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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-31
Where are the RsgrOes1

a travelling correspondent OF the
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says:
What has become OF the negro is a
question often asked. In travelling
from one extreme of the country to
the other, and after much Inquiry,
/ am safe in saying that there Is not
one-third of the planters in Jefferson
county who have their complement OF
laborers. Many are riding two and
fro in search OF hands daily, The
general demand is for two, or three,
or four TO make up the deiiciency, but
on one plantation there was a demand
for forty. The larger plantations are
generally better supplied than the
medium or smaller ones. They love
to "huddle" in large numbers. From
the meager information that L can
gather. there viii 6e at least Oue-sIAth
less negroes in the field this year
than were engaged last year within
the limits OF this county. Where are
they gone?
The cDlored population will form an
interesting, and am almost certain,
a melancholy feature IN the census OF
1870. They are disappearing from our
midst. snd 10 one can account for the
fearful fatality among them. The
increase OF TIE race is nothing ~ co!n'
paTisOn with what II N-S5 under the
reign of slavery. Those Vaununs
philanthropists who have Oartered
this race Tor the benefits of Office VIII
have a fearful aGCUuut t. meet IN
coming day.
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WAsHINGToS, January 30.-The
calendar of the House of Representa-
tives shows that during the present
session 985 bills have been introduced
in that body and 30 or 40 Joint resOlu-
tiOns. The Senate calendar exhibits
a pToportiOnate number of bills.
several thousand eases are pending
before the Court OF Claims in cOnnec-
ton with extra pay OF the officers of
Government. They are of such a
character that decision in several of
them will settle all others. There are
many cotton cases before the Court
and Treasury Department involving
millions of dollars.
The Ninth National Bank Of New
York and the Central National Bank
at Bonneville, Mo-, have ut their own
request been discontinued Gs financial
agents of the Government and depOs-
itOries Of public money.
Notice is issued BY the POstOftice
Department that by the new conven-
tiOn with the Netherlands the rate of
international letter postage on letters
exchanged in closed mails via En-
gland, from fifteen to ten cents per
single rate OF fifteen grammes, half
the usual price, prepayment optional,
to take effect February Is, 1870. The
rate of postage conditions Of payment,
etc., and newspapers, books, pack
ages and samples of merchandise re-
main unchanged.
Senator-elect Revels, Of Mississippi,
has arrived, and is the guest Of Geo.
u. Downing.
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Hew England and the West.

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser fOresees the loss OF the moral
power which has for many years been
the secret Of New Eugland's great po-
litical influence. Ii says:
We are strengthened in the belief
that there IS growing up an antagon-
ism between the ideas OF New Eng
land and of the West, which can only
be Tee0Rciled by the lowering OF the
preteDsiOns preferred by the former.
Summer, Butler and Wilson will not
rule the party. Iaey may need the
lash of Wendell Phillips, but that
angry sound Will be disregarded in
Ohio, Illinois, and beyond the Missis-
sippi. The banner under which pTeju-
dice, bigotry, sectiOnalism and suspi-
ciOn have labOred must 20 down, and
instead there must be a policy OF lib-
erality, and generosity confidence.
If the New England leaders Go not
comprehend this, they viii 90 TO the
rear. The South is coming back to
the Union, and it comes with q dis
like of New England as inveterate a5
before the war, for in the process OF
reconstruction it has found only hesi-
tati0n and doubt and obstacles, and q
desire for vengeance from the people
never had much occasion to like. The
South sees an ally in the West. 1t
finds there a border tolerance and q
more hopeful faith, and 1t can the more
readily attach itsei to the States which
evinee magnanlInlty in the hour OF
defeat and suffering. over and over
again we have read 10 Southern papers
appeals for this alliance, and there are
now fresh signs that it may be made
soon and firm.
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The Railroad Ring in Alabama.

