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For the Sunday Appeal
THE FORGOTTEN VALLEY,

/ catch the glimpses OF the hills,
Behold the figures come and go,
Although they speak not, and 7 1--we
Within the valleys low.
Afar the mountain slopes incline,
And languid breezes softly kiss
The bridge which, like a line of light,
Confines the wild abyss.
One time I saw a King go by,
With many knights of grand renown;
His purple robes burnt in the air
He wore a golden crown.
Sometimes I see a lady pass,
As fair rs ever she can be;
She strokes her white horses silken neck
She doth not look on me.
saw a mournful funeral train,
slow passing on the silver bridge;
gazed until the sable plumes
Were hid behind the ridge.
Upon the hill-tops roses blow,
And palaces bedeek the scene,
And glad the boys and girls that meet,
Where Summer leaves are green.
1 see the wreathed trumpets CLEAN,
Whose breath doth stir the JOYFUL dance;
! cannot hear the tones that thrill,
And weave the strange sweet trance.
Sometimes when evening DER the hills
Doth softly fling her golden net,
The clouds unfold, 1 see afar
A lofty parapet;
A banner s1noOths the amber air,
And wandering breezes family swOoE-
And then the vision disappears,
Drowned by the silver moon.
But where live the gOrse's leaf
Reeedes beneath the spiders tread,
That weaves all day her long dim lines
OF thin and brittle thread.
Within this vale there is no wealth
OF bloom, or leaves, or grass, nor yet
At any time a sound that tells
That joyful friends have met.
Sweet music hath not here her home,
Nor ever here a King might be;
Nor pass a funeral train 1.-The grave
Is all too nigh, you see.
My faded clothes are thin and scant,
My cottage is so blank and bare,
That some one passing by might say
\ skeleton lived there;
A relic Of the driven years,
Amute memorial of the past,
It's misery, and tears, and signs,
And dreams that could not last.
And yet 1 care not to conceal,
That wher the weeds grow rank on rank,
By rude winds blown, a violet
MAY blush beside the bank;
Whose only language is perfume,
Tina bears full many a message sweet,
Fain breathes a spirit in the breeze,
To stay its pinions fleet.
And from yOn lone and blighted tree,
An alien bird hath charmed the air,
Singing its soft and amorous song,
Perchance worn ont elsewhere.
But series OF the serried suns,
The eastern yields the western hill,
May bring a sense of WEAKNESS,
\ sense of pain instil.
And life hath little ebB and flow,
Nor any sign Of color more;
/, weary OF the changing moon,
Her changes known before;
M then care not to gainsay
That yonder hills TnaS only seem
To be the airy shapes that live
Suspended in a dream;
And this my life, the valley low,
Whatever things I see or touch,
4 broken dream of life may be-
Nor grieve me oveTmuch. T.
LITTLE Rock, July Is, 1853.
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CORRESPONDING
Interesting Letter from mississippi.

TYRO, Miss, July 81, 1869.
Editors 1ppedt- As your very val
liable paper has considerable c~ircula-
ton in and around our burg, | think
that we are entitled to representation
in its columns. And firstly, know We
that "TyrO" is situated i'll the west
ern portion of Marshall county, con-
tains some forty souls, two stores, q
saddler's shop, a blacksmith and
wagon shop, besides other necessary
appendages, such as an artist, a Jew
eler, an NJ. D., anda church. Besides,
Mr.. r. d. Wilson is putting up a
very large house in which to sell
goods. So much for TyrO. Now,
readers of the APPEAL the country
around is Just 4 HHie better than any
where, and when Mr.. Forrest, Mitch
ell, "Or any other man." builds a
railroad from Oxford to Cold Water,
Uia TyrO, then, and not till then, will
Tyro beas near amarket as she would
like to be.
Mr.. Editor, if you could see the
prospect for a good yield of orn and
cotton, and then "dolIars, -" YOU
would say this community should
have a paper to suit them from some
where, that they might profit
by attending to its good adj
vice. Crops have not been more
promising in this community "lo"
these many years. The fruit is not
abundant but very choice. The po-
Iitical feeling just now is very low;
politics have "played Out,o and you
see that accounts for good crops; the
freedmen have stayed at home and
plOwed, instead of going to l.. l..
meetings and elections. We are
keeping a sharp eye on Gen. Grant,
and if the grand sanhedrim at Wash
so orders we may arouse this
summer; if not, all well. We inf
prefer military to "scalawag"
Gen. Ames has about completed
the appointments for this county, and, |
as far as we know, all the machinery
of assessing and collecting taxes is in
full operation again.
If that California gentleman brings
any of them Chiness on soon, tell him
to send us a few; we backwoods folk
have never seen one. More anon.
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HOw fhe Chimes Go 10 Church.

