Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-27

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Timesl
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-Lieutensnt-Colo
nal Frv. formerly Of Msjor-General McDow-
el'u staff. has been appointed provost-marshal-
general. under the conscripron act, with the
rank of colonel. He win Immediately establish
his headquarters in the War Department. The
order announcing the appointments Tevokes the
old orders appointing deputy p~rovost-marshals
throughout the United States, and 80 much Of
he order as authorizes Simeon Drsper, of New
YORK. 10 act as observation-disclosures under
his old commission, confRiug him in his opera
tons TO the city of New York. The conscrip-
tim law also authorizes the appointment OF q
deputv observation-disclosures in each con-
oressionsl district in the United States, with the
nav and rank of captain, and these appoint
ments viii soon be announced.
General Burnside has received his orders,
making HIM commander of an important de-
pertinent. He has been in consultation with the
military authorities nearly all day, and viii
cave the city tomorrow.
1t is not true that passports are refused. The
| State department continues TO grant passports
to all loyal citizens applying who wil pay the
! legal fee, and, if liable to CONSUMPTION, viii give
bonds to secure substitutes.
At Secretary Stewards diplomatic dinner, the
| guests were Baron Garoidt, the Prussian Minis
ter; n Stoekl, the Russian Minister; Lord
Lyons, the British Minister, and Col Romano,
the Hayden Minister, who were seated by So
nior1ty, according to diplomatic usage. There
were also at the table Secretary Chase, Gen.
Blair, Senators Sumner, Harris, and Morgan
and Judge Otto, assistant secretary Of the int
rior.
The Navy Department hiss advices of impof.
tant captures OF blockade runners, near Smyrna
Florida. & fight ensUed with the enemy OF
shore, who were protecting a vessel m running
in.
Advices from Paris, from an authoritative
source, declare that the refusal TO receive IN
EmperoT's mediation proposition, causes niue
regret, but that nothing viii come out Of 1t.
A decision in the Buell. e0Urt-maTisl is no
vet announced, but limitations of MS c0nyic
ton on some Of the charges are being made i
certain circles,
Quite hsre-up occurred to-day in the Cab
nee. Postmaster-G General Blair bas remove
Clephane, postmaster at Washington, and sp
pointed the collector of internal revenue here f
the vacancy; so Secretary Chase, who denounce
before the President the removal Of his fden
Clephane, has turned around and made the la
ter collector of internal revenue in place Of hi
own successor to the pOstmastership. Later n
ports say that the matter will yet be aoJUsta
without making any change.
WASHINGTON, March l8.-Tbe following ger
eral order has been issued;
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTAETGENERAL'S OFFICE,
I WAsH1EGTON, March II, 1903.
5 General Order No. 675l
It is hereby ordered:
9 I. That Colonel James B. Fry, assistant ADJ
tant-general, United States army, be, and her
{ by is, detailed as provostmaTshslgenera OF Il
United States, in pursuance of section 9TH,
3 the act approved March Sd, 1863, for onroliin
f and calling out the national forces, and for 9th
+ purposes. He is accordingly authorized and 7
e quired to perform the duties Of proyosi-marsha
: general, set forth in the said act, and such 9th
t duties as may properly pertain 20 his Office q
= commune atoms relating to the business q pr
vost-maTshsls and the provisions Of the q
e aforesaid, will be addressed % him.
2. That al appointments which have heret
o fore been made Of provost marshals arc here-
s revoked by order Of the Secretary of War
L THOMAS, A9j't General
o While English journals indulge IN seys
IS criticisms on the letter Of Secretary Seward, 9
e eliniHg the French peace propositions, it is 2
S ticeable that nothing in the way Of uniriend
comment ia official or unofficial sources b
reached our government from France.
r Secretary Chase, when speaking to MS frien
respecting his Tecant visit to New York, says,
e was both agreeable and satisfactory.