Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-12
NASHVILLE, TrsS., Dec. 8, Is

on tax payers of the State, and to ben
, Eft them the State has, in the last two
years. assumed seventeen million dollars
Of debt. making her entire debt on ac'
count or railroads prior TO this Omnibus
bill. about twenty-five million dollars.
= Some OF the roads benefited by this bill
! have already drawn from three hundred
, thousand dollars to over million dollars
more than the entire cost of each road,
from tue State treasury. Some OF them
are in localities that cannot be expected
TO nav expenses for many years, and
some are to be built in other States.
The absurdity Of Tennessee, in her
present condition, going deeper in debt
10 build railroads in other States
will be obvious to those who are not
members Of the present Legislature OF
Tennessee. The State has not dollar
Lin her Treasury. Over three hundred
I rhoqsaUd dollars Of sehCol money recov-
cred from the Tennessee National Bank,
and five hundred thousand dollars col.
Ieeted last vesr as q tax for school pur-
poses, have been wholly squandered for
oUFer objects. This IS entirely lost 10 the
schools. The State will next year have
to pay 81 ,59l l65 66 Of mstured debt. 1t
viii have TO pay $780, 600 to carry on the
state Government, and unless the rail-
.
fore. $500, 600 of State interest. The
state may have to pay over IS, 100000 OF
State Bank notes, as she contracted to 10,
but which she is now seeking to avoid
nv a reuudiation on q legal technicaitty.
| With this impending debt and without
dollar in the Treasury, and with only
about two million dollars Of revenue
from ali sources, and with State bonds
already down to sixty-One per cent, the
! Governor and his satellites in the Legis-
I lature pile on the State four million dol
/ lars more debt, thus increasing by
I $4,000 the annual interest that
/ has 10 be paid by heavier taxation.
I This will add 5000 year to the tax OF
/ each county in East Tennessee, S22OO 10
1 the tax of each county in Middle, and
! S4OO0 a wear TO the tax Of each county in
! West Tennessee. The difference is caused
I bv the taxation of West and Middle Ten
/ nessee coming from taxes on privileges.
/ The pretence Tor this PiliBg up OF state
debt Is, that il will develop the stale.
/ The resl object is to put money IN the
I pockets OF 3 lot of fellows who run
| Brownlow since Fletcher dropped him.
I BrowpIowism and high taxes depreciste
1 the value Of property more than railroads,
I and especially paper roads and roads IN
other States, are likely to raise II. Before
YrovulOw became Governor land was
rated as worth on an average eight dol
lars and twenty cents an acre, but after
his election il went down IN 1000 70 SIX
dollars and ninety cents an acre au0 ls
now worth only six dollars ana Iofty- (
six cents an acre. 1t VIII not next year I
average five dollars an acre. Brownlow
and his associates may grow rlch, put
there will be high taxes or land, high |
ra1rG0uGl UrODpTty. llgn ]
taxes on privileges. Exhorbitant /
Federal, State, county and city taxes /
repei immigration and capital. I
Propertv holders feel theoppression. /
To avoid il they put their money IN 4
seven-thirty bonds which pay no taxes l
but draw good interest. They Will start .
no manufactures, they will invest no .
money in mining, they will not spend
money ia building, they will not care TO
uut funds in railroads or to cultivate
lands, or to engage in commercial ven
lures There are IN Nashville alone
many million dollars thus locked up IN
seven thirty bonds. The result mere ana
everywhere is that when there might be
a great deal Of work for white ana olack
working people, there Is very little.
Those vino sustain Radical rule and high
taxes, have no right to complain that
work is scarce and taxes high.
Asif to make a grim joke on the in-
crease of fn'ir million dollars 70 the State
debt while there Is not dollar IN the State
Treasury, the Legislature on the heels Of
the Omnibus bill resolved that the sal
aries of its member should be paid on
the gold basis, and want to borrow four
hundred thousand dollars 70 pay the
ensuing January interest on the State
debt. . |,
A bill in relation TO the Public SehOsls
of Memphis has been offered in the Leg
islalure and referred to committee.
II proyides for the election Of 8 School
Board of three school visitors rom each
ward. who are to get no pay, but from
their own number or others, are TO select
a Secretary, Treasury, Superintendent,
and sueh other servants as they ses
proper. One School Visitor is 10 be
elected annually from each ward, when
the machine gets TO working regularly.
In the meantime the present school
BOARD is to bold over. An amusing
bIunCer seems to have been made in this
article of the bill. 1t provides that Messrs.
Gsrvin, Chase, Buttinghsus, Megibben,
Rurke. Conner, Cook and Larkin shall
hold Office - for one year from January,
Is6S. p and Messrs. Fealey, Connell, At
well, 'Higbie, Bruce, Swain, Wsldron
and Slaughter shall hold office "until
January, 1862" This seems to amount
to about the same thing. II
50 Beecher has been nominated as the ]
Radical candidate for the Mayorslty, /
beaumont, Tomeney, Shaw, & Co, have !
been cleaned out. The simonpure Hun
teriau black and-tans are to carry the
marty banner at the ensuing election.
There is fitness ia this. If Radicaiism is
to win, let it win squarely on Radical
pripciples and Radical men, and not !
through q combination Of mOngrels and 5
mistaken Conservative support. Beau J
mont. Tomeney and Shaw will doubtless
take their revenges by working secretly
against Beecber. Some Of their satellites
will vote for Fitch whose chances are
thereby increased. Some will vote for !
the Conservative candidate, and some
will not vote at stl. In the Brownlow :
Council black Loyal Lesgue-On last
Tuesday night, Beaumont denounced ,
Beeeher as utterly incompetent for the
office OF Mayor, and not only reflected !
on his cspabnity, bat on bis honesty.
This led to q terrible rOw-such y row as !
hasn't been in Memphis for long time
such a row as il would have delighted
Harry Beck, or Philip, or Nally, or Bir- 5
new Marshall to report. As II has been
carefully kept from the Memphis papers,
some points msy interest your readers. =
who is policeman, is sup.
posed 70 have nothing 10 do with poll l
Ties. ridiculed and abused Beechsr In the
strongest terms. Beeeher wasn't white i,
man lit to be nominated, and he CDeau- !
mont assured the blacks that he would !
Infinitely prefer one of themselves. He !
told them to pick one Of their own num- :
Der, a black man of good sense, and as
they didn't like Shaw, he Beaumont :
would cheerfuliy support and vote for
such black man. He assured them
thar they could do this; he was their !,
friend, and they might depend upon it !
that the 18th section of the Franchise
act was not Law, but was uncOnstitu- Z
tional, null and void; that they were I
inst as eligible to Office as white men he I
,yas certain Of it, aud he begged them y
not 10 vote for Beecher, but for good
black man in preference. tuf =,
Barbour Lewis who has been cOnsid- =
red an anti -BeeeheT man, or rather as y
having Gen. Smith as his first choice, c
umped up when Beaumont sat down .
md opened fire on him. He denounced
as guilty Of fslsehood and = !.
hypocrisy. and as being /" contemplate, u
shallow, blatant humbugn Lewis is
pretty handy in the use Of Billingsgate,
md be fairly skinned Beaumont. He
,sked Beaumont why, if be thought the b
negroes were eligible, he didn't appoint I,