Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-20

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MONTREAL, Canada East March 25. After follow
ing the calls of business the West Indies and Europe,
st length enabled to catch breathing spell here
in Canada TO give you the results Of my observations
! upon matters and things abrosd. This remark esn
/ make and I think it viii be gratifying TO eli your
/ rsaders--whsraver have wandered upon Gods foot
stool have, S9utherner, found myself in the mist
Of friends There be mistake about the worlds
sympsthy Ministers and dpIomstists may wrap them
selves in the gid of expsdeDey and fractions
Of the masses may after the theories Of psiiedo-
philanthropsts but the people with usevsTy~hcre
II hospitality is test, in London, in Psris in Havana
In Montreal stranger is more eagerly sought Efler
warmly cherished than be who represents the
land Of Stonswaii jackson. and firmly believe that
this heavy burden In our favor viii bear fruit IN the
shape of active Intervention should ever be pushed
Canada is In intimate commercial relations with the
Nsheu States but those interests cannot smother that
innate and characteristics sentiment Of the British heart:
sympathy for the little fellow who pluckilY contests his
rights against tbs overgr0wn bully For these rsaaons
a rsbel can have good time of it here. The British
POSSESSIONS crowded with refugees from the South,
most Of thsm the victims Of xpStrstion from Ken:
lucky, Tenussses, and the banks of the Mississippi
riysr Thers few families from the Atlantic coast
have met two from. Charleston Doneganzs hotel s
the Confederate headquarters The alliances between
England the Confsdsracy cemented in formal style
| few weeks ago. Lord Abinger, who is officer Of
the Guards ous of the crack British regiments now
In garrison here Was married Miss aagrudsr the
beautiful and accomplished niece Of the oonfederats
commander in Texas. All that was lovely and chivaE
rous Of the two empires, soOurDing in Mentreel, e
peared At the uuptialS
Just now aIIude to the sympsthy felt for cur cause
In Europe and Canada But nowhere is that sentiment
stronger than lu the city OF New YJrk 1 was aston
ished its extent and depth. little explanation is
Decessary to socOunt for the anomaly Of community
opposed he and yet represented in the army by
thirty thousand sOldera While the Of the peo-
Die are for peace and II necessary gnition the city
is governed by the party in power a. Washington Gen
Dix rsigns supreme, backed by the whole military
strsug b of the Government As long as the Federal
army successful in the field, that moral nhlencs is
strong enough keep the people quiet But let asas
ter loom up and the popular dseoRent manifest Itself
witness the draft riots in July last, when the mob
turned its wrath upon the negro of the causes
Of the war and would have proceeded to the hanging
af the AbOtonsts had not the Democratic Idol CT tue
tine, GOvern0Teymour, infeTfsred, with reseherous
promises of State protection against ths GoyeIs
Time was thus procured to import nfty thousand for
egn soldiers, and the people found themselves bound
hand and foot have hesrdit stated thst not one Ia
i've OF the soldiers recruited in New York ara citizens
Ths ranks filed up from the continual stream Of
| European immigration
| When the war broke out the Democratic masses in
the city were opposed to LncOins pisn Of coercion
But tie furcr from the country reached New Ycrk.
The Abolition newspapers took courage and launched
out in the insans rawlings. A mob of Black Re
pubHesus ally contemptible In number, visited the
offices of the peace newspapers with thress of de-
struction. Bennett, who is in his dotags fright
ensd and the Herald" went over IN day and de-
voured all its previously expressed opinions. Tne De-
mOcratic leaders in Nsw York finally gave way to the
outside pressure, and the hag excl ement III carried
everything before t. The fanatics raised flags the
church steeples, Il saw one still flying from Grace
church the other dGy) An illustration Of the want Of
back bone in the Democratic politicians relsted
me. I not think it has appeared in print. At
ter the firing upon Sumter, (ths era from which every
thing Is reck0ned iG the NOrth) and while the excite
ment was beginning to rsge mseting OF prominent
Dsrnccra, was hsid 81 the New York Hotel RsEolu
tOns Of the strongest eharacter against coercion were
passed, and among those who delivered speeches. in
which they made OF the stereotyped treat that
Federal armies pess over their Democratic deSd
bodies their way to subjngss the south, were Dan
| iel e siekles and Thomas Francis Meagher. Their
knees gave way a week afterwards, and they sought
/ commissions in the army.
4ou and Beast ButsT, who formerly considered-it
privilege to lick the Southern boots followed suit
But the conservative masses, am satisfied now,
always opposed to the war reign Of terror existed
for above year People were dragged from their beds
| at night and thrown into prison Newspapers were
suppressed and the Administration indaged In every
suorroty with mpunity, until the election OF Seymour
A. governor Of New York broke the chains Since then
the psrtisaRs of peace have unleosed their tongues
ValandiehRm, svowsd pesce man, received the lar
ges vote thrown for Democrat in OhiO-lS4 coo.
