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THERE is a generally prevailing
idea that after January, 1859, no one
can receive his discharge in bank
ruptcy unless his assets amount to fifty
per cent. of his whole Liabilities. This
is an error. The first provision of the
law is that his assets shall amount to
fifty per cent. of the claims proUed
against him, and on which he shall
be liable as principal debtor, which.
may be less than his whole indebted
ness as principal. The second is that
the assent in writing of the majority
of his creditors to whom he is liable as
principal debtor, and who have proved
their claims, being filed in the case, a
discharge may still be granted,
whether his creditors for security debts
may say aye or no. So that one in
debted as principal for $25, 900, and
also as security for $751; 10 more, will
be entitled to his discharge if his as
sets amount to $12,50O, even on the
assumption that his Indebtedness as
principal is all proved up, which is
unusual. And i'm cas- his assets
should not amount to a hundred dol
lars, the assent in writing of a major
ity of his creditors for the amounts
due from him as principal and for the
$4,000 will still remove all difficulty
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IT will be recOllected that an eXpe-
ditiOn from the United States Coast
Survey was sent out from Sitka on the
18th of July last, to observe the COM
ing eclipse. A special dispatch from
Victoria to the San Francisco Alta
Californian says of it:
"It was eleven days in reaching a
proper position on the river-in lati-
tude 50 D, longitude 10 80; only
twenty miles from the central part of
tOtality. 1t was found impracticable
to carry instruments and provisions
over the Iron Mountain range, for the
determination of the latitude and lon
gitude and magnetic variation OBJ
tanned before the date of the eclipse.
The 9TH of August was the cloudiest
day experienced; but breaks in the
clouds enabled the party to watch the
different phases, and the beginning of
the tOtality vas accurately noted. In
Stantly after the observation the rose
cOlOred flames" were visible with the
~unassisted eye; and their extent, pO-
sition, elevation and apprOXimity
measured on the southeast and south
west parts of the suns limb. The
/" corona" was visible over a part of
the limb only. The whole picture
was magnificent. The end of the
eclipse was not seen. The phenom-
ena of coming darkness and growing
light were very marked along the
course of the valley. Mr.. Seward and
party visited Prof. DavidsOn's camp
and watched the phases of the eclipse
and saw all the phenomena of the rose
cOlOred flames and the corona.
1.-THE party on the steamer Active
at the mouth of the river had the best
view of the totality. The clouds
broke, and a large, clear space enabled
them TO see the flames and corona:
also the planet Mercury and stars of.
the fourth magnitude. AT Sitka the
eclipse was not quite total, and was
watched through broken clouds. AT
Fort Wrangle the weather was densely
cloudy. At Fort TOugass the weather
was favorable, and the officers OBJ
served the time of the beginning and
ending of the eclipse. The Indians
were fearfully alarmed and hid them
selves in their houses or took to the
bushes.
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THE following comments of the
London Daily telegraph in relation
to the situation in this country were
written on the eve of the Virginia
election. The London paper has not
mistaken the facts. The Telegraph
says:
"FOr a little while we have a pause
in the elections, but the politicians are
watching them closely enough.
Messrs! Boutwell,, CreSswell, Morton
and Cameron are excessively annoyed
at the result of the Nirginian election,
and are looking to the future with in
tense anxiety. The next trials of
strength come off in Tennessee and
Alabama. In the first named State
the contest is between Stokes, the can
didate of the ultras, who desire to per-
perpetuate acknowledgements and SEN
ter, also a Republican, and now act
ing Governor, who, to gain the Con-
sentative vote, came out for removing
all acknowledgements. Fully two
thirds of the whites were excluded
from the ballot, and heretofore the III
tras have had it all their own way.
