Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16
The Board of County Commissioners
and Metropolitan Police.
What Our Exchanges Have to Say.

\ ASHAlLlE, ttctebtT ID llle toci
ate adjourned till Monday, withOl
accomplishing much business to-da.
= The House also adjourned, but ii
Tuesday, when the great question
Senatorial succession is to be deinitel
settled. The OutspOken friendsOfJohl
son are free in their comments upo
{ this subject, but generally membel
are SO reticent that il is only by dir
of hardest werk that any even al
, proximate guess can be made as
the strength of the respective cand
dates.
The sensation of the day anon
politicians was that oGcasianed by th
call upon Col. Robertson TopP b
prominent citizens of Memphis. {
course he does not stand the ghost of
chance. The fact is, however, take
as an acknowledgment that prC
viOusly announced opponents Of th
ex-President are no longer cOnsidere
| in the race. It is taken to mean tina
| tha friends of Etheridge are weaken
ing and dividing,
/ There need not be any doubt as {
JOhnson's opposition to repudiatiOn
He prOnounces Government contract
/ inviolable and is therefore opposed t
reputation. lido not think there vii
be any complimentary votes cast
Members Of the Legislature are pre-
pared to vote now, and as they an
opposed to any needless excitemeR
or prOlOngation Of the agony, alread,
within the limits of endurance, it i
expected they viii end the strife in (
few ballots, on the ffst Of which it i
expected sixty-three votes viii bl
cast for Mr.. johnson. At least 50 say
the knowing ones.
The Compiroller's report viii be al
encouraging one, and l hope will Op
crate fayOrably upon our credit il
New York. Together with the Gov
erner's message, the letter Of Secre
tary Fletcher and other Important of
fetal documents, this will have a ten,
dency to advance the price OF Oul
State bonds, and favorably affect oul
other securities.
have it from intelligent and relia'
bic sources that the States interest in
delinquent railroads viii be sold oHi
in order that the debt and-Olir. .fENe.
may be reduced. This viii be good
news for our 0Yer-burdened tax-pay-
erS. CHARLIE.
PROM OUR sPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NASHVILLE Thursday A5gH.-ThC
city was unusually quiet to-day. The
Legislature was not in session, and The
magnificent hotel, along whose e0rTi
dors floats the eeaseless hum Of many
voices, was deserted by the throng,
Senator Cubbins with his bride rar
away this morning to Sewanee where
his son is trained, an undergraduate
Of the University of the South. Rep.
resentatige Townsend answered count
less letters from Memphis correspond
ents, in which the mode Of organizing
new County Court is deliberately
discussed. Sam. Jones was in Frank
lin and in Nashville, and is alWays
everywhere, perhaps the busiest man
about the capital. He believes in the
people as earnestly as Andrew John
sen, ahd, unfortunately, has been en-
trapped by the earning, rhapsodical,
violent, infiammatory, collOquial her-
angues Of Emerson Etheridge. Many
pFoTniaeRt candidates for the Senator
ship accompanied the Legislature in
it, excursion, and the day gas reli-
giously dev v0ted to piOus anathemss
leveled at the capacious head OF
the exsPresident. When Johnson's
friends repeat in his presence the
hard words and harsh criticisms TO
which he Is subjected, his hard fea-
lures are relaxed, and he kindly and
spiliDgly says, 81 am sorry that am
IN the way Of 50 many men. Such
has ever been nay fortune. My worst
enemies have ever been those who
pursue the same paths Of life, who be
lOnged 10 the same party with my
self and have aspired TO the same po-
sitions. 70 the people Of Tennessee !
owe everything, and debt 9f grati-
tude which l can never repay. ]
have ever sought to serve them faith
fully, and believe at this moment that
am in thorough accord and sympa-
thy with the great mass Of Tennes-
seeaus, This bitterness of denuncia-
ton to which l am suddenly subject
ed, has origis in passions common to
many men. Violence viii soon ex-
haust itself, and am not disposed to
resent an enmity born to-day TO die
tomorrow" Such is the x-Presi-
dents kindly mode Of replying, | am
told, to the fierce assaults of Eth
ERIDGE, PEYToN and Others who
make Nashville resonant with
invectives and acrid criticisms upon
the public and private character Of
the greatest Of living Tennessee states
men. That Mr.. Johnson will be re-
turned to the Senate there is hardly a
reasonable doubt. Every effort TO
consolidate the forces Of the oppOsi-
ton has proved unavailing. How
ever weak an aspirant, he still trusts
in the "scramblev to the sublimity Of
luck.
Etheridge, it is stated to-day, re-
fuses on any terms to withdraw from
the contest, and his adhesion to this
declaration assures JohnsOn's tri-
umph. From leading Conservatives
and Democrats at Louisville, repre-
sentIng Middle and Northwestern
States, come letters and teIegrams
urging the necessity for Johnson's
election, made mere important to the
whole Union by the results Of elee-
tions in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
presence Of an expOunder Of the true
theory of our Government in the SEN
ate Is national necessity. A hand
that never trembles, courage that
never falters, and an intellect massive
in its proportions, becomes more inn
portant to the American people than
any question Of local practical in
terest, which must be speed
ily solved by the Industrial
and eoIHmereial Seessifies Of the
The Pacific road wiz be
built by the operation q climatic and
geographical laws. johnson could
not prevent il, aad II his influence IN
iisis saatteF be negatived by the hos
tility Of Rafliealisin to the man, there
Is power Nisiie,1 ~ csn,aefss'
which Radical aaimosities eafR0f
~ 'slt aud felt in esEfg