to take place affecting the fortunes
of the campaign.
Gov. Morgan and Thurlow Weed arrived
this evening. The Governor says that New
Yorks quota of volunteers will be raised by
the end Of next week.
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LOOK To THE WELFARE OF Your TEETH.
The public will notice that our old friend, DR..
c. Chidsey, holds his professional hours in the
Ayres Building, Second street. opposite Court
Square, where he gives "aid and comfort" not
to the enemy, but to those whose condition re-
quires dental or surgical operations. See ad-
uartisamant
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No LIcENsE.-It ought to be universally
understood that, in order to transact business in
this city, the operator is required to have a
license for the same Itappears that w. Behr
and Il. Heff have been carrying on business
without procuring license for which they
were fined FIVE dollars each in yesterdays po-
lice court
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sHoorINo WITHIN THE CoRpoRAr1o,

SHOOTING WITHIN THE CoRPoRATIoN.-Not-
withstanding there is an ordinance against
shooting inside of the corporate limits, it is
frequently done, and the offenders are seldom
known. But negro slave named Sam en-
tirely failed tc elude the vigilance of the city
officers, after violating the ordinance, and was
taken before the recorder yesterday who fined
him FIVE dollars.
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OBSTRUCTION OF THE SIDEWALK CONTRARY
TO LAw.-We not unfrequently see our pave
ments INSTRUCTED in such manner as TO render
passage difficult. For this offense Jacob Zelle
was yesterday find to the tune of five dollars
and costs.
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Go TO GnBERTs next Monday morning at
10 o'clock, if you want to make it pay. A
house full of furniture, goods, chattels, etc,
all TO be closed out at auction. See advertise
ment in another column.
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WE have heard many things on which
topers contrive to get drunk, but of nothing so
strange as that in the case of James Quigley,
who, as reported, was convicted of having got
drunk on the testimony of two police officers.
They must have had very strong breaths.
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Memphis Bank Note List.
revised and Corrected by E. NJ Avery Cashier Of the
Gayoso Savings Institute.

The notes of the banks of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana pass freely as currency"
and about loz per cent. discount for Tennessee
bank notes.
The interior banks of the State, viz Bank of Middle
Tennessee, Bank of Nashville, Merchants Bank of
Nashville, shelbyyille Bank Traders Bank, &C. sc.
discount below Memphis city money.
Gold, over Treasury to Is prem
Gold, Tennessee money .S5 to 40 prem
Exchange on the Northern aad Eastern cities scarce
and rates quite irregular.
The demand for U. s. Treasury notes, generally
called green-baeks, is very lively, and the supply
limited.
All up country money in good credit at home is
bought by brokers at 90 to Is per cent premium
over Tennessee money.
On of the mpossibility Of making exchanges
with the hanks of South Carolina Georgia, Alabama
Ac the of these banks not all convert
able into Tennessee funds even rates. Southern
money, just now, drags heavily.
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For Sale.
LIGHT ARTILLERY
RALLY to the SUPPORT Of Your COUNTRY,
YOUR SERVICES ARE NEEDED.

TyHE second company of artillery for the State Of Ten
Dessee is now being raised the Irving Block be
mustered into service Nashville Tennessee The first
company raised hers by me have shown themselves al
ready good In prosecuting the labor in sustaining the
reputation of Tennessee, and the old flag Rise men,
Us have another battery Great Inducements
offered.
Apply the Irving Block, Second street, between
Court and Jefferson.
RICHARD LAMpE,
angs-tf LIST Lieut.. First Tennessee Battery.
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Communicated.I

CommunieatedI
Mr.. Editor-I notice little editorial in your
issue of August s, under the head of Medical
Director" which very much excites my curl
osity, and l wish to ssk you who should
know everythingl one or two questions about
it. take it for granted that DR.. Holston,
who Is mentioned, is medical director, although
that does not appear frcm the article. As
medical director and staff officer of a major
general commanding, would it be digniied for
him to succeed an inferior officer? for such is
post surgeon. Is there such an officer known
as post medical director if so when were
they created and by whose authority? IfDr.
Dlckon was post surgeon-or as you have it
post medical director-was it not his duty, and
not the medical directors, to see that patients
were well cared for in his hospital Another
thing, Mr.. Editor, did the "hospltal regula-
tions for the district of West Tennessee" gen
eral orders one and three, advertised on July
(, derive their curative agency from being
printed on that day, or had they some hidden
abracadabra medical power Inherent in them
selves ? Just another thing, Mr.. Editor, I
have puzzled myself very much over the last
sentence of that editorial effort, and am yet
very much in the dark as TO its meaning. 1t
must have a meaning of course, and some
times seem to have grasped it but immedi-
ately it flies from me like the shadoway inns
ges of dream. Mr.. Editor / call on you for
help, particularly do l want to know what
those anxiliaries are that work tojone's hand so
conveniently and do such wonders. 1 want
about dozen of them out here among the sick,
because we are compelled to stay in tents, and
cannot go to general hospital If they take at
all the form of big chunks of ice, don't wait
for special order but send them on immedi-
ately, and you will merit and receive the graft
tude of Ibis collapsed and wilted MEDIcUs.
Communicated
MEMPHIS, TENN, Aug. 9, 1862.
Editor Union appeal:
SIR:-I send you a solution and the answer
to the algebraic problem by w. B. St. John,
which appeared in your issue of the Sth inst.
Since the length is to the breadth as 8 is to
5, let sr-length and 5r-breadth in rods, then
will srx5T-contents in acres.
leo
And by the second condition, sr=price per
acre. Hence 8rx5r value of the whole
-x8T-
100
The third and last condition gives the fol-
lowing quadratic equation:
SEx5r
-xsr-23sr
l60
This equation reduced gives:
G-l6s or r-13 by evolution.
s1-lO4=length of field in rods.
Or 66-breadth.
Number of acres....424 Price per acre.. $40
Value of the whole farm 1874
LIEUT.. Brown,
Co. A, 10th Ohio Reg.
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Information Wanted.