They have maintained an iron rule
indeed. BrOwnlOw appointed the
registrars, his own creatures, who took
good care not to register his opponents,
and in sections where this Ubiquitous
arrangement failed, he threw out the
votes of entire counties. By this eX-
traOrdinary power and system of tao
tics, the violent Radicals maintained
themselves. But now these very
forces work against them. Senter has
the power Of the offices, and has used
it freely for his own purposes to secure
admission for his supporters to the
registration lists. Even BrOwnlOW
has %cunningly deserted the uItras, and
the prospect now is that the latter will
be beaten by an overwhelming major
ity. And thus passes away a reign OF
cruelty and misrule in Tennessee
which was really a disgrace to the
nineteenth century"
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WE publish this morning and call
attention to a compilation from
Lord BYRoN's Conversations
taken from the New York World,
which, we think, all fair-minded per-
sons will conclude refutes fully and
completely the charge Of incest al
legged against the poet by Mrs. HAIR
RIFT BEECHER STOWE. 1t will be
seen that nothing that fell from Lord
BYRON as to his one year Of welded
life will bear the misconstruction that
Mrs. STOWE has secured Immortality
for; and that the intimate personal
friends Of the poet are as clear Of hav-
ing, by word or hint, conveyed an
idea Of his having committed the
great crime that through Mrs. STOWE
has first seer the light. The sensation
is exploded, and Mrs. STOWE is ruined
as a literateur.
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MUCH has been written and said o
| the inherent differences of Northern
and Southern character, modes O
thinking and craftsmanship. The
leading sentiment of republicanism is
the same in New England and in the
Gulf States. Puritanism, however.
always leaned towards a strong gov
eminent. 1t was ever disposed tt
subordinate local and popular right,
to central authority. Its tendencie,
are illustrated to-day in the perfect
unanimity and hot haste with which
New England States have adopted
the Fifteenth Constitutional Amend
ment. Whether New England seeks
to establish rigid safeguards around
free American institutions, or to sub,
stitute a mOnarchical or thoroughly
centralized system for that which ac.
cords freedom to States, is an inquiry
which time may solve. Evidently
Southern modes of political thinking
have tended to widely different re-
suits, and this antagOnism has GER
tainly driven Northern and Southern
statesmen TO the advocacy of extreme
opinions. The SOutherner, whether
an " ~aristOcrat " or plebian, unlike the
New Highlander, has ever protested
the simplest and most restricted form
of government. The trustwOrthiness
of the people he has never questioned,
and his jealousy of central power has
never slept. Personally he may have
been an aristOcrat, but as a statesman
or politician, he has ever demanded
the largest possible share of popular
and local freedom. The retrOactiOn
Of these two Northern and Southern
modes of reasoning, and the mOditi-
cations to which each was subjected
by the other, resulted in the proper
and perfect adjustment of State and
Federal powers. Neither New Eng
land nor the South surrendered any
vital principle, and it is only at this
hour, when the South is silenced and
its craftsmanship paralyzed, that the
safety and perpetuity Of the Union
is endangered. Centripetal tenden-
cies are now as excessive as
were centrifugal forces in 1861. The
reaction and rebound from the shock
of battle has sent New England reel
ing backward into Imperialism.
Therefore the injection of Southern
opinion into the legislation of the
country is of the last Importance.
The theory of State nationality
abandoned, it is only necessary to
reconcile, as did the statesmen of the
CLAY and WEBSTER school of political
thinkers, the rights of States and
those Of the Union. As compromise
created the Union and often protracted
its existence and peace, so, at this
hour, the extreme views of New
England and Of the South, each should
be modified by an infusion of the
In other words, the West,
populated alike by Virginia and
Pennsylvania, by New England and
the Carolinas, should have supremacy
and give direction and shape to the
Of the Federal Union. Why
may not PENDLEToN, the next Gov
ernor of Ohio, be the next Chief
Magistrate of the Union?
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The Convention which the black
and tan rule or runners held at Nash
vile last week, i'm the interest of the
remnant left of themselves and party,
has proved a very small izzle. The
seditious proceedings of the conspira-
tors were had in a dark room with
closed doors, and will not see the light
until they fall out for the benefit of
honest men. HORACE MAYNARD
was the master Jack Cade, the sugar
pet Of the 1rdidache was hugely con-
spicuOus, and MARSHALL TITMOUsE
figured on boards worthy of any other
intellectual Tom Thumb. We CLEAN
thus much knowledge Of their opera
lions just as we know how 10 find
young erOcOdiles near the water. The
Press and Times gives their names,
and that tells all the rest. There were
Congressman MAYNARD, HAWKINS
and TILLMAN; Legislators HACKER,
MURRAY, SMITH, THoRNBURG, MED
LIN, KENDRICK, RYDER, and a few
Davidson County Stokes Radicals
in this band of Hartford Convention
crs. And MAYNARD, as chairman of
a committee for that purpose, has adj
dressed Gov. SENTER in the name of
the great body Of the Republicans "
~ofTenneSsee, and asked what they do
not desire, that he should call together
the old Legislature, for the pretended
purpose Of ratifying the Ffteenth
Amendment, but with the real pur-
pose of a revolutionary movement.
