Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-05

give rise to ridicule among unbelievers
/ They moreover deem il Unnecessary &c
make any further authoritative state
ments as to the corporal assumption OF
the Virgin Mother, and, what is still more
extr ordinary, advise the Church to show
itsoif the friend and protectress of al
those sciences which perfect mankind
resting assured that a thorough end earn
est pursuit Of science is an advantage 70
faith"
The Platte MOI Valley is wonder
full section of country. You may ride all
day in the express train, and the same
broad expanse Of plain as far as the eye
can see, presents itself. Its capacity to
sustain immense numbers of cattle,
enough to supply a hundred millions of
people with beef, can never be exhausted.
A marble cenOtaph has been placed
in the church at ~Parsontown, ireland, to
the memoir of the late Earle of Rose,
the distinguished astronomer. The in
scriptiOn says: He was renowned in the
loftiest range of science, and he revealed
10 mankind, by the unrivalled creation of
his genius, a wider vision of the glory of
God"
The steamer Hornet, which is now
fairly under way and ready for business
as tile first vessel Of the Cuban navy, in
tends to make short work o~fSpanish com
merce in the West Indies. She carries
seven gun a,crew of one hundred and
ffty-three picked men, and a commission
from Cespedes. Her prizes will be taken
into Mexican ports for adjudication.
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, tells the
cOlOred people in his public addresses that
although the constitution Of the State
does not allow them to vote, there is no.
thing to debar them from the privilege Of
holding Office. The qualifications for the
exercise of the two rights are different,
but very explicitly stated in the constitu-
ton
a Texas paper thinks that New
England is in a fair way for political eX-
tinction, basing that view on the gradual
decrease of the power Ofthat section in the
House, the total of New England Repre-
sentatives at each apportiOnment for the
last five returns of the census being re-
spectively 30, 80, 81, %, p, with every
prospect of the census of 1870 cutting the
latter figure down to =.
And now even the New York Iri-
6uHe iudulges in a dig at Charles Sum-
u6-'s Worcester speech, and in a recent
article up0n Southern politics remarks:
" III Legislature o. Texas composed en-
tirely of rebels would ratify tha fifteenth
amendment, we should make haste to
II anu 10 WndJtNGE WAs iaCEaG-
sary to secure that ratification. Mr.. Sum
ner, We infer from his last speech, would
do nothing until they had sOIemnly de-
clared that they repented OF taking part
in the rebellion. This may be statesman
ship; it strikes rs as the obstinate folly
of a martinez or a child"
The Tribune is not always disgust
ing. Il is sometimes itself disguised, and
this time with the tabIaaux presented at
the Tanmany theater Of Lord Byron,
Lady Noel Byron, Mrs. Leigh and Mrs.
Stowe. Its feelings are evidently astiF,
when it adds: 1.-The dreadful topic of the
alleged Byron ncest-discussiOn of which
has been forced upon the press by Mrs.
Stoves most injudiciOUs publications.
altogether too solemn. too moment0us,
and, we viii add, tOQ dirty, (if anything
can be too dirty for the use ofthe specula-
in human depravity vino degrade the
in these days. to he used in this
manner"