Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-05-05
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Special Correspondence Of the Memphis Appeal
RICHMOND, April 25, 1868.

ARTTER EBWM EbkOhaI IUNGs
Special Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal
RICHMOND, April 25, 1868.
We hear strange things from the North con
cerning Richmond. The bread not, they say
was gotten up by women Of the better classes
of tho community, whose children were starv-
ing; ladies, even, of the highest respeetability
ard F. +. VS. were engaged in it, together will
large nUmber Of soldiers wives, who were
cruelty neglected By the Government-more-
over, they declare that the army was greatly
demoalized in consequences, and that the troops
of General Lee swoTe loud wicked osths, Ike
the army in Flanders, that they would not 6ghi
the Yankees while their wives and little ones
were perishing for food, but would rather turn
against JEFF. Davis and overthrow the Con-
fede1ate authorities The Northern people take
great comfort FROM this startling intelligence
| We hear, also, that Gen. George W. Randolph
is the peoples candidate for Governor
of vnrginia--'E Eastern Virginia as contradis
;inguished from that mighty State of Western
Virginia, which has Pierpont for its Governor
and whose Treasury was first supplied by rob.
bing the poor crazy people Of the Weston luna
tic ssylm of the money that had been deposited
in the bank of Weston for their support. The
Yankees tell us, too, that the rebels are certainly
evscuatng Richmond, not hurriedly, it is true,
nor 10 such manner as to attract notice, but
slowly and surely, SO that some fine morning in
the month of May or June, such of US as have
cur home here viii wake up and find Memmin-
gar & Co. clean gone off to parts unknown, and
the confederate capital suddenly translated,
like LOrett's ehspel, no one shall say whittier +
Strange intelligence this, beyond doubt, and
wholly beyond the knowledge of your CORE
spondeut who must have been sleeping this
twelve month
The principal topic of conversation to-day
has been the killing of AR. Dixon, clerk of the
house of representatives. I fud on reading
over the reports of the tragicaI occurrence in
the local columns of the five daily papers of
Richmond this morning, all Of them conflicting,
that the only point in which, was in error, in
my account of it given yesterday, was in rep
resenting Mr.. Dixon as having drawn a revolver
whereas he was only armed with pair Of Der
ringers. Ford, the wretched culprit, was ex-
amined this morning before the mayor, but the
crowd was so dense in the court room and in
deed around the building, that could not
get within hearing distance, and cannot
therefore undertake to state the nature
of the evidence against Kim. There is said
to be soma disagreement smong the witnesses
as to which of the two combatants fred the irst
shot. The threatening letter and the deliber-
staly formed purT to kill, IS expressed
therein, ere not led. But the circumstance
of the first shc .,ill, doubtless, be the turning
point in the case, and on this fhe defense of the
criminal viii rest. The counsel employed By |
Ford ere men of high legal ability-Judge VII !
liam W. Crump and the Hon. George W. Ran.
doph, late Secretary Of War, and they win GER
tainly leave nothing untried 10 save their client
from tie just punishment Of his dark deed. In
the house of representatives, last night, eloquent
tributes to the character of the late Mr.. Dixon
were delivered by Messrs Hsrtridge and Wright
Of Georgia, Curry of Alabama, and Others To-
day the dead body was brought to the old hall
Of Representatives, where it lay under gusrd Of
honor, until the Southern train started, when
i was sent in charge Of special committee to
Georgia. The body was embslmed previous
to being enclosed in metallic sarcohbagus,
and the face, which was visible to persons en-
.ering the chamber, wore very placid and nat
lral appearance. This morning, Mr.. Lamar,
ate assistant to Mr.. Dixon, wes elected to the
,lerksbip thus suddenly vacated.
We are still without news Of any sort, either
rSm Suffolk or Fredericksburg The passage
If the Rsppahsnnock at Port Royal was &C
,omplished by eight or ten thieving Yankees,
Who robbed hen rooss or two and returned
,aek across the river without loss of time.
It is beautiful day, balmy with the sweetest
,reath of spring, and bright with the richest
unshipe, which turns the tender leaves of the
nsple and the poplar, just beginning to display
themselves, into richer green. Even the taw-
~ river looks lovely in such light.
There has just been parade Of seven com
anies five hundred men) in the Capitol square,
nd as write, the music OF the band invites
ne TO come out snd join the fifteen hundred or
wo thousand strollers who arc promsnadiDg to
is marches and quicksteps
Congress will pretty surely adjourn in all,
ext week, possibly by Wednesday, the 29h.
DIXIE.