The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-17
ITEMS or LATE NEWS.

MATILDA HERON, the actress, is mourning
the death of an only child.
THERE was no Ohio, but one Indiana, the
goth, regiment engaged in the contest before |
Richmond. ans
THE special order Of July LIST, iischarging |
the staff of Major General Fremont, is sus-
pended until further orders.
LIEUT. Col. Milhken, of the 14th Maine
regiment, recently arrived at Augusta. from
New Orleans, having resigned his commission |
from press of business.
WIN. SHIRKs has leased Pixies Opera House,
Cincinnati, for the fall and winter dramatic
season, commencing on the fifteenth of Sep |
TENDER.
Ex-GovERNoR Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,,
is to be nominated to the Senate as commits
sioner of internal revenue under the direct
tax bill. The salary is $4,000.
GENERAL Scott is now staying in his family
mansion at Elizabeth, N. j.; he will leave for
Rockaway next week, if his health viii permit.
The report that he had gone to Washington is
incorrect.
Hon. T. Bruce, governor Of the Prince Of
Wales, and brother of Lord Elgin, died at
London on the 18th of June, from fever con-
tracted at Constantinople, while travelling with
the Prince.
JOHN W. KEGS, editor of the Circleville,
(Ohio,) Watehnaan which paper has been sup
pressed and It's editor removed to Fl. War
rem, is said to have been deranged for several
months.
The opposition to Secretary Stanton is daily
increasing. Messrs. Bands and Holt are
spoken of as his successor. Popular rumor
seems to favor the fomer as the most probable
successor.
Or. CHARLES Il. MCCORMICK, U. S. A., q
resident of San Francisco, was recently ordered
| (by telegraph dispatch) to proceed to New
Orleans to assume charge of the army medical
| department there.
| ALL of the Lieutenants and non-commis-
stoned officers taken at Shiloh have been re-
moved TO Macon, Georgia, and all officers
above the grade of Lieutenant to Montgomery,
/ Alabama.
CAPT. PULLEY, of Col. Warmers 18th Ken
lucky regiment, has arrived at Lexington,
having in custody two rebers, named Rich
ard McGinnis and Jas. Green, who was cap
tured in Gallatin county.
PARsoN BrownlcY spoke at PottsTille, Pa,
on the Fourth to upwards of three thousand
people, who manifested great enthusiasm at
i AZ
mines at st. Clair, and made an address to two
thousand miners.
A special dispatch from Washington in
forms us that the speech by Mr.. Chandler in
the Senate yesterday, denouncing General
Mcclellan, did not create much excitement as
the heat of the weather prevented general
attendance.
The eight thousand rebel prisoners 1t Camp
Chase are becoming troublesome and on
Thursday morning last attacked the comman-
ants headquarters with stones. They are
guarded by sixteen hundred Federal troops.
WALTER STANLEY, late general traffic man.
ager of the Grand Trunk Railway, was pre-
sented on the occasion of his retiring from his
post, with a complimentary address, bound in
Monico silver, and signed by three thousand
employees of the road.
M. MERCER, the French minister, has
taken his family to New York for the benefit
of sea bathing. The Courier des EtGts Upis
allays any alarm which might be felt, by the
assurance that his actions bear no political sig.
nifcance.
RIsToRI has lately amassed large fortune
by the rise of property in Paris. One lot for
which she paid 10000 francs has been sold fol
100000 francs. 1t is reported in dramatic cir.
Giles that Ristori intends to visit this country
in the fall She viii probably arrive some
time in October.
JOHN YEAzEL, charged with the murder Of
McRoberts, from Rowan county, escaped from
the Fleming county Jail on Saturday night
last, and proceeded at once to join cavalry
company, and passed his old " rendezvous
on Thursday morning en- roate for new camp
TIE London &C. W. Free Press states that
Gen. Russell leaves for England in few days
Col Walker is said to be the new command
ant of tbs garrison. The War Department.
seems to be reducing the army in Canada, per,
haps to be relieved of the expense, and perhaps
on account of the late milf in regard to the
Canadian protection.
THE following prisoners have died at Indi
anopolis: june 26-Wm. T. Sanders, LIST Mis-
sissippi; July SC A. Ashworth, SD Tennes
see; July 6-Ira w. Griffin, 4th Mississippi
| July Lewis Allen, 26th Tennessee; July .
BENZ. P. Petit, 2sth Mississippi.
TIE Ohio and Mississippi railroad company
on and after Monday, win run an express trair
for the accommodation of the Louisville travel
| LEAVING Cincinna o. Q NJ Thc. tr.,ir,