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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-15
BUSTAMENI
mEmPHIs INTELLKGRNCE.

Oar newspaper dates from Memphis are as
late as the 18th. We fud in the organ of the
Federal rulers, that the city government has
been organized under the new regime. This
has only been accomplished after a number Of
sessions, which shows the difficulty the Union
lists had in finding men abandoned enough, po-
Htieally. to accept even profitable and honorable
offices under the submission regulations pre-
scribed by the armed minions of the Lincoln
government. A number of gentlemen of worth
were elected to the aldermanic vacancies, during
the various sessions, without their consent, who
declined. Among the rest was Mr.. WILLIAM
ROssELLE, late local and commercial reporter
of this paper, whose card declining the p~roffered
honor % we find in the journal above named.
He says
Editor Union Appeal:
SIR viii you please correct an error in your
report Of Tuesday nights council proceedings 2
1 did not take my seat and oath of office after
being elected alderman for the sixth ward.
While feeling grateful for the honor conferred
upon me, and thanking the gentlemen who ia
vored me with their votes, prefer, as l always
have done, the unobtrusiveness Of private life
to the cares of office. It is also my opinion that
one whose duty it may be to have to report the
proceedings of council for the press, is better
u%nconnected with it, as some guarantee of his
impartislity. Respectfully,
July II, 1862. VIM. ROssELLE.
Enough subservient tools were, however
finally found to fill the different positions neces-
sary to set the wheels of the city government in
motion. The infamous roll is complete. Few
as arc the names composing it, they will be re-
membered with detestation by the thousands of
brave men they encouraged, in every possible
manner, to take the field and battle for the cause
which is now deserted by the score of truckers
and towards at home.
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Reading Love Letters from the Yankee
Lind.

During the engagement in front Of Richmond.
on Friday evening last. Gen. Lee, accompanied
by his staff, came upon a deserted camp on the
field, from which the Yankees had Just been
driven. A large number Of Yankee knapsacks
were piled up and streWed around, and amidst
them, ins reonmbent posture, with his boots
magniicently elevated, was discovered a stall
wait Confederate soldier, reading a letter taken
from a mass of similar documents which the
knspsscks contained a numerous grin was
playing over his features when the general and
his stan came up. What are yen doing here
General Lee inquired Resding-dOn't You
see D. replied the soldier, scarcely observing
them. The general deeming his easy manner
and safe position by no means becoming q Con
tederate soldier, when the roaring Of the battle
was laundering around, informed the literary
hero who he was, which caused him to jump up
about three feet from the ground, scared half -
death, and commenced bowling, blushing and
a~pologizlng in the most amusing style imagina-
bic. The general then asked him what be was
delng there, to which he answered. that he was
placed in charge of the knapsacks but when
asked who placed him there, he was covered
with confusion, and finally stammered out that
ne didn't know the officers name He was
then ordered to take care Of the useful things.
not mind reading the the letters, and report To
the hrst qusTtermaster, after which he would
reloin his regiment as speedily as possible.
Richmond EHqUirer.
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From YicIkahuro.

Special to the St. Louis Republican,
CAIRO, July 8-No mail from the Asst. La
test arrivals state the canal nearly finished. and
water was probably let in on Sunday. Vicks.
burg is now occupied by 900 rebels under Van
Dorm.
LATER.-The bombardment of Yicksburo
continues, and but little damage has yet beer
dene. The canal will not be completed for a
week yet.
The steamer Sunshine has just arrived from
VickkbuTg. She left that town on ths Sd.
The bombardment still continued.
The town is deserted, except by the military.
The town could easily be taken, but we have
moi force enough to hold il.
The work on the esnal is progressing. Four
thousand men are employed.
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with which they cling to a presumptuous hope.
Ga the day when the battle was set in motion
that put to fight the Federal army around Rich
mond, several of their officers were discussing
the nature Of the operations in the Valley. One
Of them was expatiatiDg lsarnedly upon the
predicament in which Jackson was supposed
certainly to be, a d was engaged in making a
diagram on the smooth earth in the yard Of one
ofthe farm houses in which they were qusEtered,
and, suiting the action to the word, was
demonstrating that " here was Jackson, " there
was Fremont % " here, again was Shields, . and
81 there was the army Of Mcdowell" - and 4" con
sequently, It was impossible for Jackson to
make his escape Before the sanguine officer
had ceased the disquisition, the roar Of Jack
sons artillery began to be heard, and a ball
came pounding away into the very house before
which they were standing. Ths battle com
menced, the defeat succeeded, and among the
the prisoners brought in by the invincibie old
herO's troops, was the identical officer who had
convinced himself and was convincing those
around him, that he was not within a hundred
mile Of the place.
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From Washington,

