The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-10


water communication known to man,
that the feeders of the world might have
direct commune alton with the conSum-
ers. Could Vallandigham, Voorhees,, or
even Judge Law, lay aside for few
months the partisanship and prejudice,
which have controlled their judgments and
take a trip down the river, we think there
might be hope that even they would be
forced to admit that the mouths OF the
Mississippi can never belong to foreign
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tlemen in dangerous proximity to the
the soldiers, who find it difficult to detect
any difference between the men who OPP
pose the government in the North and
those who may fight against it in the
! South; yet, mindful that
While the lamp holds out to burn,
| The vilest sinner may return
They might tolerate their presence IN
| hov ss of their conversion.
So far as | have come in contact with
Southern people. the expression of their
feelings, however guarded or outspoken,
it is the same. 1t is that of violent hos
tility to the Government No conspira-
rators better understood the character of
the material with which they had to work
or the its rdmentalities best adopted to
mould that material into the desired YES
sells of dishonor, than the rebel leaders
who organized and inaugurated the pres
ent rebellion. The foreigners doing bu-
siness in the South partake of its spirit,
and are more bitter and defiant than the
rebels themselves; for they realize that
they can speak their minds without fear,
claiming as they do, the protection of
the governments to which they owe
allegiance.
We arrived at Memphis about o clock
Friday afternoon. This city is SO init
matelv connected with our own by ties
, OF trade, and is so Familiarity known to
our people, that | need spend no time in
describing it On landing | proceeded
at once to Gen. Veatch's headquarters,
situated near Fort Pickering in the
Southern part of the city. The General
is in command of the Port, and his duties
must be exceedingly harrassing, if the
few minutes | was with him are a sample
of the way in which he spends all his
time. His health was excellent, not
withstanding the severity OF his labors
To those acquainted with Gen. Veatch,
| it need hardly be said he is the most sue
| c~r-r.,I nrA-1rith -lnral mep-tha NOS
had and that is paying him a high com
pliment, for Memphis has had great
number and variety of commanders, in
Guiding the principal officers at the head
of the various western armies Pleasant
and digni6ed III manner, yet firm anc
| unyielding in Judgment. Gen. Veatch'S
| conclusions are worked out with such
care that he rarely has occasion tC
change them, while at the same time he
makes them known with such mildness
and civility as to convince all both Of
the practical sense embodied in them
and the goodness of the man who is com
PEELED to administer them.
The ladies of Memphis are fully as
troublesome. l judge, as those of any
other Southern city. | am sure they are
equally spiteful and malignant The
concentrated ingenuity of the sex, just
now, is devoted to smuggling and Uutwit-
ting commanders of military posts, pro-
vost marshals and picket guards. In
this to them labor of love, they are
greatly assisted by dealers in contraband
goods, Who flock to the different South
ern towns as fast as they are occupied
by Union troops and open out their es-
adjustments. For several months past,
Memphis has been kind of headquar-
tiers for the Southern Confederacy-its
commercial capital-from which the
rebels draw greater supplies than from
any other half dozen points combined
The manner in which it became so, is
not very ereditable to some of our mill
tary officials Few men are so reckless
as to engage in a business to any extent,
unless they viii not be interfered with by
those whose duty it is to prevent goods
from reaching the rebels.
= : While at Gen. Veatch' headquarters,
Southern ladies' nave Hssu0iIu.r1le;,l 1,
much to the amusement of your CORE
spondent
The Provost Marshal, whose room is
near that of the General, came into the
latter, announcing that three ladies de-
sired passes outside the lines, but refused
to take the oath of allegiance. One of
them had obtained a permit from the
Board of Trade for bill of goods
amounting, according to the invoice, to
about $50. To obtain this permit they
had to subscribe to an OATH but be-
cause the wording of the oath rendered
by the Provost was different from that to
which they subscribed at the Board of
Trade, they refused to swear, and said
they did not consider they had taken
the oath. The Provost waSdirected
to refuse passes either to the ladies or
their goods On informing the ladies of
his orders, they proceeded to the Gene
rails room to argue their own cause
The principal spokesman was a young
girl of about nineteen years of age, tall,
graceful, and quite pretty-a circum-
stance with which she appeared to be
familiar. She at once assumed a most
bewitching air, and with a condesceud-
ing familiarity attempted to coax the
General to grant her pass. She said
that her home was in Memphis, but she
was attending school in fernando, Mis-
sissippi, and that the goods were for her
own use while at school A quiet smile
was visible on the Generals face as he
began questioning her. He wanted to
know why she didn't go to school in
Memphis. She replied, she preferred
the school at fernando. But, re-
piled the General, "this permit (hold-
ing up her permit, to which the bill of