Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-02-22
ooNDIrloN OF LIE soUrm.

From the New Orleans Crescent
1t is an old saying that tone must 20 from
home to learn the news.o Such seems, indeed
to be the case at the present time with regarc
TO the condition Of the S1uth. We can picE
up any abolition journal from New York, Phil.
adelphia, or Cincinnati, and learn far more
about the South generally, about louisiana,
and about the city of New Orleans, than we car
find out here at home.
For instance, we happened 10 be looking
over the New York Tribune the other isy, and
came across a whole budget Of late news re-
spectibg ourselves, which our local reporters
have sadly neglected to serve Up, and which is
so fresh and entertaining that we cannot re-
sist The inclination to spread it before our
readers. It is in the shape Of a correspondence
from Philadelphia, and the following extracts
will suffice;
"You have doubtless noticed how careful
southern newspapers are in RETAINING from
giving any accounts Of tie condition OF mon
ey, labor, prices, etc, in their several neigh
borhOods. They avoid these topics as care
fully as they would conceal the yellow fever.
Occasionally some garTUl0us print lets out a
fact or two but az a general thing, the whole
southern press is studiously concealing from
the North bow dsplorable a condition ghsy
are in. But many sources Of information
concerning it have been cpoRed 10 nav notice.
A heavy helse in that trade, embarrassed BY
the failure Of remittances ana the protest Of
innumerabls notes, some weeks ago dispatched
two clerks on different routes to make coIlec-
tons, as the only remedy for suspension. One
Of these clerks lraverssd the country along the
seaboard to New Orleans. At many points be
was assured that payment was now impossi-
bic. The debtors bad no money, nor could
they collect any from those in the country
who owed them. In fact, all money seemed to
have disappeared. Cotton was at a dead lock.
down in price and no buyers. Real estate was
utterly unstable. Negroes were ruinouslv
depressed. At many places he was grossly
insulted and threatened, and at New Orleans
escaped lynching OILY by s~ecreting himself on
board a vessel sailing the next morning for
New York. He returned without having col
lected a dollar. He describes Alabama as al.
most destitute Of food, and looks to great suf-
feriDg among the slaves from that cause.
"The other messenger Jared no better in
Tennessee and Kentucky. His employers be-
lieve that be was actually lynched in Missis-
sippi, though he is resolutely silent exeept a.
to repeated insults and threatenings which he
encountered. His northern origin was enough.
as soon as known, to compel him to leave.
Everywhere the same dePTecia ion Of planta-
ton value prevailed, while the wait OF money
was universal. Yet in the midst Of tbis break |
ing up, there was nothing heard at the tayerns
and railroad stations but the mad cry for dis
union. II a contrary feeling existed, il was
among the owners Of plantations, who had
everything at stake, while the Foughs around
the grog shops had nothing at risk"
Here's a batch Of news for Us that we are
quite certain we never could have learned Al |
home. Thus, the fact that +" southern papers y
are careful not to give "any account Of the
condition Of money, prices, ETC." is a piece Of
information we could have gotten nowhere
else, we suppose, except in the journals Of the |
North. It is true, we bad lsbored under the
impression that such things were daily dis
cussed by 'salk on 'ehange" aud other imam
cial and commercial writers for the southern
press but it seems we were mistaken. Those
1t appears, are as carefully avoided az
we "%eoncsal the yellow fever p which, seeing
that we don's conceal The yellow fever at ali.
whenever it Is here, bat publish official bull
letins concerning It from the board Of health.
makes the two statements ENTIRELY consistent.
the one with the other.
There is, hoWeVeT, one assertion made be-
this writer, the truth Of which is apparent at a
Il is that "the southern press IA stu
diously eoncsaling from the North how de-
a condition they are NJ That is SO.
We are bound to admit it. Not being on a
deplorable condition az all, and the southern
press, unlike that Of the North, having a
habit Of sticking to the truth, It is nsr-
natural that that which does not exist
at all should be Peoneealsd from re- Nortb .
Is this writer unreasonable enough to expeet ns
to exhibit to the gaze Of the North thipgs
are invisible to our own evesP
The other items OF news that will arrest the
attention Of the reader are, that IN the south
fall money seems to have dlsappeared;v that
Hcotton Is At a dead iock-down in price ard no
buyers;'' that "real estate isiunsalable. ana ne
groes rGinouslg depressed1 All oe which Ia
course, strictly true lover ibe lsft) a. may
be aseertained at any moment az Carcede.et
or from any Of our apctionsers, bank
or brokers.
Now tbs realtruth Of the matter Is Just this.
witnin the last two weeks, has brought
higher prices IN this market than for several
Tssrs past, and every bale that comes here has
.one Of "like hot eakes,1 and been paid FOR
IA cash. Real ~eststes 80 far from being
unsalable,e was sold By Col. Walton
he other day, At the St. Charles exchanges, at
that aston shed everybody. And, L gen