Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-05
VOLUME XII, NO. I85.
AEnveling in West TeBuessee-COftola
- ul9toEs-Danger Of COttOa Being

Travelling in West Teuuessee-Cot,o,,
Pscui91'oEs-Danger Of Gotten Being
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
COLUMBUS, Ky, July 26.-Cotton, cotton, IS
all one now behOlds upon the banks Of the Ohio
and Mississippi. Cotton SPECTATORS are plenty.
aud gold, IN lieu Of treasury notes, is sll tha1
pays for it and as certain as the party receives
gold, (Which be invariably does for his eottonl,
| It Is sunk, and out of sight forever and a lone
time after. So thought we, when pursuing our
/ travels through Jackson, Humboldt, Bolivar and
| Grand junction. Nothing was seen but cotton
thousands Of bales at each station, and hundreds
| Of spectators, with thousands of gold mani
tested themselves, as the weight hometown
| trafhcer wended his way along. Cotton is
cheGp-is worth eighteen 70 twenty cents per
pound at these statiOns-but invariably payable
IN gold, so that no one can buy o bale for any
thing else but gold not even Tennessee money
will buy It, We Opine these people who buy
have placed our coin in high and Unatisins-
Die place, while government funds are at a dis
count Spectators in cotton have becoms
alarmed they feel queer At Grand Junction
We cenVeTsed with some. They were afraid lest
the rebels will seize upon it. and on the strength
Of their fears, they called on Gen. Grant and
requested him to send two regiments to protect
their cotton, which he promised 70 do. Fire ap-
pears to alarm all buyers, because Fsyette and
other counties had their cotton burned They
are under the impression theirs win suffer ike
wise.
We never saw so much geld; every station
We met SIX or seven men counting 1t out, and
at every station we were asked " do yCu think
our cotton is safe2 " so much 50, that had We
had an intention to buy bale we would have
gently seeded. But the great feature among
cotton brokers here is he who pays the highest
gets my cotton, no matter who they buy for. A
employs B 70 buy cotton and pays him ten dol
lars per bale for his trouble. B buys, and has
at the station one hundred bales. c inquiries
whose cotton It Is B says I bought it for A;
says c l viii give you fifteen dollars per bale
well take il along; no consideration for A, but
the tiye dollars IS the margin principle Is no
where, and many parties who have advanced
money to their agents get their money back, but
no cotton. Three hundred thousand dollars or
more change hands heIe, sud around, every day
Tns feeling among the people since We don't
take Richmond is adverse 70 the Union, and it's
almost sn imPossibility to find Union man in
this region. Those that are are guu6oat Union
men. We give facts; we were there, and We
know Crest fears are entsrtslusd as Grand
Junction of an attack by the rebels. They have
burued the railroad bridge, and cut the wires so
that communication by telegraph tTom Grand
Junction to Memphis is impossible, and We think
that owing to the few in number left 70 guard
discipline, the rebels Will take the place.
Gen. Haleck's last 0-deTs were 20 allow no
women to travel to Cvrinth, that it was unsafe,
be himself expecting TO be mOlested by sOu5
Of the forty thousand rebels laying around loose
near COrinth. And when the general command
ing at Columbus was told Tuesday morning that
the rebels showed themselves, and stopped at
house all night on the opposite (AlissouE( side,
he quietly told his inf0rmer be would send a
squad over that day. and ct noon, with all the
in the void, he actually sent Over
twenty-five finely mounted cavalry and when
the steamboat Louisiana landed them she told
the rebels she was coming, for her putting and
blowing of steam informed them Of he fact;
and, of course, the rebels skedsddlsd. and our
heroes, twenty-five in number, returned covered
with glory.
Columbus could be taken by 8 thousand reb-
sls, and Of course, as there srs but five millions
Of cOEsmissary stores here, it would not be much
0sS, as our government could send plenty more.
Government is rich she can supply theirwants,
and as this place is the key and grand outlet %
the Western army and Of COTiuth, Of course 1t
would not make much difference whether the
-ebels took possession Of 1t OF not. G. w.