Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-21
MISSISSIPPI.

fall Of snow in that neighborhOod has
seriously interfered with the work Of
farmers and gardeners. Planting Of
corn hes been considerably delayed, and
vegetables which, a few days since were
wooing the coming sunshine, are now
withered and dead-never again to yield
to the deceptive Establishments Of
spring"
in Canton the weather has also been
severe. Altogether" says the MAI,
ait has behaved about as cooNy as we
ever knew it to do at this season Of the
wear. We must undoubtedly say good
bye to our hopes Of a fruit crop. Many
of our people had begun to plant corn.
They will no doubt have to plant over
again. Many have had their gardens
in q weaving way The negotiating
hopes are blasted in the bud"
The Natchez Courier has been told
that the contractor for the mail between
that place, Liberty, Meadville and
Brookhaven, has not only failed to COM
ply with his contract, but the agent he
~ employed to attend to it has been so
actively engaged, or at least so suspic-
toned Of being engaged, in Misunderstanding,
as to have been forced into leaving those
larts, to shun the officers of the law.
Several citizens have suffered largely
by him.
Last Saturday night six prisoners
escaped from the jail Of Adams county,
by picking the lock Of the door Of the
room in which they were confined, and
then, with a heavy piece of iron, smash
ing open another door, which let them
into the yard, whence they escaped over
the wall by means of a ladder left by q
workman who had been digging a cistern
there.
The following ladies compose the
board Of managers and officers of the
Natchez orphan institute. Board Of
managers: Mrs. A. c. BrittOn, Mrs.
Hiram Baldwin, Mrs. Robert Clarke,
Mrs. David Cunning, Mrs. ThOs.
Mason, Mrs. A. /. Wilson, Mrs. B.
PendletOn, Mrs. Emma Page, Mrs.
Agnes Izod, Mrs. Walter Irwin, Mrs. Geo.
Ralston, Mrs. Z. r. Metcalfe. Officers !:
Mrs. Oren Metcalfe, first directress Mrs.
ThOs. Mason, second directress Mrs.
JnO. Flemming, treasurer; Mrs. James
Carradine, secretary. This asylum"
says the secretary, in her report, " was
founded in 1872. It is chartered by the
state and called a State Institution, but
no annuity has ever been paid to it from
the state treasury. For several years,
the license on billiard tables and auc-
ton sales was appropriated TO the asy-
ium, but this sum never reached q
thousand dollars per annum, and had it
not been for the generosity of the citi-
zens Of Natchez and Adams county,
hundreds Of orphans who have here
found an asylum would have persisted
in infancy, or have grown up TO be a
curse, instead Of a blessing to the COM
munity."
The Verona Times tells the following
"good one" on the benefits of freedom
10 The jaTkey:
Last Sunday was 8 most miserable day,
wet and muddy as ain and deluges could
make il. Lettering abOut the railroad
station, we observed a negro brakeman
on top Of a freight, dripping with wet
and shiveTing with cold. He was accOs-
ted by one Of our cOlsred "pussOns" with
Hello, is il cold work up there ?''
Brakeman replies, "If ole massa had
made me do dis kind of work before I
vas free, fore God, l wouldn't done it.
Bottom rail on top don't pay"
The Aberdeen Examiner is not be-
hind the Times in "getting up" a
pointed joke. 1t thus illustrates 4" the
position -
Well, sir, we're gone up now, sure,
-. ---.a ~ w-a-Na -~E#Ia~~M - --gEI
out hope Of resurrection, sir" said an old
gentleman from the country as he en-
tered our Office yesterday. Not so bad
as all that, my friend we replied, =" the
military bill Is a terrible measure to be
sure it is the law Of the land to-day,
but ii cannot long survive to bumiliate
us.n The old gentleman rammed his
hand into his pocket, pulled out a yard
OF country twist, bit ofa foot and a half
or two feet OF il, and fairly yelled out /:
"WhO cares a d-n for your congress
laws, it amt them that hurt us-its the
frost, sir, the frOst-if garden sass paid a
feller's fare to heaven, ] couldn't save
enough 10 pay my way out of the corpo-
ration-what's cabbage seed worth I?
who takes county script? a. you give
a fellow a decent almernack to plant
by Good day, sir, good day "-and out
he went.
The Pontotoc papers advice to " take
It easy - is quite philosophie. It says :
Many Of the newspapers are cutting
high shines over the passage Of the
q military bill, y just as il their foamine
would do any good. At first we had a
mind ourselves 10 cut up a little. II
would look a little patriotic TO do so
thought we. Somebody would call US a
better southern man, and all this. But
then having exhausted orr stock Of
"gasn we would have been none the
wiser, better or more free. The law
would be sustained just as If we had
never said q word againSt it and the ef-
fects Of its provisions all the same. So
our conclusion deliberately taken is to
lust 90 along, eat, drink, sleep and be
merry, as II negro equality, and negro
suffrage, had never been forced upon US.
We see no sense in euTsing an enemy who
has Us down upon our back in a mud /
hole, his boot upon our neck and his fin
gers in both our eyes. We are far from
indorsing the rascality and oppression
~practiced by this radical congress, and