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For the Sunday Appeal.
DREAM-LAND


I once was the queen OF a palace of love,
Where JOY bloomed fair as the glance Of tn,
day,
But sorrow sits Broodlng its turrets above,
And crouch in the ashes TO weep and tc
pray.
But OF In the Iul1 OF the tempest of grief,
| I'm lured nom the echoing tempest TO stray
| And seek in the gardens of Dresin-land relief
And vile mid its beauties my anguish away
For Dream-land is more like the home I once
] knew,
When love. hope and h,fth in my spirit
were young,
Than this which my tear-aarkened glanees
now view,
With the foul, tangled network of sin
overhung.
For there, as l linger meath skies fair and
warm,
My brow once again with its love-cirele
crowned,
My lost ones come to me, and every dear form,
Love, truth, and eternal perfection surround.
There women are still, as Of Old, chaste and
pure
They marry for life; and II love Is betrayed,
In ehasteness the viii Of the Lord they endure,
And chaste widowed hearts On His altar
are laid.
The wives there are help-meets, keepers at
home,
Training the sons for the Church and The
state,
Training the daughters in virtue 10 bloom,-
In duty sublime they Heaven await.
The husbands in Dream land are house-bands
indeed,
shielding the family nest from the world,
Whose power put forth wife and children TO
feed,
The banner of Right hath in Dream-land
unfurled.
The churches-ah, me! they are houses Of
prayer,
Where, entraneed in the old-time devotion
bend
And murmur petitions to God, without care
That in musical rhythm the accents ascend.
There stands in the ehancel the white vested
priest,
Who leads me in love TO the blest Crucified,
And thankful kneel at the Eucharist feast,
70 my furnishing soul as of fold-time sup
piled.
with eonsecrate heart, as with eonsecrate
hand,
The blessing Of peace tothe people he gives,
After sermons that tend not TO weaken the
band
Which bind them to Him whose true ser
want he lives.
o, Dream-landi sweet Dream-land! so far yet
50 neari
Would God In thy bowers I ever could stay!
But the worlds cares and duties with voice
severe,
Are calling me from thy Nepenthe away.
Yet still in the ashes and dust where I weep,
In all that remains of my palace Of love,
Sweet strains lull the sharp stinging anguish
TO sleep
From the music thst floats ever Dream-land
above.
And thank, from the depth Of my sorrow
dark ened heart,
The Giver of Good that His fatherly hand
Has framed for the wounded by sorrow :
Keen dart,
The beautiful realm Of rep0sc, The Dream
land.
ST. MAKY's SCHOOL, Memphis.
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Steam Enginss--A Wonder

The Jersey City Times has a descrip-
tfOn of machine, now in operation
in that city, which is destined to work
a revolution in one department Of
mechanical ndustFy-namely new
steam engine, which, One-quarter of
the weight, and occupying one
quarter the space required for an ordi-
nary ten-hOrse engine, will give the
same power, with twenty-five per.
cent. less fuel.
This little machine sets at defiance
all Pre-eOnceived notions on the sub
jeet. Its motive powers is saIl con-
talned within the circumstance of
broad, stout wheel, about three feet in
diameter, revolving upon a hollow
shaft which receives the steam and
delivers it alternately into two Op-
pOsite reciprocal cylinders, and fixed
between the center and the periphery.
The power, therefore. instead Of be-
ing at the center, presents the
singular anomaly of being at the
circumference. Or, in other words,
the true center of power is at the
periphery of the wheel. To use a
a familiar smile, the wheel is like the
band or drum of a squirrel-eage, in
which two squirrels were cOnsentane-
Ously, cne in the usual position, the
other in the opposite, but with head
down, and with motion similar to
that of fly walking on the ceiling
both, of course, in continually rever-
sing positions as the wheel turns. 1t
IS an application of the simple prin-
cIple by which, as any one can see, a !
grlndstOne may easily be turned by
placing the hand upon its surface, |
while only with considerable MUSCULAR
eXertiOn a mans hand grasping the |
shaft can produce the same motion.
The inventor, Mr.. Ruset, a French !
man, resided at COmmunipaW until |
quite recently, where he was well |
known as the author and patentee of
several useful minor inventions. The |
Times says it is expected that stock |
viii be formed Immediately |
for the manufacture of the Ruset |
engine, whose value for all uses re- |
quiring Gghtness of construction,
combined with economy Of fuel, may /
be seen by the simple statement that |
1t will give ten-hOrse power with no
more fuel than would be required in a /
calOric engine of twO-hOrse power.
occupying One-fOurth Of the space.
and at a much less first cost. And /
one important feature is, that the
same engine can be used either to at
tain a high rate Of speed or to do
heavy hosting.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

