The Sun. — 1861-07-10 (London, England)

JUNE 19. Up at three o'clock a.m., to get ready for the train at 5, which will take me out of Dixie's Land to Cairo. If the owners of the old hostelries in the Egyptian city were at all like their Tennesseean fellow craftsmen in the upstart institution which takes its name, I wonder how Herodotus managed to pay his way. My sable attendant quite entered into our feelings, and was rewarded accordingly. At 5 a.m., covered with dust, contracted in a drive through streets which seem " paved with waves of mud," to use the phrase of a Hibernian gentleman connected with the luggage department of the omnibus, " only the mud was all dust," to use my own, I started in the cars along with some Confederate officers and several bottles of whisky, which at that early hour was considered by my unknown companions as a highly efficient prophylactic against the morning dews, but it appeared that these dews are of such a deadly character that in order to guard against their one must become dead drunk. The same remedy, I am assured, is sovereign against rattlesnake bites. I can assure the friends of these gentlemen that they were amply fortified against any amount of dew or of rattlesnake poison before they got utßotiyetuhtheefeemnhdleemeodftphheiisr papers whisky,it s o seemsgrea t as wasif tthheastu ipnpsltyi t. prevailed there as in New Orleans, for I read in my paper as I went along of two murders and one shooting as the incidents of the previous day, contributed by" the local." To contrast with this low state of social existence there must be a high condition of moral feeling, for thejournal I was reading contained a very elaborate article to show the wickedness of any one payinghis debts, and of any State acknowledging its liabilities, which would constitute an invaluable vade mecum for Basinghall-street. At Humboldt there was what was called a change of cars—a process that all the philosophy of the Baron could not have enabled him to endure without some loss of temper, for there was a whole Kosmos of Southern patriotism assembled at the station, burning with the fires of Liberty, and bent on going to the camp at Union City, 46 miles away,where the Confederate forces of Tennessee, aided by Mississippi regiments, are out under the greenwood tree. Their force was irresistible, particularly as there were numbers of relentless citizenesses—what the American papers call " quite a crowd"—as the advanced guard of the invading army. While the original occupants were being compressed or expelled by crinoline—that all-absorbing; defensive, and aggressive article of feminine war reigns here in wide-spread, iron-bound circles—l took refuge on the platform, where I made, in an involuntary way, a good many acquaintances in this sort :—" Sir, my name is Jones happy —to Judge affectionate you,Jone PArmepskhiankeCohuanntdys.affectiotnr Scribble." The Colonel shakes hands, efnogreinsteearntao friends, whom he a Colonel," (Jones loquitur) " allow me Itoaanimnd introduces, and they each introduce some one else oesfsth to the engine to me, and, finally, I am introduced without the youm immediatelyy darts r friendtsffMtro. aS cc irri cblbel Scribble f! his Colonel oMf value, aglguse, Mforrdriver, who is really an acquaintanceseat h. he is good enough to give me a meant to contain. Our engineer did his from mht tolls, lt nlhsue, nst thbaest sotonef aamn hourtrumpet passengersbeho tinhn de bellows,ctsaimerns egw,iaanenn redde, beste r to aowwnvieedt overcome theot° wmv bee feerl his difficulties, and we rushed rapidly, if indicativetenaoo tangled gs ulsetmde aehdtrihaloyekf , egast:dhe throughearsot ieursgethoanma two hwuhenii wilderness rftr thnr the rail rail, smallest justification, performed curves and twists, ontheshworhtieeh shortest extent of line. My companion Was a very intelligent Southern gentleman, formerly editor of a newspaper. We talked' the of crime of the cowltry, of the brutal shootings and stabbings disgraced it. lie admitted their existence with  expense