, 1862-07-29
FROM MEMPHIS And CAIRO.
:Gutrrllla Depredations ET-
eryWhere.: -
TIE REBELS OCCUPY. GRAND
JUNCTION..
Memphis epentd to Trade and
Commerce.

Order from Gen. Grant Gem
cernlng "Legal Tender.''
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Track Torn Up at Hum
boldt, Tennessee.
Especial pirpa.vl. to tho Chseagu Tribune
MrxruIs, July IS, via CA1ao, july y, 1859.
Gen. Anderson this morning iusasd order
No. 81, opening Memphis to trade with the
surrounding country, under certain rastric-
tlous. Farmers, planters. and business men
with families end servants, will hare Tree
Intercourse without papers or any hindrance
save the right of exami nation and even search,
when the officer Judges proper, and necessary
travel is limited to five roads; quantity and
quality Of property transferred to BIZ regulated
by guard, and commissioned officer to be
With the guard day and night. Gen. Hurlbut
and Smiths divisions are appointed for guard
duty. All parties endeayonng to leave or en-
ter the city at hours or by roads or means not
permitted, will be arrested and imprisoned.
The order will have q beneficial effect upon
city and country in commercial point Of
view.
The command Of the gnnboat Mound City
has been turned over to Capt Given, (not Gra-
ham,) late Of wooden gunboat Tyler. Capt
Given showed excellent qualities as a spirited
and efficient commander In the late encounter
With the Arkansas, from the mouth of rne "a
200 river to Vicksburg, and deserves promo
tion. The Tyler will be repaired, her crew
having been transferred to the Mound City,
| now lying off Memphis.
Some 500 citizens took the oath Of allegi-
ance here yesterday, and 200 passes were
| granted outside the lines. Many will 60 North
where they prefer to reside, rather than in the
| Southern confederacy.
! Col. Alexander, appointed to the Office Of
| collector Of customs at New Orleans, Il nov
here en- route for bis future home.
| Large numbers Of confederltes are safd to
have concentrated at Humbold on the Goth,
| where an artillery force has been late1y sent
totake care Of them. It ia supposed coils
ion has occurred before this, but no reliable
news has been received from there to-day.
Transports we're attacked q day or :wo since
opposite Columbus, by O force Of guerri1las
A cavalry force has been dispatched to lool
after ard wipe them out.
A11afrs are active at Helena. A movement
is taking place-object and direction unkno III
116if known, centraband.
No boat from Vicksburg since early in th,
week. The De Soto is expected daily.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.1
CAmo, July %, 1862.
/ All through the Mississippi Valley guerril1
raids are becoming more frequent. On Fri
day night last our pickets at Trenton wer
driven in and an attack upon the town threat
ered. Finding, however, too large fore
for them, they wisely withdrew. The sam
night a bridge was burned on the Memphis s
Mobile railroad, and an attempt mads to bur
cotton near Memphis and few miles belo,
Fort Pillow. It is reported here also tha
Grand junction is now occupied by rebels
our forces having evacuated it three or fou
, days since.
Part Of the esd regiment arrived to-nigh
from Henderson. They report lieutenant {
Johnson's guerrilla band shot, few day
since, and sig men with him taken prisoner
They have captured in all about forty rebel
who are now In irons at Henderson. tt
e surgeon of the 7th Indiana had also been sht
3 through the shoulder, inficting 8 dangerot
: but not necessarily fatal wound.
Alarge and enthusiastic war meeting IF:
9 held here last night. A bounty Of twenty-f,
: dollars for each volunteer was voted, aud
i considerable fund raised on the spot. Call
d will probably furnish one or twc 7ompanie
r The Won Phul, from Hc1ens, brought I
= between eight and nine hundred bales Of ca
J. ton. No news Of importance by her.
The First Illinois regiment has just arriv'
safely
+ The steamer City of Alton, on her way
it from Memphis, yesterday, was fired into ne
l. Columbus.
Reports telegraphed North Of a large ret
force near Corinth, and a Threatened alta
Z upon that place, are all untrue.
Guerril1as are committing depredations ne
Birds Point, having robbed farmer ten mil
from that place, on Saturday nigh, of fire ar!
re and horses.
'. Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
le CAIRO, July Is, 1872,
'. It is reliably reported hers this afterno
tl:nt the rebels have cut off our commune
ct ton with Corinth over the Mobile and o.
ID railroad by Selling Humboldt and tearing
re the rails for some ten OF taelye miles Il
O. side Of that place.
At The town has been full Of rumors of dis
II teFs and defeats to-day--that two regimel
ed have been defeated and badly cut up at B;
var, Tenn; that one company Of the I'd I
,g nois cavalry has been captured eight mi
from Columbus; and that Humboldsand Ja'
et eon are now in possession Of the rebels.
u Fears are also entertained for the safety
u. the De Soto, nothing having been heard II
her since Ehe was passed BY the Wilson,
to her way down to the feet, the day after
he Wilson Was fired into. It Is impossible to
rive at anything definite In these matters
u u night.
y, The balance Of the esd regiment retur,
from Henderson this evening, and the Cd ]
on on nois artillery went to that place
It's CAIRO, July e8.-The following order
ID been issued:
HEADQUARTERS DEP'7 WEST TxsN1ssks,
M CoR1E1H, Miss, July IS. 1854
81 GENERAL ORDER, No. 64.-The attent
! VI lUE AhjQE NEuElA1 C8mW4QQlQE iAF
G. been called to the fact OF persons within I
ers district Eympathizing with the rebellion, y
ut- have cotton for sale, refusing to receive c
18th ted 6tates Treasury notes In payment tht
= & for. or any thing other than gold or sir
"a which is paid them By spectators, wh
*. love of gain Is greater than their love
50. country, and the gold and silver thus paid
thu directly offering aid and comfort to tho e
she / emy, renders necessary the publication OF
era following order:
TIL / From and after the flrtt day of Aug,
1862, gold and silver will not be paid wit
ted this district by specu1ators for the produ
owe Of the rebel States. United States treas
,me notes sre legal tender in all cases, aud r.
So refused, the parties refusing them will be
rested, and such Of their cfops aa are not
qui1ed for the subsistence Of their fami]
!. stock, etc, may be seized and sold By
nearest United States quartermaster, for
benefit Of whom 1t may concern.
. OF 3. Money 30 received will be accounted
o. BY the officer receiving it on bis next acco
nas current, and used Tor the benefit of the 6
ZOE c1nmenr, only to be paid to the owners of
-, c1ope sold on orders from authority at
1su district commanders.
am. 5 Any spectators passing out gold
= ~ silver, In violation Of this order, will be
heir rested and sent North, and the propest
nnst purchased seized and turned over to
er- proper department for the benefit Of the,
~ | eminent
IKE t 4 A strict enforcement OF this order l.
joined upon all officers In this district