From the Nashville Banner Of Saturday.
We notice that the reconstructed
Legislature OF Alabama is huFfyIng
that State to financial ruin wita the
same rapidity which marked the
downward course of Tennessee's 5
credit under the Radical regime. The
railroad ring is ia It's glory 1T Mont
gomery, having already secured the
psssage of the bill authorizing the
States enlargement to the amount OF
s.. .GOO. 900 IL behalf OF the Alabama
and Chattanooga RaIlros1, The
amouut i9r which the state s,c-oGii1-s ss,,,--.'Gii1 Is
thus responsible Is actually 81, ,l5l, 500
more than the road within the State
will cost. The cost per mile is esti-
mated at S28, ,OUO, and the Senate lends
the States credit at the rate of S35, 4S3
per mile. They commenced by en-
dorsing at the rate Of $4,000 per mile.
Then Il went up to SI6,O0O. Now they
Jump up to &35, 4s0 per mile. In other
words, if the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga Railroad Company should fail
to pay the interest on the endorsed
bonds, and the b0ndhOlder5 should
fOrecIose, the road would not bring
half the amount endorsed for, and the
state would be cut Of pocket to the
tune Of millions. II that is the way
Stanton and his associates propose t.
( build the road with 4" Boston capital,
they had better have staid at home.
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The observation-disclosures Cen
fsssi0n.
The New York world has an article

The New York World has an article
on this subject, in which it says:
In the heat of his passionate defense
against theapunishment inflicted by
Senator Trumbull, Senator Sumner
made an admission which is here put
on record to vindicate the justice OF
certain charges made by the World
and other Democratic journals during
the trial of President johnson.
The impeachment of President
johnson, we charged, was made for
purely political and partisan reasons.
1t was not made because he had been
guilty, for he had not been guilty of
any criminal act, such as rendered him
justly and legally subject to impeach-
ment. The charge was denied. Re-
publican journals canted and sniveled,
Republican Representative raVed and
pretended holy horror at the crimes
of their Chief Magistrate, and Repub-
lican Senators simulated real aud
grave concern on the subject, as if
President Johnson had really been the
law-breaker they could only get his
Office by voting him to be.
The plot failed ignominioGsly. But
the preteuse Of the Republicans has
till now been kept up. Not until Fri
day last has the clear admission been
frankly made BY any of the impeaeh-
ing Senators that the impeachment
was consciously a partisan and politi-
cal proceedings perversi0n of legal
forms to the aeconlpli OF a pO-
litical end. Such clear admission
was made by Charles Sumner, the
head and front OF the inpeache=s, who
said, 1.-The question was presented:
Shall Andrew Johnson be expelled
from ofiice-that reconstruction might
have free course; that the freedmen
might be protected; that the Ku-Klux
Klan might be trampled out"
Mr.. Summers politics, Ike those of
his party, are of the seventeenth cen
tury type: a loss Of power followed
by trial for treason; power prOstitu-
ting the forms of justice and the very
institutions Of the State to its own ag-
grandizement, reckless of law, of the
peoples liberties, Of their peace. But
this all reasoning men have known;
the @ayfaring Senator from Massachu-
sets now conteSse5 that he has not
erred therein.
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The Value of Brains.

Working as an ordinary hand in a
Philadelphia shipyard, until within
few years, was man named John l..
knOwlton. Ills popularity was, that
while Others of his class were at the
ale house, or indulging in jolifcatiOn,
he was incessantly engaged in study
ing upon mathematical combinations.
One of his companions secured poo
die dog, and spent six months in teach
ing the Quadruped to execute jig
upon his legs. Knowlton spent the
same period in discovering some meth
oil by which he could saw out ship
timber in bevelled form.
The first man taught his dog to
dapce-KnoWltOn, in the same time,
discovered q mechanical combination
that enabled him to do in two hours
the work that would occupy a dozen
men, by slow and labOriGus process, an
entire day. That saw is now In use
in all the shlpyartls Of the country. 1t
cuts beam TO a curved shape as quick
as an ordinary Saw-miil rips up plank.
KwOwltOn continued his expert
ments. He took no part in parades or
target shooting, and in a short time
afUerward he secured a patent for 4
machine that turns any material what
ever into i perfectly spherical form.
He sold d portion of his patent for
sum that is equivalent to a fortune.
The machine was used for cleaning Off
cannon balls for the Government.
When the ball COMES from the
moUId the surface is orasted, and the
ordinary process OF smoothing it was
a arf4c
"I"nst in an instant, aud with math-
ematieaI accuracy, peels it to the sur
face Of the metal, az the same time
smoothing out any deyiatiQns from
the perfectly spheroidial form.
The same unassuming man has In
vented 8 boring machine, that Was
tested in the presence of a number Of
scientific gentlemen. 1t bored at the
rate of twenty-five inches an hour,
through a block of granite, with q
pressure Of but three hundred pounds
upon the drill. a gentleman present
offered him tGoThOusand dollars upon
the spot for a part interest in the in
ventiOn, in Europe, and the offer was
then accepted.
The moral of all this is that people
who keep on studying are sure to
achieve something. Dir knOWltOn
does not consider himself by any
means brilliant, put ii once Inspired
by an idea he pursue5 1t until he
forces it into tangible shape. II every
| body would follow copy the world
would be less filled with idlers and
the streets with grumblers and NAL
cOntents.-Sciejitifc AnlericdH.
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.

