Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-20
STATE NEWS.

The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf Of
Friday saws: The sales of tobacco for the
week at ali the warehouses foe up about
fifty hoCsheads at full prices, say z 10 lc
above those current a month ago. None
of the offerings were rejected, which fact
is an evidence of satisfactory figures for
sellers. The stocks here, as is usual at
this season of the year, are quite small,
not exceeding $50 ~hogsheads perhaps, all
told.
The Knoxville Press and Herald
speaking Of the Swiss settlement in Mid
die Tennessee. SAYS: Among the most
hardy. industrious, moral and intelligent
immigrants who flock monthly and daily
10 American shores are the Swiss. Edu-
Gated in the arts Of industry in their own
hsalthful country. they come among Us,
not as %lOungers and men6icants 10 deyOur
our substance, but To add to ogr material
wealth and advance our civilization.
The Nashville Banner says! We
have authentic information Of an impOr-
taut movement on foot by a number of
Nashville capitalists and practical manu-
~acturer TO establish in this city. right
away, a factory for the making of all de-
scriptions of improved agricultural ma
chinety. The company is virtually formed
and is composed Of live men. The capt.
TAI stock is 800, 900, most of which Is SUP
scribed. Several eligible sites have be6ti
profiered for the factory building, and the
company Just nov have the matter under
consideration, being determined To select
the point most convenient 10 railroad
shipment. An agent Of the company viii
proceed nj once 70 the East for the neces-
cary machinery for the building. II Is
she desire of the company to purchase
their machinery in Nashville.
The Nashville Banner Of Saturday
says: Several gentleman. with some of
whom we are well acquainted, while 9TH
ers are Endorsed A. among the most relia-
isle and best informed citizens Of Smith
and Jackson counties, assure rs thai there
isnO foundation, whatever, for the reports
of outrages in that section, heretofore
published. They represent that the con
tlitiOn of affairs was never more peacea-
bile. In justice 10 ourselves we feel i'm
PEELED 10 state hat our informant, as to
she statement given in the Banner OF
Thursday, was Capt. L. =. Williams,
whom We supposed TO be well acquainted
with the circumstance mentioned. If lac
MAS mistaken ia his representations and
Injustice has been done the people of
Smith and Jackson, by HOOne Is more sin
cere regret experienced therefor than by
ourselves.
The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leqf con-
tains an elaborate eHlOgy upon the late
Hon. John Bell, from the pen Dillon. Gus
A. Henry, which concludes Is follows:
ain 1856 John Bell was nominated bv the
old Wing party as a candidate IGf tbe
Presidency. and had he been elected, what
"NOes unnumbered would have been
spared to this land. The times, however,
were out of joint; the people had run
mad, and the voice Ofwisdom fell unheed-
ed upon the public ear. Fanaticism and
folly and madness ruled the hour. and we
are all doomed to eat h bitter fruits
which are the grGVth of such distemper-
ed times. Had John Bell been elected,
Ehe ship Of state would not have been
driven on the rocks, hut WOnid nave glid-
ed into smooth waters. A gang ii pirates
determined TO seize the helm and 10 seat
tie the ship. or 10 direct her from her old
and safe paths in the ocean int new I'M
accustomed dangerous waters. Tennessee
Ought TO be proud Of the fame of John
Bell, and protect IL forever. tie was her
own and favorite son, and the sisest Ofall
her citizens. Jackson, Polk, GrHndy,
were all CNotics; he was Il native plant,
and grew in u own eXuberant soil, and
dourished in on " proud cline. They
were born in Kentucky and North M
South Carolina; he was F" ~nstiye,here, and
10 the manner born"