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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-14
NO. ia.
NEIGHBOR HELM AND HIS LINDEN
pREE,.

AFTER TIE GERMAN, BY IA. s.
My neighbor Helm the carpenter. who lives across
the way,
Went out to fell the linden tree before his door
to-day
cried, astonished, ''Neighbor Helm, what have
you III your mind?
This tree protects your little house from weather
and from windD
He paused moment from the work. and fixed his
eyes me,
Gazed long, intent and lovingly up to the dear old
tree
Then resting both hands on the axe, he bowed his
aged head,
And leaning 'gainst the linden Thank you neigh.
Dor" softly said
This tree my father planted on the day when Twas
born;
1t has greened and bossomed yearly until past its
seventeen morn;
My young bride marriage-day in girlish
pride and glee,
Adorned my hat with leaflets plucked from this
same linden-tree.
and small
SO, underneath the linden, was the banquet spread
for all;
And, when to bless our happy home, ere long dear
came,
In pride and joy, graved upon the lnden's bark,
his name
The linden grew and hourished the boy became
man.
\ soldier, and on Lepsics plain stood in the army's
a hat all decked with linden to the battlefield he
Wore,
He fell by Leipsic's ramparts and we never saw
him more.
There's a tablet in our churcl-wall and on it these
words stand,
Young Francis Helm who nobly died for King and
Fatherland,
she greves,-
Wove round the sad memorial wreath of linden.
leaves
Our life's best days We're ended, our hope and joy
had fed :
What could life give Of gladness now our noble boy
was dead?
Too deeply on the old wife's heart grief for her
darling prest,
And GOD to-day hath freed her from earth's sorrow
and unrest.
So, neighbor, this is why now cut down the lin
den tree;
and me.
Hearts linked like in joy and woe death will
not long divide,
SO lay me in that dreamless Sleep close by the old
wife's side"
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THE SILENT SEWING MACHINE!
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The Wilcox 4 e'ibbS Sewing Machine!

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Superior Strength and Durability of Work,
and 0
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09
A French Viyan6iere.

A correspondent of the London
Telegraph, writing from Paris, thus
describes a French vivandiere:
Yesterday, as a regiment of the line
was marching through the Faubourg
St. Antoine, the crowd espied the
vivandiere bringing up the rear
Of the battalion in a vehicle re-
markedly like a washerwoman's cart
the chubby horse attached to which
she was driving with her own fair
hands, which were as brown as ber-
ries. The cart was as full as a stew
ARDS cabin on board a steam packet
with good things, from Lyons sausages
to brandy, from sardines to kirsch-
waser. There are not many florists
shops in the Foubourg st. Antoine;
but in the twinkling of an eye the
crowd began to pelt the little woman
in the cart with bouquets, and great
hulking fellows in blouses came for
ward to the shafts to pat the horse and
to shake the vivandiere's hand. She
took off her little glazed hat-a
man-ofwar's mans hat, with broad
brim and low crown, decked with
tri-cOlored ribbons, and beneath
which, l grieve, for the sake of the
picturesque, to say that she wore
mob cap and cried out, " TUe pEm-
pereur! Uire Ia Frmcey" in a voice so
gruff that it would have done honor
to a drum major. A kindly hearted
little wOman this, for in the front of
the cart were at least seventy KNAPP
sacks which she was carrying for the
rank and file-probably her regi-
mental pets. a gallant little woman,
assuredly, and with a stirring history
of her own, perhaps. Her grand
mother marched into Grand Cairo,
and when the battle day was done
administered comfort from her brandy
keg to.those who lay fainting in the
Pyramid. Her mother marched
into Madrid, into Rome, into Vienna,
into Berlin. She kindled her short
pipe from the smoking embers OF the
Kremlin, and was bayoneted by q
Prussian in the bloody flight from
Waterloo; and the vivandiere herself
has been at the MalakOff, at Magenta,
at SolferinO, at Puebla. / fancy that
l saw her there, with her brown face
and twinkling black eyes, driving
her little vain as cheerily as now.
Why not? Who does not remember
Beranger's stirring refrain, "Rata-
plan, plan, plan! Soldats, VOLTA
Catin!" And Catin, the cantiniere,
is the only woman, / take it, who
is not out of place on a battlefield.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

