Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-17
NASHVILLE.
The Charter of the Town of Milan
ReInOdeled.
Penalty for the NOn-Payment OF
Taxes.
ImpecuniOsity of Members---ko Re-
pudiatiOn.
Bibles for the COnvicts, None for the
Legislature.
Books of Lawyers and Doctors Ex-
empt from Seizure.
Barbour Lewis COurt---Its End
Draws Nigh.
$4,000 from the BOndhOlders to
Defeat Johnson.
ImpecuniOsity of Members---ko Re-
pudiatiOn.
Bibles for the COnviCts, None for the
Legislature.
Books of Lawyers and Doctors Ex-
empt from Seizure.
Barbour Lewis COurt---Its End
Draws Nigh.
$4,000 from the BOndhOlders to
Defeat Johnson.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH.

commence MONDAY; ana filuch ulSdp-
pointment is felt because Mr.. Fillmore
cannot be present at the Fair.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
NASHVILLE, October l5.-The busi-
ness of the two Houses to-day was
not Of very interesting charac-
ter. The charter of Milan, sup
posed to be an Italian city of some
historical note, not far away from
Capria, where Hannibal, the great
Abraham of blacks in by-gOne ages,
became enervated by luxurious modes
of life to which the people weka ad-
dicted-the charter of this ancient vii
lage, where the APPEAL has many
abiding places, was remodeled. Milan
is at last diVested of shackles which,
l imagine, were imposed to enrich
Radical placemen and adventures.
That State and Federal ideas, facts and
laws, as | hear, might be compound
ed, not long ago the Radical Legisla-
ture made rules of evidence in both
courts uniform. This purpose has
been defeated. The bills to repeal acts
enforcing the acceptance of test oaths
by candidates for offices, and abro-
eating an act defining the qualitica-
tions of jurors, passed third reading
in the Senate.
AS I anticipated some days ago, in
a special telegram, bill was intro
duced to-day to abolish increased pen
alties for the nOn-payment of taxes.
The impression prevails in the Senate
and House, that if burdens of taxation
were lessened, greater sums would
flow into the Treasury. This idea
was doubtless suggested by the sad
condition to which the State Treasury
was reduced yesterday by Representa-
tive Caldwell and another penniless
member from your district. Caldwell
was hard up. The House had ordered
the Treasurer to fork over to any dis
tressed member, if raVenOasly dunned
by his wash-woman, or any other
man. Caldwell was the first victim
Of impecHniosity, and rushed head
long up Capitol hill and down into
the Treasurer's vaults. His friend
Followed, and with anxiety unknown
before, they presented their ac-
counts against the imperssaat
sovereignty of Tennessee. The
Treasurer blushed. He confessed the
validity of the claims but pleaded
poverty. al have" he said, "only
eighty dollars, and can pay neither of
you in full, and if you viii divide
fairly and say nothing, you may
empty the treasury of Tennessee" J"
The terms and money We're accepted,
and the States strong box is as empty
as a balloon, and the more gas in the
halls above the less gold and green
backs in the cellars below. This Incl
dent begat much philosophical inqairy
into measures Ofraxation. Not few
believe that eX essive per centages
beget much popl, lar dishonesty, and
that greater reI enues would arise
! from moderate tinan burdensome lev
les. This phild Dphy is well illus
trated in Mempfes. Many cannot pay,
and the very wei Sht of taxation makes
sales Of propIrlty Impossible, ii
Radicalism haze not been destroyed
the tax laws rof Tennessee would
soon have opeE lied, as in Memphis,
as a legal system of cOnfiscation by
which the people would have been
crushed, robbed and ruined, and place
holders rendered fabulously rich.
Rest assured that there win be no
squirting at population, and no such
purpose Is contemplated; but that the
revenues of the State may be in
creased, burdens upon the people viii
be lessened, and every possible In
ducement profered to immigration.
The exemption laws will be liberal
lied to prevent the exodus of farming
classes, and TO invite farming pOpula-
tions from ad jacent States.
have not seen a copy of the Bible
in Nashville. / looked for one on the
Clerks desk, but there was only the
Code of Tennessee. The pockets Of
members are often distended with
bills and newspapers, but no Bible
rests on a desk in the House or Senate
chamber. poyou remember the good
people limned by the artists hand of
Dickens, who sought to elevate the
henighted denizens of fHorriobOolaghae >
Even thus our lawmakers propose to
furnish eight hundred Bibles to peni-
tentiary eonvicts. If men, as eonvicts,
may read only the Bible, will thaY
love it as freenenG But the purpose
of the Legislature Il pralseworthy,
and the eight hundred Bibles can do
no harm. Some publisher will make
a few sous, and perhaps conyicts may
be e convicted" and saved.
Lawyers are always undertaking TO
get other people out Of debt,
and generally suceeed in get-I
ting themselves and ali Others in:
They themselves are almost sure to
he yictlmIzed. Doctors, too, need the
help of the law to secure their tools
against the ravages of remorseless
constables, and therefore the pretty
little bill presented to-day, which
every sympathetic nature must APP
prove, by which lawyers and doctors
books are to be exempted FROM execu-
ton.
Let Barbour Lewis examine his
shoulders carefully each morning
His head may disappear at any mo-
ment. The Board of County COM
missioners of this county was decapi.
tated to-day. There were no -teaH
shed when the bloody guiIlotine did
its ghastly work, and vengeance for
robberies practiced and wrongs done
the toiling poor by malevolent selfish!
adventures was partially appeased.
Many leading citizens from all parts
of Tennessee are gathering here to
participate In the Senatorial death.
struggle Of next Tuesday. Now that
Radicalism is triumphant in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, its eorruptory fund
viii be employed even here, it B,
thought, to cause the overthrow OF
Andrew johnson. The story wa,
current last night, that an agent of
the New York bondholders was illi
Nashville, with $4,000 to dispense,
that johnson might be beaten. Thers
is not a yIllaiR ID Tennessee 50 de.
pEaved, or a nlouthlng rnnter Eefops
the populace so imbfuted or ig-
norant, that exisenae Radicalisnl
would not send h the Senate
rather chan Andtem Johns Oh.
EsbeifIle.s Iaay be hataAEat Johns soil
/ Is hated ard feared anda ther4ork