rF BYRON BALDWIN will call at this Office or at
The 46th Illinois regiment, Company H., to Lisn-
tenant W. NJ Henric, he viii ind something to htsin.
tersss. eAA0 ~
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Go AND see Sam, corner of Madison
and Second streets-early Monday morning.
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RIVER AND srEAmBoAr NEWS.

DEPARTURES YESTERDAY.
Mcdowell. GreenleaG Louis
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AFFAIRS.

Advertise In-having the Largest CIR
cuisttOn of any paper Issued in this city.
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EEREcoRDER's CoURT-Number of cases tried
yesterday, "a collections, sos.
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Attachment Notice.

W. Saint, Attachment before O. A. Mallory.
VS.. J. p, for Shelby County, state Of
NHE defendant is hereby notified appear tefore O. A.
Mallory bis Office in the City of Memphis, on the
9th day of September D. 1862 and plead, answer,
demur to ga attachment, or Judgment by default viii
ang 81 m c. A. MALLORY, up.
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Ferry Notice.

WILL make three trips per day from this date from
Il Memphis by Hopehsld to Mound City. Leave Men,
phis at ia the forenoon, II n. and Leave Mound
city at and A. NJ, Pm. Mound City, at present. is
elegant place to catch nsh, and that, too, without
danger difficulty.
ang3-Im Il. CHEEK, Agent
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MEMPHIS WHOLESALE MARKET.
DAnr USrox AFrEAr oyrIcE /

, 4
Revised daily for the UNION APPKAL by l. d.
ConsRay l. Co., wholesale and retail grocer, No 4
Madison street between Main street and Front Row.
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saint Louis.

Two OF the oldest and best Pilots on that River Lloyds
Gret Map Of the Mississippi River every bend in
the River every Island, every saRd-bar every Landing
aud Wood Yard every Town, City, Bluff Sugar aud Cot
Ton Pantaon, and the names of the owners marked in
them The Channel of the River, marked accurately by
TWO OF the oldest and most experienced Pilots
great River Lloyd's Great Msp of the Mississippi
River, also
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-04-08
From Eoueoun County.
n the Eaitors OF the ENQUIRER

10 tS EG1toFs ~ Gbe enquirer
GENTLEMEN IL desire to correct some false
rumors in regard to Loudoun county. ] have
Just heard from there, and can speak with con.
tdence.. The Yankees have taken possession
Of the churches, Jail, court house, bank, clerks
Office, &c. They have arrested a number OF
the citizens Of Lsesburg, sill Of whom refused
to take the ostc Except two or three obscure
and ~illirerate DUES failing in this. th:JJ we're
all released but enc, Mr.. Eden Fouch. who
fought so CALAMITY in tue bs.t /. Leesbu-g.
who was sent to Harpers Ferry, and there
made to work with negroes TO q wagon, in
hau sssGa s tt89ggss S1uurnsAaf ts E,M SoFI oos.. III, They a slss
arrested Rev. Mi. Smith for reading hat pas
sage of. scripture which says the North Snail
10 driven back. he was likewise released
They contracted a forced bill ct the Pickett
House Of $500, and one at Oxley's Mill f$l, Gvv,
and then ~repudisted them They have stolen
a good many teams and other property, AMI
tave impressed rooms and meals 10 private
lonses and tried to force themselves on the
e~.izeDs, but al to no purpose. The people
would not even walk under the Federal flag,
pad Then.i II was stretched across the street,
t.y rc!k<d arou.-d the square! Glorious
people worthy Limitation. Col Gsary was
''0.de IN feel" IS he said, ''::hal be was IN a.
~euemy's country. aud he should extend n3iu-
Ing n =. ci,iz sos except upao che score of hu-
iaanisy." The Town was hlied with negroes
who .stnrn"d Win sts Yankees, aud whom
they uphold in their iaso,euc. and swagger-
Ing about The streets. They have also broken
open several siores and robbed them, but have
not outraged nor injured bodily anybody.
Two companies still occupy the town the
rest have left the county for Winchester.
A REYCsEE.