We are glad to see Gov. SENTER re-
spects the wishes Of the people too
much 70 assent TO any such schemes of
the d~esperadOes to regain their power.
The Nashville Banner, one of the or
gans Of Gov. SENTER, says: 1--WE
have the highest official authority for
stating that he will not, uader ana cir
cumstances, call the old General As
sembly together, but has determined
10 entrust the suffrage question, in all
its bearings, to the body recently
elected"
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and entitle him to his discharge as
fully AS if he had made a fifty per
cent. surrender. Theprobabilities are
that creditors will always give such
assent to all honest bankrupts. And
men Icing usually more willing to
pay their own than surety debts, cred
itors withal will have a motive to re-
lease, especially such IS they think
would never be able to pay all, but
would exert themselves after release
to pay such debts as they had person
ally incurred and received to them
selves the benefit.
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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
Medical DEPARTMENT. Neac Orleans.


A. H. Censs, MD, Emeritus Professor OF OBJ
~stetrics.
James Jones, MD, Prof. of Obstetrics.
Warren Stone, Md, Prof. of Surgery.
T. g. Richardson, MD, Prof of Anatomy.
Samuel NJ. Bemiss, Md, Prof. Of Medicine.
stanford r. Chaille, MD, Prof. Of Physiology.
Frank hawthorn, Md, Prof Of Materia
Medlca.
Joseph Jones, MD, 1ate Of the University of
Nashvillel Prof. of Chemistry.
C.. J. hickman, Md, Demonstration OF Anat-
Omy.
h Thirty-SecOnd annual course of instruc-
tion in this Department VIII commence on
Monday, thel 18Th of November, 1863, and ter
inmate On the second Saturday OF March,
1870. Preliminary Lectures On Clinical Medi-
cine and Surgery will be delivered in the am
phitheater Of the Charity Hospital, begin
ming on the 18th Of October, without any
charge to students. The Anatomical rooms
will be opened al the same time.
Z The members OF the Faculty are Visiting
Physicians and Surgeons To the Charity Hos
pital, and give instruction daily at the bed
side of the sick. The practical advantages
thus offered to students are unrivaled.
FEEs.-For all the Lectures, $40: Matricu-
lation, s.; Practical Anatomy, sic; Gradua-
ton, S3n; Payment required in advance.
For further information address
Ruls T. =. RICHARDSON, MD, Dean.
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A RAILROAD meeting was held neal
Fayetteville, Ala, on Thursday Of
last week for the purpose Of further
ing the interests of the projected road
from ElytOn to Aberdeen. This is
expected to form a part of the great
air line from Charlotte, n. c., to At
lanta, Ga, which will connect with
Memphis, and ultimately with the
Pacific ocean. The Alabamians in
that vicinity are wide awake.
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OUR STOCK BEING LARGE AND COM
~ plete. purchased from manufactures and
first hands, Mt lowest hgurerS, and hippo al
cheapest freights ever known in Memphis
we are determined to offer such inducements
to the merchants of the surrounding country
rs will in future make il plainly to Their IN
terest to trade in Memphis, and with MS. IN
order that there may he no MISUNDERSTANDING
ing on this point. We say plainly that WE
WILL On SANE DATE AND WITH SANE QUAIL
ITN OF GOODS, DUPLICATE ANY CASH ORDER
FILLED ~ LOUISVILLE, C~iNCINNATI OR st.
LOUIS, transportation added.
