Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-01-29

From The Houston Telegraph Dee. -
From Fakes Bulletin VIC learn that M Lew
ia Labsdie was frr zen 10 des!h on The shore of
West bayou, Oh Wednesday last. He WAS cap
sizsd IN a boat duriHg q biitUr noTther, and re-
NAMED ia the wafer seven hours, and in reach
ing shore was unable to walk. Before assist
auee could reach him he died.
The correspondent Of tho Bulletin says that
Mr McIlhenny, Of this city, lost 150 bales cot
ten At the evacuation OF Brownsville.
Mr s. RinksT, Of the BalisiiH, is Just home
from Malan0ros, which Pluce be leit on the
2Sih ult. We copy from that paper mis- notes
By the way
From the best Information we could Obtain
there ware st the time Of our departure some
2500 Federal troops in Brownsville Under com
msnd Of Gen. Dsnn, including a full regiment Of
negroes (cRIled the 26.h Corps Il 8frigHe) com.
mAnded by man named Baker, formerly Of
Lockhart, Texas The commissioned officers
we're eli white men.
The few remaining inhabitants Of Browns
vile were compelled to take lhe oath; we could
learn of bat few that remained. Among those
that made themselves conspicuous in their de-
votion TO the Yankees, vera J, r Palmer and
Geo. Dye, the former having Thised the stars and
/ sIipes ever his building upon the suival Of the
/ FedeTals; The latter was msyor Of the city at
the time of its evacuation.
/ The FsdeHa.s, some weeks or few DAYS before
/ We left, sent sn expedition Of some four bpu-
/ dred troops, a portion Of whom are negroes,
-ander command Of Gel Haynes, up the river, in
one of tho river stesmeTs they had seized, sup
ported by battery of artillery on Shore. We
heard drums beating on tbs other side of the
river, some ten miles below lyamargo, aud we're
informed At that plsce that he steamer had run
aground, ana that the FedeTsls were enesmped
on shore. In Meir We were tod shat deiach-
ment Of twenty E'edeTsis hsd come up 20 Rome
and captured Mr. PfeIffsr, OF Corpus Christi
they found 10 cotton, Is hiEying been crossed
before their arrival. They had returned before
ne arrived At Laredo, on the Mexican side
We found some twenty-fiVa hundred 70 thTeC
thousand bales Of cotton, which had Gil beer
on the road 20 Brownsville, but WIS turned OF
by the teamsseFs snd crossed at that place.
The Mexican towns OF CimsIgs, Meir, Guer
I rsro aud Laredo were almost deserted by tht
!, male population. they having crossed the rive
and organised in bands for me purpose of rob
:. bing and numbering ali ConfsdeTstes. The,
d have a document from Haynes, (foImsriy 0
, Austin) to burn, rob aud destroy, their plum
: der being their pay.
s Weleit Laredo on the 7tll inst, and pssse'
r through Col Bsnayides' camp, fifteen miles OF
1 the San Antonio road, on the same day. IN
n Colonel has some two hunCred men in camp
I
, keep tho Yankees within Tie limits Of Browns
- vile. He has made q stuIiug appeal to ID
psoDle of the frontier to CONS TO his assistance
to which they are responding, for VIC met M
merous squads Of eight, ten and twelve mel
going on 20 join hip1
The general impression among merchants
3. Masanoros seemed 10 be thst the trade vii
/, Texas would cease entirely, but the impressic
: we gained while on the TRIP was that, unie:
= the Yankee force il Brownsville was lsrge
n ! augmented, the trade vita Mexico could
:, kept open BY way Of Etgle pass. Ihe roa'
a to Mzlamoros, via Eagle 7sss and MonseIe
% are said - be splendid.
I, We hive seen report hat Gen. Bnnks III
4. pronised parties who have had their cotton u
. pressed Cno doubt the 20 per eeu!.) By 5'n BE
shat he would aid tham 10 getting It BACK,
!, this, We heard dnotIdng ia lAstsmorosi we Enc
ID that this cotton is mostly in the hands OF Il
Il eign Government creditors.
~ There is no foundation whatever ia the rep'
i that Cortinas, Vidal and Davis are in close p'
: suit OF Bsnsyides As mentioned, we pass
~ through his camp 6flecn niles from Laredo
:, me 9Th inst, and we syt the lesest arrlv
~ y There were no Yankees above Rancho DaV
of below Roma.