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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

IT has been the immemOrial usage
and practice, with a common consent
Of all parties of the country, to make
the taxation and burden of tariffs fall
on capital as much, and on necessaries
of life and the poor, as little as posi-
bic. Accordingly, everywhere silks,
laces, carriages, jewelry, wines and
every article of luxury have been
taxed heaviest, and coarse fabrics,
clothing and breadstuffs, and other
things of prime necessity, least. 1t is
humane legislation thus to make the
burdens of government fall heaviest
on those most able to bear them. 1t
is wise thus to discourage, and make
luxurious and wasteful living expen-
sive, and to hold up the hands of in
dustry. But how does such a princi-
pie agree with the absolute exemption
from taxation of two thousand mil
lions of bonds Of the country, repre-
senting so much money and property?
Must not other property and other
citizens make up what the favored
few are exempt from paying? Is there
fairness enough to amount to common
honesty III Legislation which thus takes
the,mOney of the people and gives it
to the spectators, and weighs down
the poor with burdens which the mil
liOnaire bondOcrats need not touch
with One of their fingers? Such are
the times-such the abuses of Radical
government.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

THE Pittsburg Dispatch vindicates
President GRANT from what it calls
the " Infamous attempt of the spite
ful Sun" to connect him with the
gold operations Of Wall street. The
gist of the defense is that sit it shall
turn out that FISK, Jr., GOULD and
CoRBIN, are liars and swindlers. and
that CoRBIN Over-estimated his infu-
enee with his Presidential brother-in-
law then it will be evident that
GRANT had nothing to do with Cor
BINS operatiOnsl What logical Sc
quence! How Inevitable the conclu-
sion that if GRANTS brother in Chi
cagO, his father, the DENTS, and most
of his relatives, with Wall street ma
hipulators, are operating and selling
their influence to the highest bidder.
that ULYSSES must be the only hon
est n among them! Whether
GRANT and BOUTWELL, are operating
the one-man money power for private
advantage is not likelyto appear from
positive proof. We only know the
fact that they have the opportunity
to do it. But when such things are
done, a man not known to be much
better than his relations, viii require
to relieve him of suspicion, some bet
ter proof than that he has such rela-
tiOns.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

IT is not by any necessity, but by a
corrupt use of power, that it costs US
three times as much to carry on the
Government as it used to do. The
fact that we owe a great var debt and
great State debts should make us more
economical instead of more extrava-
CANT. And yet we are spending mil
lions to fatten officials, as if they We're
the country. They have put a tax of
a hundred per cent. on every house
and lot, bale OfcottOn, hogshead of to-
bacco, barrel of -four and suit of
clothes in the land, beyond what is
necessary for economical administra-
ton ofthe State and national govern
ments, and Tor the payment of the
public debt. And this tax the people,
working men, poor men, have to pay
by the sweat of their brows. They
pay it in the increased and doubled
prices of everything they buy, and
while Wall street carries on its gold
swindles, Washington officials grow
rich, bOndOcrat mobiles ride in gilded
carriages, and State and county officers
pocket their twenty and thirty thous-
and a year! Yet the industrious
pay the taxes, and the million
aise bOndholders, controlling all the
money of the country, go untaxed!
Such are the blessings Of Radical rule,
of which negroism is the crowning
victory.
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COMMERCIAL AGENCY.
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TNHE undersigned hereby respectfully no.
THY their subscribers and the merchants
OF Memphis, generally, that the have ap-
pointed Mir. W. G. MATTHEWS manager ot
their Branch at this point. Mr.. Matthews
experience and acquaintance with the busi-
ness in other localities viii guarantee to sub
scribers strict, thorough and prompt attention
to their wants.
Especial attention viii be given 10 the col.
lection of past due claims, or the address OF
earefulIy selected Attorneys Will he urnish
ed where parties prefer doing their own cor
r~espondence.
A Reference Book, containing the names
and commercial rating of nearly every bust
ness man in the United States and british
Provinces tower C0l,00 names,1 is issued semi
annually-anuary and JHly-for the use Of
subscribers; the ratings based upon the eIab-
CRATE details which their Office records furn-
tsh, are by far the most reliable and carefully
made of any work of the kind.
This agency was originally established in
1871 II has ranches in every important CITY
IN the United states aud Canada, and also in
London, England, and its large and constant.
Iy grOwfng influence, Notwithstanding many
efforts TO initiate il by others, is the best evil
denee that can be given of its equitable prin-
clples and It's useful operations. II is, EN-
phatieally, designed for the q promotion and
protection of trade"
Terms of subscription viii be made known
on application to the Office, corner Main and
Madison streets. Il. DUN Co
MEMPHIS, October Z, 1869. oc7
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TODAY is the day of the COnven-
ton OF those interested in the Mem
phis, Springfield and Kansas City
Railroad. Delegations representing
the counties and towns along the line
of the road, the steamboat interests,
city OF New Orleans and ocean ship
ping interests, railroads, etc, have
been invited, and are expected to be
present, some of whom we under
stand r already on the ground.
This is a matter, as affecting this city,
second in Importance to no enterprise
hitherto suggested or entered upon.
We hope to see a full attendance, and
efficient action corresponding to the
important call. The Convention
meets at II O'Clock at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

