Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-17

appearance now given it by the struc.
lures that on every hand meet the disap-
pointed gaze. But that noble river has
not even there lost all its original "
sublimity of aspect. Tho late floods, ex.
ceeding any heretofore known, seem to
have been raised by the anger of the
Father of Waters, who, in his wrath, had
sworn to sweep away these obstacles to
his ocean-bound course, placed there by
the avarice of man. And most effectu
ally did he do it-destroying the bridges
that there arch his channel, and over
whelming the structures that essayed to
make his waters subservient to their
masters will.
Below those falls are those Of the Min
ne.ha.ha, where the muse once visited
Longfelow.
These are far the most beautiful |
have seen, although they have fall
not exceeding twenty feet perpendicu-
larly, and although the stream from
which they are named is far too narrow
and shallow to claim the dignity Of river.
The Yankees call it " crick.
Besides the slight variation from truth
in the statements made by those inter.
ested as regards the climate, as named
in my last, my very limited observation
has already met another fb-that is in
regard TO the adaptation of this country
for cattle and sheep. So far from that
being true, all the cattle have seen arc
very poor, in spite of the nutritious grass
that grows in such abundance. And as
to sheep-they are more lean, ragged and
dirty than any / had ever seen. A pub.
lication by the Minnesota Legislature
says such thing as the rot or scab is
never known there. The sheep / saw
showed evident signs Of being mere rem
nants left by one Of those species of pes
thence. The poverty OF cattle, however,
is attributed to the severity of last winter.
And yet in talking to the thousands of
invalids who seek here the renovation of
health, we constantly hear said Oh !
you can't expect to be much benefited
by remaining during the summer; it is
the winters that have so wonderfully
curative powers-they are so mild and
so dry"
In the immediate vicinity where we
now are, the New England Puritan els-
ment predominates largely aud in that
too, we find another contrast between
reputation and fact. Their oft repeated
claim to sanctity does not always com
port with the eXtortion and theft that
often crops out from the other ingre-
dients of their moral soil nor their other
claim to unequaIed intelligence, with
the bigotry, intolerance and ignorance so
frequently found in this region. Wade,
Sumner, Stevens and thatilk are the sole
lights of their minds and conscionces; but
these are seen only by reelection from
stars of lesser magnitude, and refracted
through the distorting lens Of Radical
presses, and pictures Of Southern bar
barity drawn by nameless itinerant pho
tographers. The women feed their
faneies with images in Photographic
albums of returned naked Andersonville
prisoners, Immaculate Africans i'm
paled at Fort Pillow, and lovely little
female slaves, with fair skin, blue eyes
and wavy ringlets, saved from thraldom
to New Orleans savages by the Christian
hero, Picayune Butler.
Nor is the Southerner a greater object
of their hatred than the Irish The SEN
timent here is so universally against
them that it is a common expression on
application for employment by one Of
that class: 1t is enough to know that
they are Irish, for me to have nothing
to DO With them" Were it indeed true,
as asserted by some Radical papers, that
the Southern man is the enemy Of the
Irish, then that class have no friends in
these disunited States, for in every senti-
ment that animates a'human soul, what
can be more antipodal than New Eng
lander and an Irishmsn-a PaTitan and
a Catholic ? Nothing but the unsuspect-
ing &c nerOsiiy Of the latter can prevent
their now seeing that mortal antagonism
that will sometime attempt to WELD the
united force Of this nation against their
religion and race. This hybrid republic
half Yankee and half negro-com-