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New Criticisms uDon Shaks0eare

A writer in the London Dahl Neles.
who seems, By the way, TO send his
contributions 10 the New York Times,
says
"There Is a remarkable article in
the new number Of the EiHlktnQ he
rielr, which shows how much remains
to be done in the elucidatiOn Of
Shakespeare. Shakspearian litera-
tgre is in itself a vast library, AfeF
all that has been written on the sub
jet, and is every day pouring forth
from the press, one would imagine
that the subject had become thread
bare, ami that nothing remains to bs
said. But a ripe scholar comes for
ward, and ira mastery article shows
that the most learned ShakspeaFian
commentators are ignorant of the
meaning of some OF the most common
phrases use4l by the poet. What does
UphFira mean When sue says 10 Ihs
queen, AOu may wear your rus
with a difference 81 What vas the
precise sigHiaGapee gf the Grants laid
upon Ophelia's bier ? What does
Benedick mean when he says that ifa
lady is not virtuOus he will never
. cheaper her? What does Lear
mean when he describes Regain as be-
ingGfa teadsr-Hehei -atgFeri What
does Pistol mean in the much quoted
saying" Under which king bA
zOHiaR, speak or die? What IS the
exact meaning Of the phrase used BIZ
Tran4C, 10 balt l0Ris7F What i q
bindings What il RzanyL ii e
These are some Of the questions
which tho critic Ia the ReViegC pro-
pounds to his readers, which he de
clares that the Shakspearian COM
mentatOrs are unabletO answer, which
in some cases they dOnOt even see the
necessity of raising, and which he
~l,astrates with not a little skill and
curious eruditiOl. 1t Is impossible 70
Us here to discuss any Of these queE
tons In detail; but weary rs we are
with the common place of fumbling
criticisms of which Our great poet Is
the Victim-er5ry little scribe having
it in his heart't0 bestOw an his tedfOdsI
ness upon himAit gives us pleasure to
call attention to the researches Of q
critic who has something fresh and
important g say, anf who says It
WeiI.H
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TIE LATE II p Wooded.

THE LATE II. p. WOODARD.
We feel that in the too brief notice
heretofore taken of the demise Of our
f~ellow-eitizen, II. P. WooDARD, we
have done but poor justice to the
memory Of a valuable and worthy
man, and injustice to ourselves. His
death was from apoplexy, and as
usual, almost without warning, was a
shock to our community. Hardly
ever was there a worthier man whose
demise to mourn. His virtues were
the theme Of the funeral discourse of
Rev. Mr.. RANSOM, pastor Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
who conducted she funeral services,
before an audience hardly exceeded in
numbers on any previously similar
occasion. Mr.. WOODARD was an
honorable member Of the Masonic fra
ternity-having maintained for a
considerable portion of his life
various important and responsible
offices in the Order; being at the
time of his decease, Junior Warden Of
the Leila Scott Lodge. The funeral
eOrtege was formed at the church by
the Marshal, Sir Knight S. b. BEAU
MONT, with pail bearers composed o
members of Cyrene COmmandeFy o.
Knights Templar and South Mem
phis Lodge; and headed by the old
Memphis Band, with muffied drums.
playing a funeral dirge, took up it
silent march to ElmwOOd, where al
that was earthly of a valuable either
and good man was deposited to await
the final judgment promised for all
At the grave, DR.. r. W. MITCHELL
w. ~, conducted the beautiful and
imposing eerem0nies of the Masonic
Order. The brethFeE then each de
posted a sprig Of evergreen IN to-
grave, and the remains Of IL. p
WooDARD were consigned to the
silent narrow home Of eternal rest.
HThe last Of earth"
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\ GRAND railroad meeting, to be
held at Springfield, Missouri, has been
called for the 18th instant, to take into
consideration the project of a railroad
proposed to run direct from Kansas
City via Springfield to Memphis. Our
friends LASIER and WADDELL, of the
Real Estate Bulletin, deserve the cred
it of first calling attention TO this mat
ter in our city, and have directed our
attention to it. a glance at the map
will show this to be a matter of no in
significant importance. An air line
to Memphis is only $40 miles,
or a difference With st. Louis
of only four hours time. The
advantages of such a road to Kansas
City, Springfield and Memphis, will
be mutual and vast. Theroute is per-
fectly practicable, at ordinary expense.
1t runs its whole length through a
country Astounding in minerals, Of the
best climate, unsurpassed fertility, and
which is already largely settled and
rapidly filling up. The completion of
such a road will put our Kansas City
cousins through to Charleston or New
Orleans in forty hours. The rich sec
ton of Arkansas north of White riv-
er, which viii be drained by it, has at
present no outlet by rail. The fertile
southwest portion of Missouri, which
it also passes, is populous enough to
support that portion ofthe road. But
the fact of most interest to US of Mem
phis as we'll a to our Northwestern
friends is that we are below the ice
opening the way without obstruction
to freights every day in the year. 1t
is contemplated to connect with the
Pacific road at Holden end make a bee
line from Kansas City to Little Rock. |
The benefits viii be incaIcqlable to
Missouri, Arkansas and Memphis.
With its connections 1t viii be the
most important road in the West, and
as the Missouri Central surpass in
profit the Illinois Central.
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IL Our commercial report of yester
day, We called attention to the fac
that a packet line for the "Bend.
Trade" was needed, indeed was az
essential to the prosperity of Mem
phis, We regard the establishment
of such a line, now, Immediately, as a
necessity in anticipation of the trade
we are to have this fall, winter and
spring. Prior to the war we enjoyed
such a line, running tri-weekly
steamers that arrived with full cargoes
of the ~prOduets'of our river bottom
lands, and departed regularly-deeply
laden with groceries, dry goods, shoes,
hardware, queensware. This rich
trade must and can be regained to
Memphis, and we hope u citizens
Will unite and subscribe literally to
any line of boats organized to foster
and encourage it. We believe that
every merchant, every mechanic.
manufacturer, maehinist, in fact every
laboring man in Memphis, has to-day
a direct and positive interest in the
successful Inauguration of a Memphis
and Yicksburg line.
We are cognizant of the fact,
that the line of boats between st.
Louis and Vicksburg (Which is now
our main dependence for the bend
trade) is discriminating against Mem
phis, end Discriminate heavily, too.
AS an evidence Of which we can quote
a statement made TO one Of our first
merchants by a merchant of Gaines
Landing, who inquired " what would
be the rate of freight ehargedby theSt.
Louis and VieksbHrg Packet Com.
pany fromSt. Louis to Gaines Land
ing" To which it was replied, $50
cents per 100 pounds" lie next in
quired the rate from Cairo TO Gaines
Landing. The answer was, "30cents
per 100 pounds" As a finality, he
ito seem cheap freight) asked what
the rate from Memphis to Gaines
Landing would be, and was answered,
per 100 pounds. We think the fore
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Peach Orchard F~Orty-fYe Miles
mn