The congregation IS composed prin-
cipally Of men and boys, dressed in
their every day clothes. SOmeOf them
stare about them, or talk with each
other. Instead of sitting down and
paving attention to what is said, many
stand up and walk about. Perhaps
some will come up to the speaker and
try to look over his book, if he reads
from the Bible, or they will examine
the foreign stove if it is cold weather
and there is fire in it; or they will
stand in front of the clock and watch
it for awhile. Others have with them
parcels of merchandise, or a fowl,
some vegetables, etc, they have
bought or wish to sell and lift is warm
weather very many Will strip the up
per part of their bodice naked and fan
themselves, 50 as to be as cool as pos
sible. Oftentimes, unless forbidden to
smoke, several engage in smoking
little pipes full of tobacco, having first
struck a fire by means of a flint and
piece Ofsteel and some very dry paper.
Almost every Chinaman carries about
with him his pipe and tobacco, and
materials for striking fire. Sometimes
a beggar woman will enter the chapel
and bawl ont Justify for cash. 1t is a
very common practice for most of
those who come to stay but a short
time, and when one Of them goes out
all of his mates and friends usually
follow. If am idol procession, or a
mandarin and his retinue are passing
along the streets, or some sudden or
unusual noise is heard, the boys and
mnst Of the men rush ont to see what
is to be seen, after which some of
them will perhaps come back. Very
few are regular hearers of the Gospel,
and fewer still come in fOrthe purpose
Of hearing about Jesus. Almost all
who come are prompted by motives
of curiosity.
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a notice of an otherwise unimportant
matter, by the fact that the evident
effect of such representations as the
Post, and not a few of the Radical
Northern journals are prone to make,
is to discourage immigration, which
is so important to us particularly, and
for the development of our whole vast
country. 1t should not be the purpose
of any honest journal to write down
the moral or pecuniary interests of a
whOlesectiOn. A forced Union without
the heart is death to liberty. The Post
insists that "when a German, or
Swede, or Englishman, or Irishman,
or Scotchman is told that he can do
best in some Southern State, he will
be pretty sure to point to a speech
made in the Memphis Convention, by
a person who is called by the Southern
papers the Honorable J. w. CLAPP-
the most elaborate speech of the meet
ing" and adds the following para
graph:
"Those Southern States which have emil
grafton agents abroad may as well recall
them; those who supper societies for en-
couraging emigration may as welldisband
them; unless a formal public protest ap-
pears from them against this speech Of
Clapp. The West and Northwest are still
open, where men can buy small parcels Of
land; and so long as this foolish speech of
Clapp is not disowned by those in whose
name he spoke, no one need expect to see
the tide of immigration turning towards
the Southern States"
We answer with our protest, not
against the speech of Mr.. CLAPP,
which, taken together, bears no such
Interpretation as the Post makes for
it, but against that Interpretation it.
self, as unfounded and illiberal. We
declare that the purpose of Southern
capitalists is to avail themselves of no
other power Of control than that which
capital legitimately has over labor.
Whoever affirms the contrary affirms
a SANDER, with or without a malicious
purpose. And we regret to see so in
telligent a journal lending Itself to a
policy so injurious to the united well
being Ofthe country. Land in abund-
ance can be had here at a nominal
sum by any and all immigrants, and
they will have the hearty welcome of
our whole people.
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STATE NEWS.

