Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-28
nIR. RussELLn. METERS.

The Yankee commanders having pointedly
saubbed Mr.. RUSSELL, the London Times core
spondent, that worthy has gone home From
one of his last letters to the Times written from
Baltimore on the 3lst of March, we make brie
extract:
! In one Of Wilson's or Anders,m's ornithOlog'
| ical papers there is an account OF the wonder and
| feTceness of q certain sort Of American wood
pecker when it was first put in a cage. All the
present actions and behavior of the American
press are described 10 the life in it. At last it
/ began to tear out its own feathers. Here is Mr..
Stanton-the man of an hour, the lawyer of yes
terdsy, the hippodamos, the press-tamer of to-
| day! How he has grown, almost III a moment
into life and power So did Dantou, so did
| FOuche, so did RobeSpierTe. But remember
| they had no such cause as the Union" If they
thought they had, they were, no doubt wrong.
Ii any one desires TO read the finest purest
most highhown words that were ever uttered
] about lioerty, purity and morality, let hun turn
to the pages Of French Republican journals in
the time of the worship of the goddess Reason
Let no one suppose the writers were not sincere
though the lady who sat in the car might in the
flesh have undergone the ordeals of the correc-
! tional police Let none suppose that the
| Union row does not FIRE the northern heart.
and move the souls Of those great masses which
have lam SO long beneath the weight of dollar
bags, from the Canadian lakes to the Susque-
hannah and the Ohio, to-day with fresh current
of thought and feeling; new arterial system OF
hope and action has been put into them. One
| of the great tTiumphs OF their young career is,
that they have slain the mother that fostered
and bore them which had, however, become a
! stepmotheT, and tyrsnnized them to death.
There is no one in Congress, there is not in the
Senate, in House of Representatives, in pulpit,
or stump, or in the forum, man who has wcrd
TO say in this year OF grace, 1862, agalnt d war
on the press compared with which there has
been nothing known since the days of Andrew
Marvel. The utmost the boldest journals en-
ture upon is to give warning TO then agents 70
flee from some doubtful wrath to come. And
the American people are very glad Of it; least
ways, they don't appear at all dissatfed. Here
are billiard table keepers and whisky drinkers
getting up public meetings, and all sorts of IN
terests moving against taxation, but not u man
cries out murder" or evan robbery" far
less fire." at the visible extinction of all life in
the press in its function Of giving news. Devo-
ton to the Union cannot do much more When |
an American is content to do without news in his
newspaper, be has exhausted submission and |
forbearance and made his sacrifice.
My next letter will be from the neighborhood |
of Fortress Monroe. The Rinaldo is still lying |
off Old Point Comfort, and two French vessels |
one the Cstinat, have hurried up TO enjoy the |
spectacle of renewed enc lunter between the
knights IN amor. The Racer is of Charleston,
whence comes the rumor Of another arrival of
arms and munitions, in a steamer which ran the
blockade. There is no news yet from the Nash
vile, and the shipowners are by no means
happy in their minds. In the forthcoming en-
counter, one of the opponents Of the Merrimac
intends to try large upon her The Navy De-
partment has given orders for the manufacture
of number of datheaded bolts, on Whit
worth's plan, TO pierce the iron plates possible
In reference TO this matter, may observa that
a. or, ,neo impression, for which am in some
degree responsible, appears 10 have been crea-
ted in Europ that Capt Dshlgreu is Of opinion
that shell could be used with effect against az
mored ships His theory is that iron shot of
low velocity will prove most destructive, and
solve the problem of meetine such antagonists,
when guns are constructed of adequate caibers.
The government of the United States is quite
alive to the importance OF this question, nd their
officers are not at all likely to treat it unskiful
OF ineticiently. Even Congress begins to push
forward the work, and readily votes money for
the construction o. an iron feet, although Ste
vens' great ram is not altogether approved as a
medium of expenditure.