--The
Appeal (published at
Grenada, Miss.,) publishes an interesting letter from a lady, dated
Memphis, June 10. We make an extract:
Our town is full of all sorts of rumors, and we don't known what to believe.
The stores are nearly all closed, the streets empty and quiet as on Sunday; no drays, no carriages, save now and then a lonely one going solemnly by as if to a funeral procession.
The
Yankees thus far are on very good behavior
Col. Fitch, it is hoped, is not such a beast as
Butler.
So far as I can learn, not a scrap of a Federal flag has yet been hung out save by the invaders them selves, and not a single instance of a Memphian reading the enemy cordially, if I may except that of my little three year old boy. Yesterday he was standing on the side walk and a squad of Yankees passed by him. The little rascal rang in among them in most cordial manner shouted, at the top of his lungs, ‘"Howdy, soldier!
howdy, soldier!
howdy, soldier!"’ shaking hands with half a dozen of them, who seemed delighted at such a warm demonstration of sympathy — the first they had met with since landing on our bluff.
But while in the midst of his hand-shaking he screamed out: ‘"Now, go shoot the
Yankees!
go shoot all the
Yankees!
shoot the
Yankees!"’ It was funny to see the change that came over their smiling faces; and the people on the sidewalks, who witnessed the scene, broke out into a big laugh.
Our citizens are extremely anxious to get Southern papers, that we may have at least one grain of truth to rely on.
We see by the
Argus, of June 11th, that the
Federal commander,
Fitch, attempted the outrage of prescribing rules for the government of the criminal court of
Memphis, whereupon
Judge Swayne very promptly and properly declined to proceed with the business of the court.
The
Argus asserts most positively that if any Union sentiment exists in
Memphis, other than among a few in the lowest classes, it has not yet been developed.
The almost utter absence of anything akin to sympathetic feelings for the old Union cannot fail to be remarked by the
Federal rulers themselves, while it has only proved what we have said time and again.
Our people, unable to resist force to force, quietly submit to a power at present too strong for them, and in doing so conduct themselves with that calm, quiet dignity so befitting their condition.
