Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-02-06
FROM THE GONFEDER-
ATE CAPITAL.

EFeSitd VI 66 upper 4 OtOHt0C-A dhheC COHtmSS-
sionsrs to Yisit the Yankee Prisoners at
+" Richmond and Elss0hers The apostle
Paul and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Concerning CamsrOn-A RumOr of AdUaRoe-
officers in ToDn.
RICHMOND, January 81, 1862.
We have been entertained with a pleasing
variety of rumors during the last forty-eight
hours. Last night, the Legislature of Virginia
being in session, "Mr. Smith, OF the Wa De-
partment," met a member just entering the cap
itol, and was kind enough to confde to him the
contents of a dispatch which he (Nir. s., of the
w. D. was then carrying to the President, to
the effect that a decisive engagement had been
fought near Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the
which engagement the Yankees had been re-
pulsed with great slaughter, to wit Seven hun
bred killed outright, two or three hundred
wounded, and the rest taken prisoners or driven
into the river, Green river as was supposed.
The member at once rushed into the House of
Delegates and announced the gratifying intelli-
gence in open session, to the, great rejoicing of
the Virginia Lawmakers, and thereupon it was
spread all over town with the sanction of An
official statement. The " thoroughly reliable :"
informant who thus sold the General Assembly,
of course, had event his way" in a very few
minutes, no doubt chuckling over the ingenious
hoax he had played of upon the public.
To-day Mr.. Smith, of the War Department -
has been assisted by the telegraph. We have
3 dispatch that Gen. Price has taken st. Louis.
Il comes very directly from the operator at Nash
vile, who sends a message to somebody in Sa-
vannah, who tells the editor of the Savannah
Republican, who puts it in his paper of this morn
ing, where it was read by the associated press
man, who sends it here. No particulars. How
or when, or with what loss, we know nOt-only
St. Louis has been taken. Gen. Price is there,
our flag is there surely enough to know, II
we could believe it, which we don't.
was very much surprised to see to-day a
copy of The South, published in Baltimore on
the goth Of January. 1 thought this obnoxious
paper had been suppressed long ago. But here
tits, not a fortnight old, maintaining the cause
of the Confederates as bravely as ever. Why
the government permits it to v~entilate such bold
treason in the city of Baltimore, where little
girls cannot wear red, white, and blue stock
ings, is enigmatical. The fact is, Baltimore con-
tinues to give Lincoln more anxiety than even
the Confederate armies. The city is under
martial law to be sure. Its best and ablest men
are in Fort Warren. But the Confederate flag
is still poked out of windows and raised on the
tops of houses the people u0iH cheer a Confed-
crate officer as he passes through town now and
then, on his way from the Federal prisons to
" Dixie; +" the pretty Baltimoreans wtn sing my
Maryland, - and there is no hope for it, The
war may last FIVE, t n, twenty years, but it will
never be over til Baltimore has been rescued
from the thraldom of the oppressOr. The fire
Of rebellion there is volcanic, and can never
be suppressed
We have good news from the upper Potomac
The recent rains with a January thsw have pro-
duced a freshet in the river, and its swollen
waters have completed the destruction of the
dams on the line of the chesapeake and Ohio
canal pulled down by Jackson three weeks ago.
To rebuild them now would require almost as
much time as was employed in their siginal
construction. Though the work Of demolition
was very thoroughly done by the Stone Wall
brigade" yet for the removal of the debris an
inundation was necessary, and this the late rains
have occasioned
Some little establishment and curiosity was
excited yesterday by the announcement that the
Rev. Bishop Ames, Of the northern Methodist
church, and the Hon. Hamilton Fish, of New
York, had been appointed as commissioners by
old Abe to visit the Yankee prisoners in this city
. and elsewhere - to inquire into their wants and
to the same. This is certainly a very
odd sort Of business-rathe fshy it must be
confessed. Whether there is anything behind it,
a Yankee aryierc pensss, no one knows. Indeed,
or not they win be permitted to come,
no one knows. But the plainest consideration
Of public policy would seem to suggest that
they ought to be sent back fom Old Point.
Tims0 DanaOs. Neither Bishop Ames nor the
Hon. Hamilton Fish deserves our confidence.
Certainly they should. not be suffered to go
they please in the Confederate States, to
Charleston, to Tuscaloosa, to New Orleans, and
hen return to give information of what they
nave seen.
By the way, speaking just now of Jackson's
iemohtions on the Potomac, reminds me Of a
good story told by the Maryland Ne,os Sheet
Last week, it tells Us, a committee of railroad
men, members of Congress and others, went
,ver to Washington to urge upon Lincoln the
'ital Importance of Immediately rebuilding the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. They represented
% his Apeship that the commercial, agricultural
md manufacturing interests Of the. Ohio valley
we're suffering on account Of the suspension Of
be operations Of the road. Lincoln heard them
trough and said, "You must go to Paul"
What do you mean T" askedhis visitors. GO
Paul, the apostle Paul, > replied old Abe. "And
5ho is the apostle Paul2 4" " Why, Mcclellan, to
e sure, he is my apostle Paul; ] believe in him "
And speaking Of the breaking up Of the traffic
f the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, brings up the
barge made at the North against Cameron that
g neglected to provide the means of protection
,r this line OF internal improvement because he
ras largely interested as a ~stockholder in com
letting lines through Pennsylvania, which would
g greatly benefited by the destruction of the
rival Yankee to the backbone! Sensi-
le to the last !
The Examiner of this morning has the follow
lg paragraph:
A rumor reached here yesterday, through per-
onal Communication from Washington City, A.,
lat Mcclellan was preparing for asforward
,ov-eDaau4 i'm the Iiraoffosa of Wiucbagtar 40 a
, cut of General Jaekson's command. We !
lention the rumor, because we have reason to
now that an an advance movement of the enc
u ON the lines of the Potomac, however fire.
ueutly and fooiishly predicted hitherto, has, for
ONE days past, been actually entertained as
rObable in official circles. :
If this be so, it is a little strange that so many
rominent officers Of our army of the Potomac
lould be absent from their commands. Col.
OF the South Carolina volunteers, Col.
fo0re. of the LIST VIRGINIA. Major Walton of the /