Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-11-02

snBueTts THERON rU0f) TO keen myself from tsilIg
expecting every moment that the stone walls
which support me az3ies would give way, snd
that would be throab into The river with the
hoBse on top inc. The whole shock did moi
at over Minute, but it was an eternity io Ins
! The falling Of stone houses and tilo reois Wsa
terrific; part Of our roof, Weighing seventy
tens, feli in.
About three hundred feet from where I was
tha tower of Bsuondi church fsl through the
| roof Of the church this tcEeT VAS ems hundred
sud fifty to two hundred feet high, buill Of sold
| stone four 70 SIX feet thick. Yet the din from
lslliBg churches and houses was SO gTsst thst ]
cid not distinguish when il fel When the
shock was over the air was 80 filed with dust
Of Inns tbat I could scarcely breathe, and there
was BOT g breath Of sir. When the moon rose,
later, Manila WAS : frightful sne dreary sight
30 Sea. Everybody was in the streets, praying OF
Seeing with what they had saved, into the conn
! try For days after fhs people walked The
streets without speaking. And there was no
Boiae Of carriages aud no bells in 8 city where
4 there were thousands moving bsssTs at all
| hours
/ Tbs wbole city is in ruins, the destruction Of
! life aBd property being very great The next
/ day the stencil Of dead people, who had been
/ buried under the ruins was fearful and it was
/ IS ons tine tHoEcht would breed some epidemic
/ We have siucs had aOmb terrific thuadsT sterIns,
wEieh have killed mEny people, bat at last, i
think, the atmosphere is clsaTed Of electricity.
and I thank Heaven it has been no worse. ]
| havs bseE Obliged 90 take thsroof of our EoEse,
/ bat hope in 8 few days to be settled in b0dyi
bot il viii require some time to compose my
nind--Bo Bost9H TFa5sisr-
The Gxier Shns Heigns af tVarHRvF.
From the Liverpool MsrcuFy.I
Its coming TO be 2 ssrioHs question how far Sc
Ia
selfEespect 20 Uazi1ta lhslo-maliti=s Of friendly
iHta- cause with ire opIrsas0f Of Poizad. We
have never B5sa. .Pscsc 70 recommend q dipi9-
matte rUptDEe with the Bus an Government,
though suera step would be perfectly jussiGa-
bic, for We ere ausbe 20 see that that &c would
practically serve the Polish esBse. Thers are
datias, however, Whch every cigSizsd and
Christian people owes to Itself and 10 The gen
sral interests Of International morality. irre-
s7echvely Of ell calculations Of mere political
utility sEo .EOu9h H5 nay not always d,sn
ourselves called H-on to redress public wToA
o. PuHiaha public crime, It may nevertheless be
right and tii-ing 10 mark, IN some emphatic way
our TepZ0basIon of ac.s wbioh sh9ck aGd oUrage
humanity.
The Iithdrawal Of our minister from Naples,
some yeSrs ago, had ne visible tendency 60
hssten the Gsl-ve-8uoe Of snobpTe8sea people OK
to bring rseTHsd rstri5utiou on foul and iCslh-
some tyranny yet the measure was geDsIsilY ap-
proved by the English peopls as indicating their
righteous hbhoueHco of wickedaLss IN high
places. fb1Ugh .certsiRly inc0aveuient, eud ap-
paroHtiy improbable, il was q satisfaction to The
Estioaal conscience 70 discontinue ofieisi inter-
course with government which only existed
for tbs c5rrugt6a, oppression, GRd degradation
Of Its subject Su55equsnt experience has
shown thai tBsTc was p0hicsl wisdom ia ness-
ere which was taken without any TsisTs.ee 70
combinations Of T1ere expectancy, and which,
at the tiass, Gesned little more thana barren and
ab0ZtiYe protest against European scaRdai
The day sBpesrs 20 be distant when il viii be
impossible, without conscious forfeiture OF SELF
respect, 70 remsIn On O8tcnsiDly friendly terms
with q government which daily peTpatT=tss atTo-
cities 1T least ss royeitng 10 ths moral sense OF
mluldnd ns those which HeTs deemed sufieieRt
TO Put the Kingdom Of the Two Scil.es 0u5 Of
shs pale of international e0urtesies.
