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Private Claims before Congress.

1t is easy enough in these days to
push through Congress a bill taking
twenty millions of dollars out OF the
pockets of the farmers and working
men of this country and putting it
into the pockets of half a dozen mo-
nOpolists, who own the patent for
manufacturing Bessemer steel rails.
But the following story, which has
been told US, shows that a just private
claim of a friendless soldiers widow
may wait many a year. The steamer
San Francisco fOundered at sea in
1858. She had on board United States
troops, commanded by Colonel
Gates, who was a brave officer
of the army, since dead. The
troops and officers lost everything;
and as they were going to a far off
station California; the officers had
taken with them valuable outfits.
They sought to have their losses, in
CURED by no fault of theirs, made
good. Colonel Gates filed his claim
for $12, 900 before Congress, while JEFF
ferson Davis was still head of the Sen
ate Military Committee, and there it
has been hanging ever since-for more
than fifteen years. So far as we are
informed, its justice is acknowledged,
but it is not reported. Why not? Are
monopolists of steel, salt and pig iron
the only ones nowadays who have
rights to be respected?
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THE principal business OF Congress,
as well as Of the legislatures through
out the country, at this time is that OF
investigating frauds. Corrupt prac-
tees are in universal fashion and high
feather, and nothing else is expected.
Pretense of Investigation follows to
preserve appearances-nothing more.
Nobody expects the rogues will be
punished, especially when they do
business on a large scale. A new de-
in connection with the San
Domingo imbroglio, is now expected
at Washington-all similarly to no.
purpose. An American citizen has
been imprisoned on the island, with
the connivance of one Of Grants Sc
cret6agents, who was suspected of
being a witness, and TO prevent his
appearance before Congress and testi-
flying to circumstances which, if
proved, would defeat the treaty. The
Senate has raised a committee to Sin
vestigate,n a usual, and a friend OF
the administration was appointed
chairman, instead of Nj. Ferry, the
mover Of the resolution, in order that
the withdrawing process, which Is to
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follow of course, should be made az
easy as possible. Nh. Thayer inquired
why the complaint had not been
made to the President direct. In an.
swer, the Baltimore Gazette quotes
the following by authority statement:
"Mr. Ferry interrupting) said, if the
Senator Mr.. Thayer) would only be pa
tient and wait until the committee was
appointed, if appointed at all, all neces-
sary information would be forthcoming.
He (Mr. Ferry had nOw in his desk the
papers 6eGTlag upon the point suggested,
but did not now desire To consume the
time Of the Senate by an elaborate expla-
nation. The Senator would ascertain at a
proper time that since last December
eUoTts had been made TO obtain the release
Of Mr.. Hatch, which efforts were success
ful some time in May, and he would as
certain there UGS abundant reason for the
presentation Of tie memorial Of Mr.. Hatch
to the Senate. His own Judgment, in view
of all the circumstances, was lat the
course which had been taken in the pre-
sentation Of the memorial to the Senate
was proper and j~usti6able."
Again the Gazette quotes the garrul-
GUS Cameron, who has got all he ex-
poets from this administration, as fol-
lows:
"He said that while holding a position
under the Government, he himself had
been censured by his own friends in the
House of Representatives for doing GER
tain acts; that that censure stood on
record yet, and probably always would,
TO mis- own injury, notwithstanding the
then President of the United States, in
his sense of Justice, sent a message to the
House stating that the very acts conf
planned Of Were tone 6y his order and TN
der has direction. II tOGS nOD proposed TO
do the same thing Nth General Ba6cock,
h Dds acting under the orders of the
President"
The Senatorial Committee is at
work, and can make astounding -
developments if it only proves honest
and fearless enough.
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WHAT a rich idea is that Of Gov.
Alcorn, in Mississippi, attempting tc
revive the old Wing party" Name
have LOST their old significance. The
great body of the Southern Wings are
addicted TO principle, and follow the
lead of z patriotic instinct. The bad
have sloughed off TO the Radical par
ty-Aleorn, Brownlow, Schenck, and
a few others of the old line-and
they are now cheek by jowl with
Grant, Butler, Logan and other
Old Line Democrats. The issue
has changed from Wing and Demo-
crat to patriot and Tory. And now,
we have these on the Tory side cali
ing themselves Republicans, while
the true Democrats and the true Wings
have combined against them under
the Democratic banner, and we have
Willard Fillmore side by side
with John Quincy Adams and
Thomas Ewing. The Democrat
of to-day Is the good Wing and the
good Democrats of yesterday-that is
all. The chaf of the old parties has
blown of, leaving the wheat to win
back, pure government and liberty.
No man cares for the name
but only for the significance of his
banner.
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A Curious French Law Case.