MADRID, August 2l.-NOtwith,
standing the stories of invasion and
insuTrectiOn, it is believed the Carlist
movement is ended.
| LISBON, August 21.-The mail
steamer from Rio JaneirO has arrived,
bringing date TO the 2Sth of July.
Saper was at Ascension. He had
| plenty OfprOvisiOns but was short Oi
arms and ammunition and other war
material.
The allied army had captured Villa
Rica, and were preparing 10 storm
| ASCENSION.
Barriere was likely to become Pres
| ident of ASCENSION.
| PARIS, August 2l.-The La France
of to-day says Cuba is lost to Spain,
and the wisest thing Spain can do is
to take advantage of the present sit
uatiOn.
LONDON, August 2l.-The reported
order for an iron clad to proceed TO
Cuba on account of the detention of
British vessels by Cuban authorities,
| has been cOuntermanded.
The crop accounts from all parts of
England, except wheat, are reported
as good as the average.
The weather is fair and favorable
for the crops.
The Standard to-day has an edit0-
rial on Canadian treaties. The writer
says there is great probabilities of a
change in the relations between Can
ada and Great Britain, which would
be likely to be distasteful to a major
ity of the inhabitants of the dominion
if they were consulted. If there
is any dissatisfaction with existing
State officers it is only by feelings that
we can safely make them ineligible
to those of the frontier. All that can
be done under the present Govern
ment is to repudiate the notion that a
withdrawal of the troops implies a de
sire to shuttle out Of responsibilities
east on Great Britain by the presence
of a dag in colonial territory which
means military administration. Eng
land is now in the hands of those who
fail to appreciate the Canadian ques-
ton.
Messrs. Harvard aud Thatcher, who
were arrested at New York and taken
to England for trial, on the charge of
forgery, We're brought up for prelimi-
nary examination. Mr.. Thatcher was
discharged and Mr.. Harvard remand
ed for trial.
PARIS, August 21.-It is now tolera-
bly, certain that Gen. Edward LeBOuf
will be appointed Minister Of War.
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SIR KNIGHTS TRIBUTE OF RESPECT

Preamble and Resolutions on the death Of lsiy,
Knight, HENRY p WoOnARD, dlloBtef by On
rene COm8iaadely No. knights TelapEar and
ordered eJigTGusd upon is Records:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Almighty God TO
remove from his earthly career our honored
companion and Sir knight, HENRY p. WooD-
ARD:
ResOired, That we bow with submission to
this sudden and painful visitation, and desire
70 regard 10 as q warning q to be also ready i
ReSOiCed, That few OF our Companions have
departed from us who held a h hlgher place in
our affections; as a member of the Masoni
Fraternity, none more seduOusly cultivated
ITS sublime tenets, and practiced on every oc-
cjs1On its cardinal virtues.
Resotted, That this COnlmandery viii retain
in grateful memory the many virtues of our
departed brother; his attachment to our Or
der, and the fidelity with which he discharged
all his duties are worthy OF the imitation Of
MS surviving Companions and Sir Knights
hesOired, That we sincerely cOudOle wiz,
his bereaVed widow, and that a CODY of these
resolutions be rendered to her, and published
in the Memphis Daily and Weekly ApDaaI
GEORGE WHITE. Chairman
JOHN ZENT, E, G.
DODGE c. TRADER,
w. T. MITCHELL,
BENZ. X. PULLEN, Committee
Attest: ,. J. WIGGIN, Recorder.
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Mrs. Stoves New Story About Lord
Byron.

