Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-21

We are indebted to our companion in
arms, and f=llow-pEisOner on JOhnson's
Island, Capt. A. Ridley, for late Vera
Cruz and City # Mexico papers, from
which we extract az Flows:
DON Jesus Terrazas, brother If Col
JOAQUIN [ f that name, and a gentleman
DISTINGUISHED f1r his services to the
State, has been killed in battle by the
Apaches f Chihuahua.
Trade is ia a state If paralysis in ia
liscO, and various merchants are solicit
ing the Government for permission 10
send droves CT horses and cattle to Mex
leo, IN order to raise funds to relieve the
people in their distress. The animals
will be gathered from QIeretaro, GUIANA
juatO, Zacatecas, San l. )uis Potosi, and
other pOints.
A normal school is about to be estab-
lished in Cindad Victoria, State If Ia
maulipas. PrtfJund tranquility reigns
everywhere in that State. Commerce is
reviving, and the only thing the country
needs is plenty Ct labOrers.
They are playing The Bengal Tiger
at the Vera Graz theater. Oae OF the
actors is named BoOsdil.
Col. Jose IHclan, who was recently
condemned TO death by military com
mission 10 Vera Cruz, has had his SEN
teGce committed to five years imprison-
ment.
The citizen general, Don Jose Ignaeio
Gutierrez, convicted of treason, was to
have been shot with musketry, on the
9th ult., iu the Plaza de MixcalcO; but
on the 18th the death sentence was COM
muted.
The Mexican papers have full transla-
IF re n
which Ben Butler was so badly wOrsted
q month or so sgO.-N o. Crescent.
what the Virgissia Carpet-Baggers are
after.
TIE House Of Representatives of Vir-
GINA has passed bill, reported by the
Reconstruction Committee, which pro-
vides for the election in Virginia in
manner SO repUgnsnt to the csrpet-bsg-
gers Of that State that they have sent
delegation here to procure q mOdifiea-
ton of the bill by the Senate. Their ex-
pectation is, by Misrepresentation and
haste, to extract from that body, in its
closing houra, legislation which will
brand it with indehble infamy.
There are two points on which they
desire changes to be made. The House
bill guards the purity OF the election by
declaring that no person shall act as a
member OF the Board of Registration
who Is q candidate for Office at the cleo
zion TO be held under such registration.
TIE object CT this provision is apparent
at \ glance. The carpet bsggers want
their candidates to have chance to set
as registrars, and power given to exclude
all votes they cannot control. Will
the Ssnats assent TO this gross sugges-
ton?
Bat the c8rpet-bsggers go further.
Trey desire to cut of from the privilege
Of voting some 25,C coo persons entitled to
vote under the existing reconstruction
acts. Under those laws a fresh registra-
ton is to take place two weeks before
any election, ami all Illegal names then
to be stricken Off and the names added
Of all persons having legal right to
vote. This has been done under the law
in every State Of the South save Vir-
GINA. Ia that State there has been no
registration OF voters since last summer,
aud as many then failed to register, the
carpet-bAggers, and especially Mr.. Wells,
their candidate for Governor, admit that
there are Is coo persons not registered
who are entitled to be registered.
The question is whether the eGiStileq
reconstruction lars shall be changed so
as 10 deprive these voters of the right to
register and vote. If the change be
made, it is a deliberate exclusion OF Con-
servarivs voters for the purpose of carry
ing an election-voters who are not dis
franchised by the constitutional amend
ment or by The reconstruction acts.
We take it for granted that such Sena-
tors as Messrs. Trumbull, Morton, Fes-
sender and Edmund5 will have sufficient
regard for their regulations to refuse to
commit this palpsble outrage and fraud.
Messrs. Sumner, Nye and Conness will
probably be restrained by no such mo-
live, but even they may halt when thew
stop to think what additional weight
this proceeding will impose on Grant
and Colfax in the Presidential election.
As they are expecting to exclude the
vote of Virginia from the Electoral Co..
lege, there would seem to be the strongest
motive Of interest in abstaining from
this infamous proceeding .-Ndtio7aaE IN
tefhgenceT, l7tb.
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