Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-22
VHnEERRuRG.

From The southern illustrated NewA
The city Of she " Wslnut Hils s, at tho
present moment, one Of Ehe most reho#ned cities
on the fsee Of the earth. Il Is not rsy large,
but it is, as it always has been, full Of life and
energy It is like a game ehicbsR-smaH trim,
elastic, game all sver, sad ready for brush with
any enemy, regardless OF size OF WEAPONS. II
is little more than forty years ED yet it has
lived a couple Of seAturiss in that forty years.
The notice Of il which appeared in the last issue
of the Netcs, reBalled the memory Of days lsnk
past--of days in which we were younger than
we are now-when hope Was high. the blood
warm, and the pulse qaick. The msnory Of
other days" says Ossian. or Mcpherson fer him,
is, like the music Of Carill, sweet and meuTn-
ful TO the soul p"
Visions Of the Walnut Hills, In al their glo-
rous and maichless ye,durs, Of the old fort
which Wilkinson built 10 command the stream,
of the old eourt.h house, psrched upon the height
that overlOoks the tswn, ike castle upon an
Alpine Toek,-of old companions long since
gathered to their fathers, of their merry sports
and uurestrained good humor-Tisr before us as
we lose ourselves IN one Of those fss OF abstree-
tion, which are the never falling aec0mpsni-
msnt, ss they are the evidence Of advancing
age We became acquainted with Ficksburg
but f8T months after her citizens had hung
the gamblers. We were well acquainted with
every actor in that tragedy tragedy which
vas condemned because the causes were not IN
derstood which appalled,, because It vas novel ;
which was justified BY every consideration Of
prudence and hamsnity, and was imPeratively
demanded as the price to bs paid for the contin-
ued existence Of society itself,
Men who have remained ct home all their
| lives, In communities where the administration
OF Justice is regular, and life and property pro
tected by lsa, are apt to turn up their eyes and
lift ND their hands at the decisions Of Judge
1 Lynch The only harm We wish such persons
is that they may, at some time Of their lives, be
I thrown into such state Of society as Yicks-
| barg presented at the time thspurifying proeess
became necessary. What they Sill see then, it
is not necessary to sayi bat if they become not
converts to the system Of Judge Lynch, we
will agree that it never Is justfabls, as it GER
tainly never is in any orderly and wellTegulsted
community.
1t was something more than the spirit with
which her population acted in the case Of the
&" Kangaroo" snd the gsmb' ers, that gave
/ Yicksbuxg : reputation as widespread as the
/ boundaries of the then United States. Her
population, collected from all the Southern
States, aud comprising in great degree. the
cliis Of those States, was the most energetic on
the continent In the year 1886 four hundred
/ houses were built, and they were occupied as
/ fast as they could be put up. Her trade, tsking
! her population into consideration had become
/ enormous She had already opened her railroad
| to jackson, and it penetrated region tsemius
with wealth. Nine ships Of large class cast
anchor. during the summer Of that year, IN the
rivsr opposite tho energetic little city. 1hs
was, at the time the greatest distance that e
ship had sscended river from the sea (upward
Of I've hundred milssl, and the enterprise was