Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-06
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uon. The supreme Court has decided
IN respect TO the thirteenth amend.
ment that, in consequence of the en-
r forcement clause, the amendment is
imperative until the appropriate leo
lslatiOn has been enacted. Apply the
same rule to the fourteenth amendment
ana That becomes imperative without
the appropriate legislation. In other
words, these two amendments are
Jaws OF dead letters accordingly as
congress shall act or not act to Cive
them vitality. Under one CepGress
they may be laws, under another dead
letters. If, it IS argued, the clauses
giving the enforcement of the two
sections to Congress had been omitted,
it would have been the duty Of the
court to put them in force on all proper
occasions. Congress, however, hating,
and protesting to distrJlst the court,
inserted the provisions, specially re-
serving the enforcement to itself. Cor
rectly, 1t Is to be presumed, the court
holds that 1t has nothing to do in the
! premises until Congress has acted.
Upon this, the San insists that if this
decision stands as law, all the fruits
| OF the war which have been planted
IN the constitution are plucked out" 4"
The Syracuse Journal saws that
Cornell University is making good
progress. George William Curtis has
begun his course of lectures on Z" Re
| cent English History" and James
Russell Lowell is delivering his course
ON Early English Literature. )" Each
IS to give twelve lectures, which will
be alternately delivered at the rate of
four week until finished. The
library has a fine commencement.
numbering over 10000 volumes. I'll
has been enriched by the addition of
the historical library of Prof Goodwin |
Smith, 5000 volumes in bulk. It is I
said that the finest body of works in |
the Icelandie and Swedish literatures. /
outside the Royal Library at Stock /
holm, is the property of Prof Fiske, 1
who, 1t is reported, viii probably pre- |
sent it to the University. The muse
um has received large additions Of /
birds. Students from foreign eoun- |
tries are seeking admission, and there !
are in the Freshman Glass of the cur /
rent year two from England, one from |
Russia, and one from Brazil. The |
faculty are obliged 10 refuse admission
to many from the fact Of the institu- |
tion being entirely filed,
Mr.. Beecher gravely denies-no, |
he never does any thing gravely, but /
he does deny in a jocOse letter to a
Charleston paper that he ever robbed /
a church in that city. 1t seems a ,
TumOr to that effect has been current. /
This Mr.. Beecher says was the only .
foundation for it: He brought aWayssa /
10 f.Fo s,f A
gave it to him; but Mr.. Beecher, not /
relying much On his title, offers to re- !
turn it to the true owner, on demand. /
Doubtless the negro had heard of Mr.. /
BeeeheT'S celebrated Grafton in which |
he spoke of Good Friday as the day of
resurrection; and from this and other
indications Of his ignorance d the
Scriptures, CU1y argued that a Bible
would be very suitable present to
make to the Radical divine. He took
it; Radical win take anything in
these times, from q spoon to a house
ana lot, or even q Bible, if Of rare
and valuable edition. We assure the
real owner that no one needs the
book more than Beecher-let him
keep it.
-Kiev is said TO be che city chosen
by the Russian Emperor for the new
capital of his dOminiOnS. This would
indicate, if true, a move upon the pO-
htical cheS5-bOard. and far-reaching
plans. The proposed capital is go
miles south of st. Petersburg, and 490
miles southwest Of Moscow, and has
less than one hundred thousand peO-
pie at this moment. BY situation and
Importance it IS not untitled to be the
seat Of empire, and the choice of it by
the Gar would be Il fair notice Of his
disposition or capacity with respect to
the invalid realm at the BOSphOFus,
and possibly to the Austrian provinces.
There is probability in the rumor that
the Gar, who has some ideas and pro-
pensities if not political enterprise, de
sires to become, if he can, a nearer
neighbOr alike to Christendom and to
Turkey. The new capital would seat
him to satisfaction. While the Gar
is contemplating his exit to Kiev, EU-
r0pean publicists deem themselves |
shrewd in looking forward to the time
when the Austrian empire may have
to remove its seat to Hungary.
A New York letter writer remark
ing upon, how fast the riehssmen of
Gotham are dying on, says: Here Is
John ]. Phelps, once the Apollo of the
dry goods trade, and worth half
million, cut off in the falnes5 of his
powers. Here, too, is Charles NJ. Con-
molly, once the colossal tobacco dealer,
and of late q real estate lord, worth a
million or more; and here is the aged
Rufus Lord, the oldest Of our capital
lists, all carried to the grave within q
week. The latter reached an advance
of wears which exceeds that OF any Of
our rich men. Peter g. Stuyvesant
and Stephen Whitney were not more
than three score and ten, and John
Jacob Astor only reached eighty,
while Mr.. Lord saw his eighty
seventh year. He was fourth in point
of wealth of all our citizens, being
ranked by Stewart, Astor and Wander
bilt. He was the largest real estate
holder down town, having at the time
of his death, possessions to the amount
of three millions Of dollars.