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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-21
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-21
NO. l STEWARD WANTED

NTA6TED, at the Tishomingo Hotel at Corinth
w Miss, Nc STEWARD, 10 take charge of the
COOKING and Dining Room Good wages viii be paid
The best references required
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18

wApswoRTH AND THE CoNrRABANDs.--It Is
reported that General Wordsworth, the Military
Governor Of the Distri IT of Columbia, is cloth
ing and feeding the contraband negroes at
Washington at the government expense, adding
another chapter to the abolition measures to
deplete the Treas nry. The money thus ex-
pended on the lazy and shiftless black contra
bands would be- very acceptable and Of real
benefit to tho white wives and children Of the
Irish and German soldiers who compose to a
great extent the rank and file Of our armies.
The Irish and German soldiers are doing great
service to the country, and IL General Wads-
worth Is charitaby inclined he can do his
country far better service by expanding the
government money on their wives and children,
many of whom are really suffering. The money
that he Is said to be squandering would do VA
immense amount Of good IL given to the faai.
lies of our gallant volunteers; but then We sup
nose there il no use Of talking about its for nj
doubt General Wadsworth, like all. the othe,
abolition humanitarians, believes that eyery
thing depends upon color.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18
President Lincoln and His Happy
Cabinet.

II IS a remarkable characteristic of those
proia. ruous asscmblagcs Of various animals
know s"IIappy Families" that, though there
are n squabbles and disputes, it is seldom
found necessary to turn one Of the animals out
of the cage. The master mind Of the Snowman
keeps all his curiosities in order. He feeds
them well, pokes them up occasionally, and
sometimes fogs them, but is hardly ever
obliged to entirely dismiss them. Now, President
Lincoln's happy Cabinet very much resembles
Barnum's "Happy Family" in the diverse and
conflicting opinions, the personal jsalousies
and disputes Of its members, and in the style of
management required for its proper admins
tration. Therefore, although the entire Cabl-
net may now be divided upon the question Of
Withdrawing General Hunters silly abolition
proclamation, yet we altogether discredit the
current rumors that the President will turn out
one Of his Cabinet advisers, or that one Of the
secretaries will resign bis position.
That General Hunters proclamation will be
disavowed by the President is q matter oil
course and it may lead either to the recall Of
/ this General or statement from him that he
| was directed to issue such an absurd order by
his superior officer one Of the officials at Wash.
| incton. The order changes the whole policy
of the government 1t assumes powers which
do not exist in any but the State governments
II accompli.hes just about as much, practically
as II it had proclaimed the freedom Of the
| slaves Of interior Africa. BY implication 1t Is
an insult, over General Hunters signature, u
every othor military officer, and rebuks t
the President himself. Therefore IL must b,
instantly Withdrawn, and the General who signe,
II must be punished But this does not necessi
tate a breaking up Of the Cabinet Fremon
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18

JOHN Bulls AMERICAN FLuNxEY VERSUS PAR
SON BRowNLow.-The hero of Solferino and
Bull rum and more recently the Flunkey of
John Bull to be found at the Office Of the New
York Times does not like the patriotic express
sions made by Parson Brownlow, at the Acade-
my of Music, in reference to tire attitude Of
England. Since the Little Villain" assumed
the attitude of Flunkey in the Legislature be
becomes quite nervous tho moment anything is
said against his masters across the water, aud
labors very bard to prove that tue rounds of
applause given the Parsen for tie censure Of
England were not an endorsement of the "bel-
liperent sentiment" We would advise Psrson
Brownlow to cook and dish up the elite W.T.
LAIN in the same style that he dishes up the
rebels, in his Monday evenings speech at thc
Cooper Institute, and we will give him TN
bencii. Of full report.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18


BENJAMIN Woop on THE CONDITION OF TaE
UNoS-The Hon. Ben. Wood has at length got
a speech and has obtained the permission Of
Congress to print it. He charges the rebellion
upon the aboiitionists, and lays everything at
thor door. ii is true that they are partially
responsible; for their incendiary proceedings
stirred up the South; but the leading secession
lists are likewise guilty with them, and Mr..
Wood. while he was about it, should have paid
his respects TO them. lie also urges upon Con-
gress to bring about q cessation of hostlites.
for the purpose of negotiating for peace. Ces-
sation Of hostilitics and peace can be obtained
in very simple way. II his friends in the
South will surrender, lay down their arms and
return to loyalty to the Union, that will be very
readily accomplished. Peace will not only
exist throughout the whole country, but all
those now in rebellion, with the exception OF
the leaders, will be fully protected in all their
rights and interests. II is not necessary that
we should have negotiations. II his friends
desire peace they can have 1t at once by simply
surrendering and becoming loyal citizens. Then
they can have the protection Of one Of the best
governments that ever existed, and that is the
only way that they can obtain peace.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18

