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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-14

THE Philadelphia Age SAYS ait Is
rumored that a party Of Congressman
are to sail for san Domingo in a few
days. They 60 in pursuit Of informa-
ton in order that when the question
Uf auuexiug that island to the United
States is brought before Congress their
votes may be cast understandings.
Thisis the manner in which all such
prospecting parties r heralded.
When a few leading Radicals OF the
Senate aud House visit the West they
always go for the purpose of seeing
where a railroad can be located in such
IA manner as 10 best suit the people OF
that section OF the Union. 'Only that
and nothing more Butwhen the road
is laid down it is commonly discovered
that all the most available lands along
the route are owned by Senators, Con
gressmen and their doubles. This
may be the case in San Domingo, ii a
purchase should take place. Butler
aud Banks are not men to let "a good
thing slip through their fingers. II
there are any town sites, coffee planta-
tons, orsugAr estates 10 be picked up,
they viii put their hands upon them
in advance. That IS the game now on
foot, aud the people might a. well
know it, 50 that they can properly es-
innate the services Of certain men ia
the next Congress-"
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THE Commissioner of Internal Rev
cnue having recently decided that
p0rk-paeker5 are m Manufacturers, under
the act Of March 8lst, 1853, aud mast
make quarterly returns ana Jay taxes
on sales, all Porkopolis is up in arms
about it. Like the Pennsylvania
Dutch who objected TO paying taxes
for the education OF other peoples
children, they do not care 10 help pay
others peoples taxes. They prefer to
escape taxation altogether, and let
other folks do a1 the paying. So
these impoverished Buckeyes got to-
gether and invented their plan of es-
cape. They have procured sOlicita-
tioms to the Commissioner from the
Chambers Of Commerce Of six prOmi-
nent cities, and he has very kindly,
and with the help of good dinners and
other appliances, directed his collect
ors to suspend the collection of their
part Of the tax until January, 1870, in
order to give them an opportunity OF
appealing to Congress for a more au-
t~hOritative construction or a revision
of the law! They think they are not
liable. II the same construction had
been placed on a law affecting other
people, we are not certain they would
not have been Of n different opinion.
II preparing and putting up tobacco
in boxes is manufacturing, why is not
preparing and putting up pork in bar
reIs The same thing? But it some
times makes a great difference who it
affects
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Rail Us.

As 1t may be interesting to our read
ers to see what Northern journals have
to say of the enterprise of the South
aud of the Pacific railroad project in
particular, we publish the following
article from the Philadelphia Day, a
new and able journal, just established
in that city:
Thinking, with what asperity we
please, OF the past, and hoping what
we may Of the future, no one a hail
to be struck with the wonderful vital
ity which, ia their hour of misfortune,
Southern men Of business are exhibit
ing. Let any one make a brief exper-
mental trip into Virginia and North
Carolina; let him go even so short a
distance a Culpeper in one direction,
and Petersburg In another, and he
cannot fail to be impressed by the re-
Operative energy-nature. as ALWAYS.
loyalty helping-Which is DISPLAYED.
The roads are web stocked, well man
aged, well run. On the seaboard. the
great bay line, passing to and beyond
Norfolk-an enterprise ia which not
- hJtic nllGuclPuid ttpAldi Is invest
eds matchless in its administrative
success. So it is generally. Be it re-
lnembered, that, on the land lines We
speak of, were the blOodiest battles
and the hercest ravages OF the war:
and yet, from the Potomac to Cor
louisville, from Aqua creek to Rich
mond, except now and then the frag-
ment OF a stoekade, or the cash of a
rI1espit, (for the peaceful green grass
soon hides those grim things called
entrenchments,) there Is hardly assign
OF the ferocity Of war. The traveller
is shown the humble frame building
where Stonewal Jackson died, and
the distant spot where the heroic Sedg-
wick flor such q character he was)
breathed his last; and he passes on,
wondering how such things could have
been. A veil Is gradually being
drawn over the dismal past, and en-
terprise, and such immigration asseh-
enterprise invites, are doing
their sure work of pacifcation.
