Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-06-08
Letter from Mississippi.
From the Meridian Clarion, Jule /
CANTON, MISS, May %.

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CANTON, Miss, Nay %
The locomotive whistle now falls familiarity
on the ears Of CsntOuisns, as the Central rail
road is now nsvigs6e" to Oxford The 70
pairs on the N. O., J. and g. n. railroad, be-
tween this place and Jackson, will be finished
within the next weak. Col Sam Tate has been
experimenting the reconstruction Of these roads,
and he is q thIough-gOing and successful rail
Tosd man, as you are aware.
a negro man, named Abraham, was hung By
the neck until be WIS dead, dead dead here
he ether day. ADTahsm'5 master lives over
the Big Black, and when the miscsgsnatoTs sp-
Proaclsd his plantation in their last expedition,
be, like prudent eitizsD, concealed his most
valuable effects. Abraham seems 70 have OBJ
tanned knowledge of iheiocAlisy in which the
yaluables WeTs deposited, and Hhsn the enemy
arrived in the neig hDorhOod, he went TO them,
revealed his masters seerot, and conducted them
to the place of eoneoslment
When his new found friends had Dlundered
a0d carried off the effects, Abraham, Tor reasons
unknown, and therefore supposed 70 be bad
ones, did TO. make his exodus with them, bat
iurked ia the sieinity. Bis master sppTehend-
81 him, and sent hin 70 Gen. Adams, with 8
request fhst he w0ald do what be thought
proDsr with him F5T the sake Of example,
Abraham wns ordered 70 suffsr death, and It is
hoped that bis rad end may prove warning 70
I I - -sssaharcus dsIkie5.
Mr.. Rose, s former citizsnof Kinds county,
! died Of apoPlezy yesterday morning. BsioIe
the commencement Of the war he was very
wealthy, and negroes belonging to ais estate
are now in Georgia, though no one, save him
self knew or now ksO5Fss IN what portion Of
the SssJs they are.
Horse stealing Is the latest game Of ANUS
meut instituted in this section Almost every
night some three or four animals are stolen, and
you cannot 90 the shortest distance 10 the eoan-
try without nesting with somsbodY who wants
to know if you have seen anything Of mule or
horse Of sems description.
The scoundTal3 tsgs become very bold IN
sheir movements, IS you will agree, when tell
you that = gentleman, living fifteen miles from
here, had his muls stolen, and brought to this
place, put no in the public stable, and offsred
for sale. Tha owner traced the animal to the
place, found it, and led it home, without a word
to the thief, who saunteIed about town sill tbs
military po.enss!e arrested aud committed him
to prison
The stringent oriers Of Gen. Wssh5urne, the
Yanhee cozlmandsr at Memphis, viii be adopted
By Gen. Slocum at Vicksburg, ii is said. If
Gen. Slocon viii enforce the order it cannot
iDjure rs. The blockade runners are mostly
ladies of the lower class-if there is such 8 dis
tinotioR in this Democratic G0yeHnmsnt-and
they bring ont nothing that is a necessity Cal
leOes 9u0 lAueS dLy gOO0S compose me -stOcE
ia trade Of those persons.
You viii be estoEisbed when tell you that It
would be refreshing TO see one Of the sweet lit
tie homsspun dresses, 50 common in the ints-
nor, sweeping along our paYsmsnEs. Yankee
fabrics are quite as nueh the rage here as in
he pslmiess days Of Uneie Sam. One Is start
led rom his pious msditasions IN church BY the
ruslling of slks, and ths patteF OF feet incasad
in dsinly slippers OF the best Yankee make;
while to 90 shopping, the fsvoriss ante bsllEEs
pAstime Of ladies', Is in fun vogue here, "oven
to this dsy."
We are 70 hsve a tIi-weekly mail next week
from jackson. HONEiNARD.