Ex-President johnson spoke to an
immense crowd at GOrdOnsville, Smith
county, on Wednesday.
Nashville and Edgefield have to-
gether thirty-three churches, or a church
for every 1000 inhabitants.
The stock Of cotton has been reduced
in Nashville to IS bales. Many of the
large warehouses are entirely empty.
Capt. J. w. ChOekley and Lieut..
Samuel Bell, postal clerkSbetween Bristol
and Chattanooga, have been removed.
W. I. Lowry, Of Knoxville, n Col. j.
@. Fellers. Of Carter, succeed them.
Nash, the stTaighsout Stokes eandi-
date for Senator from Granger, Claiborne,
Anderson, Campbell and Union, was a
rebel, voted for separation in 1861, and
was a rebel conseript officer.
The GAINESVILLE Patriot saws this
crop is backward and poor, so far as we
have had opportunities for Judging; and
unless we have a remarkably favorable
season there will be a small and inferior
Weld.
The State Dental Association met in
Nashville on Thursday, the following del
eoates being present: Drs. w. II. AIRING
ton. Memphis; L. Augspath, Helena, Ark;
+. q. Ford. Somerville, Tenn. j. c. Ross,
L. c. Chisholm, w. II. Morgan, c. p.
Baird, S. J. Cobb, Nashville; A. f. Clay
well, Lebanon; j. 7. Noel, Franklin, Ken
tucky;sB. +. Arlington, Wilmington, NJ
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purposes, an indictable %offense, punish
able as before with fine andimprisonment.
Section four exempts from the operation
of the act amy free and voluntary emf
grafton Of any Chinese subject, - but re-
quires for the purpose a permit from a
Consul or Consular Agent of the United
States, who must first be satisfied by per-
sonal evidence of the fact.
Section five extends the provisions or
other acts of Congress regulating passen-
ger transit in merchant vessels to all yes
sells owned by citizens of and licensed in
the United States, and applies the penal
ties and forfeitures of this act to them.
Section six authorizes the President to
order vessels of the United States, their
masters and commanders, to examine all
vessels referred to in the previous sec
tions, when they have reason to believe
that they are engaged in the transporta-
ton of" coolies" and in case such vessels
are violating the provisions of this act,
they are 10 cause the offending vessels 10
be conveyed to any port or district of the
United States and delivered to the mar
shall of the district, to be held and dis
posed of pursuant to the provisions OF
this act.
Section 4, it viii be seen, permits
voluntary immigration, only restrict
ing il so far as to assure the certainty
that it is really voluntary. WHAT then
does this new and North and South
simultaneous dodge, for political capt.
tai, amount to? Our neighbOr has,
perhaps, fallen into a trap, by mistak-
ing Chinese immigration for the i'm
portation Of " Coolies" who, in their
own country, as we are informed, are
a species of semi-slaves or bound
poems. The articles of agreement of
the " Mississippi Valley immigration
Labor Company" declare that " 1T
shall be the duty Of said company, in
all things, to obey the laws of the
State and Federal Governments, and
as early as practicable, to procure the
passage of a law Of the State, legaliz-
ing the company as a corporation"
They also require that proper accom-
modatiOns for immigrants, on their
arrival, shall be provided until
they are engaged in fair contracts
with employers, and it shall
be the duty of the company
to see that, in the contracts with
planters, the rights Of these laborers
are properly protected" These arti-
cle5 are the basis and condition on
which the stock is taken. What is
the sense then of suppOsing that any
fraud is to be practiced on the Chinese
immigrants, or that any law is to be
violated, except that which would
warrant One in surprising that the
Memphis Convention was composed
of fools or knaves? What means this
anti-immigratiOn and pro-carpet-bag-
ger movement all at Onc and stimuli
taneously North and South? Is there
any good in defeating immigration
into our desOlated waste, and that,
too, by a false representation of the
purposes and character of our people?
We trust the Post will take a second
thought, and reform in this respect.
That is the best way to get along any
how.
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TO TILE PRESS.

The publication of the names of
several persons as editors of the
APPEAL who are not in any way con-
nected with it either as editors or pro-
prietors, makes it necessary that we
should again announce the editorial
staff as follows: F. A. TYLER, j. NJ.
HEATING, r. T. ENGLISH and F. L..
JAMES. None others are employed
by us as editors and none others are
to be recognized, as such by the pub
lie. We hope that editors, especially
of Louisville papers who have been
publishing to the contrary, will
make correction in accordance with
the fact.
III A urTN-I HNTH TCyTT 40
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WHAT IS PROHIBITED.