We have now in store and to arrive:
400 pieces and half pieces Ky. Bagging F.;
1900 bundles Iron Ties, best makes ;
so casks Clear Bacon Sides;
20 casks Shoulders;
65 hhds. Louisiana Sugars f;
100 bbls. Hard Sugars A.;
IS tcs. S. C. Hams;
300 kegs Leaf Lard A;
400 cases Caddy Lard
rs tierCes Lard;
$50 sacks Fair to Choice Coffee
so pockets lava Coffee
200 cases I and 2 pound oysters
200 kegs Nails;
100 boxes Candles ;
100 half boxes Candles 4;
100 %One-quarter boxes Candies ;
100 boxes Pearl Starch {;
100 boxes Y. E. and B. E. Soap
GOO bags assorted Shot
200 barrels SuperiHe Flour
$50 barrels Xxx and Xxx Flour
IS barrels Fancy Brands Flour f;
so barrels Golden Flake FlOur---our
W brand, and the best Flour in
market.
200 barrels X. D. Meal;
100 barrels and half barrels Whisky;
rs barrels Bourbon and Rye
100 caddies Bright IA Tobacco
rs boxes Tobacco
100 kegs choice MOIasses;
rs barrels and half barrels MoEasses f;
800 barrels Kanawha Salt, Etc.. Etc. Etc.
An Inspection Of our stock and prices will
be to the advantage of l. CLOSE CASH OR
lime BUYERS, aud we cordially in
wife ali such TO give u>u call.
Rs Orders by mail Will always secure our
prompt attention.
T00F, PHILLIPS & CO,
aul5 268 Front Street.
n. HILL. N,FONTAINE
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THERE is nothing in a name and ii
may or may not be true that democ-
racy would sound as sweetly by any
other designation. To this assertion
intelligence assents, anfyet there is a
mighty multitude which would be
lost to democratic strength if the
name were obliterated from the
record of current events. If this
party seeks to reproduce a union OF
Of cOequal States and recognizes and
obeys the Constitution, now shame
leSsly defed by a central power,
which does not hesitate to interfere
even in State elections, if such a party
still have power and indestructible
existence, why should we who most
need its h%enefactiOns find fault with
its name? To assert the ~nOn-eXist-
ence Of the Democratic party is to
deny hope to the country. SEYMOUR,
in 1868, received a million more votes
than BUCHANAN in 1856, and nearly
half a million more than LINCOLN in
1864. If Radicalism had not destroyed
States, and the South had been
deemed a part of the Union, the Fed
eral Democratic vote of last year
would have been more than a million
and quarter greater than ever be-
fore in American political history.
We can discern in the present cOndi-
fion of parties no signs of the dissOlu-
ton of that organization, to which
the country must finally owe its re-
demption from the mad excuses OF
Radicalism. On the contrary, Demo-
cratic theories of American organic
law are each day more and more pOpu-
larized, and we are inclined to believe
that the extinction of this party at
this juncture would be the signal for
the overthrow of the last living prin-
ciple Of American freedom.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY. 1869



SOUTH MEMPHIS. No. lls-meets ID Friday of
each "month-Hall cor. Madison and Second.
A j. Wheeler, w. NJ: Ben. X. Pullen, Sec.
ANGERONA. No. lGS-meets lst Monday in eV-
cry month, at Odd-FelloWs' Hall, corner
Court and Main. John Zeut, W. NJ; John
BeamiSh, Secretary.
LEILA SCOTT No. sg-meets LIST Friday OF each
month-Hall corner Madison and Second.
r. W. Mitchell, w. NJ; S. Sturm, Sec.
DESOTo, No. 99-meets Sd Friday OF each
neutrality-suspicious. Hall. r.. NJ. Stanley,
w. NJ; X. w. Shelton, Sec.
KHwINNING, No. 34l-meets 4th Friday of
each month-at south Memphis Hall, cor
ner of Madison and Second. John Ainslie,
w. NJ; B. K. Pullen, Sec,
ROYAL ARCH.
PENN CHAPTER, No. 2-meets % Monday of
each Observation-Disclosures Hall. ID. {. Ira
der, NJ. F.. II. r; G. @. Locke, Sec.
r. n 8. /.
