Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-04


$685. etc. Very respectfully,
TH0MPsoE ALLEE,
Commissioner OF Taxes.
Nm BNGLIsanEAN IN YANKEEDOM.
George Augustus SAle-ons of the most spir-
ted Of all the British periodical WRITER'S and edi-
or, or was the last time we saw COPY, of
Temple Bar, is in Washington. He writes for
be London Telegraph In a recent eommuui-
alton, which We End quoted in the Cincinnati
Gazette, he touches up several of the "notAblss"
n clever style. Hear him on that "red-mouthed
syprienne Of fsnatieism, cant and blssphsmy,"
ANNA DICKINSON:
At the termination Of my last letter was sit
.ing down to table in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of tbs heroine of the houT-Mss Anna
Dickinson. l wonder whether some nursery
discipline Of gentle sort might not be benef
cial in curbing the passionate pToclivities Of
young ladies who have q mania for spouting
politics.
But Miss Anna Dickinson is from any point
Of view . great fsct-"Joan Of Arc" screams
the enrsptuTed CkrOaiele, never was grandeT
and never eauld have bssn better in her mail of
battle thsn vas this Philadelphia maid in her
demand that this war do not ceaae
until slavery lie dead and buried under the feet
of the North, and its epitsph is traced with the
point of bayonel dipped in. the young blood
of the nation" There are other li!tle items for
which Miss Anna Dickinson is understood to
have made "s,asesmsulike demand"
She requires that the " territory wrsnched
back from the rebellion be used to 'undsrlsy'
the development Of the blacks in America into
full citizenship, with the ownership in fee Of
agricultural land" Finally, Miss Dickinson Is
said to " have showed to, with her lily white
IL. 81 kha of4 4hn
United States, as at present constituted, and TO
have forbidden the adjudication therein of the
proclamation of freedom to the slaves of rebels"
Yes, this is the burden Of Miss DickinSon's
chant, and Of the faction of which she is the
mouth piece. She does not advocate nor ask
for anything more pTeposteTous than they do
Blood, blood, blood dominion, spolation and
con6Scasionl She will be content with nothing
less. 1t is one of the stalest and sOrriest de-
vicss Of the Americans when foreigner is as
founded st their many mAdnessss, and makes
their frenzy public in Europe, to tell him whst
be has seen or heard is held as Of no account by
sensible persons in America, is sphemorsl, and
is vslueless.
If this crazy Jane in red jacket had uttered
her nopsence in some dissenting chapel, or lee
ture hall, OF mechanics institute, this plea might
hold good. Bat she comes accredited by persons
in authority; the council chamber Of the c0un-
try is psced at her disposal; she speaks eI eGthe
fra; she is handed to her ToStrum By the second
parsonage IN the Tepubliei and the Speaker OF
Tue House is her gentleman usher. The chief OF
the State and his ministers swell the number OF
her auditors.
Either sll this means something or nothing.
# the Legislative Assembly of the United States
Is to be considered in the eyes Of the world mere
booth, and the Senators and rep
suuplisd by Mr.. Nelson Lee 10 tumble during
fair time, let the Americans have the honesty at
least to sdnil that their legislation is horse play
and lhsH debates q farce.
Bat if the Amsgican Congress be really com
posed al wise and able and patriotic mea, alive
10 a sense Of their vast possibilities, aud in
lent on the solution Of = Tremendous problem,
how grotosqus, how unworthy does it appear to
grace such an exhibition as took place OF Saiur-
day night with the stamp of official applause.
At least the J1cobins did not suffer The trieOte-
sss to mount the tribune. They kept them in
he galleries. At less. The Hal OF the National
was never loaned to Tbsroigne de
Mericourt.
THE IRREPREssIBLE TRAIN.
George Francis Train, who is called in couI-
csy q sPecuiktGr, but who is in reality thief,
IS some of the British journals hint, has his
place thas niched out in Mr.. Sales letter:
was looking with much sdmirstion and
much pity on the Philadelphia maid, and with
much ans cement st the state Of thirgs 10 which
her public antics could be possible, when :
7oice, very familiar to me struck upon my ear,
md found myself in close proximity 10 the
George Francis Train. Is una
'ashed ss yolubla, as incoherent as ever, the
IpecastoT who thought that By means Of cham
1sgue and lobster salad ho cOald force horse
silrosds upon the London pubic, mas turned
lp at Willsrd's.
Tne ether day hs was in Nebraska, "sIump-
ng that Territory in the interest Of the Pa
.iiic TsihOGd. They ssy that he has been ope-
Ating largely in gold, and winning IS largely,
nd that he intends returning TO Englsnd, with
many hundreds of thousands OF dollars, to re-
commence his campaign in railways. Hs had
,etser let them alone, He must have had
uough Of England, and England has surely
sd enough Of George Francis Train.
He spoke of his esospade st Boston with
1uch norehslAuee and self-possession. He
poke of having been mobbed in several places,
hot at in q half q dozen, and expelled by the
Military authorities from at least fifty, all be-
suse be spoke up for the Union Il was cer- |
lin, however, that he is still unchanged; but |
ould not obtain from him the admission that he |
sd been tsrred and fsatheTed, and he yet
heIished the hope of becoming one day Presi- |
snt of the United States
remarkable man is George Francis T ain; |
erhaps zone Of the most remarkable men in |
le country" He will go further, 1 lhink, and |
re worse Yet be seems to have his clique |
ere, his set, his eOteSjs, his "crowd," and is 9 |
erson1ge. Bot the clerk at Willard's-and an |
merican hotel clerk Is about the most trust /
orthy critic of human character whom you |
m we'll consult-When he told me that Mr. |
rain was considered dreadful smart man." |
gni6cantly tapped his forehead as he spoke.
LUSAcY.
Celia S'eIHPse hsyaS. Lunacy in an American |
oliticisn does not seem to count, and we may /
3 approaching the dark millennium foreshsd- |
we'd by the poet of the ''roughs," Walt. WHIT
an; the time when there is to be nothing but |
money, business, railroads, exports, Imports,
lstom preeedents, psllor, dyspepsia, smut, ir-
'rance, and unbslief;" whsn judges and Grim
ais shall be trsnsposed and the prison keep.
5 be put in prison, and insanity have the |
large Of sanity.
You will excuse me for quoting 3 bard who
considered by many Of bis brethren TO be him
If as mad as March hare, but there is much
sthod and not little wisdom in "Walf. Whit
an, one OF the roughs, kosmos, disordsriy,
usual, who lounges and loafs at his ease, and
unGs ms "bsrbArie yRwp over the roofs of The
orld"
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mr.. Nathaniel Hsw!boi ne, of Concord, Mass.,
thor If The Scarlet Lstter," q Tho Houae
ith the Seven Cables" Transformation, and
sny other charming aud deservedly popular
Orks, when you took upon yourself 10 Ibid no
oblcquy aad ridleule our Eugish mstrons-
sneer their "streAkiness' and "beeGuess''
ID to sliude, not very delieately, to the large
ace OF their Makers fooIstOOl they occupied
len they sat dcwn-theIe were those Who
nuphL van did nLrn,l nr,d =. al - -