ROME, January 30-The ex-Grand
DukeAOf Tuscany Leopold the Second,
died yesterday, aged 78 years.
LISBON, January 30.-The mail
steamer from Rio Janeiro has ar
rived.
The Argentine troops had returned
from Paraguay to their homes, and
the Brazilian volunteers were expected
to affiye il & f5w DAYS st Rio.
MADRID, January 36.-OrGeFs have
been issued for a grand review to-
morrow of all the troops in and around
the capital. AS the weather is very
UnfavQrable for military display, the
announcement Gatis55 Surprise, and
the motives of the military authoT!'
ties is called In question.
PARIS, January S0.-American resi-
dents in Paris have signed q petition
TO Minister Washburne requesting
him to DO all in his power to hasten
the completion OF q satisfactory postal
treaty between France and the United
States.
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A Great Cotton PIantSii01.

A letter from Tahiti, to the San
Francisco Bulletin, describes the
Plantation Soares, winch was esta0-
lished by a company in the year 1913,
and Is perhaps the most beautiful
place in the Pacific. It Is situated AT
The base OF a high mountain, Is three
miles long, and varies from quarter
of a mile 10 mile in width. There
are three roads running the luli
length Of the plantation, and four
crossroads, which are uniformly
Dlanted on either side with banana
f,9es. forty feet high, all forming de-
III, ful shade from the sun, making
a;Sbtaa,, miles Of beautiful carriage
dT}ve Tins stores machine shops and
dwelIinps coVsr an area of twenty-five
scres There is stOre-roOm for at least
two. or perhaps three years cotton Git
l. said in case of wir). There are
dweIlings for one hundred families, a
good hotel. and buildings for two
thousand laborers. The manager
mansion is the largest ANA best Oh the
island, and he has, besides, hne cot
tape in the mountain side fOr use IN
the hot season. 1t required the labor
of ore thousand men iOr four months
- build the road 10 this mountain re
t-a.St, The land was purchased iron
80 n,>GVes for $S0O3, and there are
ahont l4,tQ acres under cultivation
-So5neing ABOUT 100000 pounds Q
Cleaned cotton annually.
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Rumored Death Of the Pope.

The New York Herald Of Thurs
dav. saws: " We were informed yes
terday evening by cable telegrams
that his Holiness Pope Plus the Ninth
was ailing in Rome, and that the
Ecumenieal Council was likely to be
dissolved at an early day. A rumor
prevailed in Paris after midnight that
the Pope was dead, but the report
eouldfnot be traced to any authentic
source when our after dispatches leit
the French capital. Considering the
advanced age Of the Holy Father,
his arduOus labOrs in the ministry
from an early period Of life, his for
eign travel, and the recent aunoyances
of the Ecumenicai asSembl9ge. We
would not be surprised if the rumOl
should prove TO be true. The event
of the death OF Pho NinO lust now
would be one fraught with the most
I important conseq quences TO Europe
! ia Governments and peoples, beside:
/ agitating 10 a great extent and fol
some considerable period Of time tn,
whole Christian world. Further IN
telligence from Rome will be waiteC
for With anxiety.
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Queens Elizabeth and haryS

Froude has at last completed his
work. He is not an admirer Of Eliza
beth any more than Motley. Accord
ing TO both historians she was s. a.petty,
Vacillating woman, who never knew
her own mind for two days together,
and who more than Onca brought the
country to the verge Of ruin by her
hckleness, her utter incapacity Tor
rule. her fOndness for cOntemptible
miniOns, her systematic treachery and
falsehood, and her mad avarice. She
swore like 3 trooper. Her CHIEF diplo-
matte weapons were baTeiaced lies
and such lies! She was false TO Muir
ray. false to Morton, false to Orange,
false 10 Alencon, false 10 Philip, false
10 everybody. She was unstable as
the wind, and as blind as a mole. 1t
was not by her Efforts that the nation
was saved, but ia spite OF tpem' II
yvas saved by the craftsmanship 0i
Burghley and Walsingham, by the
energy OF that of England which was
Protestant, and chiefly by the ina6ii-
itv of spain to concentrate her ilrces
an the invasion Of England. The one
great quality of the Queen was heT
dauntless personal cOurags, such Is
hIr. Froude's portrait OF Elizabeth
and Mary is drawn with yet biaekel
pen. Richly gifted with intellect, fuIl
Of fascination, eloquent, acute ana
witty, she knew no scrUples when shS
I had 10 COMPASS an end OF ambition ol
affection; she vas tgeacher0us rs EliZ
sbeth. aud mere subtle; she lied vii
as much system and az much skin
( She assisted in the murder OF her hus
band, and she instigated the mnrde
OF that Queen by whom she had beer
protected frOIa the Jury Of the Engllsl
people and the English Parliament
Mr.. FrOude's portrait of Elizabeth ex
cites contempt, qualified by admira
ton; his portrait OF Mary attracts ad
miration qualified by horror.
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Wholesale Annexation.