A curious case lately came before
a French court. There are still to be
found in France a considerable mum.
Der of the descendants of the ancient
nOblesse, who, in spite of the abolition
of the estates in 1889, and the ruin
brought on their order at that period.
have contrived to regain, and further
to retain, very large landed property.
This has been accomplished mainly
by family arrangements, giving the
head of the house the laSS in cOnsid-
Grafton OF his paying an equivalent in
money to the other heirs, and still
more by prudent m~srrying, for at
this day no more thoroughly worldly
marriages are concocted in any part
of the world than in the Faubourg st.
German. These marriages are al
most entirely dictated by policy, and
the wishes of the contracting parties
are little more consulted than they
were in England a century and a half
ago.
One of the greatest of the feudal
lords left in France is the Duke de
Doudeauville, of the famous family of
La Rocheioucauld, who keeps house
quite in barOnial style at his chateau
in Central France, where, it may be
added, the representatives of the old
peerage are principally to be found.
The Duke, who dispenses a splendid
hospitality, and in the autumn has
his house full of guests, is fond of mu-
sic, and last year received and enter
tanned a proposal from a musical con-
tractor in Paris, by name Vicini, that
ha chonIH hpip~ Hrst-rat 10 IN
of six musicians to the chateau. A
clause vas inserted to the effect that
if the Duke did not think the band
first-rate it should return to Paris
with travelling expenses paid; but
nothing was said as to e sex of the
musicians.
When he had arrived it appeared
that the violinist was a young lady,
v no, to make everything proper, was
accompanied by her mother as cha
perOH. The Duke at once demurred
TO the feminine element in his Vicini
troupe, and intimated that, 10 addi-
ton to his not having contemplated
the pleasure of entertaining a super
numerary in the shape of a guardian
angel, he would, her presence not
withstanding, not be responsible for
the consequence of the daughter being
thrown into the miscellaneous society
Of his establishment, it having been
that the musicians would
mess" with the upper servants.
So Vicini and his band were packed
off to Paris, and the indignant musi-
ian brought an action for $1,000
the Duke, but the court has
dismissed his suit with costs.
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b GRANT, in his proclamation against
the .Fenians, says that with her
Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, the United States is at
peace" Never before was the plu-
rality Of the United States denied.
No President ever resOrted to bad
grammar to convey a worse political
idea. Oblftera,ion OF State lines was
a confessed calamity, and the people
assented tC the use of the word "na-
ton " as a convenient rather than an
accurate term, but Grant t~ranscends
all others, either, in Ignorance Of
grammatical rules, Or Of cOnstitu-
tional law. His stupidity may run
puri pGSsu, in both directions.
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WE are in a fair way to have
"Church and State" revived. Twenty
colored DDS, of New Orleans, have
issued their politico-religious circular
to the christian Republic Of Louis
lana" They advise the churches to
perform the religious duty Of max
ing nominations, appointing commit
tees, etc, and say the church PRESERVES
to itself the right TO approve or reject
nominated candidates" With the
Southern negroes the preachers are
kings. They say: "We look with
pain and indignation on the tendency
to exclude men from office on account
Of color, and we here denOunce as
nti-Republican and unjust any efforts
to discriminate between men on ac-
count Of race. We pledge ourselves to
make this a prominent feature in the
coming campaign"
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Theoretically Chief Justice Chase i:
a Democrat, a strict constructionist
a quasi Free Trader. He abandoned
the Democratic party on the negro
question alone. He found it impossi.
bic to try Jefferson Davis because Of
his views as to the guilt or innocence
of the ConfeEerate President as de-
fined by American Constitutional law.
Chase is also a hard-mOney, Tom-Ben-
ton Democrat, and yet when necessity
compelled him he was the greatest
paper fnancier the world ever saw.
The Courier Journal says that Mr..
Chase occupies a very curious posi-
ton. Two parties claim him-the
slow Republicans and the fast De
mocracy. Yet each admits that his
election by either would destroy both.
If the Democrats take him that is the
practical abandonment of organized
Democracy. If the Republicans take
him that is the destruction of organ
lied Radiealism. His election would
really overthrow all parties and Or
ganize new ones,
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A LARGE number of the Radical
leaders now consent that Grant, as a
President, is "a failure" How is
that, when he has succeeded inevery-
thing he has attempted? Did he not
set up the standard Of loyalty before
honesty, and has he not a great null
titude Of followers? Did he not set
out to reward his friends, and has he
not appointed them on the "truly
loil" principle, without regard to
honesty, and given them an opportu-
nifty to steal as much as they please?
We believe in "giving the devil his
due" A mar that gives his friends
the revenue officials, a chance to steal
two millions in New Orleans, another
million in New York, and millions
elsewhere throughout the country,
setting up kingnabobs at his will, is
no failure. We protest that Grant is
as great a statesman as he was a Gen
eral.
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A Political Bird.

