| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| May 8, 1862 |
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| A remarkable report from Cairo |
| The following, which we take from the
correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial, ***** |
| Cairo, April 28. There are 5,000 bales of cotton, 1,000 hogsheads sugar and
20,000 barrels molasses now lying upon the levee, at Memphis, of which the cotton will be burned, and the sugar and molasses will
be rolled into the river on the approach of the Union forces. The
citizens and newspapers are opposed to burning the city, but soldiers
and country people favor it. {If the above
numbers are correct, it would require about 200 cars to carry away the
cotton, 15 cars for the sugar and 125 cars for the molasses -- about
23 trains of 15 cars each.} |
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| The Memphis & Ohio, and
Memphis
& Charleston, and Mississippi & Tennessee Railroads, are connected by union
tracks, to give greater facilities for moving rolling
stock and prisoners in case of a
Union
attack. All the old iron and brass was being collected and forwarded
below. |
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