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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13
FROM MEMPHIS.
Stnbbing Affair.

MEMPHIS, Feb. IA printer named John
Brown, engaged in the Avalanche Office, was found
this morning, about day light, near the corner of
Second and Jefferson streets, fearfully stabbed.
he refuses to disclose the name of his assailant,
but the police have arrested VIM. Mullins, another
printer, on strong circumstsntal evidence.
Brown is in critical condition. Mullins was
sent to jail to await the result of Browns injuries.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13

THE TEETH's SALvATIoN.-The interior bark of
the soap tree of Chill is admitted by botanists to
possess cleansing and preservative qualities un-
shared by any other known substance. Its native
name, outlay, ia from q1iUiGB, TO make clean.
This matchless antiseptc is main constituent of
the famous preparation for the teeth known as
Sozodont, which has long since taken the lead Of
every other article of its class throughout the
Western hemisphere.
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The chief of police in St. Louis has letter be-
fore him from indignant wife in Illinois. II is
dated January 2Sth, and begins assfollows:
TO the Chief Of Police, St. Louis:
RESPECTED Sir am riting To you for informa-
ton Concerning my husband received letter
directed to him from st. Lewis from Some wo-
man that Rote to him calling him dear husband
wish you would 20 TO the - house and learn
what Right che has Calling my Husband Hern.n
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13

A young lady, who is indignant at the typo
graphical errors in her first published poem. ex-
presses herself as follows:
81 wish had that editor about half minute
I'd bang him to his hearts content, and with an
hbeginit;
I'd jam his body,reyes, and bores, and spell it
with o d,
And send him to that hM of his-He spells it
with an e.n
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FROM EUROPE.
Honors Co the Cortes.

MADRID, Feb. l2.-The city is profusely orna-
mented in honor Of the assembling of the c0rtes.
Serrsno delivered congratulatory address.
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New York prices for the celebrated Grover q
Baker sewing machines, and no charge forfreight.
Machine warranted for five years. Only machine
ft for families. ls2 Canal street.
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FROM COLUMBIA, 9. c.


COLUMBIA, 8. c.. Feb. l2.-An act to enforce
the provisions of the civil rights bill was passed
by the General Assembly to-day.
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FROM ATLANTA.
The Georgia Legislature.

ATLANTA, Feb. l2.-The Georgia Legislature
to-day passed, almost unanimously, a resolution to
elect representatives to Congress on first Monday
in April.
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Ladies and children attending the matinee at
the Academy to-day can get cool drinks at five
cents per glass, and other refreshments in pro.
portion.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13

Buy the only sewing machine fit for family use.
the Grover & Baker. Warranted for five years.
Quilter, braider and hemmer given with each ma
chine at l62 Canal street.
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r. Pierce. Sailed: Steamships Saxonia and
Clinton and ship Caledonia.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13

MAGNoLIA WATER.-Superior to the best i'm
ported German Cologne, and sold at half the price.
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Victims Of the Disaster from New
Orleans.
BOAT AND CARGO A TOTAL LOSS.
The Survivors at Jefferson

JEFFERSON, Texas. Feb. l2.-The steamer Mittie
Stephens was burned in Caddo Lake, last night at
midnight. Sixty-three lives lost, among them
Mr.. W. A. Broadwell and Mrs. 8. L. Lyon and her
son Frsak, of New Orleans
The Survivors, forty-three In number, arrived
here by the steamer Dixie this evening.
Boat and cargo are total loss.
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The'tsnate Committee on the English
Naturalization Treaty.
THEY'RE SIX TO ONE AGAINST THE ALABAMA
& TREATY.
S0UnHERN RAILROAD sUBsIDlZING
4 BILLS.
SSESsIPPI NOT TO BE ADMITTED
~ THIS SESSION.
GeneiM Longstreet Said to be After the
s New Orleans Collectorship.