The French papers announce the
| death of Jacko, the famous parrot OF
the War Office in Paris. Jacko was
first brought into the office in 1880 by
Marsha Soult, and he remained for
forty years at his post unaffected by
revolutions or party conflicts. After
a time, says the Pal Mall Gazette, he
came to be looked upon as an indis-
pensable appanage of the War De-
partment, and when there was a cabi-
net crisis, people used to ask who was
to get, not the War Office portfolio,
but the War Office parrot. Though
he served under eighteen different
ministers, he always remained con-
sistent to the principles which were
instilled into him when he first en-
tered the office. Both under the Re
public and the second empire, he re-
manned a staunch royalist, and
there were few members of his
party who spoke their minds with
so much frankness. One day his
repeated cries of Vive lie
Roip' so annoyed Marshal st. Arnaud
when he was War Minister that he
ordered theindiscreet bird to be turned
Oula JdChO AdO q AACh0g OnONC III
the porter, who took him into his
lodge and taught him to add "de st.
Arnaud' to his usual cry. The bird
was then put back into his room, and
the Marshal was passing, screamed
out, "Vive lie roi de st. Arnaud!v
ga la bonnie heure," said the Minis
ter, and Jacko was at once retaken
favor. OF late years the clerks
tried to teach him 'Nive PEmpe-
but he never could bring ont
the entire sentence without tremen-
dous efforts. He got on very well as
far as "Vive PEmpe-," but at this
point he seemed to choke, his feathers
stood on end, and his eyes rolled with
an anxious expression as if he felt his
conscience approaching him. At last
after several minutes Intense struo,
cling. he would Jerk out the last svl-
Iable G2reur'' in a hearse sepulehraI
tome. He died Immediately AFTER fhe L
Duchess de Berri, and on the anniver-
of the death of Napoleon I.
three days before the plebiscitum.
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A MEETING of stockholders and Di-
rectOrs of the Memphis and Kansas
City Railroad will be held at Wits
burg next Thursday, for the purpose
of organization, to receive reports of
engineers who have surveyed the
routes, and further to take measures
looking to the ways and means of
building the road. In this matter the
citizens Of Memphis r most deeply
interested. A delegation of citizens
should be sent owe to represent Us.
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MAJOR SYKES, in his recent speech

MAJOR SYKES, in his recent speech
at Aberdeen, stated that the counties
of LOwndes and Monroe, in Missis-
sippi, would save $4,000 per annum
in fuel by securing access to the coal
fields OF Alabama by mean Of the
ElytOn road. The sun thus saved
will be annually augmented, as pOpu-
latiOn becomes dense, until a little
road, costing four millions, will pay
for itself by ~cheapening fuel alone.
This ElytOn and Aberdeen road is
part and parcel OF Forests Selma
road, and the benefits to result from
its construction inure to Memphis,
and to the manufacturing prosperity
Of this city, and are as invaluable to
us as to the people OF Eastern Missis-
Sippi.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-14

