Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-11
THE BENEFIT
Remember the Confederate Widows
and Orphans.

with q 1ull appreciation OF the Interest
that attaches to the benefit for our Con-
federate widows and orphans, TO take
place this evening at the Memphis Thea
ter, we reproduce from the SUNDAY AP-
PEAL the following article, which we com
mend again to the especial attention of our
readers:
"ADvANCE Relief" One of the BIT
terest results of defeat, on the battlefield,
Is the necessity of the beaten and retreat
ing party leaving their dead and wounded
on the field of their disaster, 10 be cared
for by a flushed and exulting foe. An adj
pitional pang is added TO such a calamity
if the defeat is decisive and final-if there
is no hope of an exchange of prisoners
no future hospital accommodations TO be
looked for-no pensions to be provided for
the MANNED, and for sthe widow, and the
orphan of the fallen soldier and patriot
if all nave been sacrificed and lost. Thus
to witness bravery Observation-Disclosures
denied an asylum for is wounds, and
nought but destitutiCn W INT and poverty
as the portion of the traV st and truest of
mankind, is one of the sa ldest spectacles
that imagination can conceive. To see
these true and devoted ones Summed and
despised for their poverty by the naughty
pGrUenu, who estimates worth by wealth,
is, when soberly judged, n of the sever
est ~satires upon human nature.
1t is to rescue from so humiliating a fate
the widows and orphans of our Confed-
crate dead, and the survivors who,
i'm consequence Of their honorable
| wounds, are disabled from active
labor, that the Confederate Relief
Association has been organized. Where
there is no Government to protect, the
warm and manly hearts and hands OF
! more fortunate comrades have been uni
ted 10 throw an agis over the helpless and
the destitute. Various have been the
| efforts to effect this most noble object,
and many are the hearts that have thus
| been shielded from distress.
The lessees of the Memphis Theater,
with becoming iiberality and grace, have
| rendered TO the Relief Association the use
of their beautiful temple of art, its
scenery and stage properties, on Monday
night; and some OF our most accom-
\ plished amateurs have made up a bill
suitable for the occasion. If ever there
was a call for beauty, grace and fashion to
display themselves, in the full force of
their radiant charms, this is the occasion.
Displayed in such a cause, and decked for
such a scene, beauty will assume a love
Tier hRe, grace be clothed in a rarer shape,
and fashion put on a more charming as
peet. UGH pilgrims as these, at the
shrine of heroisTn, will redeem earth
from some of its most revolving features,
and viii flash across the cold and heart
less aspects of society an illumination
tina will rescue it from some of its Sc
Yerest reprOaches.
On the other hand, not TO heed sum-
mons like his-n0t to answer such an APP
peal-is to proclaim that the children OF
prosperity and the favorites of fortune
have hearts of stone and sympathies Of
| steel; and that for them no drop of gener-
Gus blood should ever flow, no sword
should ever fash, to shield their treas
ures, and no heart of lonely widow or un-
protected orphan again should ache in the
cause of a people so recreant to honor, so
lost to shame, So fOrgetful of fallen gal
lantry.
From the manner in which our citi-
Zens have hitherto responded to these
calls upon their lberality, we are sure
there is not the slightest danger that this
heavy reproach will fall upon them.
| They will be out en- mdss6 at the coming
Jete, and will be ready TO welcome the
4 CONTEMPLATED donation to those who de-
serve the richest and brightest rewards of
fortune, in military parlance, to "AdDance
| relief and gre TIE cOWRterSign." The re-
| Spouse to which, in whispered tremulous-
ness, will be, " Gratitude to the fallen and
/ relief for the distressed SUTUtCOTS."
| PLANTERS, TAKE NOTICE.-Great bar
| gains offered in osnaburgs, dOmestics,
| leans, linsevs, brOgans and boots, at J. II.
Loewenstine 4 Bros, 81 Main street.
Our ARABS and Kid Gloves the attrac-
ton of everybody. HERZOG t BRO.
NoTIoN goods. hosiery, gloves, c%orsets,
hoop skirts, balmoral skirts, etc, etc,
now open. r. w. JOHNSTON d Co,
347 Main street.
GET your fish, oysters, gaIne and ice of
Charley \. Martin, No. "a Jefferson street.
GREAT bargains during the coming
week. HERZOG Il BRO.
BUSINESS NorGCE.-No contracts or OBJ
legations assumed or made by any indi-
vidual owner or employee of this office,
will be paid ut our counter or recognized
as an offset 10 any Hills due the same.
The party making any bill must settle it
himself in person.
HEATING, ENGLISH & co.
NoTfCE TO CRY AND COUNTRY MER-
ICHANTs.-Large stock ofStaple and Fancy
Dry GOods, Notions, etc, bought for cash,
and will be jObbed at eXtEa low prices.
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