asCa Dispatch to the New Orleans crescentI
WksYNGroN, d. c., Feb. 12-The Senate com.
mitteeSn foreign relations have agreed to report
favofsfcy on the English naturalization treaty
They Ne six against to one for the Alabama
treaty.
Sous Urn members continue to present Southern
railroaS S%subsdizing bills.
Thef4i no probability of admission OF Missis
sippi pls session. g
Gem Jongstreet is in the city, and is said to be
an aTTsicant for the collectorship of New Or.
'''''' DELTA
FRCM JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
TERRIBte olsMTER-BuRNlNG OF THE STEAMER
J. MITTlE STEPHENS.
SIXgY-THREE LIVES LOST.
\
Victims Of the Disaster from New
Orleans.
BOAT AND CARGO A TOTAL LOSS.
The Survivors at jefferson.
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W AsHINGTON.
THUREDAY'S PROCEEDINGS IN
CONGRESS.

THE SPIRIT OF THE HuUsE-BINGHAM AND BUTLER
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-02
~THF MEMPHIs DAMYAPPEAL-FRIDAY

are operatives in the woOlen faetories
two thousand make cigars; the paper
mills and paper bag factories employ
them: all the small fruit farms and
hop plantations are worked by them;
they follow the reaping machines
which cut the S17, OOO, 900 worth of
wheat which the Golden State ex-
ported last year, and they rent lands
by the acre or on shares, and carefully
tend and harvest their crops. Their
marxet gardens r unsurpassed.
Nearly all the house servants-cOoks
and men Of all work-are Chinese.
They cut the firewood, drive the
pIows, dig tie coal; make the rail
roads, wharts, canals; in fact, all
heavy. rough labor is done by China
men. Will not this kind of people be
an accession to us? Will our farmers
object TO men who will work ten hours
q day during twenty-six days in the
month, and who hold elections of all
kinds in contempt? Will our house
keepers, with visions of old time ser
wants before their eyes, say" no China
man for me?" Will our railroads re-
fuse him labor when they have in
view his example on the Pacific Rail
road? Scarcely, we think.
Twenty years ago the city of san
Francisco was a small collection of
shanties, somewhat resembling the
dilapidatedl little village of Raleigh
if Raleigh were surrounded by seve-
raj thousands tents, and had in front
of it great bay instead of Wolf river.
Now San Francisco is four times as
large as Memphis, with factories and
founderies, mills and machine shops,
hustle and stir the year round. The
resources which built San Francisco,
and are still pushing her, are not now,
and were never, equal to the re-
sources of the country tributary
to Memphis. Revoive this prOpO-
sition over and study it, for
therein is much food for reflection.
When did San Francisco commence
her rapid progress? Not whilst she
imported every article of consumption
for her population, and exported near
fifty millions of gold annually. By no
means. Then were to be seen blocks
of buildings idle and closed up, and
property was a drug. 1t is q fact that
a party erected a building on a corner
lot at the crossing of hertwo principal
streets, and a year after it wasfinished
proposed TO give the house and tot to
( any one who would pay for the build
ing of the house-the rents did not
bpay the taxes. \ steady change has
since been going on. And what has
caused that change? The WOODEN fac
tories IcOrked By ChiaaHe1l commenced
keeping money at home, then followed
one branch of manufacture after an
other; this one source was developed
and then another, until now if you
were to take your notebook and
pencil and go into a California store,
you would ascertain that a majority
of the articles would be there found of
California manufacture. There Is the
key to her great and recent pros
perity. Do we want prosperity like
that OF San Francisco and California,
or not; do we want Cinnamon or
not? The same answer applies to
each question.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-02
THE REGESTRARSHHn.

In an editorial of yesterday We sug-
gested that whatever had TO be done
by way of settlement of the difficult
ties growing out of the appointment
of Mr.. BROUGHNER Is Registrar,
should be dOnequickly. We are hap
DIV to know that the lawyers OF
BROUGHNER + acting in that spirit,
and that they have determined upor.
Immediate application to the Supreme
Court, where the point in dispute, it
is hoped, viii be settled to the salts
faction of the people, and in a way
that will relieve the Governor Of the
d~isagreeables growing out of such de-
cisions as that made by Chancellor
SMITH. These gentlemen are alive to
the fact that we have lost already very
much by the delay in registration Oc-
casioned by the contumacy of VII
LIASfs in holding on toa position OF
such high trust contrary to the will Of
the people, and in violation Of the
Governors order, based upon that
viii, and are anxious to settle it by a
decision from the Supreme Court
that win prevent litigation. and
put the matter beyond any
dispute, by locating the power in
the County Court Clerk or such APP
pointee as the Governor may make.
The shorter the time until such n de-
cision is reached the better pleased the
people of Shelby will be.
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FROM WA7ER Z

