Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-10

there will of course be an ~effectusl stOppage Of
all military operations for three months. The
Potomac will be closed with ice after three days
and nights of the present temperature and the
Burnside fleet may seek another quarter than
Evansport for its offensive demonstration.
Should the residue of January prove as cold as
the last three days, the Yankees will be driven
out of Western Virginia by the sheer impossi-
bility of existing there. Gen. Jackson's move
ment upon Romney, concerning which we have
been in hourly expectation of hearing something
decisive since yesterday, has very probably been
interrupted by the sudden blast of winter. The
passengers from Manassas, who arrived in town
last night, reported a heavy fall Of snow as near
us as C~ulpepper Court House, and this would in
dictate that in the high region of Hampshire,
more than two degrees further north, there has
been a severe storm.
The flags have been at half mast on the
treasury building and the capitol to-day in con-
sequence of the death of the Hon. Judge Hemp
hill, a member of the provisional Congress from
Texas. This gentleman was a Senator in the
last Congress of the United States, the colleague
of Mr.. Wigfall, and has served in the legislature
of the Confederate States since its first organiza-
ton at Montgomery. He was a man of great
private worth, of rare amenity of manners, and
of remarkable research. His illness has been of
short duration and his decease was unexpected
to the public. He died of pneumonia.
Another telegram was received at headquar-
ters this morning from Gen. Magruder, asking
for an immediate call out of the entire militia
force in the Peninsula and the counties adjein-
ing. The supposition is that the general has
good reason to apprehend an immediate attack
by the enemy from Newport News. He has,
however, created 4 sensation so often by his de-
mands upon Gov. Letcher and the War Depart
ment for immediate Telnforcements, that but lit
tie Importance is attached to his kilograms by
the public, though there is danger that the
" wolf" may come at last.
We hear from the Pierpont dynasty at Wheel
ing that the bogus Virginia convention recently
in session in that town, has resorted to a measure
of punishment against secessionists which i
without a parallel in the history of legislation
An ordinance has been adopted divorcing all ref
ugee husbands from their wives and all refugees
wives from their husbands, declaring that no citi
zen of Virginia and no one claiming the prOtec
ton of Virginia can remain united in lawful mat
rimOny to a citizen of PierpoRt's commonwealth
but that ipsO SactO flight from Lincoln's despot
ism and P%ierpOnt's petty tyranny dissolves tn
the marriage tie, operates a divorce a UineEhC
The next step, of course, will be to bastardize tn
children and fill the Pan Handle with illegiti
mates, AS far as this fareical attempt to unsettl
l the hottest relations of life can effect those VIII
have fled from the oppression of the Fedora
government to the freedom of the Old Dominion
the ordinance might as well never have bee
Z written, but a more dangerous act of legislatiO
3 for the welfare of PierpOnt's pauper State eoul
not have been devised. There is the stronges
D probability that hundreds Ofhusbands and wive
: maLqssOrti will seek a refuge from their helI
i mates in secessia and that Wheeling will ere lon
! be ~depopulated.
a A course Of lectures for the benefit Of the 70
1 unteers is importation in this city to commend
on Thursday of next week or the week succeed
ing. The lecturers engaged are the Hon. J. 1
D NJ. Curry, of Alabama, DR.. A. Snowden Pigot
I of Maryland, Oliver P. Baldwin, Esq, editor
the Richmond Dispatch, Hon. A. T.. Bledso,
Assistant Secretary Of War, Hon. Henry "
billiard, Ex-President Tyler and others. Wit
such names there can be little doubt of the entl
+ success of the enterprise.
n Lieutenant Charles Carroll SimGls, of ii
: Confederate States navy, was in town yesterda,
He was on board the Sea Bird in the recent dasl
S ing little engagement with the steamer Expret
and the Federal gunboats in Hampton Road
The Schooner Sherwood, taken and carried I'M
s Norfolk, proved to be a water transport and WI
q proceeding with its regular supply of drinkir
water 10 Fortress Mon7oe, ahieh was thus Ct
J off. The Sea Bird went up under the very gun
e of the fort. DIXIE.