Mrs. Stowe furnishes the "sensa-
tiOn for the September GALAXY, in
the shape of a defense of Lady Byron
and q horrible accusation against her
husband. Mrs. Stoves apology for
tearing open the old scandals about
Byron, and adding a fresh one to the
number, Is that the Countess Guiccioli
has lately /" whitewashed " the repu-
tation of the dead poet, and made it
to appear that ifhe was false to his
wife, the latter certainly gave him
much prOVOeatiOn.
Mrs. Stowe, it seems, enjoyed the
intimacy of Lady Byron few years
before the death Of the latter, and she
committed to Mrs. Stowe. the revolt
ing story which she now Yentilates.
This story, in substance, is that Lady
Byron discovered that before his mar
riage he was guilty Of ineestuOus in
tercOurse with his sister, by whom he
had a child; that the consciousness
that this fact was known to his wife
made him desperate, and that for this
reason he abused and finally drove her
from his house.
What makes this story the more re-
markable is the assertion that this
child lived for four years, part of
the time under Lady Byron's own
care, without a single breath of scan
dial having grown out of the occur
rence-and that at a time when En-
glish society had, Is Macauiay says,
g fOne Of its periodical fits of moral
ity," and had resolved itself into a
national police for the discovery of all
of RyrOn'5 crimes and peccadillOs, and
into debating society over the true
and false revelations thus obtained.
The intelligent reader of Mrs. Stoves
article will judge how much credenee
there is to be put in this story of Lady
Byron's, which seems to Us like the
mOnOmaniae revelations of a poor
woman whose domestic sorrows had
upset her reason and substituted
gloomy imaginings for the memory of
actual facts
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BY TELEGRAPH.
NASHVILLE.
The Secretary Fletcher Heavy on
Reputation.

The Heat Secretary Fletcher Heavy Of
Reputation.
NASHVILLE, August 2l.-Weathel
hot and dry. Mercury at pm. stood
at 1902.
Secretary Fletcher published a let
ter to-day in response TO the bond
holders, who wanted to know wheth-
er they should hold their bonds. lie
tells them that their new bonds in law
and equity are as good as the old, and
recommends them TO keep them. de
says they cannot be repudiated, be-
cause they are collectable by law in
the Federal courts, either by direct
suit against the State, or by bin in
equity, TO enforce the State lien
against the railroads for the benefit OF
bondholders.
In conclusion he says: " Repudia-
ton is impossible for many reasons.
First, because the people of Tennessee
are too proud and too honest. Be
cause there is not the shadow OF justi-
hcation for it, and because our bonds
are cOllectable in the courts. 1t is i'm
possible in the face OF the condemna-
ton of the world. Legislature can
OF dare adopt a measure which would
brand every Tennesseean with dis
grace wherever he may 90 on the face
OF the earth, and which would make
our children's children blush TO own
their natiVity.N
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The Desert of Sahara.

Ferdinand de LeSSeps, the protector
and engineer of the SueZ canal, has, it
is reported, devised plan for the re-
clamation of the desert Of Sahara.
This dreary waste, according to the
observations of African explorers, was
formerly a vast inland sea, which has
been exhausted by some conyulsion of
nature. The engineers sent to explore
the desert, report that its level at its
nearest point of approach is thirty feet
below the Red Sea, with a constantly
increasing depression as it proceeds to-
wards the interior of Africa. De Les
seps therefore proposes to build a ca
nal seventy-tiVe miles long, to turn the
Red Sea into the desert of Sahara, so
that the now dry sand may be culti-
waited, the intense heat of the climate
be mitigated, and the inhabitants be
reached by the missionaries and be-
come civilized. This plan Of an in
land sea, however, is said not to be
original with De Lesseps. An Amer
lean, Charles Ellet, jr., when State En-
gineer for Virginia, announced n pro-
ject for supplying an ineXhauStible
feeder for the James River and Kama
wha canal, and also for the Ohio river.
A large basin was to be formed in the
western counties of Virginia, and
lake seventy miles in circumference
and sixty feet deep was to be filled
with the water supplied by the rains
and by the streams running down the
Alleghenies. A report, with maps
and draughts, we published at the
time, and the success of the project
was considered certain, though the
heavy expense proved an obstacle too
difficult to be overcome,
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The Growth of iRsbriety Among
Woman


