Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-25
The rrcsens social Condition Of Bowrin.,

The Present social Condition Of ESoWIing
Green.
In the Bowling Green Courier, Of the Goth
we find the following editorial article
Bowling Green is not as quiet as the town
Keats saw on the Grecian urn, "whose streets
forevermore shall silent be-" Therei is an infinite
deal Of running to and frO-galloping horses,
Flooding drays, strings of wagons, sauntering
soldiers-sueh as was not seen in the town " in
the olden time, long ago"
Bowling Green life and BACKED boots are con
Trajectory expressions. The streets look like a
gray baud Of cooling lava-they are streams Of
a compound, which, to name it after its principal
ingredient, we will call mud. Imported dirt,
shaken from ten thousand feet, mingles with the
native soil, and is seasoned with rare condiments
of nameless origin and odor. This reconcile
substance has taken bold possession of the pave
ments, which we tread by faith, sinking our feet
down through the dividing compound with a
w~averihg hope that there is a bottom. 1t has
invaded the houses, and has driven before 1t mop
and broom.
None but the more veTdant think Of being
comfortable. We look at our hotel keepers with
a melancholy, only one step removed from the
deepest deep, and the depths are sounded when
we see their bOarders. If we estimate a mans
time at a dollar a day, his fre-wood will cost
fourteen dollars a cord. 1t requires four days to
get il hauled, Tin which time one is told a score
of lies,) six dollars to pay for it, two more days
TO get a wood-chopper, and two dollars to pay
for ehopping. There is a mystery connected
with the business of hotel purveyOr which we
never pretended to understand, and we mvolnn-
tarily think of the gentlemen engaged for our
hotels as little if any inferior in strategetic abil-
ity 70 Napoleon himself.
From the most considerable grocer down to
the ragged boy who halls you on the street with
" here's your cake business is flush in the eat
ing line. The army is gradually taking posses
sion of the larger houses, and store rooms are
coming in high demand. From present indica-
tons trade will soon be driven to shanties in the
suburbs. But there is too much Tennessee money
aAoat to allow the energetic dealer to aban-
don the field. The army may drive them further
int the mud, but there they'll stick.
some books are sod. Shakespeare, Shelley,
Byron and Kests-the delicate, divine Keats
have friends in the central army. We heard of
some soldier having bought Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's poem, Aurora Leigh. This a hope
full sign. Nevertheless, we are not in possession
of facts sufficient to Justify US in saying that
there are more thinkers than eaters. The Chinese
theory, that the stomach is the seat of intellect,
may be the reigning philosophy, which would
account for the sedulous care with which ii is
nourished.
what we nave said Is not intended 70 encOur-
age our gOod-natured friends in any f~attering
design they may have of visiting US. We ap-
pfeeiate thefcompliment, and will suggest, for
the sake of our friend, that he come in day
time. If vigilant all day, it is not impossible
he may, by night, find choice lodging in some
private hay-loft, but if he gets in at midnight on
the cars, there is no hepe. One Of our enthusi-
astic friends, a trile too unsuspecting, came up
the other night. He reached here at 1880 P. NJ.
Failing to get in at several hetels, he found
at the last place Gan full" Cant
! sleep on the sofa7n The sofas engaged"
&" Cau'tI get some blankets ~ "All the blank
cts are spoken for" GIVE me a chair, and I'll
sit by the fire all night "The chairs are all
rented out" Looking around, our friend saw
an old trunk in the corner, and inquired in a
most forlorn voice, sis that engaged, too ~ 1t
was. He left the house just as the clerk began
to draw chalk lines on the floor, with view of
setting apart the particular space each Of seve-
raj fortunate gentlemen had secured for the night
The morning found him at our door, wisely sad
having every appearance Of
A wandering melancholy ghost"
1t is proper to say that the chances for lodging
are now greatly diminished, as one of the
hotels has, since our friends adventure,
been taken for a hospital.