THE death of Charles Dickens fell
like a great stone into the we'll of the
worlds heart, and has so splashed the
water in its eyes that it can hardly
see and comprehend the lesser grief
involved in the death of VIM. Gill
more Simms. Never has the sun set
on two sadder days than these which
so nearly follow one another, destined
to be ever memorable for grieyous ca
lamities that have befallen mankind.
The world weeps yer Dickens bier,
and Carolina and the South that VIII
liam Gilmore Simms is no more. In
a narrower sphere he was as thor
oughly well known and ss much
beloved as the great Englishman.
Simms was born at Charleston in 1906.
He began to write verses at seven
years of age, and during the war of
1872, recited its incidents in simple
rhymes. His family wa poor, his
childhood sickly, his education i'm
perfect, and he became a druggists
clerk. He was a lawyer on his 22d
birthday, and in 1898 an editor OF the
Charleston Gazette. Then his books
began to appear. Perhaps his best
poem, Atlantis a story of the sea,
appeared in 1888. His first prose sto-
ry.was "'Martin Faber,o followed by
many volumes of romance, history,
biography and miscellaneous litera-
ture. He has produced two dramas,
Norman Maurice" and the "FaH of
the Alamo" and has adapted Shaks-
peare's "TimOn of Athens for the
stage, with numerous additions OF his
own. Simms' most successful story
was "Yemassee," full of delinea-
tons of Indian character. The
"Damsel of Darien," the "Hugue-
nots in Florida "The Maroon
"VascOncelos," 'sThe Partisan
4" Mellichampe," Katherine Wal
tor, - The Scout" " Riders of Con-
garee," Guy Rivers Orchard
Hurdis, " 4" Beauchampe; or, the Ken
lucky Tragedy" "a History of
South Carolina" "~Southward Hot"
are some of his many books. He con-
tributed to Appleton's Cyclopedia +"
the articles touching the statesmen
OF South Carolina. Mr.. Simms was a
most indefatigable worker, as all must
when we have not stated even
The titles of half the popular books
md pamphlets which he has given
he country. In private social life he
s%ingularly ingenious, sincere and /
generous to a fault. His conduct in
life vas blameless, and how !
great his fame, his chiefest hon !
were won in private social life. i
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THE charges which have been so
often repeated, that attempts had been
made to bride members OF Congress
to recognize the Cubans as belliger-
ents, begin to be doubted on the ground
that Jordan and his junta have moth
ing in money Or property to buy
members with. No other eason for
the doubt is assigned.
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MORNING, JUNE "A. 1870

F.. a. JAMES, of Chattanooga, mem
Der Of the House, at Nashville, will
probably be Stokes successor in Con-
gress! The whole character Of Con-
gress will be changed. A gentleman
supplants the bald buzzard of the
mountains.
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If the railroad and bond thieves,
who have plundered Tennessee should
loaf on Madison street, with pockets
stuffed with stolen bonds, will wOr-
shippers of mammon bow before them
and shall we receive them as gentle
men, while AhrGns, who stole only
$1,000, rots in a felOn's cell?
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A VALUABLE COTTON FARM
FoH n.

7 WILL sell my Plantation, containing 1900
L acres-600 of which are In cultivation,
lying about four miles east OF Australia, on
stokes Bayou, Bolivar county, Miss. For
further particulars apply TO j. y. DOWD1,
44 Front street, Memphis, or to the nnder-
signed, okoiona, Miss. A great bargain viii
be given; title perfect.
jeT F. HODGES.
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1870 MONTVALE SPRINGS, 1870

