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COTTON.

Spectators in cotton are already
busy predicting the extent of the
next crop; and, like all of their kin
dred, are "gOing it blind" with a
perfect ~loOseness. In face of facts that
are every day coming to light proving
that there is not so great a breadth of
land under cultivation this as last
year, and that not more than one
fourth the number Of hands employed
in 1868 are now engaged in ~agrieultu-
raj labor of any kind, these fellows
continue to write foolish and ridicu-
lous letters about a 1900, 900 bale crop,
some of the more unreliable carrying
their figures as high as 3,5O0,O00. 1t
is nothing to these wise-aeres that the
bottom lands have been inundated
and the hin sides been washed by
heavy rains, compelling, in most in
stances, replowing and replanting.
Ii the ground is not ready and fertile,
their imaginations are; and to prove
it, they make figures to order and
beyond the hopes, antieipations, or
conceptions of the poor planters who
have digged and deIved at cotton
planting all their lives. These persons
are also oblivious to the existence of
press and telegraph. They anticipate
the one, and possess more information
than the other. In a word they are
equal TO any emergency of the season
or their calling, and will manufacture
a crop as readily as their compeers of
the gold board would a bogus dis
patch to sustain a combination against
governments" or gold. But we
can assure them their efforts
viii prove abortive. The multi
plicity of agricultural publications
at the South, and the means
adopted by the daily press of these
States, to keep the world posted as to
the cotton prospects, supercedes the
necessity of the o~ld-fashioned circular
which it has long since been found
was too often the media of erroneous
views and ignorant sp~eculations, such
as are now gaining currency in regard
TO the crop of this year. The planter
and the nierchant are thoroughly post
ed and will continue to depend upon
the only reliable avenues of public In
telligence for information as. to the fr
ture Of eottonyewhieh, from all quar-
tiers, we learn is anything but as prom
ising as at this time last year.
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THE Ledger of last evening takes us
to task as incapable of comprehend
ing the plainest declarations of the
English language" As we have no
idea of encouraging a fruitless con-
troversy with our neighbor, and be-
cause of the utter ignorance thus inn
puted to us by so learned a
journal, we humbly defer to its
wisdom, sagacity, superior ability,
discrimination and extended expert
enee, and should occasion ever call for
it, will try and learn to draw from is
"well of pure English undeiled."
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ORR CIRCULATION.

But this old fossil sheet that is seen float
ing around ~town-that is sold n bought
only as a curious relic of the buried past
fails to understand what is published in
its own columns.-Ledger, Friday EreH-
ing.
If our contemporary win take a
glance at the Assessors books, he will
find that this old fossil" sheet (as he
calls the APPEAL) was sold and
bought, to the profit of its proprietors,
to the extent of $4,000 more than and
quite double the sum realized by the
Ledger during the quarter ending the
first instant. That's what we call sell
ing a "eurious relic of the buried
past ITO some purpose.
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WHY we WERE NOT TRI-
TMPHANT

The cause of u partial defeat on
Thursday lies not so much in what
the Radicals were able to do, as what
the Democrats and Conservatives did
not do. For days and ever weeks
the Democratic press of the city urged
enfranehisement; the Democratic
County Committee and the candidates
exerting themselves to the same end.
The result was the registration of
1900 white men, of whom 22O0
voted the Democratic ticket.
Suppose that 500 of the 5000
whites thus registered were of the
Radical party-and that is giving all
that party ever claimed-we have
then 1900 Democratic votes either
thrown away on HUNTER and SMITH;
or, what is equally bad, we have 1900
Democratic voters who remained at
home, preferring indifference as to the
safety and welfare of the community,
indifference a to the proper admins
tration of laws for the protection of
life and property, to the performance
of "a duty that, had every
Democrat been faithful, would have
resulted in putting US in the
way to future and grander
successes. 1t is plain there is a Screw
loose somewhere, and that a thorough
overhauling of the party machinery
is necessary to our existence. An
other such election, with such a re-
suit, would swamp us in i~rretrievable
ruin. We must find out these useless
or treacherous members and lOp them
off, reconstruct on a more secure and
surer basis, and prepare for the next
campaign. -.-
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NELSON ~ EASY TENNESSEE.