sit is not, however, of these super
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Is regard 10 the power of Super
visors OF internal Revenue TO exam
iue witnesses touching violations Of
the revenue law Of July 20, 1869, the
Nashville BGJU3c, gives the following
statement Of the decision Of Judge
TRIGG:
"Thp Judge held that under the 10Th
section Of tie act OF Congress of July
~, 1855, the Supervisor has a right 10
summon and cause witnesses 10 come
before him and be examined as to ViO-
iution5 Of the law, To enable him to
bring proceedings "a court against the
v~iolatOrS OF the Law or against their
property liable TO seizure under said
act; bus that the moment proceedings
are brought for q violation OF the law,
and he uUtier as % said UiOiafiOHs
brought beT0re che court, the right Of
the Supervisor to examine witnesses
before him, touching such violations,
Oyases. The Judge said he could
not permit the statements OF par
ties. or their confessions before
the supervisor, touching a matter
already in court Ia 70 10 the jury on
The trial OF the cause, because as to
zach statements they would come an
der the rule of evidence as 10 hearsay
testimony, and az 10 confessions of
parties, such confessions might be OBJ
jected to upon the ground that the
party making the confession vas un-
der a sort Of duress. The Judge said
that Il ought TO be understood that the
Lu-.-r.- H. a.. .fwhN raaAaw tho
law to sImmua witnesses before him,
administer oaths 10 them, and eXi-
mine them, and that witnesses must
submit to this, and in case they DO
not, will be punished for contempt by
the court, upon a proper application
therefor; bus witnesses are not bound
10 answer improper questions, and
may object 10 answering, for they can
no more be compelled 10 answer ille-
gal or improper questions in an eXa-
animation before a Supervisor than
they would before q court. II, there
fore, q question should be asked a wit
mess be.oTe the Supervisor concerning
matters which were in litigation be-
fore the court, and OF which the court
had taken jurisdiction, such questions
would be improper, and the Supervi-
@ woTid have no right to compel the
the witness 20 answer"
This decision was made on a motion
30 discharge WILLIAM BARNER from
AN attachment for contempt. His dis
tii!ery had been seized and proceeded
against in ths L. :. Circuit Court, and
ic had been Summoned by the Super
visor 10 answer questions. He refused
TO be sworn, on the ground that the
matters in issue were already pending
Ia that court.
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ceedad 10 show, atlength, that by the
opinion Ofthe Court just delivered,
he imports end exports 10 and from
he different States were LEFT to the un-
restricted taxation Of the States, even
to the utter destruction of such trade.
New York could, without discrimina-
ton in favor OF her own citizens, pro-
ceed TO tax the coal productions Of
Pennsylvania to an unlimited extent,
because the people Of New York pro-
duced little or no coal. So the Stste
of Pennsylvania, without discrimina-
ton in favor Of her people, could tax
the saltOf New York to any extent
So In like manner as to the cotton,
rice and sugar OF the South. They
could be made The basis Of burthen-
some taxation at the North without
injury TO the people Of those States,
and cice Ufrsa as to the productions Of
the North when taken South. The
rule laid down, therefore, as to the
discrimination failed, and there was
no barrier left 10 pr0tect commerce
hetwecn the States from Injurious To-
cattaxation."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-14

TIE report published in one of the
New York papers, that Secretary
boutwell, is preparing a programme
for the resumption ofspecie payments,
is now pronounced a pure invention
Of spectators, who r thus tamper-
ing with the public interests for their
own private advantage. The dispatch
stated that 'the precise mode which
he will adopt to bring about that re-
suit is not clear" 1t seems so. BOUT-
WELL himself, it is nov stated, re-
CARDS resumption as at present inn
practicable. He says legislation would
he necessary TO enable him TO with
draw bonds beyond 4 certain amount.
As to the Supreme Court deciding the
legal tender act unconstitutional, &c
cannot sac upon what grounds such a
statement eau be founded in advance
81 ANY action Of the Court in The mat
fer.
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IT T. no small hardship that citizens
should be summoned by the thousand,
from day 10 day, to serve as jurors.
