The Portland daily press., 1865-01-27
eon.horn Refurees in New York.

M Pollard. the editor of the Richmond En-
a,,;,er. thus speaks Of a class Of men he met
in New York while prisoner on parole. He
holds ready pen, and his descriptive powers
are above mediocrity. We think he has done
no more than justice to many of the eharac-
tiers that hang about the New York Hotel
We lived close by these headquarters of South
erners some three or four winters ago, and can
testify to the truthfulness Of the portraits this
editor has drawn: 65Fe -
While referring to party opinion in the
North, the writer may extend allusion to a
certain ILL defined collection found in the bulk
of southern refugees and residents in the
North. These derelict Confederates are the
most contemplate of creatures. There are
exceptions some few and honorable men de-
tanned 10 the North by the confines of their
domestic life, doing good work, contributing
to our prisoners, not noisy in their demon
STATIONS, but holding their opinions decorous-
ly within the sanctity of their homes, or with
in the pale oil the close society of those who
think with them. q.-s - -
But there are hundreds and thousands Of
these sympathetic absentees who. in the spirit
of sheerest cowardice and grossest selfishness,
explode their Southern patriotism in the gar
IRISH hotels of New York, and are trying to
pass their time pleasantly among the creature
comforts Of Yankeedom, while the beloved
people of the South are left to take for them
selves all of the privation and risk of war. -
Many OF them live extrayagantly, not few
gamble in gold rooms, and these refugees,
doughfaced adyenturers, fugitives from con-
sInptioa, and cowardice of every strife, who
are bloating and pampering themselves in
Yankeedom, talk "secesh" as loudly and brave
lu in tho NQm Vnrk Hnfal in tho g
wood House in Richmond. W ~
Despite the civilities thewriter met in this
house, and its singular freedom from the pinch
beck of Yankee hotel life, he must remember
occasions of disgust in seeing so many spruce
refugees ieasting and wining and guzzling in
delicate sops Of New York luxury, talking
Southern patriotism as fierce as bated bears,
and in the next breath comparing their gains
in cotton, and the profits of their last myster-
ious trips to Nashville and New Orleans. 1t
Is singular that this class are always the trum-
peters of President Davis. They are so ex-
cessiyely patriotic that they worship him day
and night, they resent everything that does
not represent the Confederacy in the cOlors OF
the rose, and every expression OF Southern OPP
inion, no matter what its manly and incontes-
tible proofs OF attachment to the Confederate
cause, that implies mistake on the part of
President Davis, is iercely denounced and
forthwith tomahawked by these vagabond
knights OF secession.
The writer was informed that this peculiar
Davis mania, at the expense OF everybody else
and every interest else in the Confederacy,
prevails as much among the Confederate alb
septees and sympatbizers in London and Paris
as well as in New York. This is not unac-
countable at least in good part. Many of these
creatures are the agents and emissaries of
President Davis, and through his Partially
are reaping rich pecuniary reward in pretend
ing to be political adventures in the North
aud in Europe. and in flying certain financial
kites for their own benefit. Thus the writer
reccollects to have met in company in New
York, a little ruddy gentleman, ruddy with
| good living, who could not be persuaded that
Mr.. Davis was not the Moses Of the Confeder-
ate gdeliverance. At parting he hoped that
the writer would recommend d certain inan-
eial scheme, that certain friend OF his had
gone to Richmond to lay before the authori.
ties, by which millions Of dollars were to be
raised in Europe after the approved fashion Of
extracting snnbeams from cucumbers. Al