Editors Appeal: Once more, as the
old saying goes, 81 take my pen in
hand to drop you a few lines" Since
my last to you our thriving little en-
bryo city has improved to a wonder
| ful eXtent-even beyohdthe most SAN
! guine expectations of the hopeful, who
| intend to make this the ha6 of MissiS-
Sippi. Our population numbers now,
according to a recent census, over
| thirty-five hundred, or nearly four
thousand. And it is verify believed
! that in less than two years from now
we will have a population Of ten
thousand. ali told. There is one graf
flying impression mdelibly stamped
upon our mind, and that is the mer-
chants of Water Valley seem dis
posed 10 patronize your wholesale
merchants, and / verify believe they
find as good bargains from your libe-
raj minded, whole-souled business
men as can be found in the East. Our
section of country has been overrun
with drummers Tor commercial tray-
elers, rather from St. Louis, Louis
! vile, Cincinnati, etc., for the last two
months, and amongst the number /
have not seen one Memphis house
represented. Memphis is our natural
market, and she must certainly look
to her interest If she wants the trade
on the line of the Mississippi Central
Railroad, and which is open to her il
she will only make an effort. 3
The crops in this section of the State
are looking well, and the farmers have
no reason to grumble, for the "hog
and hominyp wills no doubt, be plen-
Htifll. Il have never before seen such
a large quantity Of corn and wheat
planted In our State. Experience
is asdear SCHOOL, and our farmers
have at last aroused themselves TO the
fact that they must rely upon them
selves before they can become indie
pendent. There is not near thennm-
her of acres planted ia cotton that was
last year, and the cotton buyer and
speeulatOr must lower the figures
when they estimate the present crop
att 5000 bales.
Last Thursday (the 24th) was a gala
day In our town. The Masonic fra
ternity celebrated st. Johns day in
grand style. There were no less than
six thousand people in attendance. A
regular 0ld-fashioned barbecue was
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r

The immigrants into the United
States, for the thirteen years preceding
January 1st, 1859, according to the
report of the Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics, amount in number to $685.
644 souls. The nationalities of these
immigrants are as follows, the less
important countries being omitted:
Great Britain division not specified,
40, 0l8; Ireland, J60,831; England,
1916; Scotland, 25,S29; Wales 57J6;
making a total from Great Britain, OF
l,215,6OO; Germany division not
specified SF5,479; Prussia, 64,355;
Holland, lL,205; Belgium, SOB; Aus
tria, 1592-making a total of $780, $40;
British America, los, 53I; China, o.
9t3; Sweden and Norway, $3.50;
France, 1855; Switzerland, 24,539;
Denmark, 13,O43; Italy, 1881; Spain,
1880; West indies Islands not speci-
fied,) $3.50; Azores, ass; Mexico,
335l; Poland, 1890; Portugal, 200O.
The occupations OF the Immigrants
were as follows: IabOrers, 515,37;
farmers, 264,949; mechanics, 1885, O3;
merchants, 3S,214; miners, z1,41i;
servants, 6S,G2s; mariners, N,9SS;
clerks, 1864; bakers, $3.50; butchers,
1858; seamstresSes and milliners, $40;
physicians, 3736; artists, 1861; clergy
men, 1922; weavcrs and spinners,
1866; t%ailors, Psi; shoemakers, 2l2S;
lawyers, 1912; manufacturers, 1896;
engineers, 1915; teachers, 500; masOns,
799; millers, 497; musicians, $50;
actors, 37S; painters, 1868; printers Pa;
matters, 2G; all other occupations,
1884; occupations not specified 1902
All.
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STATE ELYANCES.