NELSON IN EAST TENNESSEE.
A private dispatch from Knoxville,
received yesterday afternoon, conveys
the gratifying information that, so far
as heard from, MFR. T. A. r. NELSON
was ahead of his competitor for the
Supreme Bench in East Tennessee.
If the middle division of the State will
do as well for him, we have hopes OF
his election, Notwithstanding the ma
jority his competitor carries out OF
Shelby county.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
WANTED,

THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS OF THE
MEMPHIS APPEAL OF 1867;
February ! 10 February II, inclusive.
E May p.
June I, 8. II, 1919. 2 9Hf -1N
July 8, q to 81, iuelusiye.rl afv
% August !, :, 4, Z, Z, 10, u, y, u, y, 49, 20, q,
September 8. ~ 10, q. .. - q. -HFreT5U
- October z, 5, IN, II. ~. q. q. - ma~,
November 10, IL.
And of 1858: ~ faJHH GU 3T
Z January2, e. ffk w nretzffN 7t5T
Februarys4. s. G. 4. s. IA. Is. -
March s, n, II, Is, 20. q, u. "a. H.At4s DsG9-t
Aprii2 81 II, "a IA Ws h1sof a.ed
Junei, &c, 8, 10, u. Is, %. q. q. 8 iffA
Jcly ], 43f6 to 4 II to 8, d, 3n,Sl. alrFoT
Augusta 3,s, l8, 30 q, 30, 81. III Hfiu
sSuppesing that fIe was retained for me in
the offiee, l neglected ali the numbers while 1
was editor. .Topreserve the articles 1 wrote, 1
am very ,desirous TO procure the above num-
oerss and SHAH be under many obligations to
friends who VIII furnish them. shall gladly
pay for them any reasonable price. II sent to
Box SO, Postofice, Memphis, they will reach
me. lmyl3l ALBERT PIKE.
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THE PRESB YTERE4NN RE-
UNITED.

We published by telegraph yester-
day the final report of the Conference
| Committees of the New and Old
| School Presbyterian Churches, agreed
to, and which will hereafter form the
| bond of union between two of the
largest and most dignified religious
bodies in the United States. The ba-
sis Of this report has been under con-
sideratiOn since the year 1866, and has
received, we believe, the approval of
more than the requisite number of
Presbyteries; but the "Old School,"
preferrmg that some explanatory lam
guage in the first section, and the
whole of the tenth, should be stricken
out, final action was deferred until the
consent of both assemblies could be
had TO these changes. The determi-
nation of the "New School" as
TO these concessions was assOcia-
ted with the selection of a Mod
orator for their Assembly; the
result was the election by
a large majority of the Rev. p. II.
FOWLER, of Utica, n. ", who was in
favor of them, and the removal of the
last obstacle to the Onion of the two
great branches of the Presbyterian
Churches. Upon the election Of DR..
FOWLER the Overtures for reunion
were renewed, a joint Conference
Committee was the result, and a re-
port, rs basis of unity that forever
does away with "new" and "old"
school Presbyterians uniting both I'M
der the imposing title of the " Presby-
terrain Church in the United States,p
one in organization, one in confession
Of faith, discipline, form of worship,
and church government.
The separation of this Church into
two bodies occurred in Philadelphia
in 1893. A"There had previously,c
says the Philadelphia Ledger, "been a
difference on matters that it is not i'm
portant TO mention now. The result of
these differences was the adoption ola
resolution by the General Assembly
Of 1887, that the Synods of Utica,
Geneva and Genessee, and of the
Western Reserve, are out of the eccle-
siastical connection of the Presbyte-
rian Church. This was an expul-
sion Of those SynOds, and was
held by them and Others of
the Church in sympathy with
them to be illegal, and an argument
or opinion was published by Chancel-
Tor KENT to the effect that the eXpul-
sion was irregular, illegal and void"
In the high state of feeling produced
by this action, the General Assembly
met in the Seventh Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia, on the 47th of
May, 1888. There was an exciting
canvass for Moderator and other of
fcers. But soon after the delivery of
the usual opening sermon, by the
Rev. DIR. ELLIOTT, Moderator of the
preceding Assembly, Mr.. CLEVELAND
arose, holding in his hands a paper
containing che names of the Synods
cut off the preceding year. The Mod
orator having intimated that the
could not be received, the con-
test for the officers was commenced,
each party choosing its own Moder-
Mr.. CLEVELAND then called
.pon those acting with him to with
draw, which they did, and subse-
quently met in the church of Rev.
ALBERT BARNES, on Washington
Square, Philadelphia, the "Old
SchoolF' remaining in the Seventh
Presbyterian Church of that city.5'
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DISSOLUTION.

