Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-17

Little do the w~ell-to-do inhabitants Of
our city know Of the poverty surrounding
them on all sides and the privations and
Suffering holding 4 dreadful and heart
siekening carnival in their very midst.
Little does the wealthy citizen imagine,
in his daily walks along many Of our
streets, that fifty yards to the right or LEFT
Of him, i'm some filthy and miasma-
breeding alley, are scenes az which the
heart sinks, and which bring forcibly to
the miEd of the spectator Eugene Sues
dramatically written word-plctures OF
poverty and suffering among the Durlieus
Of Paris. In these alleys and about the
suburbs do they dwell, subject to the in
truding gaze and stare Of broad-clothed.
heartless curiosity seekers.
stand with Us ON the corner for half an
hour and wstch the surging mass that
pushes along, intent only on the business
Of the hour, while we relate 10 vou the
short and simple annals Of the poor"
Did you mark the face that passed you
bat a moment ago. 4 woman Of per
haps forty years, but so wrinkled, tanned
and care-worn, that she would be taken
for nearly twice that age, yet, withsl
wearing an expression Of chastened sor-
rowfulness-a patient melancholy that
bathes her face in a mellow light like the
halo Of glory around the head Of the Ma
donna; the "SL Elizabeth Of Raphael
rs we live! She had been a happy wife
hydra head, and she gave all that was
near and dear 10 her. Her husband and
two sons rest with the unknown heroes,
who died and left no name-the brave
old rank and fle-and she is returning to
her lonely home after hard and scantily
paid days labor 10 " sup with sorrow o
and wait patiently for her release.
What have we heree See how scantily
dressed she is: how tightly she wraps
that faded. WORKOUT shawl around her
form, and how shrinkingly she meetsthe
cold wind a. she turns the r She
Is some Door seamstress-that Niobe Of
working women, returning 10 her dismal
home-to sew at once, with a double
thread. &" a shr0ud as well as a shirt
Whats her history The anne old tale
she has seen haleyon days, but like
everything good in this world, they
have faded away like snow beneath
the sEmmer sun, 10 live only In mem
orv. May 2 merciful God smooth her
patJee to the grave, for it requires no
skilled physician TO see by the dark, blue
tinre under her ewes. the hectic flush and
the hacking cough, that the end is near.
Here hobbies byamauo on erutches. A
soldier once he was, who left his leg at
shiloh, who was before the war a man
in easy circumstance. but now, like his
saviour. has not where 10 Jay his head.
Mark the piuched, careworn features
hovy D@iteouslv he looks Oh the face Of
every pslzer-hy, with a mute e~loquencs
and a divine despair" for n crust of
bread, TO keep the wolf hunger from his
heart for another day. Ashamed to ask
for assistance he hobbies on. This in the
city for which that limb was sacrificed.
What uext9 A boy and a girl. Or
phans both, and trying to exc out a mise
rabIe existence. Would you glance at
their future career? The boy, growing
ND among the yilest Of associations be-
comes hardened and depraved ana
nnallv ends his life in a penitentiary, the
burglary, The girl The old
Ten years from now she Will be-
come the inmate Of some vile den Of IN
fanny. and after a fast and conscience
drowning career OF four or five years, go
down IL tine dim Unknown, with not an
eve 10 dropa solitary tear to her memory
uo, q hand 10 weave a chaplet Of flowers
for her grave. Here Jet the curtain drop.
Winter srapidly approaching and with
it, cold dncaIy nights and days, the poor
must suffer terribly. The past war has
added many, heretofore beyond the pale
OF charity. 10 the already great number
o. poor in Our midst. Judge Dickinson,
our City Treasurer informs US, that a day
rarely passes without calls from five to
Of these poor, unfortunate creatures,
.mporcuning for ne bare money 10 Pur-
chase bread for their starving little ones.
The City Treasury j. empty. Relief
be looked for elsewhere, III the
religious duty Of our public to provide for
them-their suherings and wants should
be d~isregarded.