Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-20
PRENTICEANA.

| From the Louisville Courler-Journall
"A doubt may be more difficult tC
! conquer than redOubt.
Probably the Government thinks thai
| it has made ample amends for the mur.
der Of Mrs. Surratt by giving up heI
mOldered skeleton.
Grant will shortly play first fiddle
while Congress dances breakdown. He
knows what to play to make them dance
to suit him.
-Ths Little Rock Republican says that
the whites are not fitted to govern the
blacks.n Is that a reason why the
whites should let the blacks govern
them?
-Rsverdy Johnson's Alabama treaty
with Great Britain has no chance. 1t
is dead, and heaven knows what will
grow out OF its grave. Not roses, GER
tainly.
Now that Mrs. Surratt, choked to
death by the Government, has been
buried in consecrated ground, Congress
should make all haste TO enact penal
law against the planting of q flower
above her dust.
Let Gen. Grant advertise that he
will smoke the cigars only OF the firm
that shsll pay MIN for the privilege of
furnishing him gratis, and he will have
a handsome addition TO his $25, 600 8
year.
"A New York editor grumbles be-
cause the prisoners in one OF the peni-
tentisries of the State were lately al
lowed the privilege of singing. Would
he also deny them the luxury Of erS ing
yellow fever will enlist in a few
weeks under the flag of the Cuban revo-
lutiOnists. Yellow Jack will be more
terrible to the troops sent from Spain
than a whole atmosphere full OF yellow
jackets would be.
Gen Butler held his own pretty well
amid the stormy scenes of the Joint con-
.veutiOn until the cry Of "pOliee :" was
raised by ColfsX. Then he subsidized as
if he had been 8 thief or a burglar.
Senator Frelinghuysen thinks me-
grOes without suffrage much worse than
negroes with suffrage. No doubt he
thinks Indians with tomahswks much
less dangerous than Indians without
tomghawks.
-AITs. SuTTstt was hung once and has
been buried three times. II she were to
rise bodily from her grave as often as
her specter probably rises before the
eyes of her murdereIs, she might need
burying every hour.
Pope calls sail discord harmony not
UNDERSTOOD If any one OF our Radical
friends can understand the Radical
" harmony that prevailed in Congress
on Wednesday, we hope that they will
explain il for the benefit of minds uned-
ucated in music.
The Chaplain of the House Of Rep
resentatives prayed on Wednesday that
the incoming administration might
promote the glory Of Gedn We trust,
however, that the promotion of the glory
OF God may have some additional reli-
anee..
-Wsshburne, who besirides the econ
omy velocipede, wants Congress to pay
as q clerk q young woman whom he
employs as a French teacher Of his chill
dren. a good many members get clerk
ships for young women that they en-
ploy in less respectable cap scity.
The Radical party has increased the
national debt S6l 600 GOO within the last
two years. Bat it has no doubt coDsid-
cred itself ss making an abundant Offset
to all this by keeping the cry Of econ
Omy and retrenchment continually upon
its lips.
The New York Tribune contains the
piteOus tale Of q poor private in the
United States army who has suffered in
the flesh these two years and more by
having his rstiols peddled away by his
officers. Shades of the old army, what
2 dirty piece of lisen to wash at home.