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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-16
TIE OPEN poLAR SEA.

Standing against the dark sky at the
north there was seen in dim outline the
white sloping summit of a noble head
land, the most northern known land
upon the globe. judged it TO be in lati-
/ tude eighty-twO degrees thirty minutes,
or four hundred and fifty miles from the
north pole.
! Nearer, another bold cape stood forth !;
and nearer gtill the headland, for which
/ had been steering my course the day
before, rose majestically from the sea, sS
il pushing up into the very skies lofty
mountain peak, upon which the winter
bad dropped its diadeIl az SHOWS There
was no land visible except the coast upon
/ which l stood.
The sea beneath me was a mottled
sheet of white and dark patches, these
I latter being either soft decaying ice or
Z places where the ice had wholly disap-
peared. These spots were heightened in
| intensity Of shade and multiplied in size
I as they recede until the belt OF the water
( sky blended them altogether into one
uniform color of dark blue. The old and
! solid foes isOme quarter of 9 mile, and
others miles, acr0ss) and the massive
ridges and wastes of hummocsed ice
which lay piled between them and
around their margins, were the only
[ parts Of the sea which retained the
| whiteness and solidity Of winter.
/ All the evidences showed that | stood
upon the shores of the Polar basin, and
| that the broad ocean lay st my feet !;
| that the land upon which / stood, cul
minating in the distant cape before me,
was but point of land projecting far
! into it, like the CeverrO VOstoOhnoi Moss
of the opposite coast OF Siberia, and that
| the little margin of ice which lined the
shore was being steadily worn away;
and within a month the whole sea would
/ be a. free from ice as | had seen the
/ north water Of Bafiin hay-interrupted
/ only by moving pack, drifting to and
I fro at the will OF the winds and currents.
I PLANTING The FLAG IN LATITUDE
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The ws-.l,er ana 'he rgIsEraph.

On Friiay night, about 10 o'clock, we
received the following communication.
II is worthy ef attention for the illustra-
tiOa tnat II gives of the value Of the tele-
grsph in notifying US Of changes Of the
weather:
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A. AND A. SCOTTISH RITE.

CgerSE CormandtTy. No. 9. Meets fih Mon,
day of each month. John ZsEL Com; h, J
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18
"prv0cPAcyv IN CONNECTICUT

Gen. Garfield made a very Radical speech at
the Republican meeting in Hartford last
weoIS-we print it to-day-and 1t seems tc have
suited his hearers. If there is any Democrat
in Connecticut who thinks that his party can
ignore in this canvass ts record during the
War, and force false issue upon the people, he
will find himself herein answered. The
party which now demands that the Rebel
States shall be instantly admitted 10 Congress,
which denounces the terms Congress has offered
them as monstrous, tyrannical, cruel, is the same
party which in 1864 declared the war a failure,
and in proof of its failure nominated Gen.
Mcclellan for the Presidency. 1t has
not changed its principles, as Gen.
Garfield shows and is now not less
dangerous to the country than then. That the
voters of Connecticut understand this fact we
have no doubt but Gen. llawley, p. /. Bar
mum. II. II. Starkweather, and the other Re
publican speakers should take care that it is not
forgotten. We are glad to see that Mr.. Stark
weather, on Saturday night began discus
sion with Mr.. Earl Martin, his opponent for
Congress in the Hid District Discussion is all we
need, and the more ably and clearly the mdi-
cal principles of Rcpubicanism are debated
the better for our majority. Indifference and
ignorance we fear; for while Democracy has
much to conceal, Republicanism courts invest
CATION. Gen. IIawley's record in regard to the
Eight-IIour law is IA case in point He has been
accused of opposing it, and the answer is the
publication of his correspondence OH the subject
a year ago. in which Governor Hawley
declares that if the working men are sure the
law will benefit them" that decides the ques-
" ton So far as ] am concerned, | can see no
valid objection to the measure. / think that
Gin many cases it would prevent injustice
His opinion is even stronger now, and any at
tempt to make an issue against Gov. Hawley
on the Eight-IIour law is in every
way absurd The Republicans are willing
to take up that question, but they will
not let other questions drop. We want
the Democrats held up to their principles as
we shall stand up to ours, and in no State
have our opponents more nvaryingy dis
graceful record than in Connecticut. Have
they forsakcn, abjured itP Not one particle.
They fight under the old banner, and for the
same bad cause and the election of Mr.. En-
glish would give as much JOY in the Rebel
States now rs the election of Thomas ii. Sey-
mour would have given in 1864.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18

