Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-08


A correspondent of the Petersburg Express
says that the Virginia makes two knots per hour
more than she ever did ss the GIerrimac
! The Atlanta correspondent of the Charleston
Courier says that thst city is the great hospital
station Of ths southern and rs esiCm armies
there being $500 sick soldiers there.
The liquor order in and about Savannah is,
| we see, being rgidly enforced. Offenders are
severely punished aud tueir liquor enpaed into
/ the streets.
One Of Gen Bragg's Pensacola regiments, it
/ is said, now in camp IN Kentucky, get their
water in Tennessee and drill ia Virginia. They
/ are ngh In the corner.
/ The Columbus (0a-) SRE says the Mississippi
rife mandatory in that city is making very sat
istacJory progress. They have already compIet-
ed a number of guns.
| 4 correspondent writes tbst the citizens of
! Chatt0Oga county, Ga. have resolved % plant
no cotton, and that the wheat crop covers one
! fourth msre land than ever before, and appears
! exceedingly promising
! called meeting of the grand division, Sons
/ of Temperance, of Georgia, was recently held in
Atlanta. The meeting passed unanimously ihe
! ordinance of secession from the national diri-
sion The.pr0posad meeting to form d national
| division of the Confederate States, to assemble
! ct Atlanta on the first Wednesday in May next
was indorsga
! TIE STEAMER VANpERGnr-Tho captain
! Of this steamer, and his comp.nio-s arrived ia
/ our city yesterday, on t!leiT way 10 New Orleans
/ The Vanderbilt whose loss has been already
/ reported, sprung q isli, at sea and ag.uS i'm Eve
/ hCuls. IAe captain and crew embarked in t@o
/ boats; himself in one, with five ot the crew and
gentleman aud his wife, who were passengers
,Ee rest of the crew, seventeen IN numb n, ia the
! other.
Iu the haste OF emoarking the boat u which
was the captain, was supplied with only Dollie
. Of water, bottle OF beer, and some sardUes,
upon which they subsisteI FIVE days, when they
/ succeeded in reaching @ sale port
The other boat has not been heard of, but
/ hopes are entertained Of the safety of her com
pauy, il she has only lived through lhe sea- as
/ She was victuaied Sill no little anxiety is felt
for her fate, which is Increased by the fact that
! in sonse way OF other the child of the gentleman
and lady (about five years old) was put into
that instead of tine boat in which its parents
wcre.-Mobnc Register, 4h
THE MERRIdAc.-The recent performances Of
fhe Virginia in Hampton Roads, have NOT only
created q autter ia New York, but have contrib
uted to the pecuniafy depletion OF the capitalists
of Sedom From q recent message OF Mayor
Opdyke TO the board Of couocl.men, we learn
that the Chamber OF Commerce of that city ''Te-
enondino to the known desire Of the War De
partment, has taken up the subject and made
an eppeal TO the libeiaiity oi tie banks, inSar-
ance companies and capitalists, fora subscription
of S5O0O0O. 10 be expended IN Flo.ialng addi-
tionaI safeguards for our barhor
The board Of aldermen passed an ordinance
on the 26th, appropuating %500OoO for hatoor
defense Thus tae bigedlng process S0eNon.
rzFCommodora Samuel Mercer, Of tho U. S.
navy. died in Philadelphia on Thursday, the
sth of March, in tho siEty-rgurth year Of hs
age The deceased was 9 native oI MARY yand,
and was appointed. from that state on March 4,
. 1915. He was educated in the Orphan House.