Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-01

Try, it is to be feared that too little attention is
paid by superintendents of roads to the condo
ton Of their tracks. Proper preeaution certainly
would have avertod this recent casualty. Let
US hope that it will serve as a warning to cur
companies.
Two thousand wounded Yankee prisoners
have been sent off from this city to the lower
James river, and it is supposed that the entire
number OF the Yankee troops now confined
upon Belle Isle, viii follow in a few days under
the terms Of the recent cartel for a general e1-
change. It is a happy radiance in these times Of
scarcity of provisions, but care should be taken
not to liberate too many before our own soldiers
who are held at the North as prisoners are given
up for them. We have been cheated once or
twice before by the Yankees, who are proverbisl
for their shrewdness ina swap, and we may be
cheated again.
/ am glad to DO able to state that a recent mis-
understanding, which led to an arrangement for
e short time between Gems. Longstreet and Am
broso P. Hill, and which promised a long and
acrimonious military investigation, has been
arranged in q manner honorable to both parties
and that these two distinguished officers whose
praise is in the mouths of everybody, have been
fully restored to their former smicsble relations.
Nothing can be more deplOrsble, while the enc
my is at the gates of the capital, than chickering's
and contentious between our leaders, apart alto
gether from the scandalit brings upon the army
and the bad example It affords the rank and file.
SAre we forever to be slaves to the Yankees in
eur language sn nomenclsturef 1t would
seem so. A day or two ago the Richmond En-
qniTer spoke of Fort Darling, meaning thereby
Drewry's Bluff. Fort Darling is a Yankee
name, and never was applied to any one Of our
batteries on James river by ViTginians or Con-
f~ederatos, and yet we are to have it thrust upon
US by our enemies. If they cannot take the for
t~hcstion, it appears that they can force us 10
call it by their title. Again, why should wo
make haste to adopt thst odious Yankee vulgar
ism " skedaddis ?" In the name Of decency, is
there not slang enough in use in the South with
ont Snatching every fresh phrszs coined by the
Yankee press? The Mexican war gave US a
new slang term for running away, in oamose,
but this had q quasi respectable origin in the
first person plural Of the present tense, indica-
tive mood, of a good Spanish verb, but what is
=" skeddadie 2" 1t is nothing more than low
Yankee vulgarity. Perhaps, as they have given
the largest illustration of its meaning on record
in the recent change OF MeClellan's base line,
they ought to be INDUCED in the use Of the
word, but there is no reason why we should
employ it. Let Us try at least to adhere to the
pure English in our printed communications.
By the way, let me give you a precious bit of
Yankee literature, as the tell piece to this letter.
1t was picked up on the battlefield below
Gaines Mill, and is a veritablo document
though without signature. I send you the orig
inal
NEWPORT NEWS CAM BUTLER. Va, 1862.
I certify on honor that E6enezer W Pierce,
colonel Of the 29lh regiment Massachusetts,
volunteers .made the following statements to me
shortly after he resumed command Of the regi-
ment q had danced attendance on Gov. An
drews until | was nearly discouraged. lie sp-
peared in conversation to slight me or take no
notice of me, and so evident was this, that upon
one occasion, l asked if By any act of miRe l
had personally offended him, to which he replied
1 had not, but still he gave nc attention to my
claim. At the close Of s certain day, during
which l had held a very unsatisfactory inter
Wow with Gov. A ! seated myself in the cars
to ride home. In the ears was a gentleman, a
mutual friend Of myself and the governor. l
said to him that l had about given up ali hopes
Of obtaining the colonelcy Of a regiment from
Gov, Andrews, aud siguinsd 10 him tiIzt Gov.
A. treated me almost with contempt. This
gentleman who was q man Of influences told NE
mat I didn't go to work is the right way, and
now said he, I viii tell you what TO do to Sc
cure for yourself the appointment. You were
associated wiki Gen. Butler in the early part of
the war; new oil you are to do IS to say some
thing, OF DO something, or what is better, write
something against Gen. Butler, and let it come
to Gov. Andrews knowledge l made no reply
to this, but went nome and wrote something
Immediately (foT publication, ! think, he stately,
and almost Immediately afterwards Gov. a.
sent for me, and appointed me as colonel of the
29Lh regiment; and so you all see there is more
than one way Of doing these things"
The above is not in the precise language in
which it was stated to me by Col Pierce, but
the ideas and important statements are strictly
correct, and I am quite sure that the language
is as correct as it is possible to give it. 1t was
given me not as sR evidence of the governors
wrong doing, bu. as an evidence Of Col. Pierce's
ability.
It is hardly worth while to comment on a
paper like this. Perhaps it ought to raise Gov.
Andrews in our estimation, to know that he
hates Butler, the beast, but then again it might
make us think better Of Butler (Which is i'm
p~ossible) to know that he is hated by Gov. An
drews, so let US rejoice that the two ~scoundrels
know each other. DIME.
VicksbHrg TriumPhant.
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