The TRIDUN.Ss MEANNEss AND MArIGNITY.-A
short time ago we published exclusively Beau
regards important cypher despatch, sent to u.s.
in advance of all the other papers, by our
Nashville correspondent The Tribune imme-
dately pronounced this despatch forgery,
though it has since been obliged to copy it as
undoubtedly authentic. On Friday last we
published a letter from Mr.. S. II. Gay, the lead
Ing editor Of the Tribune, to one OF his cores
pondents admitting that "the HERALD is con-
stantly ahead" This letter was dropped on
the battle field of Williamsburg by the Tribune
reporter, who either ran away, like Raymond
and Russell, or deserted in haste to the rebel
side. One Of the Union soldiers found the let
ter among lot of rebel trash, handed it to
our correspondent, and we published it as a
curiosity, just as we have published rebel love
letters. The Tribune admits that its leading
editor wrote the letter, but says that we stole
It. Really, the manners and the language of
The Tribune writers can only be parallelcd by
those Of the inmates of our State prisons.
g You lie. villainp "You forged that de-
spatch" You're a base villain ~ You stole
that letter." These are specimens of the
7ribune's slang. Such language BELTS swindlers,
thieves and jobbers but not conductors Of re-
spectacle journals. Only men who know their
own character to be worthless ever make such
base charges against better people. Mr.. Gays
letter, like the Irib,nae's conscience shows that
he and his associates know their editorials
against us to be ms untrue as they are unman-
nerly, and frankly owns that the HERALD is
constantly ahead. We are obliged to copy
from it."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18

The LATE UNION DEMONSTRATION AT NASH
vuLE-THE HERALD AND OuR CONTEMPORARIES
The only regular report thus far given to the
public in this quarter of the late great Union
demonstration at Nashville was that published
in the HERALD yesterday. In this important
matter, as in very many others, our contempt
raries "come up missing" The HERALD was in
advance of them. and in advance of them and Of
the government itself with our graphic report
of the battle of Shiloh. Next. our slow-paced
competitors were as badly beaten by us in the
matter Of that confidential despatch OF Beau
regard, and in the details of the battles of Lees
Mills, Yorktown, Williamsburg, West Point "a
battle in regard to which the old women of the
Jo,u7sR of Commerce are yet waiting for the
news) and New Orleans. &c. Mr.. Gay. of the
Tribune, in confessng to the slow correspond
cnts Of that journal that he had to get the re
port OF the battle Of the 10th from the HERALD,
was My telling an everyday story. This is
the Sc cret of the wonderful success and popu-
larity' of the HERALD: and, after having won so
many battles against all sorts of coalitions dur
ing tlie last quarter of q century, the HERALD
has secured the knowledge, the means and the
power to defy all opposition, as the leading
public journal of the present day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18

THE TRIBUNE ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN
On Friday we published an epistle, entirely
unique, from Master Gay, successor to Dana as
managing editor of the Tribune, addressed to
the reporter of that journal taking notes of the
operations of General Mcclellan on the PENN
sula between James and York rivers. The
editor complained that the HERALD was always
ahead of the Tribune in it's intelligence from
the seat of war; This fact was, of course,
true BILL known and recognized by all men.
But some persons doubted the gcnuineness of
the letter from the affected quaintness Of the
spelling, initiating the manner of authors
old as the poet Chauccr, whose ortho-
graphy is as obsolete as are their opinions
and ideas. But it occurs to us that this
mode Of spelling is very proper indca-
ton of the character of journal always
behindhand in its intelligence, and putting for
ward in its editorial columns the exploded po-
litical and social heresies of past generations.
The Tribune ITSELF however, settles the matter.
1t candidly admits the genuinencss of the
epistle lost on the battle field in the prccipi-
tate fight of the reporter. No doubt it would
be denied but that the manuscript is written on
the note paper manufactured for the Tribune,
and having the imprint of the office upon it,
and that The handwriting of Mr.. Gay is too we'll
known to leave room for any question. We
have the document to produce to any one who
may be skeptical on the subject. But the 1'i-
buae admits it; and thus. by its own confession,
it is always behind the HERALD in its war intcli
gence, as it is in every other kind Of news from
all parts of the world.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18
INTERESTING FROM THE SOUTH.