WE learn that the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen have rescinded their
previous action relative to a sale of
the Little Rock Railroad stock to
MAHAN, and have determined on
taking instead Il new proposition pur-
porting to be made in the interest of
FREMoNT's Memphis and FL Paso
Railroad. Instead of selling, they are
now to hypOthecate the bonds for a
loan of $4,000. And we are informed
that they retain no guarantee that the
road will be completed at all! We
protest against such an arrangement
as this as suicidal folly. We should
be glad to retain the stock for the pur-
pose of future control, when white
mans government may make il
worth something to as to have con-
troll. But we would rather give away
this stock, and have the road COM
pleted within nine months, than to
get a hundred thousand dollars for it
without any assurance that it will be
built at all. We hope our Board of
Aldermen have not all gone quite
crazy. After permitting a sale of the
e~ngine-hOuse we understand they
had ten days offered to then in
which TO redeem it, and that
they have let the time run by, and
paid $4,000 to get back what was sold
for 1000. And all this, too, when
MAHAN's 100000 was rendered for
their choice, and within their grasp!
Eight thousand dollars is something
to lose in a single week, and $500 0 |
is still more, and the Railroad not
built is even more than that. The
stock will be redeemed. Our
rate of ~financiering at $4,000 a week
does not allow of any such luxuries. |
And it is rather bad if the Roadis gone
too, and not secured to be built. Be
we are further told that the city
will get only ten thousand of the fifty
thousand TO be gained by the pro
posed hypOthecatiOn, that Mr.. DAVIS, |
of the First National Bank, holds the
by injunction 50 that to be re-
$4,000 of the money must be
paid over TO him before the stock will
be handed over And the city will
get ten thousand dollars at last, or
enough to cover the expenses of all
these transactions and get the money
lost on the Engine house back into
bargain! This process of finan-
strikes us as rather cover the
Nevertheless, if the Aldermen
viii contrive to vote us back the in
crest on the money they have spent
or us, we may be able to get along.
Railroads, engine-houses, Nicolson
1avements, and a few millions in
Indebtedness, are no great
Kings any way to men who have no
axes to pay, and only salaries and
requisites to reap. All the rest went
Ong ago. {
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

THE Philadelphia Age is sanguine
of the result to-day, and says that a
full Democratic vote will render vic
tory sure. 1t says: 1.-THE people of
" Pennsylvania feel certain that they
"have been deceived by the promises
"Of the Radical party, that has failed
bitterly, absolutely, to keep one
tenth of its promises, or perform
/" one single act of legislation to re-
"lieve them from the burdensOme
d" taxation which they carry. The
democrats can carry the State by
twenty thousand majority, and they
are determined TO do So" 1t aE
firms that the Radical rings have
their price, that there is no disguise
about the sale of votes, that immense
frauds may be anticipated, and that a
Democratic majority in the Legisla-
ture will save thousands to the tax
payers. boutwell,, who advised
Tennesseeans as to their duty to elect
STOKES, has the impudence, while
Secretary of the Treasury, to mount
the stump in Pennsylvania and de-
liver a partisan harrangue. Money
flows like water in the Radical inter-
est. But the news indicates a Demo-
cratic triumph, nevertheless.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

THE continuance of Radical rule in
State and national affairs will be fully
assured by the accomplishment of
what the Republican papers call the
"crowning victory" in universal
amnesty and universal suffrage
which means universal liberty to be
taxed and plundered, and universal
enjoyment of the blessings Of negro
rule. Corruption prevails at Wash
ington, and negro rule and suffrage
will perpetuate it there and here. The
only chance for prosperity is in blot
ting out these diabOlisms. Ignorance
and vice never bore sway over a pros
porous country. When votes can be
bought and cajoled, and mObs of ire
sponsible barbarians be led by shar-
pers and rOgues of another color 10
the polls, and controlled according to
their will, capable men win not get
down in the dirt to solicit suffrage.
and win fly from the political arena
as from the region of a p~estilence.
Under such circumstances the selee-
ton of good officers and the enjoy
ment of i~ife-giving administration of
public affairs is impossible. Concede
negro suffrage, and you have taken a
step toward anarchy. Make it a
ss0A
house
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

