Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-15
The Repeal of the Usury Laws the
Theme of Conversation.
Disposition of the HOuse---GOVernOr
Senter's Message.
The Pennsylvania Elections - The
Senatorial Contest.
Ex-President IOhnsOn---The XVIII
Amendment.
The Memphis cOurts---The Board
Of County Commissioners.
What our Exchanges have to say
about the SenatOrship.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO MEMPHIS APPEAL
NASHVILLE, October 1.-THE town Is
quiet to-day. Many of the members OF
the Legislature have gone to Franklin,
where the elite of Maury, Williamson and
Davidson counties, with delegations frOm
every part Of the State, have gathered to
do honor 20 the Agricultural Fair.
You cannot imagine how much these
fairs inspire the people Of the country, or
how beneficial they prove in the promo
tion of that kind of intelligence in need
of which our farmers have so4ong stood.
From what I can learn. this Williamson
fair is a success grand success, such as
that Of Shelby ought to be. The show Of
manufactured goods, agricultural Inn
Plements and farming products is large,
and such as to reflect credit upon old VIII
Hanson.
The quiet that pervades the town Is felt
in political circles, aud the cliques and
combinations against Johnson are, for one
day, silent. I do not hear anything be-
Yond the simple ssseyerstion BY the
friends of the ex-President that no COM
bipaticn can be made strong enough to
rule him on the track. The small men
ghat have been pitted against him are none
the less hopeful Of fsuceess-their cases are
desperate, and they clutch at every straw.
The interests of Memphis are being well
attended to by her industrious represen-
tatives.
ErnH 0T~n GpETT pgpuESpOSCnVE
NASHVILLE, Wednesday mOrRing.-The
usury laws have become themes of discus
sion in and outside the Legislature. In
orner that they may be liberalized To the
greatest possible extent, and that con-
yentional rate may be fixed at y per cent,
Mfr. TowaSend has introduced bill leav-
ing it to be defined solely by the parties TO
contracts. l was not little surprised to
lnd East TeRnesseeans asserting to Mr..
ToNnsend's proposition. Hitherto East
Tennessee has been opposed to any reform
in our stupid code affecting this question,
and there is little doubt that a cOnven-
tiOnal rate Of ten or twelve per cent. will
be approved by the General Assembly.
illustrative of the disposition OF the
House 10 hh0ll tiaAAAneAAA eAANA NA4sN
sions, 3 hin assigning special seats
ia the gallery to colored citizens
was laid on the table by an almost
unanimous vote. An aged wiseacre and
Democrat from this county ssgely and
Justly said that colored people have con-
Quoted themselves here with great pro-
priety; but few now enter the gallery they
tka,,uafx-ag Of fhafr Vnlf-
sion, from tRe whites; and there is 10 need,
until some offease is committed or some
zule of propriety yioIsted, for any action
1ss the proposition. II properly went to
the tomb Of forgotten follies in lsgisla-
zion, mighty bone-yard in this city.
Gov. Senter's message Is q marvel of
taste in letters. There are only one OF two
verbal inaccuraciesin in this admirable State
paper. ! speak Of it, mark you, as lit
srary production. There are para
graphs faultless in terms, felicit-
Gus in expression and beautiful imagery.
when We saw Gov. 6enter last summer,
adj dusty and traVel-wOFB, his tastes per-
Verted by constant collisions and contact
with Bill Stokes, when his speeches were
characterized by many faults and few
rhetorical or other beauties, we hardly
aRtieipsted at his hands the production
OF state paper which would do credit to
Ihe intellectual culture of Thomas A. r.
Nelson, Jordan Stokes, or Judge John NJ.
Lea
To-day the interest that attaches 20
GOV Senter's message is only lessened Dy 1
-,
patches from Ohio. II Pendleton be
elected he Will surely be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency, and
Packer viii not again, as happened in
fhe New York Democratic Convention, /
cause PendletOn's claims to be post
poned that a great might usurp
Gks place Of a greater maR-that
Seymour might supplant the faultless
statesman and orator Of the West. Packer
cannot WELD the power Of Pennsylvania
at will, and must 90 down to oblivion.
Neither wealth ROI genius can undo the
evil done him by this defeat OF yesterday.
T'he force Of his and Of seyEOur's fall
lifts Pendleton Ear above all other Politi-
cal philosophers Of the day, and if the
moneyed oligarchy, which holds American
destinies in the hollow ofits hand, suffers
as 20 elect another President, Pendleton's
local triumph is a sure angnry of victory
in the broader arena Ofa contest for the
Presidency.
Il is believed that johnson will get 4G
votes in the House on the first ballot, the
whole number of votes being lO9i 81 in the
n I or -. -
will give him, it is said by his friends, Is
votes. The realization of these assertions |
makes Mr.. johnson Senator on the first
ballot. 1t h nov conceded by many that
Mr.. Etheridge is OF the track. Many Of
ANS friends only seek 10 ind somebody, /
somewhere, by whom the "poteut Ma
chisyelli" Of Tennessee politicians may
be overwhelmed. Very small men, Il is
said, are ia imminent danger Of being
thrust, shirtless, into the senate. Ether
Idge is NOT Of this number. Ia fa0t, Eth
erfdge's adhsrents have been heard 70 say
that Mr.. E0wler's successor il as yet un-
named and unknown. There are mid I
night consultations and earnest whisper [
iRgs. Grsyheaded old party managers of I
the state are evoked from forced re-
tiremsnt of ten years past, and coma (
bither to define plans fof the overthrow OF
Andrew johnson. They arrange for in
struc.ions emanating from c0nciaVes,
gathered IN village barFOoms, by which |
the action Of lawgivers is to he governed. /
they assert the political damnatioR of
every adherent of Johnson. These things :
have not wrought any marked changes. / (
don't think Andy is seriously alarmed. In J
fact, be Is more jocund each day, and
deems his triumph assured. ! would not /
state about this matter what / do not be-
neye, and have therefore TO add that
Johason's strength is derived in part from
an extraordinary source-Foote has at
lacked hiIni Mankindat once exclaimed,