EUREKA COUNCIL, No -meets Sd Monday of
each Observation-Disclosures Hall. John Gent,
Tn Ill; n. J. Wiggin, Rec.
TEMPLARs.
CYRENE C-OMMANDERY, No. Emeets 4th Mon
day of each month. John Gent, Com; n. j.
WigpiQ. Rec.
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SOUTHERN HOME o
FOR YOUNG LADIES.

Nos. Is7 and is9 N. Charles Street, Baltimore,
Maryland.
ESTABLISHED In 1872. Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
~ son NJ. Cary and Mrs. Gen. John Pegram,
Principals, assisted by s full corps of able In
structOrs. Duties resumed on September 9th.
French Is the Language of the school,. No
pains are spared to render this Institution
deserving of the very liberal encouragement
IL has ever received from the southern peO-
for patronage.
For circulars containing full information,
address either Ofthe Principals, as above. jyH
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"A WASHINGTON correspondent OF
the Baltimore Sun says the real object
of STOKES visit to Washington turns
out to be to /" effect some combination
by which his and Mr.. ARNELLs Con-
gressional districts may be so gerry
wandered for the fOrty-second Con-
gress that they may be again re-
turned.v If it cannot be done by the
gerrymander it is to be done by
throwing out votes on pretence of
frauds. Another correspondent states
that STOKES is preparing an argu-
ment to show that Gen. GRANT should
call an extra session of Congress to
8" consider the affairs of Virginia and
Tennessee" As to Tennessee the
correspondent says STOKES has failed
to convince the prominent Radicals
of Washington as to the right of the
Congress to interfere. A correspond
ent of the Baltimore Gazette says
STOKES presents ~squarely an issue to
the Cabinet, and claims that Tennes-
see is still in a state of pupilage to
Congress-that its admission into the
Union was contingent" on future
good behavior and loyalty-meaning
loyalty to the Radical party. 1t is
thought this effort of STOKES ac-
counts for the presence of Gov. SEN
TER at the capital, and that he has
been sent to counterfeit it. Such is
the importance alta ched to the move
ment of Stokes. The same cores
pendent says:
Ever since it has been made clear that
the reconstructed States cannot be re-
lied upon to vote the Radical ticket much
longer, profound thinkers have antici-
pated a movement of the kind now prom
inently brought into notice by Stokes.
The action of the Senate in respect to
Georgia is mainly relied upon by the ex-
tremists as a rod to be held over Grants
head. 1t is known he will follow the lead
of Congress. The attempt now made is to
induce him to anticipate it by the replac-
ing of Tennessee under military rule. In
a few days momentous questions will be
decided. Every N is on the qui riUe!'
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In future no boys will be admitted. A bill for
the the Incorporation OF the school will be in
troduced at the next meeting of the Legisla-
ture, when an opportunity Of pursuing a col
legtate course VIII be offered to those DESTROYS
of embracing il. For circulars apply at book
stores, or lO5 Monroe street. augl2
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 3. 1863
~NEHlSPAPER SALES.

On the 3lst of March last, the closing
day of what newspaper men all concede
10 be the busiest quarter Of the year, re-
turns were made by the several newspa-
per concerns of this city, showing the fol
lowing result:
y
Avalanche 1906 OF
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A.. AND A.. SCOTTISH RITE.

HERMES y MTTHRAs Lodges meet inO
junction Attn Wednesday in every moe
r. Mellersh, Secretary.
CAsPHLA Q OF PRINCES OF JERUSALEM,
18th, No. ben. X. Pullen, 32d, Tarsh..i A.
Z. FARMLAND, 3d., Recorder.
CALVARY CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIx, 18th, No.
L Charles W. Adams, SD, NJ. W.; Ii.
TOmlinson, sd, Sec.
PHILIPPE UPLEssEIs COUNCIL OF XII, 30th,
No. l. Henry p. Woodward, Sd, Comm;
William u. CirOde, 32d, Rec.
CoNsIsToRY IF WEST TENNESSEE, BID. John
Ainslie, 3d., Comm. in Chief; Dodge c.
Trader, SD, Reg
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THE Fall Session of this w~ell-known In
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Monday. the 18th Day of September Next.

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