From tue Cincinnati Commercial
W~AsHINGTON, July 5.-In the Senate to-day.
repeated attempts to find s quorum failed. Some
Senators had gone home, and some were sick.
Nothing could be done but adjourn.
In the House, Hunters letter on the negro
regiments, stirred up @ highly exciting debate.
Gov. Wieklitfe and Thaddeus Stevens were the
chief speakers. Wickliffe denounced Hunter.
ana lnYelghed against the savageness OF negro
warfare. Stevens avOwed himself for iamedj-
ate srming and d~isciplining at least a hundred
thousand negroes. He would put them in the
front of battle, and he wanted no mora of bis
kindred countrymen called to lay down their
lives in this war until the rebels have been
stripped Of their sinsws Of war.
Gen Hunter hsd done that which. if this Ad-
ministrstiOn rsbuked him for doing, they would
deserve to be driven from power. Stevens
speech was an intensely radical and r~esolute one
IL excited Mallory to az intensely high degree,
who declared, among other things, that Sscre-
taTy Stanton had told him that lie would have
nothing to DO with arming the negroes, and had
ordered the arrest Of any officer who asked
leave to raise a regiment Of conuabands. Rich.
ardson, OF Illinois, demanded why then was not
Hunter anested3
Inc prospects Of adjournment next week are
now no better than ever. Members are Of the
OPINION that little more can be done by Congress,
- - 0Ei AoohlvlaoAJt 4uGf LQluk LQ6V can
bs OF more service 10 the war ia the present
Juncturs among their constituents than here.
About one thousand wounded soldiers arrived
yesterday and to-day, and are ahundl ntly pro.
Vl1ed for in one church and tie hospitals. The
continued cold weather is a crest blessing 10
the sufferers. A maeh better feeling now pre-
walls than has existed for several days. The
herolsIR and still determination and spirit Of the
Wo0uded volunteers is above ell praise.
WAsHINGroE, July 6.-The stupid dispatch
stst;ng teat all the army correspondents had
akedaddled from NcClelan's army. is the falsii-
eaton CT 3 mean fellow who wss manifestly
Sunday has been The first really ho. day Of the
season-thsrmometor 90 in the shade.
John Bshrens, company i, 5.h Ohio regiment.
died in hOspitsl yesterday.
The largest portion Of the wounded from Nc.
Clellan's army are doing well.
R5habls intelligence from Gen. Halleek's army
represents that the reports of Beuregard's force
reaching Richmond, are entirely unfounded.
Latest from officers in McClellan's army rep
resent all quiet yesterday. The rebels, By their
failure for four days to renew the attack, indi.
cate the strength Of the position now opposed
to them. SIGMA.
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Internal Duties Proposed on Domestic
Sugars.


Secretary Chase, being anxious to ill up his
treasury, has recently addressed the following
letter to the chairman Of the committee of ways
and means
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, june 20.-Sir -
l am reliably informed that the sugar crop of
last year was 100000 hhds Of 100 lbs. each.
This is said to be $4,000 hhds. more than the
crop of sny previous year. OF this crop there
were in New Orleans, when taken by our
troops, say $4,000 hhds., chiefly held by for
eigners and there yet remains on plantations,
say 220, 1000 hhds, equivalent 10 all to, say $50
tons.
1t is thought by gentlemen conversant with
the trade, that this quantity will nearly if not
quite supply the wants of the country until the
new crops will be ready for market next fall.
Shipments TO northern ports are already begun.
These facts suggest the expediency of such in
ternal duties on domestic sugars as are neces-
sary to secure the revenue expected for the sx-
port duty on foreign. The importance of this
subject and the necessity of proper legislation,
if not already embraced in the tax bill, will
doubtless engage the attention Of the committee
on ways and means.
Yours, s. p. CHASE,
Secretary of the Traasurv
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The Resistance M VfcksburK,


