Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-04-24

week.
TIE HIsrwAYNAS's Oh ABonE-We do.
not know that an item from across the
water. from he marsh and brakeland soil Of
our sister safe Of Arkansas, woula be in
appropriate as an item Of local interest
About seven uiles above Charlie Morris new
Idle Wld, Or more appropriately, Pacific
Place. so-caIled after the Inflated steamer
which, several years ago, encountered a sBsg
atRlaub Orchard Point, aud finding her tam
age mortal, she ran out, aud ere her line was
msde fast o. an aged cottonwood, she sank TO
rise no more a. the slipping point Of a bar were she
Is SUI sleeping. pacific and pscihcslly. But 10
the point d. the rear Of Tsland 81. not a bavuo
from he main shore, or old river, is Shawnee
Village, Dr. Mississ ppi county, Ark. The old
village has been thrown into farm. which has
been cultivated By Or. MeGsvoek FOR nearly .
quarerof a century past This retired spot was
the rendsrous Of Tenuessee's notorious hirh-
Wsyman- John A MurreU, and his followers.
His rude loe hu1 of unhewn timber. and those
Of hrs clans, " mark he spot. Decay has
maued their original outline, but the fallen
heaps, the Old moss-clad logs, where erseps
the adder and chups the cricket. still
speaks, I'D in soft accents like an echo al
midnight The horror Of human srailtv arises
belors ysu in The name Of MurreIl. the outlaw.
shaw &c Village embraces, If We reoollect
arigfd, he Mlrren grounds, along a ridge
Kew ss Oily Dark Ridge, bordering on
Pqaeh Bayou, which empiies into Oily Dark
Isks.
The old sycamore tres, once the ~oounei
shade Of our sero, was blown down By the
winds, in The winter Of 1856. Is venerable
frank could doubtless speak more thsn was re-
corded o. tbe saddle skirts Of Virgil Stewart,
could nature but have written upon its leaves
bs history Of preventative crime. We could
have wished that time, the ruthless wood
man, eoaldhave spared that tree" and lst the
cd sycamore sssnd. Since It has fallen, q be-
cane Necessary to remove it for The PloVshars,
and during last summer, a "uill,7 as The ns-
tives term IT, was pl5wed M, which vas used
BY MausI FOR manufaetuiag the bogus ons
ooilar This financial machine has been sent
o. Washington, and now occupies . place in
thearchivss Of our cspitsFs euriosiHes. Poor
Murel has passed aWsy; his stalwart form
wa emaciatet By hardship AID disease, during
h1s loHg IDcarcsratiou; but be lived 10 ocmplets
hs tern q years assigned him BY Justice, to
worE a. aeTiminal blacksmith. When the er-
PiTa.on q his term came, be was 10th 20 leave
the place Of his confinement be felt az If the
world knew him and knew bis deeds. and a. 10
living again free As in he hsydsy Of his bow
hood, D. could not. The snesrs Of his fellow
man were 70 bin The sans as tie dungeon
walls within which be awelt for tw~entyyears
Finally. Murnel, a the persuasion q bis
f1ends, wandered TO East Tennessee. where be
lived buta shu time, and died Of consumption.
DE dsesss doubtless being contracted in PMS
n. HIS rrave s IN he neighborhood oftbe Bon.
Air Springs. upon he Cumberland mountain.
Esremains werc disintsrred and deeapitatea.
Esa ri7esd bark ne stHH Is now in
ds possession e some Of TIE nsaicsI colleges
EpsL
M hOye 1sets we have leaned from both
places, as Hsnhoned above. We have alb
slsipe6 from entering into the minute details Of
tsei ~ hop Of Ffsrng to MmTsli and his
character again,