The Hartford Post, administration,
remarking upon the temper OF our
people for annexation, says: 'Our
national policy, heretofore opposed 10
aggrandiZenent, seems to have been
almost reversed lately under the de-
sire for acquiring new territory. The
purchase of Alaska seems almost to
have necessitated the acquisition Of
British Columbia. Why not also Red
River, Canada, the Feejee Islands and
st. Thomas2 The question is peril
nent, and demands earnest thought
and a careful decision" The Post has
>omitted Caba, Mexico, the Sandwich
Islands, st. Domingo, Haytl, etc,
frolls> the list. Why not 90 the whole
6gure., even to the annexation Of the
eIslaWl}s Of the MoOn2" We suppose
the po;f. sc!ans gould If, instead OF see
ING a man, thsy saw d JOB in 1t.
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Decline of Gambling in Few York


rom llt " DE-ls
The Society l,,r the Prevention Of
Gambling seems TO hsNe %OIheu WIN
effect in this city. RoCtette tables tables
have dispersed, and keno i almost am ,.
unknown among u, having talzei. us
fiiglt TO the West and the Cauadas;
faro and policy, however, yet have a
little success-perhaps a great deal Of
sucsess-in ensnaring old and young
mea who pay no heed TO ''Green on
Gambling" and other terrible warn
ings and exposes of the tricks and
vs9opSrs of blacklegs. The society
SnSls that the most effective means Of
attnining its ends IS 10 employ detect
ives. whose business il is TO attend
gambling places, watch how much
nouey adVenturers lose, and who
4hey are, and then report the unfortu-
na-es TO whom Il may concern. In
s.-{s aaypes to pass that many
sa,e ,sons ~as s,ii,o i ljl-e1to pay gamblers for
- e-,,,,s,,,,Se,,t ], 4NOrded by betting at
st,s;r ',1-io' -, .. ede afraid to crafty
thtaf pecui2r tastes Ia vi % '.,
be manner. as one z -uTllSS =. ot -. 49,
cess, the societypoints B INC Iact ina. tllat
1ve eereSS two yeGsrs ago thefe were
~ Tatty-six gambling-bous6S IN opera
fion M Ann street, between No. Al
ami he Herald building, ESere are
now but eleven there, and seVeEel Of
thlse are bankrupt.
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A Very Queer Marriage.
From the New York sun.

from the New oEk 14A.
HermSn Albert, q down town
broker, and q IGGatic, immensely
wealthy, escaped tr-m BlacEWelPs
Island, recently. He walked into 2
Canal street cigar store, Of bad repute,
where the proprietor, Marie DierS, re-
cOgufZed hlIn. After some COnV6r5d-
ton sire induced him 10 marry her
Immediately. The newly married
couple had been married only few
davs when the benedict, IN an unnliS-
taxable 81 Of insanity, wandered from
his home, aEG W"s nabbed By a p0-
liceman, and ignomintGL5.y sent of
10 the asylum on BiackWelTs Island.
But his devoted spouse had no notion
of being GepTiysa Gt bis society; so
applying 10 lawyer 8 nateas cofpUS
was obtained, which released her
man. Having recovered nom THe
psfoZysm which caused his incarccra-
lion, he was given up TO his wife. In
q very short time after being released
from the asylum, be was found wildly
paradins the streets, fGltasJicaliy
dressed in his Wift's pettiCOat ,crinQllne
and bonnet, and again he was arrested
aud sent 10 his old quarters Oa the
Island. Recourse was again had 10
the habea5 corpus, bat that mighty
instrument did not influence the Judge
Of the Supreme Court. Three times
the wife returned 10 the charge, with
a like result, until, driven to deSpera-
ton, she has now begun al action
against the father OF Herman for nav
ing naliciousiy deprived her of the
comfort and support Of Ear husband,
fixing her damages at $4,000.
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Nice Operations in Agricultural
C0llegs Lands.

