Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-18

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From the Mobile Tribunel
The following extracts from private letter.
written by Msmphis lady, viii auuse gour
readers, and perhaps, Be Of censidTa1a inter-
est TO our friends wbo GRE going to tas up
country" to spend the simmer
NoRTH ALABAMA March 1863
DEAR BROTHER. We i've among
the poorest and most ignorant people ir-ss
world have seen hut one lady Of any refine
Toent since we arrived and the people sil sar.
she Is g mighty strange kind 81 w0maH
II IS no wonder trey think so she looks ike
another race Of beings
an ola woman with brown yarn gloves ard
Z madder-c0iored homespUn apron and sack, Fith
1 blue and black hOmsspun dress (al honor to her
I industry y called or Us the other day She
! walked, she said, nigh about four miles and 5
! half Jest 70 Ak ua If We knoEed any thing abous
her son Lazarus. what went 10 the vrs from
the Mississippi State, last gene September
was pretty nigh three yeas 500, and
she hsdn's heard from him in az thas
time" ask ais name. snd she said Dlason-
asked her to spell t. and she replied, "I d9H's
know as L ken jest now, bat it begins With .Er
ID p" To WHIST regiment does be be.ougl i
asked, Well now, bless your sonl taa-s what
don't snoWi nOs the regiment, nor the e1mpz
ny either but he vas abcu. 70 ge. married when
he went aTaY, aud ha 1idn's marry, beeaus8, he
said, be wouldn't leave no vile 10 erisvU ior
bins and if I know'd the gals uams I'd &c
somebody TO write 70 heEs for me a1d MY son
cant write nor read, and I tod him Wheu be
were boy to learn, and be Wonl5nt" Then
she got % talking about the times and Said
( Il ve bad only this ole pm for three months,
and I'm just as pariic lar how [ puts Is in ny
clothes iUr fear 3 lose it, and cant tei Whsrs
I'd get smother from. Bat before the war
lived here nigh on to seven years d never
bought but one store coat yit."
When yOu wrote that you were eaclling
and starving IA Mobile, the doctor saii gravsiT
yen might take bis dancing eisss. and that bis
patrons would pay something II you'd -pas5
the hat around"
Ell sister that ! have seen m1rs tasu shs has
since We parted If she has been only 90 the city
of Mobile L is nothing to this place. You
never saw such people in your Lite, one 0-d
lady hearing DR.. L 3 nam5 said, ''Why lha L1r
me- I've got plenty Of Kin by that name =; and
hearing that his wife was a Batrle exclaimed.
well, bless your soul, my oldest child IS
named Erasmus B.-tbat stands you Know for
Battle. Ole RtsmUs Battle done more for me-
than my oil man did, and 30 I and my aid
mother said lets name the baby Erasmus Bat
tie 5" so you see some Of cur kin married some
Of their kin, aud he was kin 10 Us too.
The doctor teaches cur children 20 danre
and in order TO make up the set, gave notice
that he would teach dancing school free Of
charge. Il is right funny 70 see bow he looks
in a class for hours cailing out c0t'i0ns. One
Of his pupils, the merchants daughter. walked
in with q white tarlet0n veil on. aud very d5.i5-
erstely pulled off Der shoes and Stockings pa-
parat0ry to dancing Another one Of tae
scholars said '' if the fiddler would husa that
fuss, she could dance better" Doctor hires the
fiddler for fvo cents a night. aud be Plays
Chicken Pie and Pepper, O''-commoditiss
which have vanished from these regions 30 i've
only in songs Of the baris hereafter
You say that you Intend to establish 6 Mary
Maglalen society in Mobile Mother Says
have nothing 10 % with either the Mary Or Peter
Magdalena it VIII do no good, and may do
harm.
must not DO my children the injustice TO
keep them in such q country rs this Where
shall we 90 Wheu viii We have peaee7
We are poorer than we ever were in our lives.
Nothing to eat-n0 school-no church-no
prest-noih thing Do come and give Us holy
communion and let Us feel that we are ia 8
Christian land once more.
Your afiecd0nste sister, NJ