We fire informed by one OF the Der
uty Sheclfs that orders have been
made since the Grst OF this month for
three thousand jurors for the Criminal
Court alone, and that an additional
order for another thousand IS now cut,
and he 81 engaged ia making up the
panel. TUgr thousand for one Court
alone ia half a month. and how many
more FOR the four remaining Courts OF
the city We are not able 10 say. This
involves a heavy expenditure, and
still greater loss and Inconvenience to
business men. 1t probably results
from the incompetency of thOse-es-
pccially IN criminal cases-whO have
formed and expressed an opinion. We
are glad to e that Nh. TOWNSEND
has introduced a bill which, we hope,
is sufficient to remedy the evil. II
such a bill should provide, in afirma-
ton o sOne previous divisions of the
Courts, that those, who, though they
had formed and expressed opinions,
should say on oath that their minds
were still free to DO impartial justice
between parties, should be held COM
petent, it might accomplish all that is
desired. To make all competent who
acted more or less under prejudice,
would too often defeat the ends of JUS
tioe, and We do not sec how moro
can be done.
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The Jewish Census.

We do not accept the estimate of the
Hebrew National IA new Jewish jour
nal, published in LOndonl which, in
giving the statistics of Jews in the
world. concludes that they number
6800, 600, of which America contains
ESQ, 900. We have no accurate figures
of recent date on the subject, but we
must believe, from a number of facts
before US, that there are at least twice
this number of Hebrews in the United
States. Our last census returns give
no distinctive enumeration Of Jews.
bat we have no doubt that our Jewish
population has doubled since the time
the last national census was taken.
The immigration of the Jews to this
country from the various countries OF
Europe has been quite large during
the last ten years. and the prosperity
thew have here enjoyed has enlarged
the current in this direction from year
~ wear. In some localities on the
eastern side Of this city, the Jewish
element IL an important u in point
OF numbers, and in other cities Of the
seaboars1, as well as in the chief cities
Of the Mississippi Valley, the Jewish
population has greatly Increased since
i860. In connection with the details
10 be provided for in the ofthcomtnS
census, why might not 2 provision Be
for an enumeration Of the Jew
population in all u States and
Territories?-NeW York Iri5uae,
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Flora MacD Donald.

The Inverness Courier, in noticing
the announcement of IN a~utObiOgra-
ply Of Flora Macdonald, %preserver Of
Prince Charles, now preparing for
publication by Mr.. NimmO, of Edin-
burgh, observes: "That none of our
Scottish historians or tOpOgraphers,
who explored 81 infinitely the wan
behring's and vieissitudes Of Charles
Edward, seem TO have been aware of
the existence of the above manuscript.
FlOra-Or ElOry, H. she signed her
name in her marriage cOntract-had a
singular and romantic career, and II
she recorded fully her own trials and
the state of the Highlands in the mid
die Of the Last century, her autObiO-
graphy cannot Elil to possess interest.
She was in her 9th year when she
calamity riskcd her own freedom to
preserve chat OF Prince Charles. b.
the JacObites OF that day she WAS
idOlized. \ private subscription was
opened foe her, which soon amounted
TO 1880, and she sat to Allen RAM
say for her portrait, still preserved in
Oxford. The features are decidedly
Celtic the complexion dark, con-
trasting with the ample white rose
that d~tc0rates the bust. Boswell and
johnson describe her in 1913 as a lit
tie woman OF genteel appearance and
pleasing address. When she returned,
the heroine OF the day, to the High
lands, her society was cOurtel by all
classes, and between three and four
years afterward she gave her band TO
young Kingsburgh, who was the
model of a Highlander in cOunte-
nance, figure, dress and speech.
Affairs DO not seem to have gone
prosperously with them, and in IVA
Flora and her husband emigrated to
North Carolina. When the war broke
out Kingsburgh Joined the ROyalist
forces, was taken prisoner, but re-
gained his liberty, and served with
the Eighty-fOurth in Canada. They
returned, and it is related that the
vessel in which Flora and her hus-
band sailed was attacked by a French
privateer, and while the Celtic hero
inc stood on deck bravely animating
the seaIBen, she was thrown down and
one OF her arms broken. She was des-
tined, however, to die at home AZ last,
departing in her sixty-eighth year, in
1880, and her shfoud being formed Of
part of the sheet in which King
Charles slept at K~ingsburgh. Here
are materials for romantic biography.