TINE firm of z. ROBBINS & BRADLEY. 81
Il Memphis and New York, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent The firm name
The entire stock Of goods and the go0u vii
of the business has been sold and eonXeyedto
who will conduct IN Memphis the business,
on their own account, and IN whose behalf
the confidence OF the public is respectfully So
ELISHA ROBBINS,
Is Warren street, New York CIV.
EDWARD BRADLEY,
23 Second street, Memphis, Tenn.
Dated at Memphis. April 30, IS69.aar nf
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coPARTNERsHiP.

.DROM the aboye II XII be seen that we
Z have become the SUCCESSORS OF MeSSFS. T.
Robbins & Bradley, IN h general Hardware
BuSiness. Our well known experience in
this trade induces rs to rely upon a cOntiau-
ance of the very liberal patronage bestowed
upon our predecessors. W propose to keep
on hand a stOck well adapted TO the wants Of
the surrounding country, and will be prepared
nj all times TO offer great in~dacenents 10 par
BARBOUR, WILDER & SIMPSON.
/ -,-o1 CIV raH HrH rfrrrl ~
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CHANCELLOR or DAVIDSON.
Nh. E. II. EAST, elected Chancellor
of Davidson county, is one of the
ablest and most respectable lawyers
in Nashville, a gentleman enjoying
the confidence of that community.
His election gives general satisfaction,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

UTANTED-AGENT&S7 10 $40 per month
w everywhere, male and female, to Intro
duce the GENUINE IMPROVED COMMON
SENSE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE This
machine VIII stitch. hem, fell. tuck. quilt
cord, bind, braid and embrOider, IN a most
superior manner. Price only So. Fully var
ranted for dve years. We VIII pay $500 Tor
any machine that viii sew q stronger. more
beautiful. or more elastic seam than oars IL
makes the " Elastic Lock Stitch" Every sec
ond stitch can be cut, and still the cloth can
not be pulled apart without tearing il. Ne
pay agents from SO 10 $40 per mOnth and q
penSes, or a commission from which twice
that amount can be made. Address SkCOMB
&CO-, 2ittsburg, Pa, 81 LOnis, No., or Bas-
ton Mass.
CAUTION-Do not be imposed npon by
other parties painting on worthless cast-ir0n
machines, under the same name or otherwise
Ours Is the only genuine and really practical
cheap machine manufactured. -a myS
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Memphis and Arkansas River
- So
PACKET COMPANY.
Tri-WeekIy United States Mail Line.

