Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-10-24
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Prom The Eew YORK NewsI
An American jenkins can successfully CON-
pete with any specimen Of his tribe extant, so
Far as the capacity FOR invention is concern d.
We yesterday gave our readers a few instsn-
ces Of the accuracy % which charscterizes
Sandman telegrapbic dispatches. To-day we
mean 10 refer 70 a feature Of news that ems-
mates from our own continent. I may seem
harsh o tell the innocent and UNFINISHED Pc
ruser Of the front page Of the Ne1-s hat Mira
mon, the Mexican general, is not annihilsted I;
in fac not 10 put too fine a point upon IL.
that be is alive and well. Yet painful az the
DEFY is, our desire 70 say edit0rislY what
things arc true and 10 warn people against
what are not, cCmBels US TO announce that the
leader Of the church party in the Italy (thatis
"the plague spotn) q America still commands
an army and NAV win victories once more.
His cefeat at Silae, and the very unenviabls
situation in which himself and his "bare 7,0O0,o
were subsequently bemmed in 10y the press)
a. the CAPT al, together with an endless variety
Of other misfortunes which Geographically be-
fell him, were merely the meio-dramatic favor
ing with which newspaper correspondent 3 en-
desvor 10 enrich their otherwise stale and IN
profitable productions. Were You even to con
trsdict them, there Is no room for doubling
that they would argue you in i've minutes BY
TIE watch or clock int he arm belief that II
MirsmOn was not exactly IN the sraits de-
seribed, he was 90 very near it as to render any
representative Of a free press perfectly satisfied
in arriving at the conclusions indicated.
The magnificent generslitiss, the loopholes
through which the sensation scribbler escapes,
offer 80 many chances Of explanation 10
the jenkins family, that no amount Of reproof,
experience, or conviction OF falsehood, can
secure the public from the interruptions mis-
representations to which every journalist is
nscessitstsd to expose il.
Now, the simple facts Of the Mexican news
80 far known are, that it Is Juarez, and not
Mirsmon, who is 20 a tight place. The
latter, with a somewhat has iy collected army
Of about thirteen thousand men, well equipped
and provided for, defended the City Of Mexico
10 a very soldisr-ike manner, and tie result OF
bis &C ion vas the utter discontinue and dis
persion of the O. journeymen patriots" whose
satellites have control Of the telegraph wires.
General DeGollado, whose antecedsnts would
most certainly no. prepare any one for hear
ing such intelligenes Of bin, writing under
he humiliation OF defeat, deals the finishing
blow to the already exhausted reputation OF
the liberals BY turning highway robber. Con-
centTating bis troop Of beaten brigands about
him, be very plainly illustrated the nature Of
the ambition which inspired the Juarez fac
tion By ssiEing the condueia, 10 regular Alpine
fashion, and forcibly plundeIing therefron
$l,20e,000 the property Of merchants, private
citizens, etc.
Here, then, is he so-called olibsral party"
Of Mexico in open day stopping the mail and
appropristing i's contents for the support Of
a set 81 low-lived villains, who have no as
p~irations beyond the greedy Qualification Of a
thirst FOR filthy lucre. They thought that the
poor, emaciated, and distracted nstion, whose
very vitsls have been eaten up By voracioBs
foreign despersdoes, presented a splendid field
Cor financial depredations, and under the guise
" patriotism and ~hbeTality, waged war for
months against men who whatever other
characteristics they may possess viii be en-
titled to the thanks Of the world FOR deliver
ing our sister country from one Of the great
est evils that Providence permits aland 20 be
cursed BY a force Of military mercensries.
Here IS the evidence Of Jenkins rsscality.
He has been poisoning the American mind FOR
months with ineKeusable lies about affairs In
Mexico, and the first ~intimation the homes
reader receives OF the deception praeticed on
him is the authenticated intelligence that the
party in whose behalf his synpsthiss have
been 30 often awakened, is composed Of mail
robbers and highway plunderers.