Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-05


d dollarv than to chlseled marble and ge
IS Mus inspired canvas. it is excavated II
g great tunnels and arched ways under th,
e old Court Hall and the adjacen
q streets, the entrance TO the hal
S being guarded by a gigA lie rough
e granite statue of Rolla, said ts
S be nearly thousand years old. The
+ cellar is kept and controlled by the
4 city government, not for profit but e
, maintain the purity Of wines and thever.
/ ity Of vintage records, and TO furnish the
citizens easy access 10 goOdand healthful
1 drinks at moderate cost. 1t is stored
Z mostly with Rhine wines few red wines
] and no champagne. Being a member
Of the temperance society at home,
= of course visited the wine cellar
out of mere curiosity, but what was
the curiosity worth without being grati-
, fed? looking at wine-cellar, and lis
, tening to statues and pictures in gallaries,
would not be seeing Europe very fast or
very wisely. So / soon learned that the
pure Rhine wines Of three, four, and six
years age are very fine drinks, and have
not doubt, very wholesome. Look
ing over the list we saw q brand
OF the vintage of eighteen hum
dred and twenty-four, and naturally
wanted to taste some wine made about
the time Massachusetts and Virginia
were settled, about a century and aquar-
/ ter before Boone Went to Kentucky. A
gentleman present said an estimate had
been made Of what that wine would be
worth now, compOunding the original
cost at five per cent. per rannum, and said
! il was thousand dollars glass OF
/ thousand dollars a drop, l forget which;
and not having time TO revise the cal
/ collation. myself, il makes no difference,
/ since three dollars and a half in gold
/ bought small bottle of it. The man
| through whom we ordered it could not
/ converse in our language, and tried to
warn Us against the two free use of it by
putting his hands on his stomach, then
on his head, and then crossing his fingers
and Wabbling them around very much |
as a man would appear navigating
the street with a big brick in his |
hat. His warning was not needed. |
We found it as we had been told We /
would, not near so good as younger /
wines, indeed not an agreeable drink at /
all, but of a most exquisite aroma. This |
old wine is stored away in one eOmpart-
meni in twelve casks about the size Of
large pork tieree, and is it impiOus, OF
docs il only show the extreme love of
these people for the wine, the grape, and
the SaviOur's sacred use Of wine at the
last supper Z? each cask is named for one
Of the apostles! Some of the Younger
wines are contained in casks orna-
nented with carved figures of Bacchus,
grapes, grape vines, and leaves, and 50
huge ] could not stand on the lower
chimb and reach to the upper by more
than foot. They are about eight by
sixteen or fourteen feet, and contain at
rough guess ten times as much Us a Ken
Fr1,s, Il
the size of these casks when a German,
a genuine worshipper of "Rhein Wein,D &,
exclaimed, "Ah come with me TO Hell
delburg $50 l understood him, and see
one three or four times a. big, and which ,
! have seen the young folks dancing a
set on top Of it.n One Of these Bremen ,
casks is estimated TO contain eighteen
dollars worth of wine, and this
at Bremen wine cellef prices, which is
from One-foUrth to one eighth what you
would pay for some brands in an Amer
lean hotel, with the additional and ma
.erial difference that with us you pay T
he brand without getting the wine.
Europe is q great study. In the
e Paris Of the North" the capital OF the :
Danes, manners go by contraries in some
mall matters, when measured by our
.ustoms. a stranger calls fret on those
Ie wishes to know. On the street ladies
axe the outside and gentlemen the wall
.t u party you carry your hat in your
Iand before and after dinner, instead n
II leaving it in the hall, as with
Is at the opera or the theater you
cave il in the ante room and get a ticket
or it instead of carrying it TO your seat
II box, as with us. What an autocFat is
ust0ml Europe, the smallest of the
ontinents, has done the largest share OF {
he worlds thinking, fighting, trading,
ainting and writing. Madame De
.tBel said in her essay upon the L
influence of government aud eli
nate on literature, and literature
nd climate on government, that 7
Northern Europe being foggv, boggv. .
Loudly, icy, and gloomy would produce a y
lOOmy literature; while Southern v
Europe, being bright, sunny and cheer T.
ll in its natural aspects, would produce s.
heerful and brilliant literature. The A
IeOry was SO fine and apparently so nat "
raj 10 seems a pity it is not true. She Y
lrgot or neglected the Baconian method
t reasoning when she cited Ossian in -
he Isles, and somebody, / forget whom,
a Germany, to prove il the truth being
rat some OF the warmest, loyeliest,
rightest, most natural, and almost liv- "
lg and speaking creations, are from the
british and German poets, while some of
he darkest and most melancholy, some
the glOOmiest views Of life and human
ature, are from the sunny shores and /
lear skies of the Mediterranean.
But there is a difference between North
m and Southern Europe, whether of
lOod or climate a difference to be learned d,
! books of history, philosophy and poll lie
O.. 1t is in their way Of thinking and OF
citing upon political and social subjects.
he Southern nations think more as
lme one leader thinks, and move mere
y impulse, and therefore think =
nd move ca Bqdsse and to extremes.
hus il Is that their movements gather
Ich great and sudden momentum, and,
$ in the sudden and colliding move
rents of material things, something
aust needs be smashed in the opera
on, whether a government, "con- !
tuition" II once saw a collection -H
French constitutions, an '.idea,1
leader, or party. The northern races, -
u German and Scandinavian, are socia- -
e and gregrarious, sufficiently co-opera-
We, but in their blood, habits, and history
lere is more of personal identity, indi-
duality, and independence, more of
If reliance, an innate dogged proneness
} do ones own thinking, ones own =
citing, ones own nlOviJlq about, and ones -
wn fighting-the same as when Cesar
'ught them and facitus described them.
he greatest political mystery of this era a.
, why have not these races develOped "
borough and universal democracy, in On
cad of ciinging 50 long and so tenaci-
isly TO the remnants of the exploded
udal system seeing that governments "
row and are not made. A
Speaking of nations rather than indi- o
.duals, the English are the children and -
he Americans are the grand children of J..
orthern Europe, and to-day there A.
re more Of the prominent features
our laws that can be traced
1ck to the woods of Germany
nd Scandinavia than 70 the Ro- =
ian Pandects and the Code of Justinian. "
nd where the institution itself cannot
e traced so far hack, but is deemed an
,Vention by the genius of personal lib
'ty, a new bulwark 10 constitutional 70
eedom, great victory over some John, let
Charles, James, or a George, Il -
III yet, when narrowly examined,
2 found to be the outgrowth,
,e natural and legitimate develop -
.eHt of the ingrained character Of
le race. The hobeds corpus is gener-
ly viewed as a noble invention-a great
'inciple Of right and law invented-snd
} have had much TO do In securing or T
the personal liberty and in
rming the characters of Englishmen
nd Americans. l viii not undervalue
,e writ, but, viewed a. an institution, it
more an effect than cause, more a -
lmedy than right thing deman- Il
ed by and resulting from the in nc
eritable ideas, habits, and manners of "a
he race. Instead of comforting rights it Pc
only cOntFivance to secure and en- vi
'rce rights claimed and exercised i'm a
in forest and in field, ON ro
fountain and i'm dale, in hamlet and in Sc
amp, in cottage and in palace, the rights odi
personal freedom, independence, loco
lotion and these did nOtcome of hdbeds -
JTPiis, but hGbeus corpus came Of them. =
ong live the writ aud forever demi-
ate the blood
BOOTS AND SHOES.