The river correspondence Ct the ST. LOpis
Republican, who accompanied the Federal feet
to Vicksburg, gives the following paragraph as
the result of his first observations at that point:
Just below, the splendid mortar feet of Com
mOdOre Porter had commenced playing, and a
shower of missels fell into and around the
doomed city. Buildings were scattered, Gnd
soldiers and citizens fed hastily away. The
morning air drove down upon stream and city
the dense smoke Of conflict, and one of the most
terrible cannOnsdes Of the war vent on, each
combstant hidden from the others view. Three
shot went plunging through the Richmond's
hall, and two cut her rigging. A couple were
killed and seven wounded; among the latter,
Howard T.. Moffat, masters mate, had his left
arm torn off at the elbow. The same vessel was
struck twenty-five times at Fort Jackson. Ev-
ery vessel was hit. On board the Hartford, one
man was killed and two wounded, and in all
twenty-five injured and ten killed. Frequently
SLOWING" to deliver more efectuslly their broad
sides, the vessels shelled every battery, and tore
up the works with shot, yet whenever firing
slackened, fresh men from troops behind rushed
forward to the guns. One hour and forty min
u.es the attack lasted, when our vessels, finding
further effort useless, passed on and came to
anchor above. Without a land force nothing
could be done.
General Van Dorm, with nineteen thousand
men, OCCupleQ lub tbNns Az lau4AuE was pos
sible, and fresh troops constantly took the place
of those exhausted. Some of the up river rams,
which had arrived down a day or two previous
", were sent to watch tina YazOO river. Up it
the rebel monster gunboat Arkansas, iron clad,
and reported competently finished, had been
taken for completion from Memphis, and might
at any moment issue out. And thEs matters
until Sunday. Were it wished, Vicks
burg could have been Ieveled to the ground but
such a course would have proved barren OF re-
suits. There is even reason to believe the rebels
count that fate, hoping thereby to excite that al
dawning sympathy OF YiFtpops dahnny.
Mississippi knows not how 10 surrender was
the answer made weeks ago, when flag officer
first appeared before its largest city,
and teey really seem to be ashamed Of the
"last ditches'' SO far dug South.
yicksburg cannot be taken BY the navy, al
though it may be destroyed, and We will have TO
wait until a land force arrives. !
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Administrators Notice

levers Ct administration on the eztsts
" Of 81 Es.es- deceased, were sraR.ed 10 tb-
pnd-I,'sa-d a. III JAY term, A D 1852. Of the Pro
bate Court o. Yalobushs eOuaty. STATE OF Msi.spoi
on tie an day Of sail month, tais notice is thsrefjfs
hsrsey fivea requesting all Pc sous having claims
asainSt lie e5tste cf said deceased, 70 exhibit the SAM
ana have them reg-t3rsd In the manner aud within q q
time prescribed by law, or they will DO forever barr 81.
MARTHA FAlRES
Administrator .
J. b. FAIRESs
jyI4laz6v A5misistra t9r
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The Yictorr Cnnnrn,ed.

special 10 the Appeal
VICKsBURG, July l5.-Our gunboat Arkansas
has passed the upper feet, and now lies at the
wharf under our guns. A most brilliant affair.
VICKSBURG, July 15-Capt. Brown is safe.
The Arkansas is all right 1t was the most bril-
liant affair Of the war. W. S. STATHAM.
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GEN GRIFFITH, OF MIssIssIPPL-Thls gal.
liant officer, whose death has heretofore been an
nCunced, was near the enemy's Notifications on
the north side Of York river railroad, about II
thrown al our locomotive battery struck him
above the knee, ranging upwards and almost
destroyed his thigh. Notwithstanding the fear
lHl nature of the injuries, be lived Tor several
hours after the occurrence, and expired at a pr.
vate residence "a this city Richmond DisgaicA.
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FEDERAL REPORTS FROM ARKAN.