Says the New York IfOFid: How to
enjoy the pleasure of inebriety, and
yet to escape the shame of discovery,
is problem which wOmen-especially
those Of the respectable, not to say
fashionable, Class-have long endeav-
Ored to solve. The disreputable wo-
of gin and boldly avoWs her drunken
ness; but the reputable woman repu-
dates the coaFseness of undisguised
liquor, and breads the disclosure of her
intemperate propensities. Various
aids to drunkenness have from time
to time been adopted, and have en-
joyed temporary popularity. Not
to give more than a passing mention
to those familiar beverages of abnOr-
mally thirsty chambernaids-e de
Cologne and bay rum-there are the
numerous preparations of sarsaPaFilla
which ten or fifteen years ago were the
peculiar delight of Incorporate but
strictly moral women. Bitters sue
ceeded to the place made vacant by
the abandonment of sarsaparilla,
which had gained an unsavOry repu-
tatiOn by the careless frequency with
which it was exposed to the profane
gaze of masculine intruders into the
boudoir. In its turn, however, bitters
became too notOriOusly a pander to
unlawful feminine thirst to be longer
a safe resourse, and it became neces-
sary to secure some new and unsus-
pectel stimulant. At one time there
was prospect that hasheesh would
come into general use, but the intro
duction into the market of q so-called
" hasheesh candy" which produced
none of the desired symptoms of in
toxieation, brought the Oriental drug
into complete disgrace. In the alb
sence Of anything better, opium, the
use of which Is only less difficult Of
cOncealing than that of alcohol, would
doubtless have gained new devotees
had it not been discovered that chic
rofOrm was precisely the safest and
most convenient agent with which
female respeetability could intaNieate
itsnlf
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SPORT
Tom Allen TO Fight Gallagher for Stake
of $1,000

ST. LOUIS, August 2l.-Tom Allen
has accepted the proposition Of Gala
CHER to add one thousand dollars to
the stakes Of the hate match and fight
the battle over again. He names the
place within fifty miles of Cincinnati,
and the time seven to ten days hence.
A meeting is to be held this afternoon
TO sign articles if Gallagher agrees 10
the above.
A dispatch from st. Joseph men
tiOns the reception of a letter there
from California saying that 500 Chi
nese will shortly be sent to st. JO-
seph, from whence they will be dis
tributed to various points. An agency
is TO be established at St. Joseph, and
another at Springfield, Mo.
1t is stated that Tom Allen has re-
ceived letter from Joe WOrmald eX-
pressing a desise to make a match
with O'BaldWin, the Irish Giant, for
$1,000 a side.
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MEMPHIS DRY DOCKS

SS The company owning the above institu-
uon are now prepared to do all work in theil
line of business with PRoMPTNEss, ECONOMY
AND DISPATCH.
They have an ample stock of materials on
hand for all purposes.
Their rate of charges being as favorable as
that of any similar institution IN the West,
they solicit liberal share Of patronage.
Being located at the city of Memphis, in the
midst OF the finest tina5ered region Of Amer
lea, and accessible at all stages Of the river,
they offer inducements to parties desirous of
repairing, and especially Of building steam-
ers, superior to any company in the West.
JAMES LEE, JR., President.
H. DOW, Sec'y and Treas,
PRIMUS EMERSON, Sap't.
Yicksburg Herald copy one 420nth and send
bill 70 H, Dow, See'y and 4Feas, augl
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An 0utWitted Father-in-lsw.

A rollicking son of the Green Isle,
named Sam, laid seige to the heart OF
fair daughter of Stephensville, and
won the consent of her parents y as
well as the heart Of Ye ladye faire.
Sam and Rosa were made one, and
the 6 parents +" granted a spot of land
for Sam to build his bride bower.
Sam built and had it nicely covered
in when he learned that the Dater
jQssisias wouldn't give him claim to
his lot. He demonstrated, but found
pater .ineXorable, said he would be
contented if he gave the claim to
Rosa; offered to pay for il, but Pa was
deaf. The house was built and sam
was sold, but not defeated. He made
his plan known, and bevy of neigh
bOrs came with block and tackle and
carried the house he had prepared for
his charming Rosa off to another lot
amid the cheers of the people and
curses of the outwitted father.
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Want of Faith.