The Nashville Banner of Nednes-
day states that Comptroller BLACK
BURNE says, "some of the railroads
in West Tennessee, heavilT indebted
to the State in the way of bonds
loaned them, and which it was at
first thought would not pay any Of the
Julyinterest this year, have expressed
a determination 10 come forward and
Iiquidate the interest claims against
them. The different railroads Of the
State viii be indebted for interest on
the 1st of July, the round sum OF
s450, 200. The Comptroller has assu-
RANGES Of getting a considerable pOr-
ton of this pretty promptly, and
thinks that the whole amount will be
paid in by fall, With this view Of the
case, the State finances certainly look
more hopeful, and the State authors
ties think eur bonds will go up under
the improved aspect Of affairs"
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as they do, an act unjust in ITSELF serviie
TO 4 foreign monarchy, and unprovokedi
bsAany Fiolation-of your laws on-HsS
part"
r. NJ. T.. Hunter has come in a
letter fsvoring the election of Wa as
Governor of Virginia over Wells, { he
ground of lesser evil being lp~referablSSo
2 greater. Hunter himself has no vote.
Mr.. Georro Zones, with whom the
management Of the New York Times has
long been vested rs publisher, succeeds 70
tina, RESPONSIBILITIES which he so iong
shared with Mr.. Raymond, and no new
editor will be called to the sl2ccessien az
present.. &c ~ ~ ~
When the President was in New
York ~recently, he spent Saturday evening
siobF2seeiur a iNfblo's theater, and study
ing what Olive Logan calls the "Nude
Woman question" while on sunday ne
.delIned to attend divine services st any
Of the churches.
Mr.. A. H. HalloWell, recently of
Kansas City, has purchased sri interest in
the St. Joseph Herald. and hereafter, in
association with Major Blttinger, Will con-
duct what has heretofore been considered
one of our best Missouri exchanges. g 4.
The President has positively de-
cllueQ TO interfere IN the case OF the sen
tenee OF Weaver, who wa tried by a mill
tarT commission for murder iu Texas and
sentenced to be hung. The point in this
case is that il is the first one where a sem
tence of death resulted from the enforce
meat of that section of the reconstruction
law providing for trial by military COM
mission of citizens Of unrecODstructed
STATES. The President say that the rec
ord was carefully examined and the SEN
tence approved by him, and he now re-
fuses TO reconsider the same.
The election in Virginia takes place
a week from tomorrow. The latest infor-
NATION IS that thereis no longer the least
doubt that the Walker ticket viii be
elected by a heavy majority. Lewis Nc
KeIlzie, Conservative, will be chosen 10
Congress from the Alexandria district by
q majority of four or five thousand. Al
dissensions among the Conservatives Of
that district have ceased. The ConsCrva-
tive candidates for the Legislature who
are unable 20 take the test-oath Will not
on that account be Withdrawn, as nj APP
! prehension whatever is entert aimed that
| Grant or Sherman will sustain Gen. CSn-
by's view that such an oathis Necessary
as s. prerequisite 10 membership in the
STATE Legislature.
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49, cHLNESE orESTIOI

