Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-19

LoNDoN, December 30, 1853. .
/ have Just seen a letter from Gen.
Beauregard, which has probably also cir
culated in the American papers, indig-
nantly denying that he was "a soldier
of fortune" (it would be harder TO deny
that he has been a soldier of misfortune),
and declaring that il was "the generous
sentiments Of President johnson" which
induced him and his friends to give up
the scheme of forming a colony in Bra
iii. With reference 10 the latter pOr-
ton of this statement, | am in a posi-
ton to affirm, on the very highest private
authority, that there was another reason
doubtless cooperating with the one men
toned, which led to the abandonment
Of the Brazilian project, and that reason
was the deeply discouraging report of
the committee of SOuthernors who We're
sent out TO Brazil TO recOnnOitre. During
the rebellion, London and Paris have
been the great centres for consultation
and plotting, on the part of the COnleder-
ates who were outside Of the cOnfederacy.
Here from all points they would rally
after victory or defeat, TO jubilate or
10 mourn, 10 join in shouts of joy or in
howls and curses, to sing peans or to
whistle 10 keep each others courage up,
Just as the case happened 10 require.
Through channels Of information
which I have sedulously culti-
yated, for the purpose Of sup
plying items Of interest TO the Cincinnati
Commercial, | have learned much of the
unwritten history of these extra COnfed-
crate caballings; and on the present
subject of the colony 10 Brazil, l cannot
be mistaken in saying that when these
Fsf4lt n a oil f-ly
ening darkness gathering their cause,
that it was past saving by all their plots
and prayers, they warmly entered into
the scheme of finding some dear spot in
the world where their hunted and ex-
DatTiated slavery might flee for repOse.
The answer brought back by the
committee was most disheartening;
for in addition To other unfavOrable
relating to Brazil, they
learned that even in Brazil, slavery
could not very long endme-that even
there the pes!i!ent genius of emancipa-
ton was sowing its seed, and the soul of
old John Brown was marching on. If
they went 10 Brazil with the hope of
perpetuating the peculiarly divine insti-
tuition, they would have the old battle to
20 over again, and every prospect of the
same disastrous result. Had the report
been a favorable one, many of them
would have disdained the protection of
President JOhnsOn's generous senti-
ments;" nay, had there been a place
where slavery could have planted the
sole of its foot, many Of these cOnciliated
patriots would not have seen any ''gen-
erOsityn in those sentiments.
benjamin and Mason.
Both these gentlemen are at present in
London. The former has already en-
tered his name at the Temple, undertake
ing TO eat his seyenty-twO dinners i'm
that ancient establishment preparatory
to his admission 10 the English bar. As
he is not allowed 10 eat more than
twenty-four of these judicial dinners per
annum, your youngest pupil in Arith-
metic can compute how many years he
viii have Ia walt before he is Called
Ii any one wishes to enrich his vocabu-
larry Of abusive epithets, he should come
to London and hear how the Southerners
speak OF "Old Mason" To say that they
damn him up hill and down dale is to
give you but a fainti idea Of the Vehemence,
.be Intensity and the opulence Of their
lGr.mOnions judgments upon that re-
lowned embsssador TO a country that
would not receive him, from a country
that will not let him come hack. 1t
seems that IN the flushed days OfConfed- |
crate success, Mason, confident of am
early recognition, used to march down to |
he House OF Commons arm in arm, with |
British statesmen, and put !
IN, rather pTematurely, all the pompOus |
airs 81 conqueror with his head |
turned" Then it was that he treated |
common South6ruer5 who approached |
aim, in a naughty and heartfess way: |
and this they do not forget More |
Dver, they accuse the old gentle !
nan Of imbeeiliJy as a diplomatist |
and of total uniitness either To repre- |
sent or to engineer 8 difficult case. | am |
Informed that with the final collapse Of |
he COnfederacy, the proud Virginian is |
'educed to desperate straits-in short, |
hat be is sadly afflicted with the /
contagious disease OF eXiles, 10 l0H |
and that out of
impie Gecency and charity, some /
English friends Of the South are get |
ing mp a subscription TO save the ambas-
ador from actual want. As to Judah p.
benjamin, all accounts agree that, like a
rue son Of the Patriarch Abraham, he /
has nicely feathered his nest, and, as
ONE prominent SoutheTners here boldly |
-serj, he has done so cut of the spoiis |
.nd pretended conliscations of Southern
,anks and capitalists in the days when
ie could dictate Tesistless demands at
richmond,