Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-05-04
NORTHERN ITEms.
Ero.. .y'o-fhcra and .7s'r Orleans Paper

FrOas .T-orfErrH and .Ve'r Orleans Papers
The New Orleans True Delta of the 25sh ha
an editorial saying the United States is on tn
verge of g war with England and probably
Franco.
Hunter compliments Dupont on the msgnif
cent manner in which he handled the irOn-cladl
at Charleston.
Wendell Phillips, in an address in Boston, de
elared that the average arrests for drunkenness
in thss city, for The last three years, was sever
teen thousand yearly. There are forty-tw,
criminals cut Of every one hundred men in Bos
ton.
Numbers of young officers who have seer
service in the war, and have resigned for vari
ocs causes, are about to enter the Mexican army
having been offered superior rank to that they
filed in the United States army.
Ben. Wood IS about to revive The New York
Daay Nqrs.
General Ro5eerans is putting the Cumberland
into a strong state Of defense, for the grand and
final struggle Of the rebellion, which he is con-
WINGED Tennessee viii be the thestor Of
-Four thousand men are constantly at work
in the Cbarlestown navy yard.
The WorId Of the I4th calls Bsauregard " the
most marvellous engineer Of modern times. By
his genius and professional skill he has erected
batteries in Charleston harbor which would
sink oil the wooden fleets Of the world, and he
has succeeded, moreover, in driving back the
most impenetrable iron-clad feet afoat. There
is no danying what this man has done, uupslst-
able though it may be TO the Northern people"
The Portland AdDertissr says the steamer
North American, at that port from Liverpool,
has brought seventeen American captains Of
merchantmen, eleven Of whom sold their ships
abroad on account Of immense war risks, and
two who were shipwrecked.
The London Times remarks that in one of the
latest American ministerial dispatches the opin-
ion is expressed that the officers Of the Federal
navy are inferior to Southern commanders; the
misgiviugs, continues the Times, exchanged
between Hr. Seward and Mr.. Adams, are not
.unfounded.
By exhausting the means Of constructing
fifty Alabamas in fitting out old worthless YES
sells, the Times says, the mercantile marine of
the North swims the ocean as defencelss sgainst
the two ships Of the enemy as a school Of her
rings chased By two sharks. The North might
have been supplied with ten times The number
furnished the Confederates.
The Times says that although the British fur
nished the Alabama and Florida, the Conftde-
ats did not bay Captain Semmes or lbs skill.
The Liverpool Post Of March both, says the
privateer Southerner, built at Stockholm, has
been launched On the Ter. She is the largest
iron vessel ever built there, length 294 feet 9
iOcbes, tunnege 1853 1874, old measurement
Her builders have orders on hand from Liver
pool for 5000 tuns iron shipping.
The New York World predicts a Democratic
in the s,ate Of Ohio in the coming fall
Of . 900 Il. 10000.
At Cairo, the famous 10th Illinois regiment
has again mutinied, refusing to march without
being paid. Their destination was Vicksburg.
They were PIT under guard on board a trans
port and sent down the river.
We notice that the APPEAL of the sd was
received in New Orleans, ard its contents re-
published on The 9th ult., in an extra Of the
Bee,