VISITORS 10 the celebrated Hot Springs, OF
' Arkansas, viii find this a very pleasant
route. The boats are new, the tables good and
stateroomS. clean. Passengers are landed al
Little Rock in time to take the stages for Hot
Springs on the third morning from Memphis.
The elegant passenger boats of this line
leave Memphis for Little Rock as follows:
steamer THOMAS II. ALLEN,
REESE PRITCHA4 Master
Tuesdays, at ) o'clock pm.
Steamer W. \. CALDWELL.
X l..
7. Thursdays, al ) O'Clock pm.
Steamer OZARK,
H. Master
Saturdays, at 5 o'clock pm.
Making direct e9nneetions# 1ITTLE Rock
that leave Little Rock Tuesdays, Fridays and
sundays, at 10 o'clock am:
FORI GIBS0N~~-~--John Noodburn, Master
.--.-----LeV Chapman, Master
A .----.--Jame BOwlin, Master
Thus making three trips a week from LITTLE
ROCK to FORT SMITH, and connecting al
Fort Smith with the steamer
FORT SMITH------..~.Ed. NOwland, Master
For Fort Gibson.
Through bills of lading given for freight TO
and from New Orleans, Memphis, ST. Louis,
Louisville and Cincinnati.
Freights delivered at destination, at all
stages Of the river, without storing or other
delay.
Any persons desiring to ship by this line
nom the North, East or West TO any point on
the Arkansas river, should have their goods
consigned to MEMPHIS y ARKANSAS RIv
ER PACKET COMPANY" at Memphis tofice 304
Front street, Mosby Block Those shipping
from New Orleans shOuld cOnsign to Mem
phis and Arkansas River Packet Company
al Napoleon. JOHN D.. ADAMS, President.
T.a r. A KENDIG, Agent,
my1 Office 3A Front street, Mosby Block.
Memphis and st. Francis River Tues
day Packet.
For Helena, Mariana, Madison and wittsburg.
The new and elegant Sidewheel Passenger
Packet,
SAINT FRANCIS,
Capt. I. r. Bowman-...--.Sam c. Paine, Clerk
WILL leave Memphis for lei IT.
w ESA, L'ANGUHLLE and ST.A
FRANCIS RIVERS every TUESDAY, at )
O'Clock pm.
LARRY HARMSTAD, Agent.
febl9 2& Madison street.
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NOTICE

THE annual election for Five Direcforsin
be held on the 24th dav or June. lsds. az me
ofice OF the Company, No ~ AsH RIrTH
, O'Clock pm. JG Sscrefsry.
my8
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Cupping and LeechIng.

ORDERS for Cuppinx and Leeching left at
" GUS. LEOPOLDfS BARBER SHOP, No. IL
Poplar street, corner of Front Alley, Mem
phls, Tenn, will be promptly attended 70 by
apis w. c. WERNER. :
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Detroit has lately voted aid to four
railroads in Michigan, nine hundred and
fifty thousad dollars in all.
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I WILL OFFER AT PUBLIC SALE on
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1869,

At the house of the Auctioneers, north
east corner of Main and jefferson
streets, 500 acres, in tracts of 50 to 100 acres, on
Presidents Island, Just below the city, nearly
all above overflow, heavily timbered with
ash and walnut and other forest growth.
The land is of unsurpassed fertility, and ac-
cessible at all seasons by steamboats,. A
ready market may DO found for every cord OF
wood cut upon the land. a feature of great
value in his property is the well known
Lake, which affords the finest fisheries in this
part of the world. The fish and game priv
ilegeS on this Lake may be made very vGRa-
Bile in supplying the Memphis market. Pdns
made by Messrs. Robinson & Moon, Civil En-
gineers, can be seen at the ONCE of the Auc-
tioneers, and the lands will be shown by
them or myself, by appointment, at any time
before the day of sale.
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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-20
Negro Magistrates.

