Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-02-06

tiyes of the Confederate States. BY common
consent, he was to have been Speaker. The
choice, it is said, will now fall upon the Hon.
Thos. S. Bocock, Of this State. This gentleman
will make an excellent presiding officer, but his
elevation to the chair will deprive the House of
the very best chairman of the committee on
Naval Affairs that could be appointed. Mr.. Bo-
cock filed this important position for many
years under the old United States, and is better
acquainted with the wants of a navy, perhaps,
than any other man in Congress.
Gen. Johnston's official report of the opera
tons of the army of the Potomac from the time
of his taking the command at Harper's Ferry to
the battle of Manassas, is published in the Dis
patch of this morning. 1t is a very clear and
well written document, but except for purposes
of history possesses little interest at this late
day. Beauregard's report is in the hands of the
press and will appear on Monday. Whether it
has undergone any revision at the suggestion of
Congress I am unable to say, having been una
bic to procure a copy. Only one hundred were
printed in pamphlet form for distribution among
the members.
The Examiner complains that the gambling
houses, which underwent a temporary suspen-
sion under the visitations of the police, have
commenced " their little game" again with dog
wood chips and less elegant apparatus, and are
nightly offering their destinations to the mob of
officers in the city. The most stylish and ex-
pensive of these establishments has ~insugurated
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them by the officers of the law in future. The
regular patrons Of the bank are furnished with
latch keys, by means of which they can let
themselves in at the outer door and successfully
pass through half a dozen barriers to the inner
hall of the temple, and to provide against the
use of the P~asss-pGrtOa by any unauthorized per-
son, such as a policeman for example, servants
are placed in the passages where they can always
command a view Of the staircases and thus
bolt the inside doors in case of necessity. This
dodge is considered as making the business per-
fectly secure.
1 am sorry to say there is but little improve
ment in the morals Of Richmond since the de-
~structiOn of the theater. The rOwdies now in-
fest two smaller places of public amusement,
where a fight occurs almost every evening. The
old " plug ugly" element Of Baltimore rufian-
ism enter largely into the lawlessness prevailing
here, which never fails to manifest itself at these
resorts where MY Maryland =" is sung.
By the way, the author of this song, which is
to be the LiIiBuILeTO of Lineoln's overthrow in
Baltimore, complains with abundant reason of
the bad treatment he has received at the hands
Of the press in the way of typographical errors,
both in this and other productions of his muse.
The second line Of MY Maryland" as generally
sung and printed, reads
His tOuohis at thy temple door,
whereas the author, referring to the tyrant that
has bound Maryland in chains, designed to say
his torch is at thy temple door,"
which is a very different proposition. But the
printers made sadder work still with the lyric
" There's Life in the Old Land Yet. The
second stanzs of this should begin as follows;
Minions / we sleep but we are not dead
We are crashed, we are scourged, we are SCARED"
but to the horror of the author it has frequently
been printed
"Binionsl we sleep but we are not dead,
We are crushed. we are scourged, we are scared"
and scared" is just The very thing that the
M~arylsnders are not.
Some of our papers are giving themselves
much unnecessary concern about the insulting
article in the London Times on Messrs. Mason
and Slidell. The Times is probably writing in
the interest of the Earrings or the Rothschilds,
who are alarmed about some of their Yankee
debts, which they would ike to have settled
before the war breaks out between England and
the United States. The article in question
amounts to nothing. When our commissioners
arrive in England, the Times is just as apt as
not to sing hosannas to them.
Blind Tom" the negro musical prodigy, is
giving concerts here to crowded houses. The
ladies and gentlemen amateurs advertise another
concert for next week
The weather is wrstched again, rain and mud,
mud and rain, and utter darkness in the streets,
not a gas light throughout the entire city, ex-
eept before the departments and in the markets.
No war news. DIXIE.