Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS READING.

AN ANCIENT CITY.-An abandoned
city with churches, fruit orchards,
groves and other evidences of former
prosperity, has been discovered in the
vicinity of ella river, on the north
ePn border of the State of Sonora.
Vast furnaces and other appliances
for extracting ores, were found on the
premises, indicating the existence in
former years of a large smelling es-
adjustment. Dates, oranges, pOme-
granates, and other fruits, unknown
in temperate climates, were found in
abundance, showing evidences Of a
superior cultivation.
EASTERN AND WESTERN ARIsTOC-
RACy.-" Boston," says a correspond
ent Of the Cincinnati Times, is full
of ancient cemeteries. On these
| grayeyards Boston a~ristocracy IS
formed, The man who has not Il
| bone or so of some bully old grand
father or great-grandGtii6r decaying
in one or two of these old colony
| buTying grounds need not expect to
| come into society here on his brains.
| Play live brains against dead bones
here, and bones are trumpS all the
while, ant they, Charles? 1t IS the
same a~ristOcracy we have out West,
with a difference of foundation. This
is built on graveyards; that on
slaughter-pens and stillhOuses. The
one gG6s back to dead ancestors; the
other to dead hCes The II rests on
spirits Of big men macs perfect; the
other on spirits Distilled
RTTUALISN AND LUNACX. - The.
ease of Caroline G. Allen now before
Judge CardOza, of the New York
Supreme Court, is one of extreme in
terest to churchmen. This lady was
declared q lunatic some three years
ago, in Waterloo, New York State,
and has ever since been an inmate Of
the BloOmingdale Lunatic Asylum.
1t was denied at the time that the
~rituatistic charges IL the Episcopal
Church has considerably affected her
mind, so that her incarceration in the
asylum became necessary. In the
petition now before the Judge, she
claims her liberty and the right to her
property, OF the grOundtha she never
was insane, and that her son who is a
low chuIchman, instituted the pro-
ceedingS, three years ago, because he
ltdIth lltl Sit MOuAl GttAlitO l ALAElAl-
Der of the SisterhOOd, then about
forming in that church, and would
leave all her property to that religious
institution. The Judge heard the
arguments and will shortly render his
decision.
ADVICE 10 JOURNALISTS. - In
giving some very good advice to some
old, and all new journalists, the New
York ErerS1lg Mail truly says that
permanent success in the newspaper
business, as in any other legitimate
enterprise, is to be achieved, not by
the injury or tGta{ destruction of ones
rivals, but by producing 9 Journal
which is of itself q positive addition tG
the newspaper world, which supplies
some public want not met at all, or
rot met fully before, which adds to
the daily instruction and pleasure of
its own circle Of readers; Which is de
voted to high uses ana generous prin-
ciples, and is too much occupied there
in to have room for personal attacks
or explanations. Such newspapers
may grow moro slowly than sehsa-
tiOnaI rivals, but they will gain friends
steadily and keep those whom they
get, and will in the end reap a sqrere-
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ward of reputation and money.
\ DISTINGUISHED VIsITOR.-Ap-
pletOR'S Journal, which is generally
well informed about European affairs,
gives us a piece of intelligence which
is quite sensational. 1t is known that
Arthur, NictOria's second son,
wiz visit the United States during the
present season, bHt tha fact has not
been made current that Il more ili4s-
trious visitor will land on u shores
next summer in the person of Eugene
Montijo, granddaughter of old Mr..
atone time American Con-
sui at Malaga, and a friend of Wash
Irving, who, in one Of his let
ters, says; Louis Napoleon and Eur
genie Montj0, Emperor and Empress
Of France-one of whom entertained
ut my cottage on the Hudson; the
whom, when a child, L had on
my knee at Grenada. 1t seems to cap
the climax of the strange dramas of
Paris has been the theater dur
my lifetime. Z The last | saw /,
Of Eugene Montijo she was one of {
he Feigning bellies of Madrid Eu- :
genie, AgpletoH's Journal tells us, will j
not visit the United States as En- :
press of France, but will travel IN cog. Z
7nder an assumed title, which, how /
sver, will not prevent her receiving a
and most enthusiastic reeeP- I
ion wherever she may'shoW her still Z
beautiful face. She will be the FIRST \
the crowned heads oftEurope who /
las landed on AmeFieal soil ia
A TRUTH OF HIsTORY.-The SUBJ y
oined eloquent extract is made from 7
address recently delivered by Col t
3reckinridge, of Kentucky, who, if t
We are not mistaken, commanded a. I
avalry brigade in the Confederate il
Irmy. The occasion of the address O
vas the dedication of a monument :
rected to the Confederate dead. 1t is. b
n eloquent tribute to the heroism of y
he South, and should be preserved y
With cur cherished memories: u
tsThe contest was Q most unequal a
ne-the South fought ut every disad- v
'antage, With a white population Of St