The unfortunate occurrence in Barnwell,
the particulars of which we published yes
terday, shows very clearly the conse quences
of an attempt on the part Of an ignorant
colored magietrste to hunt down and arrest
white man.
the purpose Of catching negro named
Brown, who, however, made his escape
uninjured. Brown went before julius
Mayer, mulatto magistrate, and upon his
affidavit warrant was issued and a posse
of armed negroes was called out Mayer
with Ashe, also mulatto, and the posse OF
ten or twenty negroes, went to the house Of
Mr.. John A. Best, where they found the
white man who had molested Brown.
Some firing followed, one Of the posse being
killed and white man badly wounded.
Mayer withdrew his party and issued On
order for sail good citizens to be al the resi-.
dence of Ashe within twelve hours; negro
being sent on a mule from plantation to
plantation, to call out the oolored men Of
the district. Several squads Of armed
negroes did make their appearance, bu,
thanks to the efforts Of some Of the white
citizens, there was no disturbance. On the
following morning the inquest was held,
the I" magistrate being escorted by O
gang Of armed negroes. M
There seems to be no doubt that the
white man first spoken Of was originally in
the wrong, but this is not the root Of The
difficulty. The whites are ready to obey
the laws and do obey them. When any
additional force ia necessary they will
cheerfully sustain the civil authorities in
making an arrest. But the whites are all
aware that colored men like Mayer have
no knowledge of the law, and they feel that
when they surrender themselves to negro
posse, they do not submit to the civil power
to be punished or acquitted as they deserve,
but place themselves ct the mercy of band
Of infuriated oolored men whose thirst for
blood, when once aroused, is not easily ap-
peased, and who are as likely to shoot them
in the back and leave them to rot in ditch
as to turn them over to the custody of q
responsible officer Of the law The white
people do not refuse to submit to the law of
the land. They do hesitate to put them.
selves in the power Of q posse OF negroes,
who have been aroused and excited by some
real or imaginary wrong. AS long as the
law Is executed by mon who are trusted
there 10 NO such thing as resisting an
arrest. when, however, . white man is to
be seized and carried off by authority Of a
mulatto who scarcely knows how to write
his own name, it is hard to blame the
offender for being somewhat disinolined to
mako an unconditional surrender.
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you please said the first speaker, but no one
knows better than yourself the truth OF what l
say General Sckles, who was present during
tho conversation, remarked, 4 don'5 kno W
about reinstating the Democracy, but do
know leave here this evening thoroughly
digusted at what 1 have Witnessed. During
the conversation it was stated to be fact that
brother-in-law to President Grant was regu-
larly engaged in selling, and a. high prices
too, his letters of recommendation for Office.
In word, the Federal Capital is now regarded
by all parties here as a vast gambling hell, in
which the public Offices are played for, won
and lost as ooins of gold and silver would be at
Baden-Baden."
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Gopartnersbip Motife.

r AW NOTICE.-THE UNDERsIGNED
A have this day formed q copartnership for the
practice Of Law AND EQUITY In all the Courts Of
the State under the name and style Of CHAMBER.
LAIN SEABROOK. Especial attention Will be
paid to the collection Of claims hsid by parties out
OF the State. D. H. tCHAMBERIATN
April 2 E, B. SEABKOOK
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KNOX g. GILL,
CO II II @ N n A . TORs

GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. las SMITHS WEARY. BALTIMORE.
ConMgnsnents Of COTTON, RICE, ac.. respsct.
4nily solicited, and liberal advances made thereon
Orders for CORN and BACON promptly executed
with care and attention. 1TI
AprM27 icraoss
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Net Assets OF this Department Invested
I'm this Community,
THIS ASSOCIATION WAS ORGANIZED ON THE
22d Of June last, only nine months ago. and has al
ready secured an annual revenue from premiums ON
existing policies Of nearly $5OOOO0 Five Hun
dred Thousand Dollars). It's new business for the
month of December was s72,393 SO, insuring the
amount of s1.157.ooo. ns business for the
month Of January was $S6,524 II, insuring the
amount of 81, $4,000.
One months business being greater than that done
by the largest aud wealthcst Life Insurance Compa.
MES in the United States during the entire fl rst
year OF their existence.
The Association first started by the most
wealthy and influential citizens of ST. Louis, for
the purpose of changing the current of Life Insur
ance and Life Insurance capital from the East to
the West and South and as its plan is liberal and
just to every section, State and district the wealthy
men Of the West and South generally are insuring
their lives in it, to the exclusion Of other companies
This is shown by the fact that the policies issued
during the months of December and January are Of
an averange amount OF 81, 1863 Al. drawing an aver
age annual premium of S41s 20.
The largest average attained by any other compa-
ny in the United States is about $40 0 to each poll.
cy. while the average size of oil policies existing in
this country is only about S25OO.
These facts speak for themselves.
Officers.
Fl. g. Lopez, President cashier Peoples National
Bank)
W. GEO. GIBBES, vfce-President Nv. g. Whilden &
E. E. JENKINS. hk. D.. Medical Examiner.
Directors.
JOHN B. STEELE tof North Steele l. WardelI.)
Q. IRWIN WALKER walker, Evans & Cogswell)
g. w. AIMAR, Druggist.
h. I: PEAKE. General Superintendent South Caro-.
lima Railroad.
@. F. PANKNIN, Druggist.
JAS. E. SPEAR Jeweller.
D. II. SILCOX, Wholesale and Retail Furniture.
ME- CARTER, Secretary and Agent,
March 70 Tyr No. 40 Broad-street.