Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-11
FAscIs of tI,e RIoeIkusie.


The editor of the Wilmington Journal is in a
humorous vein. He says
There are good many useful and comfort
able things of which the war and the blockade
have for the time being deprived the people of
the South, and the want of which is felt, as is
reasonable that it should be felt, but not so rn-
reasonably as that for their sake any thought
of submission should be entertained There
are other things upon which the blockade is put,
and we trust may stay put-we mean especially
patent medicines and intoxicating beverages,
and We don't know which has done the greater
amount Of harm. They are about equal, but
there is al least some fun and sOciablity in the
sperits, but none at all in the abOminable decoc
tions out of which sundry quacks build up colos-
sal fortunes, and out of tho fortunes build up
pslatial :" residences among the aristocrRcy OF
the codhsh-barrel and pill-boz. Wa have no
doubt of the fact that the effect upon the health
of the southern people from the stoppage of
these sbominable decocti0ns and compounds is
already very cheering and beneficial
As for the blockade on the "sperits, " that is
selEimposed, or at any rate il has been brought
about very remotely, if at all, BY the blockade
maintained BY the foe, for it must be confessed
that every country neighborhood South was be-
ginning to do its part, Illustrating the capacity
Of the CoRfederaey to rival Cincinnati and St
Louis ia the production of as mach, and as
mean, liquor as the world could afford, but in
prce the effects of the outside blockade were
seen in getting the domestic rot gut Of a day
old up to dollar and half gallon, while Just
as certain death could be got I" cut West " for
fifteen or twenty cents,
The world is becoming homeopathic, for who
could afford to cure sick negroes of the chills
with ouinine at ten dollars an cunee7 We
know one gnsrled old pusson that could
swallow his head off at thai rate before his first
shake was bruck" Likewise coffee, whereof
one grain is ground with two bushels Of paTehed
rye 10 make the pure article sent fresh from
Richmond mills, is beginning to be used very
homoeopathically also The spring fashions are
also somewhat blocksded, and Flora Mcthm
sey's last bulletin has not reached this benighted
region, where the only hoops shortly win be
war-yhoops This is painful, bat it viii bs
some consolation to those who have nothing 10
wear, to find that there are others IA the same
situation
Cobblers and slings, those refreshing po-
tons. wiz be unknown this summer, and un-
missed If there be ice anywhere let If be kept
for the sick and wounded. Yet mint looks
green, and iuleps have been swallowed without
producing much pain Bu, pshaw cobblers,
sings, aud so forth What are cobblers good
for but to save our soles, or sings except to
throw penDleS al tnS uoTtA5tA NOtAus. aHa
mint What IS any sort of mint good for when
there IS nothing to coin
And the gOut-there Is e great curs for the
gout all aIOund--a homeopathic cure for the gout
A cure by very small doses. SlmitiG siHaitibas,
curqRtRr Every man with sore toes treads on
every other mans sore toes, and between this
curative process and the enforcsd virtue Of absti
nence, the thing works ali right.
Corns Who would have corns1 COrns are
the result OF tight sEoes-high-heeled French
boots, and other fashionsble denominations. We
shall soon get clear of effects, now that we are
pretty near through with the cause. We shall
wear noceasins, or perhaps what has been fe-
licitously and philosophieslly described as a
6ootless stocking without leg" Some obtuse
persons might think we nesnt by that last re-
mark to 90 barefoOted We can't keep people
from thinking We want them to think With
Us that it is better 10 besT all trifing privaIions
coed humoredy, as though bearing them not
1t is not only the best plan, but even in selfish
DOiut of view IL is much the Yisest