From the Cincinnati Times, January Is.
Rhode Islands share, or a large
slice thereof, of the lands donated for
agricultural colleges, has by some in
'geniOus process passed into the hands
Of the Rev. Horace T. Love. The
lands were given by the State to
Brown University under the eOndi-
ton of teaching agriculture and the
mechanic arts. Mr.. Love was made
the agent of tho University to locate
the l20. 600 acres TO which that State
was entitled. He located 40,000 acres
i'm Kansas, but some difficulty occur
ring with the Government in respect
to il, he was removed and commit
tee was appointed by the University
to attend to the matter.
This committee resolved to sell the
lands ut private sale. The sale was
made TO the Rev. Mr.. Love, who had
located them at forty-two cents per
acrel In order that the sale might
not compromise the location at Wash
ington, this sale was kept secret. This
is a nice game for reverend gentlemen
and committeeman from an old TheO-
logical University
OI the SOU,UUV acres gwen 70 new
York for an Agricultural College over
$4,000 acres have been sold 70 one
man at thirty cents per acre, with ten
wears time for making payment
! When will educational men learn the
| truth that underiies human good and
moral excellence, that the earth bs-
( longs TO one as well as another, and
/ no one has a right to monopolize it!
/ II educators and moralists peRpetrate
such crimes as that in respect to the
sale Of near q million acres of rich
Western lands, what should not he
expected Of common people?
Had they known what they ought
to have known, they would have Sc
CURED all this grant of 500, COO acres fol
colleges to actual settlers, thus rescp
ing SO much from monopoly anC
building Gp 10000 families, repre-
I sentlng half a million Of people, who
under the system Of plunder the.
have generally pursued, will remain
in poverty, seryiiity and humiliation
TO largely replenish all the viciou
and rascally classes.
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NEW YORK, January 30.-The
steamer Stars and Stripes, from Port
au-Prince, is detained at quarantine.
Two of her crew are down with the
yellow fever, The captain died on
the way.
The Stars and Stripes reports much
agitati0u OF the Sanana question, and
that the provisional government of
Hayti viii probably assist Cabreal In
the movement to defeat the plans Of
President BareZ, OF st. Domingo, in
leasing or otherwise parting with q
portion Of it, or the neighboring terri
tory, 10 the United States,
4 French war steamer had lost
forty of her crew by yellow fever at
Port-au-Prince.
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AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS
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The eraEd Array of the CoEsttQtioa

NEW YORK, January 3Q.-An or
ganizatson is commenced by Demo
cratic soldiers In Brooklyn, entitled -
+" Gr5ud Army of the Constitution" l."
Eighteen generals and a large number
O. other officers have joined. UenC.,.. ,.'-
kazlay has been elected cOmI2ander.
Applications have been made 70 open
fourteen camps in this State.
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Greenlaw Opera HOuse--Patti.

MAX STRA KOsCH respectfully announce,
VI that the WOrld-renOWned and unrfysier
Concert Vocalist. Miss CARLOTTA
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
GERMAN NATIONAL BANK

or THE-
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NEW YORK, JAnuary 30.-TheSpan
ish Consul at New York officially con-
tradicts the reports from Havana that
the Spanish Gen. Pueblo was defeated
by Gen. Jordan n2ac Guiamara with
heavy loss, and den0unce5 it Is en-
Hraly without foundation.
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Rallrnad Collision.

NEW YORK, January 3O.-A c0lli-
sion occurred on the Erie Railroad
Yesterday afternoon, just west of the
Bergen tunnel, between a passenger
and an oil train. George Wauneker,
a carpenter, was Killed, and two per-
sons slightly injured.
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NEW YORK, January 30.-niunc-
tiOns have been served on the officers
Of the Patterson and Newark Rail-
road, and one Of the Directors OF the
Erie Railroad, vino are le5sees Of the
former road, restraining it from run
ming over the lands OF p. Weller.
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NOTICE.

District Court OF the United States. for the
District OF West Tennessee.-In the matter
Of G. w. Trotter, Bankrupt.
To the creditors Of the above named Bank
rupt: Take notice that meeting of the cred
ftors of the said Bankrupt will be held al the
ONCE OF T. J. Latham, Esq, Register In the
CIV OF Memphis, in said District, on the 18th
| day OF February, ls70 at 10 o'clock am.
| iaA WA. MCGEE, Assignee.