SA9
The St. Loais Republican of the 9th has some
intelligence from Arkansas. It's dates are from
White river to the Oh, and although received
through Federal channels, are not very encour-
aging to that cause. One dispatch says:
Col Fitch, having been reinforced, proceeded
si1ty-fve miles above St. Charles, when hear
ing that the enemy were 5000 strong. be fell
back to ST. Charles to await further reinforce
ments.
Nothing is known Of General Curtis. Scouts
sent out failed 10 fad him. He is supposed to
be making his way to the Mississippi.
Another, dated Cairo, says:
The news from White river, AK, is not en-
c~oursging. Col Fitch still holds ST. Charles.
No relief has yet reached Gen. Curtis.
The whole country bordering on White river
is in arms, except those who are flying from
orous manner. Boats are frequently fred on
from the shore.
Another says:
Col. Fitch still holds st. Charles.
Gen. Curtis army has not yet been relieved,
and they are now on half rations.
Guerrilla bands invest the shores Of White
river, and freqEently fire int passing boats.
The boats sent up to the relief of Gen. Curtis
went up the river as far as Clarendon.
"a The M~ississppiaH, OF the 14th, publishes
a rumor that Com Farragut sent a proposition
10 cur headquarters at Yicksbnrg, which
amounted to this: That If our batteries would
permit the feet above the city to pass down it
would 90 out Of the river.
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The sale will take p'aea st he Lower Gey srums.t
Smoke Houss. near The RlaIr5sd Depot.
CAPT. JOHN T. sH AAFF.
Conmissgy s~ubsstsn, e. C. s
Ohics Commlsssry Subsistence. Grera II, Ms
jyl52t
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Coon NEws.-The st. Louis Republicans
correspondent thinks it a puzzle what the peo-
pie of the South viii do with their corn next
fall. He says " the banks of the Mississippi are
waving fields oft from Memphis to Yicksburg,
and that any diversion of it into other crops is a
rare exception" 1t will at least make us indie
pendent of our Yankee enemies so far as bread
stufs are concerned.
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PROPOSALS. FOR CARRYING THE
MAIISi
POST oFFIcE-GRENADA, MISS. ;

POST OFFICE-GRENADA, MISS , .
JUNE Oath, 1862.
DROPOSALS viii be received ct this of5se fo-
4 Ing the rails oE the following routes. for 90
years hoa snd after TIA fret day Of July next
Route $40. CASH
FE3m G'enA6a, % Providence, Steam NIL, statelsud.
Caierets. Oakley, Bellef0ntans and Nonrt W..
Hooenlindsn-5 % miles a0d back. once a wsek "
Leave GrensdA Mondsy e. "a u. Arrive ~ Fobs.li,-
den same day by 10 p n,
NADIA same day by 10 P. Nj, 0A@
Route CAB. casa
From Grsnads to Troy, 6 miles md Aa.r o,c.
NsaSs Sss1aes fLursdsy si5AM Arrive at Trov
-SsSs ICY Thursday a 3 p X. Arrive at Grsnaaz
s-a,, " "A HAWKINS, ~.
ttfE"Fr Grenada, Miss
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Personal.

INFORMATION is wanted Ct the whereabouts Of
s. TILDEN, Of Capt. CAorhan's BATE
Gen Parsons Brigade, MissOui STATE Guard Re I.ft
Memphis just p eyi9uf to the arrival Of tEs Fsds-sIt
a1d has not been hs&d Of since ANY Information con-
eernlng hin viii be thankfully rsee3Ted II zddreszsd u.
bis brother at AbbeviJe, Mss. {. 7. TTLDEU
jyl25r It. GOIhsn's Bstte-v II \
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NOTICE.
HARRIS Z0UAVE CADDTS

fORPORAL d. L Long, PrTvEtes ]. NJ. BarErfvG
d Caldwell, @ \. NeweOua. Il N-vnzn o a.
Normsnt ". A. King, 5 A. Thompson r. & wv srs
absent on tiek flrlorgh. are hereby ordsrsd "a -
themselves 10 their company at IupeI5. AUst h -
days, either iu person or By a medical G rtifcaf --oD-
eHy Sgoed, Of inability 70 attend. Failing % II, -
10 The specified tins ihry vii be cons dersd dss-rtsrs
aud treated accordingly.
S FOWJIKES, JR
Captsia Harris Zlouave sCsdzt-
Jy2H Co D. lS4h ST. Rsgi-Dent Ts m VosS
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THURSDAY nigh. On the Mississ ppi Central Rail
road. bstwsen GRENADA and Canton g soc 10 uhsr
FALSE. marked J. II Crsn, Memphis. A HbeF al re-
ward viii be given if left az The superintendent once
o: the Mississippi aad Tennessee Railroad.
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Y We had iatended to publish the proceed
ing Of the Board of Aldermen Of Memphis, FOL
tie benefit Of refugee Memphians, upon the
final organization Of the rev city government,
but some person distracted the only copy of the
paper containing the same, from our desk during
. temporary absence. The party who did SO
viii confer a favor by returning the journal
alluded to. He can then " 60 and sin no mora"
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Cnprure ID VesseI. RunnIng DE- EIOckade

