Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-05-07
From XVashiaatou.

Special Dispstch to tho Chicago Tines
| WAsHINGToE, April 25 "A special Cabinet
meeting was held to-day ever official dispssehes
received from England ss Persia. Their
nature end Tesult sre Of course unknown.
An officers lieuienant-of of Bsauregard's
staff, was arrested in Washington to-lay, in
civilians dress.
/ An order has been issued from the War-Ds-
psrtment to send to the field al officers of every
grade. who are ft for active service, and to FL
the plsces of sucb officers as ara on dstachpd
duty in cities by officers disabled in the service
for active dsiy
Yesterday the last quota of gresnbscks was
issued 70 psymssters, which completed the
amount necessary 20 pay the whole army Of the
United States up to sud inclusive of the 30th
OF April, 1868. the total sUn being ffty-nins
million seven hundred and sixty Thousand
dollars
Paris correspondence. dated April I0sh, says:
q TIE remarkable feature Of the moment is C
sudden return Of confidence IN the course Of tho
North. Recognition or anything arpe0sehing
it is now absolutely desPsired Of by Southorners
themselves
Forty Thousand invalid, willows, snd navy
pepsieos have been ssksd for sincs the passage
If the set grsutiHg pensions for the present war.
The widovs' application amounted to nineteen
thnusand dollars
James L Addison, for thirty years a clerk in
the sdiutsnt generals ofice. and yeeisrday re-
Heved on the allegation of communicating in-
f'rmation to ths enemy, was to-day removed
from Office.
The new court Of claims viii ? a Wash.
ington May 4lh. All cases trj% -5fa it, under
the new law, ere fual, not goin.z back TO Con-
gTe7s fer approval. rs WAS formerly the case.
Daniel r. Goodloe, late emancipation com
missioner here, has been appointed military
governor of North Carolina
8 Washington special TO the World says:
A partial revolution has been effected in the
Ordnance Bureau Of the Navy Department, in
consequence Of the failure Of the attack on
Charleston, and nav instructions have been is.
sued respSctiug the a-msFent Of The iron clads,
rot Only Of those at Port Royal, but these now
building. Tha Dahlgrsn guns are to be rs-
moved, and an entirely new I3 inch gun espa-
bic of using - ponds Of powder at q load is
20 be substitused. This IS to be done before the
attack on Charleston Is renewed. By mssus
of this ehsngs, a SINGLE effective shot may be
relied upon to breach Sumter It also may be
effective'ely bembardsd a. 9 much greater dis !
tarea. The new guns are low in process Of
construction. hut it IS believed that several /
wrecks win elepss before they can be put in suf |
fcient numhsTs into the Monitors to permit /
renewal Of tie attack on Charleston Il is Tu- /
u9red that st one time Eiesson protested /
The forts ct Charleston. with no better armament /
than they carried. At last ths necessity Of a !
charge has been admitted and acted upon at
the Navy Department
a Washington spseial TO The Timss says;
The case of ths Peterhoff and bar mails is /
viii under consideration. 4 majority of the /
Cabinet is understood to disapprove of the
course finally pursued, holding that the Execu-
i've, IS n whole hes 70 right to interfere with
lie administration of justice, asd that the s.aor
is the sole authorized channel Of
between It and the judiciary. Il
s wall known that The attorney-general has, in
10 elaborate opinion, heretofore maintaiued that
he Executive, legislative, aud iadieisl depart
nents of the Government are coordjnste.
A Washington special to the Times ssys:
Surgeon Wyncoop, Of the Oh army cops, is
udsr close arrest for talking to 3 rebel family
eer cur picket lines, whom ne was allowed 70
ttsnd Professionally, sbOut the movements of
ar csvslry, aud oar military movements eener-
lly. He win be tried by military commits
ion.
A Washington speeisl TO the Herald says:
The President intends TO assign to active
uty in the field every military efiser, of every
rade, who is fit for field service. Their places
re to be filled with those who have, by wounds
sickness, oeen rendered unable TO perform
stive DUTY elsewhere, bus are entirely c)mpe-
at for Office work {