Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-04-11
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Special Correspondence Of the Memphis Ar peal
RIcHNoED, April 4 1868
Several hupdred Federal prlsonsrs left here yester
day, By flag Of truce. for Fortress Motroe and probably
by this time the news Of Awful Bread Riots Ia Rich
mondr Rebellion among the Rebels" Is circulating in
the Yankee newspapers IN letters as big as those Of
paybL The bread riot which never had any thing 70
do with bread but nothing more than an lmpudent
attempt wholesale robbery on the part Of vile gang
Of thieves and bardsns at an end There were rumors
yesterday that 70 be renewed and the eireum.
stance Of gunsoFs having been broken open last night
and robbed Of its fowling pieces and pocket-pstolq
rave fresh ventilation TO the rumor this morning but
everything Is quiet the streets and there are DO d
cations anywhere o. another outbreak The dsgraceful
asr Of tae day before yesterday was allowed 10 pro-
coed to criminal lengths only because the offenders were
women and Southern are unaccustoned to defond
their lives or their property against the attacks Of the
other sex even ip the person of its vest representa-
tveE The OF the articles seized we're wholly
at less TO know how to act Let the ssme Isvyless
measures be again attempted and they win be repressed
in q moment There be httie doubt that these No
rsngs without adsquats cause n the necessities or
grisvsnces Of the guilty parties, instigaies
by secret suissarIes Of the Lincoln government who
may yet pay the just penalty oftheir on hastily
erected scsfoId How eouid there be bread riots in
town where fewer beggars have bsen seen since the
beginning Of the war than at any previous period for
twenty yesrs past why houd the poorer class rise In
revoli for hunger when twenty thousand dollars Cd
proprsted for the relief of the poor lay untouched in
tze hsnds Of the city chamberlain who ever
heard Of a rsvoiaton for food headed By
3 female butcher who had mads fortune
put of the necessities Of the times from the rich ard
whose snsmbies piled up, at the very moment Of
the disturbance with joints Of mutton ribs of beef
The thing absurd No such pretenslon can be set up
The riot was the work Of few eowardy men, opera.
ting apoa o worst passions Of abandoned women not
Virginia not southera, bat irish and German chiefly
with Yankee consprators in cheap jereIry snd hoop
skirts Thirty or Two Of he most prominent among
ths 1ascreants male and female are in jail awaiting
their sl before ths Hastings court Of the city Ex.
amPes viii be uads Of thsss. end IN the meantime
should another mob assemble It will be dispersed b the
keen edge of the cavalry SABRE laid low By the level
fFs Of platoons Of infantry.
Apfil Is four days old and to morrow Easter Sun.
day bnt ont Of doors feels more ike Christmas We
had ice again this morning, and cutag wind from the
north sweeps across the city with yilesg severity.
while hard, deHse gray pile Of cloud all around Us
gives menace Of snow. There the same need Of rss
that Tiers sg in January willis the winters stock Of
fuel wholly exhausted ''The sun upon an Easter
day" was favorie image with the old English poets
for brightness and warmth and beauty bat if we have
g sun unobscursd to morrow, it viii most probably
afford US only cold and ungenial Illumination Some
famous writer-I forget who--in referring to the
troubled condition Of his country in time Of wsr re.
marks upon tie return Of the HoweFy season, in the
veissudes OF the year, striking contrast with the
prevailing disquiet--in these besatiful lines