The hair-breadth escapes of the royal
wanderer-the state of the Highlands
while society yet retained some of the
picturesque features Of clanshlp-the
emigrant voyage across the Atlantic,
and the subsequent American war
the perilOus return to Britaln-and
the final ten years of peace, while all
was changing in the Highlands and
Islands, and the old race was disap-
pearing from the land. Such are the
striking ev-nts in the life Of Flora
Macdonald.
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Progress Among the Isws.

We published yesterday the seven
resolutions adopted by eleven Tabbis
from the principal cities Of the United
States, who have met ia conference
at Philadelphia. these resolutions
embody the principles which, accord
ing to the advocates of reform and
progress, should be confessed by Juda-
ism in its present phase Of develop
ment. Without entering into de-
tails a. 10 the dOctrinal views thus set
forth by the representatives. OF a great
and powerful party among the Amer
lean JeWs-a party to which Fifth ay-
enue in New York owes the erection
Of OneOf its finest architectural OFna-
ments, the synagogue Emanuet.
which, significantly enough, is built
Ia the shape OF a cross, and which
was recently visited by Father Hya-
cinthe-we must call attention TO the
Jewish Reform Conferences in Pbiia-
delphia Is q most noteworthy sign Of
the times. 1t IS a fresh illustration Of
q wonderful progressive movement
among the Jews, both in the Old
World and in the New. Ever since
the destruction of the Temple, which
in the lifetime of Jesus Christ stood,
with its gltes, courts and towers, and
Respondent with gold and marble,
where tlle Mosque of Omar nov
rises at Jerusalem, the chief charac-
t~eristic OF ''the peculiar people, has
been the tenacity with which they
have adhered to their ancient religious
rites. These have continued IN
changed and Observation-Disclosures
the vicissitUdes and the prosecutions
( Of seventeen centuries. In res
pect To many other things the
Jews have, nc different pc
RODS and in different countries,
{ cOnfOrmed to the customs and eos
TUNES OF the communities around
them. We all remember how I" a
conquered nation changed their mill
tary leaders into rabbis, and their
hosts into armies of Students how,
in the Middle Ages as well as in more
/ modern times, they Became the mo
I ney-ehangers Of Europe; how, not
withstanding all the abuse of Wagner,
their great musical composers r tn
titled to the foremost rank; how
[ Rachel is not the only conspicuous
artist who has exhibited their extra
ordinary histriOnic genius; how the
Oh 1910 were CtlAcAy III
itiated and directed by them through
the medium of the newspaper press
and how, in fine, they have, in a
thousand different ways, shown their
adaptability to the age in which we
live. Aud now the Philadelphia Con-
ference attests, Ike the recent confer
ence of IsraeIites in Germany, the sin
GUAR fact that the Jews are in fuller
sympathy with modern ideas Of re-
form and progress than the ultra
mOntlnists of Europe, who, it would
seem, have induced the Bishop OI
Rome and head Of the Christian
Church to hold an EcumenicaIC Council
tor the express purpose Of opposing al
such ideas. In Germany the Jews
are slowly amalgamating with theiI
fellOw-cOuntrymen, and in the United
States-which they begin to e is the
true land of promise, and where they
are absolutely free-they are more
rapidly yielding 10 the spirit of pro
gress. All his will seem the less sur
prising if it be TeeOllected that Jesu:
Christ himself, the greatest OF mno
vatOrs, was levy y. Tines
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A CORRESPONDENTS Of the Union
and d0sericoR, alarmed at our State
debt Of S0,0o0, 900, and that, too,
growing at the rate of 81, 900, 600 a
year, suggests as the only remedy,
that all the d%efaulting railroads shall
be sold ont, that the colored men be
required 10 pay a poll tax, that the
expenses of the Legislature be re-
daced, and that the Penitentiary be
made self-sustaining. He estimates a
reduction OF Indebtedness by these
means as upwards Of $685. 600 a year
from the taxes, exclusive Of reduction
by sale Of the railroads. In relation
to these we quote as follows:
THE railroads " the State over
$780, 600, and E8il to pay the interest
on their debt by at least 81. 000. 600 an
nually; and thus the Taxpayers have
LOCO, 900 added 10 their 6ares at one
stroke Of the pen. Ia other words.
