Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-21
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4 O6sAONh2AIO AAEElANG IN hAlIlLION
CoUNTY.-At a meeting to nominate
candidates TO be voted for at the election
on the 9th Of March, the Democratic
voters OF Hamilton assembled ct Chatta.
Googa on the evening Of the I7th, and
presented a full ticket, which was unani,
mously Endorsed, and the following reso.
lutions were unanimously adopted:
Rescued, Tast we, the Democracy Of
Hamilton county, in Convention assem-.
bled, do most sOlemnly ami earnestly
protest against the continued dlsfran-
chiSemenG Of our white fellow citizens.
BeSOtCed, That We are il favor of call.
ing a STATE Convention, for the purpose
q altering and amending u StaJe Con-
sututlon, at the earliest practicable time,
80 As 10 remove the disabilities under
which our white feilOW-citizsns are now
laboring.
Over a thousand mules were, during
last week, shipped from Nashville over
the Chattanooga Railroad.
There were four cases before the
Criminal Court at Nashville on the 18th (:
sam P. Ament, continued, $4,000 bail ;
w. r. Daniels, continued, $1,000 bail /:
Green Thomas, mistrial, 5000 bail; 1.
N. Watson, continued, $1,000 bail. The
Court adjourned in consequences Of the
illness Of Attorney General Tuthil,
Col. Shutter, the worthy and COM
potent " superintendent OF the Southern
Express, was in Nashville on Monday.
The Brooklyn Champion Base Ball
Club is expected in Nashville in April,
on its way to play at Memphis and New
Orleans.
Ned White, very drunk, jumped into
the river at Nashville to show MS cour-
age and cool his copper. He was dragged
out nearly drowned, and fined for his
adventurous spirit.
Gen. Howard has ordered that the
Bureau Hospital at Nashville shall not
be discontinued, though the Bureau itself
should cease. 1t has hfty inmates.
The Nashville UajOR and Dispatch
of the 18Th says: "TheIe can hardly be
a question that the Radical Convention
which meets this week will nominate c.
", Donaldson, q white man, for Sheriff
of Davidson county. The feeling among
the negroes sgai2st such a nomination is
intense. They declare they viii vote for
none other than 3 negro, but knowing
better how to deposit 3 ballot that has
been made up for them than how to pack
q convention, it will be impossible fer
them to secure the nomination of a COL
ored candidate, Very few negroes now
a white nominee, and John Cock
rell, Allen McTeer and Randall Brown,
all OF them holding positions in the cor
poration, are the oaly negroes advocating
the claims Of the white man, The pros
poet now Is that q black candidate will
nraw the whole negro vote, whatever
may be the action OF the Convention"
-Four negroes were capsized with q
canoe at Nashville on MoDday-onc
drowned, The others were rescued with
difficulty.
The Nashville onion and Dispatch
Of the 1a1h says We learn from men,
oers OF the Legislature, and from others
informed on the subject, that the peni- 4
as it is managed under the law
proposed to be changed, costs the State
rom $4,000 to 500. goo per aAnum. The
of the warden and three direct
,rs, clerk, chaplain, physician, guards
md other employees, amounts annually
% over 10000, which is paid out of the
state Treasury. The amount received
~ the State for the labor Of the eonvlcts
8 net sufficient to feed and clothe them,
md the dedcit amounting to nom $4,000
$4,000 has also to be drawn from the
State Treasury. Surely if this sum-,
amounting in the aggregate to from
40,0 0 to $4,000 can be saved to the
state, the change ought to be made at
nee,
The Nashville Gazette saws We
IL stated yesterday that the Mem
his and GAINESVILLE Railroad had been !
sssed to the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, this change to take effect on
be isth Inst,
Gus Cummings and I. o. futile, a.
eady charged with stealing D. Clark,s
orses at Nashville, have another charge
{ horse stealing against them by Mr..
BOX, OF Sumner county, who replevfed
is stolen horse from the possession of
aples QDonpel. They we're to have a
caring in the latter case on the 18th.
AT Nashville, Oh Sunday, the atten-
Of q negro lad was attracted by
lms dogs, and On going nearer dlscov.
red a new born male infant, a portion
which was already destroyed By the !
Coroner Norvell held an in
pest, and the jury decided that the child
ad been deposited there the night pre-
by some person unknown, but
ere unable TO determine whether anv T.
had been used or whether the
hid wss mixed blooded or white. r
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