He beatsn by the soldiers vote and series Of out
rageous frauds. In November last Gunther, open
and decided pesce man, swept the city of New York
for mayor. The New York Day Book" furious op-
ponsnt Of the war has nearly hundred Thousand cir
culRtion. Tie New York News" Ben Wood paper,
is avowsdly for peace. prominent Democrat, whom
met ans who had just returned from stumping New
Hsmpshre asserted to that eight out Of everY ten
Democrats In thar State opposed to the war and
the stronger he tslksd pesce ae be delighted his
hearers Ii s well known that the Administration
ries State elections by permitting thoss soldiers,
and only those who agree TO vote the Abolition tckst,
to go home on fuflOugh at election time
element At the North, because regard its exsteace
OF the utmost importance in determining the length Of
the contest shall aludo more at length 10 the sub
ieet in its bearing upon the Presidential election in
future letter Bus let remark here that there can
not be country more bitter haiers'-that'7
the word-Of Lincoln and the party IN power, thar
| met with in the North. l verify believe thAtH de
hoodg gates Of anti abolition wrsth could be open to-
| dav In New York not an AhoitOnst, from echer
| down to Greeley would escape instant iIamostion
They would be tora TO pieces burned alive, blown
from the cannon's mou1h-so furious il the feeling
, / against lhEm
This however is under the surface. It viii zeetht
and boil until the day of the great action. At pre-
sent New York holds high carnival TIE enormously
inflated currency gives apparent gliding TO every
| thing Every man has more money (greenbacks) in BIZ
pocket than ever be had before. II easily
therefore he spends il lsyishly. Retail trade is smua
ted to an extravsRant deRrse Never before thsF
such glitter and show and bustls and pleasure seek
ing ia New York. Mansions outVieng the magnheeac
Of European palaces going up on Fir Avenue
| Five thousand sh0Wy equipages stream through tn
broad pathways Of Central Pax every afternoon Th
! esrrsges and wagons; the sidewalks are q eonfnset
| crush Of pedestrians; the shop windows dazzle wit
their splsndor dozen theatres score of lesser show
and host Of underground concert ana pretty waite
| girl" saloons are crammed to sufoeation.
Grand balls follow each other nightly, where, as wei
as a. the italian opera house. the ladies blaze with dia
nnonas and precions and gorgeous In silk
and tuiIe, and lace, and moire antique. D-tmonieO
th-ee Tssau rants and new pslssl eating house wit
Ided windows and doors, on Four esuth street. cae
/ The "MRisou Doree, filed with people at all hour
| gorelng themselves with rich food and getting merr
over expensive wines. John AOrrissy hiss huge gan
| bling den on the most public part Of Broadway, wher
green-bscks are shOyeled around by the buBhe.. Th
| Country peopls swarm into .eWn to get md Of the
)ney aud Join in The freRz;eG 2snee around ths sia
! of pleasure. The hotels turn sway hundreds daily
Sometimes travellers ride from hotel TO hots for houl
in despairing ch for accommodation. Houses al
almost impossible to procure and rents are enormou
The stock exchange is the scene Of the widest e.
o sept Six sessions Of the stock board held dali
and as those are enough to satisfy the passion
. | Gambling, two more have been commenced for evsi
. ings at the Fifth Avenue hotel Fifty millions Of do
/, la- worth of stocks sold daily and nightly. Ha
Of these stock are acknowledged bubbles Fortunes
70 made in an hour have been told of clerk who vel
n tured into the exchange with SI6U, and cleared "a
week with one hundred thOuSsnd every cent Of whie
= however, be lost in week more. vanderbilt 81
George Law the steeS kings, Weather than the
tors 1t has become unfashi0nabs to cavi at ehsrg
Ask anv price and it vii. be given A lady pays 81 0C
n for peee Of brOeAde 10 make dress; man gv'
$1,000 for span OF CARR ge horses and INNS nolhn
IS Of IL another spends IS 600 en- dinner party sto NJ
uays $50 for choice seat at The opera another pay
COO yeAr rent fer taree-story house on kife AV
e nue.. q know these figures viii hardly iooH IaFse
the ewes Of the Confederate readers but il must Be
d meabsred that gold is at premium OF only 64 p'
IA cent in New York city at presently And thus ever,
body taking part in the saturnalia Even me soias
d receive from 400 81 600 bounty for resnlistns au
:, contribute to the general jolllhcation. :.
IL This picture Is not oVeTdrswn donst y u. u
delirium.s Some Of the newspapers are alarmed &c
), cry ont loudly against the outrageous extrsTeganc
4 | Of the hour. The Abolition organ, the New or
Times entreas the people 10 30 back to en- trencne
expenses and private economy, or make mp thsle nn
for financial ruin. The fact is, almost every ore
| CARDS the Federal currency eventually Wortn'es
Is but have got into the scrape and It's too ase
| help It now" This country is bound to go 70 u
2s devil anyhow" and Temsht As well haveA seoo Nn
a | while the fun lasts"
" New Ysrk is not alone the abode Of mad zen. 80
e. ton Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati and W asoil
ton display the same features though 10 more moo
81 rate extent But the disease s national oie ano
viii be discovered prevailing among the land specui
IN tors In he Interior Of Michigan a. well as amenS "
q. merchants and stock gambler Of the Empire oy.
" The Cssssa ssPPfy fer 1SSA.
q, George NJ McHenry, author Of the Cotton Trade
In letter sc the London Standard" thus estlmsi
a. the supply and demand Of cotton for ls6i in baies
es the uniform weight OF four hundred pounds:
O. nh ,o,ol stoSA os co.ton Il, E,propA and the