The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-12-26
Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL.
COAL SKE T G. H E s.
MEMPHIS. Dec. 9th. I

hEhfHlS, DeC. OH, 1OOO.
DEAR Lutte From Cairo hore there
was nothing worthy of note. There is
the same appearance, only little more
so, which the country bore in 1850. No
perceptible improvement except here.--
While La Crosse, Red Wing, Prescott,
Hastings and St Paul, have sprung into
cities, this naturally most beautiful coun-
try is growing up to shrubs and weeds,
and more than that it will ever remain
so, as long as it is cursed with the pecu-
liar institution of the South. 1t is really
shame. Memphis is classic
name, and has many pleasant historical
associations connected with It. The city
is handsomely situated on quite an eleva-
ton Oh tho east bank of the great river,
249 miles below Cairo. 1t has grown
remarkably within the two years past,
aud it is all owing to the spirit OF North
ern enterprise. There are many North
ern men here, but they smother their hui
mauity, and bow before tie great Moloch.
If northern men only would stand up
and maintain their rights rs men, all
would be right. But they are willing to
do anything to please the South, and
none so much as our poor souled degen-
crate democrats. | visited yesterday and
to day every part of the city. Saw
many cockades and blue rosettes, prirci-
pally worn though by South Caroliaians,
Georgians and Mississippians. I hear
many violent discussions on the Union
and secession. Negroes are thick here.
Many of them are WHITE. Think of
that, vhite niggers! The panic has crush
ell d,wn, Frustrated everything here
The business men are ali aispirited and
curse the politicians, brokers and demo
Gratis. 1t is all their fault. When it will
end God only know. 1t is conceded
here that if there is secession there will
be civil war, and in case of civil war
Memphis is ruined. There are many
fine blocks of brick, some of stone.-
The Overton House, not quite finished
isa splendid structure of brick and iron
1t covers one entire block and five stories
! high. 1t has n fine observatory on the
| top. 1t will be the finest Hotel in the
South. There is an immense quantity of
Cotton lying about in different parts of
the city. The receipts thus far this year
have been 100000 bales, which is less
than & at of last year at this time, where
as tho traders expected much moro. And
ia case Of secession they will lose the
king" here entirely.
The merchants are turning off their
| northern clerks, northern men are
BEN G discharged at the manufacturing
! Establishments and northern mechanics
and laborers are turned away. l saw
men out of employment and not money
enough to pay deck passage up the
river to free States. 1t is horrible. Bus
mess men are openly insulrcd and de
n 'uncCd through the subsidized press
| And from what | learn it is much worse
at New Orleans. There they have re-
| fused the G .c;nnatti boats a landing at
the wharf
| Everything is paralyzed. A northern
man was q lest oned at Pryor's Point
few miles below Memphis on Monday in
regard to Slavery, and he stated his
views to men (nay, rather devils, with
White face J and because lie did not favor
Slavery, he was seized and lynched. On
Tuesday morning the ringleader's cotton
| GIN with 100 bales of cotton was found
| in ashes, the man that had been lynched
the day before was seized. put into a
pork barrel with some stones, headed up
! tight and then rolled into the river.! Is
| this Democratic treatment in this land
Of liberty? Must this Union be presery-
| ed for .ch outrages! Southern gen
tem.n, and planters too, stated that the
unfortunate man had said nothing to or
+, interfered in any manner with any mig
GER" Can there be any peace when such
ovtrages as these are perpetratcd? VIII
tbe North still deb. Sc themselves
to ,ease the slave drivers. and saw, serv-
cd Kim righta" If the n nth yields one
inch to Slav'ry may eri'tion catch
them.