WI are in receipt Of a circular stat
ing that Mr. Swinton, agent of the
New Ysrk Associated Press, has de-
maaded Of the Peters Birginia,
Under, a "frank explanation and full
apology" for some editorial com
ments that paper5saw ft to make
upon what it considered the short
eomings of the Association 9n=tbe
character of the kilograms sent to the
Southern press. Swfnton, who, like
Forney, is editor of "my two papers,
both dailies, the one In New York
and the other in San F~rancisco-en-
forces his demand by a threat to cut
off the Iader and deprive 1t of the
benefits of press telegraphy. This is
the worst and meanest kind of censor
ism. Because a newspaper takes the
dispatches of the Association it is not
necessarily bound to indorse them
on the contrary we think duty to the
public might demand another course,
and that if it did, no journal could
hesitate as between the Association
and the public. We do not know
what the cause of difference between
the Hlder and Swinton is, and do mt
wish to interfere, except so far as our
protest against the attempted despot-
ism of Swinton may be construed so.
We are opposed TO interference with
the press in any form and especially to
such as would imply a subordination
of the Southern press to the purposes
of that of New York city. We are
for the freedom of our order-full and
COMPLICATION all parties, corners or
rings
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

AFTER two years Of silence the
Democratic State Executive Commit
tee has been heard from. They have
made a call for a State Convention on
the 18th of September. We observe
a discrepancy in the calls a published
in the Banner and the Union and AmeT-
icaa, which we trust the Executive
Committee will reconcile. We most
heartily approve of the call, and pre-
sumo every county in the State will be
represented. Thenecessity for a Demo-
cratic convention is apparent to all.
The time selected for its sitting is, we
think, well considered and judiciouS.
The proposed Convention will be an
important one to the State. To
make its labOrs useful to the people
will require the exercise of much pru-
dence and tact in its deliberations.
There can be no organization, no
union and harmony so long as invid-
ious distinctions are made between
Wings, Democrats and Secessionists.
We regret that the Executive Com
mittee has put a handle TO the name
Of Democracy, by using that mean
ingless and inappropriate word Con-
servative. The Democratic party is a
national organization. From ocean
to ocean, from Maine to Texas, Demo-
Gratis hold to the same great principles.
They are brothers in the same faith.
They cOnstrue the Constitution alike.
They are willing, as patriots, to unite
in maintaining the rights of all, the
Constitution and the rights of the
States. In the North the party COM
posed OF old Wings and Democrats,
rallies to the single name of Democrat.
Why should we not do the same
thing in the South? If we are a ma
tional party, entertain common inter
ests and the same principles, the name
ought to be one and the same in every
section of the Union. The name
which had its birth in the days Of
Jefferson, and worn by Jackson, and
now the sign by which patriots pro-
pose to conquer, embraces all that is
good of men and principles; and to
put a handle to it lowers the national
dignity of the party, and gives the lie
to the assumption that we are a
national party.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09
/ aga. "a q
His Execution 10 New YOrk-A Chastity


