Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-01

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to be an Israelite.
Gen. John c. Breckenridge is univer.
sally popular in Paris.
Gen. Sterling Price is reported at the
point Of death in st. Louis.
Gen. Hancock left Washington for st.
Louis on Friday.
Fussey Sheridan met with a warm re-
ceptiOn at Philadelphis on Wednesday
l evening
Col. John S. Mostly has just bought 8
house in Warrenton, Va.
An exchange thinks Carlyle's literary
peculiarities may be accounted for by
| dyspepsia.
NJ. Mittmayer, q noted journalist and
| professor at HeidelbuTg, died recently.
He was born At Munich, 1851.
DR.. W. A. Burleigh, delegate for Dsco-
tab, was IN LesvenwOrth Wednesday,
about TO visit Lawrence.
A democrat is elected to the Vermont
senate for the first time In many years,
viz: Victor Atwood, Of st. Albans.
John Brown, the expert English for
| ger, Is sentenced to five years in the state
| prison OF New York.
! Fitz John Porter is still pressing his
case with the president and it's believed
he will yet be successful in having g re-
| hearing.
| Ex-Col. Jsmes D. Mcbride, Of Ohio,
/ has been commissioned lieutenant in the
! fourth regular artillery.
Thaddeus Stevens health is rapidly
! improving. He will soon resume work
| on his reconstruction, revenue, and finan-
/ cial measures, hoping to have them
ready at the meeting Of congress.
Our minister to Holland writes to the
secretary Of state that there is no fOun-
| datiOn for the rumOr that SIS, 900, 600 has
been left in Holland 10 the descendants
OF one Hans Croft.
An exchange thinks if Sheridan is the
youngest man ever mentioned for the
presidency, he will be old enough before
be gets it,
When Mr.. Bancroft was presented to
King William, OF Prussia, the historian
congratulated the king on Goethe's
birthday. The king told him he had
forgotten that, and that Mr.. Bancroft
must be a scholar, which is better than
10 be a king.
4 Trafalgar hero, Robert Christie, has
just died at Alloa, at the age Of ninety
eight. He was engaged in nearly forty
battles and skirmishes, and never re-
! ceived a wound he retired in 1920 on
pension Of twenty pOLnds, which he re-
ceived until his death.
Lord Milton discovered gold enough in
| British Columbia 10 hammer, with his
own noble hands, into a wedding ring
| for his bride.
WHEN MACMILLAN was twenty-one,
| he stood at Caserte, looking on the lovely
| gardens Of the palace, and he wrote
ca The staircase is worthy Of royalty.
/ Whist can be more superb than to fancy
K oneself the sovereign standing on the
| topmOst step, suffering the tide Of human
/ beings TO approach him from below Z?
/ The Tabble crawl slOWly-the monarch
sheds a generous smile which falls, as il
were, from heaven, so great is the elevs-
| tion at which be stands in his grandeur
and in his might. Were Charles the
Fifth or Maria Theresa, suddenly to ap-
/ pear on the summit of this magnificent
/ flight Of marble steps, l should like TO
| behold the man who would not uncon-
/ sciOusly bow down to the dust before the
majesty on whom God has conferred
/ holy power The founder OF Caserte has
shown his sense Of the divine source
/ whence emanates this power, for this
stupendous staircase opens into the
chapel. Times alter, and mankind
! changes likewise. In the midst of this
| fiorid mass Of marble and mosaic the
black coats and ungraceful garments Of
| the present generation appear like the
| ephemersl moth upon mantles OF royal
| purple. And l, too, poor moth that l
am, felt the same sensation of bOundless
pride which seized upon me IN the palace
Of the Doge Of Venicei and l could not
help thinking how sublime must be the
feelings experienced at certain moments
Of sOvereign's life-toO solemn TO be
! frequent-when standing on the highest
step Of this flight Of marble steps, and
looking down upon the rest Of mankind,
to feel himself the first In all creation,
like the sun In the midst Of the firIna-
ment."