Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-06
COL. ST. LEaEn enErrELL.

Lsger GrenfsH, who IS now inspec.oT-gsnsfa
Of caYslry TO Bragg's army. This afternoon
made his seqEaintAnce. consider him one O
the most extraordinary characters ] over met
although be is . member of q well-knoHn EGG
| lish family, he seems 10 have devoted his whole
lie 70 the exciting career Of soldier of fortune
He told me that in early life he had served thres
years in French lancer regiment, and had
risea from private to be = sous-heHieRsnt. III
afterWsrd became Q sort Of consular agent a
Teugier, uader old Mr.. DfRmmond Hay. Hsv
irg aeqaiged perfect knowledge Of Arabic, hG
entered The service of Abel Kadsr, and unde,
that renowned chief be fought the French fol
four years and half st another time of hi,
life he fitted cut yacht, and carried On pTi
vAte war with the Riff pirates He w65 brigade
| nsjor ii tho Turkish contingent CGriHQ the Cfi
mean war, and had sone employment. in the In
dian mutiuy. He has also been engaged in wal
| in Buenos AyreS and the South American re-
publics. At sn esEly period of the present trou-
bes he ran the blockade and joined the Confsd.
crates He was sdjatsnt. general aad righi
hand man TO the celebrated J9hn Morgan fol
eight months Even Ia this army, which
aboauds with foplhaTdy and desperate charae.
ters, be has acquired the admiration of AL ranks
by his reckless daring Ead gallhn!ry In tie 6eld
Both Gems Polk and Bsagg spoke to me Of
him IS most excellent and useful officer, be-
| sides being man who Gevef lost an opportu-
nIty Of trying to throw his life away. he is just
the nan TO succeed with the army, and Rm0ng
| the soldiers his fame for bravery has outWeighed
his unpopulsrity as rigid diseiplinafian He
is the terror Of all ahsentees stEsggters and do
sertois, and Of al commanding officers who are
unable to produce for bis inspection the number
| Of horses they have been drawing forage for.
He looks about forty Five, but Ia reality be is
| tfty-six He Is rather tall thin, VeTY HiTy and
active with jovisl Eaglsh expression Of coun-
tenarce; but ha has q wild, rowing look, which
| is common smene the Arabs. When be came to
me- hs was dressed in 40 Englsh stuff blue coat,
and be had on red cavalry f0Eegs cap, shicu
| latter, Gen. Pelk told nee, be always Tore in
action, so Masking himself mere conspicuous.
| He talked much TO me about John Morgan,
| whose marriage be had tried 10 avert, and Of
which he spoke with much SORROW. He do
clared that Morgan was eneIYsted by mari
moDy, and would never be lhe same msn that
he wss. He said that. in one Of the celebrated
| telegraph tsppiugs in Kentucky, Morgan, the
operator and himself were seated for twelve
hours on clay bank during violent storm,
bu. the interest vas so intense That tbs time
passed ike three h0urS.
MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK CLEBURNE.
Twas entertained by MsjoF General Cleburne,
vino gave me his history. Ho is tae son of a
doctor ct or near Bahincolg. Hs ran away
ffou honss at seventeen and enlisted in Her
Aejesty's 4lss regiment of foot, in which be
served three years ss private and corporal,
Buying his discharge, he emigTsts1 to Al ksr-
sss. At the outbreak Of the war he was elected
captain of bis company, then colonel Of his
regiment, and has since, by his distinguished
services in all the Western campaigns, been sp-
pointed to The command of = divisi0D-.hs high
est military rank attained by foreigner Ia she
Confederate service BE told me hs ascribed
his advancement mainly TO the useful lessons he
bad learned in The ranks of the British army.
lie is now thirtv-fi years old, bat his hsir
having tuIned gray, hs looks Older Generals
Brsgg and Hs;dse both spoke Of him to ms in
terms of shs highest praise, and said she had
risen entirely on his own merits"
GENERAL BEAUREGARD,
is mzr of middle hight, about AZ years of eye
He would be very youthful in appearance were
Is Tot for ibe color Of his hair, which is much
grayer than his earlier photographs represent.