T9UE@ ~
From a telegram TO the Cincinnati
Commercial, published yesterday, the
9th, we take the following concerning
the execution, In New York, of John
Real, for the murder of a policeman
named Smedick: 10 UHA QA JtHUG.
The appearance of The prisoner had
undergone considerable change, His
'c~ountenance had become redeemed
with excitement, his eyes bi00dshot
and his hands nervously clutched the
little black ebony crucifix which so
many men before him had grasped,
under like circumstances. He gave a
ready a to the words Of consolation
and prayer the good fathers were
whispering, and never Once looked up
until his foot touchedt the planks under
the galloWs tree. Then, and only
then, a twitching of his hands and
corners of the mouth betokened what
was going on in that breast which
would soon cease to heave. Arrived
under the gallows at nine o'clock, the
culprit turned quickly around, and
facing the crowd, engaged in prayer
with his spiritual advisers, who for four
minutes whispered to him the CONT
dec, Pdter- NOSter and AUe Maria,
which were repeated by the dying
man in audible voice. While Real
was on his knees old Simpson stepped
up to him and fixed the ring of the
moose around the mans neck into the
clamp, closed the latter with a clink-
ing sound, frightened the moose by
slipping the knot under his ear
Father Duranquet then gave him the
priestly dissolution, and Real kissed
the hand which had ministered to
him with fervOr, and rose to his feet.
a moment of suspense ensued, when
suddenly, at six minutes past nine,
Sheriff Stevens accidentally pulled his
handkerchief across his face to brush
away a fly, and a dull, humping
sound was heard inside the box, and
the death of Officer Smedick was
avenged.
The hangman had neglected to obey
the orders of the sheriff to pull the
black cap over Reals face as 500 as
he rose to his feet, and thus a hOrrid
scene ensued. AS soon as the rope
began to tighten around Reals neck,
the jaws opened, and the eyes staring,
do II AhCl hOhlu DuSI HUH lllCAl GUM
cts, were a sight never to be forgotten.
A thrill of horror ran through the
crowd at this sight, and several per-
SONS who had witnessed many execu-
tions before nearly tainted. Had it
not been for the strong police force
within the yard it is more than prob
able that old Simpson would have
been roughly handled. He, however,
coolly remarked: "Oh, il is a bad
mistake, but it can't be helped"
Death, however, was more merciful,
for but one shrug Of the legs and arms
betokened that there was life in that
lump of clay dangling between heaven
and earth. Still, MI. Stevens, in order
to spare the spectators the horrible
sight, had the body lowered sufficient
ly to enable the bungling hangman to-
do what he had omitted before, and
pull the cap over the dying mans
face. After six minutes the pulse in
the wrist ceased to beat, and ten min
utes later the heart failed to throb.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

A new opera of Ofenbach will be
produced in Paris this month. The
chorus will number five hundred
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

" A| M
SOM good al come out Of Naza-'
reth. Yesterday, the Hon. III. e.
Hudson dismissed ali thecasesagalnst
the efReers-ef the recent election
charged with obstructing negroes
voting. We are glad that prudence
-prevaiied over prejHdice in this mat
ter, as the Imprisonment of r. b.
Norment, A. G. Belts and o. w.
Miller for faithfully dlscharging their
duties as sworn officers, would have
produced an excitement and indigna-
ton prolific Of evil, with no resulting
good. The investigation would have
developed the most shameful perjury,
and many negroes would have
been arrested and convicted beyond
doubt. We can congratulate the COM
munity on the fortunate termination
of this matter. Hundreds Of negroes
were present, ready to swear anything
for their owners and masters. VIII
the poor, deluded, infatuated negro
never learn any sense and how to for
get the p~rejudices which his worst
enemies have instilled into his credu-
lous brain? 1t Is surely time for re-
hecting freedmen to Q that those
who have advised them to keep
up their organization against
their white employers, who are
in a large majority, are the selfish APP
peals of Radical demagogues. What
ever may be the power and strength
of the negro in some of the States
further south, here the Caucasian Oc-
cupies the natural and proper relation
of the dominant aud superior ace in
numbers as well as in intelligence. 1t
is fortunate, however, for the freed
men, that the feelings Of the dominant
race are of the kindest character to
their late slaves. They have no dis
position to WELD their power to the
injury of the weaker race, but are sin
cerely and honestly DESTROYS to carry
ont the system Of organic law enacted
for the perfect and permanent protee-
ton of all their recently acquired
rights. Whenever the negro
ceases his war upon his en-
ployer, there will be peace between
the mces. AS there is no conflict Of
interest between the whites and the
blacks, there should be no such polit-
zeal organizations as those which mer-
cenary and rascaIly itinerant hireTings
are advocating. The emissarieS Of the
Northern Radicals, for purely selfish.
purposes, are attempting to place the
black minority in this State in a false
position, and which will prove sui
eidaI to their own interests, We are
too familiar with the nature Of the ne
gro to attempt to win him by fattery.
We wish to tell him in the plainest
possible language that neither his
emancipation, nor the proscriptive
legislation Of Congress have made him
stronger in Tennessee than his present
employer and late master. Keeping
this undeniable fact before him, we
wish him also to understand that he
can best promote his interests, politi-
cal and Individual, by refusing to be
made the tool OF the bad men who are
seeking to array him in ~causeless hos
tility toward the white race in this
State, Il
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09
ST. AGNES ACADEMY
e FOR U LADIES'.