Capt. Marcy, wishing to impress the
Indians with the superior genius and
skill of the white people, sent his in
terpreter repeatedly to his tribe to ex-
plain the railroad, the steamboat, and
many other wonderful inventions.
First the railrOads-when he came
back. 4" What did they say?"
" Humphl they wouldn't believe it. +"
Then the steamboat" what did they
say?o "They wouldn't believe
that Finally, he sent aim to ex-
plain the telegraph; when he came
back" Did you tell them about the
telegraph" No." " Why didn't
your " Humph! ] did not believe
that Blyseyi"
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LABOR CONVENTION.

Election of Ofioers---R. TreyeBek, Pres
ident
PHILADELPHIA, August 2l.-The
heat is intense; thermometer 1922 in
the shade.
The National Labor Convention re-
assembled at am. A motion that
the next Congress be held at Louis
vile on the 18th day of August, 1870
was tabled.
A resolution was adopted for con
tribution of five dollars each by the
members of the labor organization tC
defray expenses.
An election of officers was then
held, and r. Trevelyck was chosen
President; A. It. c. Ives, first Vice
President, and NJ. Kugher second
Vice President.
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CUBA
Skirmish Between the Rebels and Govern
ment Troops

HAVANA, August t2l.-Advices from
Matanzas state that the Captain-Gene-
raj had reviewed the troops in that
city. They expressed willingness 10
90 ints active service.
The rebels, 4OOstrOng in the jurisdic-
tiOn of Colon, have been committing
depradatiOns. They burnt several es-
tates.
Col. Benegasia, who left Puerto Pa
DIRE with a regiment numbering 500,
escOrting convoy TO Los Tanmas, en-
cOuntered the rebels twice. Severe
fights CnSued, bot the result is IN
known. Reports say he reached Los
IanmaS.
LATER-Capt. DuROhas has arrived
here from MatanZaS.
\. 5. Simmons, who has been con-
fined six months at Puerto Principe,
was released at the interceSsiOn of
Consul General Plumb, and left for
New York on the steamer Missouri.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PROPOSALS.
BOARD COMMISSIONERS SHELBY Co. Tenn. ]
july TERM,

BOARD COMMISSIONERS SHELLEY Co, Tenn
July TERM,
"WEDNESDAY, August H. 1863.
ORDERED that the County Court Clerk be
and he is hereby authorized 70 advertise for.
bids for the property belonging 70 the county,
located ON Adams street, said property being
the same that was purchased for the purposs
of building a County Courthouse upon. Said
bids to be sealed and addressed to the Board
of County Commissioners and handed to the
County Court Clerk on or before the 18th of
this present month. said bids should state
whether cash. county warrants, bonds or
notes viii be given; whether tn, entire prop
erty viii be paid for az once, or whether time
is required, and how much. said bids to be
opened at a regular meeting Of the Board of
County Commissioners, and the bid which is
of most advantage TO the county 70 he ac-
cepted, II considered desirable and reasonable,
In accordance with the foregoing order
sealed bids Will be received at the Clerks
0fiice until 10 O'Clock a. M. OF the 18th instant
augl9 JOHN LOtCUE Clerk
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FlLlBUsTERS.
Movements Of Cuban Patriots Disposition
Of their Property.


New YORK, August 2l.-Judge
Benedict yesterday granted stay OF
proceedings in regard 10 the dispOsi-
ton OF the ammunition wagon, etc,
belonging 10 the Cuban Junta, and
which Marshal Dallan was about to
sell to satisfy judgments recovered by
the owner Of the tug boats Charles f.
CoOle and Mabry.
The Tribune says it is expected, on
good grounds, that a Cuban eXpedi-
ton will leave within a few days,
either from this port or Boston. Pre-
parations have been quietly going on
for the last three weeks. Many Gu
bans in this city believe that two or
three expeditions on a small scale
from Florida were made as mere
blinds, to divert the attention Of the
public from the direction in which the
work was going on. Marshal Barlow
has for the last two weeks taken eX-
traOrdinary precautions against any
violation of the neutrality law.