THE State elections in PennsyIva-
MIA, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Ne
braska take place on the 18th of
October, to-day. West Virginia holds
her election on the 23d prox. These
are the most important elections that
occur during the month of October.
The elections in New York, New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Edost of
the Western States, together with Ar
kansas, louisiana, Alabama and
Florida, take place in the early part
of November, South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Texas closing up the list
for the fall campaign.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

living fact, embodied in your Constitu-
ton, and you ring the death knell of
Liberty. DespOtism is near by, when
there is no longer a restriction on the
suffrage, and every biped becomes a
sovereign! We have had quite a sur
felt in the experience of negro voting
in Tennessee. The effect has been a
mountain of taxation, immense plum
der. unbounded decentralization! 1t
is not even expected that men elected
by negro votes, will be commonly
honest! That is the situation in Ten
nessee, the result of negroism. AT
Washington, the great head center
from whence negroism emenates, says
the Philadelphia Age, corruption
I" has fastened its fangs upon the ma
" tional government, and official IA
"vors are bought and sold in the
"most open and unblushing manner.
/" One man accepts houses and horses,
{" another an interest in some gigan-
" tie swindle which meets the sanction
"of Congress, while still another
"name their price in advance, and
4" pocket the g~reenbacks as a butcher
takes pay for meat. This subject
"was thus alluded to by the Wash
" ingtOn correspondent of the Balti-
8 more Gdzeste in a recent number of
4" that paper:
"The dispensation of the patronage of
every description, appointments to office,
giving out contracts, are all made sources
of income. The head of one of the most
important bureaus has his son with him,
who holds no position, and vet he is as
regular in attendance at the office as any
of The employees. All applicants for office
in this department find it necessary to Sc
cure the influence of this young man to
insure success. 1t is remarkable, too,
that none are successful who neglect to
see him pending their application. give
this case as an illustration of the practice
prevails in every department and ev-
cry bureau, except the war and navy; in
all there are just such I" middlemen."
These men receive the fees, and, of course,
Thus we find men in Office with
a salary OfS3000 "A year, and who were poor
WucH lACy bHttACu GpOu ls uull6S. living
at the rate of six or eight thousand, and
at the END of three or -four years erecting
a magnificent dwelling at a cost of
or So 900, for which they
pay cash. These facts are notorious; they |
are not hidden under a busheI, but bra |
zenly confront you at every turn. The
5ane system prevails at the other end Of
The capital Senators and representa- |
lives nave their agents; and when an
American citizen come here on business
before Congress- or with a recommends |
ion for official position, as Don as his
is known land there are always
parties at the hotels on the lookout he is |
advised to see Mr.. So-and-sO, who has I'M |
United influence with the Senator or
representative whose services it is i'm
Dortant to secure. The party is seen, an
arrangement is made, an interview is Sc
'ured, and ifthe job pays Well the citi-
accomplished his purpose. Butifnot /
.fter much delay, and the using up of all
lis available casiG, he leaves Washington,
the town, the people, and particu-
arly the 'Philistines,' into whose hands
10 fell"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-12

THE same Judge WILLIAMS, who
has attempted by a letter in the news
papers TO bring about the disfranchise-
ment Of thousands of citizens of Penn
sylvania natHralized last October, has
lately refused to hold his court for the
naturalization of foreigners, and prac-
tically carries out the Know Nothing
game, which in its time was emphat-
ically condemned by the country.
Even soldiers, to whom the law ac-
cords the final papers without any
declaration of intention, are excluded
with the rest.
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THE Pennsylvania and Ohio elee.
tions take place to-day. The New
York Herald said a few days ago:
Getting clOuded-GEARY's chances
for carrying Pennsylvania" The
Democratic press is sanguine PACKER
will be elected. In Ohio, PENDLE-
TONS election is spoken Of as safe,
with excellent chances for carrying
the Legislature. a Democratic vie
tory in those two States will have a
large influence on Congress and the
Pounfrv
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STORAGE FOR COTTON.
UNDERWRITERS WAREHOUSES.