this failure On the part Of the railroads
10 pay the interest on the bonds loaned
them BY the State, more than doubles
our taxes. The annual expenses OF
the State government are about 5000
900, and II the deaulting railroads
paid their interest, our taxes would be
ORe-hGJ what they now are.
. The roads should be S0td for Stose
bonds, and these bonds at once cam
ceiIed. If~jadiciOnsly sold these bonds
would bring 90 the state about So
OJo,O09 in bonds, and our State debt
nov &~4,e08,G00 would be reduced to,
say, $4,000, O00.
II any n doubts the propfietyi
o. selling these roads, let him remem-
Der tlat, Wth our present rates Of tar
'otio1a, ace JaH short nearly 1 .6oaeO0
ere1y year ia paying The iRterest on orr
DEBT and Stme eepellsesI Ia other
words, the State debt grows Of itself
81, csc, coo more every twelve monthsl
bankruptcy IS almost at ouB doors
The roads owe Us the money-the
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gard for each other, yet they might
we'll be, nay ought 70 be, dispensed
with Tor more permanent benefit.
There Is no royal road to a friend.
We can never be certain NJ, from
whom We have just parted, is not Our
appointed friend. TIE Intercourse Of
years shall help Us in dark Ignorance,
when asudden glance or the careless
word Ia later days, viii reveal the
wealth we had about Us but knew not
Of.
Neither personal intercourse nor ae-
quaintance Is necessary 10 the exis-
tenee OF friends. Oceans may sep
arate them ever, and only thoughts
announce one to the other. We need
not be over anxious, Our friend will
surely gravitate to US, If We preserve
the right condition. All suggestions
as to the formation Of friends, are in
vain, without this substrata of a right
life. 10 which a sharer Will certainly
at sometime appear.
To our friend we owe all, nothing is
impossible, no misunderstanding can
arise. We know our friends as
pirations, his thought, his life.
OF course, therefore, he deserves some
recognition, other than when we have
naught else to do. Sacrifices are
freely made for all things, all aims,
and in all directions, for profit and
fame-shaif Rome be laid at the altar
of a greater than those?
This friendship Is not unknown TO
the thought OF men. The possibility
Of such a relation Is tacitly assented to
or indicated by existing connections.
But, unfortunately, the established
customs and atrocities are in a totally
| opposite direction that crush out our
aspirations and change the course OF
thought and ambition.
Men assert freely in their ealmer
moods the impurity Of the motives OF
their friends, yet continue in the lie.
THE fault il, that we meet men on
their level, and do not demand that
they rise to ours. How can we eX-
pet them to recognize in us what is
ignored by all2 Our friends are help
ers in times Of distress only; Of any
aid to purity of life or purpose they
are ignorant; and so help US TO con-
form TO them, instead Of assisting US
to stand erect, TO be ourselves. Were
it not to the purpose that men
announced their right appreciation OF
the Interested services, when possible,
as it always is? A step in that diree-
ton might, and would, bring loss Of
material benefit, but what matters the
loss Of deceit, hypocrisy and vice? Ii
is a positive gain. rather.
These considerations, which, while
general, are not disputed in our better
moments, find no favor in actual life.
1t seems impossible to realize the
ideal in any direction; but, more
than is conceded, would lasting bene-
fit result, if the higher services were
sought and rendered. instead of the
particular and mental ones. He who
possesses Il friend, is thereby at once
ennobled. FIlsehOOd and vice are
impossible F; for there il no longer
temptation downward, but positive
attraction to the good and true. A
joy and an elevation of spirit which
comes from no other kind of inter
course, is his forever. E.. w. r.
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