CAPTURE OF Vessels hhhAluE me BlOCA8ue,
WASHINGTON, July 6-The navy depart
NEXT has official intelligence that on the 18th
alt, Lieut.. Commanding Powell, in the gunbORi
Tshoma, accompanied by the Somerset, crossed
the bar Of the s.. Marks river, and drove oOt q
company Of rebel artillery with four or five
field pieces from a fort near the light house.
After landing and burning the fort with the
hsflsiups used as barracks, we captured the
Fngish schooner Lucy, from Havana, endesv-
oriH0 10 ruc the blockade on the Florida COAST.
Tie steamer Somerset has captured the schOOn-
or Curlew, Of Cedar Keys, Florida
She was from Havana. The Somerset also
surprised a steamer in Dead Mans Bay, loading
with cotton. Before she could be reached she
was fred and destroyed by her crew.
The United States steamer Montgomery, OF
the Rio GYande, has captured the British schoon-
er Win.o4he-Wis loaded with gaupoWder, in
fsh barrels and bags, percussion caps, shoes,
1 a case marked clothing.
o. u. S. steamer Bienville, captured off
Nsssogear, the schooner Morning Star, from
loeGeJ heading for Wilmington. She WAS
van Galt, aeids, cigars, etc.
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STOLENl

EBOdH B. Shermsn's stable one WHITE 1rAFE
Il MULE, about eight years cd IEi5 pay $50 10
any per5o WHO wall arrest the thief and deliver nm to
The Provost Asrshai ST this place, and also a FbsrsI 10.
ward for the Mule. w q STTgTOy
jyl21WA qransF6o -
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OF Dr., PALMER.

DR. Palmer, Of New Orsany. viii address tie
people at the following times and places
Columbus ---... ......- Monday 90 IA
Meridian -..---- ~ 81
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The Army a, RIchn,ond.

MOBILE, July ia special to the Adver-
tiser and Register, dated Charleston, July 14th,
states that the Richmond Enquirer says it is no
longer doubtful that our lines have been brought
closer to Richmond, but that large forces have
been left in the immediate front of the enemy
as distractions.
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After Butler.

A rumOr was current in Richmond that the
President has demanded the surrender of Plea
ypue Butler for the murder of Mumford saying,
if refused, he viii r~etaliate by hanging one of
the majOrgenerals captured in the recent bat
ties.
The British war steamer leaves here on We'd
nesdsy for Annapolis.
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Foreign News.

RICHMOND, July 14.-The Europa has ar
rived at Cape Race, and briggs Liverpool dates
to the ID inst.
The correspondence in relation TO the Emily
st Pierre has been published, from which it ap-
pears that Minister Adams6ad not receded from
the position first assumed by him.
In the house of lords Lord Brougham deplored
the continuance of our civil strife, and the con-
sequences to Europe. He thought it impossible
for England to inter pre-, but expressed the opin-
ion that the Americans would see the suicidal
character of the struggle, and come to amicable
arrangements before they entirely lost the re-
sPect and affection of Europe as q nation.
In the house of commons Lord Palmerston
said interference in the affairs CT America now,
could only, aggravate matters. Both England
and France would be delighted to take mediatory
steps. When a fitting opportunity arises ne
should look upon it both as a duty and a pleas
ure.
French journals are s~trenuously urging upon
the government the necessity of taking some
steps that might put a speedy end to the war.
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NOTICE
03OO Lbs. spOiIt Racort.

WHL be sold 81 pubic auction. to he ligass. L "a.
~ der. foe cash, 81 IL o'clock A. r. On THUESD- ~.