Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-16
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

Madame RudersdOrf, the renowned
OratoriO and opera singer, has long
had a desire to visit this country, and
will soon arrive in New York with
the idea of probably making New
York her permanent home.
"Wives as they were and maids as
they are" is a sterling old comedy at
present running at one of the metro
Dolitan theaters. The disciples of
free love and Plymouth Church in
particular, ought to see it.
1t is remarkable that nearly all the
/ principal dependencies of the British
crown are generally governed by
Irishmen. The present Governors
General of Canada, India, and New
South Wales are Irishmen.
President Grant being about to in
tercede with the Gar of all the Russias
in behalf of the Jews, who are now
being prosecuted, the Detroit Free
Press remarks: "That is good for
Grant considering his army record in
| connection with the Jews"
A London letter to the Chicago
Journal says that off Punch should
print a very fine joke, it would need
to suspend six months to give its John
Bull patrons time to get the point of
it." An exchange remarks that there
has been no cause for suspension for
a dozen years past.
We shall watch with great interest
the discussion of Mr.. Ferry's bill for
the abolition of test-oaths. While
many of all pardes-eyen some of
the extreme Radicals in both Houses
Will support it, opinion is that it
is almost too much to expect that the
bill can soon become a law.
The Pope has forbidden the CORES
pOndent of the London Times to enter
Rome during the sessions of the Coun-
ell. This is putting the syllabus into
practice, but it may raise the impor-
tant question, which is the stronger
the Pope or the Press? The neWspa-
pers viii likely be found in the end to
have more life and power in these
times than the syllabus.
There is reason for believing that
Congress will not change the tax on
whisky, nor the manner Of collecting
the same. The Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue recommended in his
report a fair trial of the present law,
and so far it gives perfect satisfaction
to the distillers, and the only parties
interested in a modification of the law
are spectators in spirits, who wish to
evade payment Of the tax.
The Houston (Texas) Times says:
An IriShman exclaimed one morning,
when the dogs We're after him and the
stones were frozen fast in the ground:
- A EN-aFn land Of lharfv~ vr~hn~1 Al,
stones are tied fast and the dogs are
turned lOOse!' In like manner we
might eXclaim: A sweet land of lib
where white men are tied fast and the
negroes turned loose! But it's all
under the head of a fair election"
after all.
The Boston Journal speaks of the
West as fast becoming more tyran-
meal and exacting than the South
ever was or ever thought of being"
We find this belief quite current in
the New England aud middle States.
On the other hand, there is a feeling,
now quite often expressed in the
West, that the Northern and Eastern
States are i" grasping and monopoliz-
ing" in their course, especially in
everything requiring Congressional
action.
We see from our Virginia exchanges
constant remarks about the move
ments of negroes from that State and
Maryland, Southwark. Large num-
bers have already left for Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Florida,
being attracted to these States by the
idea of being proitably employed by
the cotton planter. The Commissioner
OF Agriculture reports the same South
ward movement of negroes from Ken
lucky and Missouri, and predicts that
in a few years the black race will all
be located in the cotton regions of the
The Secretary of the Treasury at
present has on hand about 81, 900, 900
in coin, and the receipts from customs
the balance of this month are
at $40, 200, 900, which will
make a total of SSl, 900, 600. The
weekly sales Of gold, however, will
reduce this amount six or eight mil
lions of dollars. On the 3lst instant
about So, GOO, 900 will be required to
pay the semi-annual installment of
interest on the bonds of 1881 and 5-2O5
due upon the LIST prox., which
will leave q balance on hand of about
fOurty-fOur or fOrty-siX millions of
dollars at that time.