Ourtownsman, Geo. f. Akers, Esq,
who is at present on a visit to Vfr-
ginia, writes from Petersburg to a
friend in this city that "the breast
works in front of Petersburg, thrown
up by the Confederates during the
war, extending TO the left toward
Richmond about twenty miles, and to
the right about twenty-five miles. for
the defense of the city, has grown I'D
in n continuous line of peach trees
of every variety, yielding an album
dant crop the present year. This IS
the only legacy left by our poor fell
lows who were on the advance line
within one hundred yards of the en-
envy. Having eaten the fruit while
on picket duty, they cast the seed
aside and now they appear in one con-
tinuous line offOrty-fve milesi in beau
tiful trees, yielding the greatest varil
ETY. Of the finest fruit.
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GEN. SHERMAN And TIE
PRESIDENCY.

At this early day, it is not to be ex-
pected that very frequent allusiOn will
be made to the next Presidency; hut.
Notwithstanding, the question is often
asked, What are Gen. SHERMAN's
chances for the succession?" Thi,
question might appear to the casual
observer, who only heard it asked
once or twice, to be prompted bymere
idle curiosity; but to one who has
heard il asked in almost the same Ian
guage in different parts of the cOun-
try, and always by men of talent and
influence, and the answer almost in
variably given the same, it must be
taken as an indication of the true
thoughts and reflections 0 fmany who
! certainly viii be the representative
men of the South as soon as the
shackles which e0nane them are re-
moved. We allude, not as the adyo-
cate of SHERMAN, to existing facts
which have come under observation.
The uniform answer to the question
has been that SHERMAN was the most
talented, the most gallant, and at the
close of a campaign characterized by
mastery strategy, the most generous
and magnaRimOus of the Federal
Generals. \ courageous people are
always ready to spouse the cause Of
a man who has become renowned
through qualities like their own.
They Were not Inundated by the vie
tory oftheir adversary-this could only
result from the terms which he might
think proper to impose. The question
then IS asked, what were SHERMAN's
terms?" Return to the Capitals of
your respective States, deposit there
your arms and let the Courts ofthe land
settle your rights under the Constitu-
ton and laws thereof" What con-
queror was ever more generous, or
statesman nor far-sighted2 He re-
lieved victory of the sting of humilia-
ton, byhis unparalleled magnanimity
and eOmprehendeda at a glance the real
purpose Of the war-the restoration oil
the Union, with the full authority oil
all the departments of the Govern
ment. This is a general out
line Of conversations which one often
hears in his intercourse with the
Southern people.
And they all agree, that, while there
is nothing in the past in Gen. SHER-
MANS way, he now occupies a position
requires the greatest amount of
prudence and craftsmanship. AS re-
marked, it is not victory, but the hard
.erms imposed bytheconqueror which
1umiliate. These humiIiating terms,
not imposed in the moment of victory,
eoolly and calmly embodied in an
1ct Of Congress, nearly two years after
close Of the conflict, and while
here were State Governments whose
jurisdiction was even recognized by
nc very act of Congress itself. contain
he humiliation of the southern
people. This odious act strikes dov,n
'ights-or what is the same fh;nq
'laces at the mercy of the military
commander a great right, which even
he Norman conqueror, more than
centuries ago, after the battle OF I
Hastings, where he had brought I
everything to his feet, respected and
guaranteed by his coronation oath to 4:
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THE following fFtract from a letter
from a friend in the interi9S, il il
keeping with others we are receiving.
The anti-negro suffrage feeling is, I'M
questionabIy, very strong throughout
the State. Put that issue-eyeFy maH
voting, black and white-aud if will
be voted down in Tennessee By q hun
dred thousand majority. Surely We
must say, with our friend the writer
