Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-16

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to see q radical who don'twant anything.
At the door / met Mullins andIittle Gen.
Smith coming out. Mullins was stutter-
ing in the ferocious way he has when he
Is angry-"n-R-no man who is thor
oughly loyal should think Of dying when
his life is so important to the radical
party "The Offices must be given to
our friends" says Smith. When / went
in / found the governor sitting up in bed,
but looking very bad. Expression
seemed gone from his ashy face, luster-
less eyes and pinehed up features. His
head was dropping, and ia Que OF his
shaking hands he held a crumpied letter.
My entrance kind of reused him, and
looking up he said, "Ah, Bob, my
friend, Pm worried almost to
death. This letter from Thad. ste
vens made me feel migAty bad, and
then they won't let me alone" know
be meant Smith and other bread and
butter radicals, and I nodded but didn't
say anything.
Tread that passage said he, opening
the letter and pointing TO q part as he
handed 1t to me.
The passage was as follows:
w had a man In Bedford county
who was just as extreme q radical in his
plans and language as you are, but he
has been sent to 3 lunatic asylum, and
we can't keep up with you in intense
hate Of rebels. You are the BoanergesO OF
cur party; but looking st matters as by
my position I am constrained TO do,
from a -statesmanlike point Of view, l
must say that I can't see how you are to
go ahead long on your line. We, at TIE
north, support loyal papers in your state,
because their stories Of rebel outrages
help US Of election times; but you Ten
nessee radicals seem to be piling up
taxes at the same time that you
1 are doing your best to frighten away
that emigration and capital, without
which it is 80 hard to raise taxes and
worse than this you are forced at the
same time to uphold metropolitan
principles, and to keep in your pay the
very fellows whose regulations from the
state treasury are the heaviest load you
will have to carry at the next election
When 7 had gone through with it the
governor said that he didn't exactly IN
derstand thatlast sentence. "Itmeans, u
said I, &" that it amt exactly republican
to tax u or two townships for the beue-
fit of the state treasury, and that you
will be blamed for the s~quandering of
state money" The governor hung his
head, and felt so bad that I wanted to
change the conversation. "IsuppOse, -
said I, "that Picayune Smith was
wanting you to appoint a niger
and a Dutchmau as two Of the
new county commissioner in Memphis. y
"Nota bit Of it,r saidthe governor;
#" he wants his partner, Merriman, TO be
one of them, and his hrOther-in-law,
] MaNah unn#hnr unA aafEan Hill nF WAL
colt the-third. He says we viii get the
vote of the Dutch and the niggers any
way, ard it amt any use giving them
anything except sympathy"
Sympathy Is cheap" says 1.
Eyes" said the governor, and Smith
amt willing to take that alone for his
loyalty"
"Why didn't you tell him that ?"
IT did" said the governor, "and the
aUdacious little scamp faced me down
that he hadn't otanything worthspesk-
ing of. He told about how the rebel
hordes had burned his palace by the lake
at Lagrange, and devastated that inn
mense domain where he had in
vested the profits Of years when
he had the monopoly of rebel
newspapers on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad. He told me to think of
the millions of dollars that he would
have made on confiseated and tax prop
erty, if that Internal secessiOnist In the
presidential chair hadn't given it back
to its Owners. What to all this says
he, is the value of forty or fifty acts of
Incorporation that l have got through
for myself and my partner and my
brother-in-law and Beaumont? There
] ,s-1k anwr Ia-ann1 for nh nuNawu and Nha
country members got into their heads
| the foolish notion, that if one man had
got an act of incorporation, every other
man that asked should have the same
privileges, and so they voted for almost
everything, and 1 don't believe that I
could this day sell my interest in such
things now for an average of a hun
bred dollars apiece
81 asked him." says the governor,
how many he had got through, and he
said he really didn't know, but he had
had two clerks busy for a long time copy
ing the acts"
Just then I saw on the floor, by the
bedside, 8 paper that some one had
dropped, and [ picked It up. The gov
ernor said he expected that Smith
dropped it, and to look what it was. I
! did so, and it was the following:
"ParshaI statmen of sum of the cor
porations that the legislature has give
US on speculation
mississippi valley Insurance COM
pany, November Il, 1865. Big thing
| B. got paid for getting this through.
Memphis union publishing company,
February p, 1866. This. won't sell as
long as Brooks manages w.
Tennessee savings institution, May
8, 1856. Middling.
Memphis FreightiDg company, May
10, 1856. We expected this would pay,
but the rebel board Of aldermen were
opposed to cur getting a monopoly Of
draysge and commission business. If
that bill offered last week to allow US to
put down rails from the street railroad
TO the landing, had passed IS we wanted
it, we would have been hunk, but the
senate mended it so that it amt worth
nothing to US now that it i through.
One senator actually refused to take $1,000
worth Of stock to get it throu4 right.
We thought it the best thing we ever
had saw, but it amt now.
"Citizens' street railroad company,
May %, 1856. Hain't made as much as
B. and NJ. expected.
Mechanics and Traders bank of
Memphis, May q, 1866. NJ. don't think
much of this new.
Metropolitan Savings institution,
May "A, 1856. Ne and NJ. will sell out
low.
"Emmet Savings Institution, May "a,
1856. Too Irish q name to suit US.
Peoples bank of Tennessee, May "a,
1856. NJ. has hopes of this.
4" Memphis Union savings institution,
May "A, 1856. Cheap.
"NOnconnah Pike company, May "a,
1866. NJ. a that now we have got an
act allowing US to put up a lot of new
toll gates, sthis may be worth something.
Mechanics bank of discount and de-
post, November 20, 1866. Like the rest.
Arkansas river packet company, No
vember II, 1866. b. and me will do pretty
well on this.
"Artesian springs company, Novem-
Der 80, 1856. May be good by and by.
"Clay savings bank, December I, 1856.
3. says the name will sell this.
Memphis transfer company, Deem
Der 10, 1866. May be a good thing.
"Real estate and improvement associa-
ton, March ,, 1867. Good privileges.
Illegal savings bank, March 4, 1857. |
will sell low.
West Tennessee insurance company, /
March 8, 1861. Me and both Ms like |
this.
yves Tennessee manufacturing COM
pany, March s, 1857. This will be worth
something.
4" Bluff city real estate and building
association, March s, 1857. Good. There
amt none except two or three that are
pig.
awe have a lot Of other charters for
banks and insurance companies and
Oan associations, and ferry companies
and manufacturing companies, that we
will sell for cash or trade. M. will sell
by the dozen. No other leg
will " give out 50 many good
.hancesi"
When I had read the paper all through
he governor said he guessed Smith was
the man to go to congress as he could
make more out of it than almost any
else. Yours still,
o DoDs.
Dispatches TO the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March lI.-Iu response
o the resolution to the senate, making /
inquiry of the secretary of war Is 10
What military expeditions are in pro-
ress, or in contemplation, to visit the {
indian territory, the secretary trans t
a communication from Gen. Y
enclosing a correspondence with
Sherman, commanding in c
be Indian department., and stating 8
nat these dispatches give informa-
on of all hOstilities contemplated I