Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-31
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Correspondence Of the Memphis Appeal

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Special Correspondence Of the Memphis Appeal
RIcHxosD. January "A, 1861
Neither house Of Congress has been in session todsy.
We have not received & ielo gram Of any kind Tie
uewsnongsrs are at fault The reliable gentleman has
gone into bankruptcy. The rain is over, but q leaaan
SKY ssu o~vsrhangs he city, and the paremsnts are yet
eaammy aud sticky with mud. It might be said that
Richmond is glun. Idon't see how the letter writer's
4 Hermes and p. W. A. and the rest Of them, are
% get up their usual letters. Ihave painful misgivings
lhat I shsl break down myself. V5yoas.
The principal topics Of conversation everywhere IS
the publication in the NatioRel Tztsltgeae~ Of the in or.
ceptcd dispatches captured with young Sanders OF the
harbor OF Charleston. INota bena, that Seward showed
his sagaelty in making the National Iateliigsaeu the We
hiele Of giving them to the world. Had they frs: ip
peared In what is understood to be The government pr
gan, the Warrington ChronisIs or the Herald or the
Philadelphia Isqrrs. or any press Of the North their
authenticity would have been disputed at once, not Only
in Europe but by many persons among the Yankees
themselves. These journals, one sud al, have estab
Hsbed for themselves, Ike Sir Agrippa, such reputation
for lying that Il is dihieult to know what one may be
reve ta their columns. But the National IatshgencH,
though sadly fallen from its high estate under Gales &
seaton into a condition Of almost dwelling imbecli-y,
and wholly lost to all ideas Of Independence, has still re-
tanned q sert of reputation for truth at least it had when
last It was known to be IN existence, for al tbs world
had taken up the idea that it was very dead, and the
publication Of the Sanders dispatches is regarded al q
sort Of resurrectiOnl What is most extraordinary
about these ispatches-indeed utterly ineomprehensi
ble-s. that young Sanders knowing their Importance,
Csnd, If he did not properly appreciate this, he should
never have been entrusted with them4 should not have
destroyed them when the means Of destruction was so
ready and so irrsmedisble. In the first place, the pa
pers should have been shot;ed at the start, to be thrown
overheard, with an slacyity for sinking, at a moments
warning; but supposing this proper precsution TO have
been neglected, could he not have found a bit Of iron, e
bolt-head, a clamp, the link Of a chain, to b. tied to
them in case Of extremity, and dropped them over the
vessels side Bus there were other means Of destHc-
ton. Where was the cooks galley that be might not
have thrust them into the Are AID why mighins not
have torn them into ten thousand pieces before the
Yankee blockaders could board his craft and take hin
prisoneri Tbs whole business Is a puzzle, soluble only
on the hypothesis Of unaeeountable stupidity in the
boy, or else downright t~reachery, which would seem i'm.
possible. Then the public comes back upon Messrs
Benjamin, Mallory and Memminger, and asks why they
ontrust papers which ought not 10 fall into the enemy's
hands to an inexperienced youth Or 50 entFust-
ing them, why did not these gentlemen cause
the same to be written in eypherG Is cryptic.
gfaplN an Occult EeltHce IN tlt othtra navy anu
Treasury Department. In the War Department the
signal corps makes it q special branch of tud Mr.,
Mallory was supposed to be quite an expert in the art Of
secret writing. and was said to have devoted hours to
inventing mystic a~lphabets, which One hours, not the 81
phabets) might have been hotter employed in putting
the Confederate navy upona better footing And yet
when there is need Of his lore, he does not let it sppear.
Unhappy mani with regard to tho disclosures made to
the enemy in these dispatches they are not so moment
Gus as seriously to endanger the cause at home or
abroad, but they will subject the government to some
Inconvenience and expense in making necessary a change
Of agents in Europe, and they viii naturally cause a
good deal Of anxiety among our own people lest far
more important secrets may be exposed by this exceed
ngly loose way Of managing our foreign correspond
euce.
The Wig Of this morning has an excellent article
which, an sure, viii reflect the sentiment of the whole
Coufederacy outside Of North Carolina on the subject of
the recent proceedings of the North Carolina Legis-
lature.
The remains Of the gallant and lsmented General
Wheat, who was killed at Cold Harbor during the battles
before Richmond last sumRer, were removed to-day,
with funeral solemnites st the Monumental church, but
whether they were Inferred at one of eur cemeteries or
are to be taken to Texas, I could not ascertain. As it
was understood that his dying request was to be buried
on the field, the removal of the body by his friends ere
aied some surprise. DIXIE.