Cleveland Morning Leader US
FROM MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, June. 9.
Intelligence was received this morning that as soon as the news of the defeat of the rebel fleet here and the surrender of this city reached St. Frances river, Arkansas, a steamer, acting under Gen. Hindman's orders, went up and down that stream and destroyed several thousand bales of cotton. Some four hundred bales were burned at Madison, Arkansas, about forty miles west of here. Throughout yesterday and last night the city was as quiet as any Northern city. To-day some of the stores are open, and Confederate scrip is being pretty generally refused. There has been no movement either in the fleet or land forces since Friday. It is said that as many as thirty thousand bales of cotton have been burned here. There is not much business being done here, and our currency is left to regulate itself.