In the intercourse Of nations aud govern
msuts, as Of individuals, there IS q point at
sThieh it becomes dishonOEabs TO ignore the in
mOrslitlss Of those with whom Ws associate;
and without affecting 70 ses ourselves up as cen-
5oIs Of EBGakin5, we may reasonably decline to
20 OBJ exchanging assurances OF "disti1ssisHe6
consideration" with rulers who openly license
and sanction It's worst eLCes5es Of repi1e aud
cruelty. Ii is certain that The iats KING Of Ma
PIES was guilty Of no further Glllas5 against hu-
msnity than those which ere daily peTpetTated
by the trusted and rewarded agents OF the EN-
pe-or AIexan5er II, and It does uo5 Heesmc a
glest nstian % have tFo systems of weights and
measures We muat not let t be said Of ~ fhst
we reserve our moral repr0bssisn exclusively
FOR the misdesds Of little powers.
We have now bef5To Us detailed ard trust
worthy scccunts Of tho revenge taken BY the
military pavggEOr Of Warsaw, Tor The recent at-
tempt Or his life L is no exsggeratioa 20 ssy
that q more atTocioUs acs Of FCfhs1iY bsrbsrisa
was never committed by q Government pretend
ing to be civil.zsd. Af.er making the fullest
allowance for the feelings Of man who bsd
nsrrowly escaped assassination (and every trus
friend Of ths Poles must deeply depi0re that a
Just and ssc-ed cause Eh6uld be stained by the
sse OF uRh0ly wsaooBs), there is nothing 20 be
s,id bat that Gen 8srg wiliigliy aud deli5er-
assly BrrBstrafed 8 brutal crime against hun
dreds ef psrpsas when he knew TO be wholly
innocent. TasTe was not a particle of rez8oH
for hslieving that the sO-cslied "OTsjni sEell'
was ihr0wu frcn either Of the bsUses belonging
10 fse ZlnoysEi fsmi,g, or thsl any one Of She
1900 pefsoHs occupying those Ysst piles Of build
iag-lsJFs portions OF which had 30. even q
frontage On the street. where ths general was
passing-v7ss ia aGy way concerned ia the plot
against his life.
There vas ne reason for believing this; il is
nQt st alt probable hat Geue-a al Berg did believe
II ard, st agy rate he muss have perfectly well
kncHn thss tise Zsm5ysN ia.niy, aud ~ isast
nmesy-nins OHs of every hundred iEnsse5 of tie
Two edfces, could have had no psrs or los ia fhe
eeuspiFacg. Nevertheless, either Il frenzy Of
rage and fear, or from diab0lio2l policy OF cru
city and terrorism, be instantly ordered tho pill
| lsge and destruction Of the a5mss Of hundreds
Of families. 4 thousand soldiers were les lccss
en- She devoted uilings and ttoir helpless Cceu-
Esuts, with ias.. uciioas 60 sAcz, bum and piun-
der 90 their heait's c0atensi ana 10 is unHecas-
| say TO add .hss thgy did thaiR wicked work
wish sil tho rackisls lnry Of szv2~s nstuIes rs-
I leased from t1a restraints o. Glscpiings Essd-
| deced wi,h d1illl ard formally licensed to COM
NIT every kiGd Of brussht-.
TIE jewellers, godsm.shs', and other shops
which hied lhs ground HooF Of the lzTger eGi-
I fee furnished AZ GmDie booty 30 sh5 cuBiditV of
the sssailautsi whCls mu-eum Of ancient coins
and medals, wish 2 valuable library cI rare books
/ and manuscripts, eIA.i6sd their desTgctive pro-
Bensitiss; end tnsfe sTe terrible si0Iies-wh.oh,
57a fe2I, stand In iilie need Of special aatneuti-
I cation-of th8 horrors Inflicted By e barbsrous
/ soldisIy oa the do5,nsaless female inmates 0f
| the hUildiugg. For four hours the wu3z Of RS
| pine and arson went 0a at the express bidding
OF TIE IA ;al defenders OF law, OTdsg, ard con-
stiiuled authority, Everything that could not
/ be conveniently CARED of was thrown Cus If
/ The wiaio1s and burned IN the street.; and the
whole ence4 IA bba formal ee1E5cstiou %
property worth two hundIed thousand pounds,
and belonging to no0ienaD living quiesiy in a
foreign county.
The arrest and incarceration Of some thles
hundred male occupants Of The two houses,
without sn atom Of reasonable suspicion, can
/ scarcely bs regarded as an appTeciable agRFa-
vationsol sn atr0cily which hes many praee-
deuts-in the hi5tery 0fih st9rming oi ensmiss'
iswns in war; which has been reserved for
Russian Government TO peTpslrase agains. IN
armed and HnTeslstlng masses Of its eWn sub
jeels. The crime Of ordering = body Of troops
to sack the dwellings Of peacssbls citizens is, so
| far as we ars aware, new ia modern times, pe-
culiar to that lcrn Of civilization which is pre-
sided over by the mild and enlightened Emperor