Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-21

ar.s,sI 1s,rrayDeudsnes Memphis Appeal
- rzrazMogD April l6, 1864


RICHMOND April l6, 1864
nj, .va,n and darkness over the land The foods
,s.5 have Uubsided and the roads bad begun to has
A.. bau the clouds Of last night ptursd out smother
,o--.pt uuon u.s. There are rumon Of movements IN
- ,,,art.rE which make battle between Meade or
80, and Lee probable svsnt In the nsxt ten days
=, ro v-eeks Yankee authorities coincide in decar-
ing that the main body VIII be pushed onward to Rich
uond without loss Of tina and they cannot come i've
miles certainly without encountsring whole force
Some dispositions Of troops have been made around
Richmond within the last few dsys to which it would
be improper to refer with pErtsularity. The ensmy
will perhaps learn them In due time As tho day sp
proaches when the roar OF the conflict shall agaa re-
souud throughout our borders the Issues that hang upon
the sngHaement seem more and more momentouE cold
leaned M 1--WE per cent in New York city upon inc TO-
CENT OF the intelligence Of the Shreveport dsAStera
disaster by the way, which appears 10 nave eeen lAi
more overwhelming to Banks than any be has yet ex
perieneed in his depArtnsnt-and q nHy De Regarded
as esrtan that any reveEss the Rapidsn or on the
T.rn.,la W N send IL At bound to two hundred per
cent, and then
what thenf We can only conjecture Whist viii be
the resuls Of financial hurricane ia Ysnkeedom upon
The future Of the war from the beet informed men Of
the North and the social and moral condition Of the
whole United States AZ manifested in the current events
of teir large eties The sensible writers for h'
Northern press acknowledge that when the credit o.
the Government gone, ths war Of necessity comes t'
an end Every rise in the price Of gold Is shake Civ
l an to the Government credit The conduct Of th'
speeuIatorz and contractors who have made enormous
sums out OF the war sufficiently shows that they have
M faith whatever in the stability Of tho YANKEES fnRn
es Fhsv are converting their greenbacks a. rapidly
a. possible into all sorts representatives OF value.
tasy cannot buy gold, they import diamonds In th'
/ rough The wives and daughters of these "noaveAu'
ricbss-these shoddy millionares-who have nsver be
fore known what it TO play lady, eclipse all th'
world with the daEzs of their dress and the splendou
of their establishments. As DR.. johnson said Of th'
nabo5s Of his day "ther equipaEes shine Ike meteor
and their palaces rise Ike exhaiations They seem K
feel that their tine for hIlarity and magnihcencs 1
short and they must make the best Of It. gentleman
Of this city, the consular agent of a foreign gov
srnmsnt who hAs just returned from New York by th
last hAg Of truce beat sAys that the glitter Of Broad
way Is indescribabIs that the great city was never s.
cav or SO prodgal and that continuous carnival
mad sreitensnt Is established among its reckless Pso
pie. Babylon fsssting while Cyrus Numbered at ii
zstss Rome riotom With the revels Of its eete opu
/ Iation while The highways shook beneath th
tread Of Alarics' advancing hosts, PEriu daneini
over the hidden fires of the Reign Of Terror, these
tho hisorie parallels that recalled by the furiou
meimsnt Of the goddess grsceess citizens of the vas
YHnkee metropolis All sorts of doctrines preached
| and practieed among them; the Romans cOnsulte'
the entrsls Of birds and dvinaon, they rush to th
Spirit Rappsrs-as the subjects Of Belshazzar fell int
the grosEest Hcsntousness they openly advocate th
sew niscegeRetic idea--as the PsrEians worshiped
orstte in Nosre Dame the goddess Of reason the,
/ nock to be instructed in the morality by Mis-
/ Anna Dickinson. The day Is coming, and Gems. Lee
and Longssreet will probably hasten 1t by many months
when retribution viii 0vertake this people and all tn
guilty spIendor of their present of IYollty
crime will fade away from their gaze, when they shal
be weighed in the balance and found wanting.
The torpedo expedition against the Minnesota il
Hampton Roads. was crowned, II not with eompIst
uuecsss st leatt with highly Satisfactory results Th
Yankee papers at first represented that the Mnnesot
wAs only Jared a little by the explosion; they
admit that the vessel considerably damaged, wh'
the truth of the matter Is that she injured beyond tbs
possibility of repair. II the attempt had been cam
/ pietely successful the vessel would have gone dowr
With all board. As i the best Of the joke, beyont
all doubt is the utter inability OF the Yankees to tel
where the torpedo came from. whether It dropped
down from tbs wonderful rebel invention Of the Bird
of Art" he Artisavis,D , erulEed out Of Norfolk Ol
Portsmouth, or steamed into the cspes from ssA they
cannot divine. Whittier II vent after dsing its mis-
chief they are just as little able to conjecture.
MaKimian as you will have observed by the foreign
Items did not leave for Mexico the 18Th Of April
he had designed. So that the news Of the action Of
the Yankee House Of Representatives with regard tc
the Monroe doctrine viii probably reach him before hi
departure from Europe and he may send for Mfr. Sli
dell, to hear what he has to Esy, after all.
Some few Sf the members Of the Congress which
to sit Monday fortnight have Alrssdy arrived In Rich
moud DIXIE.