as to negro suffrage " we have suffered
enough There is no good in it to
anybody. Hesays.
FeStiaa leHte, but this government 81
Tennessee was made by white men,
soF White men and their children for
ever. The EXISTING Constitution must
be oyerthrOWn to be EeSlaeed by the
original organic law oft6e1 land. Tbs
Negroes perfect freedom must be guar
aglaed by irrepealable law, and that
Of the white race assured by the ne
gro's exclusion rom the ballot-box.
His civic virtues have beer Thorough
Is tested and we have suffered enough.
His condition in kentucky is such as
it should be eVeryWhere-We would
have no more savage suffrage,
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UNDER the head of " Poetic Jus.
tice," the Nashville Banner very
properly suggests that the law giving
legal advertisements to certain news
papers, selected for their blind parti-
sanry and Obseurity, should be
promptly repealed by the Legislature.
There is no doubt about that, unless
the object of legal advertising is to
hide from, instead of giving notice to,
litigants and the public. But what
we should call the "pOetie" and
funny part of the matter is the fact
that the Banner should propose Ia
give the printing to the Universal
Suffrage presses" instead Of giving ii
tnalI.
Resolved, that negro suffrage is such
a boon to the State that only those
who supported it should have the
State pap. Resolved, that the BuIlHey
did support it. Resolved, that the
people of the Lord should possess the
land. Resolved, we are the people.
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A NASHVILLE merchant recently
wrote To- the editor of the Boston Com
Bserci0i Bulletin and stated a variety
of objections Of no great moment
against the introduction of Chinese Ia
Dor. He must have been somewhat
surprised at the character of reply re-
ceived from the Boston editor, which
with his letter IS published in the
Nashville Boauaer. The editor re-
CARDS the letter as IMPLYING the des-
ponding spirit Of the Southern people,
and says they are not enough of the
never say die" sort. He admits that
the negro I" has been greatly democrat
lied and rendered unreliable as a
plantation laborer by the political
events of the last few years, and that
his place upon the Southern soil will
have to be filed by other races" He
regards the experiment Of the Mem
phis Convention ~ advisable, and af-
firms as the result Of all the authOri-
ties that it has been successful in other
countries wherever tried, that it has
succeeded in mines and railroads and
farms, and will equally succeed in the
cotton field, and that the Chinaman
sis no straggler, but constant and per-
severing in his aims, contented in his
allotted sphere, faithful to his con-
tracts, and as strongly attached to 10
calities as the African" We quote as
follows.
1.-THE pretense which is being urged by
those who are opposed to this Southern
labor movement, that the system of time
contracts for CoOiie labor is downright /
revived in a new form, is, of
course, all bosh. If their allegations are
true, then every Northern white man Is IA
slave who enters into a time contract for
his labor. In fact labor would not be free
It were not at liberty to make such con-
tracts. five are not greatly mistaken
some ofour Northern manufacturer du-
ring the war engaged in the speculation
of importing several eargoes Of English
and German operatives, whom they hired
but in lots to mill owners for q stipulated
period and rate of wages, Ostensibly to
pay shipping charges in transitu, and
other expenses while on their hands. IfI
his is fair treatment for h Caucasian,
we suppose it isequally so for the Mongo-
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The Sunday school pioneer o.
ONO, Harry Sofferd, died at Zanes.
VlHe, Anew days since, aged sixty-tWO.
The insanity of Bishop Duggan,
Of Chicago, is so pronounced that the
hev. Father MeMullen is to be APP
pointed administrator of the diocese.
The Car forbids the attendance
OF Russian Bishops at the Geumenical
Council in Rome.
There are said to be 10000 Chi
nese in the United States.
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WOMAN.