The Memphis Post, following in the
wake of its namesake of New York,
declares that Chinese importation IS
forbidden by law, that Congress will
not tolerate peonage, and that it has
I" placed a strict embargo upon the i'm
pOrtatiOn Of the Chinese into the coun-
try with any such relations existing
between them and their importers or
employers as proposed by KOOPMAN-
scHAAP and the late Memphis Con-
vention.n 0ur neighbOr has been
misled into a huge mistake. ThelaW
does not forbid voluntary Chinese i'm
migration. 1t is not before us, but
we take in prOOfthe following abstract
by the New York Post, as sufficiently
condemning the enemy out of his own
mouth. It is the act of February,
1862:
Section one totally forbids every eiti-
zen of the United States, or foreign resi-
dents coming here, acting for himself or
any other person, in any capacity what
ever, 70 uuilNs O1ulp, iOau1 VI obhtIWlSe
prepare any ship or vessel, or any steam
ship or steam vessel, registered, enrolled
or licensed in the United States, or any
port within the same, for the purpose Of
procuring from China, or from any port
or place therein, or from any other port
or place, the inhabitants or subjects of
China, known as coolies, to be transported
TO any foreign country, port or place
whatever, to be disposed of, or sold, or
transferred, for any term of years, or for
any time whatever, as servants or appren-
tees, or to be held to service or labor
Any ship or vessel so employed, directly
or otherwise, shall be forfeited and liable
to be seized, prosecuted and Condemned
in any of the circuit or district courts of
the United States for the district where il
was seized, found or carried.
Section two makes such building. pre-
pairing, etc, of vessels, or aiding and
abetting the coolie trade in anywise. an
indictable ~offense, ineurring the penalty
of a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment not
exceeding one year.
Section three makes the receiving and
transporting of Cinnamon on any vessel
by citizens of the United States, for such
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KEATTNG, ENGLISH &

For THE friendly notices of the city
papers we can but return our thanks.
With them all we have but a generous
rivalry, and shall atleast not be found
guilty of attempting to elevate our
selves by pulling others down. Moth
ing is to be made by it, but rather the
reverse. While we shall endeavor to
make our own journal as valuable as
we can, we wish them all that success
which they equally deserve.
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RAN as nIs.

II Zee a. Hqlia, of New York,
gives the following account of the
present condition of Italy: "a net of
several thousand miles of railroads,
which form the vertebre of every
commercial nation, eneircles already
the whole Italian peninsula from the
Alps to the Adriatie, and all the way
as far as Brindisi and laramie, and
along the Mediterranean coast, the
whole built in a style worthy of the
descendants of the Romans OF old.
Other railways are constructing in the
Islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and
soon the Alps will be crossed in differ
ent directions by the same means of.
communication, thus giving new life to-
national industry and commerce.
Steam navigation companies are muk
tiplying not only forthe traffic between
the different italian ports, but also for
far-distant regions-lines existing for
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MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1869.


LkDaHE1a
SOUTH MEMPHIS, No lS-meets ID Friday OF
each month-HaH cor. Madison and second.
Al. Wheeler, W. NJ; Ben. X. Pullen, Sec
ANGEROSA, No lst Monday in ev-
cry month, at Odd-FellOWs' Hall, corner
Court and Main. John Zent, W. NJ. John
Beamish, Secretary.
No-2S-meets lst FRIDAY Of each
"mOnth-Hall corner Madison and Second
r. W. Mitchell, W. NJ; S. Sturm, Sec.
DESOrO, No IN 81 Friday OF each
Observation-Disclosures Hall. p. N. stanley,
W. NJ; 7. W. Shelton, Sec.
Eu1wINNISG, No. 34l-meets 4th Friday of
each month-at South Memphis Hall, cor
ner Of Madison and Second. John Ainslie,
W. NJ; b. X. Pullen, Sec.
ROYAL ARCH.
PENN CHATTER. No. 2-meets "a Monday Of
each mOnth-Odd-FellOws' Hail. ID. c.. Ira
der, NJ. +. II. P; G.. e. Locke, See.
r. S. n.
EUREKA COUNCIL, No. 6-meets Cd Monday OF
each month-Odd-Fellows Han. John Gent,
TIL Ill; NJ Wiggin, Rec.
TE1IPLARS.
CIRENE COyIMANDEEY, No. 4-meets 4th Mon
day Of each month. John Gent, Com; Nj.
Wiggin, Rec.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Ex-PREsmENT JOHNSON 'sAPPOINTMENTs
At the request ofmany Of the people in
the several localities, ex-PresIdent john
son has consented to address his fellow
citizens at the following times and places
S~helhvvile. Monday, July 26.
Morristown, Wednesday, July y.
R~Ogersville, Thursday, July y.
J~onesboro, Friday, July 30.
Bonneville, Saturday, July 81.
Maryville, Monday. August =.
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THE CANVASS

