New York Times US
LATE NEWS FROM MEMPHIS.;
Movements of Guerrilias The Rebel Conscription Suffering Among the Inhabitants Below.
MEMPHIS, Friday, July 4.
At Helena, Ark., there is a bank of guerrillas numbering 2,000, threatening the people with cotton burning and a general destruction of property.
In consideration of this fact, Gen. GRANT has issued orders that wherever loss is sustained by the Government, collections shall be made by the seizure of a sufficient amount of personal property from persons in the immediate vicinity sympathizing with the rebellion, to remunerate the Government losses. Persons acting as guerrillas will not be treated as prisoners of war.
The Mississippi River north of Vicksburgh is reported to be lined with men trying to escape conscription.
Federal boats are continually hailed by persons wanting to be taken aboard with their cotton.
The people everywhere are represented as suffering the greatest hardships and distress.
On an island below White River, 2,500 men who have fled from conscription are united against their oppressors.
The Avalanche appeared this morning as a "bulletin." The proprietors and editors say this change was made in accordance with a late order of the Provost-Marshal, that no paper shall be issued whose editors would not take the oath.
The ram Monarch met the fleet of Capt. DAVIS' one hundred miles this side of Vicksburgh.