Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-06-09

We have New Orleans papers as late as the
2sth Of May. The Era Of that date gives the
foIlowiuR account of The recent destruction of
eight steamboats, and two sehooneTs:-MObtte
TfibaHs
At q few minutes before 8 o'clock last night
Ere broke out on board the sseamer BlAck Hawk,
lying as the foot OF Bienville street, and before
tho flames eonld be stayed, this, with seven
other steamers, and two small lUggeTs or seh00u-
ers, were totally destroyed. In less than thres
quarters Of an hour sitter light was first seen on
the Black Hawk, Eve stsamers-the Black
Hawk, New Orleans, Fswn, Time and Tide and
Belle Creole, apparently lsshed tcgethsr-Aoas-
cd down the river one msss OF Ere. After get
ting quarter Of mile or so from the landing,
au explosion occurred on one Of the boats from
some ammunition on board.
The following are the burned bOAts-the
Black Hawk, Meieur, New Orleans, Bslls Lee,
Fsuu, Empire Parish, Timo and Tide and
Bslle Creole
The Black Hawk was said to be loaded ready
70 leave in the morning In consequence of tbs
high rates of steamboat stock at present, the
loss viii prove quite heavy, probably as mach
as $500, 600
When the explosion occurred there wss =
tremendous rush ever the leves during which
boy or m&a, it is not exactly known wbieh, fsll
through the wharf and was drowned before as
sisssnce could reach him.
Concerning the suppression of the PieayEHs
and Le C0ETrier FrsHeais the same paper
says:
The commanding general of The department.,
by special order, hiss suppressed the New Or
leans PtcaynHs and Ls Courier Francois
We haiieye hat this ac!icn viii receive the cor
disl approval of every loyal man in Louisiana,
who has watched ths course of these papers End
is acquainted with their disloyAl character
The French COHTTisr was an out-and-out Sc
cession sheet, violently abusive toward the Gov
efnnaeut and aeeHing day after day with ridi
cuIe and Insult toward the cause of the Uaian
and its supporters. Since the session of tho
Constitutional convention, it has been especially
violent and insulting; il even went to the ex
tent Of publishing a certain List Of members
against whom It invoked not only public repre-.
heDsion, bat mob violence, because they voted
againEt an 0dious Pro-slaveTy amendment TO
certain elause of the constitution. Day after
day it published extras with false Tabel news,
calculstsd to excite the public mind and to
bring contempt upon the Union eause We
presume its obseurity and the fact that it was
published in the French language, saved it long
af!eT it should have been stopped. For our
part we have long wondered thar the Govern
ment would tolerate so Violsnt an advocate of
the rebellion within lis lines.
The PicGyuas, although more cautious, was
more dangerous, and, in cur judgment, has
done more than all other Influences combined,
to Keep eliva secession feeling, ana 10 fan secss-
| sion hopes IN New Orleans. Protesting neu-
tTalty, its Cfce wes E pestilent nest of treason.
! Too coWaTdly to express its own opinions, its
columns were daily crowded with obnozions ex-
tracts from C0pperhead journals, and lis " ex-
| tFas WsYe the vehicle for the widest and most
exaggerated secession runners that reached the
city by the " grapevine telegraph" a Southern
pspeE, c0nfaiaing fabulous intelligence of some
! great Confederate victory" was its especial
| delight. This Immediate cause of its suppress
sion, we believe, was ths indiscreet haste with
which it spread the bogus proclamation of the
/ President before the people here, in sn extra
the same cause, in fact, for which the New
York RSrld and JOSrzai of Cemmeres seem to
have been shut up by the Governments.
Gan. Banks delivered speech, on the 9th,
before the State convention, in which he highly
applaudsd the radical measures of that usuTping
| body,
The Era is certain that the ConfedeTacy is on
| its very last legs. 1t will be observed however
from the following, that what IS going to utterly
sztinguish il has not yet quite taken place;
I'VE believe. Git says) that the days Of the
boAsted Southern C0Bie1erzcy sfe Well-nigh
numbered. The armies of the Union are NOV
ing on, and the final great stTuggla is in actual
hTogr9ss. The results of il thus far lesYe little
or no doubt Of the final result With Grant
successful in Virginia, with Sherman successful
in Northern Georgia, and with Gen Banks sue
cessul west of the Mississippi there is little left
On which the rebels can build further extyava-
CANT expectations OF success"
MT. Blaoilte Sssas0ist.5, one OF le ealpO8E OF t2e
CsHgTieT had hssn expelled from the city and
had left for PAscsgonla.