A short time before the close Of the war the
State of Virginia borrowed 100000 of its banks
to lend to the Rebel Government. very
large part of this sum was borne away with the
decamping COnfederacy, and 100000 of it, or
thereabOuts, fell into the hands of the United
States by the fortune Of war. Hereupon arose
an issue between the banks Of Virginia
and the General Government as to whether
the money belonged to the Confederate Gov
eminent and by reverSion to the United States
or was owned simply by the Virginia banks
The banks allege that they had not delivered
the money to the COnfedcracy, and that they
sent it South for safety. They further make
oath that they had no contract or dealing
with the Confederate Government in the
matter; but their duplicity is made
apparent by the discovery that they carried on
the negotiation with the Rebel War Depart
ment. In MIR. Van Wycks very recent report
from the Retrenchment Committee these facts
were produced, coupled with resolution that
the cOniscated coin and bullion he sold
and the proceeds deposited in the
Treasury. The House amended the resolution
so that the money should, without further ado,
be paid into the Treasury and the Senate
passed 1t on Saturday; so that the resolution
has received the concurrence of both houses.
We printed the report last week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18
DIPLOMACT-ROME.

The fact that Congress has refused to apprOpri-
ate money for the salary of q Minister at Rome
ought to be conclusive; yet we note efforts to
have that most righteous action reversed. A
statement from Rome (Which we presume to be
prompted by the Minister asserts that Ameri-
can Protestants are now permitted to hold
meetings for public worship in house desig-
mated as the American Embassy, though it is
not the actual residence of the Minister. This,
it is imagined, will serve to allay dissatisfac-
ton, so that the Embassy may be continued.
We trust it will have no such effect. The
government OF Rome is no concern of ours; and
we have no..right to quarrel with her authorities
concerning it. That is, in our eyes, very stupid
bgotry which, in a Christian land, forbids Chris
tians TO worship God according to the dictates
of their own cOnsCences but Rome is not bound
to see such matters through our spectacles; and
strangers who do not like her laws may keep out
OF her jurisdiction. orr position is that this
country should never have had Minister there
at ALL Rome, so far as she is State at all, is
an ecclesiastical State and thus her import
ance, her power, are ecclesiastical; and we sent
her Minister for ecclesiastical reasOns-that
il, with I'm idea of gratifying or propitiating,
the ROMAN NdlIOilCSj tNpttldll tuOnt VI oui VNh
country. Apart from her ecclesiastical charac-
ter, Rome has not half the claims to a Mission
that Bavaria has, or that SaXony has ever had
till within the past year. And, now that Italy
is irving to reconstruct herself, integrally and
potentially, our keeping Minister at Rome is
an uniIiendly and ungenerous embarrassment
to a great though young power with which
we ought to cherish relations of cor
dial amity and mutual good will. Italy Is
aud must be our ally: her every interest and
aspiration tend to induce the heaTtiest wishes
on our part that she shall be powerful and
prosperous Rome is rightfully as Italian as
Paris is French or Vienna Austrian; at least
four-fifhs of the people of Italy and of Rome
impatently aspire to see the latter once more, as
she so long was, the capital of the former. He who
fancies that this aspiration can be permanently
thwartcd might as nationally hope TO prevent
the return of Summer. Foreign force alone
prevents the unficatiOn of Italy; but for France
and Austria, she would be under one govern
mcnt--her own-within week. Now then, we
insist that our Government shall no longer OPP
pose an obstacle to ltaly's realizing her hearts
dcsrc-and she does this so long as she main
tains in Italy the mockery of a mission to any
power but that of Italy herself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18
FINE ARTS.