Evacuation or Pensacola by the Rsh ELS
The Union Troops i'm Possession OF the
City-antcrcsting Reports from Mea-
phis-Avrangcmcnt for an Exchange or
Prisonerv, Sc, &c.
CIisAco, May II, 1882
special despatch from Cairo says
The steamer shnghis, with forty Memphis refugees,
has arrived They report that hundreds Of others
making their way North ms they best can.
Governor Morton and Adjutant General Noble, OF IN
diana, arrived to-day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-18
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

oFrIoES W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU SITS
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
Poor JOB"

WHIsKEY AND NEwsPApERs.-A glass OF
whiskey is manufactured from perhaps a
dozen grains of corn, the value OF which is
too small to estimate. A pint of this mix,
,ure sells for one shilling, and it, of good
brand. it is consd, red well worth the money,
Il is drank in minute or two-it fires the
brain, ronses the passions, sharpens the ap
petite leranges and takens the physical
system; it is gone, and swollen eyes parched
lips and aching head are its followers.
On the same sideboarl upon which this
delicious beverage is served lies newspaper
1t is covered with half million lypes-it
brings intel igence from lh' tour quarters OF
the globe. The newspaper costs less than
the glass of grog, the juice of few grains
Of corn. 1t is no less strange than true,
that there is Il large portion of the commn'
nifty, who think cornljuice cheap, and the
newspaper dear.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
A PARELLEL.-D, A. Mahonev, editor OF

A PARELLnL.-D. A. Mahoney, editor of
the Dubuque Qowa) Herald, recently arrest
ed by the government and sent to prison, on
some sort of a charge Of publishing disoyal
sentiments, has been nominated for Congress
by unanimous vote of the Democratic
Convention of his District. A similar case
occurred in Vermont during the adminis'ral
ton of John Adams. Mathew Lyon was
elected to Congress by the Democrats viii e
in prison for violating the sedi'on law, and
had the satisfaction of voting for the repeal
of the law at the next session.
S j. Republican.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11

Most of our readers, doubtless, remember
the anecdote of the farmer who erected a
scare crow in his field, that operated SO suc'
cessfully as to induce the crows to bring back
the corn they had previously stolen. The
Republicans Of California, headed by the
house Of Stanford Brothers, depreriated
U. S. treasury notes until they were at *
discount of twenty per cent. When Cen
Wright erected a military prison AT Aratraz
when, presto change! the crows brought back
the corn they had stolen! treasury notes
advanced from Is cents to SO cents.
Butte Record.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
The Stamp Tax--What is Done About it.

In the department Of the County Clerk,
viz: the District and County Clerks Offices
the stamp tax is being charged on all legal
documents, IS the law directs. The money
is collected, and SO soon as the stamps come
they will be affixed to the document this is
the best pan to pursue and certainly the
best for the Interests of the Government.
The lax for commencing an attachment suit
is 81.
Last evening, U. S. Sub-Treasurer Chees
man, who had telegraphed to Washington
concerning the matter received the folowl
ing despatch. which corroborates the views
heretofore held on the suhiec, in the Bulletin:
WAsHINeroN, September 90, 1862.
Reed at San Franri>no Sept. 80 {
d. w. CAEESMAN-Make no delay in
business for want of stamps. No penalty
| till January next. Stamps will be sent AS
soon as possible.
G. S. BoUTwELL, Com. Of Stamps
The following note (unofficia) from Subj
Treasurer Cheesman explaining the above tell
egram:
EpIToRs BULLErlN Having been applied
to by many parties this morning relative to
the Telegram receivel by me and pul shed
in the papers of the present date as to the
validity of contracts in the absence of
stamps, and the desire upon Investigation
that would give the result for the benefit OF
the public, respectfully submit that, under
an Act supplemented to the Legal Tender
Bill, contracts executed prior to the lst of
January, 1868, will be valid as between the
parties, or can he made 50 at any time by
having them stamped, and paying $5 to the
Collector for the use Of the Govnernment.
OF course neither the parties in the contract
will have occasion 10 pay S5 except in the
event of litigation, when it might become
necessary to introduce the document as evil
dence.
Respectfully, D. w. CHEEsMAN.
This opinion is based upon the best in
formation have been able TO obtain, as to
the provisions of the supplemental act refer
red to, which has not yet reached California.
Bulletin, Oct. /.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
EDWIN STANTON, Secretary of War

