Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-29
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

IA French journalist estimates that
daily advertisement, which is con-
| stantly before the public, is read in
! the course of week by twelve times
as many people as the weekly adver-
! tisement which is inserted but once.
The latter is like the fitful lightning,
whose occasional flashes attract pass
ing attention, but as quickly pass
away and are forgotten; while the
former is as the faithful sunlight, ever
present to warm, inYigQFate and
fructify. -...-... .-
Last year q Polish gentleman
having caught stork upon his estate,
near Limburg, put around his neck
an iron collar with this inscriptions:
Hec ex Polonia," (this stork, comes
from Poland and set it at liberty.
This year the bird returned to the
same spot, and was again caught by
the same person. He had acquired a
new collar of gold with this inscrip-
ton; India cum donis remittit ci-
contain Polonis," (India sends back
the stork to the Poles with gifts.
w. Cornell Jewett had an inter-
view with President Grant on Mon
day, and related to him his cOnVersa-
tiOns with the leading statesmen of
England during the late war, and par
ticularly with Mr.. Laird, the cele-
brated traveller, and at that time
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
the purpose of showing that the posi-
ton of the English Government was
to avoid participation in the strife and
not to offend the United States Gov
ernment. Mr.. Jewett laid before the
President his statement in writing, in
order that it might receive the eonsid-
Grafton to which the President might
think it was entitled. His object was
to do justice to England and to pro-
mote the cause of peace. In the course
of the conversation, Mr.. Jewett re-
marked that it had been said Minister
Motley had received no instructions,
when the President replied instruc-
tions had been given, of which the
public knew nothing.
"Wednesday afternoon, at Niblo's,
in New York, that great comedy Of
Sheridan's, " School for Scandal" was
produced with perhaps the most bril-
liant cast that ever sustained q theat-
rical performance In this country.
The entertainmentwas given in honor
of Mr.. John Brougham, who is about
leaving New York to fill an engage
ment on the Pacific coast, and the
leading actors and actresses of the
several theaters volunteered their ser
vices for the occasion. The following
was the cast of the piece. and no lover
of the drama can read it without
longing to have witnessed the repre-
sentation: Sir Peter Teazle, MIR. John
Gilbert; Charles Surface, Mr., Edwin
Adams; Joseph Surface, Mr.. Neil
Warner; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr.. John
Brougham; Sir Benjamin Backbite,
Mr.. Owen MaYlowe; Lady Teazle,
Mrs, d, =. Bowers; Mrs. Candor, Miss
Fanny Morant; Lady SneerweH, Mrs.
John Seton; Maria, Miss Pauline
Markham.
Judge Nicholas, of Kentucky,
makes an issue with Alexander a,
Stephens, upon the cause of the late
civil war;. The war, says Mr., Ste
phens, was inaugurated on the one
side to vindicate the right of secession,
and on the other side in denial of the
right. Mr.. Nicholas finds the cause
of the war well expressed in the fol-
lowing resolution which he says was
passed by the Legislature of Tennes-
see, just before the commencement Of
hostilities; Gin the opinion of this
General Assembly, all the evils grow
ing out of the intense slavery agita-
ti0n---aH the discord, alienation and
hatred now growing up and extending
between the North and the South-arel
the legitimate fruit, not of any neces-
sary or .irfepressible conflict between
free and slave labor, but of a conflict
between rival aspirants in the race of
ambition North and South, urged on
by an in0rdinate greed for official
power and plunder.1ii lii ir 8 erisi