Mr. Theodore Kaufman has plaCed on exhibition
at Goupils. bis picture Of Gen. Sherman in Camp.
and we think our readers will be interested in t. IL
is extremely well painted and a compostion seem
to be open to only one objection; the figure of tbs
General is somewhat out of proportion 20 the acces-
series and the landscape But this landscape also IL
not without merit; and the light clouds about the
moon supposed to be shining above tho distant ents
on which he stretches in peaceful sumbe the great
army of which this rough blunt looking man, sitting
thoughtful. are-headed aud in his shlrt-sieeyes
with the eternal cigar, is the leader and the
soul; as also the smoke from the smolderng camp
fire these things show the careful. panstakng hand
of q student, and are here with pur
pose. Still, that purpose might have been
az we'll attained by subOrdIDatlng tina
details. and making Sherman's figure more import
anti as il is he looks dwarfed we might almost say,
insignificant In such picture. is it not PLAIN thar
the spectators thought whether he would or would
not should be concentrated the head and face Oh
the subject should not be able to play at ease ovet
the rest Of the and study the clouds or the
smoke or the tents, any accessory How Gen
Sherman looked at the time when he was one of the
most important men in the whole world when a ma
ton held its breath and followed every step he took
when disaster to him meant disaster to people thus
is what are come to see and though thanks 10 hr
Kauffmann's skillful painting we get much that We
wish 20 know, we think he might easily have gwen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18

protest of the Irish against the injustice Of an
intolerable oligarehic rule. Let both these or
carnations, then, combine their resources and
their strength, and, under the leadership of such
a man as John Bright, victory will be sure to
crown their efforts. The period is most oppor-
tune for this. The reform agitation in England
has reached a crisis threatening revolution. Now
is the time, then, for Fenianism, abandoning
the military role, to join its forces with the Re
formers of the League, and to act with them on
the broad platform of the Peoples Rights, ire
spective of nationality. In this way it might
yet accomplish great work in the regenera-
ton of Ireland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18


Since the passage Of the wool tariff by the Radical
Congress. several manufacturers of WOODEN goods have
stopped their looms and wool brings scarcely more than
IL did in February. The slight advance is however,
sufficient check production The manufacturers could
get FOR their goods and they were selling ut
loss before. Radical tariffs and Radical initiation have
imposed such burdens upon the great industrial
interests OF the Eastern and Middle states that they
not buy aud pay for more than half their usual require
ments of Southern and Western products
One of the last acts of the late Congress
largely increased the import duties on Wool
and Wo0lcns. The Free Traders constantly
tell the public that an enhancement of duty
increases, by its amount, the cost of the taxed
article to the consumer. We have here plain
confession that this is not the case. The duties
on imported Wool and Wooens are much in
creased but Woolens are no dearer than before,
while Wool is scarcely dearer." 1t is false,
then, is it not that tax on imports is a tax
on the consumer of the article imported and
of its homemade ryali Has it not been
proved that the British makers of Bessemer steel
rails, who were holding them in our market at
$40 per tim in gold, reduced the price to 800
on learning that they were soon TO have for
midable American competition
"Then the Wool Tariff has done neither
good nor harm :"
o no that does not follow. Our w0olens
manufacturers were selling at a loss" says
The World, when this tariff was enacted. OF
course they were stopping their mills; and
these have not yet all been started again. Yet,
though the Wool and Woolens interest can
hardly flourish when all others are depressed,
we feel quite sure that several mills now idle
will soon be running again. We were last week
assured by one of the most extensive and sue
cessful woolens manufacturers of New-England
that he would soon be manufacturing Broad
clotlls-a fabric which we now import almost ex-
clusively. And, if he undertakes it, he will per-
sist in it so long as the present duties shall be
maintained. And this is an indication of gem
cral tendency. We shall henceforth be making
more and more
But how can the manufacturers be benefited,
unless the price of their fabrics is incrcasedPn
Just as The World would be benefited by a
steady demand for five times its present circu-
lation at its present price. Treble the demand
for the journals of New-York, or of the
whole country, and You largely increase their
incomes, though you do not increase their cost
And double the demand FOR American manu-
features, while making it moro steady, and you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18
TH1NKS TO THE ASSEMBLY.

