Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-05-07
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Special Dispafeh to The Chicago Times
Tho enrolled militia of franklin county have
been called out and ordered 20 rendezvous at the
town Of Washington. Many other couEtry reg
iments viii be ordered o0t 1t Is great impo-
sition upon faFrqers. taking them away rom
work st seed-time. The whole thing is fraud
on the peop'e, designed to pat money in she
pockets Of favoritss and charcoal officers. The
cost will be heavy to both the State and general
Government.
Tbeiate order Of Cen. Curtis. refusing to let
the negroes be tsken out of the State without
military permit IS the result Of certain articles
in tia Nav York Tribune, falsely charging that
negroes hsye been kidnapped in Missouri aud
taken for sale TO Kentucky. The 6ifsir is sn
Abolition trick for freeing negroes in Missouri.
Administration men say Gen. BGTnside's or
dor No. is soon t, be applied to this depart
mens,
Steamboats, have resumed their trips down ihs
river.
The rebels are retteating from the State, at
latest adycss, and the scare Is subsiding.
Under the prctsxt that negroes sTe being kid.
Mapped in Western Missouri, and sold IN the
Indian Territory additional facilities viii be
given 30 Kansas jsyhswIsrs to Rtsal enough TO
FL up the negro brigade fer Jsnnison.
ST LOUIS April % The correspondent Of
the Democrat with Gen. VandeYsr's command,
says:
AT about 10 o'clock on Monday night a
rebel regiment under Col. Newton, the advance
guard of Mermaduke's army, which was then
TetIeating from Cape Glra~dsau, was surprised,
tbree miles south of jackson, while cooking
supplies and lettering around their csmp-iEes
Two small bowiizsrs. loaded wish mUsket balls
and hauled within thirty yards Of ihsm, were 81
mulsansously dischiaged killing snl wounaing
q large number AZ the same time the lst Iowa
sulrr rohu thaua nd 1f mas nf fhrfr
entire regiment It is supposed, escaped All
who were not killed were taken prisoners All
their cemp eqfipsgs and several thousand dol
lars worth OF ato!en plumber were captured
Early The n xt m0Tning General Yendever ad.
vaneed, aud saw the main body Of ths enemy in
full retreat. HIS Immediately followed, keeping
up a continual artillery IRE in their rear.
At two o'clock General McNeiil ioiusd Gen.
Vandever, and tie combined foroe continued
the pursuit. Firing was heard al The morning,
and it is scarcely possible that ths rebels can es
csps with their booty.
Gen Msrmadube's command consists Of Mis-
souTians, ArkansaDs, and Texans. They lefs /
Powhssan, Ark, on tho 15th, ostsnsibly TO 0c- !
cBpy Pilot Knob and Cape Girardsau IS q base /
Of opsrss0ns for the projected expedition under |
Gen. Price this summer but really for piunder. !
The force was composed Of four brigades, under /
Gen. Shelby and COlonsls BaTbudge and /
Greere. They had ten pieces of artillery.
The lst Nebraska infantry, under Col Bon |
ner, did most Of the fighting IN the rebel attack |
on Cape GiraTdsau, and behaved with great gal |
lantTy They wsre posted IN the woods about
milo from town, and kept Marmsduke's whole /
force ia check, while the guns from the forts /
played upon them, Doing considerable execu- /
lion. The rebel batteries did no isjuTy TO the !
Town. TIE eueny's loss is about sixty killed /
and f4o hundred wounded