Memphis Daily Appeal CS
SYNOPSIS OF THE NEWS
The St. Louis Republican contradicts the report that Colonel SHALER, of the Confederate army, was shot and killed by a Texan soldier near Batesville, Arkansas.

The Daily Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia CS
LATER FROM THE SOUTH
THE GUERRILLA ATTACKS ON STEAMERS—A NEW YORK COTTON BUYER KILLED.
The Federal steamer Gladiator, plying between Memphis and Helena, Ark, was boarded by guerrillas on the 18th inst., and Wm. R. Babcock, a cotton buyer, of the firm Babcock Bros. & Co., killed Several others were wounded. The boat was then set on fire and The Memphis correspondent of the New York Herald, writing on the 16th, says:
This attempt of the guerrillas to out off our communication and to us out induced Gen. Sherman to issue orders for carrying into operation Special Order No. 24. Accordingly the names of forty-two families having husbands in the rebel army have been put in a lot any, and twenty drawn out, ten for each boat fired into. They will have three days' notification to leave Memphis, and retire twenty-five miles from our lines. I learn from Col. J. H. Anthony, our popular and (efficient?) Provost Marshal, that the notification will positively be served on every one of the twenty tomorrow morning.
A later letter gives a list of twenty-seven ladies and seven men, all ordered out of Memphis for the above affair.