A4AL HLAAAfLAEH tA@'L ~
In our issue of to-day will be found
an address from the Committee APP
pointed by the late meeting, which
earnestly urges our planters and 9TH
ers to meet together in this city, on
the 18th inst, for the purpose Of con-
sidering the question Of the i~ntrodUc-
ton Of Chinese labOrers. We are
promised the presence Of q prominent
Chinese importer from San Francisco,
who will be prepared to tell ms exactly
what We have to expect. The matter
Is now coming 10 q bushes focus,
where We have long wished 10 see it.
1t win be the part of wisdom for our
planters from far and near to come
and acguaint themselves with the
matter in ali its bearings. The Com
vention viii doubtless be attended by
many who are practically acquainted
with the Chinaman, and Nj. KoJP-
MANsCHAPP viii he able to=ten rs the
| cost.
German TO this matter, the Phila-
delphia EaYHirer, in speaking OF the
meeting then-t0- De held here on
"Wednesday hast, Says The Tennes-
"seeans should consider this question
" in all its bearings. IL they provide
" themselves with Chinese, win they
treat them after the name of the
" Californians; or viii they regard
" them as they do their present white
" and colored Iaborers? The China
I" labor question is a knotty one, and.
"we earnestly hope that the West
"Tennesseeans Ia convention asserh-
{" Bled WIN render II less intricate ard
" perplexing."
We answer for the Tennesseeans,
and all the South, that they
win not treat the Cinnamon as they
are treated in California. we WIFI
impose upon them nc. onerous or une-
quail taxation as is done there. We
will not drive them from places OF
Christian worship, should they there
assemble, as was lately done at San
Jose in that State. on the contrary,
We stand prepared to say that tho
people Of the South will protect their
in all their just rights seeing that
they are not abused or maltreated by
any one.
We cannot see why the China labor
question should be a knottyone. We
know that the Chinaman will work
and work wen, and for moderate
wages. We furtber know that We
are in want Of just suchsa man, who
we can and will pay, Thus both par
ties being satisfied, we cannot see why
there should be hnydiaieulty.
Some months since Our attention
was called to an article In the 0seTl
t0nd AoaAtkg on the subject OF the
Chinese 1t was stated that an an
some 9 $1,000 of thee people are en-
pioyedfn California. IaFive hundred
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will yield a new and vast addition to
our Commerce inamaking Memphis a
tobacco market, rivaling the best in
the country. Dyer and 0bion coun-
ties, and the western counties Of Ken
lucky to be penetrated by the Missis-
sippi Road, are heavy tobacco grow
ing counties, Dyer county alone, in
1860, growing about six hundred hogs
heads. Inquiry was started in u
Chamber of Commerce last Monday,
in regard to the Inauguration of a to-
bacco market in Memphis. The way
to secure this most desirable addition
TO our city's trade is to push forward
the Mississippi River Road to early
completion. We will have a tobacco
market, then, perpetually.
We need not dwell on the impOr-
lance Of this road to Memphis in re-
gaining the great travel of the North
west seeking the South, which so long
has swept around us by the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, fifty miles to the
East. We will gain and keep forever
through Memphis nearly all the North
and South travel of the Mississippi
Valley, as soon as the Mississippi
River Railroad reaches Cairo, its char
tered terminus.
Have we not occasion, then, 10 re-
ioice ia Mr.. MITCHELL's success?
Have we not all reason to sustain him
witha general support, who has shown
himself so skillfu1 and able in sustain
ing himself in the great work he I'M
dertook to do for our city? Let it al
ways be remembered to the credit OF
the Shelby County Commissioners
that they were the first to back the
Mississippi River Road by a hearty
support, which gave it the prestige Of
a success now so nearly realized.
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served up, and appreciated by thsI
large crowd in attendance. A novel
feature in the procession was at least
fifty Knights emplar on horseback,
in full regalia, who CREATED quito g
sensation. THE days exercises wouhd
up with a grand bali, and the Light
fantastic" was kept up until sunrise
next morning. / was sorry, indeed,
that Memphis was not represented on
the occasion, for ] am satisfied that
her Representatives would have left
with, pleasing reeOlleeti0ns, if not
"smittenV by the winning smile oi
Water Valleys beautiful girls. Such
q time has never before been witnessed
in our town. ED. A. u.
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rOlUyr TO TT

The Nashville Press and Times OF
Wednesday says a rumor has reached
lit, from reliable "and confidential
sources, that STOKES intends, after
getting through with his East Tennes-
see canvass, to abandon all his former
positions, and profess to come out
squarely for an Immediate COnyen-
ton to revise the Constitution with
out regard to the regular and legal
forms. This is the revolutionary pro-
gramme to which desperation has
driven the Bald Eagle -.
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FYpJ4NATyOy

Col. GRIsHEM, Editor of the Stat,
Journal, denies tnat he wrote the ar
ticle published in the Jonesboro Er.
press, of January %, 1868, Ia which
Union men of East Tennessee were
denounced as "tories." He says the
"article was written by Capt. HARVEY
G. ROBINSON, a Confederate Quarter,
masters" that "at the very time the
article was published he was at the
head of a company Of recruits for tho
Federal army" and that he is able to
make the proof of these facts.