VINO TO Write To.-As there are many
persons who wish to communicate with the
different bureaus of the war department at
Washington city, memorandum of the
proper persons to address may be useful to
our readers,
All letters relating to pay of soldiers on
furlongh or in hospitals shonld be addressed
to Geo. 3. F. Larned. paymaster generel.
Application for back pay and the 500
bounty of deceased soldiers should be AL
dressed to Hon. B. B. French, second aud
ltor.
Applications for pay of teamsters, en-.
rloyes of the qnarlermaster's department,
or for horses killed in service, should le
al lressed to Hon. r. |. Atkinson, third
auditor.
Applications relating to pay and bounty
in the marine or naval Service, should be ad-
dressed to Hon. Hobart Berren fourth aud
itor.
Letters concerning soldiers in the army
shonIl be addressed TO Adjutant Genearl Lo,
renso Thomas.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
RAILWAYS of the World.

There are 3 | 800 miles of railroads in the
United States, of which there are 20 .6SS 81
in the free and ll,ll2 43 in the slave States
The total loss of the entire lines has been
81 1872, ,@O2,0l5 Last year there were only
average Of 1000 miles. But although the
construction of roads decreased, the traffic
on all the northern roads was greater than
on any previous year.
The length of railways in operation in
Great Britain and Ireland is 1880 miles
300 miles of which was built last year. The
entire cost of construction amounts to t235,
O0O.O0OO (ahont 81 .755 900 900. There are
$500 locomotives, l5 O76 passenger carriages
and lSO,574 freight ears used on these rail
WAYS. Last year they carried 1853, 435 ,67e
passengers: so, 900 900 tons of minerals and
20 500 900 general merchandise.
France has G,l47 miles of railway, work
ell by 3 900 locomotives: $500 miles of new
lines are being constructed Total cost OF
completed lines 1922 100000.
Prussia has 3l62 miles in operalion;, Aus
tria 3 65 mile the other German States
have $3.50 miles; Spain has ,45o miles; lt'
alv, $50: Rome, so; Russia, 1920; Den
mark, 262; Norway 63: Swelen. 288; Bel
oium, 955; Holland, 30S; Switzerland, 600;
Portugal, so Turkey, 80; Egypt, 204
III the British colonies, there are ,408
in the East Indies Canada, 1896 New
Brunswick. l75; Nova Scotia, 90; Victoria
1888; New South Wa'es, 1926; Gaze of Good
Hope, 26-making a total of l4,217 miles
in operation in the British Empire; the en-
tire cost Of which has been So ,096 765 600.
In Mexico. there are 20 miles of railway;
Cuba 500: New Granada, 40 l 2 (Panama
Railway; Brazil, Ill; Chill, 100; Peru, 500
Paraguay, 8.
The total length of railways in the world
is 90 1876 miles. Their estimated cost is
about S5,S77 100000. Nearly one half the
length of lines belong to the United States
and one fourth 10 Great Britain and Col
onies. The cost of the latter, however, is
about twice that Of our railroads.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11

"OLD STYLE" TO NEW SlYLE"-Tn 4
"l'oor job Almanac Of 1852. for Rhode
Island, is the following notice of the change
OF the days to their present system:
kind Reader,
You have now such Year as you never
saw before, nor will YOU see hereafter. The
King and i'arlment Of Great Britain hav-
ING thought proper to enact. That the
Month of September, 1852. shall contain
but 10 Day IL have extended the same
through the British Dominons, 50 that we
are not to have two Beginnings o our Yetrs
but the first Of January is to be the first
Day and the first Month of the Year 1852
Eleven DAYS are taken from September, u
begin l 2, II, 10 &c. Be not much aston
i>hed, nor look with Concern, dear Reader
at such a Deduction of Days, nor regret AS
for the loss of SO much time, bat take this
for your Consolation. That your Expenses
will perhaps appear lighter. and your Mind
be more at ease; And, what an Indulgence
is here, for those who love their Pillows,
to lie down in Peace on the I'd Of this
Month, aud not perhaps awaken or be dis
turbed till the l4h in the Morning. And
Debts, Freedom Of Apprentices or Servants,
or the coming to age of minors, but the
Number OF Natural Days in all Agreements
are to be fulfilled All Church Holidays
aud Courts are to he on the same nominal
Days as they went before; but Fairs (at' er
the 2d Of September) after the nominal days,
and so seem to he held eleven Days later,
Now, Reader, since It's likely you may never
have such another Year nor such another
Almanac, should advise you to improve
the one for your own Sake and recommend
the other, f the Sake of
Your Friend,
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11

