Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-06
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Mr.. Abe Frizzel, of Pulaski, Ii
out for Clerk of the Senate.
A one-half interest in the
Brownsville Bee is for sale.
- The editors of the State will meet
at the capitol on the 9th of October.
The Chattanooga (Radical) Repo6
licda still lives. How much longer Is
the question.
The Knoxville Wing, on account
of the nOn-arrival of paper, did not
appear on Friday.
West Tennessee, as a whole, has
no cause to complain at the crop pros
poets within her limits.
The Free Masons of Murfreesboro
have purchased an s., 800 lot upon
which to erect magnificent hall.
-Senter assured Grant that the Leg
islature of Tennessee would pass the
Fifteenth Amendment. We think
not.
-HOpkinsville, KY, is preparing to
bid for the tobacco trade of the Clarks-
vile district. They can't come it,
says the Clarksville Chronicle.
W. H. Mcconnell and Harvey
! Brown have gone to San Francisco,
there to represent the Odd Fellows of
| Tennessee at the forthcoming Grand
Convention of that noble order.
The foundation for a new court
house has been laid at Ripley, Lau-
derpale county; and a good rain there
last week revived the hopes of farm
ers. Crops are quite promising in all
that county.
- The Brownsville Bee of Satur-
day asks: Will the Nashville Banner
inform It's "tO a dot" land make the
dot itself how far it follows Mr.. Sen
| ter in the endorsement of the Grant
and administration party? We'd like
to know.
The Brownsville Bee urges the
claims of Dorsey B. Thomas for
Speaker of the Senate. We, says the
Hest Tennessee Hhig, have known
Dorsey alWays-that is, from early
boyhoOd-and We do not hesitate to
say he'll do.
The New York Commercial AdreP=
tiser says that if Andrew Johnson is
sent to the Senate there will be such q
washing of dirty linen a. has never
before been seen, even in the stormy
times of Randolph, Calhoun and Old
Bullion.
"A Tennessee farmer plOWed up a |
keg containing 5000 in coin the other
day. The following morning he was
going out to work again, when be
found his labor useless, Is tFeaSuls
seekers had dug the field over thor |
oughly during the night.
The Clarksville Chronicle, of Sat
urday, says: Our wheat market has
continued to rule firm at previous
prices, viz: From 81 to 81 lj per
bUshel, according to quality. There |
seems TO be more disposition to SSH |
than was evinced few weeks,back.
j. II. Garrett, Of HEnkoldt, an-
nOunceS that a camp meeting' will /
commence on Friday, the oath day OF |
September. All who can must bring |
their own provisions and camp equip |
ments if they would fste gelt, as ga
are on the Old Virginia and Maryland |
tar labOrers will be provided for by
the camp-ieaGers.
The Brownsville Bee, in its issue
Of Friday, says: The AUaldn5He has
been rewarded by the RAIDS for quit
ting the Democratic party. Senter has
the ApqlQilci,e as one of the
Radical legal advertising sheets, sub
iect to the ratification of the Senate. /
We opine that just before they ''ratI-
fy," they will repeal the law; then in
viii step the APPEAL and Ledger!
HoW aye you, Mr., Senter!
The Knoxville l2Tess aud IIelqlq,
of Friday, says: r. j. JaTnagin died
at his home in Clinton, September lst,
at 10 pm, from the effects of the in
iuries inflicted upon him by the Stew
gFts IL tie difficulty we have previ-
oqsly noticed. He suffered greatly
for some hours Just previous To hts
death, but passed. away quietly, For
some hours before death ne had been
unable to speak intelligibly, APP
pearing to breathe with great diff
Guilty:
"A negro barber of Nashville vas !
lately interviewed " by the cores
pOndentOf the Cincinnati Commercial,
who asked him what he thought of
k.X-President ! JOhnsOn's chances for
the Senate, To this the barber re-
spOnded: He'll beat 'eIn all for thu
wants to get in there, ana
the united world can't stop him. |
used to live in East Tennessee. and
for tkirty years I've always heard
about Johnson. lie butts eterything
Off the track that comes along-he's a
hoss. I'm fur him, because he's the
man in TIE world, and we
must have some smart men to mix
with the fools that are in Office, or
else we're gone up"
The Knoxville Press and Heruld.
in its Fridays issue, reads the new
paTty' men a lesson, and says: cit
Is not always necessary to organize
new parties in order to meet the Issues
of the times. Ii is true that sometimes
out of new issues grow new parties,
but it must not be forgotten that they
gg'Otc. They are not made by few
leaders, met in caucus, but they grow
out Of the necessities of the people.
If we need new parties they will arise.
Fer the present it is enough to set our
selves to work to fulallthe duties that
lie before us, looking not mournfully
upon the past, seeking not to pry too
into the future, though ready
to meet Its developments with manly
hearts, and without fear, but encoun-
tering every new issue as it may
arise with the spirit Of patriots.
-Hmper's lFeekly, of the 4th, pub
fishes a portrait of Governor Senter,
whose election it bemoans in the fol-
lowing paragraph: ave publish on
this page portrait of Gov. Senter, of
Tennessee. The election took place
on the 9th of August, and it turned
mainly on the question of the disfran-
chisement of white citizens. If this
point had been yielded by the Rsdi-
cal Republicans, the State might have
been carried the other way. As Ii
was, Senter had a majority of nearly
j0,0O0. If it should happen that, as a
of this election, ex-Presi-
dent Andrew johnson should be elect
ed to the United States Senate, then
we must indeed feel that the Wrang
party has triumphed in Tennessee
This expression of alarm from the |
worst of Radical organs indicates