Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-04
Southern Feeling aud Spirit in Baltimore.
PRIVATE LITTER FROM A LADY
We find tho following in the Charleston Her-
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| cUTy Of the 22d inst
BiLTmORE, April 20, 1862
The fist blood shed in the southern
/ cause was shed here. Surely we have deserved
better recOmperse than TO see our bravest mel
in gloomy. cells, our tender, delicate women
imprisoned in Washington, with an abolition
guard around them, and our poor in every ward
! Of the city in a state Of absolute starvation
! Our ladies' have been active iu their cause; but
! tbes, uu,5 have compelled every family to
relrench Last night we had au amateur con-
cert for tie relief OF poor 1t is certain that,
! II something Is not speedily done for US, there
viii be refugees from Baltimore begging shelter
! in every province in Canada They cannot get
| south, aud they would scOrn 10 receive anything
| from Yankee.
| Dr. has recently heard that DR., Warren,
who has chrge of the Maryland hospital in
| Richmond, needs medicines. He will start in a
da, on two TOR the Confederate capital. l shall
accompany him, as the dangers he encounters
OF the Quite to Richmond are greatly leSsened if
j. has lady under his protection. We will be
IsUt day or two in Richmond. DR.. - will
BE anxious to return to his family aud to be
away several weeks, suspected as he is, would
result In his being i0csrceTated in some northern
fort We will come loaded with guinine, NOR
phia, mercury, etc, enough TO last one hospital
! hope, until the war Is over
must tell you Of visit l paid to Fort Mc
Henry few days ago You know | have an
appetite i5r adventure and. as Capt --
was there IA prisoner and had not been allowed
snY communication with his family, l played
Union, and so was admitted | teigDed 10 BE-
deaf, and had old Dix screaming at me more vO-
cifeTOusly than SIentor himself. You would have
been amused to bear me tell the old vaudal that
l bad come TO the fort to see that poor deluded
to nv 70 him of
his error" The general, no doubt, thought the
gentle TemoustranceS Of a woman would be more
etiscUal tbau the rigorous surveillance that is
every day exercised upon him. So was LEFT IN
the cell with the FTI-Jle--tle guards being out
side / @ the rebel gul have thus been dIplO
matte enough tO accomplish lG interview with &
pC0- p.-s0LG carried letters TO him IL my
sleeves. and head from hIn, though 7 was 50
deaf. al. tia. he wished me 10 tell his friends
Ile guards 1T5ss just at the door. believing that
II Ee SAID anything TO ma they could hsarlt. and
70 they could, wbeu, at intervals made him talk
as though aeTe deaf When | left Gen. Dix
thanked me cordially for my effort to bring
Capt -- 10 the right way OF thinking.
shall seed this by the underground railroad,
,a b 1h Is quite as regular il Its schedule, aud
far more convenient 80 our people, than the Bal
.Im0Ie and Ohio railroad, over which the Lin
cOl-ites ale now 50 Iubllant thai they have
patched what they cal the rebel work l
.ak- as great an interest il the u G. railroad as
Cameron, the late Yankee Wal Secretary, did III
he Northern Central railroad in which he |
owned a quantity Of stock. You know that |
while ne was in the Cabinet he compelled the |
soldiers ordered from various points OF the North
% travel hundreds of niles out Of their way SO
bat, by passing over this road, he might in
,resse Its receipts. Poor, miserable wretch 10
,uch a shitE wss h. reduced to supply the place !
IF the southern travel SO much missed tins year
N all the northern roads
Southern news is very scarce indeed Our |
South hGs been suppressed, and the Ne1cs Sheet
$ under heavy bends.