Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-24
wn.hington New. and Gos.tp.

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, April The telegraph may
advise you Of military results ] doubt it, how
ever, as every means is taken to prevent news
getting out, and SO successful that here little Is
known of army operations, except what comes
through southern papers, which seem to be early
and well posted as to our military movements
Indeed the COnfederates know more of the mill
tsry affairs Of the people Of the North than they
do themselves.
have learned through a source that l can
rely on that the two sections of the Republicans
have struck hands and sealed friendship on this
basis the radicals are to 60 for gradual emsnci-
patiOn-compensation for slaves liberated con-
fiscation by Judicial sentence-for the present.
Ia the meantime military operations are to go
on If the military operations succeed, these
constitutional {! y measures are to be made sufi-
cient TO the end-the utter abolishment of slaT-
cry. If the military operations flag or fail, then
Mr.. Lincoln is to proclaim general emancipation
as a military necessity.
The Secretary of War says that the increased
transportation required by the advance into the
enemy's territory has increased the war expense
to fire million dollars per day-more than the
printing machine has the power to supply.
The tax bill is an awful affair. Ii will raise an
enormous amount Of money or destroy vast
amount Of business-one OF the other 1t will
pass Congress. The public debt by the FIRST OF
July viii reach Sl,5OO,O00 600. That is the cal
culaton of the Chief Auditor of the Treasury.
l think it is short OF the reality. The public
really know little Of what is the true condition of
the finances. They will find it out hereafter,
when they are called upon to pay the interest of
the public debt The principal no person eI-
poets will ever be paid.
As have seldom failed in my predictions of
the future, as l think your readers will bear me
I mill Ia hat bS5
will end in proclamation Of the freedom of the
slaves, and in the separation Of the cotton States
from the UniOu or, IN their subjugatiOn, with
change Of our constitutional form Of govern
ment
l need not write you about the present Con-
gress Senate and House. Nothing marks the
decline Of the republic more than the degeneI-
acy Of these bodies. There is hardly first
class intellect in either; certainly no acknowl-
edged distinguished statesman, except Mr.. Crit
tenden, and his age has placed him on the low
est benches. The republic has, from the high
est, sunk to the lowest depth. God grant that
we may now rise again.
Mrs Lincoln has felt the blow of the death Of
her youngest son. Sorrow is sacred, and
hope every mother will forget and forgive what
ever might have appeared thOUghtles5ness at the
White House. snd sympathize with the real
Affections of mother. She has been sufficient
ly punished for that ball in this midst Of public
cSamites.
Shall say word Of public corruption The
torrent cannot now be stayed Il is overwhelm-
ing. Fortunes on fortunes are being made and
will be made by tavorites, and there seems to be
no help for it, except in general Tepudistion. If
I were to tell you the one-hundredth of whst
know, you and would be in Fort Warren or
Lafayette in fortnight. ! don't mean to say
that the secretaries connivs at or profit by these
speculstions on the contrary, | an confident
they set their faces against them, bat they are
powerlsss, under tbs vast amount Of business
under their hands and the pressing necessities /
of their departments.