Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-27
sHORT PARAsRAPas.

That Ladies' gambling house -
has last been heard of as at Philadel'
phia.
Gen. ToOmbs, OF Ga, reappears, af-
terra long illness, In the courts OF his
district.
Ham Carter, the. vicious Tennessee
black Radical, has been making faTi-
Gus speeches about Natehez.
Sixty persons have committed sui
eide at Homberg within the last five
years on account OF Tuinous losses at
the gambling hells.
The ground on which Chicago
stands is, in the central part Of the
town, eleven feet higher than it was
before Chicago was put there.
10 be brother-in-law to somebody
seems an essential element Of political
success. a Mr.. Brooks Is announced
as likely TO fill BOutwell's seat IN Con-
gress, on the ground that he holds the
requisite relationship to Attorney
General Hoar.
jefferson Davis is probably by this
time at his old home in Mississippi.
WHY NAV he not be returned TO the
Senate of the United States? He can
hardly take the iron clad, but if he
were as great a knave as represented
nv his enemies, this would be no OBJ
stacle TO his accession TO his old Office.
DIR. Hall accounts for the aurora bo-
.-eaiis in this wise: That IT Il pro-
duGed by rays Of the sun reflected
SroW clouds around the pole 10 the
fce and suaw-fields of the Arctic,
thence Alternating from earth to
heaven, until az last it giimmers upon
the skies OF lower latitudes.
The world is a public school and it
soon teaches a new pupil his place.
II he has the attributes that belong to
a leader ne will be installed in that
position II not, whatever his opinion
OF his abilities mas be, he viii be com
PEELED to fall in with the rank and file.
gfDot destined to greatness he can as
pine TO and attain respectability.
At a meeting Of the Conservatives
Of Hinds county, Miss, at Raymond,
on the 10th inst. the following gentle
men were nominated for the Legisia-
Iure: 7. A. Mellon, W. F. FitZger-
aid; cOl0fed. Andy Millen, YORK HOr-
ton. Delegates were appointed to
represent the county in the Senatorial
Convention, at Jackson, November
lst q HaH..
BOBBY Bullock, ,so-eailed Governor Of
Georgia. sent one Of his nliniOns, last
Week, down 10 Augusta to remove
Hefn0xhan for trial to Atlanta, charged
with the commission Of a crime in
Augusta. Georgia statutes require
criminals to be tried in the county in
which the offence was committed.
Booby BuilOck's plans were thwarted
by the Intervention of hdbea3 corpus.
The Jackson Tribune asserts that
those counties in which blacks are
feWest will be most opposed to the
CONCESSION of their newly asserted
rights. 1t adds that, at least, the ne
gro ought to be allowed to testify la
the courts. His evidence will 90 at
its proper value, and until lying gets
at a discount with the colOred folk, the
liberty Of no one Is ia especial danger
from that quarter.
1t Is said that the Cubans accrse
SeerCtary Fish with duplicity in false
iy promising recognition, with the
prOvisCs: first, they secured a capital
fOr their Government; second, a con-
ztitutiOn: and third, a seaport. They
nave filed the first prCEisO and tried
20 make the Hornet obtain the last for
them, but Mr.. Fish seizes her for VIC .
lating the neutrality laws. Put not
your trust in Fishes.
A sensational dispatch, made up in /.
a newspaper Office and credited to .
II Southern correspondent, is effectu- /
ally disposed Of by the St. Louis Dis .
patch. The editor Of the Dispatch was .
present when Col. Lawrence OFtOn
Williams was executed on the Nash
vile pike, near Harpeth river. His
body was buried after it had been sus-
pended 81 minutes. The story that
he escaped, went TO Cuba and was
playing fantastic tricks among the
Is all bosch.
The New York Herald is mistaken
when IL asserts that the Jews fail in
Europe, that they are poor and
dOwn-trOdden and Oppress-
cd" Only yesterday the story was
current that a ROthschild proposes to (
pay the federal debt, or lend Us the
money for fifty years at 4 per cent.
Poor they are not, aud in every Euro
pestn cabinet and capital some He
brew is the leading spirit in politics
and finance. Even here in Memphis,
our next local chief magistrate may
BE- Of the Hebrew faith. We hear
much said in favor Of an aSpirant
''the straitest Of his sect"
The Roman Catholic Bishop Do
mere has announced through his chap
lain, Father Burke, in the pulpit of
the Cathedral, that all parents Of chill
iren attending public schools at Pitts
burg Allegheny and vicinity, are Re
4Uired 10 take away their children at
once, or receive a public rebuke.
Should this command be disregarded,
he will eXc0mmunicate them, and
ieny them the privileges and benefits
lf the church. This action has arisen
from the recent controversies concern
ing the use Of the Bible in the public
,hOOls.
Col. Nilloughby Williams, who
'pent three weeks at Nashville to Sc
suue the election Of Andrew johnson,
passed through the city yesterday en-
route 10 his Arkansas plantation. He
was one of those citizens Of Nashville
whom Military Governor Andrew
Johnson compelled 10 pay a thousand
iOllars for the maintenance of "rebel
amiiiesD in Nashville. He paid the
sum wrOngfuliy eXtOrted, but deeming
var a system Of wrong, concluded that
perhaps Andy was right. In any
event, he thOlght il strange that Mr..
Johnson should he defeated By COM I
linatiOn between those who detested
lsost his acts during the war and those
ShO most condemn his acts since the
'essatiCl Of hOstilities. Politics make
TRANCE beu.ellOws.
II appears that lunacy is increasing
n France at a rate out Of all proper
lou with the population. Ohicial lsta-
isties show that in 1851 the total num-
Ier OF idiots and lunatics was lin round
iumbersj IS, 900; tiYe years later there
\ ere G0,OJO: in another five years they
iad risen to 81 600; and in lS67 they
numbered no less than 5000 This
growth Of madness is at
rihuted 10 various causes such as to-
iaccO, absinthe, etc.,-which are not
satisfactory; but one fact in
with it j. worthy Of notice
q view Of the recent Wall street ex-
itement. The lunacy doctors Of the
'refecuWe de Police have observed
hat 0ftt3' eU(5g pOaic AT the BOHrSe
nv mad twice as much work on thire
lands as usual.
The Baltimore Gdz,te SAYS that ia
elati0B 10 the Nerger case, il may be :
that nothing but the blood
t Yerger viii satisfy the Radicals.
'heV hunger for it with an Unsuitable
reed. the more remarkable as none Of
hem can possibly have any personal
interest IN the matter. 1t is simply
ecause YeFger is a Southern man
hat they desire his death; and they
-uald hang him had they the power,
ven we're the evidence in his favor
lear as MONDAY. They say he must
OF Be tried before a civil tribunal,
eeause ne might be acquitted. He
aust be tried by a military court, be-
sase that win condemn him to death,
Z the evidence what it may. Such
the high esteem IN which military
ourts are held by those who created
hem. i
The late disgraceful war among gold {
ambIers, who control the political
nd commercial destinies Of the cOun- {
", was a spectacle OF shame and hOr- I
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