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good and strong. Proper management Of
he popular feeling will MAKE the city asloyal
IS one could wish.
1000 bales Of cotton have been Wantonly
burned hy Confederate leaders-~o1 mills, man-
ufactu1es, stores, provisions, In taet every
thing that could produce money or support
ljf. has been seized upon, and either destroyed
or removed to Mississippi, or some place in
the interior, to original owners unknown. In
return for this the Memphis people were al
lowed to use Confederate scrip as currency, |
ten dollars OF which it takes to purchase
pound Of tea, and other nece6saries and luzu-
ries In proportion, Fifteen dollars would
barely pay weeks board at d half way decent
hotel. This general conGscation and grand
destruction Of goods and property, has been
been SO thorough in its operation that very
little worth having, excepting houses and lots
has been left in the city, aud in the country
surrounding it, the same reign has had sway
at Vicksburg and throughout the Mississippi
line Of States.
Notwithstanding the scrutiny Of the So1th-
ern leaders there are 5000 or 5000 bales OF
cotton in this city, and some other valuable
staples, that have escaped the hand OF the
plundcrer Just US soon is citizens owning
this property can hear Of q mode OF transport
ation it will be pulled out Of parlor windows,
from Eecret apartments under ground, and
some other equally strange reeeptacles, and
forwarded to market, where something better
than sbinplasters can be realized upon 1t.
The fleet captured three or four first class
river steamers, used as transports, and freight
boats owned By the called Conttderacy, and
some few private craft Among the prizes
sre the Sovereign, alluded to in my previous
dispatch, the q. r. " Hil1, Victoria, Accaca
| and Kentucky, The new rebel gunboat on
the stocks and nearly completed, just south
| of the city, was set Oh fire and destroyed be-
| fore the surrender Of their fleet. Yesterday
morning the Mound City packet boat Il r.
| Cheek came voluntarily to the city this morn-
ing and surrendered herself. She has been
/ used as transport and is very fast and tidy
p little craft. Her Captain was commended FOL
his conduct By tne crowd gathered at the 1and.
ing, with one or two exceptions 1t is not yet
! known what will be done with the captured
| steamers, but sufficient work will soon pe
found for them.
It can't be long before the navigation OF tht
entire Mississippi will be opened to loyal citi
| zeug. when a1l steamers left unuurnt Wi1 b
needed
Railroad communication with the rest .
mankind, in all directions, was ef1ectualu GU
off for the present yesterday morninM " run
ming of nearly all OF the rolling slock South
!; md fearing I'd the tracks ot the raLroadi
centerine here, The Memphis and Charleston
line is In d1y used r.. Three locomotives, in
tended ia ha,e been taken away from th
, aTemnhis I'D Ohio road, were detained at tn
dtnot If the Mississippi and Tennessee rail
e mi, and can be used as soon as the trick i
: IN the proper condition. The Mississippi roa,
is destitute OF ears or locomotives, and til
iron gone from below. 4 number Of station
, before these roads were rendered useless ye;
terday morning.
Il Great numbers of real secessionist5, or yer
tirnid Unionists Of Memphis, were taken 0
the cars and stampeded to parts unknown
Some departed on the previous day, perhaI
hayingHan ink1ing that something was to L
done, in the performance (which they then
selves were not personally needed here.
Newspapers thrive again. The Ippsaz e
t tablishmeut has been removed to Grenada, r
ductng the press Of the city to two sheets,
| Aralanche and 4rgus. a change for tho bettt
4 Was noticed in the tone Of the editorials #
! this morning, One in the Arcla"cAe couuci
: the citizens to be wary, calm and careful, II
| to attend to their usral ayocations in such
way as neither to provoke harsh measures
painful hautiness. Citizens should
c neither quick to give or take otfens
|, 1t also calls upon the Prorost-Marshan ar
5 Mag or to see to the appointment Of auficiel
and reliable police to prevent all dangero1
: ebulitions Of feeling, SIS much to be deprec
$ ted by citizens Of Memphis as By those wi
. are now its possessors. In another article en-
t. tied .Who lives in Memphis" the edit
q says: s'Many Of the strongest advocates
Il the Coufederacy, who are able to do SO, r.
o leave; they will not stand the coming poHt
All soldiers or attaches Of the contede1a
IT. army, all BANKERS and those connected vi
y t,anking Institutions, Presidents, tcllers, cas-
J. ie1s and accountants, late commander of t
post Col Roper, late Provost Marshal G,
. kisick, telegraph operators with their chi
'e Col Coleman, postmaster, and many of t
best cl1izens, physicians aud other profss5ie
w nlgn have taken their departure. Those "
III lre in Memphis are its civilians, nasu vi
ae whom duties and vindieations Of domestic
'e- baye rendered. business. home, and pursuit
"a literature aud art paramount to attractions
IS military distinctions. All army, munitions
Lio war taken from residents Of the South ut
he opening Of the war, and wisely taken for
d. Co,ftderucy, all money. all bacon, all flo
~. have been removed, leaving our civilians "
~ provisions Of tic ricagcrrst kind and qual
ty.'' These remarls III. undoubtedly true
e'' The provost-marsha1! last evening arres
"o d prominent and wealthy citizen by the HI
'n- Of Tructt. His properly will undoubtedly
'ao conhscated, as he Is said to have been larg
~ instrumental in aiding and urging on the Il
ers Of the rebellion. 1fore Of the same ct
Eon acter urless ithey leave quickly and bet
they arr discovered will undoubtedly 1ect
ln- similar treatment.
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