Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-09
the Upper mississippi and rhe North.

west.
The Argus Of yesterday derives the following
information from a gentleman who arrived III
Memphis DAY before yesterday from tne upper
Mississippi;
Nearly Gen. Popes entire command has gone
Up the Tennessee from New Madrid, as has al
ready been announced, only 1000 men, under
Ger. PIummer, remaining At that point. This
man Plummer was formerly a colonel, and sew
eral months since commanded the post at Cape
Girsrdeau.
Island 10 is garrisoned with 500 men, and at
Hickman :b8g6 are 40O-halt cavalry The la5,
ter ars continually securing Obion county. az
resting prominent Secessionists VINO have been
pointed out to them by traitors, and compelling
them 10 either take the oath OF allegiance &c the
Lincoln government Or remain 10 close condne-
ment. They ere daily perpetrating tho crosses.
outrage5, both on person and property.
Our Informant related one instance 81 tho
courtesy Cd with which the Federal officers treat
ladies One lay last week q party Of officers.
gai,y caparIsoEsd, wGT0 riding through HEX
man, when spying st a short distance o group
of Young ladies', all waved their handkerchief.
tbs high-spirited "6ecesh" girls, by no means
complimented By this exhibition Of Yankee im-
pud6ncs, produced a Confederate flag, and waved
It until the officers had disappeared.
The next day all, foUr in number, were Arrest
ed and ssut to The guard, and compelled 70 re-
main there two days, being only released lpgB
taking the oath OF allegiance. The whole affair
was regarded as an immense joke By the rufGan
soldiers, who don't consider themselves afraid Of
any woman. Two or the ladies were @ Ei.s7
French aDdR Miss Hughes. The names of the
others our informant does not !~ecCliscs
ArumsI having reached the FederaI5 abcrt
ten days since that or Euubca.s designed pay
Ina them a visit, ogts-5 were hastily dispatched
to 81. Louis fer srfili5iis.s ior Island 10 and Co
lunbgs, who were at once sent
At last accounts there were SIX guug0at7 and
eight or tea mortar boats above Fort Pillow.
Among :he former were he Benton, C~acou5eles,
and PittsbUrg.
Al the neTro5s who FED from the plantations
on the Arkansas side 20 the Federal camps, as
well as those coaxsd and forced from their mas
tors, have been sent up ths Tennessee river,
doubtless to work on flTJicatl0ns-
Almost the entire country between Point
Pleasant, Byrd's Point end Cape Girardeau, Is
under water. The railroad leading cut from
ByTd's Point 20 Charleston, thence in the direc-
ton Of New Madrid, has been nearly destroyed
oy the food Byld's Point is now a point under
watey-Dos even a Liuc0luits could live there
Cairo is little better than drowned out AS
desert a sinking ship, AVE the Cairoites
deserted thgir Erst hOOrs and sought security on
the second. Anew troops are stationed at CAIRO.
The papers containing accounts a the first
Days Ggtr at SJiloh were not allowed 70 Do sold
at Madrid, Island 10 and Columbus, in C51ss
Of the untsvOrable tenor of the news
late northern paper states that all the FsdeTsls
wounded in tBis battle have been discharged
from the service. This, however, we presume,
does not spply &c those slightly wounded.