|THIs Institution, conducted by the Sisters
il Of st. Dominic, Is delightfully Situated in
a healthy and retired partOf the city of Mem
phis, Tenn. The buildings are ample and
comnnodious, standing In the center Of exc
tensiye and highly improved grounds, shaded
by forest trees, and laid out and set with rare
plants and shubbery.
The course of Studies comprises all the
branches, Useful and Ornamental, that are
usually taught mr.
! The Academic Year consists OF two Sessions
of Ave months each the first consmenctng
on fhe FIRST or SEPTEMBER, the second on
the FIRST MONDAY In ~
~o TERMS K SESSION, 81 allaIn b,
Payable half yearly, invariably In advance:
For board and tuition In any of the follow
ing branches: Reading, Arithmetic, English
Grammar, Geography, History, Rhetoric,
Competition, Criticism, Principles of Natural
PHILOSOPHY, Chemistry and botany, Mental
and Moral Philosophy, Plain Saving. Mark
ing, eto., SIS, $50, $50 n 500, according TO the
age or the class of the pupil. p
For Day scholars Tuition, SIS, $50, S5 AMI
$50, according to age or class as above.
For further information, apply or address
the 800" MOTHER BUPERI0RsY Az
Jy24 dew falA 81 Agnes Academy.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

JUDGE BOND, of Haywood. an
nounces himselfa candidate for Con-
gress through the columns of this
mornings APPEAL. 1t will be seen
from his card that Judge Bond sub
mits his name to a Democratic District
Convention. He is a man of talent,
has an extensive acquaintance, and
will prove a formidable competitor.
Judge Bond was an Old-line Wing,
but is now a Democrat, believing, as
he does, that our national political
compact is not a consolidated govern
ment; while it has supreme power
over several of the most important
functions of government, it is strictly
limited to these, and allthe remainder
of thevast powers Of government, Of
legislation over persons and property,
and public rights and private rights,
are left to the several States and to the
people thereof. Read Judge Bonds
letter in another column. sdi nsGa
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09


The Knoxville Press and Herald
says Of our townsman, Hosea Town
send: "This gentleman, who, in the
present Legislature of Tennessee, so
faithfully and ably represents the
county Of Shelby, is prominently
spoken Of as the Conservative candi-
date for Congress from the Memphis
district. 1t does not become us to in
terfere in the affairs Of an outside dis
trict, but we Will take the liberty of
saying that Colonel Townsend, by his
conduct in the Legislature, has enti-
tied himself to the confidence OF the
people OF West TENNESSEE In this
our contemporary does Colonel Town
send no more than simple Justice.
He has proved one OF our best repre-
sentatiyes Ia all respects. He Is a
gentleman Of education and eharae-
teri and such men are much alike,
the world over,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09
Desirable Building Lot on Isssamins
Street for Sale. mo cd yc

sF Lot p, Block 81, on south side of Jessas
mine street, second lot east OF the residence
OF John Overton. ESQ, and In one of most
desirable neighborhoods in the city, is in our
hands for sale, WITH INSTRUCTIONS IL OFFER
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

-
West TENNESSEE claims, as a mat
ter OF justice, a fair proportion of the
Offices Of the State. She has not re-
ceived, under the new organization,
that consideration TO which she is en-
titled. Not an Office of importance
has been filled from this grand di-
vision. West Tennessee, with unpar-
alleled unanimity, presents, with
pride, the name of Colonel II. Clay
King as a gentleman and lawyer, in
every way qualified TO fill with credit
to himself and honor 10 the State the
important Office of Attorney General
and Reporter. We desire his election
to this important position. We ask it
because we are entitled TO it; because
he is eminentiy qualified, and because
he is the first and only choice Of the
Bar and people Of West Tennessee,
and where he is known, and he is
known favorably to every lawyer who
is familiar with "King's Digest of the
Laws Of Tennessee" they viii hail
with pleasure and satisfaction his
nomination to that responsible posi-
ton. We ask and urge the Supreme
Court to make this appointment.