The San Francisco Herald says that the
State Treasurer employed the Wormsers to
purchase "greenhacks" for him, with which
to pay the States quota of the War.tax. 1t
says:
"The story told us was, tina: Wormser
purchased $4,000 of notes from one firm
at this rate and that he said the purchase
was made for the purpose of speculation IN
New York, although in that market they
have all along been at discount of from
Is to 23 per cent. That is to say he bought
an article in this market for $4,000 to sell
at New York for some S25 200. That is the
way in which he has made all his money
buying in the dearest and selling in the
cheapest market! This story gave susplc-
ious feature 10 the transaction"
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11

SELF FAsrENlNG Door CArCH.-My plan
for a self fastening door catch, SAYS corres
pondent Of the American Agricultursi, |
wsI give you. which is cheap and not liable
30 get out of order. My stable door fastens
with an outside catch, in the janb or door
post When the door is opened and SWING
back to the side of the barn, the latch drops
into similar catch fastened to the weather
boards, which holds it firmly. 1t will cost
but few cents TO iasten doors this way.
Fl d this simple contrivance Of very great
service, as it enables stock to 60 in and out
in safety.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
A Page from the Record.

In 1916 John w. orney, now the leader
of the Republican party in Pennsylvania,
was Chairman of the Democratic State Cen
tra Committee, and issued an address to the
people, in which the fol lowing eloquent pas.
sage occurred:
The adversaries Of the Democratic party
have dissolved the American Union in ad.
vance, so far as by their own action they
can consummate this direfn result They
can no longer assemble in National Conven-
ton; they congregale as the representatives
Of fragment of oneIhalf Of our happy coun
try, and the arr"gate 10 themselves the mas
terry of the other half by attempting to con.
soidate fierce and fanatical sectional ma
jori,y in every department of the govern.
ment. They declare that the country is on
the eve of unprecedent COMMISSIONS and
the proclaim their purpose to arrest these
convnIsonS by ignoring fifteen sovereign
States Of the Union. They talk of peace,
in their own conventions proclaim policy
which must end in civil war. They appeal
to Heaven to sanclifv movement which, il
successful would destroy the fairest fabric Of
freedom on the globe. They invite our
countlymen to support their cause in the
midst OF the most irreve:ent blasphemies of
Tie Consrtu ion. This prate of exclusive
'Amercanism, while they accept as leaders
men who profane the sa es Of the past with
inconcevabe calnmnes. But they deserve
credit for their boldness. They do not at
tempt to conceal the fearful end which,,
should they succeed, must crown their ef
forts True to the history of all sectional
parties, shey unite men, not by love of
country, but by hatred Of national princ
pies. Their bond Of action is sympathy OF
antagonsms-but harmony Of patriotic
sentiments; and to consummae their pur
poses they would sacrifice every great ma
reral interest Of society. They have already
succeeded in dividing the Christian Church;
aud now they would lav their hands upon
the buIwarks of our liberties; they would
wrest the Constitution from the glorious
purpose to which it was delra ed 10y its
founders; and they would erect at Washing
ton a sectional desp tisIn whose presiding
dvin'ies would be hostility to the quality Of
the citizen, and wage relentless war upon
the domestic institutions of the South.
The Placer herald., 1862-10-11
A CoNTRABAND's ESTIMATE OF JACKso

A CONTRABAND'S ESTIMATE OF JACKSON.
The Augusta Chronicle says that some one
asked Stonewals old negro body servant
how he came to be so much in the conf
dence of his master. "Lord sir" said he,
.massa neber tells me muffin; but the way
know is this: Massa says prayers twice a
day morning and night; but if he gets out
of bed two or three times IN the night 10
pray, you see just commence packing my
haversack, for | knows there will be the
devit to p1y nert day."