There is story current of an evangelist
who itinerated through the newer and ruder
portions of the West preaching to pioneer gath
ings in log cabins, and taking up contributions
at the close Of each service to sustain nm III
his iourneyings and ministrations. Having so
officiated at one place. he sent around the hat,
as usual but it returned to him an aching void
Lifting eyes of disappointment from the place
where the stamps should have clustered, he ex-
claimed, "Thank God that have got my hat
"bacIi from this congregation"
In spirit of kindred fervOr, we do most
heartily thank the more numerous branch OF
our State Legislature for having passed, by
the unprecedented vote of 105 to /, the bill
proyiding for what is called the Metropolitan
"Transit.r or three-stOry railroad through the
length of our City. This may not be the best
project for bringing people expeditlousy into
and carrying them out of our City; but it has
seemed such to lis. To buy the property re-
Guired, and carry the road, so far as may be-
along the rear of lots, rather than III front oil
houses, touching only cross-streets, and only
crossing these midway of the blocks, seems to give
the fairest promise for combining air, light ana
speed, with the least possible injury to busl-
ness or annoyance to our people We may
he mistaken; but let the Metropolitan Road be
built. and we are confident that 1t will take
Messengers from Harlem and all points above
Fortieth-st. to the lower Wards of our City III
half the time now required, and with increased
safety, comfort. and punctuality.
We have heard it asserted that this road will
never be buIt-that it can never pay-that it
was only intended as blind for very differ
ent schemc-to wit, the Broadway Surface
Road. We do not believe the gentlemen who
have allowed their names to be used as appli-
cants for this grant will dishonor themselves by
treating the public thus dishonorably; but, to
preclude all possibility of failure we trust the
Legislature will make haste to pass the rival
underground project-not the Broadway, but
the forkcd road-and be sure that the bill is
so drawn as to insure an early construction of
the work. Try, if possible, to have two rival
companies racing to see which shall first COM
plete an underground railroad from downtown
to Harlem or Manhattanville.
We expect to have much TO say of the present
Legislature that will be the reverse of flatter-
ing so we shall take care To give 1t credit
wherever we can. There is precious little
prospect that this scale will preponderate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18

the bow vows, and do their best to verify their
predictions. OF these the women who boast
that they never made bed nor swept room
till after Lee surrendered, are the most IN
tractable; but some of the ex-guer1illas, VINO
unfortunately escaped being shot in the war
with more of the "bomb-proOfs," who have
only waxed belligerent since the lighting was
over are pretty bad These rufiians commit
outrages and delight in misdemeanOrs which
scandalize and deeply annoy their peaceful
neighbors They are a general nuisance, ana
we look to the Military portion of the Recon-
struction act for their abatement.
But, with respect to much the larger portion
of those who were Rebels, The Worlds state
nent il as true as it is gladdening. They are
fomenting no mischief, paying little heed to
politics, and bending all their energies to that
true Reconstruction which is to be effected
on their own estates Poor in everything but
land, they are doing their best for themselves
and the country by mindng their own busi-
ness, patching up their old fences, and putting
in their crops. IL they could only bor-
row ten per cent. of the value OF their
farms respectively, to spend IN seed,
implements, food, and teams, they would
speedily quicken business in our North
ern factories, workshops, and stores, while
almost abolishng restitution at the South.
Some of them are getting little help from the
North but majority of the Southern planters
would double their crops this season, adding
800 900 worth to the food and S2OO,OOO,OOO
worth to the exportable produce of the country.
For lack Of ready means, they are working at
c,roat disadvantage but they are generally
stout-hearted and their condition promising.
The South will pull through; for she never be-
fore had so large share of her population
either honestly at work or anxious to be en-
ployed as she has to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18

