Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-09
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Special correspondence of the Memphis Appeal.
RICHMOND, October LIST, 1862.

RICHMOND, October lSt, 1852.
Congress having changed its mind about an
adjournment sine die yesterday, is still IN session
and win SO continue until Monday next. Both
the House and the Senate have been sitting
much of late with closed doors, an example
which was speedily followed by their neighbors
Of the State general assembly, recently called
together by the governor TO discuss the impor-
liant question of a supply Of salt for the people
of Virginia. The consequence has been that an
outsider could learn very little Of the legislation
of the country. To-day the House of Repre-
sentatives was just about closing up the bust
ness of the exemption bill, at the usual hour for
daily adjournment, aud l presume they finished
it. There were al sorts Of things sajd concern
ing the secret deliberations of the Virginia legiS-
lators, but as this is specially a salt session, l
presume we must take what we hear of it cum
grauS sails.
By the way, we learn that great activities are
afoot on private account throughout tie interior
mountain region of Virgins to obtain a large
supply Of salt, sufficient for all the purposes Of
preserving the fall meats, from the Kanawha
s%alines, recently rescused from the enemy by
our forces under General Loring. These works,
in the immediate neighborhoOd Of Charleston,
the county seat of Kanawh Ia, produce annually
an immense quantity of salt, and many hundred
thousands of bushels were on hand at the time
of tie evacuation of Charleston BY the enemy
long trains of wagons have started for the
salines from points as far distant as S,aunton
and Buchanan, and at the latest advices from
shat region, three hundred wagons were waiting
at Gauley Ferry for their turn to cross the river.
1t was supposed that if General LOring could
hold the salines thirty days, as much salt as was
needed by central and Eastern Virginia could
be hauled away. When our forces first entered
Charleston, the salt was offered for thirty-hve
cents the bushel, but under the stimulus Of the
rapid demand for the article from abroad, it very
speedily rose to one dollar the bushel, and was
held at that with an upward tendency" when
our last dispatch left the place.
The army of General Lee is believed to have
fallen back to Bunker Hill, a point equidistaut
from Washington and Winchester, and between
these two places. Il YVES asserted here yester-
day, with confidence, that Mcclellan had crossed
the Potomac with more than one hundred thous
and men, and was advancing upon Lees posi-
ton, and the news Of a great battle has been
anxiously expected any time for the psst thirty
six hours. The expectation has been the more
from the fact that the ambulance commit
tee for the relief of the wounded, and their re-
e. IL Z I r I'll -. .-.A,soAr,, ~ |
gentlemen of this city, organized in the cause of
patriotism and humanity, early last
has been requested by the surgeOn-general of the
Confederate States to report themselves for
servieerwithout delay, at Winchester.
The report of the encouragement on the sub
of the hospitals established in this State,
contains some most interesting statistics. The
aggregate number Of sick and wounded soldiers,
in the Richmond hospitals since the
9eginning of the war, reaches the fearful figure
If one hundred thousand minus four hundred
nd odd, and the striking fact is given that the
proportion of deaths in the hospitals attended
~ the ladies to those in the hospitals attended
y the paid nurses was as six TO ten. When we
consider how small a comparative number Of the
hole number of the ~suif-rers enjoyed the min
STATIONS of the ladies, we can scarcely call this
gratifying fact, yet gratifying iii assuredly
u some points Of view. It will cheer tie nObls
yemen, and prove to them their sweetest re-
ward for weary vigils and unremitting kindness,
o know that they saved many brave lives, forty {
ut Of every hundred that fell victims to the
ever or were struck down in battle, where they !
Guild reach the poor fellows, and i. must lead
ne authorities to encourage as much as possible 4
disposition of our wives, sisters and dsugh-
3Ts 10 nurse the sufferers. You viii r~ec0llect
nat many months ago, before we had any data q
pom which to base an opinion, 1 stated my
conviction, as the result of my own per- I
onal observation, that the attentions of the lady 7
o]lunteers were worth everything to the sick
nd disabled defenders of the country. v
We have cheering news from Washington, a..
an intelligent gentleman who has just run p
e blockade. He tells US that there is great To- i
zion there in consequence of the proclamation 4
Lincoln as to the emancipation of the negro a
ave of the rebel owner after the LIST of Janu a
y, 1863. Bates disspprOves it-McClellau dis
,proves 1.-THE army is mutinous, and says it !
i'll not fight for the q" niger "-ths htciiigsnccr II
it mild as usually regrets it, and n
.ggests that it was only done to demonstrate
the extremists of the Black Republican party o
the war must break down upon their plat
nm. Lincoln will presently withdraw it and la
We'll, my friends, you see your plan won't III
I've must ty something else" This gen y
man says that the belief is entertained in :,
.ashington that, unless Mcclellan should fight Fl
other battle before frost, hostilities will never TO
actively resumed. The fact may be SO, but o.
should credit it only when we see it. T.
F. MauTy, of the navy, the great as NJ
and man of science, has gone to Eu-
pc, as l understand, in a semi official capacity. Ii
should have been sent long ago. He can do til
re for the Confederate States at foreign courts Oh
IN any other man in America.
The weather is blazing hot, aud a white i'm
.pable dust covers everything. DIXIE. Ii
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