Some persons account for the sudden manner in
which his bsir turned gray By allusion to bis
cares and aGzieties during the past two years I;
but the real and lees romansic reason is to be
found 10 ihs rigidity CT the Yankee blockade,
which interrupts the arrival of articles Of toilet.
He has 8 long, straight nose, handsome brown
eyes end dark mostsche without whisksrs, snd
he is extremely polite He is . Nav Odeaus
creole, aud Frenehis is his native language. He
sueks to me of the inevitable necessity, sooner
or later, of war between the Northern States
and Great Bsissin; and be remarked that if
England would Join tie South at once, the
Southern armies relieved of the present block
sds ard enormous Yankee pressure, would be
able TO march right into the Northern States,
| and by occupying their principal cities would
| give the Yankees so much employment that
| they would be unable 10 spsre many men for
| Canada. BE acknowledged that in Mississippi
General Grant had displayed uncommon vigor,
and met with considerable success, corsiderisg z
that he hsd no great military capacity.
| He regarded the question of iron elads versus
fors as settled, especially when tie FIRE from the
latter is plunging. If The ether monitors had
| approached IS close IS the Ksokuk they would
| hsve met the same fate. He said his official or
! dsrs both from the Government snd the city
council were that be was to allow Charleston to
be laid in ashes sooner than surrender it +; the
| ConfedeIates beirg unanimous in their deter.
minstion that whsseFer happened the capital ol
| South Carolina should never have to submit to
| The fate of New Orleans. But he diG not, how.
ever, anticipate any such alternative.
HON. }. P. BENJAMIN.
Hsis stout dspper little msri evidently ol
| Hebrew extraction, snd Of undoubted talent
| He is Lousianiau, aud was Senator for thal
/
lieve be is accounted very clever lawyer and
q brilliant orator. BE told me that be bad
| filed the onerous post of Secretary Of Wal
| during the first seven months of the secession
snd can easily believe that he found it no sir
ecure We converssd for . long time about the
origin OF secession, which he Indignantly de-
MED was brought about, as the Yankees assert
by the interested Vaccinations Of individuals
He declared that, for the lsst ten ysare, the
| had oraOiv dool1rad II
/ Congress what would take place; bat the North
erneTs never would believe they were in earn
est, and had often replied by the taunt, ''Fhe
South was so bound to, and depandent On tbs
/ North, that she couldn't be kicked out Of tbs
Union"
lie said that the Southern armies had always
been Immensely ousnumbeEed IN all their bat
Ties, and that until recently General Lee could
never muster more thsa sixty thousand effect
ige men.
Mr.. Bsniamin told me that bis property had
lateIy been confscSted in New Orleans, and
that his two sisters had been turned, neck and
crop. into the streets there, with ouly one trunk
which they had been forced to carry themselves
Every ons was afraid to give them shelter, ex
cept an Engliahwomsn, who protected then
until they could get cut OF the city,
Taking of tho just admiration which the En-
elish newspapers accorded 10 StoneTal jack
son, ne eAptesoeQ, noHefeA5 hls az St9nAS1AAS I :
tia. they should have praised so highly hi
| ! strategetie skill in outmaneuvering Pops q
, aaDassss, aud Hooker at ChRncelloTsviIle, &C.
tally ignoring that in both cases the movement
were planned and ordered By Gen. Lse, for when
. t{Mr Benjamin saidl JacksOa had the mos
''childlike reverence"
ii Mr.. Benjamin complained Of Mr. Russell Q
1.-The Times for holding him up 10 fame as
"eamhler"--a story which he understood Mi
{. RasselI had learned from Mr. Charles Sannc
! As Washington But even supPosing Ghss thi
was really the case, Ar Benjamin was Of OpiE
ion that such revelation OF his private life wa
; in extremely bad taste. after Mr. Russell ha
partaken Of his (Mr. BenjAmin'E) hospitality :
] Montgomery.
PRESIDENT DAVIS.
! Mr.. Jefferson Davis struck me as lookin
! older than Ie1pected. He is only ffty-si1, b