The Assembly Committee on Internal Affairs
of Towns and Counties has fixed Thursday
afternoon at three as the time for the hearing
on the proposed amendments Of the Excise law.
We urge all interested to be present. Our ad-
vices from Albany lead us to believe that tho
main effort OF the enemies Of the law will be
to take away the power to arrest without a
magistrates warrant. The advocates OF free
rum rightly understand that if this power
is denied they will practically get all
else which they desire for they can then
keep open on Sundays, and sell all
night with impunity in the face and eyes Of the
police. The liquor men boast that the Com
mittee will report in their favor. We have
been morei than once grievously disappointed
in the action at Albany. but we do not yet
believe that Messrs. Vanderberg of Wayne,
White of Rensselaer, Button Of Cattaruagus.
TarbOx of Genesee, Candee Of 0nondaga. Suf-
fern of ROckland, and Purdy Of Wcstchester (all
but the last two Republicans or q majority
of them. arc ready thus to destroy the eff
cheney of the law. If they do. they will disre-
gard alike the true interests of the State and
the party, and the wishes of their constituents
which they cannot well afford to treat with
indifference
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18

Considering that the Republican majority in
Michigan, last year. was nearly 10000, that party
needs little help; yet what aid it may desire it
continues to receive from its opponents At
the Democratic State Convention last week,
held to nominate Justice for the Supreme
Court, resolutions were adopted which could
not have better served the Republican cand-
dates had they been framed for the purpose.
One resolutions declares that "thc Democratic
party of Michigan-which its opponents
would be glad to believe dcad--is fully alive
TO the important influence il is ex-
"erting in all the political measures
"of the day, and that while gratified
with its influential position as o powerful
minority, it is encouraged" &c. AS proof Of
its vitality, other resolutions assert that the
military despOtism established by Congress
over ten Of the United States Is IN outrage on
any State in the Union. that The cnfrancllise-
mcnt Of negroes aud the Northumberland of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-18
INDUSTRY AT THE SOUTH

The WOrld-whch has been painfully apprc-
hcnsiye of general turmoil and anarchy at the
South, because of the recent action Of Congress,
now MARBLES this cheerful bucOlc strain:
1T Is anmang at this time 10 read the agricultural
papers OF tho South the true exponent Of that industrial
class which made cotton the king not only OF the
textiles, but Of all our agricultural exports.
eli we may Judge from their correspondence, these
brave planters now In spite Of many discourage
mens, making themselves masters OF the situation.
While folly idle extravaganza, and the radican OF po
ca is demOralizing many at the North the
planting South is not only recognizing its industry but
dignfyng aud ennobng the labor of the white man In
the field and tho white In the meIdge. Every
planter now only his efficient OyerSeer but he
also trains his own white hands 10 labor teaching bis
sons by his own example. The result Is, that he now
stimulates two or three freedmen TO do the work that
once required half dozen slaves and driver Industry
and saving the order of the day. and the dignity Of la
Dor universally acknowledged while both planter aud
wife are proud OF the sacrifices they have had To make to
conform 10 the great and very trying transition from
dleness aud slave labor to industry, hOmey living and
the work OF their own hands"
This picture is too r0seatc. Truth w0uld
considerably larkcn it. There are soured, sui
len, Discontinued, restless cX-Rebels at the
South. who insist that everything must 80 to