Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-24

they became guerillas and bush
whaekers under Price, Anderson and
Quantrell Hssas5ins; thugs; poi5oneEs
Of wells; murderers OF captive women
and children; sackers Of defenseless
towns; house-burDers; horse.thieves;
perpetrators OF atrocities that would
make the blood of Sepoys run cold.
The catfish aristocrat is pre-emi.
nently the saloon-builder. Past gener.
atoms and persisted races Of men have
defed oblivion by the enduring strue-
lures which pride, SORROW, or religion
have reared to p~erpetuate the virtues
OF the living or the memory of the
dead. Ghizeh has its pyramids; Petra
its temples; the middle ages their ca
thedrals; Central America Its ruins;
but Pike and Posey have their sa-
looms, where the patrician of the bot
tom assemblies with his peers. Gath
cred round q rusty stove choked with
soggy driftwOod he drinks sodcOrn
rom a tin cup, plays old sledge upon
the head Of an empty keg, and reels
home at nightfall. yelling through the
timber, to hissqualld cabin.
A SCORE OF LEAN, HUNGRY OURS
pour in a canine cataract owe the
worm-fenee by the horseback as
their master approaches, baying deep
mouthed welcome, filling the cham
bers Of the forest with hoarse reverbe-
rations, mingled with an explosion of
Oaths and frantic imprecations. Snor-
ing the night away In drunken slum.
Der under q heap OF gray blankets, he
crawls into his muddy jeans at sun.
up, takes q gurgling drink from a Fat
black bottle stoppered with cob, goes
to the log-pile by the front door, and
with a dull ak slabs OF an armiul OF
green cottonwood to make q fire for
breakfast, which consists of the in
evitable ''meat and bread,n and q de-
coction Of coffee burned to charcoal
and drank without milk or sugar.
Another pull at the bottle, q few
grains Of quinine IL it Is ager day, q
chaw Of navy, and the repast is fin
ished. The sweet delights of home
have been enjoyed, and the spiritual
creature goes forth, invigorated for
the struggle OF life, to repeat the ex-
PLOTS Of every yesterday OF his exist
ence.
I have heretofore alluded to Ehang
as the typical grandee of this ichthyo.
logical peerage. Whence he derived
the appellati0n by which, he was uni
formily known, l could never satis-
~factOrily ascertain. Whether it was
his ancestral title, or merely q playful
pseudoDym bestowed upon him by
some familiar friend in affections
most endearing hour, was never dis
closed. On his birth, his parentage,
his antecedents, 1t were equally vain
to inquire. He was unintentionally
begotten In a eoncupiseence as idle
and thoughtless as that Of dogs, or
flies, or swine. It has been surmised
that he was evolved from the minor
consciousness Of his own squalor, but
this must always remain a matter OF
conjecture.
TO THE MOST MINUTE OBSERVER
his age was a question of the gravest
doubt. He might have been thirty;
he might have been a century, with
no violation Of the probabilities. His
hair was q sandy sofrel, something
like q Rembrandt interior, and strayed
around his freckled scalp like the top
layer Of a haystaek in a tornado. His
eyes were two ulcers, half filed with
pale-blue starch. A thin, sharp nose
projected above q lipless mouth that
seemed always upon the point of
breaking into the most grievous lam
and never opened save to
take whisky and tobacco In, and let
Oaths and saliva out. A long, slender
neck, yellow and Wrinkled after the
manner of q lizards belly, bore this
dome Of thought upon its summit, It.
self projecting from a miscellaneous
assortment of gents' furnishing goods,
which covered a frame of unearthly
longitude and unspeakable emacia-
ton. Thorns and thongs supplied the
place OF buttons upon the costume Of
this Brummel of the bottom, coarsely
patched beyond recognition Of the
original fabric. The coat bad been
constructed for a giant, the pants for
a pigmy. They were too long in the
waist, and too short in the leg, and
Tapped loosely around his shrunk
shanks, high above the point where
his fearful feet were partially con-
cealed by mismated shoes, that per-
mitted his great toes to peer from
their gaping integuments like the
heads of two snakes of a novel species
and uncommon fetor. This princely
phenomenon was topped with a hat
which had neither band, nor brim,
nor crown,
could shape be called which shape
had none"
Bis voice was shrill and querulous;
mis- manner an odd admixture Of
awning servility and apprehensive
sdrontery at the sight OF a id YAM
zee, whom he hated and feared next
% a negro.