THIS favorite summer resort, situated In
L Blount county, East Tennessee, was
opened for the reception of visitors on the
nrst OF June.
The marked beneficial result attending the
use Of these waters in functional derange-
ments or the
Liver, BoteLs, Kidneys and Skin, and the cure Of
Chronic Diseases, attest their Ned
icGt Properties.
The buildings at Montvale have been re-
paired, reitted and repainted, and every
thing put in good order.
All the accessories for enjoyment and rec
reation at the best watering places will be
found here.
The facilities for reaching MOntvale this
season are increased by the extension OF the
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad, and reg
uiar trains are running to MaryviIle, whence
passengers are conveyed in coaches TO the
Springs, nine miles distant.
RATES OF ~BoARD:-Per day, 81 so; per week,
SIS; per month, 500.
So Address. for pamphlets containing
analysis and descriptions OF waters, etc,
JOSEPH l. KING,
JelO Knoxville, Tenn.
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Notice in Bankruptcy,

In Bankruptcy, District of West Tennes
see-sS.
At Memphis, Tenn, the Slst day of May. 1870
lsHE undersigned hereby gives notice o
4 his appointment as assignee of Myel
ROsenbaunl, Levi Rosenbanm and Simon
R-OsenOauIn, individually, and as partners as
ROsenbaum & Bros, of Memphis county %
shelby and State of ennessee who have been
adjudged hankrupts upon their own petition
by the District Court OF said District.
1el EUGENE LEHMAN. Assignee.
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NOTICE.

OFFICE MEMPHIS CITY r. r. Co, Memphis
Tenn, May p, lS70.-Tbe annual election
for Five Directors in the Memphis City r. r.
Company viii be held at the ONCE Of the
company, on the &c day of June, 1870. at 8
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THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
Greenbrier County. West ViruiRia.

FAMOUS for the Alternative Waters ana
II Fashionable Patrons. were opened or
May 18th; capable OF accommodating. in view
of the improvements made, nom 1900 TO 20i
persons h cars OF the Chesapeake and
ohio Railway now run 70 the Springs.
The location Is ZOO feet above the level OF
prOstrating heats.
Excellent Bands and extensive livery in
a~ttenoancs, ana every arrangement for the
enjoyment OF sRests. FANCY AND MAsoUE-
RADE BALLS durfA the season,
CHARGES-S5 Peeweek, and $50 per month
OF SJ days; chiEdrS1 ind ten years and
colored servants haT price; white servants
NV PtYTC% 4 co. Proprietors.
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SUMNER RETREAT.

THE P~UT-IN-BAY HOUSE, on PUT-N-RAY
Il ISLAND, LAKE ERIE, OHIo, sixteen miles
from ~Sandusky, is the coolest resort IA Amer
lea, and will accommodate eight hundred
guests.
There are twenty-five islands in the groupe.
covered with vineyards and flower gardens.
The lake is full Of all kinds OF dsh, wild
dHNk abound, and pure air never fails.
chTing, boating, bathing, billiards, bowl
-, native groves, ice-cream and wine
Tooms,m moon Light excursions on the bay are
truly romantic.
1t was here that Commodore Perry " met
the enemy and they are ours" and many
relics of the battle remain.
Terms much less than Eastern watering
places. Address the prOpTietors for a
pamphlet. [my3OJ WEST q SWENY.
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AND GENERAL DEBILITY =
REFERENoE:-Drs. searcy& & Dement,, and A..
o

MADISON, Ala May 8, 1870.
DEAR SIR: Permit me to eulOgise your
wells of water, for with honest motives 1 do
so. l have recently been convinced Of its
superior medical virtues, in the relief af-
forded Mr.. Jared DOolittle, who was a case OF
mine in conjunction with DR.. Dement,, Of
huntsville, Tor twelve months before going
70 your Wells, suffering with Brights old
Disease of the Kidneys, q disease that is
scarcely, If ever, relieved by the aid of med
ical treatment, thereby producing general
DrOpsy OF the most formidable character.
l had responded of his ever being relieved
when, to my astonishment, in a very short
time, by the use OF the water OF your wells,
he has been placed again on his feet, and is
now able, TO some extent, to prosecute his
daily avocatton. l feel no h~esitancy, but
larry, TO visit at once your Wells, as being
the suTest means of regaining their health
and vigor. GEORGE K SULLIVAN, MD.