Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-07
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

/ 1t seems to be settled that ther,
! is no law to prevent the Perit from
repeating her venture and llandins
another cargo of arms for the Cubans
That is all they want. W
Hereafter the Spanish Minister a
Washington will have power to settle
all difficulties arising out of Cuba's
complications, without referring then
to the Captain-General at Hsyana.z
Ralph Meeker says that Fifty
years experience with the ballot viii
abolish petticoats foreYer.Y Make il
"ballet," says the Boston Post, and il
viii take less time. lIaa ss1
Pile, of Missouri, thought unfit to
wear diplomatic honors 'Fnear'' the
Court of Brazil, bas been appointed
Governor of New Mexico. AS his
charges will be mostly Indians and
half-breeds, his lack of courtly man.
ners will be no objection.
The preface to the English edition
of Mrs. Stoves " Oldtown Folks" in
scribes the book as an offering "tO the
beloved memory of the Duchess OF
Sutherland" Mrs. Stowe reminds
the English readers that since she
visited England "tha whole of the
mighty system of wrong and in
justice, of which "Uncle Toms Cabin"
was an imperfect shadow, has passed
away like a dream of the nightN s
-Mackerel have been quite plenty
off this shore the past week, and the
seiners have made some pretty good
haulS. One vessel belonging to this port
took as high as 120 Wash-barrel5 on
Monday; and others from 20 to 50
wash barrels. None of the Southern
fleet have as yet arrived. One GlOu-
cester vessel has been into New York,
with a small fare which were sold for
$500. Mackerel are earlier than usual
off shore this season, and the prospect
for the home fleet is very encouraging.
Gloucester AdreTtiSer.
1t is TO be regretted, says IN eX-
change, that there has never been
made, under any auspices, national,
State, or metropolitan, q collection Of
American newspapers. Every one
who has read the foot-nOtes of Ma
caulay's % History of England" knows
what use he has made Of the ballads
and political pamphlets which were
at one time a substitute. for news
papers. 1t is the custom q present TO
preserve in the British Museum copies
of all Journals published in Great
Britain. A provision of the Internal
Revenue law enacts that ths publisher
of each paper shall send to the Inter-
nal Revenue Department copy Of
each issue of his iOTJrDal
-" Ethan Spike' writes from Bos-
ton to a cOtemporary that Mr.. Gilmore
has five earthquakes making at the
South Boston fOundries, for the Peace
Jubilee, and two more " lively ones
from SouthAmeriea for the hallylOoyar
chorus; the great HOOsac Boar, three
fiddlers of the venerable King Colo.
and Peter Piper OF pickle pepper
memory, hegr arrived. l applied for
Il sitOOatiOn and was rehearsed several
times. Mr.G. thinks my voice has more
VOllum than sweetness. / don't
think / can work yeu in, unless as n
bull of Bashan, in a belleTin kOrus.
Says |, anywhere; l am willing to
exert sech vocal powers as mater hes
gin me, where they viii be most etiec-
tin. Let Us hev piece Amen
says he"
Gov. Sans, of Porto Rico, not re-
ported to be a brilliant ruler, has the
task upon him of defending Porto Ri
co with a little more than q brigade Of
troops. The Gubans and Porto Ricans
have, therefore, a fair opportunity Of
exploding the Spanish establishment
tho fg1o,,H af,l .Nf tfra1e l,c
shrewdest diversion possible in favor
of the patriots under Quesada. Block
will have a better chance
than ever of shipping aid to the insur-
rectiOn now that the squadron of Spain
has two islands to watch instead OF
one. The general West Indies now
manifest their convenient sympathy
with the islanders. The fact of insur-
rectiOn in Porto Rico is, in good part,
a sign of the success of the cause in
Cuba, - ~ a. ~ Cd
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, in
reply to inquiries of the agent of the
Associated Press, with reference to |
the communication of Senator Grimes, |
in the London Times, says that Sena- |
tor Sumner did not express a desire.ta |
have the Injunction of secrecy re-
moved from his speech on the John
son-ClarendOn treaty, but that Sena- |
tor Chandler, Immediately on the |
conclusion of it, made a motion for |
the purpose, which was agreed to |
No other speech was
made, but several gentlemen briefly |
expressed their concurrence in the |
views presented, and the impression |
at the time was that the speech was !
endorsed, with perhaps, |
the exception of the Senator who cast |
the only vote in favor of the treaty. |
Immediately following its rejection,
Mr.. Motley was unanimously con- |
firmed as Minister to England.
The New York San is of the opin- |
ion that the fourteenth amendment to |
the Constitution of the United States,
when critically examined, means prac- |
tically nothing, and for the following |
reasons: The thirteenth amendment |
prohibits the existence of slavery, and |
provides that Congress shall have pow
ar to enforce its provisions by apprO- |
pirate legislation. The fourteenth |
confers the rights of citizenship on all |
persons born or naturaliZed in the |
United States, and subject to the iuriS-
diction thereof, and declares that no |
State shall abridge the privileges or
of citizens, nor deprive |
any person of life, liberty, or property |
due process of law; and that |
Congress shall have power to enforce |
its provisions by appropriate legisla
lion. The Supreme Court has decided |
in respect to the thirteenth amend
ment that, in consequence of the en-
forcement clause, the amendment is
until the appropriate leg
slation has been enacted. Apply the
same rule to othe fourteenth amendment
and that becomes imperative without
the appropriate legislation. In other
these two amendments are t
avs or dead letters accordingly as
Congress shall act or not act to give
hem vitality. Under one Congress
hey may be laws, under another dead
letters. If, it is argued, the clauses
giving the enforcement of the two
sections to Congress had been omitted,
t would have been the duty of the
court to put them in force on all proper
occasions. Congress, however, hating,