TTNDERwRITERs WAREHOUSES.
~ MEMPHIS, September lG. 1865.
MERCHANTS Observation-Disclosures: The
above Houses ale now open to receive and
buyer viii be given. To my old patrons I re-
turn you my thanks: for the future, 1 refer
you 70 the past long experience IN the busI-
ness. l hope to merit your patronage.
Sc Safety, capacity and convenience une-
qnaied, Rates same as first-class houses.
sell A. {. WHITFORD.
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
To Cotton Planters & Stock Raisera

THE Memphis OH Company wish to pur-
Il chase, during nex fall n winter, a
viii pay the market price, furnish sacks. and
have Seed correctly weighed on their large
friends net to store their Seed IN large nuon-
titles and thereby have their value DESTROYED
or injured by HEATING. Planters who wish
70 make contracts for delivery of Seed will
please call al OH Work, Center Landing.
THY, WI
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-ATHs AND SHAVED SHINGLES

Particular attention given to the shipment
of Lumber. Orders solicited.
30 Mills and Lumber Yard on Wolf River.
north OF Bayou GayosO.
se5 a 6. NJ. VENARLE.
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~ I'M ~ AAtLIdNGE
A 5000 Mississippi Plantation for a city
IA residence OF equal value.
Also, "A sl2,5O0 Mississippi Cotton Plantation
for city property or merchandise.
Also, Arkansas Land and $500 cash for a
small farm near city, on railroad.
Also, City Lots aud Land for an assorted
stock of merchandise.
Also, m,OOO acres Arkansas Lands for mer-
~chandise, or city property.
Also, suburban Improved Property and
cash for a 1lrst-class city residence. rs
Also, select unimproved 10 acre Suburban
Property for a FIRST class Mississippi River
Plantation.
Also, sl6V0 Yankee Notions and Millinery
for a small improved farm.
Also, Merchandise for a small farm on rail
road
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LUMBER, LATHS AND SHINGLES.
Laths and Shingles.

HAVE now on hand, and am CONSTANT
4 saving, a full stock OF Building Lumber.
q all dimensions; stills, Joists, Studding
Posts, Boards OF all lengths, and clear LuIn-
Der; also, "a large stock Of
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NEHSPAPER SAFES.

On the Slst of March last, the closing
day Of what newspaper men ali concede
TO 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:
A Volauoba AsnS ~
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CLOTHING
FURNISHING GOODS,
TRUNKS,
BAGS AND VALISES,
26l MAIN STREET.
FURNISHING GOODS.


WE now have ready for inspection of
w our friends, a " NEW FALL STOCK"
consisting of
Brown and Blue Beaver walking Coat Suits
DahIla and Green Beaver Z" I"
Blue and Brown TriehOt #"
Brown and Gray ehevIOt
DahIis and Gray English Melton Walking
Coat Suits,
English Fustian and veIVeteen Walking
Coat Suits,
Silk Mixtures of every Style and Price.
~ All carefully manufactured of the.
choicest materials, and of the latest styles.
Also, a fine stock of Furnishing Goods,
Shirts, Undershirts, Drawers, Socks,
Linen and Silk Handkerchiefs, Scarfs,
Ties and Gloves.
2S1 MAIN STREET, Il
Opposite Court Square, Memphis, Tenn.
ocl0
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n MdUIoUI bIItti,
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w. nitbdrawal. bg Cen. aEant.

The withdrawal, by Gen. Grant,
If his message recommending the
Fepeal Of the general lay under
which Mr.. Stewart was disqualiti-
for the Office of secretary OF the
Treasury, is a confession Of one OF
two things. It either means that
the law issa good one, and that he
was wrong to urge its repeal, or
that, though he believes the law
to be o bad one, he prefers that it
shall stand. He has evidently
boggled and wabbled very sadly
in This matter oil the treasury APP
nointment. In both the moral
and political aspect Of the affair,
he. has met with discomfeitur,e..
The latent anti-Grant element in
Congress is thus far the victor.
in the present condition Of nation.
al politics, there must be q lssttrrug.
Gle, silent or pronounced between
the executive and the legislative
authorities for the ascendant
The issue will depend on the
waioht Of popular opinion for one
side. or the other. There is little
doubt that Grant started with this
in his favor and there can be as
little doubt that he has lost ground
in this respect by his commlunioa-
tons to Congress with reference to
the appointment of a legally dis
qualified secretary of treasury. -
Jumped together, they are apt to
provoke the imputation of both
mental weakness and moral OBJ
liquity. The latter quality popu-
| lar opinion will sometimes con-
/
done but too readily; the comb
nation ,ti Of ttbo. two it never forgiy2ess.
Grant must soon show himself. in
far different light, or Congress
will have him. completely at its
mercy and tighten the reins upon
him MINOR more "a and more, as il did up,
on johnson. To be more than q
presidential cipher, he must stoT
boggling and wobbling in. such &
way as to excite popular nisgiy,
ings AZ to his frmness or cleornes:
of purpose. ...aaa. ECresceeaqtt,