APPOINTMENTS IN MIDDLE AND WEST
TENNESSEE.
The candidates for Governor agree
to the following appointments, tO-wit:
Pulaski. Monday, July 18th.
Columbus, Tuesday, July nth.
MurfreesbOrO. Wednesday, July 2Sth.
Shelbyville. Thursday, July 18th.
Nashville, Saturday, July 3lst.
The above appointment we agree to.
W. B. STOKES,
j. W. c. SENTER.
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Thus Germany and France together
consume thirty-fiYe per cent. of the
whole amount, though the latter
stands considerably below the former.
The ratio of increase at present, how
ever, is in favor of France, for while
in Germany the consumption per
head has risen in thirty years from
two to four pounds, in France in the
same period ii has increased from less
than one pound to two pounds and a
half.
The consumption of coffee in the
United States was, in 1867, 1S5, 900. 600
pounds, and DR.. Sehlosser estimates
the consumption for 1868 at 210,0 900, 600
pounds. Taking the population of
the United States at say thirty mil
ions, we have an average consumption
per head of seven pounds. or three
pounds more than the Germans, and
steadily increasing to the amOunteon-
sumed by the Hollanders. These
figures say that we consume half an
ounce of coffee per head per day.
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=. AND A.. SCOTTISH RITE.

HEBNEs AND MTTHRAS Lodges meet inc
junction tth ednesdaY in every moe
+. Meliersh. Secretary.
CASPHIA UNC oF FRISCES Oh JERUSALEM,
18th, No. ben X. Pullen, 33d, Tarsh..; A.
+. FARMLAND. sd, Recorder.
CALvART CHATTER OF BosE CROIN. 18th, No.
J. Charles W. Adams, Sd, NJ. W.; Il. 7.
TOmliusOn, sd, Sec.
PHILIPPE CPLEssEIs COUSCL OF XII, Goth,
Vol. Henry +. Woodward, sd, Comm;
William y. CirOde, 3zd. Rec.
CONSISTOI.T OF WEST TENNESSEE. SD. John
Ainslie, SD, Comm. in Chief; Dodge G..
Trader. 3.d. Re-.
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opp-EELLoMs, pIREcroRY.

GAYOso ENCAMPMENT, Nos. /. o. o. F-meets
ON the ist and 3D. Thur.day nights of each
month. AT 8 O'Clock. A. +. Davis. G. p. u. G.
Trader II. p: Thomas Bacon. Scribe.
night, at S O'Clock. j. W. Waynesburg, n.
C.: J. p Campbell, v. g.: ThOs Mohet, Sec'y.
day night az 5 O'Clock. J. r. Russell. n. O.;
Alexander Eunn, v. e.; ThOs. Bacon, Per
Secretary.
RUTH LODGE, No. I. DEGRE OF REBEKAH-
incest on thaJSt Friday night in each month.
at 8 o'clock. 7. G. II. r. Pugh, y. e.; Mrs.
w. l.. McLefreSh. Sec'v.
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MISCELLANEOUS.


One of the most fashionable "liOns "
of Paris, Count de L., has just had
a lovers quarrel with one of the most
fashionable "~liOnesses," Nine. de
Y The Count is much too ele-
CANT a man not to be bald; in fact, he
has no more hair on the top of his
head than Old Uncle Ned ora billiard
ball. When the eX-lovers had re-
turned each other, with tears and
tragic sobs, their letters and their por-
traits, their gifts and sOuvenirs-"s seals
of l0ve, but sealed in vain Mime. de
x closed the dread eOllOquy with
this parting shot: "There is one
blessing, at least, about all this" said
the cOnsoIable Lydia, "One hasn't to
send you back any locks of hairp'
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THE APPEAL cannOt say that it is out
for Senter, but declares with emphasis
that it never did tie up to Stokes. The
APPEAL is supposed to tie up to" Andy
Johnson.-POSt.
That s%uppOsitiOn is a mistake.
Whenever the occasion arises for it
our opinions will be announced with
sufficient frankness.
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