Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-21

ali stores aud property IN dispute IN tins city be
tween citizens on the one hand and officers and
agents Of the government on the other
Army CoNTRACroRs.-TheY Yankee contract
ors give the army Of Lincoln no small amount Of
trouble by their raseslity. Gen. Halleek writes
to the quartermaster-general at Washington that
the shoes issued to the troops wear cut in four
days. He says a change must be effected if the
government hopes to keep the army of the West
together
y The Crescent mentions as a coincidence
that New Orleans has never been under martial
law but twic. The first time it was declared by
Gen. Jackson; the second time was on last Sat
urday, the 18th Of March, Gen Jackson's birth
day. May the coincidence extend to as total a
discontinue Of the enemy, as that which oc-
Cured under the old hero
IMPORTATION WANrED.-The Yankee con-
sui at s.. George, Bermuda, lately offered re-
ward Of EIO for the arrest of the person or per-
sons, who had taken down the Line, In flag
from his office, painted the union of the same
black and placed on bis gate Confederate flag,
with picture Of the Confederate army and
navy surrounding it.
u The Cincinnati Enquirer says the first
shipment of cotton received from Nashville since
its evacuation by the Confedsrates, arrived at
Cincinnati on the 5th, and was consigned to r.
Moore. The shipment consisted of one hundred
IsIes s,1 tE, E,J..,,-- tl.;,.r-. l--, ,, 80 .-
win follow No doubt it wiz, if that 100000
worth should hold out long enough
~ A letter from Pensacola, dated the 18th,
received by a gentleman in Orleans largely in
terested in lumber mills, near the former place,
mentions the fact that, by order of the govern
ment, several mills, with considerable lumber,
together with good deal Of different kinds Of
water craft, besides houses and barns, have been
destroyed at and about that place.
MoRE GUNpoArs-rhe Federal Secretary of
War invites proposals for the immediate con-
struction Of ten gunboats, Of the same descrip-
ton as those now in use at Cairo and on the
Cumberland. Proposals may be sent to the War
Department by telegraph, and must specify the
price and time within which they viii be ready
for use.
Y The Cincinnati Enguirer says the steamers
Forest Queen and Monarch, which brought
troops and munitions to Nashville, both met
with serious accidents on the Cumberland, dam
aging the boats to the amount of $1,000 each.
The first coIlided with another steamer, and the
latter came in contact with bridge pier.
Il A dispatch published in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, Of the 18th, states that the citizens of
shelbyville, Bedford county, burned large
quantity Of Confederate stores in that place, to
prevent them being taken by Gen. Johnston on
his retreat from Murfreesboro.
~ It is said that information has reached
the Federal Navy Department OF the capture of
the steamer Lizzie Weston, with cargo Of enc
hundred and ninety bales of cotton, by the gun
boat Itasca. The captured vessel sailed from
Apalachicola, Florida, for Havana, sad market.
WA Washington dispatch of the llth,
SAYS The President viii probably sign the bin
establishing the new article Of war, to-day. 1t
forbids officers Of the army and navy returning
fugitive slaves to their masters.
u a Boston dispatch says information from
Fort Warren states that Generals BuckneT and
Tilghman were put IN close confinement on the
llth inst. The cause for this step is not stated.
q John r. Holcombs, Of Columbia, Tenn,
one Of the Fort Donelson prisoners at Terre
Haute, Ia, died on the Stb inst He was sixty
years Of age.
Es The Charleston Mercury says Gen. Penn
bsrtou has been assigned to the military district
Of South Carolina and Georgia, in place of Gen.
Lee.
THE FEDERALs rs FLOREDA.-We learn from
the Savannah Republican chat the Federals have
occupied Jacksonville, Florida, with a force of
$3.50 men.