Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-18


the latter, ia letter published ia tkis mornings
TimeS, gracefully viihdraWs from the contest
and rather intimates that the sqas5ble, taking
into consideration ths present condition Of the
State and country At large, is becoming dis
gTaesfel Resides the two gentleman sbove
named, Rufus Waples, Thos J DarsHt and s4r.
Flanders are spoken Of in connection With the
position. There has be0n q great deal Of erini-
nation and reeEinins!ion among the friends Of
the rival candidates, ezeh claiming that his can
didsie Wss one of the "origina Union men,
and tbe others are converts Of the I" eleventh
hour"
The opponents Of Mr.. Hahn have been dig
ging Emong the old PicayxHs and Crescent ffss,
and have Ee5Urreeted spesch made by him on
the occasion of the presentation Of flag Iby the
ladies OF New Orleans 10 the Calhoun Guards
Mr.. HShn's speech certainly has an ugly LOOK,
taken in connection with bis present position,
especially thst portion Of Il in which he pictures
the sengUinaIy Guards as performing pTodigiss
OF vaior IN defense Of their homes ard fresides
but, th' n, how much better record can any OF
them chow. Is is GrcaGes GrsbO with each and
all of them. WilA The exception OF DR. D5ssie,
who was driven eff, Col Field and Thomas J
DurAnt, do not know a single one Of the bls-
tani Union men Of NeE Orleans, who can show
perfectly clean record. Colonel Field was
compelled, for sixteen months, to keen perfectly
sober, because when he became enfause3 be
must talk--''a cusSin' snd q dammEu' secs
sion up one side snd down the other. If he
talked he stood fair ehancs of being hung.
This compulsory sbStinsncs may seem snail
matter to an iahsbisant Of the temperate z9ns,
bat assure him, to residents of New OrIesus,
where the very air is alcoholic, it wes listls less
than absolute maItyTdom- -.
But do rot object to the s1tseede1ts Of any
Of the candidates. It's not pleasant thing to
be hung, and blame mona Of them for falling
n with the pSpUlsr current, to save theiT neeks.
But there is ons serious objection to Mr. Hahn.
He is ss clesr csss Of Dutchmaa, as I ever
saw, and yet goes about under tss pTetsn5e of
oeing an Irishmsn, deluding the Datives Of
sWeet Erin, and scOrehing his ''innsEdsn with
hot whisky punches while his bowels are ysarn-
iOg foF lager The transition Is comparatively
easy. Instead Of "a Michel " he spells bis game
'Miebsel," and calls it Ham," ratheE than
Hawn,"
You must Eot be deceived In regard 70 the
fuss and clsmor of the papers about this cleo
ton Uniolism has certainly made some pEo-
gTess in the city, but it is not so strong So is is
represented to be, By jlgfuu' and more
Tho great mass OF the people are, and viii for
long tins continue to be rebels, and the uDrosr
Is made by the slippery chaps, who invsriably
keep good lookoEt for the interests Of No. i,
and expect 10 make something out Of the new
order OF things. A handful Of grssshoppers in
the meadow will make m9Te nOiss than q thou
sand cattlsqaissly feeding on the hills. Rats
desert sinking ship; bat it is none the less
true that they swarm where the bottom is good,
the timbeTs sound, and the vessel gictukled for
long time.
In some respects, the present caffgsss is q
singular one for New Odesls, and the cid slA-
gsrs scarcely know how 30 begin il. La ths good
old tines, the most desperate cut-throsis in the
city were employed by politics s and csndi-
dates-aRd well raid, TOTO " work in the
elections. They worked " with tho slang
shot and bowie, the light work being done with
the i" msGleys" But 81 E0Hs av0nS change tozt
celia" which is French, aud means that it is
nov horse Of another cll9r.
APropos Of thugs, ths aneient and honorable
order is sgain locking up in New OfsAns,
though in 3 somewhat different walk Daring
the reign Of the " beaS. '' Thuggery was At its
last gasp. For! Jackson, the Parish prf5on and
Ship Island were full to rsplotiOn of ths frater-
nifty, while soma wore quietly sgEiting the day
which was to see them dangling between the
heavens and earth. Bat now thuggsry takes
to the police and ssers. service. Dsunois, sn
eminent thug, is now filing the responsible sss-
ton of chief Of police. Rsd Bill, condemned
to be hanged by the Butler dynasty, somehow
or other slipped out of the toll whom Banks
came, and disappeared.
Lucisn Adams, thug in opposition TO thugs
after narrowly escaping hanging, which he
richly deserved, is now at large, and aadar-
sand, is employed il the secret service. Laeien
is probably The greatest scoundrel unhung
For years he ruled the Fourth District with =
r5d OF iron, and woe to the unfortunate who
seriously offended him. The knife, the pistol or
the bludgeon of Luciee's emisssries made sure
work Of il, and dead men tell no tales He was
atthe bottom of the dssp dsmnAtion " of the
taking of of Abe Phillips-a prominent thug
of the regular branch. His half brother, E 1gens
Pope, being eondsmned to die for murder, it is
strongly believe that Lacien poisoned him to
avoid unpleasant revelations in hisdying confss-
sion. And Jet we are told this vile scOundrel is
EoW in Government employ.
In me gsnefal muddIs i. Is hard to arrive at
any conclusion as to which is right but it is
sansfslly conceded that Hahn viii be elected.
Ii is understood that the Commanding general
is throwing he.weiRht Of his infasncs iE his
favor; 60 you may set it down as q fixed isei
that Aichsel Ham viii, in conjunction with
Thos. OVerton Moore, administer the civil Gov
eminent Of Louisiana FIR the next four years.
The seesssionistS look upon the movement TO
re-estsblish the civil Governments Of Louisiana
with no particle Of favor. They fsslthst they
have nothing TO hope from its estab,iahuaeut at
LlAs -AuAor h1A4 AVsA--k ~ A1AA IotAys o. tuo
prospects Of slavery cannot pessi5ly be darker.
The French paper L. Usisn, is most ousspoken
on the subject. Il says, give as no mongrel
government, bullet the military power continue
until such tins IS a civil government may be
established with some show of fairness.
10 addition to the Hahn and Flanders parties
we also have 3 ''conseTvativs" eoncsrn, which
is worrying itself about the Constitution
Christisn Roselius, J. Ad. RoBisf, and other
promiRen! men of the city, are identified with
Il. They held meeting last night at tie ST.
ChErles Thester, in which the usual Tapid cant
Of ths fraternity was INDUCED in II these
patriots weTs little further north, they would
be called coppeIheads
An egsnt Of the Mexican Jusrsz Government
was in the city last week, for the pufposo Of
procuring aims and ammunition. understand,
from an unofficial source, that his mission was
completely successful, and that large quantity
of small arms, shot, she'll and fixed ammunition
are now on their way 70 be landed At some point
on the Mexican coast. So new we can credit
ourselves with at least one payment in kind for
his ami2ble neutrality"
EATIKG GRAss.-A French officer WAC, on
one occasion, accompanied q raid sgainst an