While Adam slept, God from him took
A bone; and As al Omen,
He made il like a seraph look,
And thus created woman.
He took this bone not from his pate.
To show her power o ample;
Nor from his feet TO designate
That he OF her might trample.
But meath his arm, to clearly show
He always should protect her;
And near his heart 70 let him know
How much he should respect her.
He took this bone, crooked enough,
Most crooked Of the human,
To show him how much crooked stuff
He'd always find IN woman.
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the people Of England-we mean, of
course, the right Of trial by jury.
Gen. SHERMAN, whois invested with
a supervisory power over all the Gen
erals who command in the three un-
reconstructed States has nothing to
do but to act with that same fore
sight which he did in the moment of
victory, and recognize the authority
ofthe courts under the Constitution, to
settle every question involving the
rights and liberties of the citizen.
Military Commissions and civil
courts cannot stand together. They
cannot, in the very nature of things,
have concurrent Jurisdiction.
But this subject is alluded to, not
for the purpose of discussing the ques-
ton, but to give the warning in time,
to one who has a bright and brilliant
future if he viii only allow his own
ripe Judgment to control him. He
must remember that there is not a
single instance in which Military
Commissions have been en-
ployed by conquerors as instru-
ments of vengeance or humiliation,
in which history has not pronounced
its stern judgment of condemnation.
They become infamous as passion
cOols after a great conflict. Passion
will have cooled in a few years more,
when the historian will begin to write
calmly the mighty events of the past,
and the authors of these mOnstrosi-
ties must be consigned to that merited
infamy which awaits them.
Gen. SHERMAN's skirts are now
clear of this outrage upon the guar
anteed rights of the citizens of this
country. Let him keep them clear,
and the way is open to him. But
mark the prediction, the last MAJ
who has abused power, has been
elected to the Presidency, who evei
can be elected to that office.
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RESI-.

Rest is not quitting
The busy career;
Rest is the fitting
or self 10 ones sphere.
"fis the brooks motion, .
Clear without strife
Feeting to ocean,
After this life.
Its loving and serving
The highest and best
lis onward. answering,
And this is true rest.
-GoefAs.
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going should show q merchants the
necessity of at once starting a line of
packets between our city and Vicks-
burg, and hope some move will soon
be made to inaugurate the good work.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-15

Mr.. ETHERIDGE declines very posi-
lively being a candidate for Speaker
of the Senate.
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OUR thanks are due for a copy OF
the minutes of the proceedings of
the Commercial Convention " held in
this city in the month of May last, an
octave volume Of 302 pages printed
with extraordinary neatness and good
taste, at the Southwestern Publishing
Company's steam job and book
printing house on Main street. We
have not yet had time to make a par
tieular examination of the contents.
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THE ELECTION.
Official and Reported Returns.

The following are partly official and
reported, and from some counties only
partial returns have been received:
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heavy crops in succession. Corn, grain
and potatoes are doing well, and the re-
cent rains have much improved the quail
ity and amount Of pasture feed. e
Capt. j. BickfoFd, of Birch Harbor,
Gouldsboro', Me-, captured a whale sew
enty feet in length, near that place, a few
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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-26
MIssIssIPPI ITEMS.

Another meeting of the citizens of Carroll
county is to be held on April 3d. the object being
to further the enterprise OF a railroad between
Carrollion end the Mississippi Central road.
Rich specimens OF iron ore found In Newton
county have been brought to the Office of the
Meridian Gazette. II is said the ore exists 10
large quantities, and steps are being taken to
test its value.
Bituminous coal has also been found about
seven miles from Meridian, and the same paper
says that it is TO be found there in almost mex
haustible quantities. Ii thinks 81 lie" could be
struck and fortunes made for somebody in that
vicinity.
The Pamela Star Of March 20 says that shoot
ing affair occurred in Ssrds few days before,
between james i. Ballard. of ''our county" and
Noah Psrtee, OF the Spectator. The former was
slightly wounded in two places.
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KEROSENE AccIDENTs. writer In the New
York Star sayt that at least eght.enths Of the &C
cidtnts In the use Of petroleum occur through the
omission by coAsumers Of the most common pre-
csuiions. At TALL common temperatures the So
called kerosene oil OF the shops emits disagree
able, and which mixed with a small percentage of
atmospheric Air, dangerously explosive vspor.
When . lamp is bat partially filed. the space
above the oil Is taken possession Of by this vspor.
and then 1t is that danger turks in the vicinity of
the lamp New heat will hasten the accumula.
ton of this vspor yet many, knowing this fact.
will place tbef lamps 10 the warmest part OF the
room. One Of the most reprehensible habits prac-
tieed by conhumers, is that of extinguishing q
lamp by blowing into the lamp chimney upon the
flame This 10 most dangerous habit, and those
Who make use of 1t may regard their escape as
Proyidential }